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thereby forming concentric circles, the
largest having radius of 200 yards,
perhaps.
Knoxville seems to be city of solid
development The population, includ-
| ing the suburbs, is estimated at $4,000.
| From q business standpoint, Knox
vile is among the most progressive
cities of the South. The jobbing bus.
mess amounts. annually, to fifty mil
lions, the manufacturing output to If
ty millions, the latter as shown by the
U. S. Geographical Report, growing
one hundred per cent. between the
years l9O0-1905.
Knoxville furnishes the cheapest
steam fuel of any city in the South
and nearly million horse power, Il
developed, could be furnished by the
Holston and French Broad rivers
which unite at Knoxville, forming the
Tennessee.
The city is in the centre of the dis.
trict furnishing the celebrated Tennes'
see marble, of which there are ten va
rieties, embracing $50 different shades
and colors, and unsurpassed for inte
rior decorative purposes. The six mar
BILE mills have an annual output of one
million dollars.
| Its textile establishments are equip
ped with more than 100000 spindles
800 looms. giving employment to up
wards of 5000 people, the annual out
put amounting to more than two mil
lion dollars.
The largest woollen mill, South, il
| found here. In addition to these
| 1. g. h.,c of 9TH o,
manufactures, viz, flour and iron roll
ing mills, furniture factories, the great
Peter Kern Candy Co., which for forty
years has been the leading candy man
ufacturing establishment in the South
In addition to its public schools
Knoxville has ten educational institu.
tions. It is the educational capital oi
East Tennessee. Here is the Univer
sity of Tennessee, ideally located in
the beautiful Barbara Park, 1160 feet
above sea level. From the foot of Uni
versity Hill the grounds rise in three
great terraces, each laid off in lovely
drives and shaded walks. Indeed
Mother Nature seems to have showereo
her blessings with lavish hand
Magnificent oaks, elms. and NAPLES
verify of "the forest primeval," shade
the entire park of forty acres. From
the topmost of these terraces, we have
q magnificent view of the broad Ten
nessee, beyond, winding roads, hills
valleys, and farms, while as far dis
tant background, we have the Great
Smokes on the East, and the Gamber'
land Mountains on the West.
Here, in this ideal 81 :, the eighth
session of the Summer School of the
South-that wonderful f. or in the
educational movement now reaching
to all parts of the South, was formally
opened Tuesday morning, June o.
1909, with the largest attendance yet
enrolled.
This school is the result of a demand
made by progressive teachers all over
/ the South for summer school of high
grade. Knoxville is centrally located
in the region south of the Ohio and
east of the Mississippi, has good rail
road facilities, and good climate. The
University of Tennessee (whose plant
is used by the Summer SchooD fur.
nishes attractive surroundings and &C.
commodations for large numbers,
while board can be had at the lowest
reasonable prices. Judging from the
unprecedented success of the school,
Knoxville is pre-eminently the place
for such gathering.
Henceforth, Knoxville shall be the
"Mecca" of the Southern teacher, to
which he shall make an annual pill.
grimage-not "to see and die," but to
live evermore, refreshed by drafts from
the living waters of life in the full
sense of the term.
The opening day, perhaps, is one OF
the most interesting on the session. 's
program. Here, after years absence,
come together again members of for
mer school and faculty, and the meet
ing of new ones. Their presence, to-
gether with the assemblage of the hun
dreds of students from all parts of the
country, among them some foreign
representatives, brings them, individ-
ually and collectively, into closer touch
with the great educational movements,
and which sends them away again
strengthened, renewed, and fortified
for the work of the future The keen
interest and wonderful enthusiasm
education extends to all sections Of the
COuIu. IL 10 llOfCuSuU ludU uds
within it soul Onward it is march
ing, and will continue 10 march on
when the men and women now living
are gone on to rest.
1t is not so much the actual lessons
learned in the class room, or falling
from the lips of those who have at
tanned to fame in the educationa.
world,-but it is the stirring of new
energy,-the new life awakened thai
gathers force as forward it goes!
'"This school," says DR.. Claxton
Superintendent of the Summer School
and the originator of the idea, "is no
q place where a few college boys ant
girls come TO make up certain studies
or take finishing course; neither is j
a chautauqua designed partly for pleas
ure and recreation, but school for se
rious, sober study, where all are work
ing for common cause, and all ar
men and women" The school is non
denominational-open alike to Protes
tant, Catholic and Jew, "for, 'sto quot