St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-23
TWO LUCKY TEACHERS.
The Board of School Inspectors
Secures Them an increase
of Salary
by Passing a Re solution to Suit
the Comprehension
Business.

The board of school inspectors held
a short session late yesterday afternoon,
the main object being to straighten out
the muddle over the salaries of George
Weitbrecht, the chemist and assistant
principal of the high school, and G. b.
Scott, supervisor of the schools and
teacher of botany and other sciences at
the high school.
Mr.. WeitDrecht'S original salary was
50, 900 year, and Mr.. Scott's was $500.
Their salaries were increased by reso-
luton of the board, the former to
81, 500 year, and the latter to $1,000.
At a subseqent meeting, the board. in
deVising means of keeping within the
limit of the school, money, passed
resolution declaring off all increase OF
salary by schedule. On the strength OF
this last resolution Comptroller Nc
Cardy declined to audit the salaries of
Weltbrecht and Scott at the increased
figures. claiming that the action of the
school inspectors set them back to their
old salaries. The board of school in
spectors asserted that their resolution
related only to salaries increased by
schedule, and not to these salaries,
which were increased by reSolu-
ton. However, McCardy indicated
that if the board would pass
aTeSOlutiOn confirming these salaries at
the increased figures, he would send
! them to the treasurer for payment. The
board Yesterday afternoon passed the
desired resolution.
Inspector Stamm raised the point that
these salaries might be higher than
| other cities are paying for the same serv-
ice, but Inspector Smith replied that 1t
was not at this stage a question rs to
whether the board was paying too much,
but of keeping the promise made these
men by which they returned to st. Paul
for another year. They were both Of
fered good situations in other cities, and
declined them because of the salary the
st. Paul board had fixed for them by
resolution.
The committee on high and manual
training schools reported that 1t has
appointed Miss Nellie Mann teacher of
mathematics at the night high school at
salary OF $50 a month; that it has ar
ranged for the teaching of bookkeeping
and penmanship in the night high
school, and that no tuition will be
charged for the next term. The report
was adopted.
Inspector Auerbach offered a reSolu-
ton, apprOpriating from the contingent
school fund $500 for the exhibit at the
worlds fair, of st. Paul educational
| matters. The question was raised as to
how much money the Minnesota COM
mssoEers for the worlds fair had set
apart from the appropriation Of $780,
600.
Mr.. Gilbert replied that the COM
mission has set apart $500 for the Mill
nesOta school exhibit; but this, he said,
was not enough to buy the needed new
supplies and pay the freightage on all
the exhibits to Chicago. Minneapolis,
he said, has appropriated much more
than $500 to buy new supplies and con-
vey the exhibits of her schools TO Chi
cagO. The resolution went to vote and
was carried. Inspectors Dixon and
Smith voting no.
|. The committee on fuel and janitOrs
reported that it has appointed Harry
Gordon assistant janitOr at the high
school, at the schedule salary. TO date
from Dec. 1 appointed j. j. Crawford
J. Martin, resigned: appointed Peter
Schlette janitOr of Garfield school, vice
+. T.. Sutton, resigned. The committee
also recommended that A. Walden be
placed on the pay roll of this month for
services rendered from Nov. IL to Dec.
Gas janitor at Hawthorne school during
the quarantine by the health board of
the regular janitor, whose family was
afflicted with diphtherla. The report
was adopted.