The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
TEACHERS ROAM NEW YORK.
SPEND THE DAY HERE AFTER
THEIR JERSEY CONTENTION.

Many Hear Lyman Abbott Preach at Co
lun,bia-City History Club Shows the
Points OF Interest-Internal War and
"Mso!iine Rule" in the Association.
New York was swarming yesterday
with the teachers who had come up from
the convention at Asbury Park. There
were fully five thousand Of them here.
Some went TO Columbia University to hear
DIR. Lyman Abbott preach In the morn
ing, others thronged the museums and
still others were conducted to points OF
interest uptown and downtown by mem
bers Of the City History Club. who ex-
planned and lectured as they went.
The conductor OF Broadway car which
took a group OF Missouri schoolma ANS
downtown will not soon forget the pretty
miss who turned toward him as he snapped
out q .Step lively!' and retorted: Young
mani In our country the conductors
have to wait for us. So will you!" The
collector OF fares subsidized on the instant.
The immensity of New York none Of them
could fully grasp. Ono young woman
who rushed In upon John T. Nicholson,
who Is in charge Of the teachers' head
quarters, in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, at
o'clock in the afternoon announced that
she desired to see Coney Island, Central
Park and the Brooklyn Bridge and return
at 4 o'clock.
The big gymnasium at Columbia Uni
versity was yell filled with teachers when
DR.. Abbott preached in the morning. His
subject was Religion. and he told the
teachers that they must get the spirit Of
religion into their work before they could
teach with full effect.
Miss Margaret Haley, who Is the business
representative of the Chicago Teachers
Federation, issued in the afternoon long
business meeting Of the National Educa-
tional Association on Thursday She repre-
sented body, she said. that wanted the
association to remain within the control
and be administered in the interest of the
thousands Of teachers who contribute it's
income. She compared the situation to
the situation in the Equitable society
where public opinion demanded that the
institution should be administered In the
interests of the poicyholders instead OF
in the interest OF clique OF off1cers and
directors who have long been fattening on
the profits that legitimately belong to the
stockholders.'
aWe want the association to remain
mutualized,' she said. She said that there
was machine rule in the association
standard Oil University as she, referred
to the University of Chicago, was the power
behind the throne. She concluded her
statement az follows:
There has been afoot for several years
a powerful persistent, silent and largely
successful conspiracy to make despotism
OF our entire public school system: State
boards of education have demanded, and in
some States have obtained. almost absolute
control Of the public school system. Local
boards Of education, themselves appointed
and not elected, are made corporations with
powers superior to the, city government.
Superintendent generally are demanding.
and have frequently been conceded. auto
cratic powers over school boards, courses
Of study selection OF text books and the APP
pointment. promotion, transfer and dis
missal Of teachers. &c, till it is safe to say
that there exists to-day in America, with the
exception of few enlightened communities,
no such thoroughly terrorized and oppressed
body of men and women as our public school
teachers The whole policy OF school adj
minstration in the United States is centrali-
cation, and this is the policy that is now be.
ing forced upon the National Educational
AssoCiatian.