Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-02
TILT ENLNENS
IRv|NGTON SCHOOL
BOARD MEETING
Committee Member Resents Rec
ommendation for Increasing
Salary of Teachers.

A tilt etwee Commissioners Albion
G. Christian and William A. Sherman
enlivened the meeting of the lrv1nsten
Board of Education in the Central
High School last night. The argument
arose when Mr.. Sherman recommended
an increase IN salary of teachers. The
matter was finally referred to the
teachers committee.
commissioner Sherman, who is also
secretary of the board, recommended
that the salary of Miss Elsie Morrison
be increased s25 a year.. This teacher,
he declared. was doing additional work.
and as other teachers are receiving
similar compensation for such work he
felt that he was justly entitled to an
increase.
Commissioner Christian objected TO
the recommendation coming from Mr..
sherman, maintaining that 1t was q
matter which belonged to the Teachers
committee. and he did not think It
proper for any school commissioner
not on that committee to encroach N
the work in its domain.
Secretary Sherman replied that he
wanted IL to be emphatically under
stood that he was not trying TO as
sume the committees functions, and he
renudiated the right of the commits
sioner TO make any such ~inuat
He said that the recommendation was
the result merely of a personal visit
which he had made to all the schools.
and was made in a spirit of unseltish-
ness and sincerity for the best inter
ests of the school system. He declared
that Mr.. Christian had on more than
one occasion refused to sign certificates
for work which had been properly liz
dorsed by the architect. This action,
he maintained, was as meddlesome as
his recommendation.
To this assertion Commissioner Chris
tan replied heatedly that he had re-
fused to sanction by his signature a
certificate because he felt convinced
that the work was not properly per-
formed. He maintained that he was
justified in such action irrespective of
sny approval of such certificate by the
architect.
Further controversy on h subject
was stopped by the ruling of Chairman
George H. Smalley and the sugges-
ton of Commissioner Charles H.
Stewart tina the matter be referred to
the teachers committee. This was &C
ceptable to the secretary.
Commissioner Stewart, of the legal
committee, reported that according to
advice from town counsel. Riker &
Riker, the contracts for the work on
the proposed new school on Madison
avenue could not be awarded until the
recent appropriation of $45, 500 is sane
toned by the Town Council of 1911.
II was decided h a the principals of
the schools be instructed to see that
each court in the different schools has
a teacher on guard during recess hours.
Regarding the recent recommended
ton of the board to ascertain the cost
of mattresses to be placed under the
suspended ladders in h school courts.
Secretary Sherman submitted estimates
secured by him as follows: Excelsior
mattresses, 3 inches by 20 inches, 81
each; cotton mattresses, s8.25 each.
Permission was granted TO the men,
bers of the Alumni Association to use
Alumni Hall, in the Central grammar
school, for an entertainment to be held
on December IA.