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& i Come to Atlanta, the Gate City of the Sunny South! s=
A City that will double its population during the next decade. Before the close of the afternoon of the 19th century, this thriving, pushing city will exceed in population and volume of business that of any other city of the
Great South, and in time rival Chicago. The young men and young women of today must do the world’s work of tomorrow, and those who are professionally trained in business will work in the top branches, where, as
Webster says: “There’s always room.” Thus come to Atlanta. Educate for business at the Atlanta Business University and be ready to enter a successful business life in this great, growing city. Do not console your
selves with the soothing, “There’s a Divinnity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how you willbut rather know that life is real and that we are the architects of our own fortunes. Get the one thing needful, a
thorough business education, whose foundation is honesty, energy and perseverance. Then concentrate all your energies and efforts in one direction, and depend upon it, success will crown your efforts.
AHTT A X T r T" A
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TO THE ¥Ol NG MEN
Anri Young; Women of the tieeot South.
The Atlanta Journal has kindly con
sented to bear for uh a message to the
thousands of homes throughout Georgia
and the sunny .South where its elean,
bright pages are ever welcome. We de
sire to assure those who contemplate
seeking an institution where a practical
education may be obtained that the
course of study in the Atlanta Business
University is as complete and practical
as thorough preparation, long experi
ence and untiring effortscan make it.
Our faculty is composed of the best edu
cators that this country affords; our
location is the best and most central in
the city; our methods are equal to those
of the best business schools of the North :
our “office practice reproduced in the
school room" is the first of its kind in
the South, and our actual business prac
tice and practical banking affords an op
portunity for advanced work not found
in any other school in Atlanta.
Especial attention is called to the
course of study, the text books list'd, the
different schools in the university, and
the personnel of the faculty. We particu
larly ask you to first visit every other
business college in the city before visiting
our school, then come ami investigate
our methods and see the different depart
ments in operation. “Seeing is believ
ing,” and by contrast we thrive. Never
have we lost a student who has visited
each of the several schools in Atlanta.
We have a product to, sell, not in stock
elsewhere. "Keep thy stock and thy
stock will keep thee," is as true of busi
ness colleges as of merchants. And yet
the business man who has never bought
goods except by a cash standard, based
on quality and style, will often send a son
to a business college of which he knows
nothing.
THE INIVEBSITV
T-. Officers and Manager..
E. S. Curtis —President and Superintend
ent of the Course of Instruction.
M. .J. Walker—Vice-President and Corre
sponding Secretary.
K. .1. Maclean —Treasurer and Recording
Secretary.
Maclean. Curtis ami Walker —Managers.
I * of I>p |»h rfmenr*.
M. .1. Walker—Normal graduate, princi
pal of public schools, expert stenog
rapher and court reporter of the At
lanta Circuit.
R. J. Maclean—Normal graduate, gradu
ate of the Rochester Business I tdver
sity.superintendent of public schools,
late principal of the School of Busi
ness of Albert University, Belleville,
Ont.
Joseph IL Shepard—Normal graduate,
graduate of the Frobisher School of
Oratory, New York: of the Philadel
phia School of Elocution, and private
pupil of Vandenhoff, teacher of the
English royal family.
E. S. Curtis—Normal graduate, “tale
normal teacher, graduate of the P.ry
ant & Stratton Commercial college.
Buffalo, New York: formerly profes
sor of Mathematics and Methods in
Fairfield Military academy; formerly
professor of mathematics, natural
science and history in Amsterdam
academy, and late “Principal of the
counting room department and
teacher of the science and technicali
ties of accountantship, special forms,
auditing and “short methods” in the
Rochestei Business University, Roch
ester, N. Y'.
11* Schools.
Business and Finance.
Short ham? and Correspondence.
Penmanship ami Art.
Business Preparatory.
Elocution and Oratory.
Civil Service Preparatory.
Normal Training ami Auditing.
Our Bent Friend*.
We refer with pleasure to the following
graduates and students of other business
colleges, who are now students of the
University:
Prof. L. B. McCrorey, Prof. J.M. Akins.
A. L. Oslin, .1. T. Cooper, Dan i McGuirk,
Prof. R. N. Hadley, R. J. McDougall,
Miss Lola Wilson,C. H. Brock. Miss Stella
Tomlin, Bellett Lawson, Solomon Serf,
W. T. Young.
The following are students who spent
some time investigating the different
schools of the city, and then entered the
University,
Prof. L. B. McCrorey, graduate of a
business college,now taking the teachers’
course.
