New-York tribune., 1911-11-11
TO REAPPO|NT FIVE MEN.
Gaynor Not Sure About Four
Other School Commissioners.
FORTY NAMES SUGGESTED
''Small, Paid Board Out of Qu as
tion-Wilsey's Experience IN
Opposing Mayor s>Views.


Nine members OF the Board OF Educa-
ton which voted almost unanimously III
disapproval of Mayor Gaynor's pet idea OF
a paid board, as Incorporated in the charter
will end their present terms on January J. J
1912 and ii became known yesterday that
some of them have been summoned before |
the Mayor for a private talk over their
attitude.
These interviews in the Mayors office
were held before the last election. however
when Il was still possible that the charter |
,rieht have been revived. Now as one |
OF these nine men said yesterday 1T Is
largely an academic question
Some Of the interviews must nave proven
satisfactory 10 the Mayor, for hVe OF the
nine retiring members have been unofhclahy
apprsed of the fact that they Will be re-
appointed. In the case OF one ar them ui'9 |
word did not come 10 him unth al'er u"
question Of his attitude had been thrasheu
out with the Mayor four different tlfi'eS'
The nine men whose terms Will expire |
with the end Of the present year are
runert B. Thomas Cornelius J1 Sullivan
Dr. Dennis ]. Mcdonald, Horace Y. Dresser
,rhomas NJ Delaney Frank D. VTilsey, DR. |
charles r. Bruce, Max Katzenberg ana |
Nevor Gaynor 10 fill an uneXpired term |
snd when the Mayors scheme for a paid !
hoard came before the present Board of Ed |
,,cetion he was one of the few who re-
<orded themselves as favoring the idea He |
&c ono Of those who, II is reported, will be
sesppointed.
Forty Men Want Places.
Something like forty names have been
presented 10 the Mayor. by their frlends OF
nv organizations of which they are mem
hers. for the places Of the nine whose terms
.xpire. and delegations Of friends of those
snenbers have urged their reappointment
Some friends of Frank d. Wilsey's who
met the Mayor by appointment ana urgeu
his retention, got the response from the
Mayor that he did net think he could re-
eppoint Wilsey because that gentleman hau
shown publicly that he disapproved OF the
A1avor,s proposal in the charter for a small
and paid board. Asked In what manner MI
Npilsev had shown his disapproval publicly
The Mayor told them Wilsey had so written
An q. letter TO a certain man. One Of VIII
sev's friends who was In the delegation oe-
xcribed the subsequent steps in this manner
1--WE went TO Mr.. Wilsey and asked him
about the letter to which the Mayor re-
len a letter 10 this man. nor even talked |
with him in his life So went back 10
,be Mayor and told him there must be some
mistake. Mayor Gaynor told us then tnat
the letter of which he disapproved so
stronglv had been written by Mr. W1lsey |
10 second man, but upon inquiry we tounu
that that statement was incorrect ana mat
Mr. Wilsey did not even know the second
man named So we thought II ought to be 1
straigbtened out. and We went TO see the |
Nsvor a third time. explaining that there
was evidently something peculiar about the
whole AFFAIR. and the Mayor gave us third
name and said that was the man to whom
air Wilsey had written.
Inquiry on that point disclosed that Mr..
yyilsev had written letter to the tnlrd
man named by the Mayor in answer to
letter OF inquiry which was made UP
of a series Of categorical questions as TO
Nnsey's attitude toward the proposed CHAR
Ter provisions with respect TO the Board /
Of Ed,cauoh
rWilsey To Be Reappointed.
Wisev's,. friends then saw the Mayor
again. and admitting that Wilsey had OPP
posed the small paid board, told him on
what grounds he had registered his opposi- /
,ion and demanded TO know whether that
attitude. based on a sincere distrust OF
,bo rroba bIe capacitv Of such board, was
10 be made the basis for dropping Wtsey' |
They did not get anything out or the
Mayor. but some time later it was indirectly
conveyed 10 Wilsey that he was to be re-
appointed. IL
Refore that however. and before his
friends had seen the Mayor the first time
the Mayor summoned Wilsey 10 his office
Of
charter provisions concerning the Board
NJ Education This was just before the
MAYOR went to the State Fair at Syracuse
last summer. and according TO Wisey
friends Mayor GaynOr declared dramat-
,cal,v 10 Wilscy at that time that he had
rostjvely no interest whatever in the char
ter and had had nothing TO do with 1t in
any way
Two davs later in his address at Syracuse
tbe Major said he had worked so hard on
,be charter that he had been unable to
take A vacation. Wsey was first APP
rointed 10 the Board of Education by
Nravor Strong. his appointment 10 the pres
ent board came from Mayor Low, and he
WAS reappointed by Mayor Mcclellan.
Horace r. Dresser, another Of the mem
bers whose terms expire this year. mas
served continuously for the last twenty
had not heard from the Mayor, even In
directly. as to whether he was TO be reap
pointed or not.
"I never sought the office in any way
said Mr.. Dresser "and do not think 1t IS
the kind of a place for which one shoulo
seek. However, ] am interested in the
work Of the board, naturally, having mao
q part in it for so long
MIR. Dresser set himself on record as
opposed TO the small. paid board idea in
letter 10 The Evening POST which he sent
I'm at the request of the editor.
"Wben the matter Of the proposed char
tor provisions with regard TO the board
came before us in board session said Mr
Dresser. 1T was referred to the committee
an laws and legislation That committee
reported unfavorably against the proposed
changes, and the board adopted .ihe report
Of the committee by vote which was
almost unanimous The position taken by
the hoard was sustained by all the leading