The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-10-13


the closest attention and the highest
care were necessary to success, especially,
when the wages are less than an opera
tive can earn in domestic service in fewer
hours and at less exacting toll. How
we'll they are succeeding the following
Newspaper clipping will tell: 80
The Charleston Post says: The Vesta
Cotton. mills, operated with Afro-Ameri-
can LABOR, is no longer an experiment,
out is a successful and fixed institution
OF Charleston. The management of the
mills has given Afro-American labor a
thorough test, and they are so we'll salts
ned with the success of the venture that
they have determined to erect a number
for the use of operators. The Vesta Cot
ton Mills company, through it's general
manager and treasurer, L.. G.. Potter, has
that purpose. - =
'"The Newport News Ship Building and
Dry Dock company is one of the largest
American men, of which about 200 are
skilled. The superintendent writes that
they earn the same rates of pay as the
white men in the different classes of
a number are regarded as both efficient
and reliable, and they make very good
rlveters. A large number are employed
departments''
A view of the Af-o-American exhibit
Will at once give the visitor, lasting i'm
preston of the success of the, same. At
outstretched hand welcomes the visitor to
see what has been accomplished by his
people Pee in 1T the short space OF thirty!-fye
of the one erected to Douglass in Roch-
ester. New York. Beginning from the
Douglass statue and going to the right
we b hnd IL haangng frames containing photo
verslty, Berea college, Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Greensboro, NJ c.,
Fisk university. In these photographs are
q n ir,n @1%i4 IL.
the different schools such as classes,
buildings and grounds, scenes in the poul--
tgy of the eh afey Ste In the next nd
views from flames normal and
very fine series of charts prepared un-
Bots, Of Atlanta university. These e charts
ton of the Afro-American in Georgia,
in education, industry, business, and as
institute are viewed next. In this case
particular care is given to a comparison
Of the old life and the new life of the
scenes and mo modern SCENES enc At glance lance
one can see the progress made from the
log cabin to the modern dwelling and
from the oneemule farm to a well equip
tains another excellent series, Of charts
prepared under the direction Of Prof Du
Bots. Unlike the first series, these deal
States of America and give interesting
data as to past and present conditions.
In the next case photographs are pre-
and soldiers of the late -spanish-American
War. Pictures are shown Of AfrO-Ameri-
cans in different skilled enplo yment in
the South S9I' principally at the Newport
An extended and complete library of
books by Afro-Anerican authors is in
stalled in this exhibit and there are on
g ncf
American authors of worth.
The specimens here on view show the
handiWork of the students Of Tuskegee,
ing, joining, wood turning, painting and
granting, horseshoeing. tailoring. dress
| making, etc. Specimens of produce rails
school are also exhibited. as well as sam
pies of the soil. A large picture of the
grounds and buildings of this school is
| hung to the left of the accompanying
| picture.
AS will be seen in the picture above
! this exhibit. are the portraits of the Hon.
! B. B. K e., Bruce, Hon; Booker +: Washing
! meath the respective pictures Of the reg
| listers of the treasury are $4,000 govern
| ment bonds, bearing the respective sig
| The stitching and seamstress work
| taught at Haines normal school is very
Interesting; and the, specimens Of work
| show great care and 1leatness. The kin
dergarten work in paper: such as past
ing, folding and cutting, is excellent.
/ From Chicago. among other things, is
| exhibited the trolley and cable wheel of
| DR.. b. R: Robinson, razor strops by ).
Fl. Woldridge. compounds by DR.. W. l..
| Taylor and Druggist Montrose Rankin,
! shoe polishes by the Howard Manufac-
turing company, a Bible paper weight of
| different colored marble by Nathan Hunt.
| The Afro-American industrial school, Of
! Washington, D. c., has on exhibit as the
! work of its students, model Of a cot
ton press. Many patents are exhibited
by. Afro American inventors, among them
! being a letter box by George E. Beckett.
Providence, r. l.; street sprinkling ap-
paratus, by William Binga. Cincinnati,
Ohio; railway signal and cash carrier, by
Albert E. BIZ blackburn, Springfield, Ohio:
! a cotton planter, by Henry Blair, issued
Aug. 13, 1886, which was secured for Blair
through his master. as a patent could not
Ebe obtained by a slave; street sweeper,
Charles B. Brooks, Newark, N. j.; ele-
vator safety device, James Cooper, Chi
cago, ILL.,; car fender. Matthew A. Cher
| ry, Washington. D. c..
| Some splendid views Of modelling are
| exhibited irs this section by the pronlis-
ing sculptress, Miss Meta Vaux Warrick,
of Philadelphia, Pa. Miss Warrick is at
present pursuing her studies in Paris.
! MORRIS LEWIS.