The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04
THE
DEPARTMENT NOTES.

DEPARTMENT NOTES.
Gov. Ireland had not returned from
his trip to Mexico up to the usual
hour for closing his Office. 1t is stated
he will not be back till Friday.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
The treasurer yesterday paid out
S299J0 on account of purchase of
bonds of Eastland county by the
board of education; and about 100000
for purchase by the board of bonds Of
Wise county.
The receipts in the treasury for the
month of September were:
Permanent school fund bonds $4,000
Permanent university tlnd 1000
settlement of estates ........ 81 81
Sherman City Texas & Pacific
Texas Central bonds 1876 20
Cost advertising unorganiZed
Tax account unorganized
Counties. --........- -.-..--.. o. 10
The disbursements were...........S 3G9,O63 q
Balance III treasury. .............. 2,4Ji 14D 30
COMPTROLLER DEPARTMENT.
Assessment rolls of Bowie county
show an increase Of 100000, and
those of Henderson county $4,000
in taxable values.
Last month the comptroller issued
licences to sixty-siX drummers, the
tax amounting to $2310. The receipts
from railroad passenger tax were
S476; insurance tax, 500; tax paid on
land by nonresident owners, $10S6 !:
Un redemption Of land sold for taxes.
ST.; on lands in unorganiZed counties,
Sl53; Office fees, SAB; total of taxes
collected direct through the comptrol-
Ter. 34516.
The comptroller having referred to
the governor sometime ago the re-
fusal of the Houston 81 Texas Cen
trail railroad to pay interest on the
debt to the school fund by the west
ern branch of the company, which
debt the company claims has been
paid, the Encouragement is engaged
in Investigating the validity of the
claim of the state.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
The following students matricu-
lated since last report, making 167, in-
Guiding forty young ladies, registered
to date:
Z Miss Mary G. Sheehan, Austin,
academic department.
l.. III. Glascock, Weberville, acade-
mic department.
Clarence Il. Gribble, Waco, acade-
, mic department.
The roll will doubtless run over POO
students during the first term of the
session.
A visit of the writer to the new
building and an interview with the
contractor, Capt. Cook, satisfied him
that, although the work appears to
visitors to progress very slowly, the
contractor is doing all he can to get
tho west wing finished, and that it
VIII be completed as soon as practica-
biz under the backsets which he has
had to encounter, and which con-
tractor cannot always foreSee.
Among other things, Capt. Cook,
who seems to be a very conscientious
gentleman, has been delayed, he says,
ut least month in the cornice zinc
work. The man who he first engaged,
and who undertook il, fooled away
some time at it, after being furnished
the material by Mr.. Tips. Finally the
cornicer concluded he could make
more by selling the material Mr.. Tips
had furnished, to some other contrac-
tor, and the result was Mr.. Tips had
to attach the material. AS it was
difficult to get another, Capt. Cook Of
fered the cornicer Il bonus of $500 to
resume and finish, but the man failed
to do anything OF consequence. Then
after some objection on the part of
the architect, Mr.. Radkey, of this
city, was selected TO do the work, and
soon after died.
Capt. Cook then engaged a party
living in BRENNAN, but who was for
some time absent in Cincinnati, who
agreed to begin work us soon as he
got home. This party, Mr.. Harry,
did not get ready until Sept. II, since
which time the cornicing appears to
have been progressing satisfactorily
with the rest OF the work. Mr.. Love,
as sub-contractor for the wood work,
has kept his part of the labor well up
with the brick and mortar men. The
plastering is progressing better than
before, and to-day Mr.. Dalhoude, who
has charge of it, expects an additional
force of seven men, and states that,
barring possible mishaps, he will get
the whole of his work done in five
weeks time; until the roof is finished,
he is of course liable to interruption
by rain.
The roof is ready, or will be in
few days, for the stating. The states
on hand are being carried up, ready
for the Stating. contractor, Mr..
Brown, who has gone to Galveston
for additional material and hands,
which will soon be here, and in about
four days after the workmen COM
mence the Stating will be finished.
This done, the labor of the plasterers,
and the ceilings and tloorings and
other work can be accomplished with
out possible interruption of conse-
Quence. Such are the difficulties, ac-
companied with the scarcity of labor,
even at the most unreasonable figures |
and other,causes, which have delayed |
the contractors.
So much for Capt. Cooks explana-
tion of the backsets and disappoint-
ments which he has had to encounter. |
But for all that the public are none |
the less impatient, and the interests |
of the institution have suffered by the |
delay in having the building finished |
in advance of the opening of the ses-
sion.
The contractor was to have it fin
ished by June, with Il forfeit of $50 |
per day after that date Then the re-
gents granted further time, till Sep
TENDER, and it now looks rs if it will
not be ready before November, and
possibly not fully so till December.
Capt. Cook is doubtless sincere in the
belief that he is doing the best he can
under the circumstances, but it will
hardly be questioned that some con-
tractors would have had the work
done before now, despite all obSta-
cles.
So, 265,000 is the amount OF new
business written in 1882 10y the Equi-
liable I, life Insurance rOmnanV