Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-27
AIDING Co1oRED EDUCATION
Tae Uses ard Fruit of tho Slater
Fund in The South.
From ne Nel0 York WorId.


From the Ne,g York World.
The trustees OF the John +. 5 Slater fund
consisting OF ex-President Rutherford B
Hayes, Chief Justice Waite and President
Gilman, OF the Johns Hopkins University
met Wednesday at tire Fifth Avenue ho-
sci to receive the report OF the general
agent of the fund. The report contains a
full statement OF the work carried on in
twenty-nine schools IN different Southern
States. In all OF which trades are taught,
as we'll as various branches of learning,
In the Clark University, tor example,
there are taught carpentry, blacksmith
ing, carTiaVemaking, rmin&, pruning
hatnessmakng and shoemaking. and the
girls are taught sewing and housekeep-
ing. At the Spelman Female seminary,
in Atlanta, there is large laundry.
where. 3 600 pieces are washed and lroned
each week. and one of the ladies' there is
making arrangements to Organize tram
ing school FOR nurses.
The general agent, after examining
the WORK done IN the various schools,
saws that the Slater fund has been
healthful aud productive stimulus IN
many directions. II has helped directly
or Indirectly fully $4,000 colored youths
and over 800 teachers in the SCHOOLS con
nected with the fund. II has set forward
5ncaiculably the cause OF industrial edu-
cation in the best schools for colored peo-
lie in the South. When the work OF the
trustees first began few schools would
give il any place In their systems; now
there are few who do not. There is more
kindly feeling among white Southern
le0nle toward these schools than hereto
lore. The Slater fund has aided in rails
ing funds North az well az South for the
use OF colored schools. and within eight
cen months more than 100000 has been
. turned into channels that helped these
schools.
The colored people, the general agent
zinds, have z growing appreciation OF ed
ucation, and this appreciation IS notably
shown In their efforts TO help themselves.
livery colOred church in the South Is CON-
united to the cause OF education. and
many are building. with much wisdom,
energy, and liberality, schools Of their
own. As a rule these churches make an
assessment upon their congregations for
their educational enterprises, and thus
the people are being ira med to give money
10 their educational interests. There is
also a disposition among the cOlored peO-
pie by private subscriptions to supple
meut the public school funds and to eX-
tend the short school term. General
Agent Haygood thought that IL there were
fund in States where schools are now
aided. and to start it in A. kansas and
Florida. it would do a greatly needed ser
vice in tn cause OF education.
The following appropriations were made
last year tor the various schools
Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn,
$4,000; Roger Williams University, Nash
willie. 81 800; Central Tennessee College,
Nashville. 81 800; Meharry Medical Col
/ n
tute. Memphis, Tenn, 81 200; Austin
High school, Knoxville. Tenn, $500; Tou.
galoO University, rougaloO, Miss, 1000;
Mount Harmon Seminary, Clinton, Miss,
$1,000; lie Land University, New Orleans,
81, 400; Talladega College, Talladega,
Ala, $1,000; Tuskegee State Normal
School, Tuskegee, Ala, $1,000; Lincoln
Normal University, Marion, Ala, 81 600
State Normal School, Huntsville, Ala J..
$1,000; Atlanta University, Atlanta. Ga D.
$4,000; Clark University, Atlanta
$4,000; Spelman Female Seminary
Atlanta, S2,3l4 10; Lewis Nor
NAL Institute. Macon, Ga, $500
Clafin University Orangehurg, S. g..
$4,000; Brsinerd Institute, Chester $. G.,
$500; Benedict institute, Columbia, S. c..
SI000; Shaw University, Raleigh, n. c.,
81 600; Leonard Medical School, Raleigh
$1,000: Scotia Female Seminary. Concord,
N. c.; $1,000; Mount Albion State Nor
NAL School, Franklinton, n. c.. $500,
HAMPTON, Institute, Hampton, Va, ST.,
600; Hartsnorn Memorial Fem lie College
Richmond. Va. 1000: Kentucky Normal
University. Louisville, XIV, 81 600; Tillot-
son Institute, Austin. Tex, 5000; How
ard University, Washington. $1,000; to
special students, $3.50; total, $50, 764 10.
The board voted 10 appropriate $4,000
for the ensuing year, to be sub-apprOpri'
ated by the general agent. After the
meeting ex-President Hayes and Mr.. Gil.
man called on Mrs. Grant.