New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-18
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,,sp,opABLE NEGLECT BIZ THE cHARLhSi'N
u-ruoR1T1Es- EFFORTS no sUPfhi
,vcI~rCAI EDUCATION.

l,rpl ORABLE NEGLECT bi 'N
ruoR1T1Es-EFFORT' no suPfhi
TECHNICAL EDUCATION
To The Editor OF The Tribune .,.r.
Gu. The following statement taken Ir0i"
10 NJ The Tribune has attracted the speol"i a.
i'. -. = constant reader Of your valuable paper
Waynr Strong will be amply sustained ~ p"p sar
sentiment in his approva, OF Went yfe Of S M0o FOR
r ne new schoo:houses and repairing o the ~,
Hu,Idngs now owned by the clyi IL ~ The pubic
most Snd be kept abreast Of the growth o "l
oonulation dsgraceful fact II 10 c Iast wear
Children cOo oijcv embodied in this bill. which now
only awaits the G S9srsId3SteS apP'''N'
60, ohiact IN calling attention TO this important
tor 20 m Inform your large circle OF feaoers 'i'
,ecanse of the lack OF similar action on 'ie 90
os the city Of Charleston. - - more '"a-' wv
o,udren Of It's colored population are growing w
=; Ignorance idleness and crime AFTER lhe wal
III ,,,',c schools were given for the education
- .,o-od children in this ci;y. and. notwlthslAnu-
49,, Tho large increase OF the coiored popuIauo'''
ubicb "a now more than 50. 30 oy anol"oi' ii0'"
tho surrounding islands ana country o's"'
additional schoolhouse has Deeh efectoo VI P
,hts ci,v for colored children during the Iast
ouar,er OF a century while on the o'Ae' '""-
the whites have smaller population put !" a.
any nublic schools as the coored peope nave
m. colored people Of this city. VINO pa! la -
,,o~tion OF the taxes. have drecteo '"e
., the Pubic School Commissioners mere o.. y,
whom are white, to the sadly lhaueaoa'e
accommodations for colored Children anu ""
neatedlv pettioned for more public schoo ouo'"s'
So, $500 bave been refused on the alleged ground
INT tine present school facilities OF the coo'eI
neonla are in proportion TO the amount Oi '
paid by them. ~, .haso
+, ia truly a sad spectacle to behold daily 'hese
thousands OF little negro boys ana g'is !"
streets growing up in gross ignorance anu oeC
ha~3 na1 In
many OF them frequently arrested A'''' u"
sessions OF our courts scores OF them are see"
marching through our streets. handcuneo' Oh 'ne''
way to the peniientiary at Columbia 10 ie0' -,
class OF hundreds OF Juvenile Offenders ue'e' -
"a greatly TO be regretted that the white people gen
orally Of this and otner southern communities can
NOT see that the adoption Of wise and srsightea
policy IN puolc education, like that OF ew-forH
In making ample provision for the education oi All
its children, is the best safeguard against many
evils and terrible dangers in the future
Under these deplorabe circumstances some O.
the leading coored ministers and laynen OF thls
city have been forced the necessity o. doing
something In The way Of supplying public school
sccommOda lions for AZ many ColOred Children as
possible And with the assistance OF "A few whites
here (and the number OF those in our southern
cities who are kindly disposed 10 the cooreG people
IL CONSIDERABLY and some friends elsewhere.
beautiful school site has been secured. d building
erected ana large sGhool u. Operation
are instructed not only in the ordinary branches
bur la moral principles manual training. and e.
pecialIy kindergarten Tnethods-the kind OF e1uca
lion which the colOre1 people need mosi. This work
has regular and certain source OF revenue Or
means Of support other than the kind charity Of
friends generally Though there Is still debt OF
few hundred dollars Oh this building for the train
i,s OF boys, we making earnest effort 20
raise few thousand dollars for the erection Of a
building for the industrial education of girls many
Of whom roam our streets and are leading dis
efLl lives for the want o. an institution Ike
the orc proposed, where they might receive snch
general Instruction would fl them TO make an
honest and honorable livelihood
The writer OF tbs letter is native Of this city.
but educated 81 Massachusetts, and has been pas
OF The largest and leading colorcd Baptist church
OF his city Tor nearly ten wears. II The Tribune