The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-23
ANOTHER TRINITY COLLEGE.
Talk of Establishing One at Old
Trinity.

TRINITY.
AS a result of the Clark Kigo con-
troversy, the ACCESSIBILITY of cutting loose
from Trinity college mt Durham and re-
establishing Methodist college at
Trinity, Randolph county, is being dis
cussed by members Of that denomination.
Rev. DIR. T. \. Ivey adverts to the mat
ter this week in his department of the
Christian Advocate, and says:
I'VE learn that it is being discussed
privately. We assume that the brethren
who favor this idea will have the cour-
age Of their convictions and will speak
ont openly. We feel sure that the breth-
rem of the North Carolina Conference
will see the propriety of saying nothing.
as this is matter altogether for the
Western North Carolina Conference"
DR.. Crawford. the Western North
Carolina Conference editor of the Adj
vocate, in the same paper in which the
above appears, has IL leading editorial
which begins thus:
"For the past two years the belief has
been growing in the Western North
Carolina Conference that the peace of
the church and the proper development
of our educational interests demanded
with Trinity college We have all along
discouraged this view and had come to
think that those who advocated it
would not further press it. But recent
developments have, seemingly, satisfied
them of the correctness Of their position
and sentiment in its favor is rapidly
gaining strength"
Another editorial he opens in this Ian
guage:
UNLESS we fail rightly to interpret the
progress of movements and the logic of
events the Methodist church in North
Carolina is approaching n crisis in its
history. 1t cannot be averted and we
must meet it directly and squarely as
Christian men, animated by high pur-
pose and by unselfish motives. The is
sue, plainly stated, is this: VIII the
Western North Carolina Conference
shape it's own policy for the future or
will it consent for the administration at
Trinity college to do it? In other
words, will the Conference control the
administration or be controlled by it?'
Also in this connection writer in
the Charlotte Observer. who signs him
self Trojan" has this to say about
Trinity's endowment:
at has come to the ear of your cor
respondent, and he gives it. only as an
item of news, that after all Trinity has
not so great an endowment as some peo-
pie think. 1t has been claimed that it
was worth 100000. This may be true,
but chilly sensation falls upon me and
others when the statement is made to
the effect that the college grounds and
buildings are under mortgage for S4O,-
600 and that the principal and interest
''are payable in gold in Baltimore" 1t
is said that the only assets are 100000
in the guano trust stock, and $4,000 in
other stocks and bonds. The above is
exclusive of course of the dividends to be
earned by the sol 600 cigarette trust
stock, the principal of which, they say,
can never be used by the college until
Mr. Ben Duke dies. He is yet young
man and his friends wish him to live to a
good old age. Long as he lives Trinity
mus. necessarily, be, if the sol 900
stock remains as at present in n sense,
a partner; and the funny thing to me is
that some of the brethren have been so
long in finding out the fact that this
stock was in the sense. as above indi-
Gated, the property of Trinity"