The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1885-05-29
WEALTH AND LIFE.
colleges of IndaTrial Training and c ON.
ments on Exi-tfS Affairs, by our New
York Correspoa dent.
Especial Cor .!of The CHRONICLE. !

NOAeSes OIL lndasfria1 Training n nd { ON
. York Corresposdent.
Especial Cor. of The CHRoSrcLEl
NEW YORK, MAJ 3e.-New York has |,
} misery OF its mud tnde and the pepper
OF Its rich, its insTate absufdities and es
travagancles and waste Of wealth and life
its temptations and its wrecks-all whic
are SAD; and See now easy ii WAS for gu
. self -esteeming fathers TO decry the follie
OF q mercenary rs4ple and a money ma K
ing age. | trustl too, that / underst a M
what manner of I4nen those same nobl,
fathers We're, and appreciate their virtue
and prize the traditions they left Us a.
legacies land they left Us precious littl,
else.) / have liveoin North Carolina ane
Virginia and Kent'lky, and know som,
OF the foremost pc pie in nearly all the
other Southern .tates. ] know What
southern life nd Asciety now. are, and
think know,i 8.g were forty year.
ap.. nmv tsssery:I7of md rsssttf.s is., {
taught me anything, | am willing to stake
all my brains on this assertion
The vain-g glory of the tradition of old
| Southern society which consoles the relies
| OF the old time and inspires awe in the
asplrants of this time is the prime curse
| that has been visited on the citizens of
Southern States. 1t is not simply bosh to
| be boastlng about what great people we
are and what good times the old times
| were, and it is not only bad breeding to
| be pralsing ones self or ones ancestors,
| but IN this case it is a fatal mistake.
| There Is no satisfactory civilization that
has not wealth-not because wealth in
| itself is civilization; far from it. but be
cause you cannot have a civilization with
out it. Without millions and millions of
dollars hGhInd them there WoIld ha
an Astor Library, a Metropolitan Museum
of Art, a Cooper Union, newspapers and
cheap travelling facilities and opera houses
and help IN every way that man wishes to
grow or to find pleasure or profit.
The Southern States will never be an at
tractive home for scholars or for people
who are ambitious in any way to get the
most out of life they can get until all this
valnglory is forgotten in better breeding
and all this boasting is hushed. A man
who is making money in North Carolina
and giving employment to other men who
can make money is doing great deal bet
ter service than all the men who talk
about our great resources or our excellent
society or the glOries Of the old times
For until we become great deal richer
until our resources that we talk a great
deal about are developed SO that we shall
have at our doors all the advantages of
richer communities, the ambitious men
are going away to other places where they
can find these things.
Two days ago | was talking to North
Carolinian who is now resident of New
York about his emigration. III tell you
why came away" he said. II had an
idea, a business rather that | believed
could be made profitable. l tried for
years to get somebody in North Carolina
to give me help to deEelop it. Igot none.
There is no necessary reason why | should
not have got everything there that | got
here. But | came here a stranger and in
few months l received encouragement,
| carried out my plans. Succeeded? Well,
during the last 80 days | have made
$4,000 clear money My children are
better educated than they could have
been in North Carolina, and every way |
AIN an independent man; and | hope |
have gained some ideas, too, that | could
not have gained down there"
Il could have been a country DOCTOR"
said a distinguished physician who came
here from one of the most progressive
Of the Southern States and was graduated
Bellevue Medical College, Il could have
been a country doctor down there. But
| should have had no opportunity to per
feet myself in my profession ana no out
look. | decided to live here. | had a
hard time Of it for several years, and |
have known actual want. But have at
last got on the up grade. | care much
less about my financial success than about
the chances | have had (and improved
| hope,) to become q good physician"
l happen to know that he has an in
come of about SO, 900 a year, and that
he has as his intimate friends the most
of the leading physicians in New York
He is already man of reputation in his
profession.
Anybody knows that if there had been
in the Southern States any such opportu
mites for these men as they found here
they would never have come away.
We want men who make money; who
lay the foundations for all the advantages
that men in any part of the world have
who develop the resources we have talked
about so much.
The Industrial Educational Association
here is doing work that is suggestive to us
ALL Much time and thought have been
given to the study Of the methods and re-
suits of existing systems OF industrial
training in this and other countries.
The New York Catholic Protectory, both
in the number of industries taught and in
the degree of excellence attained in them,
stands ahead. The boys are taught print
ing, electrotyping, chair Gaming, silk weav
ing, shoemaking, tailoring, stocking knit
ing, agriculture, and carpentry. The girls
are taught plain sewing, dressmaking. en-
broidery, kid glove making, cooking, laun-
dry and house work
#s*
The Pelham Industry. under the lirec
ton of ladies, although i'll existence only
a short time, takes high rank. Carpen
try, cabinet work, wood carving, uphol
stery, mattress making, brass and leather
work, designing, modelling. embroidery,
and plain sewing are taught.
The New York Trade Schools, founded
by R. I. Auchmuty, and the Working
mans School, established and superintend
ed by Felix Adler do credit to the city as
well as their founders. The former gives
instruction to young men in evening classes
in plumbing, bricklaying, fresco painting,
stone-cutting, plastering, pattern making
for molders and machinists, carpentry, and
wood carving. The latter is a school in
| which progressive industrial training is
given in connection with All elementary
education.
By the laws of Massachusetts, industrial
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