The herald., 1895-06-14
THE DECAP|TANON
HAS BEEN DEFERRED
Professor Search Is Still
Superintendent
ACTION POSTPONED
ANOTHER WEEK
The Courage OF the PIotters
FOrsOOk Them
LAST NIGHTS MEETING
OF THE SCHOOL BOARD
The Show as Programmed Was Not
Given
ALL OLD TEACHERS
TO BE REAPP0INTED
Director Wills VIII Certainly Be Here Next
Thursday Night
Assistant Superintendent foshay Has Been
The Show as Programmed Was Not
Given
ALL OLD TEACHERS
TO BE REAPP0INTED
Director Wills VIII Certainly Be Here Next
Thursday Night
Assistant Superintendent foshay Has Been
Repeatedly Approached by Members of the
Board OF Education to Take His Supe-
riur's Position, but Loyalty to
His Chief Prevented

Prof. ?. NJ. Search is still superntend
ent of city schools, thanks to The Herald,
which on Tuesday morning checkmated
the play which sought to summarily oust
the superintendent from his position.
Mr.. Search's official decapitation has
however probably been only delayed for
one week.
The council chamber was crowded with
teachers and other interested spectators
who had been called out expecting a free
admission educational matinee at the adj
journed meeting of the board of education
held last night. The scenery and all of
the accessories for the comedy were in
place, bnt the leading star performers III
the play refused at the last moment to
appear before the curtain. AS is usually
the caseswith amateurs in productions OF
this character, an attack of stage fright
interposed and there was no show.
The comedy had been most thoroughly
rehearsed, and every performer in the
cast had learned his part by heat; but
the sudden glare OF the footlights and the
expectancy of the big audience sumped
the courage of the various actors, so that
when the supreme moment for enactng
their different parts and speaking their
several lines came, the majority of tho
board, each and every one of them,
wished he were somewhere else. They
mad not the nerve TO look public opinion
sQuarely in the face. Professor Search
himself was not present to see the fun.
Notices for one of those informal meet
ings-a tnal rehearsal OF the comedy. as
it were-were sent out to all OF the mem
bers of the school board, to be- present
without fail in the headquarters at 8
o'clock yesterday afternoon. 1t brought
every one of the perform. ers in the play,
excepting Directors Garland and Fulton
to the scene. The former is summering
at Redondo and the latter was too busiy
engaged with his private affairs to at
tend. The whole situation. from the re-
port of the city attorney regarding Mr..
Search Inellgibiity to hold Office down
to the various contemplated ways and
means about to be adopted to declare the
position of ssuperintenent vacant, were
thoroughly lcanvassed pro and con. 1t
was finally decided. after great deal OF
sparrinp all around, that the honor OF
playing the star parts III the coming bur-
lesuue should fall Jointly upon the shoul-
ders OF Directors Grubb and Pitman.
One was to move that the position of sd
perintendent of schools of the city of Los
Angeles be declared vacant and the other
was to second the motion. All OF this,
OF course, after the legal opinion OF the
city attorney, Dunn had been formally
read. Directors Grubb and Pitman, how
ever, both demurred to the intended pro-
gramme. asking of their colleagues to
postpone the intended matinee for at least
another week, and this request, as the
proceedings last night developed, was
finally very reluctantly complied with.
President Hale was trtle late in cali
ing last nights meeting to order; The
calling of the ro,l disclosed the absence
of Directors Garland, Wills and Fulton,
the latter making his appearance later In
the session.
Directr Grubb first reported that the
committee of the whole had intended last
night to report the schedule of the teach
eIs' salaries for the ensuing school yea,
but owing to the high school graduating
exercises. and for other reasons, the sal
ary report was not yet quite ready to be
made public property, and he would there
fore move that when the board adjourned
it would be to meet again next Thursday
night, to consider this and other very i'm
portant matters. This, of course. was a
foierunner of what was not going to
happen. The official execution of Super
intendent Search had been delayed for
one week. The secret salary schedule. by
the way. to which the venerable Mr..
Grubb referred, was published, as it has
been officially agreed upon by The Herald
seconded the Grubb motion, and the
sigh of disappointment among the audi
ence dImmed the window panes and the
council chamber with three inches of wet.
This incident ended Director Simon
ton again secured the floor to state that
the teachers committee had for several
Gays been considering the subject OF
teachers for the next school year, ard
had intended to have by this time COM
pleted the full official list. The dropping
spirits OF the audience at this intimation
OF something very interesting, again re
vived, but the hot stuff that they onged
for never came. Mr.. Simonton simply
eased his conscience with the additional
statement that he also was not yet quite
ready,to make full formal report. He
would, however, say that he him self, was
firm believer in civil service reform.
and he would move tnat it was the sense
OF the board OF education thar all the
good teachers of the past year be at the
proper time reelected to their various old
positions, such election. however, to be
only for Il term of one year. This motion
Director Grubb seconded, and II was
adopted unanimously.
The board accepted the invitation ex-
tended to have it's members ride in car
riages in the Fourth of July parade, and
ordered the site for the proposed new
school house in the Fifth ward to be re-
advertised, as had been recommended by
the council.
The protest of George Rheinschild and
others against the location Of the new
Ninth ward school at any place excepting
the northeast corner OF Lopez street and
Pennsylvania avenue, was ordered to be
publicly heard next Thursday night. The
protestants declare that the school as
proposed to be built is entirely too near
to the 4raed siseat ,sab4oL