The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-20
THREE CANDIDATES
FOR SECRETARYShP
G. s. seamans, L. T. Mates and
Howard Davis Are Nominated by
Members of Board Of Trade.

j. w. Guernsey registered vigorous
protest at yesterdays meeting of the
board Of trade against the proposed
increase of the public school teachers
salaries but he found no one ready to
discuss the question.
Toward the end of the meeting Mr..
what he had to say would be serious
ly considered by the members present.
II understand said he, that the
board Of control proposes to increase
the salaries of the teachers and that
this increase will amount to about
SEQ, 900 a year. In the face of present
conditions such proposition, If carried
into effect, would be an outrage on the
taxpayers of the city. What with
an already too high taxes and the de-
probation in the value of our real
estate it would be an injustice to inn
pose an extra burden upon the tax
payers. I should like to see our teach
ers receive more salary. They prob
ably deserve 1t but it should not be
granted them under existing cOndi-
tions."
+. S. Barker chairman Of the teach
ers' committee, which has the matter
in charge, said that he didn't like to
discuss it before it came up for final
action before the school board. He
said, however, that he would very much
like to hear the members of the board
Of trade express their views upon it.
No one accepted the invitation and the
question was dropped.
The manufacturers committee
through it's chairman, j. A. Lansing,
recommended that G. S. Seamans be
elected secretary of the board of trade.
There were over twenty applicants for
the place and the committee consider
ed the question carefully at several
meetings before arriving at definite
and final conclusion. The report of the
committee was adopted with the un-
derstanding that secretary would be
elected later during the meeting.
When nominations We're asked for
Cornelius Comegys proposed Mr.. Sea-
mans name while Rufus j. Foster put
the name of L. T. Mates in nomina-
ton. After motion to close the NOM
nations had been made, but not put,
John Kemmerer nominated Howard
Davis for the place. The action of the
board in thus failing to unanimously
committee came rather as a surprise
to many members and 1t was finally
decided to refer the whole question
back to the committee for consider
alton.
President A. w. Dickson made little
address In which he declared that the
Williams directory, published last year
was one of the poorest directories ever
got out in this city. He said he wished
the board to withdraw it's support un-
less the company puts out better
one this year. A motion to this effect
was put and carried.
A communication from the secretary
of the Wilkes-Barre board of trade
was read requesting the local board
to use it's best endeavors in securing
the repeal by the next legislature of
the law which county treasurers have
the right to collect a fee of $1.50 for
every mercantile license issued. From
the tone of the communication it would
appear that this matter Is worrying
the Wilkes -Barreans in a manner quite
beyond description.
c. p. Matthews and j. b. Quacken-
bush were elected members of the
board and the application of Alfred
Rice was received,