The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-05-23
TEACHERS' GUILD.
It Has n Fund of S15,0OO and Is Pros-
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The Connecticut Teachers Annuity
 Guild will hold a meeting in Hartford
 Saturday to act upon the charter of in
 corpora tion which has been passed by
 the present session of the general as
 sembly. The guild, which was organ
 ized in this city at one of the state con.
 porous condition and the work for the fund is carried on energetically. Hon. orary members who are not teachers but interested in the plan, have joined | in this city to the number of over fifty
 forty-four having been added since last
 October. They pay ten dollars into the fund. The teachers of the city very | largely belong to it and the assessments | the smallest of which are four dollars a | year, amount to nearly two hundred dollars a quarter. although there is not | quite so large a number of members as | that sum would indicate, the funds from honorary members making up the amount Since January 1 nearly four
 hundred dollars has been forwarded to
 the general collector at Norwich.
 The amount raised by the three per- pormances of Nathan Hale" at Par sons theater two weeks ago amounted to little more than thousand dollars, which is in the hands of the treasurer, Joseph A. Graves, principal of the South school. Mir. Graves said yesterday that
 the fund which has already been gath cred amounts to fifteen thousand dol
 .txt that with the assessments from mem bers the income is about five thousand
 dollars a year. No annuities can be paid until after October 1, 1900 and 1t is hoped that by that time there will be a fund of twenty-five thousand dollars in the treasury.
 The guild is under a general state management, but for convenience there are local officers who collect the assess ments and care for the distribution of the fund. The collector for this city is Miss Mary M. Harris of the South school, who is one of the most enthusi- astic advocates of the guild In the state. The teachers in the various cities and communities where there are any large number of them have added to the fund by special efforts In Hartford the play of Nathan Hale was presented this season. In New Haven the famous col lection of religious paintings by TIssot, which have attracted great attention ev- anywhere they have been seen, is on ex- hbition for the benefit of the guild,
 All the counties of the state are repre- sented to some extent, but Holland and Litchfield counties are not largely rep resented in the guild as yet. The as- seasments of the members amount to one per cent. of their salaries, provided the salary does not exceed one thousand dollars annually. Those who have sala- ries of one thousand dollars or over pay ten dollars annually for the one thou sand dollars and fifty cents additional for every one hundred dollars in excess of that amount, but the assessment can not be in excess of twenty dollars The are paid to teachers upon re- tirement from the profession after long for disability, and amount to fifty per cent, of the salary the teacher was receiving at the time of retirement, no teacher to receive more than five hundred dollars as an annuity.--Hart- ford Courant.