Prof. J. M. Akins, for three years teach
er in a business college in this city, now
taking the course in auditing and prac
tical banking.
Prof. S. T. Grimes, formerly of the T< ch
nological school, Atlanta, nowtakingthe
full course.
In Faculty.
It. .1. Maclean—Principal of the School
of Business, teacher of penmanship,
science of bookkeeping, commercial
law and business correspondence.
M. J. Walker—Principal of the School of
Shorthand and Correspondence and
teacher of expert stenography, punc
tuation, typewriting and manifold
work.
Joseph H. Shepard—Principal of the
School of Elocution and Oratory,
and teacher of voice culture, modu
lation and aesthetic gymnastics.
E. G. Langley—Principal of the School
of Penmanship and Art. and teacher
of pen and architectural drawing.
Miss EllaMenko—Preceptress and teach
er of typewriting, shorthand and
English branches.
Mrs. M. Josephine Winder Curtis —Prin-
cipal of the Preparatody School and
teacher of Kindergarten Methods,
Rhetoric and Algebra.
E. S. Curtis—Principal of the Normal
Training school ami teacher of math
ematics, rapid calculations, business
practice,auditing and practical bank
ing
L*c’ iirar*.
A. F. Cooledge—Official court reporter
of Atlanta, on phonetic shorthand
and court reporting.
I). T. Ames,of the Penman's Art Journal,
New York city—on The Real and the
Ideal in business writing.
Prof. Geo. Soubie—of New Orleans —On
Advanced Methods in Accounting.
Albert E. Howell, of Dorsey, Brewster
& Howell —On Commercial Law-
Jacob Hass, of the Capital City bank of
Atlanta —On Banking and Credit
Making.
It* location.
The University is located in the heart
of the city,at the corner of Whitehall and
Alabama streets, the former the leading
retail.and the latter the leading wholesale
street of Atlanta. In the immediate neigh
borhood are the post office, public li
brary, all of the leading banks, and the
offices of The Journal and Constitution.
Students of the University come in con
tact with the rush of business and the
friction produced by contact with minds
stronger than their own They see the
plodders in business out-distanced by
the wide-awake business men, while
the industrious, methodical pushers
are the ones who succeed. These
facts alone are sufficient to illus
trate the necessity of not only a great
business center like Atlanta for a business
training school, the surroundings of
which act as an inspiration to the stu
dent. but also the location of a practical
training school should be among business
houses where business life ami energy are
apparent. The boy from home, in the
country or from hamlet or village, needs
this contact with city life. His mind be
comes emancipated ; ids intellect sluggish
ami running in grooves in the country
home, becomes brightened and invigorat
ed ;his ideas of men ami affairs are broad
ened and be is brought in sympathy with
thi' progress ami methods of business as
it transpires in a great city like Atlanta.
Statistics show that three-fourths of the
country boys drift to the city, and that
nine-tenths of the business men of New
York were once country boys.
The Atlanta Business University pre
pares its students for business at the
place of thelrpossibleand probablefuture
field of labor.
It. Offices and Departments.
Upon arriving in the city, as one pass
es from the union depot one block west
to Whitehall street, and looks up White
hall one block, he reads the name reach
ing across an entire block,“Atlanta Busi
ness University.” The entrance is on
Whitehall street, and a wide, open and
well lighted stairway leads to the recep
tion landing of the University. At the
right an entrance door is lettered “Stu
dents’ Entrance A. B. U.” At the left a
door lettered “Office Atlanta Business
W. A. Wright, of the Atlanta police
force, now taking the complete course.
Conrad Von Pomoski, late of Norway,
now taking the complete course.
Miss N. Dekle, of Excelsior, now taking
the shorthand course.
Geo. It. Harvey, bookkeeper for the
Thomas Ki.k Mfg. Co., now takiing the
full expert course.
Bertie Freyer, Marietta,Ga., full course
business and shorthand.
Thomas Glenn, city, full shorthand
course.
Jno. W. Haden, bookkeeper for the
Hoch Lumber Co., is taking the full busi
ness and auditing course.
G. N. Wilkinson, late of the Interior
Department at Washington, and son of
the late Col. Wilkinson of the Atlanta
Constitution, is taking the full business
course.
T. J. Morgan, bookkeeper and assist
ant manager for David Morgan, whole
sale manufacturer of harness and sad
dlery goods, is taking the advanced
course.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1894.
