Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-07
MOUNTAIN LAKE.
THE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION AsSEHBLM
AT THAT PLACE.
The Resort Improving -Baufhl wAiAlI
"A List Of the Prominent Psoph 4
and Educators Thsre do g
ings Of the Convention. 81

Special Tde3ruM 10 n< RrossT. ~
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK, July 6.--T1<l
Teachers Association convened this afteR
noon. Many teachers are here, and evssJ
train is bringing more. Yesterday and to
day were perfect. This place has improve
in its existence of four years, and Il BIZ
fair to continue 20 doing. ~
The season which is just opening b the
fifth for this resort and gives evidences oks
being its best Upwards Of ono hundrs4
buildings are erected upon the ground
costing from one To four thousand dollAr
The auditorium was being fitted Up tn
morning. 1t will comfortably seat about
seven hundred 1t occupies good site and
is situated about equi-distant betwceA}
Grace Cottage and the Park Hotel.
The lake is not attracting much atteu-y
ton II will in the course Of time b. rcns7
dered more picturesque.
Mt. Lake Park has an area Of 800 acre.
! fronting mile ON the II. & q. midway,
between Oakland and Deer Park, In Gar,
rett county, Md.
Oakland is the destination Of uiany driy-:
| ing parties. Among some Of the n,ouf
prominent people on the grounds are Rev.
John Thomson, OF Philadelphiai froE
George Little, of Washington, ID. G; Mf.f
and Mrs. John Gouchcr, of Baltimore; Me
Yuzero Motora, OF Japan. Mr.. MotorA,
has attended college in Boston and BALI:
more for u number of years. He VIII
graduate next year, aud contemplatcs re<
turning to Japan TO prcac1
Prof. 4. Wade, OF Monsantow!f
Prof. Shields of Kcyscri Profy:
Woot,er, Of Sheparlstown, w. Vet
! Prof Hoover, of Pittsburg. Prof. w
Mitchell, Of wellsbury, Mr.. CadwalIadess'
Of jacksonville, Fla.
Mrs Jane Johnson, OF Parkcrsbnrg, ~
here in the interest Of w. G. I. u, O.
which she is State President The point
desired is legislation on the teaching In tl>4
public schools of the effects Of alcohol upoA
the human system.
Misses Dora Ridenour and Fannie Raprt'
of Clarksburg, arc here for the Tcschenk
Association.
Prof Geo. Little left tonight af)ef
his chalk talk for Allentown, Pa
where he will instruct the State Tcachorss
Institute. After that he goes 20 address Il
New York city education meeting. AUcf
that he goes TO North Carolina, 70 keep a.
engagement in Elizabeth. y
Maj. Lee, of I.insly Institute, Is In -
tendance.
THE TEAcHERs.
The Association was called to order about
Up. M. Prof Shield, Of Kcyser, prcsido4
In the absence of Superintendent MorH1n<:
The latter is indisposcd.
Maj. Ice was appointed Assistant Set,s
retary.
The prominent educators present are Dr.
W. II. Payne, Prof &. A. Sipe, a. u
Wade, =. II. Brown, 4. j. WOofter, w
Mitchell, 7. C.. Miller. Wheeling u ~
resented by Profs. W. II. Anderson and "
!, H. Crago, Major J. NJ. Lee and Mrs. n. ~
Griffith. The event OF tn
day was the address of Dew. II. Payne. q!
Michigan University, on the teacher ~ =
philanthropist. The teacher should love
children ~ did Rosseau, but he of bcteo4
ballast ~ Cominuis who was asked 70 ~
president Of Harvard In 1854. The clen,en1
of power is nearncss through sympnttyx
The only school in this country eouduses
on philanthropic principles Is the Kindo4
garten. The greatest teachers "
world have been actuated by sympnto
for miserable humanity. There y G.
man, the great statesman Of Europe, hese
and hecds the cry Of oppressed lrclag&
Oh! men, be humane. The culture of ~
mind and the culture Of the soul are poeO
of mans duty. Schools are for traanssq
men and women, not artisans or pro1>4
sonals Earnest purpose is better thao
technical knowledge. Examiners 0vu''
look this In all departments Of educatin.
There IL decided tendency toward forme1e
ism and there should be- q return 70 -
more discriminating methods. Ohl -
be humane.