Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
SEVEN COUNTRIES
SEND QUOTA TO
HBG. ACADEMY
South America Strongest With
Four or Five Representa-
tiveS
9 STATES REPRESENTED
New Dormitory Crowded to the
Doors; Over Fifty Boardcrs
at Local School

Representatives from six foreign
countries and nine separate states of
the Union are here in the city engaged
in important business, the most impor-
tant business that could possibly oc-
cupy their time at this juncture, as you
will agree when you discover what
it is
The recently erected dormitory of
the Harrisburg Academy, which, under
the careful and broad minded super
vision of Headmaster Arthur E. Brown,
is expanding both in scope and pres
tige, houses forty-siX boarding pupils
in this the first year of its existence.
Besides these there are five or six
more boarders who represent the over
flow and are living in the cottages
above the Academy. Scattered through
this live bunch of Tom Browns" a
careful observer might discover the
swarthy complexion of the scion of
one of Central Americas greatest fami-
lies; the peculiarly piquant features of
one of our Japanese brothers; the
somewhat similarly favored physi-
ognomy of n Chinese lad: a son of
France: n number of young fellows
home, and last of all, "a bloody
IIenglishman." as Rudyard Kipling af-
iectionately terms them.
\ Cosmopolitan Aggregation
All of these boys. thrown together
with we'll nigh a hundred and fifty
red blooded active young scapegoats
who are constantly making history for
the Academy on the athletic field and
in the classroom and in other fields of
endeavor, have been taken in and
made to feel at home, and although
with a number of them there is that
natural reserve characteristic of their
race, the strangeness is gradually
wearing off and they are all entering
with enthusiasm into the spirit of the
Academy's activities.
To get down to personalities. it
would be q great pleasure to you TO
meet George Cordovez, son of Charles
Cordovez. q prominent engineer of
Ecuador South America, whose family
has the reputation of being the wealth.
lest in that country and whose home
in that wonder land of promise has
more the appearance of an enormous
castle than an ordinary dwelling. Then
here is Joseph Lee, the 14-year- old
lad from far-off China, who hasn't
time just now to worry as to whether
Nuan-Shi-kai is going to get away
with it, in the recent change Of his
land from republic back to a
monarchical form; Young Lees par
ticular business is to get an education.
and he has been sent here for that
purpose by a well-to- do society woman
in Philadelphia: the young man is full
of life and real" boy. And of course
we mustn't forget Luis Alvarado, II
Years of age, of Central America.
whose brother-in-law is the consul
general of Honduras; nor Onofre Cas-
tells. from Ecuador, a son of Jaime
Castells who is a big shoe manu-
facturer of that country and ships
large quantities of his product to the
United States. The gentleman from
England is a Methodist minister, is
"a years of age. and is paster of the
Methodist Church of Hummelstown,
Pa. Percy Boughey is his name.
Many States and Cities Represented
The following states have all sent
their quota to the Academy's halls for
the ensuing year: New York, Penn>
sylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, West
Virginia, Georgia. North Carolina, In
diana and Michigan; and these cities
are likewise represented: Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh Clarion. New York city
Brooklyn. Baltimore, Lebanon, Ian
caster, Altoona, Narberth, Greencastle
Chester, Overbrook, Johnstown. Nor
folk, Scranton, Warren and Miff1in
and of course Harrisburg