The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-19
TO LIFT THE DEBT
Friends of GuiIford Col
Iege Take the Steps.
An Offer to the Electric Company OF
$500 Yearly if the Trolley Line
is Extended From Greens
boro There.
(speeial to News and Observer

(Speeial to News and Observer)
Cox, one of the trustees of Guiford Col
lege. returned Saturday night from a
meeting of the trustees at the college,
held that afternoon, and reports the most
gratifying results. The sum of $4,000
was raised by the trustees to liquidate
the Indebtedness of the college, incurred
for recent improvement, principally cleo
tric light plant, waterworks, etc.
The board was honored with the pres
onCe OF a Quaker of national reputation,
j. Allen Jay, who is greatly interested IN
lai.ing the endowment of the college to
$lC0,000. This expert in school work has
shown his metal along the endowment
raising line by securing one Of 100000 Tor
Earlman Friends College at his home i'm
Richmond, Ind, and his presence and ad-
vice yesterday were greatly appreciated
by the trustees.
The college already has 100000 from
which it draws an income and steps were
taken yesterday which promise well tor
the attainment of the 100000 mark.
Conditional subscriptions of $4,000 and
$1,000 were made by two men at once
Mr jay will enter actively into the work
Cf raising the sum. So far as entirely
wiping ou. the debt of the college,
wealthy Friends North have given the
trustees 20 understand that they will put
down five dollars to that end for every
one dollar that is raised in North Caro-
liza.
Another very progressive step taken
was the offer by the trustees of the col
lega to the Greensboro Electric Com
pany of $500 a year, if they would extend
the trolley line from Greensboro to that
point. From its present terminus at
Lindley Park, it is only four miles. the
line will be extended to the immense new
cotton mills to be built by a syndicate,
of which w. 1. Young is at the head,
one mile from Lindley Park, making the
distance to Guiford College only three
miles further. So with the fact of the
known progressive spirit of the electric
company the opportunity for freight, as
well as passenger traffic, the line would
develop, it seems within bounds to pre-
dict, that with the added inducement of
five hundred dollars a year, that Gull
ford College will be on the trolley line by
next Christmas, thus placing on one line
College, The Lindley Street Graded
School and High School No. I, Proxim-
ity Graded Schools and public kindergar-
tens, The State Normal and Industrial
College. the Methodist Protestant Col
lege. and Guilford College. Then if it is
carried just seven more miles, Oak Ridge
---stete1 with it's delightful citizenship
ard its three hundred students will be
h; 1,,,o
be called 1.-The great educational route"
and deserve it with a whoop.
But there is still greater educational
facilities promised by this extension of
the car line to Oak Ridge. For long
time it has been thought that it would
go to Guilford Battle Ground, five miles
from the city. This road will soon be
graded and macadamized, and it is now
considered feasih'" - the electric com
pany to form loop by going to Gull
ford College, then to Oak Ridge, coming
back via Summerfield, an important
town, and down the graded macadamized
Battle Ground road to Greensboro. This
will be a paying line and will develop
some of the -.rest stock, dairy and fruit
farms in the South placing rural resi-
dents right ii touch with the excellent
graded schools, the colleges, and easy ac-
cess to splendid markets. 1t will make
the Battle Ground road in a few years
one long row of handsome suburban res
licences, with delightful little farms and
orchards In the rear, just as the Lindley
Park line is now built up, until land is
selling by the front foot two miles out
from town, and ten dollars front foot at
that
Guilford's good schools, and Greensboro :
excellent market for all kinds of truck
and produce. is going to work wonders
for the whole Piedmont section, and in
no part of it so much as here where the
roads are being macadamized without a
dJllar of additional tax.