Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-05
CLOSING THE DEAL.
Blind Institute Managers Will Have
a House by TO-Morrow.
WHY THEY ARE In A HURRY.
News From Mrs. Schenley, About the Site,
Expected in Few Days.
MANAGERS SAY THERE is NO TROUBLE

The Executive Committee of the Western
Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind will
hold meeting tomorrow afternoon for the
purpose OF closing up the negotiations for a
house In which the blind school will be
started. 1t will not be the Miller homestead d,
on Center avenue, but will be a better hou Sc
which the committee has secured much
cheaper. There is no trouble at present in
:he board, it is positively affirmed, and the
managers expect to get something definite
about the site from Mrs. Schenley in few
days.
The statement that DR.. John Campbell, Of
London, was coming to Pittsburg, to act as
peacemaker in the board, was denied yester-
day BY several of the managers, who claim
that the report comes from a man outside
the organization who is trying to cause
trouble. DR.. Campbell wrote a letter to
him stating that he would be in Pittsburg
shortly, and it is stated the gentleman who
received it misconstrued the object of the
doctors visit DR.. Campbell has been a
regular visitor to America every fall for a
number Of years, and comes 10 this country
looking for new ideas and features for his
school in London. He visits all the blind
asylums in the Eastern and Middle States,
and last year stopped over in Pittsburg. He
will do the same this year to see how the
work is progressing but be is not coming to
settle any tsncied trouble.
ONLY ONE LEFT.
The managers spoken to yesterday would
not say where the school building was to be
located, as they have not closed the deal,
and will not 60 so until tomorrow. The
several houses offered have narrowed down
to one, and the Executive Committee has
concluded to take it. 1t will be about 25
minutes ride from the postofice, on the line
of street railway. and it is supposed the
house is in the East End. The committee
has decided to rent it only, and the work
of fitting 1t up with the necessary furniture
will begin on Monday or Tuesday.
1t is certain that everything will be in
shape and the school opened on October 1.
A teacher has already been engaged, and
the managers have six or seven pupils wait
ing to be enrolled. Anyone knowing of
any blind children is requested to COM
municate to the managers OF the institute so
as to enable them to have some idea how
many they may expect.
Some of the managers wanted to DELAY do
ing anything until they heard from Mrs,
Sehenley about the site for the institute. A
conference was held with Messrs. Scott and
Schoyer, of the State Board of Charities,
who informed the board that if the school |
expected any State appropriation it would |
be better to begin doing business before the |
Legislature meets, or it would stand but |
little show ef getting any State aid. The |
Legislature will meet in January next, and |
If the school is on the list recommended by |
the Board of Charities, it will without a |
doubt get the APPROPRIATION of $500 for each |
blind pupil enrolled in the school. As |
stated in The DISPATCH several months |
ago, the United States Government sets
aside fund OF SIC, 900 annually to be pro-
rated among the different blind schools in
the purchase of books.
FUNDS IN SIGHT.
The institute has about $40. 600 now on
hand. 1t received SAC, 900 from the Jane
Holmes estate and $50, 600 from private SUBJ
scrptions. The managers say that when
they get their site and are ready to build
they will get all the money they need. Sew
eral of the directors who have contributed
hundreds of dollars say they will double
the amount when the money is needed
This shows, they assert, that there is no
friction of any kind, and there hasn't been
any since one of the Iormer directors wanted
to hold two positions at the same time, which
was contrary to law.
The Board of Directors hoped that Chief
Bigelow, of the Department of Public
Works, has some good news about the site
but as yet they Eave heard nothing from
Mr.. Bigelow. There is no question at all
but the ground to be given by Mrs. Schen-
ley will be back of the Bellefeld Church.
on Bellefeld avenue, Oakland. This is the
site CHIEF Bigelow favored, and will not
interfere in any way with the entrance to
the mark as II will he nn the o.har sida e