The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-05-06

The time has now expired and the
bids are all in for the State Normal
School A special committee, headed
by Mr. Ben Carr, the Chairman Of
the mass-meeting who has worked in
cessantly in the interest Of the school;
Rev. Preston Taylor, the Chairman
of the Soliciting Committee, who had
charge Of the entire canvass for ap-
preparations; Messrs. j. G. Napier, H.
A. Boyd and j. B. Kennedy held the
last committee meeting Thursday in
the forenoon in the parlors of Taylor
& Company, Fourth avenue, North.
The returns were canvassed, the bid
made, sealed and sent in to the State
Board of Education. Thus it is
learned by a Globe representative
| that the last chapter, in so far as
Nashville and Davidson County are
! concerned, has closed on the Normal
The people will now await the re-
suits, or at least the decision of the
Board of Education. Not one of the
committee could be induced to make
statement as to what they were able
to report, other than that a goodly
| bid had been made and some very
desirable locations offered. Notwith-
standing a repeated effort to learn
/ the exact amount that had been so
licited was made no success whatever
was had.
The general opinion seems to pre-
vail that the race has now narrowed
/ down to Chattanooga and Nashville,
or it is between Hamilton County
and Davidson County with the re-
suits very much in doubt. Several
statements, however, made in Nash
vile and picked up by a Globe re-
porter, have caused some uneasiness
with regard to the final decision.
| Gossip has it that there is a dark
horse in the race and that there are
three counties in the state that have
sent in sealed bids for the location
of the much-tal ked-of Negro Normal,
Agricultural and Industrial School
Should it develop that this dark
horse is in the running it may make
the race a little more spirited and
yet both Davidson and Hamilton
Counties have put down in black and
white what they would do toward the
encouragement Of the location of the
school.
Several members of the canvassing
committee were seen and an effort
was made to get some idea as to what
they had solicited. One member of
the committee declared that he had
worked faithfully and had called upon
the leading men in the race. He was
instructed by the chairman of the
committee, so he states, to accept any
donation from 81 to $4,000. How
we'll he succeeded in getting $4,000
subscriptions was not even learned
SO aside from the fact that the coun-
, ty has offered 100000 and the city of
Nashville $4,000, it is not known
what the general inducement has been
, to locate the Normal in Davidson
County. However, the $S5,00O by the
county and the city, the $4,000 from
; the state, with about 100000 from
the Morrell Fund, would start the
school in Davidson County with $3.50,
, 600 were there no other donations tt
I be received, which is, of course, no
+. possible as it is known some enter
} prising citizens have given or sub
r scribed literally out of their means
! 1t was 4 o'clock in the afternoon o
Thursday when the Davidson Count!
e sealed bid was handed in to the offic
e of the Superintendent Of Education
in the state Of Tennessee.