The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-27
TO ASK INCREASE
m, ,,swrrs OF THE MoNTEvALIo SSu0oI. DECIDE GIN RE0usr' e
~x,,,, ,.,.-..auee Measure To Appropri"ee aE0.O GOO Annually for BuiidinSs .,,a alI .OOO for Maintenance
 Fund.

Tho Roard of Trustees of the Ala 6irIa Trdustrial School met yes- tardav at noon in the once oL Gnvsruorj and determined to ask the T,e1islature for an annual building ap- propriation of $50,O0O and an ihcI Ieas1 of the maintenance fund or the schUU- S11, 1000 each year The Montevailo oliis viii be introduced in the Legislature on Monday.
 The meeting of the Montevallo Board clarifies the educational situation m the Legislature. The other educational bills have been held back, pending the preparation of the bill for t. girIs school. The appropriation committee of the two Houses, under the sugges- tion of the administratiop. have deter mined upon the policy of having all the educational bills before them at cred and passed without one interest securing too much from the treasury at the expense of another.
 Because of the withdrawal ot the list of trutee appointments made by Governor Jelks and the attendant delay in the reappointment of another list by, Governor Conner, there has been a delay in the submission of the Monte
 At the meeting yesterday there were Governor Conner, Superintendent of Ed ucation H. c. Gunnels, both of whom Hon. H. s. D. Mallory and Virgil Bouldin, members from the State-at large: Judge H. Austill. First District; Sol D. Bloch, Second District; Judge A. H. Aston, Third District; Rev. J :. T. Mangum, Fourth District; M. A. Graham, Fifth District; Judge J. C.. Kumpe. Eighth District. s, w. John,
 The onl--s absent member of the board were w. E. W Yerby of the Sixth District and Judge W. w. Haralson of the seventh District.
 a& at the meeting. and showed the plans for the enlargement and extension of the present building. toge her with fig ures relating to the attendance at the ing last year eighty girls had been re- fused a place at the school because of a lack of accommodations. It was brought out further that the dormitory facilities were inadequate for the stu den ts who were at scho0i.
 The board will present to the Leg islatuPe the fact that the expenses at Montevallo are perhaps cheaper than at any other State institution at the South. They will bring out the fact that the lowest diaries paid in any institutions are paid in Montevallo. On this they will lay particular stress, for this very fact has brought considerable embarrassment to the trustees. They trained and. eficient teacl CTS in many instances, because Montevailo could not meet the salaries offered by other institutions.
 It is proposed to widen the curricu- lum at Montevallo. in the establishment of new chairs and new departments to keep 1t abreast with the educational movement throughout the South.
 The building fund will go primarily to the completion of a class room building. The class rooms which the girl students at Montevallo have used for several years, have been called by namhers of the board a reflection on the State. They are a series small one story wooden build ngs. hastily erected. and which 1t was believed modern structure shortly after their
 Tie dormitory building. the largest and handsomest building belonging to