The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-16
HIS WORD WAS THE LAW
ON THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF
THE BLIND INSTITUTE.
4 DEFAULTER is ELECI Ell
AS Steward of the White institution 'o'
the BIind--The Work in Cetah
of the New Partisan
Board.


Trustees of the Deaf and Dumb and
Blind Institution at their meeting Mon
.dav night: Mr. C. Il. Bailey was elected
chairman of the boardwin place of Mr..
r = Montague, the former chairman.
Tho following officials were elected for
the two institutions:
WHITE DEPARTMENT.
r.. Rogers, steward, at $3.50 per year.
Mrs G. w. Costner, reelected house
keeper at $500 per year.
William Royal succeeds l. q. BLAIR;
salary, 5000. ao
w. A. White. leader of orchestra, $3.50.
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Simpson, re-
elected, salaries, $1,000 and S4oo, re-
spectively.
Miss Maggie Bromley, music teacher,
$500.
Miss Mary Schenck, teacher of history
and aritnmatic, $3.50.
Miss Fannie Floyd, music teacher,
5000
Miss Crosby, teacher, $500.
Miss Elizabeth Grow, reelected kin
dergarten teacher, 1926 and Miss Laura
Newsome was made assistant teacher In
this department at salary of S275 per
year.
Miss Mary P. Wright succeeds Miss
Anna Jones at $500 per year.
Miss Evie Ellis succeeds Miss Eva Mi
nor as music teacher, $3.50.
o. w. Belvin was elected night watch
man in place of Sam Bridgers, at 1880.
Miss Mary Davis, of Warrenton, was
elected teacher Of fancy work at sZoo.
The election Of a matron and foreman
June %.
COLORED DEPARTMENT.
Mary Hawkins succeeds Lucy Mitchell
as matron. salary $500. Annie Raynor
succeeds Sally Hawkins as assistant
matron at $50. Blanche Wilkins was
reelected primary teacher of the deaf at
$3.50.
w. A. Caldwell, colored, of Georgia,
succeeds L. III. Tillinghast, white, at
$500. w. r. REEVES, white, reelected, sal
airy, S475. Jonas Costner, white, re-elect-
ed, salary $3.50. Mrs. Rosa Cuffy sue
ceeds c. n Williams as teacher of the
deaf at $500
A. w. Pegue was reelected supervisor
of the colored department at SI20 per
year.
Mrs. O. C. Baden and Mrs. Il. c..
Pegues were reelected teachers of music
and the oral classes, respectively, at sal
aries of $500 and 1910.
William Wilder was elected engineer
in place of p. W. Smith at $50 per
month, and Nathaniel Tany foreman of
the shoe shop, vice J. w. Taylor, at $3.50
The Russell hooters think they are
smart. They think that they can loot
and loot and loot and yet leave a hole
big enough to escape through when
reckoning day comes. They looted the
A. and Nj. College, but thought that they
retained a sufficient number of the facui-
ty to shift the responsibility of manage
ment on. They provided for the cigarette
smoking ''sang digger" in place of a man
whose life and ambition, if wasted at all,
was wasted in efforts to promote the
interest of his department. They left the
executive head of the institution against
the wishes of the chief looter because
they feared the immediate descension of
the virtuOus wrath of the patrons of the
institution, such as visited the University
in 1868, when the hooters were once be-
fore in control They scrambled for COM
binations and consultations that would
let in their place grabbers, and yet, as
they thought. hoodwink the puolc.
turned out officials. against whom the
finger Of suspicion has never been point
ed. and elected to one responsible posi-
ton at least man who defaulted for
more than $4,000 in the last and only
position to which the people ever elected
him: a man whose victims have been in
Raleigh during the past few days begging
members of the Board not to elect him;
lafa has MI stp mr.
cages on as honest homes as exist in
Wake county, and whose malfeasance
in office has caused good, honest citizens
of the county to hurry towards the
grave with debts hanging over them of
mis- making; a man who victimized re-
spectacle citizens such men as Wesley
Bum, b. Lilies, A. B. Marshbourn,
H. C. Lashley, Kinchin Powell, and
others who were forced to come up and
pay for his default.
They have retained Prof Jno. Il. Ray,
a carable, honest and deserving man, as
principal of the institution, thereby seek
ing to place upon him the responsibility
of its management, and then over his
protest summarily turned out capable
and efficient aids in its management, and
when an honest, able, conscientious and
conservative Republican like DIR. c. T..
Meserve arises in the Board and appealed
to the members in behalf Of the sugges-
tions of the principal and begs that the
Board listen to reason and retain the
competent men, Jim Young, the negro
ward heller, arises and says that If the
principal is to run the institution, the
Board had better adjourn at once and
wesign, and then he calls for a
vote and four hooters vote with
him in favor of a nine thousand dollar
defaulter.. 1t was calculated, as a promi-
nent citizen remarked, to cause the cleo
trio lights in that part of the city
TO f1ickeE and to refuse to cast
light on their evil deeds, but the light
must GOMEZ When reform is interpreted
to mean the displacement of man of
unouestionetd character and the elevation
of a man who victimized trusting bonds
men of hist own political faith, the light