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THE BREVARD NEWS, BRpVARD, NORTH CAROLINA PRfDAY. MAY 29, 1912 Wonderful Progress of Brevard Institute, j Its Phenomenal Growth Means of Making Brevard an Educational Centre-dts History and Future. INTRODUCTION: ^ If anyone would have told Mr. and Mrs. Fitch Taylor when they started the ^rls school, in the '*Red House" by the railroad bridge now occupied by Miss Delia Gash, that it would grow to its present proportions they would have scarcely believed it pos sible. Yet here today we have a splendid school for both boys and girls on a hundred acre farm where they can have their own cows, poultry, hog^ and beef, with land enough to raise a large part of their bread, vege tables and fruit. The “Red House” is still “red”, but it has grown from a frame building to handsome red brick walls with stone trimmings and from a single building to ten: the Administration Building and auditor- girls dormitory is on the left a hun dred yards to the rear of the Audi torium; and facing lit on the right the three storied building which houses the wood working machinery and elec trie lighting plant. From the Girls Dormitory the drive goes direct to the diary barn, passing the princi pal’s cottage on the right, poultry houses and stock pens. The diary barn, a three storied frame building, 72x40, built by B. I. pupils, houses the dJairy cattle on the first floor, the farm horses, machinery and corn crib on the second floor, while the third floor affords ample space for the storage of corn fodder and hay. To the rear of the barn is a con crete silo, also built by the boys, which furnishes succulent food for the diary herd and heroes during the They discussed the ddea with many people who were interested in it and finally selected Brevard in Transyl vania County as a most desirable place in which to found an industoial school. They consequently moved to Brevard in the fall of 1894. There was no railroad to Brevard at this time, though the Transylvania Rail road Company was laying its track ir that direction from Hendersonville. Brevard is in the valley of the French Broad River surrounded by moun tains on all sides. ‘ The people had had little[ educational oppjortuniity, but were a sturdy intelligent anr moral population. It is interesting to know that Transj^lvania County and a large part of all the mountain ter ritory, was dry under local option law some ten years before this time. iuni, a noble three storied edi-! fice at the end of the entrance drive, ! the girls dormitory on the campus near the auditorium, also built of brick; the splendid brick dwelling hoxise on the farm property recently purchased which is now being enlarg ed and remodeled as a boy’s dormi tory with accdmodations for the teach er in charge; the superintendent’s house, the principal’s residence, five cottages for teachers anj pupils, a Jarge barn, grannery and three story power equipped wo'rkshop, which also houses the electric lighting plant of the school. ; As one enters the grounds from Depot Street the eye is captured by the very attractive gateway built of native cobblestones. The large flint boulders have been selected with an eye to color and arrangement and knit together into a harmonious whole that forms a very unique and appro priate entrance to a school that gath ers up the mountain boys and girls and makes of them noble and useful men and women. This gateway was presented to the Institute by the W. H. and M. S. of the Baltimore Con ference. Flanking the entrance gateway on the right as one enters is the' two storied eightroomed residence of Sup erintendent C. H. Trowbridge who has been in charge of the school for the past fourteen years and under 'Ctrhose eiTicient foresight and admir able management the school has grown from a single building with . three acres of land to seventeen build ing. and one hundred acres of splen did farm land. Hudson Cottage used as a boy’s dormitory Hanks the entrance gate way on thj left; and from thence one travels ov:r a broad driveway bord ered with : de-walks on either side and arched over with the leafy boughs of sugar mr/’>le trees. As we go alon^ the drive v/e notice broad fields oi both sides green with clover and gar .den truck, while in the distance is \the fine diary herd of cows presided oVer by the Holstein bull. At the- end of the avenue th2 drive branches on either side and goes around the Administration Building built in 1914 which contains 15 c.assrooms, labra- tory, oflice, librar/ and auditorium provided with sta \ gallery and mo. tion-picture oper. ing room. The winter months and is fiiied by a silage cutter and blower operated on the second floor of the barn. Across the mountain creek which flows thru the farm is the recently purchased eighty acre farm and the handsome two storied red brick build ing now being remodeled as a boy’s dormitory; and near it an apple or chard, barn, farm manager’s cottage and outbuildings. Fields of rye and clover are all around and here and there are areas of dark brown earth freshly ploughed and planted to