The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-22
TEACHERS WILL
GET MORE MONEY
Increase Will Amount to Ten or
Fifteen Per Cent. at
Least.
THE. BUDGET COMPLETED.
Board Of Health Will Not Get
All 1t Asked-Othcr De-
partnents.
THE. BUDGET COMPLETED

The Finance Committee has COM
pleted and sent to the Common Council
the budget for 1907, which it will
receive at special meeting on Mon
day night, No action can be taken
thereon at that time, but the recon-
,nendations OF the committee as to the
+ distribution of the revenues for the
veal among the several departments
will suffice to make these public.
The balance left over from last year
z and not appropriated for any other
purpose is S170,G02.0G, and the amount
estimated as available in revenue Tor
the current year, including taxation
from the annexed district. is about
$4,000, making total of about s., 425,oOo
What recommendation will be made as
TO the expenditure of this money and
It's division among the several depart
ments Is matter OF intense interest
ia thousands. gentleman familiar
With the work OF the committee said
Z Yesterday:
'FThs committee has acted as fairly
as ii knew how to do with all the de-
partlnrnts and branches of the gov
eminent. OF course, nobody got all
u that was asked; they never do; hut
\ the committee distributed the funds
In such way as to provide for the
most imperative needs of all the de-
partments.'
Money for Teachers.
Though no one will specify as to APP
propriations it is reliably stated that the
total amount available for payroll IN
the schools is increased ten per cent.
The specific salary increases among the
various classes of teachers Is left to a
large extent to the Board Of School
Trustees, but that body has Indicated
that il will be guided as far as compau
L <,y f},,Y,, tbr
Council may desire. 1t is practically
certain, therefore, that the teachers Will
receive not merely ten per cent. increase.
& but that among the white teachers 1t is
8 likely to be slightly more than this It
may not be known generally, but 1t Is 4
fact that iafic white female teachers are
receiving slightly less on the average
than the coored female teachers This
is explained in this way: All teachers
have for years been paid on service in
crease scale, the idea being that the
greater a teachers experience the more
valuable her service. Each year up to
eight years a slight increase Is made in
the pay. The personneSl Of the white
female teachers changes much more rap
idly than that of the colored teachers.
more OF whom have been longer IN sell
vice. The result Is that the average paid
negro teachers Is greater than that paid
whites, hut that white teachers of equal
length OF service receive as much.
II may be stated with positlvcness that
this condition will be rcmedicd If the
SYSTEM of graded payment has to be nDo-
ished The sum available for salary in
crease will be recommended with pro-
viso that this inequality is TO be re-
moved. The number OF colored female
teachers Is about seven th!rteenths the
number Of white teachers II no spe-
cic increase is made in the salary Of
the negro teachers, about one third OF
me increased appropriation for pay-ro
may be divided among the white teachers,
who have urgently petitioned for increase,
This estimate, while not official, is base i
upon the Indications Of the trend or
sentiment in the Finance Committee ana
IN the Council, The white teachers via
receive from ten to fifteen per cent in
crease at least The increased appro :
z prsation to payroll account is 1000 or
nearly nifty per cent, greater than last
year, but THIS Includes provision for
teachers In the annexed territory also,
Water Department..
There is no doubt about another
E'llhE. Inc committee did not recon-
thenn "" amount asked by Superintan-
Gent lSollhg, Of the water Department
iof t3rhlne pumps This is Important
Tor tlle reason that the cla,r-,, .,,t -
j i r.
er than the daily corsnmption n,,a,,
8g M ,,i, Including the annexed suburbs
WIN turbine pumps eliminated stea ~,
o. aienuleity must soon be substi-
lnleh 70 augment the pumping cana
city This fact may lave an inIpo,.t ~, !
hearing upon The electric light ana
pumping plant prolect, which s,,ner.
inlenddent Boiling endorsed as an d.
tentative plan OF increasing purnpin,
capacity. 4
The BoRd Of Health, 81 Is said. did
NOT receive all that II asked. notwItI,.
standing the fact that lis stated need.
bottom. and not intended to be scaled
lust now much additional was giyer
the Health Department is noe stated
but 1t got an Increase
AZ The City Engineers Department
asked for nearly two millions alto
gether. hut this was, OF course. great
sssalcd. Last year THIS department go
5 about $4,000. This year II win &c