The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-08
PEABODY FUND IS
 NOT DISTRIBUTED Trustees Await Further Action By State of Tennessee BIG SUM IS STILL NEEDED Nearly Half a Million Dollars Is to Be Given By Tennessee Before Pea
 body Normal Can Get the
 Endowment Fund.
BIG SUM IS STILL NEEDED

New York. October 7.-Surprise was oc- casioned today when the trustees of the Peabody education fund met in this city and decided not to make a final distribu- ton of the fund of s2. 900 left by George Peabody of Massachusetts in 1867 for educating the children of the southern states. In establishing the fund the donor provided that the income of the S2,500.OO0 was to be used each year for educational purposes and that at the end of 90 years the trustees could distribute the money among such educational institutions as they should select.
 At a previous meeting of the trustees, among whom is President Roosevelt, 1t was decided to make the distribution In 1875 the trustees, believing that the south ern states were providing proper com mon school education for children of that section. established the Peabody Normal college for teachers in Nashville, Tenn. In the distribution of the fund it was intended to give s1,000,0O0 outright to this college and to apportion the balance Of the fund among such other educational institutions as the trustees should name.
 The reason given for not making the distribution today, it was stated, was that the Peabody Normal college for teachers has not complied with conditions stimulated by the trustees when the col lege was founded The agreement was that to entitle the Peabody college to $1 .0o0, 900 when the distribution was made. appropriations aggregating $75oOOo must first be made for the benefit of the col lege by the city of Nashville Davidson county and the state of Tennessee Jo- seph H. Choate and Richard Olney of the trustees, were appointed committee to investigate whether this condition mas been lived up to and their report today showed that the city of Nashville and Da- vidson county have made appropriations amounting to $S0o,000 but that the state has yet made no appropriations
 The committee was given to understand, however, that the legislature of the state which will meet next January, will prob ably make the appropriation. therefore the trustees decided not to distribute the fund until some time after next January If the state of Tennessee makes the nee essary appropriation the trustees may call a meeting in February in Washington, and then make the distribution.
 Chief Justice Melville w. Fuller of the United States supreme court, president or the board of trustees, presided at the meting today. Other trustees present were J. Pierpont Morgan of New York, pr. Samuel A. Green, former mayor of Bos- ton; James D. Porter of Tennessee, Judge Henderson M Somerville of Alabama and New York Joseph H. Choate Of New York, Charles F. Fenner of Louisiana, Bishop William C. Downe Of Albany, N. Y. and Bishop William Lawrence of Mas sachusetts. Justice Fuller was reelected president of the board, Mir. lChoate was chosen first vice president, Daniel C. Gil- man of Maryland, second vice president; J. Pierpont Morgan, treasurer, and pr. Green, secretary Greenville Winthrop of New York was elected trustee to succeed the late Morris K. Jessup. No successor was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William A. Courteney of South Carolina The other trustees are George Peabody Wetmore of Rhole Island Richard Olney of Massachusetts, Daniel C. Gilman of Maryland, President Theodore Roosevelt and Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia.