Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-27
SCHOOL PROBERs
WILL now TURN
TO ESSEX COUNTY
Uncarth Another Land Scandal
in Completing IHvestiga-
fi0a in Hudson.


HUDSON county probing by the Senzfs
school investigating committee was
concluded last night IN West Hohoken-
Throughout the county the fnvestIszt-
ors unsarthed school irregularities OF
every coucefvabIe chzracfsr. Tia
county prosecutor Is picking uu the
trail IN several sections and criruinaI
proceedings are expected The fnvestf-
gators viii devote their attention next
week to ESSEX county. They are ulan-
ming TO quiz the Newark Beard Of
Education on Wednesday and Thurs
dzv.
The inquiry In West Hoboken. which
lasted until late last night, resulted IN
the expose OF q land deal whereby The
rnanipuiators pr0fted to the extent OF
$500 Tne evidence showed that q
certain tract Of Boulevard property
owned by Anton FIefshauer was desireA
as a site for a new sc~hooFhousa-
Thomas KerriRan. a real estate SPEC
~uIator. being informed Of the proposed
intention Of the board. bought the
property for $3.50 and within six
weeks resoId II to the school board for
1890.
Memories Fan.
Kerrizan was represented In the
transaction by William Schultz, a
West Hoboken real estate broker, and
Frederick Hopkins. town counsel, and
at one time president OF the school
board All concerned Insisted that the
transaction throughout was done on q
cash basis and none could remember
the fees or commissions thai were paid
Lawyer Hopkins did admit. however.
that he had received s1o5 from the
board for title searching and SIS from
Mr. Kerrfgan for the same work
Mr.. Schultz five years ago engineered
another school site deal. In that In
stance he sold three lots to the board
for Kerrfgan. but the amount involved
was small. as was also the profit
Senator Frelinghuysen seemed greatly
astonished when II was shown that
Schultz, the busy realty man. and
John G. woltzen. the school boards
clerk, were chums and lived in the
same house
Oscar F. Alces and William Beemer,
members Of the school board, objected
to the buying of the Boulevard site on
the ground hat It was not In the
thickly-populated section Of thu own
and that for other reasons the site
was undesirable. They also objected
to the recent action OF the board in
planning to erect a new school az
si65, coo when the appropriation called
for an expenditure OF only 10000.
Complaint Received
George L. McEwan. president of the
Town Improvement Association, COM
planned OF the extravaganza Of the
board in the buying of>suppfies. and
had much to say against the boards
selection of the boulevard site.
He also charged h board with
showing favoritism in the paying Of
lteachers on the sick list.
He cited a case where a teacher, the
daughter Of a former member of the
board, was carried on the paying sick
list for some time, and produced Miss
May Monahan to show that she had
been ''docked" when absent for two
months. Miss Monahan declared that
she filed a doctors certificate to prove
that she was i'll, but the clerk testified
that instead of being Ill she was pleas
uring in California and sent souvenir
postals from there to the other teach
ers in the schools.