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THE STONEWALL JACKSON 
 
 Manual Training aridf'"'^^! 
 Industrial School. 
 
 A FRANK AND FULL ACCOUNT 
 OF THE BOARD’S STEWARD¬ 
 SHIP IS HEREIN MADE; ALSO 
 STATEMENT SHOWING PLANS, 
 CONDITIONS AND PURPOSES. 
 
 state Superintendent Joyner, in speaking to the bill before the Joint 
 Educational Committee, which gave a unanimous “favorable” report, 
 said: 
 
 Tt is eminently proper that this bill should have been referred to the 
 committees on education. This school should be considered from the first 
 as a part of the educational system, necessary for its completion and 
 supplying a need that no other part of the system can supply. There 
 is and always will be a number of children among us, and among all 
 people, for whom there is written above the door of the home, “No 
 hope”; above the door of the schoolhouse, “No hope”; and even above 
 the door of the temple of justice itself, “No hope.” In the name of 
 civilization and Christianity we ought to provide somewhere for this, 
 class of children one institution above whose door there shall be written 
 in letters of living light, “Hope,” for the most hopeless child, where 
 he may have a chance to develop the spark of divinity that is^dden. in 
 the heart of every child and be saved from the everlasting'^doohi oC 
 criminality to the glorious privilege of good citizenship. 
 
 
 RALEIGH : 
 
 Er)wARi)S A Broughton Printing Co. 
 19J9. 
 
THE 
 
 Stonewall Jackson Training School. 
 
 [From Raleigh News and Observer, February 10, 1909.] 
 
 To the Editor: You have asked me 
 for an article for publication in The 
 News and Observer, on the Reforma¬ 
 tory, as the public is pleased to term 
 it. I appreciate this opportunity of 
 giving to the public, in general, and 
 to the members of the General As¬ 
 sembly, in particular, an account of 
 the board’s stewardship. 
 
 Its Beginning. 
 
 The General Assembly of 1907, af¬ 
 ter a full and thorough discussion of 
 the question, the needs for such an 
 institution being presented by the 
 King’s Daughters, by ministers of the 
 Gospel and by various educational and 
 charity workers, chartered the Stone¬ 
 wall Jackson Manual Training and In¬ 
 dustrial school for wayward and un¬ 
 fortunate white boys. North Carolina 
 has always been cautious and conserv¬ 
 ative, and perhaps for this reason, 
 more than any other, the State is 
 among the very last of the Union to 
 provide for this phase of education 
 among its children.. But our State has 
 one virtue that no other State pos¬ 
 sesses to a greater degree: Being 
 once convinced of her duty, she does 
 it earnestly and faithfully. 
 
 An appropriation of ten thousand 
 dollars was made for the beginning 
 of the work, and the responsibility of 
 inaugurating this new educational un¬ 
 dertaking in 'the State was placed in 
 the hands of fifteen people, four nam¬ 
 ed in the charter and eleven by the 
 Governor upon nominations and sug¬ 
 gestions by the charter members. The 
 Board of Trustees follows: 
 
 Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, Charlotte. 
 
 Mrs. I. W. Faison, Charlotte. 
 
 Miss Easdale Shaw, Rockingham. 
 
 ]\Irs. W. H. S. Burgyn, Weldon. 
 
 Mrs. D. Y. Cooper, Henderson. 
 
 Mrs. W. N. Reynolds, Winston. 
 
 Mrs. A. L. Coble, Statesville. 
 
 Mrs. G. P. Erwin, Morganton. 
 
 Mr. Caesar Cone, Greensboro. 
 
 Prof. J. J. Blair, Wilmington. 
 
 Dr. PI. A. Royster, Raleigh. 
 
 Mr. J. H. Tucker, Asheville. 
 
 Mr. R. O. Everitt, Durham. 
 
 Mr. D. B. Coltrane, Concord. 
 
 Mr. J. P. Cook, Concord. 
 
 Organization and Location. 
 
