Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-04-05
Baltimore N. I. Conference
South.

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The Baltimore M. e. Conference. South
met in Washington ON Wednesday of last
week, Bishop Cranberry presiding:
THE WESLEYAN FEMALE INSTITUTE.
One of the most important things, from
Staunton point of view, to be attended to
at this session of the Baltimore Confer.
ence, was the rehabilitation of the Yves.
leyan Female Institute. 1t seems that
when DR.. W. A. Harris gave up the school
and took charge of another in Roanoke, he
took good percentage of the patronage
into his new school; while he always had
about one hundred and forty-one
boarding pupils, it has been i'm
possible to secure number above
seventy-fye since. The debt of the insti-
tution-first and second mortgages
about $2l 1867, and at present the floating
debt in addition is $12,7S7.
The people of Staunton two years ago
subscribed 900 to aid it, on condition
that it should be kept up as a school and
not removed from here. Of this $4,000
about 50 500 has been realized. This 81, 500
and about $500 taken from the
tuition fund has been spent in ref1ttlng and
improving the school. At its session in
Fredericksburg, last year. the Confer
ence resolved to raise $15. 900 for the school,
and a $4,000 collection additional,
but it was never raised. So the school has
had to struggle with it's old bonded debt and
floating dept. 1t was found impossible to
make both ends meet, and the Principal,
Prof. w. W. Robertson, had not received
any salary for two years-on the other
hand, had subscribed and paid up $500 at
the time the Staunton subscription was
made.
All the efforts of it's friends have been
unable to keep it from running behind.
Forced by the competition of other well
and extensively equipped colleges, it's ex-
penditures have been necessarily large, it's
faculty had to be numerous and costly and
it's equipments behind none in the race.
At the Washington Conference on Sat
urday, it was resolved to issue bonds for
$4,000, per cents, to run fifteen years.
secured by first mortgage on the proper
ty. This, with the 81 800 of the Stanton
subscription still due, would make $37, 500
and with that the bonded debt of $21 1858
could be taken up, the floating debt of
S12,7S7 paid off, and a surplus left. The
security on which the new bonds are based
is ample, the property consisting of two
entire squares in the prettiest part of
Staunton, and group Of very handsome
brick buildings.
In the discussion on the proposed issue
DR.. Smithson said that since the present
management had assumed control it had
been shown that the school can pay it's own
way out of it's receipts.
Z. L. Fishburne. layman, of Roanoke,
advocated the issue and subscribed to $500
of the bonds.
Dr.. J. II. Boyd Of Staunton, thought it
was good investment financially, leaving
out other considerations. He thought the
receipts of the school would be SIG 900, and
under the present management $11 900
would be the expenses. He added that the
conference would lie expected to subscribe
for $l2, 900 worth of bonds. The remain.
ing bonds would be taken by friends of the
institution and by persons looking for good
Investments. He suggested that members
of the conference make their subscriptions
at once, and selected several members to
canvass the body. They would first ask,
he said, for subscriptions Of $500 each and
after that for smaller amounts.
In the conference on Tuesday night, DR..
Boyd said his remarks on Monday had been
incorrectly reported in the Baltimore Sun.
He had said nothing whatever Of extrava-
CANT management of the Institute, but had
said that the shortage of last year was due
to an effort to make the table board better,
and heat and heating apparatus had cost a
great deal. He said his remarks had been
correctly reported in the Washington Star
and Post, and he had not reflected on the
management of the Institute in any way.
THE SUM OF So, 525 SUBSCRIBED.
Several subscriptions of $500 were re-
ported, and from that figure the amounts
dwindled to $50 and $25. The total SUBJ
scriptions, however, before the hour of ad-
journing arrived aggregated &c. 25. Messrs.
Fishburne, hewitt and Hamill were ap-
pointed committee to solicit further sub
scriptions during the remaining sessions of
the conference. The subscriptions were as
follows:
J. E. Alexander 500, John A. Taylor
5000, A. G. Hamill 500, James Chalmers
500, J. W. Munsen $500, W. F. Lock.
800, J. 7. Hutchins 500, L. R. Jones
800, J. S. Gardner 5000, Mrs. Chalmers
800, Mrs. F. A. Strother 500, T. E. Car.
son 500, F. W. Hammer 800, w. s. EN-
brey 500, Mrs. L. B. Polling 300, B. f.
Ball 500, T. 7. Fishburne $500, J. III.
Boyd 500, E. M. Boardman and wife $500,
r. Smithson $500, - Roam 800, G. g,
D. Townsend 500, T. G.. hewitt, 500,
VIM. H. Ballinger and wife 5000, j. A.
Kern 500, ID. T. Enster 500, J. NJ. Haw-
ley 500, A. E. Huddleston 800, D. B.
Grove 500, A. M. Cackley 500. L. G.
Alexander $50, Mrs. J. Matthias, $50, Miss
Florence $50, H. H. Kennedy $50, Mrs. A.
A. Warfeld $50, F. A. Griffith $50, G. L.
Tyler 500, j. Fl. Whisner $25, j. E.
Armstrong $25, j. A. Hutchinson $25, d.
c. Hughes $25, H. A. Brown $25, w. j.
Hubbard $50, J. A. Anderson 500, S. B.
Dolly $3.50, J. A. Taylor $50, R. H. Wilson
$50, s. A. Parker 500.
7 The question Of the Wesleyan Female
Institute was again brought up, Tuesday
night, by resolution declaring that should
the creditors of the institution force it to q
sale before the church has had sufficient
time to raise the money to pay off the debt
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