The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-06-07
EMPORIA AND THE CONVENTION.

We extract the following from
he pen of the versatile and gifted
,ditor of the Fort Scott Daily
Monitor, D. w. Wilder, under
whose administration that paper
has been steadily advancing to + 70
front of Kansas journalism:
The annual convention of the
Editors and Publisher Ascocia-
ton was held this year at Empo-
ria, one of the oldest most widely
known and best cit les in the State.
Emporia is in The valley of the
Neosho, and ON the line of the
Missouri, Konsas and Texas, and
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe railroads. Her next roads will
be to Ottawa, east. and down the
Walnut Valley, south. The city
is fifteen years old, was laid ont by
Free State men who went from
Lawrence, and has always been
strongly on the side of freedom,
temperance and education. 1t lies
between the Neosho and the Cot
tonwood, near their junction, is
Handsomely located and is the
center of farming region, now
well settled, on land not surpassed
anywhere in fertility. The prin-
cipal streets are macadamized,
good sidewalks leading to every
part of the city, the business
houses nearly all substantially
built of brick, and the residences
are neat and tasteful, with every
: mark of the comfort and prosper.
ity of those who own these houses
7 and grounds. The city has sever
, churches and thirteen church or
ganizations-and may well be call
ed the City Of Churches-severa
large and fine school houses, {
good stone court house, many
mills, foundry, furniture factory
: nurseries and many other eyiden
9 ces of enterprise and rapid pro
t gress. The State Normal Schoo
t is here, and is an institution il
: which we all take genuine pride
The building heretofore used 70
> the school is too small to accom-
modate the large number of stu
dents, and q new and fine struC
. ture will be completed this yeal
i It's size is 76x125 feet, and fou
y stories; cost, $49, 400; heating an
o ventillatihg $4,000. There will b
h thirty rooms in the building of tn
d average size of 25x3O feet; an Az
q sembly Room 57x62 feet, an
= rooms for the library, for two lii
:, erary societies and one for a mt
/. scum.
T. We copy the following from tn
d Tioga Herald, Mr.. Rich havin
told the story in advance of us:
1, "The Faculty, which we are COZ
q ident will compare favorably wit
= that of any similar institution i
- the west, is constituted as follows
= George w. Hoss, A. NJ, Presiden
IN Professor of Mental and Mors
'r Science and Didrctics; r. B. Di
10 worth, A. NJ, Professor of Geo:
is raphy and Physical Science; \
ot C. Lamprey, A. NJ, Professor {
of Languages; Miss Emily F. Brew
,e er, Preceptress, Instructress
AZ History and Mathematics; Mr.
A. NJ. Philbrick, Instructress
Rhetoric, Common School Brancl
y es and Gymnastics; Rev. L. {
II, Jones, Teacher of Vocal Music.
Of President Hoss was formerly
ne Professor in the n. w. G. Unive
y, sity of Indianapolis, and was a
I'd forwards State Superintendent
IN Public Instruction in Indiana. II
a was also for nine years the editC
40 of the Indiana School Journa
80 Under the excellent supervision {
" such an able man, diligent stl
dents cannot fail to acquire I'll
In greatest proficiency, and our No
N NAL School cannot fail to becon
re one of the most successful an
ia popular institutions of learning
In the country
err EmpOria, will also, in all prob
4. bility, have tho car works of tt
A. T. & S. F. railroad, for whic
she has given forty acres of Ian
and is ready to transfer $4,000
IL in bonds. The water power on tt
re streams here has been utilize
he more extensively than such pow,
h. has been used in any other part
o. the State. There arc six wat
20 -four mills on the Cottonwood
- this vicinity, five in this count
10 Lyon, and one in Chase count,
IL and there are five on the Neosf
On in this county; some of them a
&c also saw as well as grist mill
ed Lyon county began to export fiol
O. a dozen years ago, Colorado beiI
,st her first market, and OK teams Il
ts. only means of transportatia
IL Now this valley supplies the ne
"A settlers in the Southwest viii
-. they are opening their farms,
." well as q large trade in the Indii
Ie- country. These mills run co
n, stantly, not being troubled by al
Ie- lack of water. We mention Il
ay fact because it is usually said
il Kansas that our streams cannot
D. placed under control, and that,
lie they could be, the dry weather
Iu summer and freshets in spriI
=, would make water mills useless
&c our State. But, having seen tn
" complete success, we are now pr
't- pared to believe that cotton fact
ng MES will be built here. Empor
re is on the line of one road whit
us will very seon reach the cote
OF fields of Texas, and of anoth
81 which is pushing rapidly to tt
a. great sheep-growing country
New Mexico. With steam pow
we cannot compete with the wat
cotton and wooden factories
New England, but with water POI
er we may, the extra price we p;