The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-27
TEACHERS ARE TO BE PAID.
AN AGREEMENT ARRIVED At LATE
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.

Payment to lie Made by the Middle of Next
weok on the Basis OF the June Salaries,
Pending n Settlement Of the Dispute.
The Brooklyn schoolteachers. who haven't
received their pay for the month ot septem-
Der. will get part OF what 10 due them about
the middle OF next week Superintendent OF
Schools Maxwell said last night:
1T was decided late this afternoon By the
Corporation Counsel and the chairman Of the
Law Committee OF the School Board OF Brook
Ign. after a consultation with Auditor
Cook and myself. that the payrolls
for Brooklyn should be made out.
audited and paid on the basis OF tho June sal
aries. pending the settlement OF the legal
questions in dispute. and without prejudice to
tho legal rights OF the teachers under the new
salary schedule and the Ahcarn law. The Sec
rotary Of the Brooklyn board was directed to
make out the new payrolls on this basis i'm
mediately ard Auditor Cook. Of the Board OF
Education. will audit the payrols as soon as
presented. 1t Is expected that the teachers
will be paid by the middle Of next week. This
Is regarded as a happy solution OF vexed
question"
The arrangement carries with 1t hold up OF
part OF each teachers salary for somebody
to squabble over. This 10 not new expert
ence for the Brooklyn teachers. They have
made the victims OF some Tight or another over
salaries almost ever since Brooklyn was made
a borough OF the city OF New York. Tho
Brooklyn folk say that supt. Maxwell is to
blame for most OF the trouble the Brooklyn
teachers have experienced. while others say
that. IL the Brooklyn School Board didn't In
sist on always doing things a little bit different
from the school boards OF all the other bor
oughs. the Brooklyn teachers would have no
more trouble about salaries than the teachers
OF the other boroughs.
Some OF the mem bers OF the Brooklyn School
Board 60 so far as to say that they believe the
difficulties which the teachers now employed
in the Brooklyn schools have experienced in
reference to salaries. accounts. to n limited de-
gree. for the inability which the Brooklyn
teachers to supply the demand They say tha.
ultimately ali that is coming to them. do not
care to give up places where their salaries are
not held up for places where salaries may be
The BY
were made out. The Brooklyn School Board
authorized an advance in the salaries of certain
Brooklyn board asserted. by the provisions Of
the Ahearn law. which provides Tor ihe advance
the ssas OF al wh2 have
The Brooklyn board did not certify that all the
teachers whose salaries had been advanced
st star da9 Of f merit and tness supt MsTwS
asserted that the Ahoarn law required such q
certincation. and until it was male he objected
to the payment OF the salaries OF the advanced
The Brooklyn School Board asserts that the
Ahearn law is not mandatory In this respect.
The Corporation Counsel was appealed to for a
construction OF the law. and. according to the
is in advance over the old schedule will be he i'd
up until the Corporation Counsel renders his
s Hss ssTss's s: tho 5ss
Fac: s5st .ahs Gafd fas
OF teachers elglolI;s to teach in the citys
this list. or collection Of lists. containing the
OF TEACHERS Hhdy
contains the names of many who do, not live in
the city. or who cannot be reached by mail or
Telegraph, or who are already employed The
any reserved teachers or not. They say that
Two hundred and twenty four letters were
addressed s to persons son whose . pSmes were on
seeessSry TO duality them for teachers in the
delivered to the Brooklyn Board. The ma
jority OF them however we're answered. with
nstatement 90 the efisct that f. the teacher had
the State or country. and consequently did
not care to come to Brooklyn, or that he or
Some lew said that they had already been as
signed or had been employed in private schools
None Of the members Of the Brooklyn Board
| pretends to account for the way the alleged
| eligible list has been kept. but they think tho
reason for the answers they received from
from ali over the State and neGhboring
Ssss oh nATi The PF q NsShY
| fore. taken the necessary examinations. got
homes, to use their certificate OF eligibility to
than that school seiuS Ph'e
| great favor on a teacher applying for appoint
| meut who can show that she has shown by ex-
animation that she is qualified to teach in the
Three male teachers applied for Employment
! to the Brooklyn Board yesterday morning as a
Of the ppsgs, Sgsn TO IN. 0r
Board desired 1t to be known: for the benefit
Of those who may apply for Jobs: that
m Rlanat grades ds s"fd.r. Of cert ihoa.e,
must have the experience required. For
| the second. third. fourth and fifth grades
primary experience is not required, No male
teachers can be engaged for girls classes OF
primary grades. while thsy, can obtain a other
seventh and eighth grade grammar, and In all
| other grades In the grammar schools with an
| A certificate
There is a proposition under con liberation te
admit tho Jamaica Normal School within the
New, York city schools as graduating pupil,
experiences required OF Others. This will some.
| what broaden the field ana will doubtless
| afford some relief
President Mckinley VIII Go to Canton ts
Vote.