St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-09
HAMPTON's NEGRO SCHOOL.
ITS Work Is Placed Before St. Paul
ChuFchmen

. with the memory Of Booker T.Wash-
1ngton's recent visit to ST. Paul and
his interesting description Of educa-
Honal work among the negroes of the
south, large audience assembled at
House Of Hope church yesterday to
listen to the story of a similar but
more extensive work being done by the
Hampton institute situated on the
Hampton roads In Virginia.
Rev. DR.. F'rlsseu, president of the
institute, with party Of students and
'1eachers, was present and told the in
Eerested audience Of the benefits which
inc school has bestowed upon both the
Indians and negroes who are num-
.pered among its pupils, and how the
students return to their people. thus
spreading the civilizing and education-
al eftects Of their teachings until the
results become inestimable A descrip-
ZION or the Hampton institute was IL
illustrated with stereopticon views. The
party accompanying DR.. Frissell con-
sisted of Miss Sallie Davis, Miss Liz
Fie Ralney, Robert White, T. VAIN
right j. Butler, negroes, and Benja-
min Brave, Sioux Indian, originally
from South Dakota.
! IN opening the exercises DR.. Egbert
introduced President FrisseIl. who re-
tated the history Of the school and
its work.
Hampton has sent out into the West
fS2 Indians; Of these 81 per cent are
engaged IN some regular occupation:
seventy of the young women have
married Well and are living in decent
pomes: The boys are engaged as mis-
elonar1es, as teachers, mechanics and
FARMERS. Many Of them have built
Their own homes, and are presenting
EpbJect lessons to the community in
which they dwell.
or the schools 1872 negro graduates
and about as many more under-gradu-
etes, nine-tenths have done good work
IN teaching and three-fourths have
made II their life work. Not less than
.thirty-f1ve thousand children were
under their instruction last wear.
since 1870 they have taught at least
one hundred and fifty thousand chill
dren and out of these schools have gone
between two and three thousand teach
ers. Not only have these Hamilton
graduates taught in the school room.
put have devoted themselves to work
Tn temperance and the Sunday school
iFhe girls have gone from house to
mouse IN the country districts and
raught the mothers cooking and the
pare or their homes and of their chill
qren. The boys give instruction in
agriculture and have erected in many
places homes Of their own and have
pultlVated little pieces of land, which
have been object lessons to the negro
communities of. the South, and this in
etruction has resulted in many places
an the complete transformation of the
communities to which they have gone.
The familiar work of Booker Wash
ington, Hampton's most distinguished
graduate, fairly illustrates what hun
preds OF its young people have done In
q smaller way,
The board Of trustees represents six
denominations, no one Of which has or
can have a majority. 1t costs to carry
on this large plant, with academic, as
well as industrial teachers. over s1OO.-
VVO q year; $4,000 Is provided for board
and clothes Of the Indians by the gen
eral government; $4,000 is received
through the state of Virginia from the
1and script fund. Between $50, 900 and
100000 is to be raised every year from
charitable friends throughout the coun-
Fry. This is very largely provided
through the $40 scholarship, which gives
20 the people Of two races free tuition.
while IN thecase Of the Indian. the board
and clothes are provided by the gov
eminent, and in the case of the negro
gained by the labor of their own
hands, supplemented by the help which
they can receive from their parents.
Gen. Armstrong, it's founder, literally
gave his life to this institution The
present
pine, for the purpose of erecting a
trade school at Hampton, similar to
those in other parts of the country.
where more of the young people Of two
races can avail themselves of the on
portunities for instruction in the trades.
q Morris K. Jesup, of New York. has
generously offered to give $40 OO0
toward a building which is to cost
cost $4,000 and ladies in philadelphia
have promised $1,000 more So strongly
DO the prominent gentlemen Of the
pountry feel the necessity for teaching
fhe young people Of the colored races
the trades that the Slater fund board
composed of such men as Mr.. Jesup.
bishop Potter, Alexander E. Ore, Hon.
y. l.. M Curry and Others have rec
commended that $4,000 be devoted to the
maintenance of such a school at Hamp-
fon, In case the building can be pro
Fided. There Is a crisis in the history
of these two races. The young people
who have been educated in the public
schools are, many Of them, coming out
from them unable to obtain any
occupation in the stores or in the
shops, and unless something can be
done they will become worthless vag-
rants. 1t is essential that such schools
a-s Hampton and Tuskegee be multi
piled so that the opportunities which
these institutions offer along these lines
may be increased. The meetings held
IN Chicago belong to a series which
commenced in Washington, and are to
pc held all through the country for the
purpose of arousing an interest in in
dustrial education for these two races
Graduates also participated.