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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-06-18

HAMPTON'S GIRDLE AROUND THE WORLD.
coats and walters jackets, 1.284 shirts.an 2 527
miscellaneous articles They also did the
mending for 400 boys for which they were
paid. The earnings of all the students for
the first ree-quarters Of the year amounted
to $44 2o33O, which will make almost $4,000
for the year.
The Hampton Industrial system i, 50 ex-
tensive as to give one the impression that it is
a large manufacturing plant with nothing
work in all the departments with $50 people
80 intent on their labor that it is easy
to jump DIT the c6nclusion that it does not
differ from other manufacturing plants. Tne
large sawlmiEl, which turns out 20,QQQ feet Of
Lumbar q day. its boiler rooms aud engine.
rooms, its RATS Of logs which are brou ght
from the, pine forests cf North Carolina, lis
d,y-kllns, and its big lumber yard is SO like
other big slw-mil's that it in no way SUCCESS
part of an educational plan. Every man is
The on n! ms work for he is wage-earner.
This big mill, with its annex of a planning mill
ana an carpenter shops, was sthe gift of Z. P.
Huntington, and it has deve Oped. so much
industry IN the students that it is self.
sus aiming. The mill ships lumber to
Baltimore and New York, and sup
But 50 complete is the business system that
the mill charges even the boiler.room for the
slabs that are used for firing. In fact, no one
department. secures anything whatever from
another department without having it
charged against it. The farm pays the mill
for lumber and charges the school for veg,-
tables, grain, aad -four. The mill
charges the carpenter op for lum-
Der and ths shop charges the school
for any work done. The same is true
OF all the departments and the students as
they advance to places of responsibility in
work as foreman must learn to manage the
business matters at the same time. It is a
business community carrying on the business
OF 500, 900 per annum.
Skilled Labor. .-
General Armstrong is great believer in
in the school to learn to use the ma.
chinery that belongs to his trade, 80 that
he may not be mere drudge. but
skilled master of his department. Of labor.
In the shops he has modern improved machin-
cry and also on the farm. The farm bows
handle the latest pows, drills, reapers and
mowers and learn to raise everything that
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plan their houses if not build them.
The girls too are taught how to US, carpen :
ter tools. Miss Catharine Parke has
an annex to the Huntington Works.
where she instructs a large class of girls
in the use of the saw, the plane, the hammer,
and other tools: They make boxes, shelves,
brl "a -brac, and when they leave this depart.
ment they are able to make large part of
the simple furniture of modest home. In
selec ing woman for teacher in this depart
m ent, the girls have before them the example
of what women can do with tools. Miss Parke
is q skilled workwoman. and her class has
MADE rapid advances in wood work. Several
of the middle class, who We're sent oat to teach
after their third year. found this knowledge
of especial advantage to them in their poorly.
equipped schoo[rooms. They were able TO
make black boards, desks, benches. repair
windows, and, IN many ways, supply needed
school furnlture.. But, above all else, they
were able to help the poor people in their
neighborhood to improve their homes. This is
the great point in General Armstrong; sys.em.
he holds that what these people need above
all Else is instruction in Christian and civil
lied living; that they must be taught how to
make Christian homes before they can be
taught the true principles of Christian lives
he selec his teachers and so far as possible
his pupils with this end in view. He would
send all his pupils at Hampton back to their
people as missionaries of Christian LIVING. to
show the people how to build better houses.
provide more home comforts, introduce the
privacies and courtesies of decent living into
the little one-room cabins of the negro and
the sod houses of the Indians. That his
pupils have in the main been successful in
this is demonstrated by the neat two-story
cottages in the negro quarter of Hampton
City and the surrounding country. Where
few years ago were small one-room cabins are
new neat two-story houses. The same is true
OF the Indians as show by report made to
the United States Senate last year by Hamp.
ton teachers who went to the West to look up
the Hampton Indian graduates and note the
effect OF their home life since their return to
their people. Miss Cora NJ. Folsom spent
several months in Dakota. Nebraska, and the
Indian Territory, visiting returned Indian
graduates. and her camera broughtback the
indisputabe evidence of their advancement.
