El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-02
The TRINITY
CHURCH DEBT
Will Be Eliminated In A
Short Time.
THE METHODIST COLLEGE


Oreration. building Will Cost
S75,OOO.-The Institution Will Ed
ucate the Youth OF All Creeds.
S. II. Newman, who has had chare g
of collections to raise the 800 Trinity
Methodist church debt has met with
success since the matter was taken in
hand by him and it is likely that the
entire sum will be paid next week.
The response from C tiZens, since the
call was issued, has been exceedingly
liberal, many of them subscribing up
wards of $50 each. the church adopt, d
q business method aud treated the pay
ment of the debt as business matter
and it WAS regarded as such by BUSH ess
men.
IL is well known fact that the
Methodist church has a large sum
OF money on deposit with the banks of
Ell Paso continuously " hich is used for
mission purpO-es. etc, and in this way
the town is benefited tiuancially by the
Institution aud tizeus can well afford
to aid in paying OFF the insig niticant
debt.
THE METHODISTCOLLEGE
The new Methodist college for Ell
Psso. to cost OF less than $75, 900, it is
confidently expected by those most in
terested IN the project, will be built
and equipped within the next twelve
months and be ready to throw open its
doors to the public at the end of u year.
The committee appointed by the
conference held in this city eev raj
weeks ago, has taken hold of the work
In earnest andjthere is lit e doubt, but
1t Will be pushed TO a successful ter =
mination. The committee consists OF
the following minister's: J. T. French,
B. G. Matthews, @ @. Ellington, G. E
McCl ntock ard w. S. Nugget.
1t is proposed to erect an institution
that will be similar to the Vanderbilt
university or ary other college. 1t
will not be theological school ano
while governed by the M thodi>t
church will not be a religious institu-
tion, but intended for the education Of
the youth of all creeds. A girls dor
m tory will probably be added by the
Woman's bone mission sOcie'y.
The funds for the institution of
learning are to be raised in ali parts
of the country and Ell Paso. Churches
will be asked to take up collections for
the benefit of the school and individ-
uals to subscribe. An agent was ap.
pointed by the conference to take mat
ters in hand. He will go east Ia a few
days to solicit funds to be used in erect.
ing the buildings.
DR.. J.. ID. Hammond, secretary of the
general board OF education has written
letter to Rev. j. T. French saying
| that he will came to Ell Paso to assist
in furtheripg the project wr enever the
committee thinks it advisable. 81 ex-
education and he devotes his entire
time to institutions of learning
throughout the country.
Rev j. T. French In talking to q
HERALD reporter this morning said
1.-The coming Of DIR. Hammond means
much for US. He is potent factor in
furthering projects of this kind a d
b is aid will be of incslcuabe value.
1--WE have ALREADY been offered .
tract of land on which to erect the
buildings and several real e-ta'e
school at low prices. The committee
will investigate AMI select a location.
IF. NJ. Saoeer, professor in the
Scarritt college At Seneca, Mo, has
written and applied for the position OF
prin ipsl of thu ne'r college. We are
not prepared to appoint him just yet.
"Fhe school buildings will cost not
less than SIS 900, and it is proposed to
make of the institiOn a first-class col
iege. The citizens of FL Paso are ex-
pected to endorse the school and give
VIC SChcLuO thCiI Ihoi III
port for, in addition to
being Of benefit to this city in
"a general way, its educational
ad vantsges to the young men and wo-
men of Ell Paso and the surround Ing
country will be valuable. Citizens
who desire to send their children to
college after their gradual on from the
city high school will not find 1t neces-
sary to send them to distance but can
place them in first class college light
at home. We expect to so arrange
the courses of study that a graduate OF
the citv high schools can Immediately
after gradus ton continue his or her
studies in the college and enter with.
out examination.
THE presiding elder of the confer
ence remarked that if Rev. Ellington s
health held out FL Paso would have the
college within year"
TRINITY CHURCH IMPROVEMENTS.
The interior of Trinity church has
been considerably improved lately by
friends OF Rev. j. T. French the pastor
A number of his friends who are not
mem bers of his church, subscribed the
funds among themselves and had the
improvements made as an evidence OF
friendship for ! i'm.
The church pulpit has been moved
forward and lowered and the floor
newly carpeted. The choir now occu-
pies position back of the pulpit.
A new railing has also been added.
Colonel Emil Frey, formerly presi-
dent of the Swiss republic, and for five
years Swiss minister to Washington, Is
at present director-in-chief of the in
transitional telegraph system OF
Europe. He fought in the union army
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