The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-04
ORPHANACE AND HOME
HOW IT ORIGINATED AT THE LAST SESSION
OF THE N. c. CONFERENCE.
A Site Worth SIS, coo Has Been Given, ST, 600
on Buildings, SIS, coo on Endowment
and SIS, 900 for an lnimary.
RaIcigh Christian Advocated

At the last session of the North Caro-
lima Conference, ]. w. Jenkins, ]. Y.
Cole, j. G. Brown, +. ]. Parish and H..
h. Bynum were appointed n committee
to take the matter of an Orphanage and
Home under advisement and if the way
opened to establish such an institution.
The committee met and decided that
the institution should be established;
that Raleigh was the place for it; that
we would ask the Legislature to incor-
porate it: that we would ask Raleigh to
give us Il site; that we would ask the
people to put the building on it.
Brother Il. II. Gray wrote our charter.
1t is all that could be asked The Leg
islaturc passed it unanimously. We hope
to publish it soon.
The Chamber of Commerce invited us
TO present our cause as to site before
them. They showed us great courtesy
and kindness; took the matter in hand
and presented it to the citizens of RAJ
leigh. Raleigh has given the site. 1t is
beautiful for situation--a part of the
DevereauX land, near the city limits, on
the northwest, near Brooklyn NJ. Il.
church Al the Methodist churches in
the city are within easy reach of it,
also the graded school. st. Mary's Col
lege and Peace Institute in full sight.
The Baptist University and the Agricul-
tural college not far off. The institution
for the Blind, etc. very near. SO also
the electric plant and two large and
flourShing cotton mills, the Raleigh and
the Pilot. And last, though not least,
very near Johnston Street station, on
the Scabord Air Line railroad and the
railroad ships when built They give us
forty acres. more or less. There is 4
large oak grove of some twenty-five
acres, sufficient for our buildings fol-
some years to come. There is sufficient
open land for garden and trucking. The
grove is elevated and healthy, and the
view is magnificent. There is plenty OF
land for sale adjoining and near by
that may be had at fair prices when
our friends wish to give us more land.
What have the people done? \
brother preacher gave the first dollar
on our way to conference at Elizabeth
City. We put that in bank. Another
preacher put five more dollars in bank
to keep that one company. a goot
sister subscribed clSnC hundred uOlldfS
noble-hearted Baptist brother one
hundred dollars, two preachers fifty dol
lars each, another five dollars, a gOoC
Baptist brother five dollars. Others
say: 1--WE will give at the right time.
Others say we have the matter under
consideration. Others. we are deeply
interested i'll the cause. One brother {
Wake county man, but recently a resi-
dent of Raleigh after visiting the
grounds, said Il am very deeply inter
ested in the matter At present | vii
give you one hundred dollars on the site
one thousand on the buildings and five
thousand on the endowment. SO | would
put our site at five thousand, building
fund at nearly two thousand. and endOw
ment at five thousand. Besides this
the Stanhope Wynne hospital fund o
five hundred dollars in hand, will be in
vested in an infrmary for the institu
ton.
We have decided to organize unde1
our charter at an early day. We have
decided that the buildings shall be first
class. Personally | would like to have
the foundations of granite, the walls o
first-class brick. and the roof of slate.
so the Orphanage and the Home fol
our { rnrannuated preachers and on
preachers widows is an established fact
Brethren send along your contributions
l. w JENKINS