The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-17

"yvhcre do ou oct tina young men 20
a. tho preathmuunt OF work requiring
4 a. r,,,ch tacA,cal 3skilly" asked an Eng
iirh nInctrIcI engineer OF the head OF
. vrcnt cleefloil concern In Boston re-
centL, A. tcrha had been shown over tho
a NV, Dsrct jthm chiefly from a little
town down IN !, -.
tie Vlrglnh Olyt2cnnlc lhs Bt'.-le' va
the reply. Il u, 4. ~, Y, 7.
Ard the Enlishnlan Came ~ " VIZ w., W.
~ ain ck sb,,rj and after remaining there
Soma dnys nd making an exhaustive
study az III methods In vogue. went
,,ack IA Enand. deca11tng! that he was
otSs,,rprise TINT even Boston should
MI such a Ugh estimate upon the men
tIrned nut BIN the Virginia Tech.
a There Is .lly one institution In VIZ
r,nia al wen there are more students
~ snrol,,.ds Tin Mt Bincksburg and that
{. Tho schd testa pl,shed BY the national
royernmci,:at Hampton for the benefit
Of negroeand Indians.
There al nearly as many students en-.
yelled atshe Virginia PoHtechnic In
ptltutc a at any other two instltuE-
.ons of;lrning under lie control q q the ne
State. 4, -.
c,tcd athe Virginia Polytechnic than
any her three institutions supported
\ by the tate.
~ 70; something like this that DR..
,t1r {cBrydc said to me as he sat
~ ,is idy overlooking the buildings and
r,ountnf the great school OF WHICH he
H. thetcsdent and which he. more than
NV her one man, has made TO be
= mon he very first archaeological schools
Il r AFRICA to-day.
~, LII, nf. "a thfg dur.
Z fnr b past two or three years. In the
/, -f,,! OF jolirncyings nither and thither
3 ows Virginia at the bidding OF The
MI Dispatch, T had ftcn come across
r,ates OF the Virginia polytechnic
had always fouri tls.m not only
zig men taking Their places among
tiGrst In the community. but discoY-
! them TO be men who had the most
ent love for tie.t alma mater. Il do
think there Is a finer college spirit
ywt.,rc than at BlncKsburg, and do
tbelicvc that there is more loyalty to
ma mater manifested In later years
ian among the Tech. graduates.
EIGHT-M;LE DRIVE.
I'M had never been tc the institution.
40 when the. Congress- adjourned for the
Christmas holidays. and Washington be-
came as dull from the viewpoint of the
newspaper man as q Maine prohibition
town on Sunday afternoon. saw at
last an opportunity to put into execution
a long cherished scnaire to visit Blacks
burg and the school of which had
heard so much.
SO one dayI alishted ct Christiansburg,
i'm Montgomery county. twenty-odd miles
west Of Ronnoke-the Gateway of the
Southwest. the lltt:s town is callcd-ready
10 face the gale .nat was blowing, and
take the eight-mile drive across tie
country to Blacksburg. Judge Archer a.
Fhleiar. the newly-elected member OF the
s,att SenaL. from Montgomery, and the
most distinguished citizen Of the county.
was at the station to meet me, and he
and, his law partner. Captain Johnson.
wet with mo over to The school. 1t was
mi an ideally peasant drive. The com.
Il pnly was as good Us one could lind. ana
4 till road was macndamiZed for con-
sierable portion OF the way. but the
,,rk Is not completed, and there can
ii no such thing as smooth going over
aroad which has been cut UP by heavy
Agons while muddy, ana In that condi-
On has frozen. And then too. the mer-
tly5 was well below thu freezing point,
i nd tho wind was blowing a gale. We
jcrc on tho crest OF tho Alseghanies.
was pointed out that water from a
eld on our left floweu to the westward
Ind Into the New River, tho Ohio, the
mississippi and the Gulf OF Mexico while
Eater from the field on the right ran
htc the Chesapeake Bay and the At
ihntic. 8
But there was faint suggestion Of being
bn mountain top. The mountains cap
ped with snow. were not far away. but
the country at hand was only gently
rolling and some OF the farms passed are
lo,~,2RH tho best III the Southwest y
raid has been completed from Chris
tianirg to within three miles OF
Blajburg but there is no prospect OF
ts Ing any further as It was built TO
tra,ort the coal from mines which are
hal opened on Brush Mountain, Tho
co,which is being taken from these
mb Is said to be precisely OF the char
az OF that from the Pocahontas mines.
ait lis believed that the deposits are
ofeat richness.
dge Phlegar had notified the authori-.
Il fat the college that we were coming
] we had not gotten warm, and eaten {,
idinner at tho hotel In Backsburg. pc !.
Prof, Theodor!ck e. camppell' o.
chair OF modern languages, appeareu'