Besides large parlors and society rooms, there are rooms for 150 students in the building.
The heating is by steam and every precaution has been taken for comfort and for safety.
A frame building is used exclusively for recitation rooms. It will accommodate 350 students, so that ample provision has been made for all who can attend.
The value of the entire property is $100,000.
It has an industrial school in connection, in the way of carpenter-shop, printing office, tin-shop, and surgery school.
In about 1889 there was a Medical School established at New Orleans University, and up to 1892 the first class graduated. The charter of the institution admits students of this school to practise in its wards; also admits them to practise in the State of Louisiana.
Rev. L. G. Adkinson, A. M., D. D., the president, is a man of great ability and has accomplished great good during his professorship.
COOKMAN INSTITUTE.
Cookman Institute is located at Jacksonville, Fla. The beginning of this Institute was very unpretentious. It was started in 1872, simply to do good among the colored people in the immediate locality. Prof. H. R. Bankerd is president.