 Governor Glenn called a meeting 
 of the trustees at Raleigh in Septem¬ 
 ber, 190 7. The temporary organiza¬ 
 tion, which at a later meeting in 
 Greensboro became a permanent one, 
 is as follows: 
 
 J. P. Cook, chairman. 
 
 J. H. Tucker, vice-chairman. 
 
 H. A. Royster, M. D., secretary. 
 
 Caesar Cone, treasurer. 
 
 Later when the institution was lo¬ 
 cated, for convenience and the more 
 satisfactory conduct of the affairs, Mr. 
 Cone, suggesting that the treasurer 
 should live at the site, resigned and 
 to succeed him as treasurer, the board 
 unanimously elected Mr. D. B. Col¬ 
 trane. 
 
 The board advertised for proposals 
 for sites of not less than 200 acres. A 
 large number of offers were made, but 
 each of them asked for cash a little 
 less than the State’s appropriation. 
 The board unanimously agreed and 
 determined that the site must be a 
 donation and one healthfully located 
 and where the usual crops of the State 
 may be successfully and profitable 
 raised. 
 
 Whatever my future connection with 
 the institution may be, or wherever 
 my lot may be cast, one of the hap¬ 
 piest and sweetest experiences of my 
 life will always be the treatment of 
 my neighbors, the great good people 
 of the good town of Concord. Their 
 response then and since to my appeals 
 for aid in making a home for this 
 

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 important educational institution was 
 unselfish and magnificent. By this 
 generous act of a generous people, 
 without personal reward or the hope of 
 a reward, except in the sweet con¬ 
 sciousness of doing a noble deed, the 
 State became the possessor of nearly 
 three hundred (300) acres of land; 
 property, valued upon the basis of 
 surrounding sales, worth more than 
 $10,000. It is situated on the South¬ 
 ern Railway and two miles south of 
 Concord. Its elevation is 780 feet 
 above sea level. The building site is 
 ideal and overlooks a territory the 
 radius of which is 17 miles. On the 
 place is a splendid rock quarry, from 
 which the railway in the past has se¬ 
 cured an enormous amount of ballast. 
 The place has running streams, good 
 pastures and has many large level 
 fields, which under kind treatment and 
 intelligent tilling will prove invalua¬ 
 ble in the conduct of the school. 
 
 On the place are four sm.all houses, 
 such as you might expect on an old 
 fashioned cotton farm. Our Super¬ 
 intendent, burying pride, but showing 
 his love for the work and his appre¬ 
 ciation of the appealing calls from 
 anxious mothers, is living in one of 
 these cabins. He deserves and needs 
 a better home, and the faith he dis¬ 
 plays in the goodness of his beloved 
 State, for which he and his board are 
 spending themselves, surely will be as 
 bread cast upon the waters. 
 
 System of Cottages. 
 
 Though North Carolina has many a 
 criminal and a life of use and profit 
 in consequence lost to the State, be¬ 
 cause such an institution has not been 
 in existence in the past, we have one 
 decided advantage in this delay. The 
 work has passed beyond the experi¬ 
 mental stage. We know, by the ex¬ 
 periments and heavy costs of other 
 states, what now is the best system. 
 Years ago, the idea was to hurdle the 
 entire crowd into one building, sur¬ 
 rounded by h'gh walls. That is but a 
 prison, and the fact staring each boy 
 in his face defeated the very purposes 
 intended. 
 