The photographs of their homes and their
families are undeniable proofs of their civ.
ilization. OF the 335 Indians who have been
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gymnasium the night after commencement
the Indian boys and girls were rs much like
gentlemen and ladies in their manners as any
present. and an Indian couple was awarded
the first prize in the cake walk as the most
graceful couple on the floor
These Indian youths are housed by them
selves at the school, the boys living in the
"Wigwam' and the girls in ''Winona LODGE"
two handsome brick dOrmitories. An Indian
girl showed me through ''Wincna LODGE"
where the rooms are neat and clean, with beds
of snowy Wilderness, polished floors, pretty
curtains and many bright pictures on the walls
and d essing cases They do their own house
keeping, 50 far as the care of their rooms is
concerned, and viii girls could be no prouder
of their pretty rooms. Their parlOr is Drettily
fun nished and the Indian naidens were about
the piano with their music. No one stepping
into that parlor would have dreamed that
these Indian girls had recently come from In
dian camps where they were regarded as no
better than the dogs and not so good as the
horses.
In the Cooking School,
They were the same proud housekeepe s in
their little cooking school in pretty little
cottage, where Miss ,Georgiana Washington, a
pure type Ut the negro, teaches them how to
do simple cooking and BE- mistresses of
homes. Miss Washington has this little cot
tage titted up simply wi articles made by
Iue boys ana girls. LIZ Is a cottage of three
rooms such as any Indian graduate of Hamp-
ton might build for himself, and it, furniture
is likewise homemade. The class of Indian
girls IN the regular cooking school 80 once
week to the little cottage and cook their own
simple meal. They have their flour and meal,
their milk and vegetables from the school
and so cents for the purchase of that which
they could not raise at home. With little
churn they make their own butter; they pre-
pare their supper and each in turn takes the
place of a hostess to preside. Miss Washington
IS very proud of her class and says she will
send every one of her Indian girls back to
the West accomplished cooks and house.
keepers. .s
On a large sca'e and including all girls is
conducted The gir's Holly Tree Inn under the
charge of Miss Williamson. l. is a girls
home where all learn to manage house and
become accomplished cooks. A number of
the colored girls Who have been in this little
school will go North during the summer
vacation to take places as cooks and house.
keepers for ladi IS who have seen them here and
are anxious to try them at home. The Indian
boys are responsible for tn eir rooms in the
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citizenship of a republic. His was the
gospel OF work. and to-day his gospal has
grown in its influence until Hampton claims
to have put girdle about the earth with her
working aduates in every land. 1t was not
only the gospel of work, but Of skilled labor
to make every grad late not only an educated
man, but skilled workman.
Give Every Man a Chance.
The fundamental doctrine of the HAMPTON
Institute is that the co or of the skin is not the
true t. st of human worth, and to give every
one chance to show this to the world This
chance was to be Tor boys al d girls alike, and
while the original idea was to take the freed
men and convert hem into citizens the chance
is open to all races and all colors. In follow
ing out this idea for twenty four years General
Arms rong has been pro1igal of his own
energy and the improved schools for negroes
ali over the South are the result AS the work
has grown the machinery has had t, grow
also, until to-day the Hampton Normal and
Agricultural Institute is colony representing
every department of skilled labor as we'll
as every department of an academic
education. 1t has $50 students, of whom 1876
are Ind ans and the other colorad youths
OF an average a -e of Is years. Its shops range
from the saw-mill TO the cabinet-makers
bench, and in woodwork the students in the
different departments are able to take the
logs from the raft in the river and send them
to mar et in the finest of furniture or orna-
mental building.
Here is plant representing $5oOO 900 in
value. and since 1868 the round sum of 81 $50,
o0o has been expended on this work of prepar-
ing leaders OF two races, who will b, able to
clVllize ana Chrlstlanlz, on the principle. Let
US make the teachers and we will make the
people,"
Ga this principle of self-help Hamp on has
sent out over 800 graduates. who have taught
about 100000 children in the South These
graduates have been closely followed, and
have property valued at $4,000. or an aver
age of about $3.50 each. The largest amount
OF property now rerorted by young man
who graduated is $4,000, and the largest
amount by young woman $500.
