The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-06-15

fused still more talk and personal
ideas and then director Colman
surprised the spectators by TAX
ing issue with Mr.. LeDuc and the
supporters Of the plan for a bust
ness manager for the board.
Colman Kicks Over the Traces.
"Where do we need a business
agent except in the supply de-
partment?" he inquired. II am
unwilling to delegate the power
to purchase to a hired man. It
should rest with and remain in the
hands of the proper committees.
Ninety per cent Of the complaints
in the past have been due to the
fact that Supt. Hoke has not been
properly needed by the chief en-
gineer. Our system is right and
we had better take a Duluth man
or a man from the present force
and train him. do not believe it
a good plan to take man trained
under the expensive Minneapolis
system and put him in charge
here. I can best illustrate this by
saying that a superintendent with
! the Hines numbering interests at
Virginia, for example, would be
apt to make a great failure with
some small outfit. This idea of a
! school board business manager is
new one. There are only eight
of them in the entire United
States. I do not believe we have
any right to put man in this
position at $1,000 a year. When
you bring in an outside man at
that price, you throw the present
salary schedule out Of gear"
Foster Firm for Bronson.
Director Foster was firm in the
opinion that Mr.. Bronson was
the man who could best work out
the new system.
Mr.. Colman moved an amend
ment to the amendment to the
effect that the salary Of the new
position be fixed at $2,250 a year.
His motion was not supported.
"Make it $1,000 and I'll sup
port it, declared Mr.. Brewer.
Such motion accordingly was
made by Mr.. Collnan but it was
lost
! Director LeDuc's blood pres
sure was running up and down
like water in the water gauge of
a boiler. He declared that if the
members of the board had used
good common sense, the meeting
would have been over by 9
o clock. It then was near II
20 clock. =
Clerk Bronson modestly stated
his position and intimated. that
he was in the hands of his friends.
He expressed a wish that the mat
ter might be put over and that
some arrangement be made to in
'duce engineer Stewart to remain
in his position through July and
August. 49,. '.'. --...
Supt. Hoke, by the way, was
questioned somewhat as to several
details. Mr.. LeDuc had stated
that Mr.. Harwood, was .satisfac-
tory to Supt. Hoke, intimating
: that he was Mr.. Hoke's personal
choice. When questioned, Supt.
Hoke rather thought that he first
heard of Mr.. HARDWOOD through
Mr.. LeDuc but that, later, he saw
the young man both in Minneapo-
lis and Duluth.
Like a Three hinged Circus.
,, The discussion was so cratic
. that it was as difficult to keep
closely in touch with it as it is to
II watch the Simultaneous perform
Iances in a three-ringed circus.
DR.. Armand seemed to favor
4 Mr.. Bronson and he asked point
1 ed questions Of both director Lee
Due and Supt. Hoke. At one
time his query caused director
LeDua to lift his long arm to-
wards heaven in a most dramatic
manner, ard to swear by al! the
gods that facts were so and so.
That seemed to relieve both CT
rector LeDucj ard director An
Rand. Director Proved also ask.
ed a few Of his short, crisp lues-
Itions but he kept on the back
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