 Where funds were available, all such 
 
 have been discarded; and the dormito¬ 
 ry or single building idea has given 
 way to what, for the lack of a better 
 name, is designated as the “Cottage 
 System.” Having adopted this sys¬ 
 tem because it is the best, it is pleas¬ 
 ing also that it proves itself to us as 
 the most practical from a financial 
 standpoint. Here and there we shall 
 find a man, a woman, an organiza¬ 
 tion, to whom the cost of one cottage 
 is not beyond a simple generosity or 
 a purse; and on this account we are 
 not asking the State for any additional 
 cottages. These we propose to add as 
 the individual donor may be found. 
 The cottage system has an additional 
 good point, which permit me to speak 
 of right here. With the pittance we 
 had to start on and being confronted 
 by a panic, that touched the liberal 
 giver the hardest, we were enabled by 
 begging, by praying, by getting folks 
 to take off profits on material and all 
 official hands working lor glory and 
 love, to have two cottages ready by 
 this time w’orth, complete and furnish¬ 
 ed, twenty thousand dollars. This is 
 a stewardship that, running no risk 
 of being declared vain, the board can 
 and does feel proud of. The members 
 of the board associated with me ha\<^ 
 given their best thought and help. 
 They have attended meetings, bearing 
 their own expense in railroad fare and 
 hotel bills, and on occasions when it 
 meant a sacrifice to individual busi¬ 
 ness and in personal comfort. Not 
 one cent has any member of the board 
 received for services, though a number 
 of them have made gifts personally 
 and inspired others to make donations. 
 
 Details All Worked Out. 
 
 Every detail of what shall be event¬ 
 ually a magnificent, humane and ed¬ 
 ucational institution has been worked 
 out. The location of every building 
 has been fixed. We know where the 
 barn and milk-house, to be built by 
 the boys when they are working, shall 
 be located. We know where the wood¬ 
 working shop shall be placed when 
 an interested friend says the word to 
 commence We know where the little 
 chapel shall be built, in which every 
 
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 denomination known to Christianity 
 shall in rotation hold serA’ice, Avhen 
 time will permit laying the question 
 of cost per capita before the official 
 heads of the several denominations in 
 North Carolina We know where the 
 drill grounds shall be as soon as our 
 own boys may find time to make their 
 imitation guns of wood, for the gov¬ 
 ernment of the institution will be mili¬ 
 tary We know Avhere the little pa¬ 
 vilion shall be built for weekly con¬ 
 certs (music hath charms) when we 
 find the man to donate us instru¬ 
 ments. We know where the other 
 eight cottages ore to be built( two 
 now complete) as soon as we can find 
 five benevolent folks or charitable or¬ 
 ganizations to furnish the funds, and 
 the boys can find time from their stu¬ 
 dies to assist in erection. Three of 
 the remaining eight are provided for. 
 One of them the King’s Daughters are 
 raising funds for; another will be pro¬ 
 vided for by a source we are not at 
 liberty at this time to make known; 
 and the third we have reason to know 
 that the several county superintend¬ 
 ents of the State will provide for to be 
 
 known as.cottage, name to 
 
 be selected at the next annual meet¬ 
 ing. We know where the pastures 
 shall be (already made) when funds 
 available for the purchase of cattle 
 can be had. We know where the corn 
 and cotton fields and garden spots 
 shall be when spring comes on. We 
 know where the little hosiery mill 
 shall be located, when funds for the 
 building can be secured, for a friend 
 has been found to furnish the ma¬ 
 chines. We know where our crushed 
 rock for building purposes and for 
 domestic sale shall come from, when 
 a gentleman of Raleigh teils us that 
 we may have a good rock crusher 
 standing just one half mile distant 
 from our property. We know where 
 a splendid driven well, a tower and a 
 tank shall be, because they are al¬ 
 ready in existence, made possible by 
 the unsolicited donation of that brave 
 soldier, polite gentleman and correct 
 man, Gen. R. P. Hoke and his son 
 Van Wych, a chip off the “old block,’’ 
 
 which to him seems and is the highest 
 compliment he needs. We know last 
 but not least where one of the most 
 important buildings shall be located. 
 But we defer, for another place, fuller 
 facts. 
 
 Wliat i.s a Cottage? 
 
 We have two of the ten cottages 
 complete. Pach accommodate 30 boys 
 and the officer and his wife, who is 
 matron. The cottage is built of brick, 
 three stories high with a large, well 
 lighted attic. It is covered with slate. 
 No more substantial buildings and 
 pleasing to the eye, without expensive 
 ruffies and frills, can be found in the 
 State. They are 52x5 2 feet. The first 
 fioor is divided up into storage rooms, 
 recreation room, toilet rooms (plumb¬ 
 ing and sewerage already installed) 
 shower baths, personal Avardrobes, etc. 
 Treading from this to second floor is an 
 iron staii'Avay enclosed in brick, and 
 it appears and is a part of the build¬ 
 ing. The second floor, fronted by an 
 attractiA'e porch, contains kitchen, din¬ 
 ing-room, assembly room, officer’s 
 room, small hall and stairway for use 
 of officer and matron exclusively. The 
 same iron stair continues to third floor, 
 Avhere there is a sleeping room con¬ 
 taining 30 white enameled iron bed¬ 
 steads. This room has 12 large win- 
 doAvs and transoms and is open on 
 three sides to the outside Avorld. 
 
