The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-31
WHO'S WHOM BIG
SCHOOL INQUIRY
Business Sketch of Board Mem
bcrs and Investigating
Committee.
TALK TOO, ABOUT POLITICS
-Four Councilmen Making Probe
Are Now Up for
Reelection.

In view of the pending investigation
OF the public school system being
conducted by special Committee or
the CITY Council. IL will be os In
terest To know who the members OF
the City School Board are, and the
personnel OF the body named TO sit in
Judgment on tho methods which the
schooi Board has seen III to auopt for
the conduct of the schools.
The School Board.
The City school Board Is made up
as follows:
Chnrles Hutzier. chairman, prest-
dent Central National Bank, retired
merchant and capitalist.
Ferdinnnd c. Ebcl, ylcc-chairmnn,
former president of the Common Coun-
ell, president Jacob EbeI IL Sons.
j. a. c. Chandler, Ph. D., Superin-
tcndcnt. elected by state Board of
Education, ind member cI-oItfcio of
School Doard.- Graduate Richmopd
College and Columbia .unIveisity, New
York.
roland II. Chiidrey, proprietor of
drug store.
W. Floyd Reams, purchasing agent
Richmond Cedar Works.
William Il. Owens, master mech anic
Southern Railway shops. South Rich
mond.
DIR. d. d. HoEe, Jr.. physician.
John G. Corley, president the Cor
ley Company.
w. j. kImbrough, superintendent u.
Il. johnson Publishing Company.
John Bagby. member Pollard 6
Bagby, renl estate agency.
The Investigators.
The committee OF investigation is
made up of the following:
Councilmcn-GIlbcrt IL. Pollock,
chairman, attorney at law; Jacob I'm
lnuf, uphoisterer; john Hirschberg,
clerk Globe Clothing Cnmpany; f.. Il.
Fuller, secretary Home Brewing Com
puny.
Aidermcn-,Iarx Guust, mnnufnctur-
ers' agent, Joseph NJ. KUN. under
tuker; John 5. Marshall, fsaIeymun, ID.
May a Co., clothing store.
Primary Is App-onching,
The four Council mem bers of the in
vestisating committee come up for re-
election in the primary of April 80.
and are already activeiy at work in
turtherance OF their campaign. Messrs.
airschbers and umlauf may drop on,
of the Council race in oruer TO cfIcr
Tor the Administrative Board. 0Iessrs
Gunst and Mitchell are hold over
Aldermen. and DO not come up for re-
election at this time. II is admitted
in many circles that the side of the
Elementary Teachers Association as
against the School Board. is the popu-
lar side at this time. ana some OF those
most Interested in the conduct OF the
pubic schools advocate the postpone
inent OF the inquiry until after the
spring primary. The report OF the
committee Will not ne submitted in
any case until utter the primary, and
VIII therefore not be acted on until
the present scramble 10. seats in tn.
reduced Council is out OF the way
Members of the City School Board
are elected by the City Council in Joint
session Tor three year terms, three beImg
elected each year. The terms of VIII
liam II. Owens, John 6. Corley and
Dr. NJ. u. Hoge, Jr. expire Tomorrow,
but the Council has decided TO defer
their reelection, pending report of
the Investigating committee. The
members continue to serve until their
successors are elected and qualify
No Standing In Inv.
In written opinion the City Attor-
ney has held that the investigation
has no standing in law, since the
schools are under State control, and
the law provides for appeal from the
local School Board 10 the District
superintendent, from him to the State
superintendent. and from him TO the
State Board of Education. The pres
ent inquiry therefore can only be To
determine whether the city would be
justified in making IN appeal TO the
duly constituted authorities in regard
TO the methods OF conducting the
schools The only two ways In which
the Council has direct control OF the
schools are. IN the annual appropria-
lions made in the budget, and in the
election of trustees