St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-19
UNDER A new. REGIME
Who Will be the Appointees
to the Board Of Edu-
cation?
A Change of System Said is
to be Desired by the
Mayor.
OF the Five Retiring Mem
bers None May be
Returned. @ !.
President Bpidgeman Of Ham,
line Booked for APP
pointment.

bers of the present board of education
will expire June l, viz: inspectors
Cook, of the Second ward; Giesen, of
the Fourth; Haas, of the Sixth; Thomp-
son, of the Eighth, and Dobner. of the
Tenth, and expectation is rife as to who
the new appointees will be. One thi ng
is definitely settled, and that is that the
mayor intends to make pretty clean
sweep of the old material, and the next
board will contain many new faces.
The following inspectors hold over:
Croonquist, of the First ward; Maxfeld,
of the Fifth; Wright, of the Seventh;
Foley, of the Ninth, and Kuhles, of the
Eleventh. The old board did not prove
a bowling success, so far as the conduct
of the schools and its business methods
were concerned; and it was as much as
the members and their friends could
do to keep rejecting charges
within narrow limits and prevent
them from becoming public property.
Indeed, Aid. Yoerg. of the council, sue
ceeded in stirring up hornets nest in
the board, and he was only prevented
from unburdening his mind and from
picking up the gauntlet flung down to
him by parliamentary coup of those
who did not believe it
GOOD TASTE
for one municipal body to be criticising
the conduct or methods of coordinate
body. The mayor has been fully aware
that things have not been run just as
they should be in the board during the
past two years, and he intends 10 rectify
mat tiers if possible by the character of
the new appointments. In the Second
ward Inspector Cook will step down and
out. and his place will probably be filled
by Frederick De Haas, the Weli-known
manager of the Germania Life Insur-
ance company. Mr.. De Haas is we'll
fitted fer the position both by reason of
his talents ana splendid business capac-
ity, and his appointment. would
be most favorably received, espe-
cially among the German element.
Inspector PoStlethwalte has not lived in
the Third ward for over year, although
he has continued to represent it. Of
course he will retire, but who his sue
cessor will be is not known, no candi-
date as yet having ''bobbed up serene
ly." In the Fourth ward Peter Joseph
Giesen, who has held down a desk at
the high school for 10, these many
years, will take few years off for
change, so as to get in shape to aspire
for higher political honors. The one
most prominently mentioned to fill the
vacancy is j. G. Donnelly, who was
member of the board almost continuous
ly from 1870 to 1884, serving most of the
time as secretary. Mr.. Donnelly was
strongly pushed by his friends to run
for alderman at the last election, but re-
tired in favor of Mr.. Cullen. He is
bright, intelligent, thorough business
man, a large property holder, and thor
oughly converSant with every branch of
school work.
PRESIDENT HAAS
will probably succeed himself in the
Sixth, he being a capable and salts
factory member and on very friendly
terms with the mayor. AT the last cleo
ton for secretary of the school board,
Haas championed the cause of E. w.
White. the present incumbent and
relative of the mayors, and by his tact
and diplomacy succeeded in getting his
man to the front. His action in this
matter tended to strengthen the bond of
friendship between himself and his
honor. 1t is possible, however, that
Haas may retire in order that he may
devote his exclusive attention to the
business of mending his fences for his
bout with Mike Bell in the fall. Charley
expects the mocratic nomination for
register of deeds--if he secures which he
will make it decidedly interesting for
the Solar unconQuered M. j.
G. J. Thomson, of the Eighth, has in
Cured the diSpleaSure of the powers
that be, and he will be duly sacrificed
when the time comes. A strong effort
| has been and is being made to stay the
descent of the guillotine in the case of
l,,,f fn M
mayor islands pat" and for the coming
two two years William Rodger will see to
the educational interests of this ward.
Mr.. Rodger is a Scotchman by birth,
and Is level-headed business man. A
| year ago he received the nomination for
| county commissioner on the Democratic
| ticket, but persisted in the G. q. p.
| cyclone which swept over these parts at
| that time.
MI. Dobner. having ridden into the
council on the tidal wave Of May 6,
will cast aside his educational swad-
| ding clothes. put on his new and ele-
| CANT aldermanic livery, and sit down at
the
DEMOCRATIC LOVE FEAST
with the thirteen other chosen apostles
of the people. It is we'll enough known
that Mayor Smith will appoint in his
stead Rev. G. II. Bridgman, the promi-
nent and well-known scholar, aud the
president of Hamline college.
The term of the present superin-
tendent of public schools, G. B. Gilbert,
will not expire until the fall, but those
in authority to know state that he will
not be reelected. Mr.. Gilbert has not
been in active charge Of the schools for
some time. owing to failing health, and
he has been absent from the city nearly
a month, endeavoring to recreate and
recuperate himself. Meantime, the
duties of the superintendent deyolve on
Principal Conger of the high school.
| What the trouble is, cannot be ascer-
tanned, but that there is trouble there
can be no doubt, and it is even said that
| if Mr.. Gilbert'S term were to expire to-
morrow, he could not be reelected.