University” opens to a large and elegant
ly furnished office and reception room,
where students ami visitors arealways
welcome. Near by is the president’s
desk, and opposite is the desk of the sec
retary and treasurer. To the left a door
lettered "Initiatory and Intermediate
Departments,” opens into the assembly
room of the University, well furnished,
lighted ami homelike, while immediately
connected; with a southern exposure, is
a class room and department of Short
hand and Typewriting. In this room are
held the elocution recitals, the society
meetingsand the banquets of the school.
Returning to the office, a door is noticed
to the right lettered, “Department of
Business Practice.” This room is espe
cially fitted up for counting room work
the offices being fitted up similar to the
selling and purchasing agencies in New
York. As you enter this department a.
ATLANTA
BUSINESS
fcl UNIVERSITY.
Corner Whitehall and Alabama Streets.
Maclean, Curtis & Walker,
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wide, open, general office extends across
the room, separated from smaller offices
by low railings in grill work and cherry.
At the right is the office of R. J. Maclean
& Co., selling agents, and Exchange Na
tional Bank. At the left is the Syndicate
Dry Goods house of M. J. Walker & Co.
Beyond is the commission house of Mac
lean & Walker, and across the hall that
of “Dixie Transportation Co.” The last
two offices do exclusive business with
outside commission and transportation
houses connected with other business
colleges, and make their exchanges
through the Dixie Commercial Bank of
the Atlanta Business University. Opening
from this department and fronting on
Whitehall street and Alabama street,
F. M. Kaufmann, city, full business
course.
H. I*. Bigham, son of Rev. Mr. Bigham.
Newnan. Ga., now taking the course in
shorthand and correspondence.
W. T. Camp of Fort Worth, Texas, now
taking the experts’course in stenographic
shorthand and court reporting.
D. F. Crosland of Bartow, Florida, a
practical bookkeeper and typist, now
taking the full course in each department.
Miss Marie Louise Storer of Atlanta,
taking the combined course in each de
partment.
Miss Anne Lee Smith of Stephens, Ga.,
taking the combined course.
R. Torrence of Gastonia, N. C., taking
the full business course and special ad
vanced course.
Miss Stella Tomlin of Butler, now tak
ing the advanced work.
Geo. W. Adair, son of Col. G. W. Adair,
of real estate fame, now taking the com
plete course in business practice, auditing
and banking.
| is the home of the Dixie Commercial
I Bank, occupying as it does the entire
room. Tli<> furniture ami arrangements
are an exact counterpart of a well-regu
lated bank. The furniture is quartered
oak. surmounted by an elevation of grill
| work. As you enter the bank from the
office department, you approach the
"Cashier” window,and beyond are other
openings to the bank, lettered, "New
York Exchange,” “Paying Teller,” “ Re
ceiving Teller,” “Loans and Discounts."
and “Bookkeeper.” Baek of this is the
large safe lettered, "Dixie Commercial
Bank," and the business counters upon
which is conducted the detail work of the
bank during the hours of business.
School of shortliaiKl and Correspondence
In this department of the University
students are instructed in the bestmod
ern methods of Shorthand, Typewriting
and Correspondence. Those who com-
plete the course are qualified to take po
sitions as private secretaries, steno
graphic law clerks, amanuenses and pho
nographic corresponding clerks, in bank
ing, in insurance, brokerage, railroading,
manufacturing, corporations, and gener
al office practice.
The practical plan of individual in
struction as adopted enables the stu
dents to become proficient in the short
est possible time and with a knowledge
of details that prepares them for a busi
ness life. The course includes business
correspondence in general, legal matter
covering affidavits, complaints, deposi
tions, etc., invoices, tabulated work,
price currents, trade reports, circulars,
speeches and a thorough course in coni-
L. B. Coley, formerly bookkeeper in the
city comptrollers’ office, taking the full
business course.
J. E. S. Davis, formerly bookkeeper in
Gress’ bank, now taking the advanced
work in auditing and banking.
Miss Mollie Holton of Rochelle, Ga.,
now taking the full business course.
F. W. Bradt, son of Col. Bradt, piano
dealer and contractor, taking the full
business course.
J. YV. YVaits, oil merchant of Oil City,
Penn., taking a full expert course while
spending a vacation in theSouth for rest.
E. I’. YValdrop of this city, contractor,
taking the shorter course in business.
The following teachers have been in
the school of penmanship and art: Miss
Annie Ray Swift, Miss Daisy Davies, Miss
Leila Patton, Miss Ida Guthman.
The above is but a partial list of stu
dents in attendance, to whom we refer
with great pleasure, knowing as we do
that our students are our recruiting
agents.
mercial and office work.
The demand for stenograpelirs mid
typewriters is positive and increasing.
The demand is greater than lite supply.
