The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-20
TO PAY VISIT TO
Big UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
TO BE VISITED BY TRUSTEES OF
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.

Leave Atlanta Tonight on Special
George Foster Peabody, Patron of
Education and Georgian by Birth.
Judge S. B. Adams, Col. p. w. Mel
drim and MIR. p. A. StOvaII of sa-
vannah viii Take Trip-GOvernOr
and Mrs. Terrell Will Also Go.
At midnight tonight the trustees Of
the University of Georgia and several
invited guests, with Gov. and Mrs.
Terrell. will leave Atlanta for Madison,
Wis. where they go to pay visit to
the University of Wisconsin.
Judge Samuel B. Adams and Col. p
w. Meldrim, trustees Of the University
of Georgia. residing in Savannah, left
last night for Atlanta. Mr.. P. A
Stovall, an invited guest, also accom-
panied the party. The gentlemen were
mediate families.
At Atlanta the party will board u
special train, known as 1.-THE University
of Georgia Special" The train will be
given right of way on all tracks over
which it passes, as far as possible, and,
barring accident. should reach Madi-
son early Tuesday morning. Two days
will be spent in visiting the University
of Wisconsin and then the return jour
ney will be made.
All the expenses of the trip are to be
borne by Mr.. George Foster Peabody
..< hui Gov, 1a,.lxr Of
Columbus, Ga. The purpose of the trip
is to give the trustees a thorough
knowledge of the workings of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, one of the larg-
est educational institutions in this
country, with the idea that they will
pick up some facts that will aid them
in improving the University of Geor-
gia.
A BenefactOr to Education.
Mr.. Peabody has made a name for
himself as a benefactor of education.
AS a Georgian, he is naturally most
interested in the State University and
is doing all he can to help it. He Is
the donor of the magnificent library,
costing $4,000, which now graces the
institution. In other ways, he has been
of inestimable help to the university.
To Southern education he has given
his best efforts. not combining his do
nations to institutions for whites alone.
He is treasurer of the negro industrial
school or st. Helena Island. off the
South Carolina coast, and has aided
materially in its upbuilding. Judging
from the reports a great work is being
done at this school.
At present Mr.. Peabody is much in
faH in, civ of cd
cation to the poor whites" of North
Georgia. The matter is in the hands
of a society of ladies in North Geor-
gia and the aid of Mr.. Peabody is
extended on all occasions Besides his
work in the South, he has made lib
eral donations to Northern institutions
| of learning.
Made His Own Way,
Mr. Peabody was born in Columbus.
Ga, and lived there until he was about
IA years of age. Then he emigrat-
ed to the North to make a fortune
and he has been wonderfully success
full. He is now a prominent member
of a large banking firm in New York
city, and is engaged in many financial
enterprises.
He has never forgotten his old home,
nor the South. To Columbus, his ma
tive city, he donated the handsome
Y. M. G. A. building there. Edu-
cational institutions all over the South
have been the recipients of his dona-
lions, this line of work appealing to
him especially.
The trustees are expecting much from
this visit which he has arranged. The
University of Wisconsin is one of the
largest as well as one of the ranking
universities of the United States. The
system used there will be carefully
looked into and all matters pertaining
to the conducting of such a large en-
terprise carefully studied.