The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-06
THE SCHOOL ! ATCAMP HILL Dr. Lyman Ward Tells of r Ills Work. :. TRAINING SCHOOL : WORK Spoke to Club Women at
 Elks' Home. Splendid Presentation of the Past,
 the Work and the Future of the Camp Hill F Institute.

Dr. Lyman Ward, President of the In- dustrial School at Camp Hill for white boys and girls delivered g. stirring. nov ing appeal for his school at the Elks' Home yesterday. .-=.e.r
 The handsome parlors of the Elks Home was crowded to the doors with the repre- sentative club women of Montgomery, who are now taking an active interest in the great work of the training school among the hills of Tallapoosa County. In his most instructive address Dr. Ward reviewed the reasons that induced him to found the school, touched upon some of the difficulties he encountered and showed the great promise of the future.
 Mrs. Albert Goodwin. the President of the Mothers Union, called the meeting to order and in few eloquent and earnest words spoken from a heart full to over flowing with sympathy and enthusiasm for the subject on which Dr. Ward would lecture, 'The Industrial Educational Training" she gracefully introduced the speaker to his audience.
 Dr. Ward, in a plain and even manner. took up at once the subject of his ad- dress and began by saying:
 T feel a certain sense of humility ale ways in coming before an audience to speak upon the subject of Industrial Edu. cational Training 1 was not myself ed- ucated for that sort of work, little of my life was spent in the country. I was eds ucated for a different work. but as came to manhood and came to view the life of our people, as I came to consider the needs of education among a certain class of people. 1t seemed to me that could do no better than to give such as 1 had to the cause in which am now engaged"
 pr. Ward said that he came from New York, where he was raised, six years ago. He traveled extensively through the Southern States. through North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida and Alabama, and was everywhere confronted with the same problem. He begun the solution of the problem by Identifying himself with the South. by making him self one of the Southern people. by ad- dressing himself on any and all occasions as ''us' and i've" and ''ours.''
 The great problem confronting him in his undertaking was not entirely a dues- ton Of families but of geographical loca- tion--a sparsely settled country, few schools, poor roads. no bridges, perhaps a walk of from four to six miles~ each way to the school house--a hardship that could be endured for only q few months, at best, out of each year. He said he tried to enter into the heart-life and home-life of these people, and found them eager and anxious to learn.
 Dr. Ward said that what he had ob- served as educational conditions in the South were just as surely such conditions in the North and West.
 He found so many who were not able to pay for tuition. to say nothing of pay ing board to stay in a reasonable distance from the school, so he set to work to make some plans whereby an education could be brought within reach of the ann N1,..- -SaA A-aR instance of a young man 2l years of age. alert and keen, who worked on a farm and did his work conscientiously and well. who never failed in his duty in a single instance yet came to him asking that he might receive instructions in the rudi- ments of an academic education. That is the class to whom his heart reaches out that is the class he wants to help. He spoke of the two ways in which some one has said that poetry is written. by inspi- ration and precipitation, and likened his work to both ways of writing poetry.
 Camp Hill school is located in Talla- poosa County, eighty-eight miles from Montgomery. Six years ago. pr. Ward said, he would have been unable to have answered some of the simplest questions concerning industrial educational schools and even yet many questions he could not answer He began, he said. with the peo- pie of Camp Hill, he selected that place as the site for his school. and to them he went for aid. as that place was to be the hub" of the "wheel' of this great educational movement.
 He told of many interesting facts as to how the contributions to the fund were raised. how the women worked and cheer. fully gave their mite, and how the men who could. gave literally and those who were unable to give money gave freely ot what they had, their time and labor
 In the month of September, 1893, in an old dilapidated building. he began his school That winter was one of the most severe. one of the bitterest ever expe- rienccd in this country. and yet that win- ter and that ramshackled old building arc a precious memory to the speaker. The pupils entered his heart just as he tried to enter into their lives and there they remain to this day.
 He then tod an interesting story of the building of the new school house, from the felling of the trees. the prepaT- ing of them into the material with which 10 build the house. to the erection of the house itself at a cost of 5000.
 pr. Ward said that to him it was most beautiful building. as 1t represented to him the heart work, the blood and hroxUD oF tha afvfeeu y0un~ men wno