Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-12
Nix. GAINES RESIGNS.
THE STATE CHEMISTS POSITION TO
DE VACANT FEBRUARY 1sT.
LACK OF FUNDS is The CAUSE.
The Assistant Chemist VIII Dis
charge the Dutics-Tucrcascd He
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Students Mt the Dread Institute.
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the chemist 20 the state Department OF
| Agriculture. has decided TO tender his
| resignation 20 take effect February LIST.
The decision OF Mr. Gaines was made
known yesterday at conference between
| Commissioner Kolner and himself. 1t has
long been realized that the department
IS so hampered in its work, owing to
| lack Of funds. that some sort OF reduc-
ton in expense was absolutely necessary.
Mr.. Gaines, being unwilling TO 90 the
work of himself and assistant ior the
modest salary paid him. thought the best
course 10 pursue was TO resign, and TO
allow the work which he now does to be
performed by his assistant The relations
between Commissioner Koiner and him
self are thoroughly cordial. and his resig-
nation IS purely voluntary. The Commits
soner deeply regrets his retirement.
There will be no chemist appointed
Mr.. Kolner stated yesterday that the
work which has been done by Mr.. Gaines,
and by Assistant Chemist James G. Heav-
ener must hereafter be done by the lat
ter alone.
INCOME OF THE DEPARTMENT.
This department receives for it's main
tenance only the funds accruing from the
tax on fertilizers. This amounted last
year TO only sSl20. 1t will be less this
year. Mr. r. j. Stratton, inspector OF
fertilizers, stated yesterday that the fees
from fertilizer inspection would grow less
every year, owing to the change in the
fertilizer law by the last General Assem-
bly,, and the consolidation OF fertilizer
manufacturing concerns, decreasing the !
number of brands. AS an instance Of the |
reduction in amount of revenue owing TO \
the latter cause, one firm which regis |
tered twenty-sx brands last year, regis |
tered only nineteen this year, reducing its !
tax from 500 to $3.50 Salaries in the de-
partment per month, are as follows:
Commissioner Koiner 800; State-Chemist
Gaines. 800: Assistant State-Chemist
Heavener $50; Inspector-of- Fertilizers L.
j. Stratton. SG5: Thomas Bigger. clerk TO
$65; porter, $40.
il will be seen that the department is Il
being run on a very limited margin. In
addition TO the foregoing expenses the
,ost Of the State Board of Agriculture has
o be borne. Commissioner KOiner ia
,ors tonnage tax on fertilizers. He
links tax Of 10 cents ton on all fer
ilzers sold would greatly increase the
The tax in North Carolina is % cents. I
he sale of fertilizers is said not to be {
n the least decreased as a result Of The
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IF we had a proper tonnage fertilizer J
Ak in Virginia / would have plenty Of {
ioney for the legitimate expenses of the
apartment" said Mr. Koner q could s
sue a bulletin TO the farmers of the ]
tate now, for instance telling them that ]
heard man say a the session of the {
orth Carolina Horticultural Society last j
eek that he had tried to grow fifty va /
cites Of grapes in sandy soil, and found e
My two that would thrive. I cannot is 0
Ie bulletins at ALL" c
Mr.. Gaines is one of the finest chemists a
Virginia. 1t is understood that he con- il
mpiates going to Europe 10 make some
vestigations in chemistry. n
PENITENTIARY MAKING MONEY. !;
The quarterly report of Mr.. A. c. liar
an, president Of the Board Of Directors
the penitentiary, to the Governor, was
ed yesterday. The report shows that ,
e receipts for the first quarter of the
esent fiscal year were sl,442S3 over those
the corresponding period Of last year.
he receipts by months were as follows: II
'tober, NSl6I6S; November, $12,59165;
scember. Sl2, 1862.
/ ne nedltn OF the prisoners has been -
cellent. Surgeon Benjamin Harrison's II
artery report shows that one prisoner l.
d died; fifty-eight were returned to the Of
lis from the hospital, and thirty-one S.
IRE in the hospital January LIST. At this
te there were l627 convicts in The :; chi RI
1tiary, on the State Farm, and enrloy- 81
on public work. t.
RECEIVES NEGROES. p
The Governor thinks it not likely that /
Will appoint a student 10 the Dread VI
male Institute, at Worcester, Mass.
he has been requested to do b. the
lstees Of the institution, who offered
ee tuition and board TO a girl from this \,
ate to be named by the Governor. -
lere have been many applications for =,
appointment from girls bearing some ~
the best-known names in Virginia. r,
vernon Tyler, however, thinks that -
gro girls are admitted 20 the school 80
ough he has no certain information on %
IS point. The catalogue SAYS any girl ~
er ~ years of age can matriculate -
'orts have been made to learn from ~
orcester whether negro girls are adj ~
tied. but without success. ~
GENERAL REPORT. in
.djutant-General Male is busily en- Sc
sed upon his annual report, which will sa
submitted to the Governor at an early NJ
Y. 1t Will be quite voluminous. as if or
/ embrace a complete history Of Vir- OF
las relations to the Spanish American IN
= 1t will probably make but slight en-
erence TO the reOrga tim -.