Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-08
.H|NCK FIGHT TO
COME UP MONDAY
Stiff Battle Expected When
High School Fund Is Asked
~ of Council.

The next cha pter in the fight be-
tween Miss Louise c. Hinck and the
other five mem bers of the Montclair
Board of Educa ton will open next
Monday night, when the Board OF
School Estimate will present resoln'
tons certifying to the Town Council
that the sum of $4,000 is required by
the Board of Education for the cree
ton of a new high school building and
asking the Council to prepare an ordi-
nance for school bond issue in that
amount. They will ask to have the
moneys received from the sale of said
bonds placed to the credit of the
school fund. These resolutions were
passed at a meeting of the Board oil
School Estimate held, on December 20
last, and if that meeting was legally
called the Council has no other al
tentative but to authorize the bond
issue as requested. ..
Mayor Ernest c. Hlnck and COM
Gilman Thomas p. McGlynn, members
of the Board of School Estimate. will
strongly object to the proceedings oil
the Board of School Estimate on the
grounds that they were not person
ally notified that such a meeting was
to be held, hence were not present. nor
took no part In its proceedings. mo
Council will support these contentious
nv a vote of 6 to 8, and will refuse TO
comply with the request or the BOARD
of school Estimate. That Is the way
the members of the Council stand on
+he question now, and, no doubt, tney
will vote that way next Monday night
The Board OF Education has un-
doubtedly anticipated such action by
the council, and at Its meeting last
Tuesday night authorized the oHcers
of the board to retain the services
of Charles H. Hartshorne, Jersey
Citv lawyer, who Is resident of and
a former councilman of Montciair.
If the matter reaches the courts 1t
will likely be hard-fought and long
contested case, and whichever side
wins the taxpayers of Nontclair will
have to pay the bills.
Should the courts decide in favor
of council, the Board of School Esti-
mate, as at present constituted
Councilman Dr. p. Maxwell Fashay,
having succeeded Councilman David
Henney as mem ber-will refuse to
certify to the council that any
money is needed until plans have
been accepted ny Tie bOdIu VI ISud-
cation, after open competition by
architects This is what Miss Hinck
has been fighting for all along, while
the other five members of the Board
of Education chose the firm of Star
rett & Ban Week, architects, of New
York, to draw the plans without COM
petition by any one.
Mayor Ifinck claims that there was
undue haste In calling the meeting of
the Board OF School Estimate for De-
cembeF 20, while he and Mr.. McGlynn
were out of town, that 1t was well
known that he and Mr.. McGlynn
would return to Montclair on Janu-
airy 1, just three days later, to be
present at the organization of the
council. when they could have been
legally served with notices. Mr.. Nc
Glynn takes the, same view of the
case, and does not understand why
the other three MEMBERS Messrs.
Harris, Waller and Henney, wished
to rush the matter. WI, ttr.
Mayor Hinck said today that he had
received an opinion from Hawkins,
Delaheld and, Lon gfellow, lawyers, of
New York, who are regarded as an
authority on matters relating to bond
issues, and who have passed on all
bonds issued by the town of Mont
clair In recent years, which convinces
him that q bond Issue under the con-
ditions Of the meeting of the Board
of School Estimate on December 30
last, would be invalid.