com. The farm is under the management of Mr. J. A, Bishop, a Brevard man, who had managed the farm some years previous to its purchase by the Institute. Under Mr. Bishop’s care, wet places are being drained, fields properly planted, orchards pruned and sprayed and decaying buildings repaired. ?Ir. Bishop will have at his disposal a fi rce of prospective farm ers, selected students from the Agri cultural Cla -es and these will be given opportunity to put into actual practise on the farm the scientific facts about agriculture and farm management they have learned in the class. Modern methods and machin ery will enable the farm, already not-' ed for its productivity, to still further increase its yields and there is no reason why Brevard Institute, under an efficient teacher of Agriculture should not become the home of an I'-ncuItural experiment station with Its model farm, model dairy and sl^ck yards, model vegetable garden and poultry yards. Just think what an' institution of this kind is going to mean to Transylvania County ant the state. Doys and girls trained in Brevard Institute will be in de mand as far.n and dairy managers as ''O ’ltry experts and truck farmers. Ti'“ I. will furnish our future co;; ily a;?ent3 and home demonstra tor-, farmers and farmerettes. BREVARD INSTITUTE. Early History, Present Condition, Plans for the Future. Mr. and Mrs. Fitch Taylor of Ashe ville, North Carolina were stronglj impressed with the great good tha. was done by the Presbyterian school located there, and it was their ^ambi- l.ion to originate a similar work far ther back in the mountains. The school was opened in January, 1895, in a small dwelling house which still stands on Main Street just east of the Southern Railway cut. The people were suspicious at first, and there is a large element of truth in the statement that it was necessary to pay the first boarding girl to en roll in the school. The one literary teacher was paid by the “Woman’s Parsonage and Home ission Society.” Only two other pupils were secured for the dormitory that spring. In the scholastic year 1895-96 five boarding girls were enrolled. This number grew to seven, the next year; which was as many as the little cottage would hold. In the fall of 1897 the “Red House” was rented. It was con. uderably larger and more convenient. The boarding: enrollment this fourth year was nineteen girls. The school remained in the red house until 1901 WtPen that building had been out grown, tho-ugh it was not given up ontli the smoke&ouise and every avail- abiie comer liad been itsed. In. that yeaj! an attempt to buy land and erect ai combined school and dormitory buiMing vfas begun. The SsDday Sdiocsla and Epworth Leagues of iBie Western North Carolina Con ference- were interested and men like Dr; Dan Atkins,. Reir. G. G. Harley, Rev. E. Myers and other j>astor3 and members of the Conference were busy collecting funds to house the school in its own building. Efforts had been made to interest the “Wanaan’s Han&e Mission Society”' of the Southern Methodist Church in the instiitution. Mrs. M. J. Branncr of Waynesville, mother of Mrs. James Atkins «nd Mrs. T. F. Marr were par ticularly interested in this effort and in 1903 the property with the skele ton building was deeded by the West em North Carolina Conference to the Woman’s Home Mission Society. Mr. E. E. Bishop, a civil engineer, who had done much work in the con struction of railroads in the West and who had later pioneered a school ia the Cumberland Mountains for the conference was appointed principal of the new school. Reaching Brevard early in Septem ber 1903 to open school, the new prin. cipal was surprised to find the build- dng but little more than half comple. (Continuad on Seven.) Mpr^uctions^ Jrem Photographs Host HOBS per DOUAR. COBJD TZXtES The tire section above at the left shows the condition of a Firestone 33x4^^ Cord Tire after 20,994 miles on a Yellow Cab in Chicago. The section at the right was cut from a new Cord of the same size. Careful measurements show that only 1/3 of the tread of the tire on the Yellow Cab has been worn away after this long, gruelling test. The carcass is intact after more than 11,000,000 revolutions. Firestone Cords have averaged over '' 10,000 miles on Chicago Yellow Cabs (I42OO cabs all Fire stone equipped). In thousands of in stances, they have . given from 15,000 to . 30,000 miles. \ ||| Look at the tread— scientifically angled against skid, massive# MKESTONE 30x3H FABRIC $1011 30 X 3 size 58.95 ilfav20 and heavy in the center where the wear comes, tapered at the edges to make steering easy and to protect the carcass against destructive hinging action of high tread edges. The* carcass is air bag expanded to insure uniform tension and paralleling of every individual cord. It is double “gum dipped** to make sure tha$ each cord is throughly insulated with rubber. This is the reason why Firestone Cords unfailingly deliver extraordinary mileage. It explains the unanimous de mand of thoughtful tire buyers for these values. 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