 This floor also contains three small 
 rooms for the exclusi\^e use of the 
 officer. The attic may be used for 
 storage purposes and at times may be 
 needed to hold some necessary pri- 
 A-ate conference with certain of the 
 pupils when occasion deniands. 
 
 All of the ten cottages to be built 
 Avill be exactly alike, inside and out. 
 
 The GoA'criniiewt ami Daily Program. 
 
 As preA'iously said the goA'ernment 
 is military./' Each cottage contains in 
 reality a family; in government, a mil¬ 
 itary company. One half of these boys 
 attend school one half day and work 
 the other half. The boy that makes 
 the best record in study, in applica¬ 
 tion to duty, in demeanor and in the 
 care and keep of. his person, becomes 
 
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 captain. The one standing second in 
 grade becomes lieutenant. The offi¬ 
 cer in charge of the cottage envoys m 
 the government of the institution the 
 title of Colonel. Superintendent Wal¬ 
 ter Thompson, large in frame, strong 
 and bright in intellect, big-hearted but 
 firm, earnest and loyal in his work, 
 the equal of any young educator in 
 the State, the friend of the bright, 
 bad boy, and whose selection I regard 
 as reflecting the wisdom of the board 
 and whose acceptance I especially re¬ 
 gard as the reflection of a Christian, a 
 noble man and a patriot, is the gen¬ 
 eral. There are no stripes, no chains, 
 no real guns. Every pupil, officer, 
 teacher and employe wears a uniform 
 made of the same goods; at work time 
 all wear overalls made of the same 
 goods. 
 
 Some will try to escape, but they 
 will come back for the system is so 
 perfect. It may be of interest to your 
 readers to look into the life of a cot¬ 
 tage just at sun down. Twenty-eight 
 boys are seated at tables eating whole¬ 
 some, yet plain food. They have clean 
 faces and hands. Hair neatly brush¬ 
 ed. Twm boys- delegated for 
 the week to assist the matron 
 in cooking, etc., are waiting on the 
 tables. Supper is finished. In the 
 assembly hall, some are playing in¬ 
 nocent games, some reading good 
 books (hundreds of which loving 
 Christian friends of the State have 
 have already sent in), at 9 o’clock all 
 retire to first floor. They undress, 
 hanging up their clothes in individual 
 wardrobes. They don night-shirts 
 and, putting on house slippers, march 
 up two flights of stairs. The doors 
 close behind. Each boy has a bed. 
 The window sash rises only 5 inches 
 at bottom—it comes down at top only 
 5 inches. The transoms elevated 12 
 feet, open entirely if weather de¬ 
 mands. It is 35 feet to the ground. 
 To keep intruders away or guard 
 against fire there is of course a night 
 watchman on constant duty. It is 
 hardly probable that ainy boy, in his 
 night shirt alone, would become so 
 home sick during night and leap down 
 
 35 feet into the night and go away 
 before breakfast time! 
 
 The arrangements for the care, 
 keep, instruction and control during 
 the day are equally as satisfactory. 
 Some boys may get away—just for 
 awhile; but they’ll come back. There 
 is nothing else possible, under our 
 arrangements. 
 
 Is There a Demand? 
 
