Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-22
LONG ISLAND RAILWAY MAN

LONG ISLAND RAILWAY MAN.
The speaker Is Also Chairman of
Subject Appeals Particularly to
thoughtful Business Men-Gucst MT
Mr. Valentines.
One of the most interesting educa-
tional events of the season. and one
which the public is looking forward to
with much pleasure. not alone because OF
the subject. but on account of the man,
IS the address Of Mr.. William Fl. Bald
vim Jr., on,.'Why Businessmen Should
be Interested in the Subject of Public
Educa toni to he delivered tonight at
the Young Mems Christian Association
Hall.
Mr. Baldwin is the president of the
Long Island railroad. and is also chair
man of the General Education Board.
He is a cultured gentleman as We'll. as
a practical Businessman.
He was for some years resident OF
the South. He knows its conditions and
understands its people. He is one OF
those younger successful men OF me
Eusiness world to whom a broad and
sympathetic patriotism is a sort of rei-
gior. To his contag ious enthusiasm. to
his large knowledge of men and affairs,
to his keen perception of concrete condi-
.tions as we'll as to his native sanity ana
force are due much of the hopefulneSs
of the present educational movement.
Knowing the statistics of given sltua-
ton is one thing. knowing the flesh and
blood of situation is another Mr.
Baldwin has touched the South through
experience.
The condition of the public schools is
a subject which is holding the attention
Of the educators and literary people
generally all over this country. but espe-
cially in Virginia. and it is expected the
hall will be crowded tonight.
THE NORTH INTERESTED.
The North has. at last. become inter
ested in education throughout the South
through the efforts of these boards and
those members in speaking or the matter
said: You have shown us that the
South is trying heroica!ly to deal not
only with the negro. but with the great
unprivileged masses of its white popula-
ton You understand your own people
and your own problems as we do not
This work is therefore yours. Take 1t
and do It, Insofar as we can help YOU
we are at your service. We have no de-
sire to NEEDLE or interfere. IT you VIII
Ike the helm. We will stand by you not
as northerners. but as feiioW-cltlzenS ol
a common country.
1t is such motives as these which re-
present not the pittance which belitt'es.
but the fraternity which ennobles every
thing it touches Through them is seen
the great spirit Of love and good fellow
shin. Such an attitude is not the con-
descension Of charity; it is the justice
Of patriotism.
SOUTHERN MEMBERS
Among the southern members of the
hoard are DR. Edwin A. Alderman. form
er]y president Of the University of North
Carolina now the president of Tulane
University New Orleans La: Dr.
Charles ". Dabney. president of the
University of Tennessee ut Knoxville,
Tenn. :sDr- Charles D. McIver. president
Of the North Carolina state Normal
College for Women. at Greensboro.
n c. and Dr. J. L. NJ. Curry. ex-Con-
federate soldier. statesman. and author.
ex-MiniSter Of the United States TO
Spain. and easily the most commanding
figure among southern educa tors. Dr..
Curry has been for some years the agent
of the Peabody and Slater funds. His
relation to the Southern Education
Board will be that Of supervising direct
or His labors for educa ton at the
South have made him figure. of inter
national prominence. and the work will
be largely dependent upon his broad ex-
perience and resourcefuI leadership
To the number of southern men upon
the board might we'll be added two of its
members now living at the North-name-
". Mr. George Foster Pea body. of the
well-known banking house of Spencer.
Trask & Co. New York city: and MI.
Walter H Page. formerly editor of the
Forum and of the Atlantic Monthly. and
now editor of the Worlds Work. New
York. Mr. Page is q native of North
Carolina. and Mr.. Pea body issa native OF
Columbus. Ga.
Among the northern men OF broad and
patriotic temper Mr. Robert c. Ogden
of New York. the president of the board.
should be first mentioned. The cause OF
education is not fad with Mr. Ogden
1t is a lifelong enthusiasm, Although
Il
Store one of the largest retail estab-
lishments of the world. Mr.. Ogden is
never too busy to respond to the appeals
and the obiga lions of his great labor OF
love While he is also the president OF
the Board of Trustees of Hampton 1nsti-
tute and while for. twenty years he has
been identified with tnis. the greatest
existing institution for the industrial
education of backward races. he has al
ways taken frank. sensible. large
hearted view Of the educational question
He knows the South and he knows and
trusts its people. The unprivileSed
classes of our, own populati ton appeal to
him as deeply as the needs of any negro
or Indian in the world FIe wishes to
help the negro and the Indian. but ne
does not wish the philanthrOphy of the
country to neglect the poorer classes of
our white people He sees the whole
educational situation as a unit.
Three other important members of the
board are Rev. Wallace Buttrick. D. D..
the well-known Baptist clergyman OF
Albany n. y: Hon. H. II. Hanna. of
Indiana polls. Ind. and DR.. Albert Shaw.
of New York. AS the editor of the Re
view of Reviews. his sympathetic inter
pretations of southern affairs have made
many friends for him south OF Mason
and Dixon's line. AS a Christian states
man an educator of tried ability and
sagacity. Dr. H., B. Frissel. the princi-
pal of Hampton Institute. will be of
marked service to the organization. DR..