Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-02
ARCHITECTS NAME
ON CORNERSTONE
CAUSES M|X-UP
Harrison School Board Puzzled
About Replacing Slab
in Building.

A curious condition exists in the
Harrison Board of Education. The
complication was brought about at a
meeting last night when the question
regarding the right of Joseph Kennedy,
an architect, to have his name placed
on the cornerstone at School No. ],
where wings are being erected under
the direction of Mr.. Kennedy, was dis
cussed.
] AT the meeting last Wednesday night
the matter was brought up and talked
over at some length. 1t was decided to
lay 1t over until last night, when final
action was to be taken. The action
last night was anything but final.
When all other board business had
been transacted President Martin F.
Desmond asked If nothing was to be
done about the stone. Commissioner
John Enright declared 1t a small piece
of business to remove the stone. Secre-
tary Brophy made a motion that the
tone be taken out and one of limestone
be substituted and that only the words
Erected A. D. 1910" appear thereon.
Commissioner Kahn seconded the mo-
ton.
Commissioners James p. Finnegan and
Joseph Won fish, the new members
of the board, were opposed to the out
lay of s75, the price of a new corner
stone. MI. Enright said he visited the
school yesterday and was compelled
TO use his glasses In order to see the
name of Mr.. Kennedy. He declared
that his eyesight was not necessarily
defective. but the letters were almost
indiscernable.
The commissioners commended that 1t
was a good thing for the architects
name to appear IN the stone, as he
would be openly responsible for any ir-
regularity. The firm thai installed the
boiler has it's name thereon and no
trouble was being made, said Enright.
He made a motion to the effect that
the boiler firm remove It's name. No
one seconded the motion.
Motion Causes Confusion.
1t was at this juncture that Commits
Won fish offered an amendment
to Brophy's motion. and it vas this
which later resulted in the ~imbroglio.
The amendment was worded thus: IF
the present stone is taken out the
space be bricked up" Commissioner
Thomas F. Lawless seconded the
amendment. President Desmond evil
IDENTIFY misunderstood, for In putting
the amendment he said that "brick be
substituted for the present stone"
Commissioners Won fish, Lawless,
O'Neil. Finnegan. Desmond voted in
the affirmative. and Commissioners en-
right, Kain, Reilly, Brophy against 1t.
Both Kahn and Brophy reconsidered
their vote and recorded in the affirma-
tive. The original motion war not put.
When the board had adjourned and
someone brought up the cornerstone
matter II was readily seer that things
were mixed up. President Desmond
and Commissioner F%innegan declared
most emphatically hat In voting
for the amendment they did so with
the understanding that IL carried it
would result in the removal of the
stone.
Commissioner Won Tish was just as
emphatic in his statement regarding
the manner in which he had worded
his amendment. Clerk Brophy con-
suited his minutes and found hat Won
fish was right, and also that Presi-
dent Desmond had put the motion as
he claimed. The result Is that the
board does not know where it stands
In the matter. There is one thing that
seems certain, and that Is that the
stone will stay where 1t is until the
next meeting.