The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-01-15
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Educational Enterprise Planned PLANNED
Il at Big Stone Gap by8 Dr.
49, Jol1n Hale Larry. mi
SELF U PPORTlNG.
Institution Where Young People.
Can Earn to Learn and
sSs Learn to Earn 59.@

bs 5Ss Afnnyl8of the readers of the Picayune
n have heard more or less of tho successful
si ork OF Dr. John Halo Larry, In connec-i
the i Tincoln Memorial Univei-5
X !, ty, at Cumberland Gap, TENN DR.
IS Larry resigned his position there last
n y9ar and thought of retiring from! the ar
HI duous work connected with Industrial
n school work, and It was then feared9
8Ethnt the mountain section would loseEhls
valuable experience. lie has been In
Bd,iced BY several Virgininns Of note to
" develop work embodyng his unique,
~ ideas and methods at Big Stone Cap
4 a.. z. l's NJ u IS IL, n,
hsa spnea parasss as et sehoS
where young people can earn 70 learn
Sand learn to earn" a charter IS noW
v being framed which will create q ,direc-l
titles and the other for tho school YORK.
sATi,e former vii issue stock md run Us
With the expeetatloont MAX
wifi Be satten1bted.S Student labor will
I. have tie preference and DO run n five
1ot,r rslicfs.,;r hour. day vii pre- pr
Syfil The relief which works 9n 2 e III
# Vice versa As the student works man
TALLY but five hours. no will be trained y,
to S tea dy and accurate movement, 3 te a
Sin checks and will be expected TO have
Il az bank account. no matter how, small;
81 THE salaries Of Instructors will .be paid
snd e 6h1anGf
everything In a. bn sfness- like wa This
will sake away he charity idea that is
connected with so1nany3 schools and VIII "
sEdevelop manly independence the dignity
Il Of y labor and wilSGcultivatc habits of
care and thrift. 1t wi i also sdcve lop the
quick and earnest spirit which Is so need
If ed in mo dern undertakings S$ IS sj33
95G The school will thus BIO real Hard
work and the entrySinto business will not
phase the youth. twill be more like e
lind he 'lSs vas
will Mt ono for the active duties Of 3life.S
but there will be no attempt limit att
tainments. Tho work Is expected to have
ian unlimited grow tn. SKI Al
The Place.
8 Those who have ever seen Big. Stone
" Gap, " a., Will at once ne cogniZe8 that no
better spot could be found IN the South
{; away from any other school Of II kind
ITO be considered n on compel tive, a,a
81 SIn the January. Harper's Monthly, 1ss9,
a Charles dudley w rner8 gives the follow
1T hat morning ia 2 shall not forget
I'VE crossed and followed p o1Sell iI2 iyer.
&reinlnrkable beech trees i have ever seen
L great, wldcsprending, clean-boed trees.
d oYershnding the.strealn and giving under
boghs nIeary way ranI
sdisaical way to Big Stone Gap, whichIwe3
n found to be a round, broken valley, shut
IN 4 by " CODED mountains, covered more
81 ofS the Powell river, which comes through
the CUP md its south fork. In the round
elevation between them Is the inviting
sof7 great beauty. noble mountain ranges,
with valleys, diversified by small hills
5fertlleSintervals, fine streams. and a splen-1
did gro the arm mes
$but the 5nir@was fresh and full of&yitaltty.
ri few4miles south OF the city q pow
erful stream of lear =, water falls oyer
s%precipces and rocks 700 feet In Elcontin-E
Il uous rapids. This is not only charming
dition TO the scenic attrac ions OF the
region, but the stream will supply the
power Beyond, ten miles e the north.
d east, rises High Knob a very slightly
8poln Il where one gets the sort Of view ie y
feur n sesss tha5 atsi
y however one may be charmed by itslnat-
q ural beauty. he cannot spend q day at
833 Big Stone Gap without being infected
with the great enterprises broodlng there.
/ I'VE forded Powell 3 River and q scended
II through the gap on its right bank. Be-
u fore ntciing the gorg we galloped over
IA level plateau, the counterpart of that
Il where tho city is laid out, reserved for
railways and furnaces From this point
4 the val ley is seen .sto BIO wider than we
n Expected. AS we. turned to sec what we
4 shall never see agaln-the virgin beauty
~ nature in this ste-the whole attrac-
region burst upon us--the great forests,
! the clear, swift streams, the fertile mead.
a uws, the wooded mountains that have so
long secluded Eth his beauty and guarded the
a treasures Of the hills. a q
Tho pass itself. which shows from "
], distance only dent in the green foliage
SllrDrScd liz It's Wild beauty. The
stony road. rising little by little above tho
i river, runs through magnificent forest.
4 gigantic trees growing in the midst OF
y enormous powders and towering among
!: the rocks, that take the formflof walls
I'll and "A buttresses. square structures like
Titanic ruins OF castles: below. the river
full and strong, RACES oyer rocks and
\ roar which Ia echoed by the towering
4 cliffs on either side. t475
4 SG Tho woods were fresh and glistening
q from recent rains. but what made he
\ final charm Of the way. was he bloom
Of the yhododendron, which blazed along