Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-26

two. rooms In the third story Of the mess
hail. and pays for lights and washing
aud furnishes his own furniture of every
description. He has but one child, and
she has been of NJ school for three years
during school terms Board II furnished
INN ana h's Nit" She attends TO all
the duties Of housekeeper Ia the full
est sense M the mess hall. which are not
less onerOus than those connected with
the largest boarding schools In the state
AMI without pay. The duties of the
steward nrc too numerous TO mention In
detail, but more than embrace all the
duties discharged by the steward, assis-
tant steward, hOuspkeeper and paying
agent nj the Driskill hotel. for which
services they are paid total monthly
salary OF $50, or S343Q per annum, with
furnished rooms, washing lights ETC.
free. The persons fed daily nc the
Driskill hotel average about seventy-fve,
while nc the A. and NJ college, with
students, professors and employees the
average is not less than 215 Then we
submit that his duties aud salary should
be compared with those In similar posi-
tons in large hotels. rather than those of
the institutions cited by the visiting
committee. We refer 10 j. NJ Day OF
the Driskill, and the proprietors of other
hotels. As an evidence OF the concur
rent judgment Of former board OF
dircotors of the A. aud NJ. college ON this
point and TO correct the idea conveyed
! that the present management inaugural
ed the payment of what the committee
| claimed To be IAN eNtrayagant salary TO
| the steward we state the fact that
| former board of directors, COMPOSED of
] Governor II. B. Hubbard, Lieutenant
! Governor Wells Thompson. b. III. Davis
! T. NJ. Scott, 10. Il. Pickett. A. j Pceler
| and Charles DeMorse passed the follow
| ing resolution Nov. ~, 1877: THAT the
] hereinafter named officers OF the a. and
! Nj, college receive aud be paid the follow
| ing annual salaries, 10 wit: surgeon,
| 5000; steward, $1,000 and there were
! not nearly 80 many students and others
here then.
The committee says that "change in
| salaries has been frequent, always IN
volying increase ia pay" We say in
reply 10 this that the board has reduced
| the cost Of service in the presidents and
| treasureT's office $500 per annum, abol-
ished the office of foreman OF the farm
nt salary OF $500 per annuin, aud re-
duced the salary of one professor $3.50.
and that OF another from 5000 20 $500,
and year after increased il 20 $500
| n difference of 500, making n total saw
| ing In these instances of 5000 per an
mum. These changes have all been made
since January, 1891, aud are n matter
of record.
Tho honorable committee Is mistaken
as TO the $40. l42 and board for twenty
two employees paid by the state. Tie
state aud experiment station pay about
$3.50 60 the laborers mentioned. The
experiment station pays about half Of
this $3.50 and the remainder. about
$1,000, Is paid from the subsistence OF
board account paid by the students out
| Of the $40 exclusive of the trust fund
for the nine months session, making 4
difference of something over Sl1.OG4 fol
the two years, as they stated. We fun,
Their state that one.half of the salary OF
the president, One-third Of the secretary
of the board and the secretary of IN,
college, and the bookhceper, amounting
70 $3.50 per annum or 5000 for two
years Is paid by Prairie View Stat,
Normal school and should be deducted
from total salaries OF the Agriculture
and Mechanical college as given by Che
committee.
il Is further charged that 'yet III,
management OF the college has been sucl
as 10 divert Il in a great measure iron
the plain Purpose of It's founding, an,
convert It largely into military ant
| literary school In regard TO this, WI
say that it has been the uniform custom
of tue directors, since the college was or
ganized % coniide the regulation Of th'
course OF study 60 the faculty, as expert
Ia this line Of thought, and no member
thereof has ever complained 10 the pres
emf board that his views had been over
ruled hy the faculty Aud we furshe
snbrnit the action OF the faculty on thii
polnt. t0-Wit;