North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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py— , , t— . .-1 i—t r— « I— lii-v i-x;— X y- K— 1 — T r-y i-x r=3 1 H THE WATAUGA CLUB i - I ■ I H - I I - - I I I. tlie spring of 1884 a small gnmp of ak-rt-miinkd, forward-locking, and anti-conventional voung men of Raleigh agreed, on a street eorner near the postoftice, to organize a new cluh. This chih, even m the scarcity ul clnhs, at that time, was to he unlike any other in Xorth Carolina in its spirit and purpose. Its purpose was almost radical enough to he state l m this way; This cluh is out of harmony with the entire economic life of the State. Its memhers arc not vet e.xactlv sure what tliat life ought to he, hut give them time and they will find out. and inform the State. Their mission was to shake old-fogyism into dust, and awaken the State to industrial activity hy gathering and disseminating facts and ideas that might stimulate utilitarian progress! Hear the irreverent words of these young innovators in regard to the State ' s attitude on financial and industrial t|uestions : We proceed, says their prospectus, upon the assumption, wliich cannot he denied, that there is in our communitv a serious lack of accurate and practical information upon the most common economic questions which arise for our consideration. Lest advancing years might ha e de-troyed iconoclastic initiative, no man over thirty-six was eligililc for memliership. The memhers, who were in a few years so widely scattered as to lireak up the cluh, were as follows; W. J. Peele, an altruistic lawyer, who was the sug.gestor and prime iiromoter of the cluh: Walter Mines Page, then editor of the l ' ci ' ,- v Chronicle: . IX Jones, lawyer, and suhsequently consul at Sh;inghai: .Arthur VVinslow, a graduate of tlie .Massiichusetts Institute of Technology, whose successful engineering work led the clul) to duh him Exhihit .A in its endeavors to secure an industrial school: Charles V. Dahney, jr., then State Chemist, later president of the University of Tennessee and of the L ' niversity of Cincinnati: VV. E. .Ashley, an educated contractor: John W. Thompson, who hecamc judge of the Panama Court; George E. Leach, cotton factor, and secretary to tlie cluh: Charles 0. Latta, manufacturer. Later in the cluh ' s career, W. S. Primrose, President of the .Vorth Carolina Home Insurance Coni- |):mv ; ' Thomas W. Dixon, Jr., novelist, playwright and minister: and Josephus Daniels, editor and puhlicist, were elected to memliership. Dr. R. H. Leivis, for so many years executive officer of the State Hoard of Health, was for a -liort time a memher. The club met twice a month, usually al ihe home of one of its memhers, and confined its official disctissions to material questions. Its informal t.ilk, as one easily infers from the versatile minds of its memhers, took each memher gadding over wide ranges of intellectual territory. The clul) soon focalized its efforts on tlie cstahlishment of an industrial school in Xorth Carolina. -At the December, 1884, meeting, a committee was appointed with instructions to present to the cluh a definite repc)rt on the |)racticahility of establishing an industrial school. The report of this commit- tee was to be submitted to the approacliing legislature. Mr. .Arthur Wiiislow drew up a carefully prepared report, and read it to the club. The report met the warm approval of tlie memhers. This was followed on January 15, 1885, by a set of resolutions iiitrodiu-e l by . ir. Walter llines Page. These were :is follows ; Nt-solTcd, That a Commitiee be appointed lo memorialize the Legislature in the name of (he club to estalilish an industrial school in Xorth Carolina, and respectfully offer to the Legislature, or a projier committee thereof, all the information on tlie subject in the possession of the elui) ; that the committee he empowered, if need l)e, to publish such information also. This resolution was adopted, and Messrs. W. H. Page, .Arthur anil W. J. Peele were named as the committee. This committee, with the assistance of Cliarles W. Dabnc , Jr.. l roposed memorial. The memorial embraced tliese suggestions; I ' irst. that as a training place in the wealth-producing arts and sciences. Legislature should establish an industrial scIkioI, equip it properly, and maintain it as a State institution. Sccniicl. that the school should be localed in Raleigh in connection with the State Department of .Agriculture. Thircl. that the instruction should cover courses in wood-work, mining, metallurgy, and practical agriculture, and that necessary shops and laboratories he erected Willsl, lirepared the - i1 - - ■TV — Y If— T V — Y t—X-T=