The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-12
HUNDREDS ASK
SCHOOL JOBS
OF MAYOR
Politicians Are Working
Overtime to Get on New
Education Board.

When Mayor Haussling decides to
appoint the nine members to the new
School Board which will supercede the
present Board of Education, consisting
of thirty members, he will have suffi-
cient material to pick from. In, the
last few days his office at City Hall
has been thronged with men seeking
appointment on the new board, and
these applicants, added to those who
have made thei request through the
mail, amount to fully three hundred.
Among the men being given serioAs
consideration by the Mayor are those
who were elected to the board which
was put out of business by the passage
of the referendum question in favor of
the small board. Their friends claim
that as they were the choice of the citi-
zens of their ward they should be ap-
pointed on the new body when it takes
office in January.
Commissioner George Marley, chair
man of the schoolhouse committee of
the present board, which became IA
NOUS In the controversy owe the cree
ton of the Technical High School be-
cause the plans submitted would en-
tail expenditure of $500, 90, when the
Board of School Estimates appropriate
ed only half that amount for the work,
and then at n recent meeting passed
the muddle over to the next commit
tee, saw the Mayor yesterday and aft
erward told an EVENING STAR re-
porter that he had asked the Mayor to
appoint him on the small board.
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the Mayor will have to have expert
enced men on the small board. AS for
myself, / do not care especially, but my
friends nave urged me to get on the
board if possible" he said.
Alderman Emil Wohlforth, of the
Third Ward, who was up for reelection
to the Council and was beaten at the
last election, is another IN who Is
out for a position on the board, and has
a testimonial from the Republican
members of the Common Council to the
Mayor requesting his appointment.
DIR. Fl. A. Glatzmayer, who was re-
Gently reelected by the Democrats of
the Seventh Ward to the Board Of Ed
ucation, is another who Is mentioned,
and the friends of John C. Eisele, a
Republican commissioner of the present
board, is being doomed by his friends.
David A. Mcintyre, Republican pres
ident of the board, who resigned re-
Gently because of poor health, has re-
covered and was at the hall today. 1t
is understood that strong pressure is
being brought to bear on the Mayor to
appoint him on the board.
William Tuite, Democratic vice-pres-
ident of the board, who has been act
ing president since Mr.. McIntyre's res
ignation, and Commissioner W. A.
Birdsal, of the Fourteenth Ward, 1t is
understood, are in the running.
The ripper bill, which specifies that
the terms of office of appointees of the
Mayor shall expire with his term, does
not hold in the case Of the Board Of
Education, which is under the State
school law and cannot be affected, as
has been shown by decisions of the
court in the past.
For years Jersey City has had an
appointive School Board, and Mayor
Wittpenn will next month name
members to I'LL vacancies on that body,
which consists of thirteen commission
ers. There is no pay attached to the
Office in either city.