The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-09
GEN. ARMSTRONG 5 WORK.
APPROPRIATELY DESCRIBED IN
AN EASTERN PAPER.
He Being Dead, Yet Speaketh and His
Labors Follow After Him-What
Hampton Students Do.

The Springfield Republican of Febru-
airy IS, has very appreciative article
descriptive of Hampton Institute, and
the work of Gen. S. c. Armstrong.
Among other things the writer says:
Those who knew General Armstrong
will recall the magnetic presence, the
intense enthusiasm the tail, soldierly
figure of the hero who spent his life
in the cause of the under man'-the
red man, the black man, the man of
any color who had ambition and self
respect, and pair of hands willing to
work. With rare foresight, General
Armstrong felt that the proper kind of
training for undeveloped races was
wise combination of Industrial and aca-
demic instruction. Believing the work
of the hands to be moral as well as an
educative force, he built as many shops
as he had classrooms, thus developing
at Hampton an industrial village full
of busy workers learning how to earn
an honest living, and to become men
and women of sufficient character to
| influence for good the communities in
which they were to live.
This industrial village lives and
| grows. Since General Armstrong; time,
! finely equipped trade schools for both
| boys and girls have been provided,
through the kindness of friends, of
whom the founder hoped in his "mem-
!
see that the work of the school should
| continue" The domestic and industrial
! training begins at Hampton in the kim
dergarten, where the little black pick
aninnies have their wash days, ironing
days, and hours for sweeping, busting
and gardening. 1t continues throughout
the course up through the sewing, cook
ing, sloyd and bent-iron classes to
dairying, laundering, housekeeping and
dressmaking for the girls, and carpen-
| try, cabinet-making, bricklaying, black
| smithing, machine work, steam engi-
neering, tailoring, shoe and harness
making, upholstering, tinsmithing
printing and agriculture for the boys
Those taking these trades are taught
not only manual SKILL but the business
side of their chosen occupations-the
cost of materials, of labor of the fin
ished product, and of building and
equipping shops of their own. Every
student is required to keep his personal
account, subject to inspection monthly
in the treasurer's office; and all are
taught the use of simple business forms
checks, drafts, etc.
The question naturally arises What
becomes of the graduates of this eX.
pensive school? Do they pay for the
outlay? Following are some of the re.
suits of the schools work. OF its 6,00l
graduates and ex-students, at least 81
per cent nave DSCOIlle l6dCHtISt
mechanics and business men. OF the
279 who have taken trades since 1885
about 20 per cent are either working a
them or engaged in teaching them a
Tuskegee, Lawrenceville, Gloucester
Kittrell, or in the other schools which
have sprung up all over the south al
outgrowths of the Hampton idea. I'm
der the teachers who have gone gu
from the parent school and it's off
shoots, more than 100000 children hav
received instruction.
David Kanuha, a Hawaiian, is
, Hampton student who heard in his is
land home of Armstrong; great indus
trial school in the states. Selling hi
ponies to raise the money for his pas
sage, he applied for entrance ant
learned the tailors trade, in which h
became so proficient, that he was pu
in charge of a shop at Hampton. H
! filled this position acceptably for tw
years, and was then called to a simila
one in the Kamehamaha school for boy
in Honolulu, where he now lives, havin
become man of property and infiuenc
in the community.