Commencement at Hampton.
Commencement day at Hamp on was like
an Agricultural Fair, an Industrial Expo 81
ton and college graduating exercise com
blned. The shops were all running and the
students were in their classes one hour and
at the lathes. FORCES. bellows or bench the
next hour. They were equally at home
IN classroom and shop. Oae of the
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But Hampton would not be complete wit
skilled workmen, educated youth, and sol
dlers, II 1t did not have gentlemen pracef,
and courteous in their treatment of the youu
ladies' They have their sociables. their nj
MICS, their games, and their entertainment
lhe| all dine together. girls and boys at tt
same table. The boys are the walters. Whe
there are entertainments the boys make a
pllcatloE to the principal for permission
escort the girls and know that this will
ways be granted 50 long as they keep II
record OF gen lemaniy conduct. The
are constantly, surrounded by lara
c7rps OF te"caors who tax, an intere
In their pleasures as we'll as IN their durid
and being part of these there is the constaI
incentive to merit their approval. II
teachers take the lead in turcis aing these e
tertainments, so that reciprocity makes the
part OF any social feature initiated by Il
students. In this way they make Hamptd
happy community. as beautiful in its life
are Its grounds Il ed with flowers, cozy vii
covered cottages. I'd shaded avenues to col
pleie picture of An E len Of civil cation.
Inls soclability is further improved by
circles OF tens amOng the giris which me
every week to devise ways aai means to he
others. Their Holy II e Inn, their fowe
garden. where every two girls have bed
flowers to cultivate what they please al
enter into generous rivalry as which shall pI
rarest of other flowers that can be grown
OF doors. In the winter months they have
conservatory WITH is plants to supply
rooms with flowers o. send them to Old i
to be sold to the guests at III, hotels.
The boys have their nas> bal! mines and q
crack Indian nine is ready at any tina
challenge the crack Negro nine to a game al
While these games are always conducted wit
out race feeling there is rae, pride on ca
side of the grounds in their res .,ective min,
The boys are also allowed mi d form
club lille where the government of the schc
does not intrude. This is in their Holly FL
Inn, tasteful little cottage vi h a stewa
and cook in charge, where they can purchs
little dellcacies not found on the school tab
They can get cakes for penny. no rolls
butter for two cents, ice cream for Fl We cen
The inn is open at all except stu
hours, during the day and until
O'Clock IN the evening. They ha
papers and magazines which
given them, books, checkers, and domino
and In these rooms they are free from
school supervision, but lie that this libeI
depends for its duration On its freedom fri
abuse. The steward is graduate, and 5,
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drays and wheelbarrows with the names
of firms Of different cities of the south
painted on them to show that they
had been made to order. The same was true
of the tin. shop, the shoe shop, and the other
where the product is sold, and the student tat at
work IS not only learning how to work as a
skilled mechanic, but is earning wages He
IS at the same time learning business habits,
~becau;e he has to keep his own accounts with
the school, charging himself with board aud
crediting every hour of his labor and s value
as cont racted for, so as to be able to know his
standing, and what are his savings with the
treasurer of the ms tuition.
THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM.
The industrial system at Hampton divides
the labor into three classes: the purely edu-
catlonal, aside from self-suppor.; thai where
industrial education is the primary coasid
era'lon, with self-support resultant from
ability, and lastly that which gives indus rial
education ue the second place and puts self-sup-
port and necessary labor foremost. The stu
dent must earn his or her own way. and is
given only the teaching, which is paid for in
scholarships of $40 each by Northern con-
tributors. These free scholarships are alike
open 20 negroes and Indians, but the negro IS
support viii lie securing an education. and the
lndlans nave the Federal Government for
their banker, paying for their support with
cut the absolute necessity for labor. The
system OF support by labor was devised for
the poor negroes.
