The morning times., 1895-08-21
schools IRE THEIR CARE
Full Board of Trustees Soon to
Be Appointed.
NEW BLOOD Is ASKED FOR
Younger Men Said to Be Necessary as
at Present the Management Has
So Far as Politics Is Concerned.
Color Line Also to the Front

The Commissioners will have the i'm
portant duty to perform soon of appoint
ing a full board of school trustees, the Of
ficial term of each of the present incum-
bents expiring by limitation on the 18th
day of September.
Notwithstanding the fact that there are
no applications yet placed with the Commits
sioners, there is a decidedly lively inter
est being taken in the matter and there is
strong probability that the board VIII
have number OF new members on its rolls
next year. Eleven are 70 be chosen. the ad-
| dition Of two being made by the last Con
grcss. The additional members are, Un-
der thelaw to b. selected from the women's
ranks, and the two ladies now serving
win doubtless be continued. as they have
been in office but a few months
A vigorous effort is to be made to have
new blood infused, the uutcropping
of the movement having been first mani
/ tested several months ago at a meeting
of the East Washington Citizens Asset
| alton The demand viii b. that the young
/ men shah have a chance
SCHOOL AFFAIRS IN \ RCT
| 1t is contended that the school affairs
have fallen into groove, from which
/ they can be extricated only by a radical
! change in the nake-up of the board
| The advocates OF this proposition do
not reflect upon the present membership
in any particular rs citizens but say that
/ the schools need rccousTucting. and that
/ this cannot be effected unless the recon
! struction Of the board preerdes it,
/ 1t is also claimed that no one not a
/ bona fide resident Of the District should
! be appointed q trustee No one who draws
/ a salary from the United States govern
ment, as department clerk or in other
( capacity. they say. should be placed in
( charge of the school interests. for the
reason that only suCH time as can be
/ spared from departmental duties can be
devoted to the District interests, aud
/ this. it is declared. Is rot sufficient
Each member of the hoard is expected
/ to visit the schools u his or her particular
/ division, and TO devote such time to the
details of school work as the Importance
/ Of the interest demands. With few not
/ able exceptions, the new departure ad-
/ vocates say, the present membership has
ldticti u Nlb lIil9s anu II - t4tcil
/ even the meetings OF the board are sInlIy
/ attended, thus leaving the conduct OF af-
| fairs TO a comparatively few.
TREAT ALL PARTIES FAIRLY.
! Politics Will probably cut q figure, in
/ cideuuany. 1t is not by any means i'm
! probable that the Commissioners VIII be
! asked to keep fair divide" III view when
making their selections 1t is not the
purpose, the agitatOrs declare, To bring
! politics into the schools, but now that
| there is an opportunity, they believe they
! have the right to expect that the Com
missioners VIII give all parties equitable
/ share in the makeup of the board, Il nd not
leave it in its present One-sided COnstrUC-
! ton.
The color question is likely TO play a
| part also, and it is understood there Will
be a move made for the selection of three
new rrpreSe natives of the cOlored race
! The present members are ex-senator B.
h Bruce, DR.. T. d. Shadd, and L. A.
| Cornish
COLoRED MEMBERS.
There was an effort to have two OF
these ousted at the time they Were last
appointed, a year ago, but it failed
| That the same attempt Will be repeated
at this juncture is confidently expected.
! Petitions are already in circulation in
behalf of the new aspirants, as we'll as
| for the present inCumbentS. The interest
in the selections is augmented by the fact
that the appolntees will have the naming
of the teachers for the three school years
succeeding the present term.
Ex-senator Bruce, the oldest member
of the present board, has announced to
his friends that he is not a candidate for
reappointment, and this makes j new SeleC-
ton in his place imperative.
Two cOlored ministers have been named
for appointment They are DR.. Walter H.
Brooks, pastor of the Nineteenth Street
Baptist Church, and DR.. George W. Lee,
of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church.
The Commissioners viii be deIuged soon
with petitions. and their official quarters
win doubtless ere long be the scene of
numerous public hearings in behalf of
the candidates whose interests win be
represented by rival delegations.
The office of trustee has no salary at
tached, and the duties incu mIent, if
properly attended TO, are very eXacting.
Amphitrite To Go Out OF Commission.
The monitor AmpAitrite sailed to-day
from Port Royal to Norfolk, where she viii
Oe surveyed and her defective vcEtilating
apparatus thoroughly repaired and re-
placed 1t is rot unlikely that the Amphi-
tritc VIII be place. out of CCmmss ion, as
the refitting may take some time. The re-
cent trip of the AmpAitrite from Hampton
Roads developed how poorly she is venti-
lated Twenty-eight men Were overcome