The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-26
NEW $4,000 BUILDING.
TO BE ERECTED AT THE THOM-
ASVlLLE ORPHANAGE.
Children to Be Organized Into Graded
School, present Prosperous Condi-
ton Of the Crphanage.

School--Present Prosperous Condi-
ton of the Crphanage.
A handsome new building will ut
once be added to the Baptist Orphan
age at Thomasyille.
This is to be known as the Central
school building. 1t consists of cen
| trail assembly hall and three class
rooms, and is on the general order of
the Centennial graded school building
in this city.
Hon. John C. Scarborough, one of the
Board of Trustees, said yesterday:
1.-THE building, when finally com
pleted, is intended to be on the general
plan of the Centennial school building
of the Raleigh public schools. The
| part of the building to be erected this
| fall is the main assembly hall, rs feet
| by 40 feet. This will be arranged so
as to have three school rooms, 40 feet
| by % feet, by means of roller Stat
| partitions.
IAN l. will be built to this, having
two school rooms, in size about 25 feet
by 40 feet. This arrangement will give
us five school rooms, which will be
amply sufficient for our use at
present.
"As the Orphanage shall be increased
by growth, the full plan of the build
| ing will be completed as we shall need
additional rooms for the school. This
is, of course, in the future.
| 1.-THE necessity for this building is
seen in the arrangements which have
existed since the Orphanage began its
| work in 1885. We now have five build
ings for children, with an infirmary
/ for the sick. Each of the five buildings
was intended for family of "a chill
| dren. In each of these five buildings
| there is a school room. So that we
| have five schools separate and distinct
| from each other. Each school has one
teacher. This teacher conducts his or
her school without reference to the
other schools.
''Tn this central school building we
| intend to organize the children into
one school, properly graded, with a
principal having the general direction
of the whole school.
ssThis building will increase the ca
| pacity of the Orphanage. This will
| be done by converting the school room
| in each of the five buildings into a
dormitory, which will nearly double
| the capacity of the Orphanage, and
at the same time give us a better or
ganized and more efficient school for
| the educational work at the Orphan
| age"
| The funds needed to complete the
building viii be raised in time to press
the work. All the part of'the building
| that is needed at present will be cree
| ted by the autumn.
| superintendent j. Il. Boone, in his
annual report, says there are now IA
inmates of the Orphanage. The year
| began with lis, and the total number
| enrolled was IT'S. Sixty were received
during the year; twelve were discharg-
| ed having reached the age limit; ten
| under the age limit have been placed
| in good homes. Four have been taken
| home by mothers, five boys have run
/ away, two left the Orphanage on ac-
count of sickness and died among their
relatives. One child died from eating
dirt one from consumption, and one
died from the explosion of an inn
provised gun on Thanksgiving Day.
| The health of the children has been
| excellent.
On the Central building $4,000 has
| been paid in cash and $4,000 more Sc
cured in pledges. 1t will probably be
| completed by September.
Supt. Boone recommends to the
Board the following:
a
/ 4. A shoe shop. We can arrange to
| run shop with a small outlay, that
will bring in a good revenue continu-
ally, and at the same time will furnish
an opportunity for teaching a number
of boys a good trade.
| -. A smoke house. for cutting, pack
| ing and curing meat.
| -. Another much needed thing is Il
store house, built and fitted up as a
store for general merchandise. There
is in the provision room in the infirm-
| airy and in the girls room enough of
| goods TO make a right respectable
store. Tt needs to have apartments
| fer dry goods and clothing. shoes and
groceries. so that everything sent here
for the orphans can be taken care of
Systematically used, and conveniently
/ distributed
n. And lastly, I call your attention
| to the consideration of the propriety
of establishing a nursery for boys. The
greatest pressure here is upon the nur-
sery. That is always over1un, and we
have oftener TO refuse those who be-
long there than an others. And there
are reasons, that / need not name, why
it is better for girls and boys to have
separate quarters"
The Orphanage is prospecting and is
more firmly entrenched the hearts
| of North Carolina Baptists than ever
before.