These. young people come to the school
hrst as working students, and are paid wages
at first by the month, the week, or the dav,
and work ten hours day, attending night
school for two hours each evening. All the
negro youth now in the school began in this
way. Such system shuts out undesirable
students and insures a class of young
people. who are willing to secure an
education at any cos. 1t also gives
them the discipline of work and econ
omy: part of their wages they must
pay for board and clothes. part they may
have to spend in their own way, and q part
they deposit with the treasurer as a bank &C
count against which they can draw in the
future when they enter the normal depart
ment and devote most OF, their time to study.
After one year as working students, if they
increased their ability to earn and have been
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landed the first slaves on the continent; here
freedom first given to the slave by General
Buffers famous "Contraband'' order, aud
here the first school for the negro, taught by
an ex-slave. Here was McClellan's defeat
and Grants victory.
To-day the map of Virginia is dotted with
two galaxes of stars that cover Its surface
from the mouth o. the James to the Western
mountains. One galaxy of these stars is red
and they mark the hundreds of bat,etieIds
that show how hard the contest was made by
the Confederacy in defense of it's capital and
its old institution of slavery. The black stars
mark the hundreds of schools for coIored
youth, taught by scientific methods and by
negro teachers who have been fitted for their
work at the Hampton Normal and Ayricul-
tural Institute. What is not marked on the
map is the development of people for whom
these battles were fought and these schools
established. But while this is not written on
the map it is written al over the face of GA
Virg mia by the improved homes. the frame
dwellings which have taken the place of the
slave cabins and the freedmen's hove's as
they were to be seen everywhere TWEEN. y-tive
years ago.
The establishment of the Hampton Insti-
tute was not an accident either in the conceD
ton or the location. The founder had his
preparation for the work a. the son of q mis-.
sionary in the Sandwich Islands and Union
soldier fighting fer the abolition of slavery
and the maintenance of the Union. General
Samuel Chapman Armstrong was bora IN the
Sandwich Islands, the son of missionary
who in the great revival in that country sur
prisad the American Missionary Association
by writing to headquarters asking for tools
rather than more preachers. He and his fell
low missionaries were converting the heather
IN belief so fast that they had to
baptise them with whitewash brushes What
he wanted was some means of converting
these people to Christian living. That could
only be done by the acquaintance with tools
used by Christians to build civilized homes
and cultivate the fields as Christians culti-
waited theirs.
Soldier and Missionary
Richard Armstrong, the American mis-
sionary, did not get the tools he asked from
the American Missionary Society, but the
King of the Sandwich Islands made him
Minister Of Public Instruction in 1917, and
he was largely instrumental in building up
the Hawaiian free school system. His
young son was his secretary and
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HOPE OF TWO RACES.
Negroes and Indians Prepared
for Citiz snship.
GEN. ARMSTRONG'S WORK.
Hampton Institute Educates
Head, Hand, and Heart.
The Gospel Of Work Plants the
School Room and thu Shop
Side by Side. 80. g.. g..
GEN. ARMsTRoNG's WORK.

FORTRESS MONROE, Va, May 23.-SDecial
Correspo3,den"e.-Hamp Roads has gone
into history as the most celebrated theater OF
naval warfare. Hampton institute is goiny
into history as the most celebrated thea ter of
modern civilzing influences by which two
degraded and despised races Il race of saves
and race Of wild men are being gath cred
into the citizenship of the Republic MS
brothers of the white man. This Oh PENN
sula Of Virginia was historic ground from
the beginning, ard its history has not all
been written. Here was the pioneer settle
ment of America; here the place where were
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"Wigwam." When they came they had to be
taught how to undress and get into bed, as
they were too much inclined to turn in with
their boots on. A tour through the wig.
wan" now shows a bright lot a+of clean
and neat Indian boys, their clothes
well brushed, their boots shining, their rooms
attraction they have in the building.
Gen.Armstron9 having been soldier.is a firm
believer IN military discipline and Hampton
Institute is not only an academy and, great
industrial community. but it is also military
camp: !tawakes with the revelie and GOES
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ants have been di ected more especially to
the two branches of industry, farming ana
carpentry be cause the negroes and, the, In,
ans are farmers as rule, and should be
taug 1T the best methods of crop raising, and
also the use of zoos. that they may build
their own houses and barns and know how to
help themselves They are all taught me-
chanical drawing, that they may be able to
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WHITTIER PRIMARY SCHOOL,

. "AAAA1Eh SCdOOlIs
Hampton, is under the direction of j. c.
