The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-28
SCHOOL FOR COLORED BOYS
PRACTICAL INDICATION ON 4 NE-
 GRO FARM SCHOOL.

Made By J. E. Rnnkip-Professor
 William II. II. Hart of the Harvard | University Conducting the Expcri-
 ment-Great Benefit to the COiored
 Race.
 | Perhaps the most significant and hopeful sign in the condition of the Afro-American race, is the disposition, now and then, of one of their own num- her to do something for the race it. | self Kipling has written of the white mans burden. The cultivated black man has usually been that of q re- | cipient He has seldom been on the | giving hand. This Is going to be differ ! ent It Is often made boast, that the | colored race pays taxes to the amount | of so many millions. This is legiti- mate boast. but 1t Is a material one. l What does the colored race give to | found institutions for itself and its children No race can become great from what it receives of another race, It must learn to give. "If any man would be great, among you, let him be your servant" First, must come to the individual the disposition of self help; next, the disposition to help oth- CTS. There are many millions of prop erty In the hands of the colored people. This is a great honor but the time will come when the colored millionaire will do as do the white millionaires. This must be so before the race can achieve any marked moral greatness. There must be black Rockefellers and black Carnegies.
 A very original and unique effort to help his race, is a recent one Of w. H. H. Hart, professor in the Law de- partment and teacher of agriculture in Howard university. MT. Hart came up from labama, a barefooted, ragged boy. without friend or helper, and en- tered the Normal department of How ard university. He worked his way through all the departments, graduat- ing with honor, finally, in the Law school. where he has now been profes sor some ten years or more. He is an enthusiast in his devotion to his alma mater. to whose claims he is always ready to respond. It was in his study of the subject of University Extension, that his present project began to take shane. He saw hundreds of colored boys. from eight to eighteen years. in the streets of Washington. They were idle. unemployed, likely to become criminals. What could Howard univer- sity do for them? The matter was laid before the trustees of the university. The trustee saw no way in which they could reach the difficulty. Meantime, MT. Hart. whose anxiety was urgent, laid the subject before the board of childrens' guardians; especially before the superintendent of charities for the District of Columbia, offering his farm and his services to them. as they had been offered to the university. Here he was successful.
 MT Hart's farm is down on the Maryland shore of the Potomac, some twelve miles below Washington city. Side by side with this farm near Fort Washington is one owned by Hon. Will fam M Evarts, to whom Mir Hart was three years private secretary. Of this second farm, making in all tract of land extending a mile up and down the river and about mile and a half back into the State of Maryland, MT. Hart
 
 grant. so long as used for the purpose then contemplated There were but two dwellings on the place; one which had been used by the farmer, and the other. an elegant cabin used for sum mer outings by Mir. Evarts and house. hold this latter the farm school was opened in 1897. MT. Hart has solicited money enough since to erect wooden structure, two stories high. which Is used for school room and sleeping room. It is named Barrows hall, after the Hon. Samuel J. Barrows.
 MT. Hart has great fondness for horses and cattle, of which he has sev- eral notable representatives on his farm. The pupils are superintended by Robert J. Evans, a graduate of Hamp ton Institute, who has four or more assistants. Among the pupils Is a. Korean also a Porto Rican, who fol- lowed the United States troops home from that island to Cleveland, O., and there met President Rankin. There are now forty-two boys on this farm. All of them are healthy, happy, and easily governed. Indeed, the personal ity of Mir Hart seems to act as re- strainng influence. even In his absence. To show this, last Christmas MT. Hart gave them all a holiday, to be spent in Washington. the understanding being that they should report at the steam boat dock. The next morning all were there
 For $1S5 year Mir. Hart boards and clothes them and gives them instruc- ton in agriculture, blacksmithing and wheel wrighting. This Is less than 1t costs to care for the inmates of the Re- form school; to say nothing of the diff ferent surroundings and prospects that are before them. Hundreds of thou sands of dollars are given by the henev- olent for other branches of educational and sociological work. Here Is a branch that combines both characteristics. It prevents orimnalty; 1t cures 1t, It is we'll worth solid encouragement. MT. Hart needs gifts of money, clothing. books, new buildings and a cheering word from all Gods people who are anxious to hear the word: 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these. yc have done it unto me-
 J. F. RANKIN.
 Washington, D. c.