The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-29
STUDENTS FOR AFRICA.
An Expedition Being Fitted Out by
Booker Washington

NEW YORK, Oct. 29--Bocker I. WASH
ington, called the BLACK Moses, Is here
to fit out an expedition Of negro students
for South Africa These negroes will be
sent in compliance with the request OF the
German Government, which hopes, Dy th9
iuar,3rtation of American colored men, to
otyiItze the savage subjects of Emperor
william on the west coast CT Africa and
aid them in Industrial development
1t is the most novel race experiment or
the decade, and may eliminate IN a gen
eral exodus OF the Southern negroes TO
the Emperor's tropical territory, for the
German Government has offered homes
10 all Intelligent negroes
The movement is the direct result OF the
exhibit of the Tuskegee Normal Institute
al the Paris Exposition This is college
in Alabama over which Booker I. wash
ingtcn presides- II has accomplished more
toward training negroes in industrial INES
than any other agency at Tork IN me
Southern States. In the daytime students
are taught to operate machinery. They
are made to cultivate cotton and corn on
scientific principles. At night they study
and attend lectures They are trained in
English and the classics
There is no manufactured article which
the black students of Tuskegee cannot
the South They make carpets and
chairs and turn the cotton which they
cultivate into cloth These articles were
exhibited at Paris during the Exposition
Representatives OF Emperor William
were passing through the United States
Building They were struck with the
display from the Tuskegee school. They
were amazed when informed that this
had been done by American negroes. just
cJa hax il
Gated with Emperor William. It was sug-
| gested that these negroes be imported and
! sent to the possessions of Germany on
| the South African coast. This met the ap-
| prevail of the Emperor.
! Send for them at once" he is re-
| ported as saying They can teach my
| subjects 10 do things we'll and TO become
| civilized"
! Booker t. Washington received a long
! letter informing him that the German Gov
! eminent would hear the expenses OF any
| expedition fitted out Young negroes who
| knew how 10 conduit farms were wanted
| 1t was stipulated that these negroes should
| be Intelligent enough to go amOrs the ma
| tives and teach them how 10 work Espe-
/ cially was it desired that these natives
| should be taught how to raise cotton
| Booker T. Washington spent yesterday
! purchasing supplies for the expedition. It
viii be elaborately fitted out with Ameri-
can agricultural implements.
". H. Baldwin, jr-, President of the
| Long Island Railway, is a director in
| the Alabama Institute. He is a great
| student CT the race question and a
phiianthropist in the black belt" OF
/ Alabama Most of the Northern funds
for the Tuskegee College are collected By
/ him He will assist in fitting out the ex-
pedition.
Mr. Baldwin said last night:
| This movement TO South Africa may
| be general 1t may be that thousands
| of the ooiored people will move to Ger
many's possessions. It has often been
| suggested that the solution of the race
| question was for the colored man to re-
| turn to his native land