New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25

1Ne problem oY filling the $4,000
vacancy in the membership Of the
board Of superintendent has not been
solved. The reason for this is not
clear. The members of the Board Of
Education gather together officially
and unofieially- and whisper softly.
The Mayor has denied having any pref
erences, although IL is ineoneelvsole
that he could I'VE any preferences, be-
cause he has so frequently and strenu-
ously denied that the schools are run
from the City Hall. Ii is reported that
ne informed Commissioner NJ. Samuel
Stern, chairman Of the Board Of Edu-
cation Committee on Nominations, who
applied TO him for instructions, that
the appointment of District Superln-
tendent Dwyer would not be displeasing
10 him. because he knew DR.. Dryer
and he did not know all Of the other
candidates. InverSely. IL might be in
ferred, therefore. that the appointment
of District Superintendent Dryer TO
the $4,000 vacancy would please the
Mayor.
Ii is understood that the brother OF
District Superintendent Dryer IS the
Mayors physician, and that he also oc-
cupies some position OF civic trust. II
is claimed that District superintendent
Dvyer has nineteen votes, and is the
leading candidate.
Miss Grace Strachsn, now district
superintendent. is also a prominent
candidate. although events indicate that
her visible support does not exceed
seven votes. and the Mayor has stated
Z % SfTgr6nn
is conducting a vigorous postal card
canvass among the teachers, who have
been instructed to secure from their
friends and acquaintance as many
units Of support as there are postal
cards, The supply of postal cards is
understood to be ineXhaustible. Miss
Stracban possesses considerable infiu-
ence. She commenced her career IN
the schools of Buffalo with the sppro-
baton of former Lieutenant Governor
Sheehan. and she subsequently came
10 BROOKLYN. where she progressed
with the aid of the late "BOss" Nc
Laughliu Miss Strachan IL prominent
as the president Of the Interborough
Association of Women Teachers, an or
canization devoted 10 the interests Of
the teachers in the matter Of securing
higher remuneration. Miss Strachan
has been very successful in her leader
shin in this connection. although equal
pay has since ceased 10 exist.
District Superintendent Darwin l..
Bardwell is a candidate for whom there
is claimed some ten or eleven votes. He
came from Binghamton, y. Y. and was
appointed district superintendent some
wears ago. From the fact that he came
from out Of town he is usually referred
20 as "Bardwell of Binghamton."
District Superintendent Stitt IL 3
candidate who has done much in pro
noting the welfare Of children and
Of adults, in conducting the many
educational-and social-activitleS OF
the city. He is a specialist in such mat
ters, and is fsvorably known to thou
sands as an organizer and as practi-
cal educator especially along the lines
indicated.
There arc many other district super
intendents who are candidates seeking
promotion. They have a scattering OF
votes.
The division Of reference and re-
search. which is part of the machinery
Of the Office Of President Churchill,
prepared and circulated on behalf Of
the Committee on Nominations of the
Board of Education an invitation TO out
of-town educational celebrities to pre-
sent their qualifications and creden-
tials. The ostensible object of this
action on the part Of the division Of
reference and research was to obtain
for this vacant superintendency the
best talent in the land to inject new
blood into the Board Of superintendent,
because the school inquiry committee,
of which John Purroy Mitchell, now
Mayor, then President Of the Board Ct
Aldermen, was the chairman, had called
attention to inbreeding and 20 lack CT
virility in its composition.
No ono i'm the school system took
seriously this invitation to an outsider
10 come and step into $4,000 position,
even though it looked to be both i'm