The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-02-15
ELEGANT QUARTERS.
| A Reporter of the Welcome Visits the New
Depart ments Of the Columbia
Business College.
Portland Sunday Welcome.


A representative of the Welcome Yesterday
dropped in upon Prof W. s. James principal OF
the Columbia Business College at his new and
elegant quarters in johnson a. McCown's new
brick block, northwest corner of Second and Sal
mon streets Portland. He found the genial
Prof ssor literally cup to his ewes in the work
of fitting up the handsome apartments which he
has there leased. The new rooms of the Column
bia Business College occupy the entire south half
of the third floor of the building and arranged
with a view entirely to the
COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE
Of the students. At the end of the hall front
ing east, we enter the present library of the Col
lcge, and pass thereirom into the elegantly
furnished private office of the principal. This
room is fitted up with new and handsome fur
niture throughout. Hence we enter the main or
students room, which is very large and well
VENT lated and lighted. The arrangement, of this
apartment is such that every student will be
accommodated with plenty Of room-a luxury
heretofore unknown in any business college on
the Pacific Coast. The aisles are wide, and the
desks at comfortable distances apart The Pro-
tessor informs us that the east end of this rom
will shortly be fitted up in genuine
BANKING AND cJUNTING-RooN
st, lie, so that actual business will be carried on
among the students in practice as well as IN
theory. Passing from the main instruction room,
We enter the ladies' waiting room, which is also
elegantly furnished and provided with an ada
cent toilet room of the latest convenience. Thence
We pass into the rear hallway and en- er large
apartment in the west end OF the building, which
will soon be fitted up as library and reading
room. There is also another room in this por-
ton of the building, which early in the summer
will be transformed into telegraph Office, but
for the present will be occupied as sleeping
apartment by some of the students. All the
different rooms are
UNITED by TELEGRAPH
Lines, with instruments in EACH so that stu
dents in this branch of instruction can converse
at pleasure with each other As is well known,
the branches taught at this institution are single
and doube-entry book keeping, business arth-
metc, commercial law, plain and ornamental
penmansnip, political economy, correspondence,
orthogra nv, merchandising, actual business, in
surance, jobbing, 1ailroading, seamboating, ex-
change, banking, telegraphy, commission, i'm
porting. br:kerage, mining phono raphy, etc.
cpal general superintendent and instructor in
book keeping and penmanship F. +. Chambers,
assistant in the theory and preparatory depart
ment; A. Pafienbarger, instructor in mathematics,
Latin, and other special branches Mrs. u. II.
Mitchell instructor in photography. The apart
ments of the College are by far the finest and
most convenient upon the Pacific Coast, and with
the faculty above mentioned, the business stu
lent is assured of courteous treatment, comfort
able accommodation and thorough instruction
the three greatest features OF frst-cass business
college.