The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-19
Dr.. Curry Called the Confer
ence to Order.
BISHOP DoANE's CORDIAL ADDRESS
Governor Aycock Presented by Presi-
dent Ogden Makes Happy Speech.
A Warm Welcome to the Dele
gates Delivered by Bis
hop Rondthaler.

Especial to the News and Observer)
Winston Salem, N. c., April 1S.-More
distinguished scholars are being enter
tanned here this week than have ever
before been gathered in North Carolina.
The Southern Conference embraces such
men as Lyman Abbott, Bishop Doane, Dr.
Parkhurst, DR.. Curry, and wealthy phil
anthropists who are deeply interested in
education in the South. Most of them
primarily became interested in negro
education, but latterly they have broad
ened their interest and are interested
in the betterment of all education of
the South. A special train from New
York, bringing ffty-nine educators, lead
eTs and philanthropists, reached here at
$3.50 o'clock and were carried at once to
the hospitahle homes of leading citizens
where they are entertained.
w. A. Blair chairman, Major Eaton
Rev. r. E. Caldwell DR.. H. t. Robinson
and John w. Fries composed the com
mitee that met the members of the Con-
ference at Greensboro and accompanied
them to the city.
Raleigh is well represented here.
Among those who came in one the after
Supt. of Schools Toon, State Auditor
Dixon, President Winston, of the A. and
M. College, Prof. Kesler, of the Baptist
Female University; Rev. A. b. Hunter
and wife, of st. Augustine School; Presi-
dent Meserve and wife, of Shaw Univer-
sity; Bishop Cheshire, Prof, Poteat, of
Wake Forest College; ]. G. Caddeu,
Josephus Daniels, Prof. Blasingame Also
Prof Eugene G. Branson, president of.
the Normal College of Georgia, who had
been in Raleigh to visit his parents was
in the Raleigh party
AT O'Clock the first session of the
conference held in Salem Female College
was called to order by Dr. Curry, who
introduced Bishop Doane, of New York,
who made a hearty address in sympathy
with the Southern problem paying a
high compliment to Salem Female Col
lege.
Speaking of visit to the Normal
College at Greensboro he said 81 have
been shown sight today of eonsecrated
work that will help me all my life'
President Ogden presented Governor
Aycock, who made a happy and timely
address of welcome. He was received
with such continued applause that he
said: If this continues / shall think the
campaign of 1900 is still in progress. I"
He emphasized the events that have
made North Carolina great in all history
history that has not been adequately
written. He opened the eyes of some by
his allusion to great events, winning
hearty cheers when he made a happy al
fusion to the fact that after furnishing
more troops for the Confederate army
than any other State. North Carolina
cemented the love between the sections
by giving the first blood in the war with
Spain.
Bishop Rondthaler also delivered
warm and fitting and able welcome for
Salem.
I'VE have labored with a double bur-
den in the South in education" ne said
because the whites have to pay most
for the education of the blacks ds well
as for their own children
BISHOP RONDTHALER'S ADDRESS.
He then spoke as follows:
1t gives me pleasure in the name of
the Winston Salem community to well
come you, the members of the Educational
Conference to our Southern homes.
nave the additional satisfaction, in be-
mali OF the trustees and the president of
the Salem Academy of asking you to use
the facilities of our college for the prose
cution of your important educational la
bors. It seems especially appropriate
that the chapel of Moravian institution,
which for hundred years has been edu-
eating the daughters of the South from
the Potomac to the Rio Grande, should
become at this fine, the official home of
a conference. destined under God, to
stimulate the cause of education over
that same vast area of States.
For me, an occasion like this has
peculiar charm, in view of my own life
experience. My earlier service was given
in great cities, where / came into touch
with the best Northern sentiment Then
in the Providence OF God, / was trans
planted into the South, where amid ever
widening acquaintance have learned to
love the people as if | had been born
among them. Having such intimate es-
TEEN for both sections of our great coun-
try, have often said to myself: What
pity that the best North and the best