New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-24
IN APPEAL FOR HAMPTON INSTITUTE
FUNDS BADLY NEEDED TO CARRY on THE rnr
CATION OF NEGROES.


CATION OF NEGROES.
The women Of the COMMITTEES appointed IN corr,, ~
the work of completing the fund for the wears main.
tenance Of Hampton Institute have issued the address
printed below in behalf OF their object Whom Cepo,,
Armstrong was stricken with paralysis I'm Boston
$4,000 was still needed for the work of the wear
The women hope TO secure this amount In New-Yorl
mainly In Industrial scholarships of $50 each This
Is q convenient form of subscription and n sot,sfac,or
one for this small amount added TO the ,p,ns NJ tho
Students labor covers the entire yearly exnens.
81 his industrial education Other substitution larccr
Or smaller than the scholarship. will also be asked and
an effort made 70 make the movement OF permanent
benefit TO the school. Following is tie committees
appeal:
10 meet the pressing needs OF Hampton Institute bcr
The friends OF that unique training school TO net with
Us the friends OF Hampton must Include all thonghtfuI
men and women who are familiar with its extraordinary
work. The committee feel that thus reinforced they
tannCt fail of success.
For almost quarter Of century the Hampton
spirit of civilization and Of Christianity on this con,
tinent 1t has given voice to the dumb strength 10
the weak motive TO thc pusposccss 1t has created
beginning in tho dark days that followed the war
% BY the esdms Bnra ING IGG Gar na
houses and teaches 800 negro and Indian students in
S.ms and WORKSHOPS It has sent ont ~ cd irntc
almost all of whom are teachlng their people. Al
10000 pupils have ben taught, not only the contents
OF BOOKS not only industrial knowledge, but the
men;s Of manhood and wOmanhood. And from these
10000 pupils has been drawn body of 1000 teach
D. II Is to carry such work as this that Hampton
needs money: Its plant has cost s55ooo0, free from
SSr Of 5f m % yea n fne sm rsaT an in
nuay assured from regular resources. The remain
ing $4,000 General Armstrong has raised year after
year from churches. Sunday schools and private ind
yduaS. From 23, 900 to $50 900 of this sum is con
pays the expenses Of one pupil for year in the
academic department But more Of these scholarships
are needed.
Of $4,000, chiefly because 1t cannot command skilled
labor. for as soon as a student becomes a skilled
laborer Ire goes forth to serve a missionary OF in
dustry to his 1t Is therefore proposed that GOO
annual scholarships of $50 each be founded to relieve
the school of this heavy charge. The permanent en-
dowment fund, which Is slowly growing, should be at
least $500 .000 and will have reached the of $780,
600 at the end OF this year.
1t was not the vast labor OF founding, organizing
and conducting the Hampton school. but the never
ending strain of raising the necessary funds for 1t that
disabled General Armstrong. Yet even his fiery clio
Quence never persuasive as the appeal of his
useless arm and passive figure should now become
Contributions for the proposed scholarships may be
TO the committee treasurer, Miss Helen Turnbu
No. West SiNteenhst. to the TREASURER of the school,
George Foster Peabody, No. Ii Broad-st TO A. :.
Frissell, president of the Fifth Avenue Bank, to
any member Of the committee or advisory committee