New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-07
Craig Carries
Point; Neptune
Sites Dropped
Estimate Board Instrascts
DR.. Shallow TO Find New
School Location ON Prop
erty Owned by the City
Mayor Displays Temper
Denounces Legislature for
Increasing Expenditures
of Hunter College Staff

Comptroller Craig's objections IA. the
selection Of the Neptune Avenue or
alternate school sites at Coney Island,
uron the recommendation of DR.. Ed
ward B. Shallow associate superin-
tsndent Of schools. led the Board of
Estimate yesterday, through its Com
rittee on Finance and Budget, to refer
the matter back to the Board of Educa-
ton and instruct DR.. Shallow to select
arether site in that neighborhood.
Comptroller Craig charged collision
in the 1election OF the Neptune Ave-
rue site and pointed out the inadvisa-
bility of selecting such a site on prop
erty to which the city recently re-
leased title for $500 lot and was to
b. charged about $4,000 lot for the
the site should be selected on the
e.ty-owned land on the other side of
Neptune Avenue, nearly opposite one
of the alternate sites originally recon-
nended by DR.. Shallow.
Hard to Explain" Says Mayor
DR.. Shallow was present at the COM
mittee meeting. Mayor Hylan told
him that while the Board of Estimate
would "be hard to explain to the people
$500 and then bought it back for q
larger sum for a school site" The
associate superintendent was told to
take the matter up and pick cut some
otLer site in the neighborhood, pref
erably on city-owned land, if there is
any.
The city's title to the filIed-in land
on Neptune Avenue to which Comp
troller Craig referred is still in litiga-
ton, but the Comptroller contends that
the court action brought by alleged
owners is merely a matter of form,
and that clear title is bound to be
vested in the city. The Mayor an
nounced that before a site was finally
selected an opinion of the Corporation
Counsel would be asked as to the
status of the city's claim in this land.
Mayor Hylan took occasion at the
Legislature for passing mandatory
legislation increasing the budget of
the city and then sending committee
of Investigation to find out why the
budget was so high
The Mayors ire was aroused when
DR.. George S. Davis, president of the
Board of Trustees of Hunter College,
came before the committee requesting
an appropriation of $47,417 to defray
the higher cost of compensation for
the administration and teaching staff
of the college, for the period from
June to December 81, 1921, in accord
ance with the laws of 1921. DR.. Davis
admitted that the trustees had gone
to the Legislature and had the amend
ment to the state education law
passed, declaring that the teachers in
Hunters College had been paid less
than the same class of teachers in the
city high schools.
Hylan Criticizes Legislature
Rising in his chair, the Mayor asked
Dr.. Davis If he didn't understand that
there was legislative committee "down
here now trying to find out what we do
with the money the Legislature COM
pels US to spend"
I'VE are charged with inefficiency
and everything else" continued the
Mayor They pass mandatory legis-
lation compelling the Board of Esti-
mate to increase salaries and then they
send committee down here to find out
why the budget is so high. So far as
am concerned, I'm going to vote
against this and you'll have to man
damus US. We might as well have q
showdown now as at any other time"
DR.. Davis said there was different
way to look at the matter. He declared
that for years the teachers had been
underpaid and that now they were only
getting whs was right. The matter
was finally referred to the budget CAL
endar for next year.