St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-29
THEPEABoDY EDUCATION FUND

THE PEABODY EDUCAI1ON O->H'
One of the most magnificent as well as
the most useful charities of the worlds his
torv was the donation by the late GEORGE
PEABODY of fund to be devoted to the
cause of education in the Southern states OF
the Union. to be controlled and expended
by board of trustees. The board. as
originally appointed by Mr.. PEABODY, CON
sisted of the following gentlemen, all OF
national reputation:
Hon. ROBERT c. WINTHROP, Massachusetts,;
Hon. HAMILTON FISH. New York; Rt. Rev.
CHARLES P. MCILvAINE, Ohio; Gen. U. s.
GRANT, United States army; Admiral
d. G. FARRAGUT, United States navy;
Hon, WILLIAM G. RIvEs, Virginia.;
Hon. JOHN H. CLIFFORD, Massachusetts,;
Hon. WILLIAM AIKEN, South Carolina; Hon.
WILLIAM NJ. EvARTs, New York: Hon. WILL
lam A. GRAHAM, North Carolina; CHARLES
MANCHESTER, Esq, Pennsylvania; GEORGE
w. RIGGS, Esq, Washington; SAMUEL WET
MORE, ESQ.,, New York; EDWARD A. BRAD
FORD, ESQ.,, Louisiana; GEORGE N. EATON,
ESQ.,, Maryland; GEORGE PEABODY RUSSELL,
ESQ.,, Massachusetts.
The following gentlemen have since been
elected to fill vacancies created by death or
resignation:
Hon. SAMUEL. WATSON, Tennessee; Hon.
All. Fl. STUART, Virginia; Gen. RICHARD
TAYLOR, Louisiana; Surg. Gen. JOSEPH K.
BARNES, U. s. A, Washington; Chief Justice
MORRISON R. WAITE, Washington; Rt. Rev.
n. B, WH1ppLE, Minnesota: Hon.
HENRY R. JACKSON, Georgia; Col.
THEODORE LYMAN, Massachusetts,; Gen.
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, Ohio; Hon.
THOMAS C. MANNING, Louisiana; ANTHONY
]. DRExEL, Esq, Pennsylvania; Hon.
SAMUEL A. GREEN, Massachusetts; Hon.
JAMES D. PORTER, Tennessee; J.
PIERPoNT MORGAN, ESQ.,, New York;
Hon. GROVER CLEVELAND, Washington.
The hopeful and encouraging change in
the educational prospects of the South is
the best evidence of the wisdom exhibited
by Mr.. PEABODY in the establishment of
the trust fund and of the fidelity of the
trustees in carrying out the wishes of the
great benefactor. During the eighteen
years which have elapsed since the organi-
cation of this trust it has been instrumental
in bringing about wonderful change
in the disposition and condition of
the Southern states so far as the
free common schools is concerned.
1t has been the aim of the trustees to use
the fund at their disposal in connection with
the public fund provided by the various
states for free school purposes, and in this
connection have used 1t as an incentive to
the states to make liberal appropriations.
That is, they have made the disbursements
III proportion to the amounts appropriated
by the communities in which they were ex-
pended. In an address before the board of
trustees at their twenty-fourth meeting, held
in New York last month, the venerable
ROBERT c. WINTHROP of Massachusetts
said:
The people of the South certainly have now
become thoroughly awake to the obligation
and the vital necessity of providing education
for their children; and they are making
strenuous efforts to extend and multiply and
improve their common schools. They need
only for their complete success such tenn
porary but immediate increase of pecuniary
means as national aid can alone supply.
In support of these views Mr.. WINTHROP
quotes the following statement made by the
Rev. Dr. MAYO, who has been one of the
most intelligent and devoted missionaries of
Southern education:
undertake to say that no other people in
human history has made an effort SO remark
able, all circumstances considered, as the
people of the South during the last fifteen
years in what they have already done for the
schooling of their children. In many of their
cities the public schools will compare ia
vorably with those of other parts of
the country. Their Teviving colleges
and academies are mainly in the
hands of able and devoted teachers
Their schools for girls are improving, and
there is great deal of interest in the higher
education of women. Their teachers as a
body, are doing more good work for less pay
than any class of their profession in our coun-
try and not infreQuently are making sacri-
fees that amount to heroism in their devotion
to their work. 1 have just come from the
state of South Carolina, where have seen the
largest audience rooms in score of her prin-
cipal towns and cities crowded with
their best people to listen to addresses
on public education. And generally there is
no topic of public speech or private CONVEX
sation that now seems more generally inter-
esting and even electric through great por-
lions of these states and this. Last year the
Southern states paid no less than $4,000
for the education of their children and youth
of both races: probably FIVE or six millions
for the schooling of people who were held as
property twenty-five years ago.
The report presented by Hon. J. l.. NJ.
CURRY, who has for the last four years
been general agent of the fund and more
recently appointed United States minister
to Spain, shows most encouraging condi-