Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-06-26

soec;ai resolution for this purpose,
speaking of the appropriation Us sno
a. 900 "already asked foE. ~. Thso
motion two months later merely recog'
nized anew the policy. and that was s .,'.
Again. the record shows that on 'n n
Dist of April, 1885, Mr. Tyler maue Az. M
interesting address concerning NV .n'
fnrmers convention. Thereupon III
Page moved that the Committee on Oan'
yassing be required to prepare circular liza:
setting out the advantages OF the iis'i'
tute and address q copy to every mem,
her of the farmers convention ana
Legislature. I prepared the circn's J.
and Captain Elicit helped me 20 SEM ~
around. We did the work, and Ut. rage
did nothing but maize speeches concern
ing the work done by others. ~
own / was anxious to interest TX
Page as we'll as many others in the IN
stitute. but though he was on our III
brary Committee and has shown re-
markable aptitude iii builsing up
library since. never hea-'. OF his ana.
inc a book 10 our vacant slelves- Al
any rate, after one years .onnec.,on,
and while the institute was strugehhs
and needed friends, his name dlsap'
reared from our records, win Tue pre-,
mopitory symptoms OF sickness.
unavoidable absence" &c. DIR. rage
has instituted the comparison, anu i
have a right TO say that my hands were
fnll with the multiplied duties OF chair,
man of two out of the four Important
e.anding committees, Of a teacher IN the
institute, and chairman OF all the many
special committees to negotiate WIN Tue
Legislature and Council Tor more iunus'
| One Of my last acts was 10 ara" 'no
charter on which the institute now res's
Or Page SAYS / was very properly
rewarded" but he leaves 1t uncertain
whether he meant to please or inJure by
the remark. Certainly no one ever
thought of rewarding DR.. Page Tor his
services to the institute. My services
os a member of the board, as teacher,
and as lawyer were in fact ionr years
gratnitous. 1t is true that accepted
the pitiable salary offered the other
teachers after the first year, when the
Mechanics Institute could afford 1t, but
the sum 500 per month"; was barely
sufficient to compensate me for shoe
leather. &C., worn out in running apont
in the hot sun drumming up adherents.
CAPTAIN Elicit, whom DIR. Page praises,
received pay from the start, but l never
deemed that any discredit to him, put
always sought to raise it to a proper
standard.
As TO Mr.. ovERToS HOWARD.
Now, ! want to say in respect to Over
ton Howard that my identity the first
wear was so completely has that 1t Is I'M
possible to consider lis apart. The
present night school has moved along the
lines which he delinoated so well Ill his
REPORTS as chairman of the Committee on
Schools. The fact is that during the
whole of the first year and much of the
second the teachers controlled the school
absolutely. aud the Board of Managers
ana the institute of large were valuable
as increasing our influence before the
public | was strictly correct IN saying
| that during the first year :" classes were
only formed 10y Messrs. Howard, lyer,
| Hicham, aud Lamb, for though Dr.
Chalkiey, Mr.. Sheppard, and I. \. Car
ter offered their services as teachers. with
the exception of the last, who taught oc-
| casionaly in the absence of the regular
instructors, they did not teach the first
wear. (See Ainslie's report OF January
IL, 1856, for proof)'
In conclusion, desire to say that i
only insist on few things" The first
is that DR.. Page was not the first TO sug-
eest the establishment OF the Mechanic S
Institute. The second is that we did
not "carry out" lis suggestions the
third is, "withoIt meaning to dis
! parage" DIR. Page or "any one else.
| that Dr. Pages connection with the IN
stitute was so superficial that he IS In
competent to inform the public, as he
has tried to do, who were the most ell
cient friends of the institute, and lastly,
that there were twenty men, at least, OF
the institute who did more in its behalf
than DR.. Page. And if DR.. Page still
questions the truth of these assertions
am willing to attempt to prove them de-
fore any jury Of friends he may appoint.
After this offer the public is entitled to
its own conclusions. LYON q. Tyler.
| =. S. ask that the following Letters
from Messrs. Overton Howard, James e.
Lamb, and W. Il. Higham be published
along with this communication.
LYON Il. TYLER.
RICHMOND, VA, June 90, 1892.
Lion q. 7ytcr, Esq.
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