Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-09-09

-Wnen he attended school they nad none
like those of to-day, but went in a log hut.
And as the governor has said we no longer
have the accidental pedagOgue, but the
trained teacher, so that the knowledge of the
future may be of the very best and that the
children taught by these teachers may APP
preciate the beauties of life.
Ex-Mayor Joseph Bear, to whom
had been assigned the Office of histor-
ian of the movement, delivered the
address, printed in full below:
The duty of preparing brief sketch of the
history of State Normal School No. . has
been assigned to me.
In attempting its performance | feel the
enbarrassments incidental to a fear that |
have been Over-taSked, and that i'll the dis
tributlOn of credits | may fail in some i'll
stances of acknowledging fully all that is due.
Should this prove true trust you will ac-
cord it to desire to avoid even the suspicion
of partiality in any instance.
1t fell to my fortune as Mayor of the town
to make practical suggestion of one OF our
papers, the MINING JOURNAL, of January 8,
1898, by calling meeting of citizens which
was held few days later.
Committees on Site, Legislation and
Finance were appointed, of each of which the
Mayor, presiding, was made chairman er-
Ctfcio. Rev. A. c. Haverstck and c. H.
Walker were elected secretary and treasurer,
respectively.
y legislative delegation comprising Rev A.
c. Haverstick, Frank c. Beall, J. b. Oder and
the Mayor, made two journeys to Annapolis,
where they easily secured the support of
Hons James Campbell, NJ. II. Rowe, John
Leake, and, later G.. II. Brandler and J. b.
Robinette of the House of Delegates, and ID.
+. Dick, of the Senate.
Seeing that the majority of the COunty'S
legislative delegation favored Frostburg as
the site, the promoters of the Cumberland
bill yielded the right of way to our measure.
At the eleventh hour, however, when the
pressure of general business threatened to
make improbable the passage of our bill,
Thomas r. McCardell, of the Comptrollers
Office, suggested and prepared an amendment
to the general appropriation bill which pro-
vlded both for the establishment and con-
duct of the school.
The measure became law, therefore, with
the passage and executive approval of that
Later some doubt of the constitutional
SOundneSS of the amendment as part of the
Act was expressed The committee therefore
employed Messrs. K. X. Henderson and John
q. Wilson, attorneys, to prepare brief main
tanning the validity of the questioned clauses,
for submission to Hon. II. NJ. Clabaugh, At
torney- General, and that officer shortly after
responded tavorably.
Some delay in commencing the work fol-
lowed as a result of the effort on the part of the
State Board Of Education to provide as fine
an edlfiCe as the building appropriation
would warrant. To this end the Board con
sisting of HIS Excellency. Lloyd Lowndes,
governor and e[ 0Btcjo president of the Board;
f. b. Prettyman, Secretary, MeSsrS. Joseph
M. Cushing Il, p Wharton, Rev. J. C. Mich
olson, d. d., and Il. G. Ebaugh, came here,
viewed the several sites offered, and selected
this park.
notwithstanding the fact that many of
our citizens saw with regret this ground, their
most convenient pleasure resort, pass TO other
use, there was general unanmity of purpose
expressed and shown to make all reasonable
sacrifices to secure the school. Accordingly
our Committee on Finance, Messrs, John
Chambers G.. y. Towles, Rev A. &. Haver-
stick, Otto HohIng and c. H. Walker, set to
work and, within two weeks, collected over
two thousand dollars paid for the ground and.
within two weeks more had it conveyed to
the State for Normal School purposes.
feel Justified, therefore, i'll venturing to
express to the peoples representatives in the
Leglsature-of this county partiCularly-to
governor Lowndes, the State Board of Edu-
cation, the Acknowledgement, and all others,
official and unofficial, the gratitude of all the
people of FrOStburg and vicinity for the
favor which has made our town by so much
an educational capital for large area of
growing population
Too much credit for the success of this
enterprise cannot be awarded by friends of
Popular Education to our people Of all pro-
LESSONS and trades, especially to that large
worthy and honorable MAJORITY the miners
These men took from wages earned under
ground all they felt able to spare and con-
tributing it to the purchase of this beautiful
park, have endowed town and State and
transmitted to poSterity an institution which
will bless with its civil and religious bountes
our chidren'S children.
In substantial return we shall further offer
to those sent here for study the healthfulness
of climatic Salubrity in air and water and the
inspirations OF landscape filled with pro-
jectlons of rugged beauty. We shall sur
round them with all the protection implied
IN the fact that. night and day, but one police
officer is required to see that no one of over
1000 people violates the law.
Mothers and fathers may, therefore, send
their sons and daughters here with full faith
IN the virtue, safety and whOlesOmeness of
this environment With school literally
equipped and efficiently differed, the possible
tiles OF educational good in a field otherwise
SO populous with opportunities for moral,
physical and mental development, are great
both in magnitude and number.
70 this end and again speaking for all the
people of Frostburg, | invoke the discourage.
ment OF all in scholastic authority of every
institution when deSlgnedly or updeSgnedly
invades the field whence this school must
gather its sheaves and thereby detracts from
both the utility and success of an enterprise
to which we have dedicated time, labor and
love.
Mr.. Cushing, to whom the governor
had referred in his address, was also
introduced. A veteran school-man-
He gave complete and explicit statement
OF the rise, progress and development of the
educational system as pursued by the public
schools OF the United States, beginning with
the lnclpienCy Ofthe idea of Mr.. Horace Mann,
OF Boston, Mass, to whom more than any
other is the public school system of today in
debted and to Mr.. Libertius Van Box kelin
Is the present system of the Normal School,
OF Baltimore, indebted for its existence Mr.
Gushing drew vivid picture of the advant-
ages of the present system of public instruc-
ton as compared with that of twenty years
ago, and called upon his audience in the most
imprisoned manner to uphold the efforts of
the State Board of Education and the State
Normal School to further the cause of public
instruction in the public schools as now or
gained.
The visitors took dinner at the Hotel
Gladstone and returned to Cumber-
land about , o'clock.
PERSONAL.
The members of the Grand Lodge
present We're:
Most WorshIpful Grand Master-Thomas
J. Shryock
Past Grand Master-John NJ Carter.
Past Deputy Grand Master-W. H. Clark
President of Board of Grand InSpectOrS-