 I would, to argue this point, insult 
 the ladies, who appeared before the 
 General Assembly of 1907, and the 
 Assembly tiself. Eliminate that 
 knowledge entirely, and I am almost 
 appalled at the inquiries and applica¬ 
 tions coming to me daily. During the 
 past week, here in Raleigh, four 
 splendid widows have beseeched me 
 to take their boys back home, with 
 me. Boys twelve years old and be¬ 
 yond the control of teachers and 
 mothers! What are you going to do 
 with them? I have nearly 2 00 appli¬ 
 cations. The first pupil we received 
 is less than 12 years old. He violated 
 the dignity of the law. Turn him 
 loose means a license for his doing 
 worse. Convict him and imprison 
 him with hardened criminals, without 
 hope, you crush his life; you destroy 
 him. So far as saving him to the 
 State or so far as h'is soul is con¬ 
 cerned, it might be cheaper and the 
 shortest route to give him a ticket to 
 everlasting perdition. 
 
 Every man and woman in the 
 State of North Carolina knows of a 
 boy or two in every town in the 
 State who though young, has gotten 
 beyond control of parent and teacher 
 —has become a law unto himself. 
 Unless he is protected from himself 
 beyond that most critical age of a 
 boy—12 to 17—there is a strong pro¬ 
 bability of a criminal being turned 
 out. 
 
 The Plain Condition. 
 
 We have room now for sixty. We 
 can have in the early summer or fall 
 accommodations for sixty more. 
 Were section 12 of chapter 5 09 of 
 the laws of 19 07 invoked, but discre- 
 
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 tionary with the Governor, our capa¬ 
 city would soon be filled. We trust 
 he will not invoke it at this time, for 
 in a very short time (1) it can be 
 filled from the courts now holding; 
 and (2) we have now no funds, the 
 cost of keep, care and teaching fall¬ 
 ing upon a friend of the cause whose 
 name it is unnecessary to mention in 
 this connection. 
 
 What We Need. 
 
 We need from the State funds for 
 the erection of an administration 
 building. This building if erected by 
 any other State institution would cost 
 $40,000 or more. We ask and need 
 just $20,000. In this building we 
 have offices, home for superintendent, 
 home for lady teachers, four school 
 rooms, space for ce»ntral heating plant 
 and for the installation of industrial 
 features, such as type-setting and 
 printing, tailoring, shoe-making, etc., 
 etc. The boys make the brick on the 
 ground: the boys, under the direction 
 of a competent mason, make the mor¬ 
 tar and lay the brick; they do the 
 wood work and the plastering. Jn 
 this w^ay they are taught and become 
 producers. 
 
 We need $15,000 for the first year’s 
 support and maintenance and $20,000 
 annually thereafter for support. It 
 will require nearly as much assistance, 
 teaching, etc., etc., for the sixty this 
 year, as 200 later on. We need to 
 buy clothing, food, equipment, stock, 
 machinery, tools, supplies and a thou¬ 
 sand and one things during the first 
 year. And until we get our fields in 
 shape it would be useless to hope for 
 much assistance from the farm, to 
 which, so far as the manual work this 
 year is concerned, the boys will be 
 directed. I am reasonably certain that 
 even by the time we reach our ulti¬ 
 mate capacity (.300) the cost of keep 
 will not go beyond $20,000 annually. 
 By that time we shall have our or¬ 
 chards, berry patches, fields and in¬ 
 dustrial features so well installed that 
 they will contribute'largely to the sup¬ 
 port. 
 
 The School in Class of Its Own. 
 
 No other institution in the State 
 gives free absolutely all that goes to 
 one’s keep in school. No other in¬ 
 stitution has much concern about the 
 real physical detention of their pu¬ 
 pils—yet the small amount we feel 
 certain we need does not approach 
 per capital 50 per cent of what is 
 asked and given to other institutions. 
 I have been criticised for making a 
 modest request, but I am speaking 
 for the board as well as myself when 
 I say that we do not desire a single 
 dollar that we cannot spend judicious¬ 
 ly and in a way that will best carry 
 out the spirit of our institution. We 
 have a property worth more than 
 $30,000 upon an appropriation of 
 only $10,000. Knowing the temper 
 of my board, the spirit and the en¬ 
 thusiasm of interested friends in the 
 State and out, I am safe in declaring 
 that, when we again give an account 
 of our stewardship, it will be two dol¬ 
 lars for every one the State contri¬ 
 butes. This is the low view, however; 
 for value of a useful life to the State 
 or the condition of* a soul hereafter 
 is not to be figured on these lines. 
 
