The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-11
BOARD BILLS WORRY BLALOCK.
COST OF LIVING AT ATLANTA STAG
GERS HIM.

Students at the school of Technology
Paying sII Per Month as Against
81 Paid by Those at the state Nor
NAL school at Athens-Mr. BIalOck
Unable to Understand why the Diff
ference should BE SO Great.
Atlanta, Ga, Aug 10.-The Balock
committee has adopted the normal school
at Athens as its criterion for economy.
That institution is being put forward as
an object lesson for the benefit of the
other state establishments Of learning.
First the deadly parallel was drawn on
the state university, and the committee
does not take pains to conceal the fact
that they intend to make invidious com
PARSONS between the normal school and
the university in their report TO the legis-
lature. After investigating the university
the committee took up the
Girls Normal and Industrial School
of Minedgeville and again drew the
deadly parallel between it and the Ath-
ems normal school, bringing President
ChappeI Of the latter TO Atlanta yester-
day to haul him over the Goals because
he does not feed his students as cheap
ly as does President Bradwell.
To-day the committee decided to have
a whack at the state school of technol-
ogy along the same line, and for that
purpose summoned Secretary Akers be
fore them and piled him with all kinds of
questions about the habits of the tech
nology students and the cost of their
maintenance 1t appeared that the dorml-
a month for their keep, ag against 81
(washing and lights included) at the nor
mai college at Athens.
This was a sumner to the legislative
economist. It puzzled them to think
that the cost of student grub in the CAPT
tai city should be so high. 1t had an
even more depressing effect upon them
than when they discovered that some of
the university students had claw hammer
coats and paid $25 month for board on
Mlledge avenue. The thought that At
lanta should be so expensive nearly caused
Chairman Blalock to have a fit, and when
he reflected that he had said in an in
terview that he was in favor of moving
the normal school from Athens to At
lanta unless the citizens of the Classic
City mended their ways he was filed
with modification, The S11 a month
board was a snas for the committee.
They could not get over it. They simply
could not understand why there should
be more than per cent difference in the
cost of grub between state institutions
located in Athens and Atlanta.
With this problem before them the COM
mite decided that it would be wise TO drop
the matter for awhile and give the officials
of the tech an opportunity to run over
to Athens and investigate the normal
school Accordingly this suggestion was
thrown out and the committee will wait
day or two until the tech
officials return from the Classic City for
an explanation of this inexplcable dis
crepancy in the grub" bills of the state
educatiOna. department..
The Blalock committee is getting its data
in shape TO make it's report to the legisla-
ture The tech school is the last
of the state institutions to be examined. 1t
has been predicted from the outset that
there viii be a minority report from the
committee in reference to almost all the
Institutions and departments.
1t is taken for granted that the majority
Of the committee composed of Mr.. B.a-
lock, Mr. Berry and Mr. Swift, will jump
on nearly everything in sight with both
feet and call loudly for reforms, while Mr..
Boynton and Mr.. Little will take a con-
sentative view of the situation and bring
in a minority report viewing things in a
different light