# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S65
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911. 65

Synod to raise the salaries of the teachers at our institutions
proportionately.

In closing, the board would also like to report that it has pleased
the Lord to take Mr. Ad. Bergmann, a long-serving member of the board
of oversight, to himself by a blessed death. The board filled the
vacancy by electing Mr. Julius Vogt. — Likewise it is certainly
fitting that in our report we also honor the memory of the departed
Reverend Pastor F. J. Biltz. He was the actual founder of our St.
Paul's College, and to the last the welfare of the institution lay
close to his heart. He fell asleep in death on November 19, 1908, at
Concordia, Mo. —

The following were authorized:

1. for improvements to the heating plant, $448.00;

2. for bathing facilities, etc., in the basement of the dormitory
building and for connecting the dormitory building and the
instruction building by a covered walkway, $600.00;

3. for a professor's residence, $3,000.00;

4. for the building of a hospital, $2,500.00;

5. for a gasoline or oil engine to drive the water pump and the
machine for the electric light, $850.00.

Concordia Gymnasium at Bronxville, N. Y.

The board of oversight of the gymnasium at Bronxville had submitted
the following report to the Reverend Synod:

In accordance with the resolution of the last synod, this gymnasium
has left its longtime home in Hawthorne and moved to the picturesque
Bronxville. In this small suburb of New York, located 16 miles north
of Grand Central Station, our fellow believers in the East had
acquired a very suitable property of almost 14 acres for $52,818.00,
and then donated it to the synod as a home for the institution to be
built. The plan, however, was at first only to erect a dormitory
building in which the two lower classes could be housed, while the
four upper classes were to remain in Hawthorne until the Lord
assigned us the means for further construction. But behold, the Lord
helped beyond asking and understanding.

A jeweler named John J. McGrane (now of 505 Fifth Ave.) had decided
to give a school for Italians to the Pope in Rome. He had entrusted
the search for a suitable location for this to a Jay G. Fitzpatrick,
25 Broad St. We had already met this man earlier while searching for
suitable sites for our Concordia, and when, at the end of May, he
still had nothing suitable, while McGrane wanted to travel to Rome
with the transfer deed for the college to be donated as early as the
beginning of August, we offered him our property and eventually came
to terms with him.

[Signature at the foot of the page: "5" — a printer's sheet signature, not a folio.]