The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-17
COL OREO NORMALS
FIGHT FOR LIFE
Drop the Other if You Will
Consolidate.
EACH PRESENTS CLAIMS
From Plymouth Alone Comes The Word TO Drop
tiff it is Seen That Another
Place is the Better
Location.

1t was colored Normal School day al
the State capitol yesterday.
From noon till nightfall, with a scant
hour for dinner, weer the praises of these
institutions heard in the State chamber.
The occasion was the meeting of the
State Board of Education to hear from
the officers. directors and friends of the
colored normals before acting upon prop
osition to consolidate into fewer mum
bers the colored normals.
There are seven of these norma,s as
they now stand, these being Fayetteville,
Goldsboro, Plymouth, Elizabeth City,
Frankhnton, Salisbury and Winston-Sa-
lem. The Board of Education is COM
posed of seven members and there were
present yesterday Secretary of State
Grimes, Treasurer Lacy, Auditor Dixon,
and Superintendent of Public Instruction
Joyner. Governor Aycock is at Wander
bilt delivering an address. Lieutenant
Governor Turner and Attorney General
Gilmer are at their homes at Statesville
and Waynesville. State Treasurer Lacy
was at home sick the day before. but in
order to make a quorum came out yester-
day.
Theer had been fled with the board
papers, endorsement and reports from
each of the seven normals, these showing
up all the claims of the institutions to
existence. In ADDITION to this there was
preesnt goodly crowd to speak for the
various normals.
The delegations from the various towns
were these:
SALISBURY-Sherif d. r. Julian,
Col. J. A. Ramsay. Principal Cosbie and
President Goler. of Livingston College.
FRANKLINTON.-S Bruc e
White and Mr.. B. w. Ballard.
FAYETTEVILLE.-M H. L. Cook.
Mr.. @. K. Nimocks, DIR. H. w. Lilly,
Senator ]. NJ. Lamb, Mr.. j. A. Oates, Edi-
tor North Carolina Baptist. Capt. d. H.
Ray, Capt A. B. Williams, DR.. ]. v. Nc
Cougar, Mr.. Dan Hugh Mclean. Princi-
pal E. e. Smith and Rev. T. w. Thur
ston.
ELIZABETH CITY.-S Superintendent
of Schools. E. L. Sheep, Principal P. N.
Moore.
GOLDSBORO-CoL Isaac Dortch.
PrincipaI-R. f. Hagans.
PLYMOUTH.-Mr. H. S. Ward, Prin-
cipal Charles NJ Eppes. Assistant Prin-
cipal John t. Doies.
WINSTON SALEM.-S. G. Adkins.
There were speeches in behalf of their
respective schools from nearly all the col
ored principals, Rev. T. N. Thurston, of
the silk mills of Fayetteville, and Prof.
NJ. Kennedy. of st. Augustine, being two
other colored speakers. The delegations
from the white boards of directors of the
schools were also heard in behalf of the
schools under their care
In each case the merits of the school in
question was presented in the best light
possible and it was urged upon the Board
of Education that. if only normal was to
be dropped the normal about which the
speakers was taking was not the one to
be dropped, but that it ought to stand
if others Iell Each speaker confined him.
self to praise of the normal for which he
spoke and only one got near the danger
line OF criticism of other normals, this one
being Principal E. E. Smith, of Fayette-
vile, who was after Salisbury and Colds
boro.
One Of the white delegation present, and
only one, said out in meeting that If the
normal he spoke for was not all right and
not in the best pace and it could be bet
tered for the work it was doing by put
ting in conso alton with others to do
so. The speaker was Mr.. H S. Ward, of
plymouth, and he was speaking of the
Plymouth normal
The closing event of the meeting was an
argument by F. M. Kennedy. of St. Au-
gustine School He had written asking
permission to be heard and
State superintendent, j. Y. Joyner stat
ed this. Kennedy made an
earnest argument in favor of concolidat
ing all the colored normal schools and of
using the money to make one great col
ored normal. on the model of the State