Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1895-04-08
rHE BLIND AND MUrEs
To Be Consolidated Under One Man
agement.


The work Of economizing in the man.
agement Of state institutions goes
bravely on. AS result Of the visit TO
the asylum by the state board there is
TO be cut Of ten to twenty per cent on
the employees IN certain wards.
Rumor has It that Frank Bryant,
who is receiving 500 month as en-
gineer at the state reform school, is to
be cut to, or displaced by, q $40 to $50 a
month man. "Big salaries and sine
cures are to be Topped off wherever we
tiBd them," said state official today.
"That is what we promised the people
aud what we propose to give them"
sUPERIETEEDENT CARTER.
j. l.. Carter, Of Union, appointed
superintendent of the consolidated
blind and deaf mute institutions at Sa-
lem, will not take charge until about
June /. He was educated at William
cite university about twenty years ago,
and has been q teacher and manager Of
schools and county superintendent of
Union county for SIX years. He was
defeated by Miss Nellie Stephens,
Republican on the PopulIst ticket. The
court held 10 TIllamook county that
woman could not hold Office In Oregon,
and the woman who was elected there
backed out. But Miss Stephens secured
q decision the other way and holds the
office pending an appeal to the supreme
court. Mrs. Garter, who will probably
be chief matron Of the combinec insti-
tutlons, was also student Of William
ette and is said TO be lady of splendid
abilities.
ABOUT THE NEW DEAL.
The Salem "Sign," published by the
l)eafmutes, under Supt. e. y. BolliDger,
has the following:
"What about the new building that
has been recently erected for the Deaf.
mutes Of Oregon ?' the question has
been repeatedly asked Of us. In reply
an explanation is first In order: For
four or five months past the columns Of
the Sign hAye been entirely silent con-
cernlng the occupancy of the new
building owing to the general dissatis.
faction. Of the patrons of the school and
the people at large, with the location
and surroundings of the same. 10 re-
spOnse partly 70 petition, containing
several thousand signatures, praying
that some disposition may be made of
the farm and the new building, located /
six miles from Salem, In close pr0xim-
ity to the Reform School on the one
side and the farm for Insane and Home |
for the Convalescents on the other, and |
partly In accordance with their own |
judgment, the new Board" haye taken
the initiatory steps for making trans
fer of the farm for deaf mutes. AS a |
temporary arrangement the building
aud farm have been put under the |
management OF the Insane asylum
with strong probability of Its being
used as a school for feeble. minded, for
which purpose IL could be used with
scarcely any additional cost to the asy-
lum aud for which II Is badly needed.
A. consequence OF this arrange
ment, the schools for the deaf and
bhOd will be united under one man
agement, with competent principals as
heads OF the scholastic departments OF
each school respectively. A plan has
been partly developed whereby bot ID
schools may be retained together tenn
porarlywithout being in actual contact
with each other. These arrangements
are only Intended 10 suffice until further
legislation may take place regarding
the same, aud although some lnoon.
venlence may arise from time to time, 4
we are all inclined 10 make the hest OF !
IL until permanent aud more satisfae. 1
tory provisions shall be made.
The eombiued management Of the
Two schools has been given 10 Mr.. j. l..
Carter, Of La Grande Union Co, ore.
Zon, whose duty II will be 10 look after
ihe financial, domestic aud general
huaiueag daua ri mania of tba inst tftntinn