A good English education is necessary as
a preparation for shorthand work, but
where an applicant is deficient facilities
are afforded fol-securing such knowledge.
Typewriting receives the same atten
tion, as regards thoroughness mid speed
as in shorthand. Shorthand ability is
not taught with typewriting inefficiency.
Tlie business man cares more for neat
ness and accuracy of transcript thanfor
speed in dictation, and hence no pains is
spared in advancing students to this
standard of excellence.
The shorthand writer who can take a
hurried, bungling dictation from mi em
ployerand then translate it into a clear,
concise letter is always appreciated, and
commands a good salary. Business eor-
respondenee is made a special subject in
this department. YVilliams & Rogers’
Text Book on Correspondence is used, and
in the hands of a faithful teacher, tin
crude and uncertain productions of be
ginners are soon changed into dear and
concise communications. Besides class
room work, a large amount of corre
spondence is involved in the Department
of Business Practice. Ladiesare particu
larly adapted to the study of stenogra
phy. The study is interesting, is soon
mastered and the remuneration is more
than for employment in other avenues
open to them. When combined with a
knowledge of bookkeeping, the opportu
nities for securing gooil paying situa
tions are frequent.
Test imonials.
From the Board of Directors, First Na
tional Bank, Gloversville, N.Y’.: "Mr.
E. S. Curtis was employed by us as an
expert accountant to prepare the papers
and books for trial in the case of Brown
ell et al. vs. the Directors of the First Na
tional Bank, Gloversville, N. Y. As
such he audited the record of six years’
work, traced every item in the books,
traced the record of forged paper, and
filed a final report to the entire satisfac
tion of the directors and their attorneys.
YVe recommend him as a first class ex
pert accountant in every respect.”
Kindergarten.
A Department of Kindergarten on the
Quincy method, in charge of Mrs. M. Jo
sephine Winder Curtis, will be opened
during the coming week. Beautiful par
lors will be fitted up for the children, be
sides a playground among birds, flow
ers and shady groves when spring comes
on. Information may be obtained at
the University.
Thc Munson system of phonographic
shorthand is used in this department, it
is t he same system used by Packard, YV al
worth, t iaines and Wright, in New York
and Brooklyn. They teach it in their
schools because the business demands of
their patrons are better supplied with
students educated in this system. In
the typewriting department the latest
and best machines are used. Here are
found the Smith Premier, the Hammond,
Remington. ( .digraph, Yost and Den
more. Students are taught on any or
| all. and are thus given that variety of ed
ucation mid management of machines
so essential to the export operator.
Our Price*.
For prices in any one or all of the
[ different schools send for illustrated cir
culars and catalogue. We have but one
price for tuition and books, and under
no circumstances do we discount our
terms except a fixed rate of discount to
ladies mid to children of ministers. Any
school that will cut its prices to secure a
student admits in advance its own infe
riority. and should be so recognized by
applicants. We have never discounted
or jobbed off our tuition and never shall
while we run a business university. Our
I prices are the same as the respectable
schools of the North, and in investing in
business education remember that the
best is always the cheapest.
The Cllnottic Superiority of Atlanta.
Atanta is out' of the most favored cities
of the sunny south in its climatic sur
j roundings. Ha ving an altitude of 1,159
I feet above tile sea level, it escapes the
| unbearable heat found in the low coun
ties near the coast, where frequently the
thermometer ranges from 70 to 115 de
grees. making it impossible for students
jto pursue intelligently any course of
| study. In Atlanta the average heat dur
ling the summer months does not often
exceed 70 degrees, and the exhilarating
breeze from both the Atlantic and gulf
come daily to drive away disease germs
mid affords an atmosphere found in no
other pari of Hie Uni-ted States except in
Hie foot hills of the Pacific. Malaria is
unknown here, and the germs of yellow
fever, cholera and kindred diseases do
not thrive nt this altitude. Since health
| is the first consideration to every young
man or young woman, these are facts
not to be overlooked in determining
where to attend, while obtaining a busi
ness education.
THE OFFICE PRACTICE.
The office practice is the crowning part
of the University course. The student
lays aside the duties of a student and be
comes an active, potential factor in a
business world in which lie does business
with real estate houses, commission
houses, transportation lines, jobbing
houses, selling and collection agencies,
banking houses,clearing houses ami many
mercantile concerns. No fictitious names,
dates or transactions are employed.
Everything is real. Office practice is re-
OFFICE
FRANK E. BLOCK COMPANY,
JOBBERS OF
Fancy Groceries, Tobacco, Cigars and Snuff.
ATLANTA, GA., February 2, 1894.
