Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-30

Lost.-One superintendent of schools,
easily recognizable as such, being beard
ed like the pard" and wearing eyeglasses.
Supposed to be in Chicago, st. Louis, Bos-
ton or elsewhere. Any information lead
ing to his discovery will be gratefully
received by the school board of Washing
ton, ID. c.
There is certainly no way around it.
Superintendent Chancellor is either lost
or mislaid. Capt. James F. Oyster chair
man of the board of school commission
ers, does not know where the chief prop
of the Districts educational system may
be found, and has no idea when he will
know precisely. Capt. Oyster said today
to a reporter of The Star that there Is
some chance that DIR. Chancellor might
turn up in ST. Louis. but that 1t was by
no means bad bet to place him some
where in New England. That leaves part
of the United States out of the running
and then, besides there are the Philip
pines, Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico.
Suggested Scheme.
1t is suggested that it would be a Won
derfully clever scheme to have a school
superintendent "in partibus." For instance
Monsignor Diomede Falconio, the papel
ALLOCATE, is Archbishop of Larissa, in Mace
no means necessary for him ever to have
visited or to visit his archiepiscopal see. 1t
would be the simplest thing in the world
for a man to hold down a school superin-
tendency on that same principle If that
practice were only instituted in this city
DIR. Chancellor would never need to come
to Washington at all.
Pupils parents just returning to the
city" said Capt. Oyster, have many ques-
tions to ask regarding the coming school
year, and very often We do not know the
answers We have hopes, however, that
DIR. Chancellor will return before long.
When he was last in the city he signed
some of the papers needing his signature"
DR. Chancellor vanished from Washing
ton just as soon as the schools closed, ana
has made but one visit to the city since
that time and that mere fitting. And
there was a good reason for his coming.
He was sent for. Papers relating to
matters that could not be delayed-such as
Observation-Disclosures his signature.
In answer to a peremptory summons, DR..
Chancellor reached Washington last Sat
urday. He spent that day, Sunday and part
of Monday in this city.
Since that time his movements are
wrapped In mystery.
Disregards Notice.
II is understood that DR.. Chancellor was
virtually ordered to be present at the meet
ing OF the school board held Wednesday
night. He was absent. and no reason for
that absence was transmitted to the board
There was not one word Of explanation
that might have been conjured into the
fainest semblance of an excuse.
DR.. Barton W. Evermann, a member Of
the school board. said today that he met
DR.. Chancellor on the street Monday, and
that the superintendent said he had been
called to Philadelphia. but would be back
in Washington early Tuesday morning.
1T never entered my mind" said Dr.
Evermann. that DIR. Chancellor would alb
sent himself from the board meeting since
there was every reason why he should have
been present"
conviction that DR.. Chancellor will not
be superintendent Of the Washington
schools the coming year prevails among
members of the school board and persons
interested in the conduct of educational az
fairs in the District.
District officials, whose connection with
the schools fs limited to the payment of
salaries, have already had submitted to
them the question whether they can legally
pay the salary of the superintendent
This salary is not by the term. but by the
year, and Is divided into twelve monthly
portions. There is grave doubt whether
money unearned can be rightfully expended
With regard to the proposed school for
cOlored children at Brookland, Capt Oys-
ter. chairman OF the school board saws
that the board Is anxious to act but UNI
der present labor conditions, and with the
high price of mater ial, II will be in,pos-
sible to buy the proposed site and build
q four-room school with the $26 Zoo avail
able. II will be necessary, he says, to ask
Congress for more money or to build a
two-room structure.