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WETHE LAFAYETTE GAZETTE PRINTING NEATLY AND PROMPTLY. iE ILREEV GET OUR PRICES. OPlIOIAL JOURNAL OF THE PARISH AND TOWN OF VOLUME IX. LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1901. NUMBER 23.

II I I II irn THE INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE. PRESIDENT STEPHENS ISSUES THE CIRCULAR OF ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THE FIRST ANNUAL SESSION. AN ABLE CORPS OF TEACHERS SELECTED FOR THE WORK--COURSE OF STUDY AND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION. President Stephens has issued a arranged catalogue making the announcements for the first annual session of the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute. The session will begin at o'clock a.

on Wednesday, September 18, 1go9, and end on Wednesday, May 28, 1902. Examinations for entrance will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. I8 and 19. The second term of the first school-year will begin on Monday, January 27, 1902. THE GIRLS' DORMITORY.

The ladies' boarding club will be open on Tuesday evening, Sept. 17, 19go. The dormitory, a picture of which is printed on this page, is yet incomplete, but will be ready for the opening. It will be a splendid home for the young ladies who will attend the school. Thoroughly modern in all its departments, the boarders will be afforded the best accommodations obtainable.

Mrs. Elizabeth F. Baker, the matron, who will have personal charge of the dormitory, Is, in every respect, eminently qualified for the important duties incumbent upon one who is to exercise parental THE MAIN BUILDING. DORMITORY PARTIALLY DISCLOSED AT THE RIGHT. supervision over a number of young ladies.

It must be understood that the institute is for the girls as much as foi the boys and no efforts will be spared to make the Ladies' Boading Club a pleasant, healthful and attractive home. Board will cost about $12.50 per month. The charges for washing will be about $1.00 ABOUT THE BOYS. The boys will have to board in town. The Gazette Is informed that a number of families in Lafayette will be pleased to take students as boarders at very reasonable prices.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION. Candidates for admission to the first year class must be fourteen years of age, or older, in good health, and prepared for a simple entrance examination in reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic to denominate numbers, elementary geography. A certificate from the principal ot an officially approved high school, or from such other schools as have been accredited upon investigation, showing that the candidate has done satisfactory sixth grade work, will be acccepted for entrance in lieu of an examination. The entrance requirements have purposely been made thus easy in order to give the greatest opportunity to the greatest number. COURSE OE STUDY.

The Industrial Institute offers to boys and girls a rounded course in the academic branches and the manual training pursuits of the secondary school-a course that will provide not only for mental development and culture, but also for the education of the hand as being the most important servant of the brain. It is designed to provide educative material representative of the" humanistic, the scientific and the economic aspects of knowledge, and to fit students both for the better and more intelligent pursuit of the industries of life, and also for the more advanced studies of the college and university. The curriculum, extending through four years of two terms each, will regularly consist of the following subjects: language, history, mathematics, science, music, drawing, gymnastics, and manual training. These subjects are explained as follows: language includes writing, spelling, stenography, english, literature, and French; history includes general history, American history, and civil government; mathematics includes arithmetic, bookeeping, geometry, and algebra; science includes geography, physiology, physics, and chemistry; music includes singing as part of the regular course, and the study of piano, violin, cornet and other orchestral instruments-extra; drawing is freehand, instrumental, mechanical, design, color-work, cast-drawing, and composition; gymnastics includes regular exercises in the gymnasium with apparatus, out door sports, and games; manual training for boys consists of bench-work in wood, wood-carving, wood-turning, pattern-making, molding, forging, and machine-shop work; and manual training for girls includes sewing, draughting, making garments, costume-design, domestic science, cookery, household-sanitation, and care of the sick. SPECIAL COURSES.

The energies of the Institution will be given in greatest part to the work of the regular course of study, and all students are advised, so far as it may be practicable, to take this course, exactly as it is outlined. But an advanced and mature student desiring to elect his subjects of study and take a special course, may do so if he is prepared for the work he elects and -if his program of studies is approved by the president. Special courses will not lead to the regular diploma. Upon the completion of such courses students will receive certificates specifying the subjects studied. Students satisfactorily com pleting the four-year course in dicated in Ihe foregoing will receive the regular diploma of the institute authorized by the State.

The Institute has been particularly fortunate in the selection of the faculty-consisting of Mr. V. L. Roy, of Marksville: Mr. Florent Sontag, of Lafayette; Mr.

L. W. Mayer, of Opelousas; Mr. Ashby Woodson, of Virginia; Miss Gertrude Mayfield, of Ruston; Miss Beverly Randolph, of New Orleans; Miss Edith G. Dupre, of Opeloulsas; Mrs.

Elizabeth F. Baker, of New Orleans. Mr. Roy, the teacher of science, is a native of Avoyelles parish, and is a member of the very large and influential family of that name thri.ughout the French section of the State. He gave early evidence of ability and faithfulness as a student, and when ready for college was elected to the scholarship of Avoyelles parish in the State University at Baton Rouge.

