Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-07-24

The course of the borough's educa-
ton was intelligently and successfully
directed at the adjourned meeting
held at Cliffside school No. 3 on Fri
ay evening, July Is.
At the opening of the meeting there
was barely quorum present. Those
on hand were: Messrs. Kelly, Timony,
Goemann, Bohm and Smith. Mr..
Conroy arrived a little later. Clerk
| Kelly called the meeting to order at
about nine o'clock, and upon motion
OF Mr.. Smith, Mr.. Bohm was elected
| chairman in place of President
Whelan and Vice-president Herschler,
who were absent.
Then engaging of teachers for the
coming year was supposedly one of
the chief reasons for calling the meet
ing for July 16, and several candi-
dates were present; Supervisor Bray
was also on hand. But as the chair
man of the teachers committee, Mr..
Herschler, president Whelan, and
chairman of the governing committee,
Mr.. Neumann, were all absent, the
board on motion of Mr. Conroy, decid-
GU " ttthe liO dCLlOll. uTtlleT posi-
ponement of the matter was taken
until Monday evening, July 26, when
it is presumed, final action will be
taken and the teachers chosen.
Three candidates were present who
| had been passed upon by the teachers
committee and investigated for eff
cheney by Mr.. Bray. They were Miss
Mccall of Little Ferry, candidate for
Sd grade; Mr.. r. Totten of Lafayette
/ university, canuidate Tor otn graue;
and Mr.. J. A. Preston, of Fordham
University, candidate for high school
teacher. Miss Mccall, upon being in
vited by the board to speak, said that
she was interested primarily in hav-
ing the $3.50 salary, offered for the
| position, raised to 5000. Mr.. Totten
said that besides his college prepara-
ton he had one years experience in
| teaching at Easton and at Westches-
ter Academy. His subjects were
english, history, geography and ath-
letics. Salary, $500. Mr.. Preston
enumerated the many subjects in
which he had been trained, all of
which he had studied with view to
the future teaching of them. He re-
ported no experience.
At the former meeting of the board
the candidate who had presented him
self for this position had been Mr.
Jones, graduate of Dartmouth and
New York University. He reported
three years experience.
A further change in the personnel
of the borough's schools developed
on Friday night when the resigna-
lions of the two janitors of school No
3 were received and accepted, and an
additional application for the vacan-
cies received. The designations ac-
copied were from John Mulcahey,
to take effect at once; and Mrs. Nc
| Cullogh, to take effect September 1.
| The application for janitor of school
No. 3 was from VIM. Rely, sal
airy $1,100. An application for this
position had previously been received
from Tobias Ghetto Application
for the position of stenographer
to the board were received from
| Myles G. Murphy and Miss Florence
FRANKIE. The compensation asked
was $3.50 an hour, in the for
mer case; and S1.00 a hour with so
cents for each succeeding hour, in
the latter case.
Besides the question of new teach
ers, janitors, and stenographic clerk,
the question of the redecorating and
plumbing of school Nos, and the sup
| plying of equipment for the chemical
laboratory for the high school were
considered. Painter Fleischer was on
hand to give prices and other figures
for the proposed painting of walls
and ceilings of the Cliffside School.
AS an object lesson for the work
which he was ready to do, Mr.. Flei-
scher pointed to the walls of the
board room, one of which he had
covered with single coat of paint:
the other with two coats. For sin
| gle coat, Mr.. Fleischer estimated
that the cost per class room would
be from $2S to $50 Mr.. Conroy
thought he ought to be able to about
halve this. Mr.. Fleischer thought he
might do it for $26.
But how about the basement?
Should the janitor be required to
whitewash that, or should the work
be done by contract, using cold water
paint? Again, should the corridors
be painted, or should the expense be
kept down by leaving these out of
the contract? Again, how much
money could be spared, anyway for
the work?
Finally, on motion of Mr. Smith, it
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