The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1895-07-06
School Matters.

The annual meeting of the board Of
education WAS held Monday afternoon.
The meeting was quite an important
one in that president, secretary and
superintendent were to he elected, and
the question Of salaries discussed.
The clerk salary was finally left I'M
reduced, but re-arranged. Instead Of
paying him 81 $50 per year and letting
him pay his own assistant, he now gets
81, $50 straight, and the board employs
the assistant at salary of $4,000.
The secretary Is forbidden by vote
OF the old board 10 make public the list
of teachers that were chosen at the last
meeting. The people generally are
curious to know who are to be the
teachers for the coming year and the
salaries TO be paid, but the board seems
determined to keep the facts hidden
and not to allow the taxpayers to know
who their employees in the schools are
or what they are being paid.
Our board of education % has never
lie from knowing what they, the august
board, are doing. star chamber acts in
school matters are not good for the
public or the schools, although we do
not blame the board for wishing to hide
their acts from the public. They would
no doubt like TO hide their acts of Mon
day also.
Mr.. Lyons sent to the desk a resolu-
ton amending the rules of the board.
1t abolished the committee on the
council, that being considered a super
fluffy, and instead the committee on
teachers and text books was divided
into two committees, one on teachers
and the other on text books and course
of study. The resolution had its first
reading and went over to the new
board.
After tome more routine work the
president declared the old board ex-
pred, and in doing so thanked the
board for the courtesy they had eX-
extended to him in the past year stat
inc that he had tried to act fairly and
impartially.
Mr.. Webster was, on motion, made
temporary chairman. The first bust
ness before the new board was the
election of a president.
After five formal ballots were taken
Phil II. Perkins, who has about as much
interest in the public schools as instI-
tutions of learning, as the devil has in
the New Jerusalem aside from the
golden" street pavement, was declared
elected.
Mr.. j. F. Wood was elected for Vice
President on the first ballot
The new board attempted to read
just the Secretary's salary but failed to
altar the figures previously fixed by the
old board We are surprised to see so
prominent a business man as Mr.
Chandler attempt to cut down the sal
airy of the assistant secretary. The as
sistant, it Is true, wears no blue ribbon
honors, but he does the work of the
office, and puts i'll full time every day
500 a month, while Mr.. Chandler would
reduce the pay to S.'3. Mr.. Lyons
wanted TO give the secretary 81 900 and
his assistant $500. This came the
nearest to consistent solution of the
matter, but Mr. Lyons WAS with an in
consistent crowd-or perhaps with a
crowd whose slate had been previously
made up-and his motion was prom ,ot-
~ voted down, and Mr. Webster's
amendment to Mr.. Chambers motion,
making the pay ST 100 for the secretary
and $40 for the assistant, prevailed.
Mr.. Webster, it will lie noted, was a
member Of the old board and is now a
member of the new board.
After disposins of this salary question
the board proceeded with its previously
arranged program, ana Mr.. kimbaIl
the present incumbent, was reelected
secretary, and Prof. \. W. Rankin for
superintendent at a salary of $1,000 per
year.