Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-05-03
MEETING EDUCATORS
Distinguished Party From the North
Greeted by Prominent Southerners
SOME SPLENDID SPEECHES MADE
Meeting at Columbia, Opens With a.
Cordial Address Of Welcome by Gov,
ernor Hayward, Followed by the AN.
nuaI Address of Mr.. Robert c. os-
den, President of the Conference.

Columbia, S. &C. Specialize Con-
ference for Education in the South
opened its eighth annual session here
Wednesday, with large attendance
OF leading educators from both North
and South present. { Z
The Ogden train, containing party
Of ladies and gentlemen from New
York, Boston, Washington and other
northern cities, arrived at $40 p. M,
and the visitors are being entertained
an various homes in the city to- which
they have been invited. The party
numbers ninety-fve, being educators,
literary men and women and business
men interested in education. They
came in on a special of ten Pullman
cars, chartered by Mr.. Robert C. Og-
den, Of New York. The members Of
the party are his guests for a nineteen
day trip to different points in South
Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.
During their stay in Columbia, they AS
well as the many hundreds of other
visitors, mainly from the Southern
States, are guests of the city Of Co.
lumbia. A party consisting of the may
or Of the city, the State Superintend-
ent Of Education, Editor Gonzales, OF
The Columbia State, two professors OF
the South Carolina College and several
other prominent citizens OF Columbia,
met the party at Hamlet, N. c. andes,
corted it into the State. Every train
coming into the city Brings from all
parts Of the South visitors to the con-
ference.
The conference opened it's first ses-
sion here with an address of welcome
by Governor d C. Hayward. The
Governor said in part:
GOVERNOR HEYWARD'S SPEECH.
Today throughout the entire South
the schoolhouse bell is ringing. 1t
rings from the university on the hill
aid it rings from the little school
house by the roadside, and to you
teachers who are present at this con-
ference from our sister States of the
South and from every portion of our
own State, wish to say that in well
coming you must also congratulate
you upon the great work you have
done. Z believe that you have ac-
ScompEshed more during the past forty
years along educational lines than has
ever been accomplished by any peo-
pie. in the same length OF time. No
people have ever worked so well or
under the same conditions, and in
your work you 5haYe been accorded
sloya al5sIppor your Speople. heirs
poNerty fif eir-days
'sprospeTity the taxpayers OF the South
have shown a willingness and de-
sire to tax themselves to support the
schools, not only for their own children
the white children Of ythe South ::
but also for the children of anotder
and dependent race. Though often
misunderstood, they have never let
their hearts fail them; they have never
looked backward, but always forward,
and today4we can see in university and
in college, in graded school and in
common school, in better teachers and
longer terms, a happy and prosperous
peop1e-aye, in smiling fields and grow
ing cities, the result of their courage
and determination
'.In welcoming you to South Carolina
I welcome you to State which has
always had deep interest in the cause
in which you are enlisted. With us,
the modern schoolhouse stands beside
the college Of a century. From the
earliest history OF our State our peo-
pie have priced learning and cultiva-
ton. Before the Revolution, South
Carolina sent her sons to Oxford and
to Cambridge. Shortly after the Reyo-
luton we began to build colleges and
to establish public schools. The first
library in America to be supported SinSl
any degree at the public expense Wasi
that established in4SC Charleston IN 4
1889. - ;
IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION REA.
LIZED. ~ "a Z
~ am sure. however. it needs mo ar
gument to convince you that the impor: