The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-16

and women for work in the DARK Con-
tinent. +" There is yearly enrolment Of
five hundred under thirty-hye teaches.
MANUAL TRAINING.
The North has heard much of the Tus-
kegee Normal Industrial Institute Through
its eloquent head Booker T. Washington,
but of its exhibit in the negro building Only
a hint can be given A simple list of ark-
Giles will show the line of Industrial work
taught there and their wisest leaders saA
80 per cent. Of the colored people need thisA
sort of training. they must look to the
labor OF their own hands for their support.
They show shoes, both plain and fancy.
single and double harness, one and two-
horse wagons, phaeton. surrey. a speeding
buggy weighing lbs pounds painted in sill
yer and purple, carts wheelbarrows adapted
10 al Kinds or work, miniature black
smith shop. steam pump, a two-horse
power engine, a locomotive running by COM
pressed air and castings in great variety.
The architectural department is repre-
SSghteu oy many accurate drawings and
blue prints. They show canned fruits and
Vegetables IN great variety comb honey and
money IN Jars, ana homemade candies.
From the tailor shops come suits and uni
forms; from the tin shop every sort of tin
utensll; dresses and bonnets from the dress
making shop; q complete set of oak furni-
ture, with easy chairs and desks, and a
beautiful model of a house worked out with
perfect accuracy OF detail. Their academic
work can hold up its head with the best
rms school teaches thirty-one different
ers Tor all the country adjacent, and, To-
Gated in the black belt where the blacks
are three TO one of white. it is simply inn
possible to measure its value.
The Tougaloo University is, if possible in
blocker belt, and Its exhibit shows new
direction for the energies of the colored
women, as here, in addition to beautiful
needlework and embroidery and many
other industrial products that are found in
all the alcoves. it shows model arms and
legs scientifically bandaged, and ingenious
appliances for the sick room, and during
Ia N ct IL Of
to the sick has been graduated. The les
sons have been taken along with other
STUDIES, during two years, being given by a
truly missionary nurse, and the immediate
demand for their services shows that the
selection of this line of education is most
1udlclous. Among the real "triumphs" of
mechanical skill from Tennessee itself is
a clock from Knoxville, very beautiful a
fine tile mantel a stationary engine. and
TWO boats. In all the exhibits there is a
vast amount of finest drawn work and en-
DrDidery, some specimens of china paint
the aspiration of the negro to work in ideal
INES Is shown by 250 oil paintings in the
ART gallery, not to name the large number
that Iorm part of local exhibits
IN THE HOMES.
One feature of these schools is the s'model
home" where decent living is taught The
boys and girls who attend these schools de-
mand something better than the windowless
one-room cabin when they go home and
the boy who has learned the use of tools
constructs a shed, a rough table and seats.
the family is gathered together at meal
time, heads are bowed while the blessing Of
God is asked and the dawn of a new civili<
cation breaks In on the family. 1t should
be remembered that all the above colleges
ana schools have been founded by money!
raised outside the Southern States as the
direct outcome OF the Christian reply "a
verstJ begyan oT6th Ss n k thd Fisk Uni
barracks-that had been the United STATED
hospital Twelve hundred pupils, In agd
from SIX TO sixty, studied the simplest En-
glish branches. Now with Jubilee Hail. the
fruit of the labors of the jubilee singers,
Livingstone Hall, the mems dormitory
Theological Hall and the memorial chanel
distributed oyer a campus of thirty acres
we can see that Ethiopia has stretched out
her hands and rejoices.
A statement has lately been made that
the South has spent $4,000 900 for colored
public schools. AS the Colored man cannot
get away from the South nor the South
from him this isNprobably the best invest
ment she has ever made. When we come to
the second floor, very large part of the
work has been done by the pupils OF the
public schools Nashville herself has six,
where the work is as good as that shown
by white pupils of equal age. No better
specimens of free-hand drawing of botani-
cal and anatomical specimens or from the
from the Chattanooga schools. All these
schools show penmanship, modelling in clay
and work In language. arithmetic, history.
the natural sciences and music.
From st. Paul, Mimi, and New York
and Springfield, Mass, and St. Louis, Mo-,
come fine specimens of handiwork, photog-
raphy, and art work, but the greatest in
teret centers In the work of the negro at
the South in the distinctively slave States.
1t is interesting to note the pride they all
take In the purely aesthetic, and to see
how they delight in the works that link
them with the nobliest achievements of the
whites, and ask you to see our work in
painting and sculpture" They also are be-
ginning to see the value of thrift and point
with pride to their wealthy men, who are
able to send their sons to the colleges and
their daughters to Fisk. The exposition at
Atlanta just gave them glimpse of what
was possible, and leader was found with
the bump of organization large" in Rich
ard HILL now thirty-three years old. Ha
has been the inspiring Moses who has in
duced his people to put forth all their pow
err During the past year he has passed
through a Red sea of opposition and dis
couragement to emerge on the hither side
triumphant, and this triumph eliminated
on June 5, when 10000 negroes found then1-
selves in Nashville and 10000 of them
marched in proud procession to the fair,
and were made free of the grounds. III
may safely be said that from that day each
one of the 10000 felt a higher self-respect.
and been more resolved to do his best for
himself