Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-21
MT. Giles Re cerd.

TestimOny of Various Witnesses Be
 fore the Board of Educat1on-Parents 1 Want Him Retained-The Dow Case ! No Action Taken.
 The Board of Education held 8 regular
 meeting last evening. The meeting was ] called for o'clock. At that hour all the | members of the Board were present. In- | stead of assembling as usual the Board went into private room, and were in secret ses- l sion there with doors barred to members of | the press for about forty minutes. When l they returned to the Board room there were 1 eleven gentlemen present, who were evident | ly waiting there to hear the Gile-Barber | matter brought up.
 The first business was the unanimous ap- pointment of s. T. Dutton as superintendent l of the public schools for two years, begin l ming next September, at a salary of 1000 year, an increase of $500.
 The matter of renting the Goffe street and Hamilton schools was referred to the finance committee with power.
 Timothy J. ODonnelI was appointed jani- tor of Wooster school at 8 salary of $55O; George H. Case to the Ferry street school at salary of S250; other janitors were ap- pointed as last year.
 The following resignstions were accepted: Fannie NJ. Ullman, No. 7, DixwelI Avenue Carrie L. Minor, No. 3. Orphan Asylum school Jennie M Norman, No. 6, Winches- ter school. Teachers were appointed as fol- lows: Nellie F. Sproat, No. 6, Winchester, salary $52o; Kittie H. Yang, No. 5, Win- chester, salary $52o; F. Ellen Brown, No. 4, Winchester, salary $500; Margaret K. Strong No. 3, Winchester, salary $4OO.
 The Gile-Barber matter was taken up.
 MT. J. O. Donovan, who keeps store op posite the Winchester school, appeared with the signatures of 300 pupils asking for MT. Giles reappointment. He said great many residents of the district wanted to appear be- fore the Board and ask for Gi les retention, but he had advised most of them not to bother. the Board. He had three children in the school and knew pretty well what Mir. GiIe was. He said he knew of five instances where the principal had bought clothes for poor children, and procured horse cars for ehiIdren's use on stormy days. He did not think it was right for men in Fair Haven to write articles against MT. Gile. They should leave the matter to residents of the district
 seNext" said President Welch and Mr. Bouton walked up to the witness stand and testified in MT. Giles faver. He said he was not aware of any feeling against the superin- tendent among the people. He had not heard any of the teachers in the school say that Mir. Gile was not what he ought to be.
 s. R. Avis said his oldest boy was very much attached to MT. Gile. Everyone who saw him coming down to the meeting hailed him and asked him to add their testimony in favor of MT. Gile.
 L. H. Arnold said he h6d two children in school and they liked MT. Gile.
 Edward Hoag, J. D. Bradley,J. M. Knapp, Henry R. Hill, J. B. Bassett, James F. Don ohue added their testimony in favor of Mr. Giles character and conduct as teacher.
 Mr. Donovan stated that he was authorized by nine of the teachers of the school to say that they were anxious to have Mir. Gile re- tained.
 Thomas A. Dow sail: tI have been re- quested to state an incident to a boy of mine which happened some time ago. On the occasion Miss Donovan spoke to Mr. Gile in regard to a fault which my son had committed. The boy looked through the window. Mir. Gile took the boy into the basement and asked the boy if he had looked through the window. The boy began by saying no. MT. Gile then i struck him a terrible blow on the left tenn pIe. The blow stunned him, and the boy now retains the mark on his face, and my wife thinks he has not been the same boy | since, Mr. Gile went farther. He Aogged | nay boy most unmercifully, and he came l home with welts all over his body. He was
 ~1 E1-, That was about year ago. I went to go | to the police office to have MT. Gile arrested. | but saw MT. Dutton and talked with him and he persuaded me to let the matter drop. | Miss Hughes, formerly the superior of the Dixweu avenue, told me that | she was willing to appear before the Board and testify as to how Mir. Gile brow beated the teachers 3 MT. Dow referred to Mir. Dutton as one of Mir. Giles best friends. MT. O'Brien inquired what he meant. Wit ness replied that he supposed Mr. Dutton helped MT. Gle to his place. l