The Washington herald., 1906-11-03
TEACHERS GET PAY
Seventeen Hundred Checks
Ready for Distribution.
COMMISSION BEGINS IT'S WORK
Body Authorized by Congress Starts
Investigation of Practicability of
Concentrating Public SehOOis-COI-
Ored Committee Meets school super
Intendent Chancellor Wednesday.

The public school teachers of Washing
ton. by applying in person this morning
to the secretary of the board Of educa-
tion at the Franklin School Building, can
/ secure their pay checks.
All the pay rolls of the local school
system were completely audited and sign
ed by Dlsbursing omcer Rogers yesterday
afternoon before the District Building
! closed its doors.
! This work Of completely auditing and
signing over l,70O checks has entailed a
lot OF 'hustling' on the part Of Mr..
/ Rogers clerical force. who were COM
PEELED to work many nights overtime.
ScheOIhOuse Commission.
| The special commission appointed at the
| last session Of Congress to form a general
/ plan of consolidation OF the public schools
and for the abandonment and sac Of
such school sites and buildings as they
may deem necessary for the best good
IF the school service OF the city began lis
| first active work yesterday. The COM
mittee is composed of Col Biddle, the
! Engineer Commissioner Of the District;
| William Z. Chancellor, superintendent Of
public schools, and James Knox Taylor
! Supervising Architect Of the United States
Treasury.
The members OF the commission are
making q thorough inspection Of the
schools in the District, and the sites upo
which they are located, TO determine the
advisability Of changing their location.
Question of Concentration.
The question that they will have to
decide is the advisability OF the present
policy Of making numerous four and eight
room school buildings. and having them
located so that 10 one Of them viii be
very far away from the houses in any
section Of the city, or to establish large
school buildings. and not build So many
Of them. but have them centrally located
II New York. the Commissioners state,
This placing OF large school buildings Is
done. They claim that it does away with
the little buildings scattered about the
city. and in the end. It is believed. they
VIII be less expensive in many respects.
Ii is expected that the plan Of building
large schools. centrally located, II deter
mined upon. viii cause dissatisf action
among the citizens, whose children viii
have TO 20 q greater distance 10 attend
school. and may have 10 resort to the
use OF street cars If the distance between
their homes and the school buildings is
too great.
Scope of Commission Report.
According 20 Commissioner Biddle. the
/ inspection Of school buildings viii take
several weeks. owing 30 the great number
OF schools and the vast amount of terri
tory to be covered. The commission has
been preparing for several weeks a plan
to follow. preparatory to beginning active
work, and decided that It was advisable 20
begin its work with inspection OF build
iags.
The commission, by the act Of Con
gress, Is required to submit a general
plan Of character. size. and location Of
school buildings aud sites, in accordance
with the local educational and business
interests. It must determine. in other
words, II the four and eight room school
buiidi 1gs should be distributed around, or
whether these buildings should be aban-
doned. Il must also pass upon the type
Of school buildings and their general ar
chitecture.
VIII Meet COIored Committee.
4 special meeting Of the executive com
mittee Of the colored citizens committee
on public school affairs has been called
by its president, Rev s I. Corrothers. 70
take steps to arrange for an interview
with Superintendent Of Public Schools
Chancellor This is due TO the invitation
issued to the committee by the sUperin-
tendent on Wednesday. The local colored
people await the outcome OF the meeting
between the superintendent and the COM
mittee with the greatest Of interest.
DR.. COTrOthers, it will be remembered.
is the cOlOred minister who created a stir
among the members Of his race by his re
cent denunciation Of the action Of the
school board in dismissing f. 2. CardoZo.
supervising principal Of the Thirteenth di-
vision of the school ysytom, from the
service.
Cadets Get Krsg-JOrgenseH.
Gen. Crozier, Chief Of Ordnance, will
call upon the officials Of the District, hling
with them the bond required by the
statute in such cases. issuing to the mem
bers of the local High School Cadet Regi-
ment Krag-Jorgensen magazine rifles, ac-
ccuterments, and ammunition, to replace
the Springfield arms. with which they
have been furnished since their organiza-
ton.
This action is taken in conformity with
a special act Of Congress at the last ses-
sion. putting the High School Cadet Corps
Of this city on the same plane and stand
ing in that respect as the regularly Or
ganized militia Of the various States and
Territories. The boys are very much
elated over this action OF Gen. Crozier. as
the rev rifles are much lighter md
therefore, easier to handle. The condition
Of the Springfield rifles now In their pos
session IS very bad, in spite OF the many
polishings that they have for years re-
ceived al the hands Of the citys amateur
soldiers. =