A primarily handwritten draft of an article from a retired Santa Cruz Sentinel and Santa Cruz Surf reporter. He goes over the history of Chesnutwood's Business College, a local college which ran independently from the 1880s to the 1900s before merging with Heald's Business College.

Transcript:

Original copy by Ernest Otto
(written several weeks before his death.)
This ran Sun. Nov. 20/55

Old Timer-
The first business college
in Santa Cruz was Chest-
nutwoods Business Col-
lege, and was started
in the late eighties.
The principal and owner
was Prof J A Chesnutwood
and it was started in

the old "Rink" building and [?]
the Pacific Ocean Stars[?]
dance hall.
It was a rapidly grow-
ing college as there were
only a couple in San
Francisco and one in
San Jose as competitors.
Besides its many local

students, they came from
all near by towns, especially
Watsonville, Gilroy, Hollister,
Salinas, Monterey.
In the San Joaquin valley
many came from Tulare,
Visalia, Stanford and
Fresno.

Woodland was also
a town to send many
students.
There were no terms, but
it was individual work,
and each worked separately
and likely no two in
the school were doing

the same work, at the same time.
Five or six months was
the shortest time and
some who were slow
might spend a year.
It was in the day of
Spencerian penmanship
and Professor Chestnutwood

had a perfect hand.
In all the fairs were
exhibits "This is a speci-
men of my penmanship
when I entered Chestnut-
woods Business College"
[?] and below it would
be "This is a specimen of

my penmanship - months
after starting to attend
Chestnutwoods Business
College" These alone won
many pupils to this
school. These where genuine
"Before" and "After" samples
Boys from out of town
received board in private

homes for $14, a month.
One could do all the home
work they desired and
the majority worked until
midnight on the book
keeping, but the landlady
did not furnish the
kerosene or coal oil, as it was before

the days of electricity
nor was the fuel furnished
for the small box stoves
in the [crossed out] rooms
of the student. [crossed out]
Many made a living
by boarding the pupils
at the low rate of $14

[The remainder is typewritten.]
a month.
The college soon outgrew the quarters in the along the Pacific Ocean House alley and the second floor of the three story Hihn building at the corner of Pacific avenue and Walnut avenue. It was an immense room usually with every desk occupied.