Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-02
PENSIONS FOR PROFESSORS
Third Annual Report of Officers Of
the Carnegie Foundation.
sEvENTY-EIGHT NEW NAMES
Expenditures During the Year Only
q Little More Than Half Income,
which II over Half
Million.

NEW YORK. March 1.-The third annuel
report OF the president and treasurer OF the
Carnegie foundation for the advancement
OF teaching was made public today for the
fiscal year ending September 90. 1898.
Se~venty-eight names were added 10 the
retiring allowance roll at a total cost Of
SlS, T65. This included pensions TO fifteen
widows OF professors. The distribution Of
these allowances was general. from Maine
to California. The maximum amount OF
the retiring allowance was Increased from
5000 to 800 and the pension viii be
granted to the widow Of a professor in an
accepted institution, who has for ten years
been married to the professor, the pension
to be one-nalf of what the husband would
have been entitled to receive.
President Henry Smith Pritchett Of the
foundation says that much has been done
during the last year to do away with poll
teal interference in state colleges and uni
versities and to assure an academic free
dom and the elimination of politics from
education. He cites the trying experiences
at the University or Wyoming and the
university Of the new state Of oklahoma,
during the last year. where in the former
case the president was dismissed and in
the latter the president and several pro-
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ton. These experiences are not likely to
happen again in any part of the country,
he says.
The present assets OF the foundation are
$40. 80. ss. The total income for the fiscal
year ending September %. 1905. was $50. sos
and total expenditures SzS7. or, leaving an
accumulation OF S24S, "a
B~attIeahIps at New York.
NJ Uorbawa cot Fha ffraf rIHranaa ~ a
portion Of the round the world battleship
neet' today, when the battleships Rhode
Island and New Jersey steamed majesti-
caIly into port and anchored off romp-
kinsville. Staten islend. where they will
stow powder and shot and shell preparatory
TO going to the navy yards for some minor
tinkering and to have themselves arrayed
in the new service color OF gray. After
discharging ammunition the Rhode Island
will proceed 10 the Brooklyn Navy yard,
and the New Jersey will go to the Boston
yard.
When the channel leading to the harbor
was reached. Forts Hancock, Wadsworth
and Hamilton doomed out a welcoming
salute. and this was answered by the
Rhode Island. The harbor craft then took
up the note OF welcome and all the way
up the bay and until the bsttieship reached
its anchorage the vessel was greeted with
the shrill blast of steam whistles and siren.
The battIeship New Jersey, which arrived
several hours later, receiy ed a similar greet
ing.
Equal Suffrage Demonstrations.
Throughout the United States today. IN
every city in which a meeting could be
arranged. there was an equal suffrage
demonstration" under the auspices OF the
socialist party and the socialist women's
societies. The meetings were provided for at
the national conference OF the socialist
party in Chicago, which set February IS
aside as woman suffrage day and marked
the time as one on which a political party
came forward as the champion df women's
right to the ballot.
Two meetings were held here in further
ance OF the plan. one in the Murray Hill
Iyceum in Manhattan. the other in the
Labor lyceum in Brooklyn. Prominent 90
cialists and suffragists were present and
the enthusiasm manifested was sincere and
earnest. In the Manhattan meeting Miss
Leonora O'Reilly. the Girl ~ the Tens
ments." and a prominent member OF the
Woman's Trade union. made a speech in
which she denounced the women who Op-
pose equal suffrage
One thousand women and several hun
dred men attended the meeting in Brook
Ign, which enthusiastically endorsed the
right Of women to vote. Mrs. Borrman
Wells. the English advocate Of woman suf-
mage. sent word that illness prevented her
attendance.
Mrs. France Mathew Frazer. who pre-
sided. declared that II women we're granted
the right OF suffrage child labor would
undoubtedly be regulated on a more hu-
name basis. II permitted at all.
Weed Objects % weed AIeohOI.
Major General Leonard Wood. command
ing the Department Of the East. has issued
a general order TO the officers OF the de-
partment, commanding them 10 impress
upon the enlisted men the deadly effects
that follow the drinking OF wood alcohol
or denatared alcohol II was said on Gov
errors island that headquarters had re-
csived reports concerning the drinking Of
wood alcohol At ons OF the artillery posts
In ne department Death followed.