The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-02-04

tary organization and things have to
be right" or the cadets are court
martialed, and that may mean sum-
mary dismissal or a dozen other things
that no student desires
The Phelps Bible Training School
! a feature of the work. IN this de-
partment hundreds Of ministers have
received their training and are out in
the world filling pulpits and holding
up higher standards 10 those that list
en-
Large bath houses for both sexes
with directors who see that all are ac-
commodated al stated intervals are in
teresting and contribute TO the wonder
full healthfulness of the place.
Possibly Mr. Rockefeller has made
no better use OF money than that he
donated for the erection OF the SPLEEN
did hall that bears his name. II j.
occupied by the boys. and is also used
by visitors.
The Tompkins dining room j. a
magnificent building that cost $4,000
and looks the reigning building OF the
campus. II has a students dining
room that accommodates 1000. In This
there i a balcony that accommodates
an orchestra which discourses sweet
music. while the students are al their
meals One student remarked that ev-
cry meal had its sweets, il the orches-
ira was there.
The teachers dining room Is also
in this building. but is separate. Here
200 instructors dine and observe with
minute precision the bells. Tardy per.
! sons are not served meals and if one
claims TO be sick he is accommodated
at the hospital The chef or head cook
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kitchen. He was busy preparing for
the guests attending the great con-
ference. Planning for feeding stud
ents and guests for one day, he was
getting in place. TO cook for that one
| day, six barrels of -four to make into
| ! 900 hot biscuit, 80 gallons syrup.
three wagon loads of sweet potatoes
! (from the 10000 bushels raised on the
| farm. 100 gallons of tea, 100 gallons
| of coffee, 500 pounds of pork, 500
pounds of beef, 200 pounds Of beans.
! four sacks of meal, % bushels of
peaches (canned) 10 bushels tomatoes,
| three bushels peas. eight bushels ruta-
| bagas, three barrels sugar. sack salt.
100 pounds butter, 125 gallons milk.
| Is pounds pepper, two sacks rice, 300
| blackberry pies and other pastry. two
| barrels sauer kraut, etc. To cook this
| ne ndu sixteen assistant COOKS. anu 10
serve il rs walters. The above was to
serve about 1000 people for a day. The
whole thing was done as smoothly as
lunch. The system and appointments
of the kitchen are perfection. To
cook on the day above referred to five
tons of coal were used.
The school choir of 500 persons
renders music from the masters, but
when it sings the negro melodies ev-
cry listener is won over, for is no 9TH
er place can one hear to better ad-
vantage the negros own music sung
as he can sing it. There is a band of
| 80 pieces which gave concert that
was of a high order 1t would fill any
large auditorium in the country with
eager listeners should il follow or
precede any other brass band of the
country. The music is just sure enuf
music and one can never listen to it
or the choir and forget. The chapel
which seats more than 5000 is a beau
tiful house and is the central religious
home of the school. The chaplain,
Rev. Whitaker. breaches each Sunday.
All students are required to attend the
Sunday school and church services.
The principal, DR.. Washington, has a
commodious home over which presides
his wife. who is finely educated, a
woman of rare accomplishments and a
prophecies. She is heart and soul in
terested in the great work, having
since her graduation from well
known university been there as an in
dispensable factor. She has success
fully directed the Industries of the
girls and helped DR.. Washington in
} the great evolution of the school for
} be it remembered that only thirty
years ago the school began in a tum-
} bile down shanty in the heart district
: Of the neglected blacks of Albania.
Professor John Washington. the
brother of DR.. Washington, is strong
/ and remarkable man. He is director
: of Industries and this trinity OF Wash
fngtonS. the doctor, his wife and
/ brother, are honored. loved and re-
spected by all that know of the work
; faith and sacrifice they made TO bring
about the results that the visitor see:
at that great school.
: thousands of the colored you'll
have been made not only intellectual
ly and morally stronger by this schoo
} but they have had their earnings ca
pacity increased, ten, twenty or {
hundred fold.
1T might rightly be called thu
eighth wonder of the world, modern
miracle and it's chief builder. mode
citizen, since he has been pacificator
: an industrial and intellectual fore
; that had led men upward and on
! ward"