French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1919-01-02

One of the two big propositions
dangling within the reach of Hender-
sonville will be before the Board of
Trade at it's annual meeting and sup
per which will be held at Kentucky
Home, Friday night. The organiza-
ton has many affairs in it's hands
which are of extreme importance to
the prosperity and growth of the town
and county, but other affairs are for
the time rather over-shadowed by the
possibility of securing for Hender-
sonville one of the largest and best
known boys schools in the south,
namely the Georgia Military Academy,
located outside of Atlanta which pro-
poses to establish somewhere in the
mountains of Wesern North Carolina
a summer naval school. President
Bland and the Board of Governors of
the Board of Trade will not make
known, in advance of the Friday night
meeting, the details of their plans anG
progress in this connection, but it is
known that the school authorities pre-
fer Hendersonville as a location to any
other under consideration, and it is al
so known that the efforts of the organi-
zaion have been so well-directed and
so energetic that the work. is almost
completed which will put Henderson,
vile in position to make the schooi
n i,o1, nil
every requirement.; and that means
the acceptance of the offer, and the Sc
curing of what will amount to the
most valuable proposition Henderson
willie has ever had chance to get.
HOW 1T HAPPENED.
The question of locating in Hender-
sonville was first broached to the
school authorities by Mr.. Sam T
Hodges some months ago, when he
went to Atlanta to see his son, William
Hodges who is a student at the school
Upon being informed by Col. Wood
ward, president of the academy, tha
the board of directors had under con
sideration the location of a summer
school in the mountains of Western
North Carolina, Mr.. Hodges brougn
all possible pressure to bear upon then
to investigate Hendersonville, ant
urged in every way that Henderson
vile be looked at first. AS a result
of this interview Colonel WOODWARD
addressed a letter several week
later, to Messrs Smith, Jackson am
Morris of this city, stating that he wa
going to come here to look into tn
matter. By some error, however, thi
letter went to Asheville instead of Hen
z dersonviIle, and when Colonel Wood
ward stepped off the train here h
found no one to meet him; in fac
no one here had any advance know
ledge of his visit. However, no tim
was lost in getting together com
mittee of local business men to accom-
pany him in inspecting the Var1ou
possible school sites here.
A Naval School.
The plan of the school authorize
is to take advantage of recent legtF
lation by which elementary naVS
schools may be established throughol
the country, one. in each state Whlc
schools will be to some extent unde
the supervision, of the Navy Depar
ment, and will enjoy certain forms
federal aid in the same manner th'
certain military schools are now col
Quoted under the supervision or t1
\ War Department, and with It's al
This plan makes it necessary thi
such schools own or control a DOC
of water large enough for elemental
haval training, lake of fifty acre
elI ling about the minimum requ1r
n.ent on this line. On the occasion
Col. Woodward's visit both the .
ceola and the Highland Lake prope
ties were found to be suitable for Il
purposes of thes chool but IN eaf
case the price Of the property apPa
emily rIaced it entirely beyond CO
sideration.
60 to Atlanta
After Col Woodward's return to A
1anta hdadressed a letter to Mr. K.
oates. tkking that committee fro
Handersnville visit the Georgia Mi
s.sry Alchemy, with view to givi1
= neote of Hendersonvile some id