Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-21
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Regular Monthly Meeting-Re-
port of the City Superintend-
ent-Racy Letter from DR..
Hildreth in Reply to MIR. Kim

ent-hacy Letter IFOm LIZ
Hildreth in Reply to MIR. Kim
berly.
A regular meeting OF the Board Of
Education was held last evening, DR..
Baird, President, occupying the chair.
Present, Messrs. Bingell, Bowers,
Collier, Eberling, Hess, Hildreth, John
G. Miller, J. A. Miller, Wait, Wilson A,
Wilson w. A, Maxwell, Caldwell,
McCully and Mr.. President.
The minutes of the previous meeting
were read and approved.
The Committee on Accounts sub
mitted their monthly report, recon-
mending the payment OF bills aggregat-
ing S260S4.
The Superintendent of Schools sub
mitted the following report, which was
ordered to be received and filed:
sUPERINTENDENT's REPORT.
To the Board Of Educ0tiOn
GENTLEMEN:-The following abstract
OF the reports OF the school OF the dis
trict for the month of October, 1879,
is respectfully presented:
Enrolment for the month, 3,599;
average attendance, 5000; average alb
scence, $50; per cent OF attendance on
enrolment, 90; enrolment since
September LIST, 1856.
Cases Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., 10;
Madison, 10; Clay, 1877; Union, l73;
Centre, l65; Webster, As; Richie SO;
cOlored, AZ. Total, $50.
Pupils perfect in attendance-Wash-
ington, 1852; Madison, l47; Clay, 2O9;
Union. l2l; Centre, 90; Webster, 81;
Richie, BOG; Colored 81; total, LOSS.
Enrolment in each schoOl-Washing-
ton, 1875; Madison, $50; Clay, $50
Union. 400; Centre, $50; Webster, $40;
Richie, 704: colored, 81.
Per cent of Washington,
81; Madison, %; Clay, 93; Union, IS;
Centre, SO; Webster, Sc; Richie. SO;
colored, 93.
Pupils in the several branches-Or-
biography, $3.50; Reading, 3,45S; Writ
ing, 2,S06; Mental Arithmetic, l,54l
Written Arithmetic, l,70S; Geography
LISP; English Grammar, 300; History,
235; Physiology, l03; Natural Philoso-
ply, So; Chemistry, %; Botany, p;
Astronomy, Is; Algebra, 1872; Geometry,
80; L. S. Constitution and Science OF
Government, &; Rhetoric, so; Physical
Geography, 1888; German Language,
302; Drawing, 437.
Amount paid for instruction, includ-
ing German, S3,952.2i.
GERMAN DEPARTMENT.
Enrolment in German-Washlngton,
%; Madison, 10; Clay, so; Union, 81 ;
Centre, IS; Webster, %; Richie, 20.
Total, 3l2.
Number OF classes 30.
Number of pupils of German parent
age 1873; other than German parentage
ia; number i'm grammar room IA; III
division A, IA; in division b, "a.
Amount paid for instruction in Ger
man, Sl54. Respectfully submitted,
JOHN c. HERvEY,
Superintendent.
DIR. Hildreth rose to a question o!
privilege and read the following commu-
niCation:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN:-I rise TO question
of privilege. This Board is organized
under a State law, requiring the election
by the people OF each one OF its mem
bers, who are required TO take solemn
oath to perform their duties under the
laws, and no one member can claim
rights or privileges above another. We
are peers of one another. For the
furtherance OF our proceedings we have
adopted "rues of order, and in debate,
discussion, etc, parliamentary usage"
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exclusively to the management OF the
public schools and education. The
reputation and usefulness OF the Beard
cannot be separated from that of its in
dividual members. Judge, then, OF my
surprise in reading in morning paper
(the REGIsTER), as part OF the pro
ceedings your last meeting, published
and distributed over this whole land, a
scurrilous and silly communication
from p. l.. Kimberly, the purport OF
which is personal abuse of myself as a
member of this Board. The plea and
ruling for its hearing by this Board, l
learn, was because 1t was addressed to
the Board of Education" | demand,
under which "rulc of order"
most cheerfully accord to every citizen
OF this district, the right of respectful
petition for any grievance real or imagi-
nary he may have sustained; ), but gen.
tlemen by this proceeding you have
stepped aside from the legal and legiti-
mate and holy purposes and duties OF
this Board, and set up jurisdiction
over the private character and reputa-
ton of every member; and that not OF
an equitable or judicial kind, ION such,
requires the presence of the accused)
but it was strictly inquisitorial and eX-
parte. Ii during my service in this
Board and the public school Of more
than twenty years, any member can ac-
cuse me of q violation of its honor, de-
cency or order, want him to prefer
the charges; but, the respectable hear
ing YOU gave this Kimberly commune
cation you have exposed the private
character and reputation of every mem
Der to the insult and outrage of every
disappointed and sore-headed contrac-
tor. | positively assert that the pro-
ceedings stand alone, and unheard of,
in the annals OF legislation, or history
of deliberative bodies. You have estab-
lished a precedent, which will curse, de-
fame and disorganize your Board.
Any enemy or blackguard may "ad-
dress" his communication to this
Board, Willy and scandalize any
member, and obtain hearing.
Let each member put himself in the un-
enviable position in which you have
placed me, and you will be panied with
a sense OF injustice and disrespect.
II the author and abettors of this let
ter purposed the qualification of private
spite or spleen, it is cowardly and con-
temptible, deserving the reprobation of
all honorable men, and would have
passed it by in silent contempt, as did
a similar one of the same character, but
for the position this Board has assumed,
although entirely foreign to the objects
and requirements of the Board of Ed9-
cation, and in gross violation Of its rules
of order, it was respectfully listened to,
and appears in the daily papers as a
part OF the proceedings. What safety
to the character of yourself or family
from the production OF any blackguard
who NAV use the Board of Education as
a means of publishing his slanderous
and malignant writingI All honorable
men have sensitive regard for their
character, and resent all aspersions and
insinuations against it. Under your new
rule You NAV have q large number OF