Industrial School in Jamaica by J. B. Beckner

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 19, 1906

Industrial School in Jamaica

By J. B. Beckner

Jamaica

KINGSTON.—We secured subscription pledges to the amount of fourteen hundred and fifty dollars toward our industrial school, to be paid within the year. On the strength of this, we bought sixty-five acres in a valley, about twenty-five miles from Kingston, one and one-half miles from Bog Walk railway station. It has a good house, built only six years ago, which will make a good dormitory. The purchase price is fourteen hundred and sixty-one dollars. We also took a lease and sale on forty-one acres adjoining this property. The purchase price of this will be eleven hundred and seventy dollars. The rent at this price will be about three per cent. Our people are very enthusiastic over the prospect of a school, which we have so long needed. We expect all the clearing and building to be done by the students. Already nine stout, hearty young men have promised to come and begin work as soon as we shall have possession of the property, which will be the tenth of June.

Our rainy season is now on, and workers report that this is interfering with the meetings. J. B. BECKNER.