The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-25

young Its students will have the eXaic.
pie though of many A. and NJ. graduates
who are succeeding in textile manufacture
ing. These have gone forth from the col
lege equipped with no special knowledge
of manufacturing. What should be the
result Of special training in the art OF
manufacturing textiles? Among the grad
yates who are making their mark today
in the cotton mill business and its allied
branches are: David Clark, treasurer and
general manager Ada Mill, Charlotte, n.
c.; w. X. Davis, superintendent South
side Mill, Salem, N. c.. w. J. McLen3on
superintendent Wadesboro Cotton Mill
Wadesboro, N. G.: p. S. Boyd superin-
tendent Mooresville Cotton Mill, Moores-
Vile, n. c.; j. NJ. Wilson, with Spartan
Mills, Spartanburg, S. c.; V. V Privatt,
with Wilmington Cotton Mill, Wilmington,
n c., r. IL. Morrison, manager Mariposa
Cotton Mill, Mariposa, n. c.. Jas Harper,
superintendent Gwynn- Harper ManufW
turing Company, Patterson, n. c.; w "A.
Graham Clark, with Clinton Cotton Mills,
Clinton, S. c.. w II. Harriss, editor Tex
tile Excelsior, Charlotte, N. c.; ]. Lea
Watson, c. NJ Pritchett, B. c. Fennell,
mill engineers and draughtsmen, with
N. L. Gibbon, draughtsman and mill en-
gneer, with Stuart w. Cramer Charlotte,
N. c.; Moore Parker, instructor in card
ing and spinning in Clemson Is. Co. Tex
tile School; w. A. Briggs and W. o. Ben
nett, with Atherton Mill, Charlotte, n.
c.; Chas. Watson, with Altamahaw Mill,
Elon College, N. c.; Dossey Battle, Jr.,
assistant superintendent Tarboro Cotton
Mills, Tarboro, n. G.
This list makes quite a showing for
A. and M. College graduates and is an
Indication of how they will be found in
the cotton mill industry of the State in
the years to come
THE CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT
The chemistry department is under
the direction of Prof. w. A. Withers,
who was educated at davidson College
and Cornell University. The laborator-
les are supplied with water and gas.
The desk and other appliances are
of the latest and most approved pattern
The instruction in general chemistry is
given all students looking forward to
and is of the same character
as that given by the leading colleges
and universities for liberal culture. At
ter "a thorough grounding in general
chemistry the department lays tie
greatest stress upon the valuation Of
the science to the different industries,
but more particularly to agriculture,
engineering and cotton manufacturing.
In these courses an opportunity is given
to those who desire it to specialize in
chemistry during the latter years of
their college connection.
The chemical laboratories and lecture
rooms are located al present in the main
building of the college and occupy about
four thousand square feet of floor space.
When the textile building is completed
The dyeing equipment will be trans
TERED to that building and occupy the
basement. The dye house. dye labora-
DRY, etc, when completed, according to
he plans will not be surpassed by any
n America. The chief pride of the de-
however, is not it's excellent
but the number and success
If it's graduates. Some OF these have
credit on themselves by their
careers at such universities
IS Johns Hopkins and Leipsig. Outside
II North Carolina some are filling and
ave filled positions of Importance in
Iermont, Virginia, Kentucky, Tonnes
zee, South Carolina and Alabama. A
eW are teachers, some are engaged i'll
work. for the State Department of Ag
iculture and the Agricultural and Elk
station, but the majority are
ngaged in industrial work and thus are
1dlng in the material progress of the
states in which they are located. The |
arlous manufacturing enterprises il |
which they are engaged include llumi- |
ating gas, colored textiles, cement,