The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-11
FOUNDER IN TOWN Wallace A. Battle, President of Okolona Industrial Col
 lege, Arrives. TO SOLICIT DONATIONS Affairs Slightly Embarrassed Owing to Fire Three Years Ago--Carnceie
 Gave S8,500.

Wallace A. Battle, president and founder of okolona Industrial college, arrived In town yesterday for q week s stay. MT. Battle came from Utica, N,
 r.. and Is on tour of the northern
 states of the union,
 During the time that Mir, Battle Is to
 stay in town he intends to visit the To-
 cal business men, soliciting subscrip-
 tions for his college, which at present
 Is sorely in need of funds.
 The college Is located In okolona,
 Miss. and has property to the number
 of 3s0 acres, IL was founded in 1902,
 for the education of the colored young
 men and women Several years ago the
 college lost three buildings by fire and
 Andrew Carnegie kindly consented to
 help out by giving c check for se,5Oo
 for the erection of three new build
 ings, provided no debt should remain
 after their erection.
 The amount needed to complete me
 three buildings was s26,O0O; of this s2O,
 300 has already been paid in, leaving a
 deficit of s5,5oO. Until ths money has
 been subscribed. the college will be un-
 able to open Mir Battle hopes to re- ceive the support of the New Haven people, which, If he does. will enable him to open the college about Novm- him to open the college about Novem- will remain closed all year The following items indicate the exact manner In which the ley has to be expended: Tank water pres sure, s275 fifty beds, s21); lighting sl,700; heating, si,5Oo; bath tubs , s200 seats In new chapel $500; iesks In recitation rooms, s75o, and kitchen . range, s75.
 The aim Of the college Is to give c practical education, including a trade ! So that each graduate shall return tc his fathers house" to build a mode . home and to be the moral and bust I ness nucleus of the community. There are sixteen teachers in the col lege and eleven industries are taugh to 300 students from five states. Tn, school is self-snpporting in running expenses; therefore every dollar con tributed goes Into lands or permanen construction which are insured ant also protected by our own indepen dent system of water works. In behalf of the cause the foilowin appeal has been sent out by the com mittee of the board of trustees: We. the committee Of the board O 1 trustees, whose annual meeting wa held April 20, at the Twentieth Centur E club. Boston. and presided over by Mi A. T. Stovail. esq. an influential south crner of okolona, and most posit,vel
 outspoken for Mir. Battle and ou
 school do urge immediate aid for th
 cause which cannot possibly be secon
 to any in point of worthness and nee( Wallace A, Battle, tho president an ] founder Is also highly commended b
 men like President Eliot of Harvard
 Booker T. Washington, General O. {
 Howard and Bishop Bratton, wh ; preached the annual sermon at the col l lege two years ago
 : Yours truly,
 i, GEO. W. CABLE,
 "MOORFIELD STOREY, "A P. RECORD MOSES WILLIAMS, n committee of Board of Trustees n July 1. 1908.
 Some very prominent men are locate
 on the board of trustees of the collee, among them are A. T. Stovall, counst s of the Southern Railway company: Pro - lessor F. J Johnson, dean of N. Y. un versity; George W. Cable of Northamr
 ton Mass. and Rev. Azora Davis ( - New Britain. Conn.
 g Mir. Battle, besidee soliciting persor O ally subscriptions will deliver an at Il dress in one of the numerous churchc - about town. All checks should be mad Is out to either Moses Williams, presider n of the Fitchburg R. R., or Moorhel l. Storey. oversecr of Harvard universlt,
 transurer of the endowment fund, wh ,t are locted on State street, Bostol ;t Mass,