The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-07
A SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
PHILANTHR0PIC PLAN OF MIR
 NICHOLS OF BOSTON.
Proposes Heavily to Endow Institution so That Education VIII Be i'm Reach of All White Girls
 of Alabama.
By VIII T. sheehan.

By Will T. sheehan. Gadsden, Nov. 5.-(Staff Correspond ence .)-An important educational de- velopment is shaping just now in Gads- den, one which may mark an era in the school and college work of the State.
 It is the transforming of the big Belleview Hotel which sits upon Look out Mountain and overlooks the valley of the Coosa, into a school for white girls In this movement it is assured that the school will be the beneficiary of an endowment which will remove 1t from every fear of want and which will assure its conductors that they may put into effect every plan for It's success that they may conceive It is assured in this movement, too. that the tuition will be so low that practically every ambitious white girl in the State will be able to avail herself of Its ad- vantages.
 The project depends upon but sim gle condition, can the Belleview Hotel property be bought at a satisfactory price?
 If the owners of the hotel will sell the property, the school will be es- tablished. If the property can not be purchased at a price which the men behind the plan deem satisfactory, the school will not be established.
 The hotel property is owned by the Belleview Hotel Company, the compo- nent parts of which are residents Of Gadsden. They have been asked to name a price for the property. The answer to that question Is now under consideration.
 The name of the promoter of this important educational movement IS now an open secret. It was eonceiv- ed and is being put into execution by J. Howard Nichols of Boston, Mass. MT. Nichols is Treasurer of the great Dwight Manufacturing Company. which owns Alabama City, and the big mill at that place. He has visited Alabama ana Is greatly interested in the well fare and development of the State. MT. Nichols is also deeply interested in ed- ucational matters.
 In honor of his gifted son. who was killed in Alabama several years ago. he founded the Howard Gardner Nich- ols scholarship at Harvard, the pref- erence to which was given bright Ala hama boys. That scholarship was won by Malcolm Burke, we'll known young man of Montgomery
 If has been stated in the public prints that the movement for the white girls school at Belleview was inaugurated and was being backed by Robert C. Ogden and the Southern Education T2oard This is wholly mistake. Mir. ogden Is not interested in the movement and he has not been con suited upon 1t nor has the Southern Education Board any part or interest In the work. It was solely the plan of MT. Nichols and he is doing what he can to carry its fulhllment.
 It Is not proposed that there shall be trih Nn Will he given the school on the condition that similar sum or the part of similar sum shall be raised by the com
 munity. What will be given will be
 given freely and without strings or re- serves.
 MT. Nichols is receiving the help and co-oneration of some of his wealthy neighbors in Boston. He interested them in the work. He conceived the plan and talked them into an interest in the undertaking. They stand ready with him to offer whatever financial needs the undertaking may demand. Pending the sale and the purchase of the hotel property the plans of the school have not been made public as to details.
 It is stated positively, however Tt will be a school for DOT white glrls, a school from which no white girl need remain away from for lack or money. The tuition will be cheaper than the amount which it would take to support the girl at home"
 It is proposed that the distinctive feature of the school shall be Is devo- ton to domestic science. It is the purpose of the promoters of the school to bring it into close touch with the homes of the State and to let its benefits descend upon the States hearthstones and homes. The classics
 will be there for those who desire them and the polite accomplishments will be | taught but stress will be laid upon | domestic science. the science of the l home and the hearth.
 The site of the hotel and its beau tifuI buildings. said to be in beauty second to none In the State. have long been considered an ideal place for school. girls school was carried on | in the hotel property for two years. but 1t failed to meet the measure of success that its promoters had hoped for. As to the proposed school, monetary matters are of but second consldera- | ton. The school will not be operated for money and 1t will not be expected | to make money The endowment will
 be so generous it will never be press ed. cramped or in need of money.
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