The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-02-03

of their class rooms specimens of !,
their skill and blue ribbons won at |
the Marion County Fair.
The industrial building for the |
girls was next visited. There a |
number of Ahe girls in charge of two
teachers were busy in their house |
work classes. Cooking and sewing |
were the principal branches and |
that they were being we'll taught
specimens of the handiwork were |
there to testify. They had a well
equipped kitchen, pantry and sew
ing rooms, and certain it is that the
girls are being efficiently prepared to
fill situations or, better, take care of
homes of their own. Everything in
this department was scrupulously
clean, and the quality of its work
has been proven year after year in
exhibits made at the Marion County
Fair.
| An inspection of Carnegie Hall, in
which is located the kitchen, dining
room, library and dormitories for the
women teachers and girl students
followed 1t is big, airy building
and kept in excellent order. A clean
!! and elegant simplicity pervades ev-
Eerything. The library has over 1000
volumes and is steadily increasing.
The students make good use of it,
and the few who do not read willing
ly are obliged to by the rules. They
! prefer-and show that they have
read them. Very few, however, are
unwilling. The dining room is orna-
mented with portraits of the nation s
greatest men, prominent among them
being a splendid picture of General
/ Robert E. Lee. The equipment of
the kitchen and dining room would
do honor to a big hotel. The dormi-
tories of the men teachers and boys
were next inspected. They are all
clean and comforta BILE. That clean
illness is next to goodness is enforced
/ at Fessenden, and any young man or
woman who has lived there four
years has formed habits that will
probab bly, last a life time.
/ There was time for only hurried
4 look thru the class rooms, where
/ scores of the boys and girls were
4 busily engaged with their books.
i There is a very intelligent staff of
J teachers and all the pupils seem
eager to learn. One young man, who
an hour before had been efficiently at
!, work with his hands in the carpen-
ter shop, now correctly explained a
problem in plane geometry. He will
probably teach others of his race
!, how to do things.
All the teachers and pupils came
together in the chapel just before
noon, and had short service, the
principal feature of which was the
: music. They have a fine organ, and
we all know the colored people can
sing. Many a person of undisputed
good taste has turned aside from
= grand opera to hear them sing the
old-fashioned campmeeting hymns.
The visit ended with a perform
ance from the band, which lined uI
before the academy as Professor
Wiley brought out his auto to take
his visitors back to town. The schoo
has a fine band, which is not only E
good study and recreation to the
students bit often pleases the neigh
bors with it's excellent music.
= Annexed to the academy is fine
- farm of over 200 acres, on which /;
- great deal of the supplies needed b.
!. the school are raised. 1t is carried
!, on by scientific principles and ha
= some fine blooded stock as we'll a
y good crops.
J. Fessenden has students from al
# over the state, but the majorit
come from the neighborhood, man
J. walking several miles every day il
q order to attend The county boar
: assists by allowing children iron
d. the neighboring schools to attend tn
is academy when the terms of thei
q own schools are out, and that til
is privilege is appreciated is shown b
D. some coming all the way from An