The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-28
THE VANCE TEXTILE SCHOOL.
Bill Reported Favorably BY House Com
mittce ON Education.

The mattcr Of establishment of the
Vance Textile school came up again be-
fore the House Committee ON Education
yesterday. This bill had once before
been fayorably reported, but the ques-
ton being raised that quorum was
not present when the matter was report
ed. Mr. Clarkson, the author Of the bill
brought the matter mp before the com
mittee again.
Mr.. Clarkson appeared before the
committee in behalf of his bill He read
letter from Mr. u. A. Tompkns. eX-
planning the ends proposed TO be carried
out by the establishment of the Textile
school. cost, etc, with the statistics as
follows:
"Time to build school and put it in
operation, six months to one year.
Cost Of building. ............$10,0 900
Cost of machinery cquipment.... 10000
Cost of operatives each year.. 5000
Organization-One profess
sOr .....,.... ....... 800
One assistant. $40. .... loco
One assistant. ........ 600
Other expenses. go. ....... 2,600--6,0O0
Regular Course Sthdy-Two years for
young nen; special courses for mill men.
Could teach fifty pupils in regular course
and fifty more in special instruction.
Pupils from North Carolina now in
Northern schools for textiles (estimatedl,
80
Tuition Regular course, $50; special
students, 50 month; extra special as
may bee agreed"
Mr.. Hartsel appeared before the COM
mittee in opposition to the bill. He was
not in favor OF paternalism and the State
was not in position to make any appro-
priation OIL account of the penitentiary
being so heavily in debt. He also said
he had heard from two mill men, one
in fayor Of the textile school, the other
was not. lie said the Odel Company,
Of Concord, would take any poor boy
and teach him to a limited extent, and
would pay him regular wages after
very short while. He also said he did
not think the needs were now sufficient
for this school.
Mr. Clarkson replied to Mr.. Hartsell
and said that there was but one mill
man in the State opposed to it, and that
the poor boys of the State needed such
a school He spoke ut length on the
merits Of his bill. and made Il strong
and forcible argument.
Mr.. Wall. of Richmond, spoke in favor
of Mr. Clarksons bill. He said the idea
Of paternaism did not come in this
matter no more than it did in the sup
port to the University, the Normal and
Industrial school, and the Agricultural
and Mechanical college from the State.
NJ. Carroll. of Alamance. spoke in
favor Of Mr.. Clarkson's bill. He said
he came from a manufacturing county,
and that the heads of all the factories
there were men educated for these posi-
tons at the North. and many of them
came from the North. What we want
is n school in North Carolina of this
character to educate our own boys in
this line. If we are to be a manufac-
turing State in the future we should
educate our boys how to manufacture
as fine fabrics are made in the North.
Mr.. Alexander, of Rutherford, spoke
against the bill. He took the position
that it was not so that many theoritical
men that are needed, but more practical
men. He said that the superintendent
Of the Henrietta mills, the most success
full in North Carolina was man who
had never seen a textile school.
Mr.. Craig, the chairman, spoke in op-
position to Mr.. Clarksona bill. lie took
the position that the Agricultural and
Mechanical college should answer the
purpose. and that the college has an
income of $4,000 per year and that
this college should have Textile de-
rartment without any appropriation
from the State. The poor boys of the
State have an interest in the eXchequer