TO THE PUBLIC:
1 ha ve had the pleasure of going through, and examining the various depart
ments of the Atlanta Business University, corner Whitehall and Alabama streets,
and find it an excellent institution, complete in every department, and perfect in
system and management.
It has a well arranged office for doing a general banking business, with fine ex
pensive books, bank stationery, etc., for that purpose. Ido not believe there is a
better school anywhere for business training of every kind.
I would recommend this school to any and all who wish to prepare themselves
for the future as business men and women.
A number of ladies have entered this institute of business training, besides
many gentlemen, and. 1 believe, it will ere long be the largest business school in the
south, not only, but in the United States.
J. J. THULKELD,
Bookkeeper for Frank E. Block Co.
School of Norin il Training.
For many years past the principal o
this department has been favored with
the attendance of many teachers in his
normal training school. They came to
prepare for commercial teaching, while a
large number came to improve their
knowledge in certain branches and
strengthen their method wofk by giving
to their teaching a practical directness
in special branches, such as penmanship,
bookkeeping, correspondence, business
arithmetic and commercial law, and a
familiarity with business methods. The
training is of especial importance. Those
who take the full course and in addition
Business Practice and Banking, are
stronger and better prepared in every re
respetto carry on their own method of in
struction, while thecompleted course is an
open door to larger and more remunera
tive fields of usefulness.
produced and the student, now a busi
ness man, brings into use the business
ideas and knowledge developed in the
theoretical department.
During the live weeks required to com
plete the office practice, the experience
gained involves the opening and closing
of many sets of books, besides perform
ing the business.during the regular hours
of business and in the regular way, and
the making of a competent record there
for .based on the voucher system.
Two banks are in operation, whose
customers are the students of the Busi
ness Practice department, the different
offices, and with the different banks and
commission houses of at least thirty busi
ness colleges of the United States and
Canada.
The Dixie Commercial bank sustains
the same relations with its customers as
a regular chartered bank does with the
business world. Its books are opened
pursuant to the requirements of the Na
tional Banking act, except, of course,
that its circulation is university paper
instead Stock is issued to its
shareholders audits crisp bills and Ger
man silver coin is the circulating medium
of its patrons. It receives money and
cash paper on deposit, makes loans and
discounts, cashes, and certifies checks
drawn upon it, issues certificates of de
posit. sells New Y ork exchange,discounts
notes, issues cashiers’ checks, makes its
exchanges through the clearing house,
and conducts its affairs on the most im
proved banking system.
The books of the Dixie Con. aercial
bank were made to order in New York,
and are copied by permission from one
of the leading banks in this city. The
forms in use were also copied from sam -
ples furnished, and are gotten up in the
most artistic style of engraving. During
the time spent in the bank, the student
performs the duties of exchange clerk,
clearing house clerk, receiving and paying
teller,discount clerk and bookkeeper, and
finally renders daily cash proofs, state
ments at the close of business, and gen
eral trial balances.
The work in this department is decided
ly actual banking, based and conducted
upon the experience and settled customs
of operations in monetary affairs. The
manager in charge of this department
has the experience of a bank examiner
and refers with pleasure to his former
pupils,who are nowengaged in the bank
ing business, among whom may be men
tioned : President Livermore of the Cal
houn bank, Calhoun, Ga.; I. M. Miller,
cashier of Franklin County bank, Pa.;
and Leslie Campbell, bookkeeper of the
First National bank of Brookville, Pa.,
and also L. B. Smith, bans examiner in
the Robertson chain of banks in Florida ,
with headquarters in Tampa.
We refer by permission to Mr, G. Y.
Gress of this city, president of the Geor
gia Loan, Savings & Banking Co., who
lias personally inspected the offices, and
to Judge Dorsey of the law firm of Dor
sey, Brewster & Howell, to whom in
quiries may be addressed. The following
communications explain themselves-
Entert ahtmen t**
Believing that -‘all work and no play
makes Jack a dull boy,” the faculty have
arranged tlie following for each month:
On the first Friday night of each
month an elocution recital by Prof.
Shepard ami his class: on the second Fri
day night of each month, a literary enter
tainment by the A. B. U. literary socie
ty; on the third Friday night of each
month, a reception and social by the stu
dents and teachers to their friends; on
the fourth Friday night of each month,
an evening of song, recitation and frolic
at the “teachers home.” One of the
pleasant features of the University is the
good feeling and family-like loyalty that
exists among the students, as well as
promptness in attendance, uniform de
portment and general observance of
those unwritten rules that make the
true lady and true gentleman.
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