Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-22
WILL FIGHT IT OUT.
Deposed Blind Asylum Directors Say
They Are Not Dead Yet.
HUSTLING FOR VOTES NEXT YEAR.
incorporates Can Vote and Talk, Even if
They Are Out Of 1t.
DIR. CAMPBELL WILL BE HERE TO-DAY

DR.. John Campbell, principal of the Lon
don Blind School. will arrive in the city to-
day, and will remain in Pittsburg several
days. He is on his usual annual visit to
America, and stops over on his way West.
He will not interfere with the wrangle now
going on among the people interested In the
local blind school, and is not coming to act
as peacemaker, as has been stated.
There will be considerable fun yet in the
fight between the "outs' and Gins" Rev.
E. r. Donehoo, who worked so hard to get
the school on its feet, and who was dropped
out of the board at the last election, stated
yesterday that he and the other warhorses
will be around doing business at the next
annual meeting. This interesting seance
will be held on the first Monday in May,
and the side that controls the greatest num-
Der of votes will be the victor.
Mr.. Donehoo was seen yesterday regard
ing the matter, and reluctantly spoke of the
affair. He did not deny that the "outs"
would make an effort to get in at the next
election, and in regard to the matter said:
1.-THE men who were dropped out have not
let the matter die out, and we will be around
before it takes place, and it is little early
to talk about it. Mr.. Danziger, Mr.. Wood
and myself, who were dropped, are among
the incorporators of the institution, and we
will have as much to say at the annual
meeting as if we had not been out of the
board for a year. There are 90 of the incor-
porators still living, and if we can con-
troll a majority OF the votes those who should
NJ ho he hoo rd xril ha rola tad 10 ha
ranks from which they were taken. We
will 60 to the meeting with our own votes,
and dare say we could get enough proxies,
if We cared to resort to the methods that de-
feated u.s. Out of the II proxies voted 6
of them were of persons who had not the
slightest idea of what they were to be used
for.
'The reason given me for dropping me
out of sight was that under the law could
not hold the position of secretary and be on
the board at the same time. This NAV be
true, but do not see why the present secre-
tarv can be director, as the same rule
should apply in both cases"
There is considerable talk about the fail
ure OF the Board of Directors of the Insti-
tute to get possession of the $40, 900 be-
queathed by Miss Jane Holmes to the blind
school. In her will, Miss Holmes gave
the $4,000 to any blind school
started in the city within two years after her
death. She died about five years ago, and
the beqnest hurried the work of organiza-
ton. When the institution was about to be
organized the directors went to the trustees
of the estate, Messrs. j. j. Donnell and John
Porterfeld, who said they would recognize
the claim when the work was begun, but
said the directors should raise $25, 600 in SUBJ
scriptions. When this amount was SUBJ
scribed they were told it must be collected,
and were afterward told that the money
would not de turned over until the directors
obtained the deed for the Schenley property
The recent change from the site back of
Bellefeld Church to the old ''picnic tract, ="
back of the Allegheny Cemetery, may make
further alteration before the money is paid
over.