Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-23
c0NvENTIox or SCHOOL D1nECToRs.

VUNVANV4ON VI 0C3OOL O184CTOKS.
Election Of City saperi,tsuden.-R.K X.
Buehrle chosen.
An adjourned session of the convention
of school directors Of Lancaster city school
district, which two weeks ago created the
Office of city superintendent of schools, was
held last evening in the common council
chamber.
The following named members were
present:
Messrs. D. G. Baker, Brosius, Cochran,
Eberly, Eberman, Erisman, Evans, Harris,
D. Hartman, ]. l. Hartman, Johnston,
Levergood, Marshall, McComsey, McCOn-
omy, Morton, Rhoads, Schwebel, Samson,
Smeych, Slaymaker, Snyder, Spurrier,
Westhaeffer, Wilson, Yeisley, Christian
Zecher, Geo. w. Zecher, Warfel and Reim-
ensnyder, president.
The minutes Of the former meeting were
read, and the president stated the object
of the present meeting to be to fix the sal
ary of the city superintendent and to elect
said officer. The first business to be con-
sidered was the fixing of the salary.
DR.. Levergood moved that the salary be
fixed at 81, 200 per annum.
Mr.. Slaymaker moved to amend by fix
ing the salary at 81, 500 per annum.
DIR. Levsrgood regarded 81, 800 as too
much. Whoever may be elected can go to
! the bank every month and draw his pay
without trouble or any risk. A doctor,
who if he is worth anything must be at
least as we'll educated as school superin-
tendent, will have to work much longer
and much harder to earn an equal sum.
He will have to earn at least IS, 900 before
he can get in hand s1,5OO; and he will
have to work the entire year and at all
hours of the day, while the superintend-
ent will not work nine months in the year
nor half the time at that. He believed a
good man for the position could be OBJ
tanned for 81, 200 year and he did not see
why stranger from Reading or anywhere
else should be brought here and pensioned
on Lancaster taxpayers.
Mr.. Wilson said that the convention OF
directors had by its action at its last meet
ing in creating the Office of city superin-
tennent taken a good step forward. He
hoped it would not tonight nullify its
former good work by adopting through a
false economy an insufficient salary. The
best talent commands the highest salary,
and if the convention wants to secure the
best man it must pay him for his services.
Doubtless there are those who would be
glad to accept tho position at much less
salary than the lowest proposed here,
but they would be worthless at any salary.
The man who is to be elected will be the
official head of the schools in Lancaster,
and if he be the right sort of man and
perform his duties conscientiously they
will be onerous in tho extreme, and will
be we'll worth more than it is proposed to
pay him. Mr.. Wilson mentioned num-
Der Of cities and boroughs in the state that
pay their superintendents more than
81, 500 year, and those that paid the
most had decidedly the best superintend-
ents and the best schools.
President Reimensnyder, for the infor-
nation Of the convention, had copied from
the official records the salaries paid to su-
perintendents in the several cities and bor-
Oughs of the state. The secretary read
the list as follows: