The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-24
sTYLEs Ar CoLLEaE.
Liberty County's Representative Wis
its the Industrial School.

Liberty County's Representative Wis
its the Industrial School.
Editor Morning News: Allow me to
speak through your columns of my visit to
the Georgia State Industrial College to-
day. On entering the assembly room met
President Wright, his faculty and fifty
five students. They were engaged in de-
HOtiOnal exercises, preparatory to their
studies. At the conclusion of the exer-
cises the president spoke of the exclusion
of tobacco, which was pleased to hear.
l lhink they ought to avoid those habits,
as they are destructive of the means Of
our people and detrimental to the youth
of our race, especially.
After this | was introduced by the
president, and spoke to the students on
making the school what the state of
Georgia expects it to be. l told them that
they ought to be grateful for what the
legislature has done for them, and that
thought that it would do more if they
prove worthy Of what has been done. The
students were very much pleased with
what | said to them and promised to make
this the best year in their history. Many
more students are expected Monday.
There will be four or five from Liberty
county. l was informed by the president
that there were only ten students this
time the first year and twenty the second
year. So you may see what has been the
growth in enrolment. AS [ rose to ad-
dress the students, l saw s. on the desk
which was taken up for the sufferers.
Many of the students are very poor and
this shows thatthey are taught charity as
well as given an education.
The president informed me that there
were three work days in a week. AS this
was Thursday, work day, the students
were dismissed to so to work. The presi-
dent took me around to the different
buildings. first examined a cottage be-
ing erected for the professors. 1t is a
neat eight-room cottage and handsome
one for the purpose. l next visited the
wheelwright and carpenter shop and the
blacksmith shop. 1 carefully examined
each department and questioned the
different instructors as to their work.
found them earnest and competent in
their work, and you may look soon TO see
wagons and carriages that will be up with
any other. From There we went over to
the farm, which is under the charge Of
Mr.. r. II. Thomas. He had there fifteen
or twenty students at work preparing the
ground for winter crops. The farm is in
good condition. 1t is all we'll arranged,
but it needs more drainage. 1 saw there
the finest sweet potatoes that l have ever
seen on new ground. l am satisfied that
one of them will weigh one and one-half
or two pounds. And I saw some of the
best sugar cane from five to six feet high,
and other productions equally as good.
The college, under the directions of
President Wright and faculty, can not be
carried on any better than these men are
carrying it on. The general oversight is
under Maj. p. w Meldrim and Chancel-
lor w. e. Boggs. They deserve great
credit for the interest that they give to
this school. think that it is worthy of
note to say that all the work that has
been done on this college ground was
done by colOred men.
The colored peopl of Georgia ought to
be very grateful to the legislature and it's
agents for this enterprise for the colored
youth, and I believe that they will do all
that is in their power to sustain it.
w. II. STYLES,
Representative of Liberty County.