Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-26
MAYORS ABSENCE
MAY HELP SISTER
TODEFEAT BOARD
Friends of Miss Hinck Expect
Her to Win MOntcIair
School Fight.

Miss Louise Hincll, the only woman
member of the Montclair Board of
Education, may be able to outwit her
colleagues after all in her efforts to
prevent the board from spending
$o6O,0OO for a new high school. The
absence of Mayor Ernest c. Hinck,
her brother, was said today by a
member of the school board to be a
scheme to prevent the request of the
board from being submitted to the
Board of School Estimate, of which
the mayor is a member. Miss
Hlnek's friends expect her to win the
fight.
If the mayor keeps away from town
for week. it was pointed out, he
will be in a position to control the
Board of School Estimate on New
Years Day and thus be able to block
the scheme of the Board of Educa-
ton. The same school commissioner
10 authority for the statement that
the Board of Education is going
ahead with its plans, just to show
the people of the town where the
fault lies in delaying the work of
erecting the new high school.
Miss. Hinck left the special meet
ing of the Board of Education on
the vote on a proposition to ask the
Board of School Estimate for the
money to build the high school. She
said she was going home to trim
Christmas trees. Before she left
however, she gave her five fellow
members piece of her mind with
respect to their action.
Had Members Worried.
Her protest at the meeting on De-
cember 20 against the action of the
board had worried the members into
calling a special meeting She had
commended that the previous meeting
was illegal. On Wednesday night she
told them the special meeting was
also illegal, because it had been
called to do exactly what had already
been done She claimed the previous
resolution must be rescinded before
the appropriation could be discussed
: again
When Miss Hinck left the five men
members passed the resolution again.
When they learned that the mayor
was away they wondered if their
hurry was not wasted
Prospects of the defeat of the $780,
600 scheme rests on the fact that
Mayor Hinck is at Atlantic City and
will probably be away until the new
Town Council organizes on New
Years Day. He is chairman of the
Board of School Estimate, which
must pass on all appropriations. As
composed now the Board of Estimate
favors the scheme by a majority Of
one. Meetings of the board must be
called by the mayor.
Can Control Majority.
When the Town Council organizes
4 fc I'D N1T,k h..
point a new representative on the
Board of Estimate from the Council
to take the place of Councilman
sDavid Henney, with whom he has
been at odds for some time. If he
appoints a man favorable to his views
he will then have a majority on the
board, as Councilman Thomas p. Nc
Glynn is opposed to the plan of the
Board of Education.
The mayor will also have the So
lection of two new members of the
Board of Education. The terms of
three members expire, but as the
BOARD must be reduced to five MEM
bers the best the mayor can get is
two votes on the board. The terms
of his secretary and Commissioners
William J. Carr and Tom T. Waller
will expire.
Besides those named the Board of
Estimate is composed of School Com
missioners Carr and Arthur Harris.
Miss Hincks objection to the plan
of the Board of Education rests in the
fact that when the Town Council al
lowed $4,000 for plans for the new
high school the Board of Education
should have offered that money in
prizes for three or four of the lead
ing architectural firms to compete.
Instead of that the board selected
one firm to draw the plans. Mr..
Hinck claimed that the firm appoint
ed did not have enough experience
with such large buildings to under
.take the task.
Miss Hinck is a college graduate, a
lawyer and an architect. She has
designed and built more than sixty
fine dwellings in Montclair.