New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-01

cation and contractors be looked into by the
Commissioners Of Education; that school oiiici1l'
be compelled 10 properly account Tor supPli'S
furnished, and that radical change take piice
in the conduct Of the depository.
Mayor Grant will hand the reports - lis sue
cessor tomorrow.
of Education. when seen by Tribune reporter
last night, said 49,,
This clipping from an evening paper which
you have handed 10 me is the nrst animation
| have had OF thcsc charges. The char-cs, as
they appear hero. are 30 vague ana IacNihg III
detail, However, that ii is almost impossible 70
make definite answer 10 them: inry are 20
answer them of hand Early next week VIII
sc' at the books of the Board o. Education WHERE
can get Some figures that vii answer snel
charges that are definite IN manner
that will he satisfactory, in ever par'lc,
ular, 70 the DOard OF Education, the Mayor ana
to the public will say howeySr' IN nelersne cr
Accounts, that j have no knowledge Of the sew
cral years IN which the Board of Education
asked and obtained from the Board OF Es III
pended ! have been a Commissioner OF the
Board of EDUCATION since lsss and during that
Time the bO1d did not oa ask n 1sr
Every dollar that received was expended in
the most economical and practical manner. II
is true that in details we did not cXpend
all that was allowed TO US, but that only shows
that we were economical in the uSe OF me
money intrusted to us, and had the money
departments, where we did not have enough
money, there would not DO a cent left TO our
credit The board Of Education he's been greatly
hampercd BY an insuficiency, of funds There Is
SO much red tape in the administration of the
city that we could not always us, what was
uncxpendcd in other departments where money
the advantage of department. that needed
more money than was awarded to them. The
Board Of Education has been continually suf-
fering from lack of money, especially for re-
school
dations for scholars and improvements
The clipping. YOU have shown to me speaks
Of the Board Of Education as being 'cloggcd by
red tape This is merely the opinion Of the
writers of the report. who are not supposed to
be educational experts, else they probably wonld
have been appointed long since COMMISSIONERS
of the Board of Education. The work of our
Board is not cogged with red tape or anything
else | have no hesitancy in saying that the
Board of Education is one. of the most capable;
efficient and economical of all the branches OF
our Municipal Government Inc iac1 rnai 20 ye lw
past is proof of this. When you consider that
from $4,OOoooO to $4,000. 900 pass through , our
hands every year this statement is remarkable.
AS to the charge that this Board in one year got
So. 900 for free lectures TO workingmeH and only
$500 of the amount was used for that purpose l
figures to combat it, and the published report
does not say in what year it occurred. Inc AMI
mus of the whole report is so manifestly lndcni,e
and unfair that l cannot answer IL as 'ou''
Henry H. Porter, president of the Board OF
Charities and Correction, SAID IN relerehoe ~, W
the published report Of the charge made oy ti,e
Commissioners Of Accounts against ms depariincn.
~ have been O commissioner OF TINS depart
mont twelve years. and this is the first nave
hear1 that the system of conducting the business
of Tho department is condemned. These com,
m,ssioners of Accounts have frequently examiner
fhis 6,rpartmcnt during; the twelve years OF my
tenure of office and have not before discovered
co far as | am aware, that the system OF man
acinr the Charities and Correction Department Is
fauIfv: and Vet the system on which II Is TOW
RIM Is the same. practically as il has been many
years back. What they say about the physi
clans having ice cream and charlotte russo IS
t trne bnt Il is not true that the ether at
tendants receive these decacies. II seems 70
me- that il ia only right that professional pm!
sicians should have such decaces as ines, One. q
week al their meals 1t Is not true that the inmates
NJ tbe Institutions, some 1900 or le.oou .,
Thorn do not get enough OF Ordinary io"n
They, arc AZ well fed as any inmates OF similar
institutions in any part of the world lhese IN
stitutSons have been examined from tune 10 ,iine
nv the State Board. and no complaint had peeh
made that | know Of, about the rare tn'N re-
raiye It is also untrue that the city Is charSeu
q a dav for Law patients In lSSO special law
wwas nassed which enabled patients who were nor
nSidcnts in this city to receive the advantages OF
treatment in bellevue Hospital at a charge Oh
Sftv cents day, and they have been charged
tbis small snm But the total amount rcccivcd
from this source has not announced 10 over E-'oyo
a year. and il has always been turned over to the
trea