The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-20

) eExraAt MElANeE.

"iIourton. shat has become Of
Pounds and Foster, the horse thieves
whom you have been after with a
sharp sticksT
Il got a reqnisition from Governor
Wilson the other day, but do not
know whether they will be sent here
or not. They have been released a
time or two on habeds corpus. It's
almost impossible to get criminal
from Pennsylvania"
So
Whats the matter with your
town. said Squire Barker last Fri
day night. Its so dark that | can't
see to get along the streets at ALL"
''Well. we have an arrangement
with the moon by which that old la
dy is to furnish us light on certain
nights in every MONTH"
"You ought to- have an arrange
ment with the clouds, too. They
seem to be more powerful than the
moon"
President Turner, how are we go
ing to get town hall?"
I'm tell you. Let a company put
up good large building somewhere
in the business part of the town, use
the first floor for store rooms and
the second story for hall. Such a
building could be erected more
cheaply now than at any time in the
future, if the town continues to grow,
because property is becoming more
valuable all the time
What do you do think of a hall
in connection with the public school
building in some ways"
Well, | think that what is now
known as Academy Hall might be
cut up into recitation rooms and a
new and suitable hall built adioin-
ing the present building, to be used
by the school as a chapel and to be
rented for public entertainments,
conventions, etc, etc.
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The following is the result of an
interview with the members of the
Executive Committee of the West
Virgininia University concerning
the case of President Turner;
Moreland-"The Committee should
at once pass eongratulatory resolu-
lions and recommend an increased
salary"
Shisler-"He deserves well of the
Republic. His declination of NOM
nation for Congress was premature
and must now be withdrawn"
Moorhead-"Let special report
be made and sent up to the Board of
Regents-Civil Service Reform is
not the proper remedy and ought
not to be enforced"
Wiley Secretary "A step in the
right direction: eo-education is now
an assured fact. | knew when he
was made President there would
be no lack of students, and hun
dreds of dollars would be annually
saved to the State in the item of
advertising the University
Brown-"Even with the most skill
full diplomacy a resort to arms can
not now be avoided
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Prof. Hodges was asked what he
thought about the construction of
town hall or opera hall in connection
with the public school building. He
replied:
"Thc only feasible plan | see is
for the school board to have some
new rooms built on the lower side of
the present building, and then con
vert the hall now used for chapel
into an auditorium suitable for pub
lie exercises of various kinds. and to
he used by the school for a chapel"
"Do you think it would pay the
Board to do this?'
Yes, | do; l think they would
make a good pereentum on the money
sHow many could the hall be made
to seat?'
''If it were supplied with opera
chairs it would seat 600 people very
comfortably, and still leave room
for stage twelve or thirteen feet
wide"
"This hall has very high cell
ing" he continued, land it's acoustic
could be made very good
ut but little cost. 1t is not at all
suitable for school room, and two
or three Of the other rooms are al
ready crowded too much. 1t will
be necessary to have additional room
before long anyhow, and it seems to
ne that the Board might make
good investment by building the new
rooms l have spoken of and convert
ng the hall into a neat and commo-
lious auditorium"