 The StO'newall Jackson Training 
 School, Mr. Editor, is the response to 
 the demand of humanity. It occupies 
 an important sphere in the activities 
 of the State. It believes all boys un¬ 
 der 16 years of age deserve a chance, 
 other than that in the environment of 
 a criminal. It believes that no boy, 
 violating faw and order, should be 
 turned loose because of his youth; 
 neither does it believe that a great 
 State, directed by such a high class 
 citizenship, should imprison that boy 
 with hardened and diseased criminals 
 "Who have no hope. It believes that 
 hundreds of mothers and fathers, dis¬ 
 tressed over the condition of an in¬ 
 corrigible boy, should have some 
 means of relief other than a prison 
 life for their sons. The spirit that 
 made the Jackson Training School 
 take shape and come into existence 
 believes that it is cheaper and better 
 
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 to control and train a wild, nervous 
 boy than to later on arrest, try, con¬ 
 vict and punish a criminal. And this 
 does not touch that higher and nobler 
 plane which leads us to believe that 
 possibly a useful life and an immortal 
 
 soul may be saved. 
 
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 It Has Friends. 
 
 It is pleasing, because it convinces 
 us of the wisdom of our efforts to 
 have the unanimous and earnest en¬ 
 dorsement of the State Association of 
 County Superintendents and that of 
 the City Superintendents; and it is of 
 peculiar pleasure to feel that the 
 Stonewall Jackson Training School 
 and what it stands for has the strong 
 support of that able educational lead¬ 
 er, Superintendent J. Y. Joyner, who 
 volunteers his personal and official ap¬ 
 proval and help. 
 
 As far as we know the future by 
 present conditions and by the knowl¬ 
 edge of the past, it is a certainty that 
 every educational organization; the 
 orphanages of the State, every min¬ 
 ister and all the charitable organiza¬ 
 tions and humane societies of North 
 Carolina will applaud a generous and 
 kind support from the General As¬ 
 sembly of 1909. 
 
 The Board of Trustees have done 
 their best. It can plan and act in 
 furthering the future of this important 
 educational interest only as the Gen¬ 
 eral Assembly gives it support—the 
 measure of the institution’s future is 
 the measure by which the Legislature 
 deals with it. If they deny support— 
 that, paralyzing the cause, ends the 
 chapter. If they will otherwise, it 
 has in advance the pledge of the 
 Board of Trustees of a faithful service 
 in so far as it has light to do. 
 
 I thank Tlie News and Observer for 
 this opportunity to speak of our in¬ 
 stitution through your influential and 
 widely read journal. 
 
 JAS. P. COOK, Chairman, 
 Board Trustees Stonew^all Jackson 
 Manual Training and Industrial 
 School. 
 
 SAVF THF ERRING BOYS. 
 
 Elsewhere is printed in today’s pa¬ 
 per a full and illuminating statement 
 about the Stonewall Jackson Training 
 School at Concord. It has been pre 
 pared by Mr. J. P. Cook, chairman of 
 the board of trustees by request of 
 the editor of this paper. It is to be 
 hoped that it will be read carefully 
 by every subscriber and his wife, for 
 it is an interesting account of a noble 
 work which has been upon the hearts 
 of some of the best men aind best wo¬ 
 men in North Carolina. It is no in¬ 
 stitution founded to give som.ebody a 
 place or do something for somebody 
 who wanted something for himself. It 
 is an institution born in the hearts of 
 the King’s Daughters—a band of wo¬ 
 men who have wmrthily won the high¬ 
 est name that can be bestowed upon 
 women. They have wrought well, 
 aided by men as unselfish and pa¬ 
 triotic as the State has known in its 
 long history, and the story of what 
 they have done told in today’s paper 
 is one that will wnn the approval of 
 all good people and touch the hearts 
 of many. 
 
