Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-08
TEACHERS PAY READY
CHECKS DELIVERED TO SECRE-
TARY OF THE BOARD.
Officers Placed in Separate Class-Ex-
animation Of Applicants for
Teachers Position.

Through the strenuous efforts Of Dis
bursting Officer Rogers Of the District gov
eminent and his corps of assistants, and,
fguratively speaking. by the burning of
much midnight oil''-the lights in the Dis
trict building are really eiectric-the Sep
TENDER salary checks for the great body
of public school teachers were turned over
to Secretary Connor of the board of educa-
ton and delivered to the owners this after
noon.
Because Controller Tracewell of the
Treasury has decided that the officers of
the school system should receive their
salaries in twelfths. those employees will
have to wait until the board OF education
prepares another pay roll for their benefit.
The disbursing officer of the District has
scratched from the payroll already submit
in the school service who are officers or who
may be designated as such. The number
includes not only the superintendent and
his assistants. but the High School princi-
Tectors of special departments. etc. There Is
still some doubt about the question of off,
GERS salaries based on the uncertainty as
to whom the controller meant by the term
Officers as he used 1t in his decision.
Some Checks Withheld.
The successors Of the colored teachers
who are disputing the right Of the board in
dismissing them summarily will not be
paid in the first batch. as has been stated
heretofore. The District authorities have
scratched their names from the payroll
and will await a further decision by Con-
troller Tracewell upon their cases.
The decision Of the controller that the
officers must be paid In twelfths has the
effect of depriving all those who come
within that designation of salary for the
part of the summer which elapsed between
j / time their
by the board. This will mean a loss of
about $500 to Assistant superintendent
Hughes and Montgomery. 1t is stated. Had
Superintendent Chancellor's salary begun
July l. he would have received about 5000
more than he will now receive.
Everything is quiet at the Franklin build
ing today.
DR.. Chancellor was in his office for a
short time and attended to mis- morning
mail. but there was a notable absence of
individuals and committees of the board of
education and of delegations of various
sorts, such as have been thronging the
school headquarters recently.
Results of Examination.
1t is expected that the results of the ex-
animation of applicants for teachers posi-
tons, which was begun last week, will be
ready for publication within a few days.
About thirty-three persons were examined
to fill some half a dozen vacancies. The
oral examination in some instances has not
been completed by the examining board
Prof: Taichiro HOMO. a Japanese, who is
travelling through this country and expects
to go to Europe for the purpose of study
ing high and normal school systems in the
interest of the Formosan government is in
this city He Is visiting the Central, Nc
kfnley. Business and Armstrong schools
and will remain here until Wednesday, He
has just come from indianapolis and Chi
cago, where he has been studying schools.