The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-06
Mr., RAY ACCEPTS
Board of Directors Raises the
Salary to $4,000.
THREE MEMBERS OBJECT
They Dispute the Right OF the
Board to Raise the Salary.
Mr.. Place Left Yesterday For MS
Northern Home--M Mr.. Ray viii Take
Charge of the Institution
Oct. LIST.

A meeting of the directors of the
Deaf. Dumb and Blind Institution was
held Yesterday afternoon to consider
the matter of the superintendency.
A communication from Mr.. John Z.
Raw was laid before the Board agree
ing to accept the position at an increase
of salary from $1,S00 to $4,000, the
Board to pay the expenses OF the re-
moval of himself and family from Ken
lucky to Raleigh.
The question arose whether the
Board has the right to increase the
salary of the principal during his term
of office Some members OF the BOARD
claimed that Mr.. Ray was elected ohIy
TO fill out the unexpired term caused
by the ineligibility and consequent
resignation of Mr.. Place.
After some discussion, 1t was decld-
ed to accept Mr.. Rays proposition ana
increase the salary TO $4,000.
This was by the usual vote. Messrs,
Meserve, Proctor and Herring voted
for the proposition and Messrs. Nor
son, Briggs and Williams voted IN the
negative. The chairman, Mr.. Monta-
que, cast the deciding vote.
The Board then adjourned.
Mr. Ray was at once notified by teie-
gram.
He viii take charge October 1st, his
duties as principal of the Kentucky
institution preventing his coming UNI
til that time.
The Institution opens its autumn
term next Wednesday, Sept. 9th. Mr..
w. Young, former principal, and now
assistant principal, viii act as princi-
pal until the arrival of Mr.. Ray.
Mr.. f. r. Place, who was elected
principal of the Institution and resign
ed because the Attorney General de-
cided that he was ineligible, left yes
terday for his home at the North. He
was up to the time of his election as
sistant superintendent of the Illinois
institution. and before that was at
the head of the New York State lnsti-
tuition for the Blind at Batavia.
Mr.. Ray. the newly-elected principal,
will be warmly welcomed back TO his
native State. Few men are so widely
and favorably known in North Caro-
lima. He has been one of the most
successful instructors of deaf mutes
and the blind in this country and has
brought the Colorado Institution and
the institution he now pTesides over IN
Kentucky into the front ranks.
He was rendered the superintendency
of the Virginia Institution for the Deaf
and Dumb and Blind only few months
ago, but declined. He is the most pop
ular man with all parties that could be
found. 1t is understood that the Re
publicans and Populists would not
permit the Institution to be disturbed
under his supervision, if the next leg
islature should be of the same complex
ion as the last.
The Directing members of the Board
claim that they had no authority to
raise the salary of a teacher during
his term of Office That Mr.. Place was
elected June 1st, 1896, to serve for a
term of three years, and that, there
fore, Mr.. Ray is elected only to fill out
Mr.. Places unexpired term. They
claim that Mr.. Ray is Mr.. Places sub
stitute.
On the other hand the majority of
the Board claim that Mr.. Ray was elect
ed for a full term, and they have a
perfect right to fix the salary.
1t was stated that the matter would
be tested. A committee called on the
Attorney General yesterday to get a
decision from him, but he was out of
town.