The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-02-03
ELEGANr QUARrERs.

Portland Sunday Welcome.

Portland Sunday Welcome
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 & McCown's new
brick block, northwest corner of Second and Sal
mon streets, Portland. He found the genial
Prof ssor literally sup to his e, es in the work
of fitting up the handsome apartments which he
has there leased. The new rooms of the Colum.
bia Business College occupy the entire south half
of the third floor of the building and are arranged
with 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
lege, and pass therefrom 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
venti 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-
fessor informs US that the east end of this ro.m
will shortly be fitted up in genuine
BANKING AND cousrINa-RooM
Stvle, so that actual business will be carried on
among the students in PRACTICE as we'll 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
centtoilet room the latest convenience. Thence
we pass into the rear hallway and en- er a large
apartment in the west end of the building, which
will soon be. fitted Vi, as library and reading
room There is also another room in thia por-
tion of the building, which early in the summer
will be transformed into q telegraph Office, but
for the present will be occupied as a 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 donble-entry book keeping, business arith-
| metlc, commercial law, plain and ornamental
/ penmanship, political economy, correspondence
orthogral by, merchandising, actual business, In
surance, jobbing, Iailroading, seamboating, ex-
change, banking, teegraphy, commission, i'm
porting. brt kerage, mining, phonography, etc
The faculty are as fellows: w s. James, prin
cipal, general superintendent and instructor in
book keeping and penmanship; F. E. Chambers
assistant in the theory and preparatory depart
ment; A. Paffenbarger, instructor in mathematics
| Latin, and other special branches: Mrs. q. H
Mitchell, instructor in photography. Theapart
| ment5 of the College are by lar the finest an6
most convenient upon the Pacific Coast, and witt
| the faculty above mentioned, the business stu
| dent is assured of courteous treatment, comfort
able accommodation an6 thorough instruction
| the three greatest features OF frst-cass business
college.