The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-03-20


II fear you understood me as saying
stop with the $4,000, instead Of the
amount Of those already recommended
BY you and accepted and confirmed by
me Isl, 100. The above list has been
sent In to my Committee, and l can not
send more Tor want Of funds. So | can
not do what l intimated to you / could
when saw you. / find disappointment
and complaint in all the States on &C.
count OF our want Of more funds, Now,
what am to do with the list Of recom'
mendationS received from you Saturday
EVENING" | know what you expected,
and what | intended, namely 70 accept
all those Recommendations. But our
money Is already actually exhausted.
Had fOreseOn this combination OF IN.
favorable circumstances (of which have
named but o part, az the whole story
would be long,, / should have been pre-.
pared tor them. But am caught. !
know no other way than to pay all those
schools whose recommendations have
formerly accepted, and adjust tho matter
by Withholding the whole or a part Of
our donation next year. Then for the
rest Including the greater part Of your
list to make an appropriation, say in No
vember for next year. That would help
them out II they arc already committed
to their teachers for this year, and give
them timely notice not 10 do so nextyear.
This Is what Ia done in other States, from
whom well Endorsed applications came in
after our money was all pledged.
"Of course, the simpler way would be
to decline ali requests with which we can
not comply; but 1t might b too great q
disappointment,
Il certainly would do all that led
you to expect, II could. | am very
sorry to put you in this unpleasant predi:
cament. It Is the first time | have had
any such tronble. Yours truly
"B. SEARS,
General Agent.
The applications for aid for tho Nor
NAL Schools, MartinSburg and Charles.
ton Schools were accepted by DR.. Sears In
September last; and the applications for
aid for the Huntington and COalburg
Schools were accepted in November. No
other applications had been received at
this office when they Werc forwarded.
On the 23d Of November last DR.. Sears
wrote to me as follows: "Our funds are
coming short this year, partly because we
have to pay out Of them $4,000 for last
year, and partly because Alabama has
stopped paying interest on itS bonds. We
can not, therefore, increase our contribll.
tons to West Virginia; We may have to
diminish them" This letter gave nc
some uneasincss, and caused me to visit
DR.. Sears In person, on the 9Th OF Deem.
Der, for the purpose Of having q liberal
and candid talk with him In regard to
the school matters Of this State, and to
influence, II possible, an increase Of the
contributions to our schools, or, at least,
to urge that they be not diminished. !
took with mo all the applications for aid
that had come in since my last transmit
tai to him. In my interview with Dr..
Sears he told me that he could only give
this State fifteen thousand dollars for this
year. lie advised me 10 take back the
applications had with nie-wait until
all the applications came inland then
apportion the $4,000 cQuitably among
tic most deserving schools. This | have
done, and his letter Of the 9Th inst.
printed herewith, Is the reply received
Last year tile schools Of the State re-
ceived $ls,SO0 from the Peabody Fund
and this year had the assurance that
our schools should receive $4,000 not
witlstnnding tho decrease III said fund
There we're forty schools that applied
for aid this year, and thirty.one were ap.
proved by ME and forwarded. There were
some applications from new schools that
I would have recommended II | had not
been requested by DR.. Sears, in my inter.
view with him, not to recommend any ap'
plications from new schools.
The following list embraces the schools,
In addition to those already accepted by
Dr.. Sears, together with the amounts that
have been recommended by this office: