Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-10
warmly defended the old system. The rules. he

sioDers They did not want hundreds of thou
Ing, as school trustees anything about it. A
trustee, he said, who was too big to sign a
receipt was entirely too big for the office of
trustee. He would venture TO say the Commits
sioners never read the plan of the board, else
they would never have stated what they had
| board. and ineficiency of the system. II was
usual in all departments to make the head
responsible. Under the operation Of this letter
| the S60O.O0O of the school fund would be ex-
pended and the board OF trustees would know
nothing about il. He would say to the Com
missiOners that 1t was far better for them, I'M
der their bond, to have proper certificates from
the board. He thought the Commissioners
| would realize the difficulty when they came to
put their accounts into the Treasury without
the certificates of the board, notwithstanding
trustees were so insignificant. AS to the Com
missiOners plan being a better One as to its
providing a more honest system his opinion
was that the plan of appointing teachers
adopted by the board, was pattern for the
whole country. If there was any trustee who
had made any appointment or nomination he
ought not TO have made he had perjured him
SELF
LET THE OLD BOARD DIE IN PEACE.
Mr. Brooks objected to criticisihg the old
board and its plan of work. 1t was dying. "Let
it die, he remarked, sit is dying fast. Let 1t be
buried. but do not let us take the carcass about
and say it smells bad, / do not like it," He
challenged the Commissioners or any one else
TO bring them a record cleaner than that of the
school board. No one ought to charge a board,
which had included SO many good citizens,
letter of the Com missiOners came from his SUI
perior officers and he would obey it. Still if any
freely. The plan proposed would be short
lived. The seeds of destruction are sown all
through 1t: The very trustees who applaud it
to-day will be the first to tear it to pieces His
great hope was that the public schools would
not be injured.
DIR. PURvIs' SUGGESTION.
DIR. Purvis said that to financial affairs he
did not care especially to keep up an espionage
fha mis- II z
had made mistake they would find it out
soon enough. As to the appointment of teach
ers, as the trustees had control of the eXamina-
lions, they would virtually have control of the
teachers. He was opposed, a matter of prin-
clple, to leaving the selection OF the teacher to
the superintendents. supervising principals
and a trustee. He thought the superintendent
concerned, and two or more trustees should
select the teachers. He suggested that the SUI
perintendent should select and submit the
name 10 the whole board of trustees, who, If
they approved it, should send 1t in to the Com
missioners to be put on the rolls. Such plan
would relieve a trustee vi any charge of per-
sonai feeling in making an appointment.
Mr. BIRNEY STILL OBJECTS TO SIGNING RE-
CEIPTS.
Mr.. Birney said he would not answer the
very personal attack made ON him by Mr.
Brooks. He had never used personality in
this board and did not intend to. He did not
think that any comparison could be instituted
between this board and government depart
ment. When he receipted for property as
trustee he became responsible legally for that
property, responsibility which he thought
ought not to rest upon a trustee. He preferred
system which did not call upon him To receipt
for things winch he did not know any thing
about.
SPECIAL COMMITTEE.
Mr.. BirneyS resolution providing for a special
committee of three to consider the Commits
sioners' letter was adopted. The chair appointed
as the committee Messrs. Birney, Brooks and
Clarke.
AN OBJECTION TO SCHOOL CONCERTS.
Dr. Purvis made some remarks upon what he
considered as an abuse growing out of the prac-
tice OF allowing concerts to be held in the school
buildings tor the benefit of school libraries, &C.
de spoke OF one poor woman who had felt
Obliged TO pay 1913 i'll order that her child
could appear properly at such a concert. He
gave notice that he intended to offer a resoiu-
ton prohibiting such concerts
Dr. Wilmer. upon motion OF Mr.. Brney, was
placed upon the committee on teachers in place
OF MIR. Griswold resigned. There was some dis
cusSion as to whether the committee on teach
ers had any functions to perform. Mr.. Birney
maintained that to it belonged the duty of
supervising the list of teachers.
Transfers of Real Estate.
Deeds in fee have been filed as follows:
Hannah Harris to 70. Morris. part 63, rs sub
Mt. Pleasant; 81 900. p. b. Wright TO James
Il: Ray, lots and 8, block 10, T. & BIS SUBJ do
$1,000. r. w. Hughes to Catherine W. Myers,
sub lot Is, 50. $40; $4,000. Josephine Lime,
rex as to Ella o. Hughes, sub So, 50. 44s; $1,000
block Is, Effingham Place; s. l. S Johnson
10 L. Cronln, lot 8, So $50; S234.5O. K. f.
Morris to H. L. Carpenter, sub lot 2S So 81;
$4,000. j. b. Putnam to H. Busching, part o.
So. o15; $4,000. j. +. Given TO NJ. c. Petit,
part 80 and 80, b. Il HIS add. to West Washing
ton; 8. X. I. Petit ct al. to j. T. Given same
property; s.. Maria c. Petit to Victoria a. j.
Forrest, same property; $500. y. Barber
L and 13, block IA, LIE Droit Park; sci, 900
y. +. Rockwell to 5. n. Crozer pit. sub 49,
So. 152; $. Washington Gas-light company
to Nd Larner,n: Il so. 37S; Sc, sSs. "a. Alice
So. 400; $1,000. ]. Sophia Donono to sophia
Moore to susan L Murray, pt 5 ss sa se g.
81, 500; J. b. Alley to A. b. Ruff, pts. liz and
Il3, So loo; S175.S7. j. w. Camwell ct al. to
herd. ex'r, to John Lynch, pts 6 and Z, so.
$50; $4,000. I. III. Joy to Anne &. Clarkson,
sub lot IS, So. 51G $500. l.. II. Merrill To X.
b. DIETRICH, W. u g. res. A, S4 600. ]. w. Rich
ardson to Martha NJ. Read, pit lot %, So 562;
lots l and 2, So. 81; 8. Ii. W. Cochran TO
Caroline r. Cook sub lot %, So. 237; S3.7 $685.
J: b. Alley to Mary d. Woods, pit. lots 10 and
III, so. l55; S2,641 SO. Eliza Smith to g. w.
y. Jensen to NJ. f. Curtis pit. "Eortune En-
larged; S2.7OO. j. b. Kendall ct al. to g. W.
Knox PIT. %, res. IL; So, 800; w. II. Particle to
g. y. Gusten,sub lots 20 and 3O,sq. 1888; 81 800.
$4,000. Madge X. Arthur to III. r. Dulaney,
pit ., sub So. no; S2,43O. J.B. Alley 10 Blanca
u Hosklns. sub 81, SO. 155; 81 ,453.6O. Mary
dudley To r. and Annie Costenett, pit. SO, so.
626; 81 ,663 c. Yost to Jacob Steiger, lot al,
So AL; 81 800; $. Wolf, lots 1, 2, IL and H.
So. lOo2; $50. Patrick Herlihy TO A. Noack
pts. 81 and 81, So. $685. $245.51. G. Wright
u sebastian Aman, sub lot Is, So. 1868; 500.
u. H. Warder To I. T.. ROessle, sub :53, So 1873:
SI,1oO. L. T. Roessle TO X. U. Holtzman, same
prOperty.