The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-27
THE LAST PUBLIC HEARING
BEFORE THE COMlLIzTEE ON
 SCHOOL SUPERVISORS.

SCHOOL SUPERYISO
 Superintendent Kendall and George l..
 Fox Heard Last Night-Committee tee
 Passes n Vote of Thanks to the Two
 GentIemen-Commi Report Will Not be Ready for the Next Meeting o1
 the Common Council. l The committee appointed from the
 common council to inquire into the sys-
 tenn of school supervisors in the public
 schools held it's last public hearing last
 night. Several citizens were present, but
 the session was devoted entirely to hear-
 ing George L. Fox and Superintendent
 of Schools C.. N. Kendall. Few ques-
 tions were asked by members of the
 committee, and the hearing developed into a debate between MT. Fox and MT. Kendall on the question of supervisors. After adjournment MT. Fox, speaking of the session, said: "The hearing to- night was the kind of hearing in tone and temper that we ought to have had from the beginning-a frank, open and amicable interchange of opinion on the methods of school administration. Crit icism and defense honest on both sides, which was carried on in perfectly friendly manner, brought out many in teresting facts. Tn the future let it be well understood that every taxpayer may discharge patriotic duty of crit icism of the schools without being slan- dered and without being charged with being hostile to the good of the schools"
 Four members of the committee were present-Messrs. Staub, Brennan, Con- lin and Greenfield. The absent commit tee members were MT. Chillingworth and MT. Chase At the opening of the hearing MT. Fox said that he had not, Chase was acting as paid attorney for the defense. MT. Fox said What said was that Mr. ChillingWorth and MT. Chase while sitting on this committee. acted as If they were attorneys for the defense, not that they acted as paid att torneys for the defense. I repeat what I said then-that these two men in re- fusing to listen to facts about Dwight school were acting like attorneys for the defense" *
 MT. Fox then handed to MT. Kendall a list of the names of four women and asked him if any of them were teachers in the public schools. MT. Kendall look ed over the list and said that one was, but that the other three were not.
 Mir Fox-"How did she happen to be appointed 2 teacher?"
 Mr. Kendall--"She was recommended by citizen of the city. I looked up her record and found that it was good, and she was appointed"
 MT. Fox-"What citizen recommended her?''
 MT. Kendall objected to answering this, and Chairman Staub ruled that he need not.
 Mr Fox-"Was it Prentice w. Chase who recommended her?" {
 MT. Kendall-"Later on MT. Chase | spoke to me about the same woman"
 Then his recommendation did not af- feet the matter at all?"
 Not at all.
 Has this young woman's name been | in the papers as having been | appointed a teacher?"
 q can't say positively whether it ap- | peared in the papers or not. It was re- | ported to the board"
 q saw the names of other teachers appointed the same night published, but her name was not in the list.
 "If it did not appear it was probably an oversight. It was put on the list given to the papers, I think"
 Has the full cost of supervision been to the committee?"
 "Yes, think it has,"
 "The amount reported was $11,500. Is that all?"
 q think so. did not prepare the fig lres"
 'Is Miss Scranton eupervisor?"
 "Yes, in way
 "Her name does not appear in the ist."
 "The annual report for 1899-1900 has lot yet been published, and Miss Scran- on has been doing this work only since September. That explains why her lame is not there. Miss Scranton de- yotes only a. part of her time to super rising the kindergarten work. She is lot a supervisor in. the sense that Miss Reynolds, and MT. Houston are." MT. Fox thought that $400 of Miss ,cranton's salary should properly be , harged to the account for supervision, ,, nd asked if that was a fair statement , f the addition for the cost of supervi- , ion of kindergarten to the total cost of upervision.
 Mir. Kendall-"No; there is the per fem cost of the person who takes her :, lace when she is out on other work" T What would that cost be?" q should have to estimate that. I hould suppose that it would be for fifty T avs at $1.75 per day" . "Then the cost of supervision of the = is practically $500 instead f S400?"
 Yes" Y, Then it seems to me that ought to s e added to the figures given to MT. . taub--that is, that the cost of supervi- T on was $11,500" !, Il think that included the cost of su- ervision of the kindergarten and the lbstitute."
 "I don't find that in cities of this size l