The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-12-11

supporting and IS partly 50; So earned
their money farming. teaching. 3
working In factories. 3 clerking in
stores. 3 In the real estate business. I
by brick making. / guarding prisoners
1 clerking II weather bureau. ] col
lecting. 2 news dealers. 1 printer. i
stock raising. l laundering. Since the
beginning OF the term. 50 students have
secured employment a. the COLLEGE and
thus have helped to defray expenses.
They have lone work as m~achinists.
mechanics. nremen. electricians. dyna-
mo tenders, boiler-cenders. mixers.
stock feeders. poultrymen. farm hands.
walters in dining teachers. assist
ants In shops and laboratory. clerks.
b-ookkeepers. typewrfterS. stenograph-
ers. Besides b regular students. there
r special students IN the following
lines: Boiler and dynamo tending. cleo
trical work wiring. etc. machine work.
carpentry work. lathe work. forging.
textile work.. agriculture and horticul-
ture. There are z postgraduates pur-
suing advanced studies along various
lines. The present term closes Deem
Der 10th. Examinations begin next
week The work of the term has been
very satisfactory. No cas- of serious
illness has occurred. none lasting as
almost entirely free from malaria.
there being only n or two OF
chills and no cases Of typhoid or other
serious fever. Only one serious infrac-
ton of discipline has occurred. Every
student in college works every day in
some Of the shops or laboratories or
drawing and designing rooms. Every
freshman devotes one-third Of his time
to practical manual training. The tex
tile department is equipped with sew
n thousand dollars worth of ma
chinery onate by manufacturers.
The college is in urgent need of a tex
tile building. This department. is very
popular. The short course In mechanic
arts is also very popular. 1t trains lads
in two years for skilled trades. reauir-
ing only a few book studies and using
most Of the pupils time in the shops
in actual manual abor. About twenty
students will drop out at the end of the
term from sickness or from failure to
do thier work successfully. This will
cave about twenty vacancies for new
students i'm January. Non will be re-
ceived except those that are we'll pre-
pared and reasonably mature. En-
trance examinations will be held at the
college in Raleigh. January End and
3rd, 1901. Lit will be useless for pupils
to apply later than these dates ais there
will be no room for them in the col
lege. The college needs additional ac-
commodationS. 1t should have another
uOTIIluUOuy CdpdUl III AtOidAAl6 q fSoSt
100 students.
The report Of superintendent Kirby.
of the insane hospital here. shows that
during the year there were 452 patients
under treatment. The number of adj
missions were 1872. OF these &c % per
cent. were discharged cured 1t is
found by the directors that h ap-
preparation Of the legislature is too
small. The last legislature u 1T
SO, 900, and the hospital is just about
that much i'm debt The estimate had
been very closely made. 1t is calcu-
lated that next year there Will be 415
patients. The board will ask the leg
islature to provide for three new fe-
male wards. At present two OF the
wards in the male building are occu-
pied by females. and this the directors
do not think Is desirable. The general
health Of the inmates has been very
fine. The directors are much impress
ed by the new industrial department.
where rugs, hair brushes. tooth brushes.
etc, are made. The year a beer a
prosperous one. The directors are much
pleased with DR.. Kirby's management.