While there he was several times distinguished for his work as a student, and was graduated in 890o with the bachelor's degree in science, win ing the highest honor of his class in that year. Soon after leaving the University Mr. Roy was elected as special lecturer in chemistry in connection with the work of the State Agricultural Department in Southern University, and at the same time pursued special advanced courses in physics and chemistry in Tulane University, under the direction of Prof. Wilkinson and Prof. Brown Ayres.

He later supplemented this training with a course in the University of Chicago. In 1897 he was called to build and organize a high school in Marksville-a work that he has carried forward to the present time with the greatest success. Mr. Roy was married in 1897 to Miss Josephine Sanford, of New Orleans, and has three interesting children. Mr.

Florent Sontag, who will teach music, is one of the most accomplished and most widely known musicians in the State. It is safe to say that a better selection could not have been made. Mr. Sontag was born in Breaux Bridge in 87 1. He is the son of the late Prof.

George Sontag, known and recognized by all lovers of music as an artist of great talent. Mr. Sontag is presently engaged at the Athletic Park in New Orleans. Writing of his work there Stede Bonnet said in The Harlequin: "Mr. Florent Sontag, the cornetist, was a conspicuous part of Band-master Paoletti's very tasteful and entertaining musical programmes on Sunday and Tuesday evenings last, rendering solos.

Harlequin has predicted a brilliant future tor this cornetist, and these first ossays before a New Orleans audience as a soloist seem to have convinced the judicious of the solid foundation for this prophesy. Mr. Sontag phrases with exquisite taste. His tone is as sweet as the caress of a mothervoice. There is none of the flashy display of the Levi method in his work, but there is music-music which would be as much in place and as beautiful in the solitude of deep woods or by the side of the sea, as before" a great audience.

The thought is suggested by a story I once heard related about Levi. This techmical master of the instruinent was once telling a musician of his greatness when the other asked him, "How do you think, sire, your cornet would sound in the quiet of the woods where the birds are making their music?" "The thought of the connection between nature and music was possibly lost on Levi, but it comes back to one as he listens to Sontag. He will figure among the great cornetists, or I mistake me much." Mr. Mayer, who is to have charge of the work in shorthand and typewriting, is also a Louisianian, having THE AUDITORIUM. been born and reared in Opelousas, the son of Prof.

R. Mayer, the distinguished teacher of music in that town. Mr. Mayer comes to this work in the Industrial Institute from a similar work, of which he has -nade a marked success, in the StLandry High. School.

He is a graduate of the Pitman Phono graphic Institute, of Cincinnati, 0., and is thoroughly prepared to do good work. He will also be the secretary of the Institute and cashier of the Boarding Club. Mr. Woodson is from Albemarle County, Virginia, a graduate from the Miller Manual Training School, of that county-the most richly endowed institution of the kind in this country, and, in all respects, one of the most thorough and the best. Mr.

Woodson comes with the high est commendations of Prof. Stone-all Tompkins, whose work in the organization of industrial ediucation and manual training schools in the Southern States has made hiin a ecognized and conspicuous leader in this department of instruction. Mr. Woodson has been for several years, since his graduation, Prof. Tompkins' assistant in the engineering work of the Miller School During the present summer he has been doing actual labor in the niachine shops of Stevens Institute in Jersey City, and is now doing similar work in the shops of Cornell University.

Miss Gertrude Mayfield comes from a well known family in North Louisiana, and is a graduate of the Industrial Institute at Ruston and of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She was excellent in her work as a student in the department of domestic science and economy at Ruston, and, upon graduation there, went THFE fORMITORY FOk GIRkLS IN PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTION. specially to Pratt Institute to make herself perfect in preparation to be a teacher in the branches of this department of study. In this she has admirably succeeded, and taught two years successfully since her return from Brooklyn, she comes now to the work here with the richest possible experience. Miss Randolph, the teacher of drawing and gymnastics, is a graduate of the Art School of Newcomb College, and is regarded by Prof.

Woodward, the director of that school, as one of his best pupilsand excellently qualified to organize and build up the department of drawing in the Industrial Institute. She will also have charge of the gymnasium, having had the benefit of the splendid training to be obtained from Miss Clara G. Baer, the director of the Newcomb gymnasium. She is now spending the summer at Monteagle, taking special courses in her favorite subjects and preparing herself the better for the year's work here. Miss Beverly Randolph is of a family well known in New Orleans.

Her mother is the Librarian of Newcomb College, and her grandfather Mr. Parham, was for many years identified with the educational interest of the city as president of the Board of Education. Miss Edith Garland Dupr6, of Opelousas, who is to have charge of the work in both English and French, is a daughter of Mr. Laurent I)upre, and is already well known, through a large family over all this section of the State. Her education has been thorough and she has received the highest commendation from teachers upon her work in school and college.

She was prepared for college at home in the St. Landry High School, and successfully entered Newcomb College in New Orleans, from which she was graduated with honors in Igoo. Since her graduation she has been engaged in teaching in Fairmount School, Monteagle Tenn. Her scholarly attainments and her thorough knowledge of both languages make her peculiarly well fitted for the department she will direct in the Industrial Institute. The Institute is fortunate in having found it possible to obtain so excellent a person as Mrs.

