The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-23
DEFENDS DEAD MANS MEMORY
BOARD or EDUCATION TOLD
CASWELL vas BLAMELESS.

Commissioner sSHaeFs says u Was AaeFel-
less slaSieT mat Llnked Late ausical
directors Name with Mis- RuFnss-
Hsw 10 Make q Teacher Retire.
An item on the calendar Of the Beard
Of Education meeting yesterday referred
10 the recent death Of Albert 3. CasWell.
director Of music In the Brooklyn schools.
Commissioner Arthur SOmers asked the
privilege Of speaking a few words in
behalf Of a WOman's character that had
been greatly abused and in behalf Of a
man who was past defending himself
4 brand a. false the merciless SANDER
that has been circulated and that muat
have shocked most Of you Who did not
know the circumstances in the life aud
death Of this splendid man. said Mr.
SOmers. referring TO the report that Mr..
CasWell had lived apart from his wife.
Prof. Caswell ~ dead; his lips are sealed
and he cannot defend himself Nothing
that ! can say will help him. but may
help q pure, innocent woman whom u
~ attempted 70 destroy IN an effort -
diagrace the memory OF a man who never
during his life DETAINED any mortal.
This young woman il Miss 4. W. Burns.
teacher in our schools, with whose
mother md sister and herself Prof Caswell
made his home during the latter yeaFS
OF has life. This woman 10 a. innocent Of
disrupting the professors home a. 10
the little crippled, almost sighiless dauRh-
ter that bears my name
Mr.. SOmsrs said that he and his wife
-
for years with Prof. Caswell, and the
Burns family and he knew that there
was nothing improper between the pro-
lessor and Miss Burns. The members
Of the board listened attentively while
Commissioner SOmers was speaking His
remarks were ordered entered on the
records
The meeting approved the transfer OF
Principal Theodore B. hrringer Of Pub
lie School 20. East i20th street. 20 Public
School GS. Seventh street Brooklyn
written protest from the principal was
read and then Chairman Abraham Stern
Of the elementary schools committee
explained the reasons for the transfer
He said that the principal had been
over thirty years in the service and was
falling behind In efficiency and in main
tanning discipline. There was a chance
lRA uAtM 70 NNNllN vi h9kA fNNaAAAs uNA
he would not do Il The COMMITTEES did
not want 10 he hard on the prinoipal
and haul him zap on charges. % they
just sent him over 20 a little school IN
Brooklyn az a hint that he should apply
for retirement Mr. Stern added that
the committee expects the principal to 1
get out before he - moved further 10 |
the city's outskirts.
A request was made that the principal /
Of Public School a. a. 7OS RivingtOn street. |
b. pernntied 10 uss the school AUDITORIUM |
ON the evening Of June p FOR an enter |
tainment for which an admission q rs |
GENTS IN 10 bc charged
Il was explained that the money raised 4
at the entertainment was 20 buy spectacles /
for pupils Of that school Il was said J
that lOO boys and girls attending the I
school were In need Of gasses and this I
method was taken beoanse the folks az |
home couldn't spare the money 70 aid the
children
A-sociat e. Superintendent Gustav StFau-
benmuller was elected for another term Of
six years az $500 a year. Stuart n
Rowe was appointed principal Of the
v adleigh High School and Thsodors c
Mitchell Was appointed principal Of the
Jamaica High School