The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-26

Robert C. ogden and his party of dts- | to the Southern Educational Conference at Birmingham. spent nearly three hours in Montgomery yesterday and visited the Girls High School on Lawrence street and the State Normal School for negroes The special train of nine Pullman coaeh- es reached Montgomery at g o'clock yes the party had visited the negro indus | trial school They were received at the | Union railway station by party Of representative Montgomerians, members l Of the Commercial and Industria1 Asso- cistion and educators.
 Carriages were immediately provided and the visitors were driven to the Girls High School. where short speeches were
 The party then proceeded to the State Normal College for Negroes, where they | were received by President w. B. Pater- son Some time was spent in visiting the | school buildings. There were no public | exercises.
 MT. ogden and his guests were driven through the city visiting the historic cap itoi
 At Il o'clock the members of the party the State University. Today they will visit the State Industrial School for Education l. w. Hill and Mrs Hill joined the party at Montgomery and will ac-' company them on their visits to the State
 The party will leave Montevaiio short ly before noon today for Birmingham, where they will attend the Educational
 At the Girls School. The party was escorted from the depot by Charles l.. Floyd. Superintendent of | the Montgomery Public Schools, and a number of other prominent citizens to the Girls High sehoo There ssr they r,ss vent e,l at lock. principal of the High School, her corps of teachers and the 200 pupils greeted them and welcomed them. taken the seats arranged for them on the stage Dr, B. J. Baldwin, president very apt re remarks welcomed the visitors, tors, our visitors. will call them our visiting
 He introduced sir. ogden who. in his 6rlliantly humorous style. told of the wonderful ''specImensp of humanity who made up the personnel of his travelling combination, and presented pr. c. D. McIver: President of the Woman.s col. | who "is interesting; interesting to his audiences; interesting to himself.
 Dr. McIver said that In starting on his there were two things he would never do: First, teach women; and. second. make public speeches.
 l And" he added with jolly sigh as 1 If he had not found the two positions so very distasteful. T have been doing both | ever since"
 pr. McIver spoke instruetively of the l importance of early education, saying I that the man or woman who does not | have ideas and build air castles before he or she Is l2 years old will never build any real castles in after life. He dwelt and especially did he speak of the value of education for women. He expressed astonishment at and disapproval of the HaA AE@k laDS ~wva1x eA spend on education they usually endow a mans college-not woman's.
 He told of a woman on whom he had | tried to impress the duty of leaving her money to educate woman.
 ''She said" said Dr. McIver, I will take the matter under prayerful consid- eration.' And this sounds so ominous
 She died and left the money to a mans college. giving as her reason that her husband was a man.
 right if the men would leave their money to women's colleges because their sweet hearts, wives and mothers happen to be women-but they don't"
 University of North Carolina there are the names of four Marys put there to he revered because of the fact that they had all endowed this college for men and spoke of his own address to four hun- dred girls at Greensboro, when he asked: How many Marys are there among l uD. ed them to pledge themselves to endow q woman's college if they should die rich.
 They did," he said, and the college at Greensboro win have forty Marys
 'If Adam had gotten hold of the apple first. he said, Eve would never have gotten a bite of it.
 Dr. McIyer in addressing the girls of the High School impressed on them the importance of doing something and not going aimlessly through life because they regard the little they can do as .unim- portant. He illustrated his remarks on this line by saying:
 ''How much is 1000 times nothing? How much is 1000 times a little? I 'Th@ difference is that between noth- ing and very great deal''
 work of Dorothy Dix who found her who began 1t in 1S40 when there was no railroad in North Carolina west of Ral- eigh and whose efforts placed hospitals for the insane in twenty-two States He C. Dobbins, the great eloquent man who was Secretary of the Navy under Pierce and through her influence on her death- 900 appropriation to build the hospital for the Insane which now stands on Dix's Hill. a monument to her.
 one sE person aIor,t and the proper mission of-
 It Is not question of ability or of in- tellectuality or of physical strength all though these are of importance but a question of determination"
 When pr. McIver took his seat, MT.
 Ogden arose and brought forth laughter
 by remaFking:
 Dr. Stokes Interviewed.
 That was a fine speech for Dixie"
 He suggested that as physicians think diet of a single dish Is good for the phy- sical health perhaps 1t would be so for the mental we'll being. He said he had heard that some one had said that the 1 ogden party Is only a lot of old men" and he immediately to disprove it, in- troduced a very young-but married man, Rev. Ansen Phelps Stokes, secre- I -N A.