St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-01
A SECRET WELL kept.
Education Inspectors Fail to
Report on the Charges
Against an Employe.
The Charge Said to Be Per-
sonal and Outside Public
Interference.
A Red Hot Meeting Of the
Councils Committee on
Streets.
"Holy Joe," the Penitent
Crank, Committed as a
Llnatic.
Why all this secresy?


Several months ago special commit
tee of the board of education was ap-
pointed to investigate certain charges
against an employee of the board. At
subsequent meetings of that board the
chairman inspector Postlethwaite) of
the special investigating committee
asked for further time in which a re-
port could be formulated. Up to the
present no report has beer made. Why?
Here is the explanation of Inspector
Postlethwaite, given at last evenings
meeting of the board. He said:
This committee has held several meet
ingS, but we are not in position to
make any report. l do not think it is
necessary to make any report and be-
lieve that the committee should be dis
charged. The matter which came be-
fore the committee was entirely outside
the Jurisdiction of this board. Charges
were made against an employe OF this
board which were of an entirely per-
sonal character. The witnesses and
relatives of the plaintiff made very seri
Gus charges, but it would be unfair to
divulge them to the members of this
board or to any one. 1t is matter per-
sonal to these people alone, and some
thing, il their good sense or good Judg-
ment prevails, no one will ever hear Of
again. 1t is matter we have nothing
whatever to do with. 1t does not APP
pertain to the business of this board
in any way whatever. l think the COM
mittee canbe excused under the clrcum-
stances.
President Haas-The committee will
be excused if no objection is taken.
No nnnncitiOn ntfQrp6 nv
members, and so the committee was dis
charged.
Ought not such proceedings to be con-
demned?
Charges were made against an en-
ploye of the board. The president
thought them serious enough to APP
point an investigating committee. This
committee holds several meetings, al
lows several months to pass away, and
then cOolly comes up with the state
ment: 1.-The charges are of personal
nature. A report is unnecessary.
Please discharge u.s." Certainly it is q
most singular way to conduct public
business. The public-that is, the tax
payers-have a right to know what
the charges are and who the emploYe
of the board is, as we'll as distinct UNI
Outstanding that he is worthy OF being
retained in his present position, what
ever that may be. The action of the
board in this matter was sorry ending
of its career.
Last nights meeting was the last of
the board of education as at present
constituted. The business transacted
was purely routine. The following
teachers were appointed: Miss Net
tie Primrose, Longfellow school;
Miss Lou Fowble, Lincoln school;
Miss E. Zwlnggi was trans
ferred from the Longfellow school
to the third grade in the Garfield school.
The following teachers having served
| the term of probation required by law,
and having presented the necessary
| testimonials of success, had their ap-
pointments confirmed: Miss Kate
| Owens, Monroe school: Miss Mary Cos
grove, Lincoln school; Miss Winnie
| Macquire, Fisher Avenue school; Miss
Winifred Griffen, Monroe school; Miss
| Gertrude Nonan, Tilden school. The
Hendricks school is to be moved twenty
SIX feet on to the property of the board.
The cost will be $4,000, and, with i'm
provements to be made to the school,
this expenditure will be Increased by
| $4,000. The members of AckeI post
memorialized the board to provide the
| pubic SchOOlS Will lldllOHdI HdSo.
| Supt Gilbert reported that the high
school graduating exercises would
occur at the Peoples church OH the
evening of Juue -. The manual
training schools would be formally
opened the morning of June Is, when
| there would also be graduation eXer-
cises. The graduating class of the
teachers training school would give a
reception on the evening of June Is.
The Haxtun Heating company, for ma
terial furnished the manual training
| school, had their bill ''nocked'' by 1888
on account of material supplied not in
accordance with specifications.
President Haas received a vote OF
thanks from the members for the man
ner in which he had presided over the
meetings of the board, the proposition
being moved by Inspector Maxtield and
seconded by Inspector Dobner. Mr..
Haas suitably responded, and the board
| dissolved.