The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-24
vuige Thomas and w. F. Vandiver
 Talk of Project.
Establishment of Methodist Institution i'm Capital City Strong Conn
 mercial Asset, They Say
 Early Action Expected.

The Montgomery. members of the Educational Commission of the Ala bama Conference of the Methoalst suit of the joint meeting of the Com, mission of the AlaDama Conference ana the North Alabama Conference. held III Blrmingham Tuesday afterno0n. Mnnt9onarv members is due to the fact that the Capitol City was selected alter a hard fight on the part of the members or tion of the State Conference Female
 Application for the college was made by several other cities. with the oner land for the site of the college. and the $5O,O00 with which to begin opera tion. The Montgomery members or the Commission. w. F. VandiVer ana Judge w. H. Thomas succeeded in prov ing to the Commission that Montgom- cry could not only meet and measure fully up to the present requirements or the situation, but that there was n9 place in the State so well adapted and offering Rreaer inducements than Mont
 From a purely commercial stand point. the location of the Methodist Conference College for Women in Montgomery is considered one of the finest propositions that have come 10 the city, fir it means bringing 10 Mont gomery an established organization" | the removal of the North Alabama Con | ference College at Athens, and the Alabama Conference College, at Tus- kegee. consolidating the tW1 and To- | eating them in the Capitol City.
 l It means the expenditure in Mont gomery of about $l00,000 on the college building to begin. with, and the bring ing to the city m from fhe 4OS South 54 SO1 ths open Ig of the college. | It was shown, from college statis- tics at the meeting ot the commlssloin thirteen women's colleges of the high | CT class curriculum, and Of that mum ber only a few are located in t, tnt South. It Is such college as VII that the Methodists of Alabama pro
 pose to build in Montgomery.
 Enthusiastic Over Prospect
 Both Judge Thomas and MT. Van
 pects of the Conference College beinl
 located in Montgomery. After dwell
 ing eloquently on the picture Of th
 handsome grounds and buildings or tn
 college property and splendid influenc
 on the intellectual and moral condition
 exerted by the presence Of several nun dred girls in the community, MT. Van
 diver declared that from commercis
 basis the locating of the proposed col
 iege in Montgomery would be equa
 or superior to that of cotton mlll 0
 1000 operatives.
 T honestly believe" he said. "ths | COnSlueTluE tHe WOiiUCIAu U. SAS" sA sNAA
 the strength of our college at Tus keRee. under such unfavorable circum stances and environments. in two year
 after the location of the college g 4 Montgomery, with proper facilities tn attendance would be almost doubled I cannot imagine the investment S5O,O0O in any other enterprise tha would bring anything like the resu Based on mileage, Montgomery col lege, classed with the thirteen, coul \ reasonably expect to draw from Sout Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiani Texas, Indian Territory, Arkansa \ Missouri Tennessee and kentuck.
 This is the territory of the Methodi! Episcopal Church. On my return tri from New York just before the hol
 days. there were at least loo glris Q Q E the train coming South 10 spend tf holidays at their homes from schoo in the North. With the class of co lege proposed by the commission. theI H is no reason why any young woma south of the Carolinas should not al tend the Montgomery college, becaus the two conferences propose to estaf fish college second to none Tn tr United States.
 Opportunity to Montgomery.
 The fight for the privilege for Mon comerv has been made and the oppol tunity is now up to Montgomery. an l believe Montgomery will. at the hri opportunity, endorse it. We did nc go unprepared to meet the Commissio
 at Birmingham. but went with tang \ ble proofs of what Montgomery wt willing to do to help. in event tr
 college could be secured for this place
 At a meeting of the Board of Dire'
 tors of the Montgomery Commercii ] Club, November 12. a resolution wf