The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-01-14

Present Expenses.
The salaries now paid by this Station,
per month, are:
DR.. G. W Dabney, Jr., Ph. D., S20S 33
| B. Won Herff, Phi. D., s3 33
i H. B. Battle b S, So 33
! +. b. Dancy a. B. So 33
! W A Withers. A B., so 90
Clarence Busbee, 1900
Servant, 1900
The other allowance per quarter is:
For apparatus and regeants, 5000 90
For stamps and stationary, 5000
For incidentals Gncluding whisp
brush. soap, &c, 90 90
For fuel, 220O
The following newspapers are subscribed
for and paid for by this Department,
Ought the State to pay this billO:
Science, $500 year; n. W. Lumber
man, 50 90 year; American Naturalist,
s.. 90 year; Am. Chem. Record, S.. 90 a
year; Agriculture $1.O0 year; Western
Tob. Journal So 90 a year; Country Gentle
a year, and n G. Live Stock Journal,
| 81 80 year.
An allowance Of 81, 200 has now been
made for printing the Directors Reports.
Let There BE Reform.
We feel no hesitation in saying that good
work is done in this Department, but the
work ought to be done with fewer men
| and it could be we'll done. This was de-
monstrated when DIR. Dabney and one of
| his aSSlstants-sOmetlmeS tWO-Were alb
sent from the Office two or three months at
the New Orleans Exposition and the work
did not suffer. In these hard times econO-
my Is the watch word and the 81, 800 re-
/ qulred to run the Station ought to be re-
| duced to the lowest possible sum. Let the
| Board consider the propriety of reducing
| the incidental and other expenditures
at their next meeting. In his estimate for
the next years expenses Commissioner
McGehee puts the expenditures of this De-
partment at So, 125-an excess of 1925
| over 1885. This will not do. The amount
| expended ought to be reduced instead of
| increased In this day of hard times,
when all men employed by private firms
are working on small wages there ought
| to be no increase in the salary of public
| officials.
The CHRONICLE, in urging economy, does
not advocate penurlousness. First class
| chemists are entitled to good salaries
and the State ought not to try to get them
| for song, but we recognize that there is
a duty to tax payers, rs well as to officers
| of the State. We advocate no reduction OF
| salary of chemists; we do advocate a re-
| duction of the force to the lowest number
| possible 50 that good and efficient work
| will not be impaired.
THE FISH AND FISHERIES.
Up to May of last year this Department
managed to consume quite large amount
f the funds. At that time it was decided
+ go back to the ways of our fathers and
le the fish do their own Matching and to
sEpend all operations in this Department
except supplying carp to all who desired
then. In the year 1888 the fish industry
cos North Carolina s., 5O1 "a. and in 1884
1t est $40, ,041, ,-one fourth of the entire
recepts of the Agricultural Department.
The Commissioner in his report to the Leg
lslatre, said of this department ''there
have no satisfactory results" Mr..
Wortl the Fish Commissioner, who was
, recelvlg roo a year and whose salary
confined until May, received 1856. "a last
year ad Mr.. E. NJ. Robinson received
$24O. Vow Commissioner McGehee en-
ployes l D. Terrell at $45 month and a
, negro al $15 month. These, together
with the ost of feeding the carp, are all
, the expeEes Of the fish department. For
, the Boartto ascertain that there have
, been no satisfactory results cost the State,
: in two yeas, not to speak of the amounts
expended 1 other years, nearly twenty
thousand ollars Pretty dear informa-
. ton, that
THEURATOR'S OFFICE.
r This is al expense which few people
: count. The commissioner calls the officer
G 'the CURATOR His business is to stay in the
s museum and how the exhibits to visitors.
a He is allowet negro to keep things
. straight. The eofficer, Mr.. T. G. Harris,
V is man in evey way capable. The State
. has had an Ofte fitted up in one end of
! the museum in hich Mr.. Harris, by agree
t ment, spends mch of his time at his own
J. private businessengraving on wood, etc.
S He receives salry of $500 a month,
! does all that is ,equired of him, and is
|. cdnversanG with te resources of the State.
3 Under this head night also be included
O the night watchmn who for twenty-five
dollars a month keps burglars from steal
h ing the guano sanlles in the experiment
!, room, the rocks andimberS in the museum,
: and the soap 'Scattred through the build
il ing.
e STATE EMIGRATION,
e We reserve a disossion of the work of
e this department and account of the ex-
7 penditures until neXtveek 1t is a matter
|. of which we prefer totreat in a separate
IL article, especially as H. Patrick is absent
IS and we could not get an account of his
Z work for the year 1855
> THE NEW ORLEAk EXPOSITION
Il The papers We're full year ago of glo-
ii rious descriptions of thtNew Orleans Ey-
ar position. From all ACCENTS it really re
le tiected credit on the StA. Now what did
1t it cost the people 1t osht to have been
te made, We believe, but oust it to have cost
e. 10000! Could the etlblt creditable
I'd as it was s-not have beenmade for less
n That's the question. Wilson tells
us-his accounts have aot vet been
to audited Ghis is the fault,f the Finance
le Committeel and we couldlot ascertain
a from tigures-that in prepring for anG
exhibiting the display at Il State Expo
sition and at New Orleans Il State spent
! S13, ,69s. "a, which amount wasupplemen
= ted to the amount of $3, 33tks from the
e General Government, maxim, a total Of
~ 81, ,o31 .S4. This is subject Of credit fo1
a the sale of some cotton and obacco ex
IN hibited.
rs Employment at New Orhns.
he Mr.. Wilson gives a list Of lose who
st. we've employed to help with th exhibit
of which is as follows:
or Hon NJ McG.hee, spent twelvdays il
ed New Orleans. The State allowed ha moth
ing extra, but paid all his expens ipclu
er ing board.
a Mr.. Peter Wilson. Secretary, wan New
of Orleans about months He VA pai,
he $3.50 extra (receiving regularly 400
er- month"; and the State paid his boar ca
IN fare and sleeping-car fare and his. R
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