The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-23
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
PRINCIPAL THOMAS APP0INTIIENT
 OPPOSED BY MR. BETTS.

He Was Also Against uessrs' French and Hurd-List of Teachers Who Will Re ceive More Salary.
 When the report of the committee on schools came up last evening for adop- tion in the board of education MT. Betts objected to the appointment of Princi- pal French in the Lowell school. It was on his amendment that the salary of MT. French was cut down from g., 250 to $2,000. The report as made by the committee, with this exception, was adopted.
 MT. Moran, on behalf of the commit tee on schools, made some brief expla- nations of the reasons why the recom- mendations that he should make had been made, and immediately launched into the features of the report.
 He said, to come down to the facts, the district has been paying during the past year $3,S00 to two men who have been acting as principals of Washing ton and Day districts.
 The committee proposed to pay $2. 900 to one man and to add $50 to the max imum salary paid in the Washington district, so that in one district the total expense for doing the principals work will be S2, 150 next year instead of $3,SO0, as at present, a saving of $l,650.
 The committee recommended that one man be employed as principal of the consolidated districts of Woolsey and Strong schools, and that a salary of $2,500 be paid. This would be a say ing of $1, 100 The committee did not recommend a man for the place. An offer had been made to one man, but he had not accepted.
 The committee recommended that in Webster-Dwight district the services of MT F. l.. Camp be retained as principal of Dwight home school at a salary of $l,000 per year, and that the remain der of the work of the district be look ed after by MT. Lewis, who has charge of the Webster district. This will be a saving to the district of $l,25O
 The total saving by these changes will be $3,S50.
 The committee recommended the ap pointment of MT. Harry Houston of East Saginaw, Mich. as supervisor of penmanship at a salary of $1 300.
 On the matter of primary teachers no change was recommended as to sal aries at this time, but the superintend- ent was directed to make a report of plan for a readjustment of salaries be- fore the first day of April, 1897.
 The committee reported that it may be necessary to add to the list of sub stitute teachers at some future meet ing.
 The resignations of Miss Annie L. Thomson of Eaton school and of Miss Louise Turner of Welch school were ac- cepted.
 The committee recommended that an ungraded school be established in Dix we'll avenue.
 When the report of the committee on special instruction was presented Mir Belts asked that the teachers be con- sdered first, and that the appointment of Principal Thomas, which the report recommended, be left till the last This plan was accepted by the board, and the corps of teachers, except the prin- cipal, was adopted.
 The consideration of the appointment of Principal Thomas was then taken up. MT. Betts stated that he opposed Mir Thomas as much as he did last year. He thought that for the benefit of the school new principal for Hill house high school should be engaged. The day had come when Principal Thomas usefulness had become inn paired. He had lost prestige and, in his mind, he would never recover it.. This, Mir Betts said, he had asserted last year, and he still made the state ment
 MT. Betts based his arguments for the dismissal of Principal Thomas on what he alleged to be facts concerning the action of fourteen members of the senior class who are said to have "cribbed" during examination. He did not lay this entirely to the principals lack of diligence, but in nine cases he was satisfied that such was the fact.
 Both Mir Manson, chairman of the committee, and MT Connor. member, defended the report and while they admitted that part of what their col league said was true, they eXonerated MT Thomas by the statements that the overcrowded condition of the room in which examinations were held was responsible for the temptation to crib on the part of the boys.
 The report of the committee on MT Thomas was adopted, Mir Betts voting no.
 The following is list of the teach CTS whose salaries were changed by the board. Many of them were trans ferred from positions held last year:
 Principal Henry w. LOomis will go to the Dixwell avenue ungraded\ school which is established for that district. Mir Loomis has been principal of the Washington school on Howard avenue for many years.
 HILLHOUSE HIGH SCHOOL.
 Room 2. George A. Booth, S1, 800 to s1, 600: room :, William H. Hackett, $9OO to s1,000; B. w. Mcfarland, HOO to S1 300: room 10, Annie S. Johnson, $1, ,O0C to S1. 100; Kathrina Martin Wiley, $500 to $1,100
 WEBSTER DISTRICT.
 Webster School.
 Room 4, Margaret McKicrnan, $550 to s560; room 3, Alice NJ. Chapin, $500 to $53O.
 Oak Street School.
 Room ?, Sarah A. Lyle, S45O to S46O.
 Davenport Avenue School
 Room 5, Margaret E. Smith, $40 to $500.
 EATON DISTRICT.
 Eaton School
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