New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-14

general satisfaction Thero IL private or special
entrances 10 the Police Department. which can DO
used when criminals are brought there for sxsuina
ton or Identification. but the o7cials and mentors
OF the force regularly maize OF the main entrance
TO The building. As tho gew-YorR building wtll be
used for criminal courts the Disrct-Attorncy. etc,
there Is an OBVIOUS proprety in transferring tho no
lice Department thither. New-York By tho way
will DO lucky Il is able TO construct its new build
ings as economically as Brooklyn succeeded IN dong
with ths same Municipal Building That Is ono OF the
few public edihces In the country that built
the original appropriation. Tho appropriation was
100000, ana when the building was turned over co
the city ihere was small amoHnt unezpended. Tue
building has been criticised an architectural mon
strosity, bat In reality It deserves 10 DO looted at
and pointed to With pride BY Tho people Of Brooklyn
Tho time is approaching whep Mayor Chaplin viii
be called upon to appoint fifteen members Of the Board
Of Education Before the time for the next set Of ap-
polntments comes around the Board ought TO DO
reorganIzed and greatly reduced In Size Why there Is
not stronger force Of public opinion brought TO bear
on this matter Is really puESling. For ten years a.
least there has been talk OF establishing this depart
ment Of The ciy's business busIness.Dke basis,
but, so far as can remember, only bill on the
sbject has been laid before the Legislature, and thai
was never passed Yet everybody who reflects upon
the matter at all knows that the Board Of forty
I've members Is not and cannot be efficient Some OF
the recent performances Of the Board have been really
grotesque. II is well known. that the greatest de-
mand In the educational line In the city is for more
primary schools and yet moro than Of late, when
school has been built especially for primary chill
dren, tho Board has deliberately changed It's grade
for no good reason whatever. There are at least
obs or two OF the members whose terms expire next
hummer who have been outspoken in opposing the
schemes which not for the best Interest Of the
public, and It is question whether the Mayor vii.
reappofnt them II he listens to the politicians who
arc interested IN the Board whether members Of II or
not, their names VIII not appear on the list that Mr.
CHAPLIN makes Up. II is also interesting question
whether he appoints any members OF the Board
Tho names Of two or three women would be crafty.
ngot only TO those who have urged this policy upon
more than one Mayor, but to many others who believe
hst.BBmen should have direct voice in the manage
ment Of the schools, IN which they vitality Interested
but IL is altogether probable that in the present
dtion Of things, even moro than two three women
would not be able make their influence felt In the
Board to any perceptlblo extent.
AS an illustration Of the way IN which things
done by the Board OF Education may say that there
has recently como 10 mo on excellent authority
statement that appointment was made In ono Of
the schools not long ago Of young man who had
previously held place in ono Of tho schools In New
York City Six months before he received his
appointment IN Brooklyn he gave notice to the New
York trustees that he going to have place In tho
Brooklyn schools, and when the time came around
enough no Iot It How he could see so far int0
tho future is interesting subject for speculation
The incident throws food OF light upon the way
the interests OF the schools looked after by those
who have charge OF them
Arrangements 10 be made. understand, for the
celebration Of Arbor Day by tho public-school chill
drcn, through committees representing the various
schools, who 10 go to Prospect Park and plant one
or more trees This appears 70 be the only way in
which the thing DO practically managed. Experts
tell me- however thatMay 3, the date on wb. Arbor
Day falls this year is too late date for the setting
out Of trees In this latitude In some parts OF the
state II viii vcry likely be too early, 50 that there Is
practical difficulty In tho way Of the general ooserv
ance OF the day throughout the state that
probably did not 10 the aw.makers when they
established the day. That tho occasion ought to be
improved for interesting children in trees is obvious
I sometimes wonder why more trees are not planted
around the schooLhouses. Probably there IS reason
TO fear that they might fare rather hardly IN the early
period OF their existence through the pronencss Of
CERTAIN boys 10 play the vandS with them But this
disposition might be curbed and such boys trained TO
respect aud love trees by intimate acquaintance
vii them