 The best hope of the State is in its 
 boys. It is spending much money to 
 educate them, and properly so. These 
 good men and these good women who 
 established the Stonewall Jackson 
 Training School wish to reach out 
 their hands and save the erring boys. 
 There are many boys—(many more, 
 according to Mr. Cook’s statement, 
 than w'e had supposed)—who need 
 the training and drill Vv^hich this Re¬ 
 formatory wall give. It should be 
 made a place for work and self-care, 
 in so far as possible. Mr. Walter 
 Thompson, the superintendent, is a 
 sterling man of wmrth and capacity— 
 the right man in the right place. The 
 directors have paid their own expenses 
 and given of their time and money, 
 and deserve the thanks and gratitude 
 of all good men and w’omen. Mr. 
 Cook, the chairman, has spent his 
 money freely—and he is a poor man— 
 to start the institution. The Legisla¬ 
 ture wall no doubt recognize the im- 
 
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 portance of the work that can be 
 clone and grant the moderate request 
 of the board.— Ediiorial in Raleigh Neics 
 and Observer, Feb. 10, 1900. 
 
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 THE ALANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL. 
 
 We hope the State is duly impressed 
 with the fact that the two first build¬ 
 ings of the Stone .vail Jackson Manual 
 Training School at Concord have been 
 completed and will be open for sixty boys 
 to-morrow. The Legislature gave for 
 this new institution only $10,000. Three 
 hundred acres of splendid land, worth 
 another $10,000, were donated, chiefly 
 by the people of Concoicl. The lowest 
 bid for the erection of the two buildings 
 exclusive of plumbing and heating that 
 could be gotten from any responsible 
 bidder was $16,000, and the trustees and 
 superintendent did their own building. 
 They touched the benevilient heart, here 
 and there, and have, in addition to the 
 land and buildings, a lot of fine farming 
 tools, good stock, a well and waterworks, 
 and have little debt. Several ladies of 
 Concord, individual!v and through their 
 clubs, have furnished the heavy aiticles 
 for the first cottage, such as range and 
 tables; but everything else needed for 
 the furnishing of a home is lacking. To- 
 day is the date fixed for a shower of 
 household furnishings, to be held in one 
 of the new buildings, which will thus 
 have its inaugural. 
 
 Prof. J. P. Cook, chairman of the 
 Board of Trustees, together with the 
 board as a body and Superintendent 
 Walter Thompson, have accomplished 
 wonderful results with the funds in hand 
 and are worthy of all applause. It is 
 a great humanitarian institution they 
 have established, and one which will 
 
 confer life-long benefit upon wayward 
 and unfortunate boys. The people of the 
 State, especially the ladies, will, without 
 doubt, aid them in the work they have 
 undertaken, and the Legislature will, 
 we are sure, be good to them and helpful 
 of the cause in which they are engaged.— 
 Editorial in Charlotte Observer, January 
 n, 1909. 
 
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 ■., N. C., Jan. 9, 1009. 
 
 Dear Sir: —There is in my home a 
 nephew of mine between twelve and thir¬ 
 teen years of age whose parents aie dead. 
 
 My father and mother have had him 
 three years, and during that time have 
 exerted every influence for his better- 
 ment, but to no avail. 
 
 He will leave home in the morning 
 
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 pretending to go to school, return to 
 dinner, and we see no more of him 
 until an ollicer finds him and brings him 
 home liy request, two or three days later. 
 
 His youthful ness and the respect of 
 the people in the town for my father, 
 who is a Confederate veteran 77 years 
 old, are the only things that have kept 
 him from being classed as a criminal. 
 
 Will you please tell me if your insti¬ 
 tution takes such boj^s; if so, what are 
 the requirements? We have done all for 
 him that can be done by persuasion, 
 mentally and physically, and if you can 
 offer us any hope in this case it will be 
 greatly appreciated. 
 
 Wishing you the best of success in 
 training the wayward boys in our State. 
 I am. 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 (Mrs.). 
 
 [For obvious reasons, the town and 
 writer’s name are omitted. This is a 
 sample of nearly two hundred letters 
 received.] 
 
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