Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-09-05

of the venerable institution have taken
on a fresh baptism of courage and in
spiration. During the year eighteen or
twenty thousand dollars will be ex.
pended in making repairs and altera-
tions.
The new church will be the most
handsome and most commodious edi-
flee of its kind between Knoxville and
Roanoke, Va. The design, by A. Page
Brown, architect, San Francisco, Cal,
embraces the very latest improvements
in church architecture rs to taste and
convenience, and every department of
the work is in charge of men who are
masters of their trade; James S. Willis,
of Greeneville, has the general super
vision of the building and Sam Stone
is the general contractor, l.. w. Cooper,
of johnson City, is sub contractor for
the brick work, and Giles and Remine
OF the same place are putting in the
stone masonry,
Mr.. Willis, the contractor, has the
rooms in the ladies' dormitory ready
for occupancy. The halls run length
wise of the building, with winding
stairs ateach end. The interior through.
out will be finished uniformity with a
fine ingram paper. A two story veran-
da will be upon the north and west
sides. A relief work in imitation of
stone will adorn the western gable and
the extremities of the caves. When
Mr.. Willis completes his contract, the
unsightliness of the venerable pile
will have entirely disappeared it will
be a structure not only of great beauty
and imposing massiveness but perfect
in its appointments of convenience.
The workmanship throughout is first
class, rejecting great credit upon Mr..
Willis and his corps of workmen.
The foundation of the Industrial
dormitory is laid and Mr.. Willis will
push the work rapidly to completion.
This building will be 36x7O and four
stories high.
President Cooter informs us that the
attendance of students for this the
Centennial year, will be unprecedented
ly large and the serious question now is
how to provide for all who want to
come.
1t seems to us that in the improve
ments being made ON the church and
college grounds there is an omission
which will be a constant reproach as
long as it is allowed to exist. When
the visitor shall view the beautiful and
stately edifices that will soon rise upon
the college campus and the many evil
dences of splendid taste and generous
spirit taking substantial form, he will
naturally revert to the beginning of
this educational and religious growth
and development, and he will be panied
and shocked to. find that its illustrious
founder, 1.-THE apostle of learning and
religion in the vest lies in the GENE.
terry hard by in a neglected grave,
covered with broken slab and the in.
scription thereon wearing away with
the d~efacements of the years. The life
and character of this mar should be
first among the precious treasures OF
WashingtonCollege and Salem Church,
famous as he was in the empire OF
thought and letters and in all the
spheres of religious and civil duty, In
his day he was the leader of men in all
the enterprises which redeemed this
section from the wilderness and the
dominion of the savage and dissemi
mated the principles upon which good
government is founded. 1t strikes us
that if the matter was pressed upon
their attention, that the members OF
Salem, the alumni of the College, and
every one who prizes the treasures o.
the past would freely contribute the
small sum required Of each to erect al
appropriate memorial, where sleep,
the sainted the brave and the learned, ;
who did so much for us and the lane
he loved. The friends and patrons Of
this place a not attain the full honor
and pride that always attend generous
movements for the public good as Ions
as the humble grave of old DR.. Doak il
covered with the mold of decay ant
the blight of neglect
1t has been suggested by one of thu
members of the church building com
mite that the remains be reinforced
in a crypt in the church tower. w,
regard this as a happy thought, for his
monument would then be built and
most appropriate one too. And in ad
dition, a Doak Memorial Hall should
be erected, when another college build
ing is needed. S. A. B.
FEBRUARY.