Elizabeth Fowles Baker of New Orleans, to have charge of the dormitory for girls and, in fact, to take the place of.a mother to the young ladies placed in her care. Mrs. Baker is in every sense a matronly woman, and haq proved herself a most successful housekeeper by the experience of having taken boarders at her home in New Orleans during a number of years. Mrs. Baker is of prominent tamily connections in both this State and Mississippi.

She is a sister of Miss Anna Fowles, one of the teachers in the Louisiana Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, and of the late Mrs. J. O. Fuqua, of Baton Rouge. Gaston Blot, Homer Durio, Placide Guilbeau, H.

Simoneau and M. Colomb returned home a few days ago after having had a delightful time at Leesville. They are indebted to Mr. G. H.

Guilbeau for a most pleasurable trip. A WHITE STATE. Statistics Give Louisiana a White Majority of Makes a Splendid Showing. Statistics recently given out by the census authorities show that Louisiana is a white State by an overwhelming majority. The white population exceeds the colored by In x89o there was a black majority of 1,797.

This rapid Caucasian increase is very significant. Viewed from a political, industrial or social standpoint this is a victory of the greatest importance. Louisiana may well congratulate itself upon such fine results. Lafayette is among the parishes which have helped to give Louisiana a white majory. As will be seen by the following figures, since 1870 this parish has never failed to show marked gains for the white race.

To-day there are nearly more whites than negroes in this parish. The various censuses since x86o show the following division of population by races: WVHIrrE. COLORED. 1860 4,307 ...........4,694 1870..................... 5,631 ......................4 .755 188o 7,694 ..........5,541 189o 9,080 .............6.......

,884 1900 13,309 ...................9.516 Felix Mouton will write an insurance policy on your life or property. Fred Courtney leaves to-morrow to spend some time at Biloxi. A handsome line of fancy summer ribbons at greatly reduced prices at Mrs. Bailey's millinery store. Simeon Begnaud visited Crowley this week.

S. R. Parkerson went to New Orleans Thursday on business. Ralph Voorhies left this week for New Orleans and Bay St. Louis.

He will spend several days at the latter place. Delays are dangerous. Do not neglect your insurance any longer. See J. R.

Domengeaux at Bank of Lafayette. SO. PAC. SCUHEDULE. Wsot Bound.

Anrralvs. LEAVas. No. 7 :53 a. m.

s. No. 9 ..............330 p. East Bound. ARRIVES.

LEAVES. No. 8 a. .3235 a. m.

No. 6 :45 a. m. s5 p. No.so :2................:5 p.

:45 m. ALEXANDRIA BRANCH. No. 78, arrives at a. m.

No. 79. leaves at 2:25 p. m. Church Notice.

METHODIST CHURCH. C. C. Wier, pastor. Preaching every Sunday at xx a.

m. and p. in Sunday scho.ol to a. m. League, Sunda' evening 7:15.

Prayer meeting, Wednesday Pm. Song service, Friday 7:30 m. GOO.D ROADS. The Convention Faals to Materialize-IPresident Billeauad Will Issue Another Owing to the very small attendance it was decided to postpone the good roads convention to a future date, to be fixed by President Billeaud, of the Police Jury. Mr.

C. C. Brown, who was to preside over the meeting, announced to the few persons present that a postponement had been decided upon. Mr. Brown expressed regret at the evident indifference of the people to a matter of such vital importance.

He said that the people should be heard from on this question and that another opportunity would be afforded them to come together and express their views. President Billeaud would issue a call for another convention, which, he hoped, would be largely attended. It is certainly to be hoped that more people will respond to the neat call. Numerically the town of Lafayette was very poorly represented at the meeting. There were four citizens of the town present.

The business and professional men of the town should exert themselves in this movement. The town should join hands with the country. Both are greatly interested in good roads. Pilette Post-Ofame. The post-office department has established a post-office at Pilette, in this parish, with Mr.

J. O. Broussard as post-master. The new office will give needed postal facilities to a considerable number of people. J.

R. Domengeaux will write insurance on your life, your house, store, stock of merchandise, furniture, barn, cotton gin, in fact, all classes of risks placed at current rates. Misses Eugenie and Cecile Doucet leave to-day for Donaldsonville, where they will spend about a fortnight. They will be accompanied by their brother, Jacques, now a resident of Donaldsonville. but who has been In Lafayette several days.

Asbestine paint is the cheapest and most durable. For sale at Nicholson's. For a Graded School. Our remarks last Saturday advocating the estabhshment of a graded school at this place, may have been construed as a reflection upon the Lafayette High School, but we wish to state that it was not our intention to detract from the merit of that institution. On the contrary, we recognize fully the good work that it is doing.

We believe, however, that Lafayette needs improved educational facilities to meet the new conditions. The present school buildings are totally inadequate and in recent years the sessions have been altogether too short. A modern school building is badly needed. It be put up I in as central a point as possible. i The town schools should be in one building and under the control of one principal.

With a central or graded school to prepare the pupils to enter the Industrial Lafayette will" be able to boast of educational advantages equal to those of any other town in the State. Latayette has an excellent op nity to become the educa center of Southwest judging it by its record we fled in predicting that it willthe most of its.