Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-03-02
WOMEN TEACHERS.
The Salaries Paid to some of the Leading
Ones In the Country.

The Salaries Paid to some of the Leading
Ones In the Country.
- Public school teaching would appear
to be n very remunerative occupation
for women, and II they were always
paid according to the importance of
their positions they might be counted
among the fortunate ones Of creation.
But it is the frequent claim Of men
il not openly at leas: coyeruy-that
women ought not to receive the same
recognition themselves for services
rendered, and they have to pay the
penalty for belonging to the gentler
sex.
Miss Agnes Y. Humphrey stands
out a. the one example. either in New
York or Brooklyn. of woman who
I has been able TO obtain the sum OF 3d.
900 a year as principal OF a school,
She is "A woman oil staunch char
acter, .. winning personality and a
capability that is rarely found. She
had a position in one Of the public
schools of Brooklyn for many years
where il was decided by the local
authorities that when teacher in a
certain grade had 800 pupils their
salaries should be increased $50 year
until it reached *, 600 Miss Humphrey
vas one who came under that rule
and in spite of opposition kept hel
place until she won the coveted $4,000
In New York the usual price paid tc
women principals Is Sl,Sg0 Men In
the same position receive 81, 800. Is
the discrepancy in the salary of the
women justified. The special teachers,
whether men or women, are paid d
uniform price in all the public schools
that is, & an hour n all the hours
Of the school year are occupied it in
sures an income OF 81, 600. .saft
Miss Lydia T. Wadleigh, the, super
intcndent OF the Normal College in
New York, who died recently. was the
recipient OF s., iQ0a year, and the lady
who has succeeded her receives the
same amount Mrs. Della Lathrop
Williams, OF Cincinnati, and Miss
Harriet Morris. of Brooklyn, gradu-
ate, OF the Oswego Normal College,
each receive $1,000 1f .rt7 .
The largest salaries paid to a woman
in the schools OF Philadelphia j; 81 SO,
In Boston the salaries paid to women
average less than those OF New York
and Philadelphia. The principal OF
the Horace Mann school for the deaf
in that city receives $500 a year.
The assistant principals OF the high
schools have also $500. Chicago has
q better showing for teachers in public
schools. There are three assistant
superintendent who receive $1,000
each, and nine principals of grammar
schools who receive S2,l7j year.
Special teachers receive from 81, 500
to s., 900 annually Mrs. Mary Lowe
Dickinson, OF the Denver university,
is one OF the few women in this coun-
try who is carrying a full professor
ship. and whose labors are well re-
muncrated,
A new occupation for a woman is
that of being clergyman's assistant.
She accepts the duties which would
naturally fall upon the wife of a parson
in a country town, but which must be
much too arduous for the wife of a
minister of city parish. The las
sistant' receives the salary of an or
dinary school teacher-about $1,000.
She visits the sick, goes to funerals
and lends helping hand in cases of
need in the homes OF both the poor
and the rich. She is naturally a
woman of ready sympathy, unobtrus-
i've and of unrufiled temper.-Balti-
mora HprolU