Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-01-18
AN INSTITUTION WORTH KEEPING.
PROPOSAL no REMOTE DUNS-
MORE'S BUSINESS COLLEGE
FROM STA UNTON.


States, and the aggregate amount of mon
ey it distributes in our town may be put
at 500 900 year. The Lewisburg wv.
Va, } Independent of last Friday con-
tanned the following reference to it:
''This Ga college for young men) is a new
enterprise which is being talked up among us
at present. Such all institution is badly need
ed. When Prof. Dunsmore was looking
around some years ago for place to locate
his Business College he made first choice of
Lewisburg but could thenneither rent nor buy
suitable building. So he moved off to Staun-
ton and established fourishing school. The
residence of Mr.. FL. r. Hodson, the very one
that Prof. Dunsmore tried to secure as the
one best adapted to his purpose in our village,
is now on the market for rent or sale; and if a
joint stock company could be FORM
ed we understand that Professor, good
practical business man, is in readiness to take
charge and begin to build up a college. The
nature or course of training would of course
be regulated by the directors, and the con-
troll of the school may be either denomina-
tional or non-sectarian as the best interests of
the institution would seem to indicate. We
have heard it intimated that both the teacher
and the building are forthcoming if the citi-
sens would cooperate q little with their
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expenditure of money by the students and
create larger home market for the farmers
products. Think the matter over seriously"
The projected removal of an institution
from Staunton that had come to be part
of the city and an object of city pride,
was an important matter to our people.
and representative of the INDICATOR
waited on Prof Dunsmore with copy of
the above extract. It was submitted to
him and after reading it he returned it
with the remark:
Eyes; the removal of the college to
another location has been under consider.
alton with me for some time. 1 have had
no less than three propositions, including
one from .Lynchburg and one from as far
off as Hiawatha, Kansas, to remove it to
another locality"
"What is the matter? Isn't Staunton an
excellent location? Are not your rela-
lions with our people pleasant"
"Tbere is no better location that know
Of" replied Prof. Dunsmore. than
Staunton. for health, railroad facilities
and for the residence of the youth who at.
tend my college, and as for my relations
with the Stanton people nothing could
be more pleasant and in no town could 1
expect to receive more personal kindness
than I have from the people here. But
the removal of my college is not social
matter, it is purely business question.
AS you have enqu1red | may say to you
that it stands about this way: In the last
two years-and for the firsG time since 1
have been here-I have been placed by in
heritanee in possession of enough money
to erect permanent building for my col
lege. Of course such a building would be
erected to accommodate a larger number
of pupils than have, and also, as fur
Their matter of course, the erection of such
building would anchor me in Staunton
Recommendation it would be extremely
difficult to sell building erected specially
for college use for anything like 1t cost
have been here. have built my school ny
to its present position by main strength
and the actual merit of the school. The
citizens, while kind to me, have shown, /
might almost say, no interest whatever in
my work. 1t is rarely citizen of any
prominence is interested enough to come
and look at college which has been built
up under his eyes, but apparently without
his knowing it. l have tried to create
this interest. have invited the council
men, public officers, prominent men
without number. to look in on the school
and give it. if it deserved it, that sort of
commentator that makes school known
outside of the town. But so far, with The
fewest exceptlons.l have failed. Of course
you can see how much easier and how
much more successful would be my work
| if had this cooperation of the people.
! "You own the establishment. don It you
you do not need financial help?n
Mot dollar-I have never asked E
| dollars help from our citizens. l have M
need of it; my success, now established
! has long since put me beyond the need o.
| financial aid. Indeed. on the contrary,
have refused two or three offers of, from
outside the city, to put in capital and be
come partners AS [ said before, thu
question of removal is purely business
one. If build handsome college her
for larger accommodation of pupils, l an
here for good with property L can't dis
pose of, and with no interest on the par
of our people to extend my business, b!
recommending my Institute or to encour
age me in extending it myself. In othe
words when I get the building on m,
hands they will be sorry for me PERSONAL.
if 1 don't fill it, but will consider it M
affair and not theirs, if don't.''
"You may depend that it is rattle
thy with your work or blindness to it
value.''
Exactly, I agree with you; but tn
trouble is may also depend on having tn
same thing for the future. The informa-
| ton that get from other towns, and, in
deed, the combined action that has bee
taken in two towns in the matter of m
removal, shows that in them I would hav
great advantage that L do not have her,
cooperation by the people in my work
The world moves fast now, and if peopl
want an institution of their town to ex
tend, they must show an interest in
themselves, talk it up and write to thei
friends about it. I sometimes think tina
my school has peculiar claim on GU
J people in this-that it owes very little o
| it's support to the town itself, but Or tn
contrary draws to the town contribution
from other States. Take for instance th
case of factory. How many factorie
bringing 60 people to the town. and speni
ing $4,000 as my college does, are 1ikel
to be started in Staunton without som