The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-03-14
Ru|LDING ACTIVITY
At TRINITY COLLEGE
Site Now Ready For the
Administration Building
WORK ON EAST OORM|T0RY

II Ulh wv LnUt UUiItuI uiiI
The Residence OF Bishop KiIgo is
Nearing. Completion and Will Be-
Ready for Occupancy Before Conn
m@encemen - Arrangements Being
Made for Sunday School Institute
During the Summer-Track Team
Formed-Other Items.
Special to News and Obserer.)
Trinity College, Durham, Mar. Ii
Trinity College is now the scene or
busy activities. The Insurance. on the
building and furniture CT the ola main
building. which was destroyed ly fire
ON the morning Of January 4th. having
been recovered in full. there was i'm
mediately begun the task Of throwing
down the tower and wall left stand
ing, and clearing up in general the
rlbbish occasioned by the fire. The
tower has been especially difficult to
throw. The first tower that was built
fell before the building was completed.
bIt it was rebuilt under the super
vision of Col. w. j. Hicks, who, for
So many years, without compensation,
supervised the buildings at Trinity
mite and almost every other deslru:-
tive agency that could be devised, has
for weeks stood before the eyes as a
reminder to US Of the thoroughness
with which Col. Hicks did the work.
and of our lasting gratitude to this
noble man. The tower has at last
been thrown down, the walls are no
longer standing, and the debris is
being carried away preparatory to the
erection Of the new Administrative
building. which is to be a precise
counterpart to the academic building,
lust completed and occupied since the
first of January.
Work on the new east dormitory IS
progressing rapidly. This building IS
to be three stories high, 2oS feet IN
length. and will accommodate LA
men. 1t is supplied with heat, 1shI
bath and other modern conven1ences
In outward appearance it will con-
form closely to the front buildings
the academic building now in use and
the new administrative building TO De
constructed in the near futre.
The residence of Bishop John {.
kilgo is nearing completion, and 1t
will be ready for occupancy before
commencement. 1t will give him a
home so placed and SO elevated as TO
enable him to overlook the whole IN
stitution With which he has had SO
much to do in building. he not only
has d beautiful outlook from the front,
but at the rear there are three or
four acres of pine trees, and altogeth-
or it is one Of the most attractive
homes to be found anywhere.
Arrangements are being made to
hold a Sunday schoo institute at
Trinity College some time during the
summer. The institute will probably
begin on July 10, although it a been
arranged to hold the institute earlier
in the summer, but the date conflcted
with the date Of the international
Sunday School convention, which
meets at Los Angeles. and several
prominent Sunday school workers who
are expected to take part in the In
stitute here, will also attend the con-
EentiOn. A most Interesting program
is being arranged, and the institute
Will bring together some of the most
noted workers in this line in the coun-
try.
This institute is under the auspices
81 the Sunday school board Of the
North Carolina Conference, n the
committee having the matter in hand
- composed of Mr.. w. B. Cooper, OF
wilmington. Hon. c. S. Wallace, OF
Morehead City, a member of the leg
stature from Carteret county, and
fseF. }. l.. Cunningham. a member OF
the North Carolina conference and di-
rector of the Correspondence School
OF Biblical Department of Vanderbilt
University.
m Of the faculty Of Trim