Jourdan, graduate and skilled
farmer. he also has charge
Of the night school for the boys at the farm.
He has 10 acres i'm corn, 100 acres of grass,
SO acres of oats, 6 acres of vegetables, a fine
orchard. and the place we'll stocked with
young horses and cattle. The barns both at
the home farm and Hemenway place are
models, and the home barn is said to be the
largest and finest in Virginia. The
efforts of General Armstrong and his assist
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ing the pure>y domestic side of life. the sew
ing, embroidery work and even the mending
done by the girls. The PROMINENT feature Of
all this exhibit was is practcability. L. was
not exhib ion work, but everything made to
| order and either for sale or for use in the
school. There were several sets of fiae
| harness for gentlemen in Richmond Va,
and Philadelphia. There were wagons and
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MIMI. SATURDAY. JUNE 18. 1892.

will grow in this Virginia soil. In this way
they are being educated out of the old idea
farm, back of the school buildings, are ex-
detrimental fields for test farming, where Mr..
Howe, the superintendent of the industrial
department makes his experiments rs careful
ly and as scientifically as they are made at
high class agricultural college. The Hemen-
way Farm of $50 acres, about five miles from
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in certain branches Of labor and
earn good wages when they work
While others g1ssAto tho trades and for a time
earn nomin il wages, their pay to be increased
as they become ski led in the work In the
sewing aud tailoring department. last year the
girls at work there under the superintend ,nce
Of Miss M. 7. Galpn, made 286 new uniform
suits, % work sui S, 1877 overals, 1GS SIMMER
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educated at Hampton and returned to their
people, Miss Folsom reported 286 satisfactory
and but forty-nine disappointing. In her
more careful grading she reported II as ex-
cellent, ISL as good, So as fair, 80 as poor. and
10 as bad. From this she claims that IS per
cent of the Indian graduates are doing as we'll
as could be expected. IA
The same kind of record has been made by
the Negro graduates and 80 per cent of them
have been found to be successful teachers
among their people, and only 10 per cent
have tailed. It would be interesting to see a
report Of graduates of normal schools for
whites that would be better than this of the
Negro and Indian graduates of Hampton.
GOVERNMENT AT HAMPTON.
In the instruction in living and the cour-
tesies of life, Hampton takes as much pains
groes and Indians are alike taught to be gen.
tlemen and ladies. The Indian boys
have their first lesson in their
duties toward the gentler sex when they step
from the train at O.d Point Station, two
miles from the institute. The girls are taken
in carriage, but the boys are invited to wa k
to their new home It is a reversal of old
customs with them and is so revolutionary
that the Indian boys do not soon forget.
That lesson is followed by others a, simple
and effective, until in little while the Indian
boys show the same civilities to the girls that
white boys regard as the index OF the gentle
man. They seek the society of the Indian
girls with the same polite manners that the
white boys seek their sweethearts; they lift
their hats at the approach of a woman be she
white, black, or red. At the soclable in the
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he has never yet found it necessary TO ieI
to the principal any break of decorum in
club. This inn was started to find place
the boys entertainment without their ga
to town. While they are allowed to 90 t
town as OF old on permission from Che
cipal. they find it pleasanter to spen1
hours at their club.
The academy's work is under the dkrec
of Miss Elizabeth Hyde with a corps $f IA
teachers, and is of high grade without
GLIDING the languages. The negroes4re
Gus to study Latin and Greek, but Gene
Armstrong is not fitting pupils to lornan
society or grace the professions. He Is fit@
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The saw PC department, including carpen-
try in one. showing great variety of uses to
which lumber is put; the cahinet-makiug in
another with a rich array of fur
niture manufactured by the boys
and girls working in the shops; the black
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SAMUEL c. ARMSTRONG,

smithing and iron works in another, the tin
shop, harness shop, shoe shop, the wagon
making. buggy trimming, paint shop and
other rooms md in front of the building
until it looked like county fair. In addi-
ton to these exhibits were others represent