New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-05-07
m EDUCATE THE NEGRO.
.vppopR1,T1oNs FROM THE SLATER FUND.
ct.,rrxr RESULTS ACHIEVED IN THE LAST
vr,v-REPoRTs ON THE SCHOOLS.

yr,y-RFPORTS ON THE SCHOOLS.
tn. animal meeting of the trustees Of the Slater
educational Fund held yesterday at the Once 81
"nr stewart president of the United states trust
comnany in wallst The trustees present WET.
. PRESIDENT Rutherford b. HAYES, who Is president o
.s f,nd: senator Colqutt, of Georgia; Whhd'h r'
node. John A. stewart and William A. slater, Oh
yorwich the founders son. The absent i"c''OVr'
rere Bishop Potter. Chief Justice Fuller MOTIF, N
,ssrn and President Gilman, of johns lioPN'"'
University - ., vorvich
II was in 1892 that John F. slater OF Nor"i'"'
ran, gave 81 100000 the interest OF WHICH was
% he u>cd 10 aid in the education OF inc wv.
,eople of the south. The givcr stlpna'en '"'' "O
a the money was to be used in building hc" C1O
HE purpose being to improve the S'hooiS any .Is
established by Others In carrying out TINS 'r"S' 'o
- ., r,,s,ees has confined itself to those schools
hitch with their general educational work. hau so'io
form Of industrial training ,, A.,
The Rev Dr. a. q. Hazard, OF o"c,"' -
uho is the general agent of the fund sfiu 9oS"'u9
Aha, when the work was begun industrial ''".'e
90 recognized in only four five southern SCHOOLS
,cr colored people the principal one OF WING" was
hampton Institute. Virginia. This new lcatuie' nc
lid was now recognized in every leading coored
school in the South 49,.
Yesterdays session Of the trustees Which, iaSoo
..rlv all day. was devoted chiefly to the making OF
appropriations for the coming year. 1hey are:
&C., Ga 81 0OO Benedict College Columbia, b C..
:, 600 Biddle University Charlotte, ~ G., $1,000
Branard Institute, Chester 3 c. sIoooi Nc"tr''
tennessee College Nashville, $1,000 Claim University
o,aneeburg s. G.. So, 900; Clark University, Atlanta
5000; Fisk University. Nashville, $1,000; "hoert
seminary winsted La. $1,000; Hampton institute
Hampton Va. 81 500; Jackson College, Jackson Miss
slVOO; Jacksonville, Fla Graded schools. SI'oVVi
Leonard Medical College, Raleigh y. g. sl,oooi
livingston College, Salisbury. y. C., $1,000; Meharry
Medical College Nashville 81 $50 State Normal School,
Montgomery. Ala, 81 500; NewOreans University
$500: Paul ouin College. Waco Tex, $780, Phianoer
Smith College, Little Rock, Ark. $1,000; Mt Herman
Female Seminary. Clinton, Miss, $1,000; Lemone
Institute Memphis, 81 800; Paine Institute Augusta
Ca 5000 Roger Williams University. Nashville $1,000 ;
Rust University, Holly Springs Miss. $1,000 Schoheld
Normal School, Aiken. 5. C., 81 ,o0o Scotia Female
seminary Concord y. c., 500; Shaw University.
RALEIGH, y. c., So OoO Spellman Female Institute.
Atlanta So 500; Normal School, Tuskegce. Ala
$1,000; University NewOrleans 1900 TalladoEa
College Alabama, 81 900 TouGoloo Miss, School S2Oo
Industrial Training School, Knoxville, Tenn. 5000
The aggregate of these amounts is considerable in
crease the appropriations of former years ana
there is still from the income for the year
which will added the principal of the fund which
in eight years has increased to nearly 81 100000.
The showing for the year was extremely gratifying
Dr. Haygood said that the school systems in the
South were improving for both colOred and white pcO
pie There were now 10000 schools for coorcd
children supported by state governments at an annual
cost Of abOnt 100000. These schools were all
taught by coored teachers and the standard was being
elevated might be from the fact that the higher
Institutions were annually turning out large number
Of educated people
DR.. Haycood. after long investigation Of the sub
iect is convinced that it is the uniform test Of the
veteran teachers that the children Of those whom
they taught fifteen or twenty years ago. begin their
school course far in advance OF We
children Of untaught parents The board, Dr. Haygood
said greatly encouraged with the results achieved
through industrial education Besides giving 10 the
people an opportunity for better self support. home
building and citizenship, il added moral quality That
made better and women. Industrial education
among the negroes had been greatly advanced since
the fund established. The assistance given was
used increase the facilities of schools already pro
vdng instruction in manual training, or 10 Introduce
th,i system in schools which had no Sch departments
Salaries were paid i'm cases. and In many others
apparatus was provided. In all thirty six schools
were aided. all of which were of the higher grades BY
Tie help II the fund the Spellman Institute at Atlanta
had this year opened a training school for nurses.
The attendance the thirty-siX aided schools was
now 5000, showing steady increase from the be
ginning.
talking of the good accomplished by the fund, and
declared that the benefits Of the manual training In
the coored schools Of the South were almost n
caicuIable. The reports submitted yesterday from the
and he confidently expected uninterrupted progress.