The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-17
THE GROWTHOF SHAW
An Effort to Better Equip the
University.
The SHAW Singers" viii Raise Money This
Summer in the Northern States For the
Industrial Department

From its humble beginning in 1865 Shaw
School for colored people, now Shaw Uni
versity, has been building wisely ard
deep and broad. DR.. H. NJ. Upper al that
early date shouldered his axe and with
his few young students, the names
of some of which are now Revs.
George Perry, Gus. A. Shepard.
Robert Shepard, of the Oxford Asylum,
Caesar Johnson, Deacon Crosson and
others, went to the woods about six miles
east of Raleigh and felled the first trees
and hauled them into this city and erect
ed the first school house, where the col
ored Blount Street Baptist Church stands
. today. The log building put up by these
students began Shaw University in the
now popular way of industrial training.
From that day, thirty-siX years ago, be-
fore DR.. Armstrong started Hampton in
the old soldiers barracks; before Booker
Washington knew he was free, and long
before he swept the Hampton school
room, boys like the ones mentioned above
and others like Henry Cheatham, now
Congressman, H. P; Nick Roberts, now
Dr.. N. F. Roberts; "Zeke" Smith, now
Hon E. E. Smith, Phi D., eX-Minster to
School, and o. B. Hayes, of Africa, and
hundreds of other splendid farmers, mer-
chants, teachers, preachers, lawyers, doc
tors, mechanics, cooks, seamstresses and
8laborers scattered all over the Southland,
now past middle life, were schooled to
work with their hands, making bricks,
benches, desks, chairs, blacksmith tools.
painting and doing systematic industrial
&c
gon" performance of Shaw University, nor
a me too but a deep bred and born
principle to educate the entire being, es-
pecially the heart and hand of all of her
students Shaw has the deep interest and
sincere friendship of all the people OF the
State of North Carolina especially, and
of Raleigh in particular where Shaw was
born and has grown and developed.
Prof N. c. Bruce, an eX-student OF
Shaw, a graduate of Bates College,
Maine, and who has been the head of the
College Department during the past eight
years of it's remarkable progress, has
been engaged to make the campaign
through New England summer resorts
with the Shaw singers this season. Prof.
Bruce feels the deep responsibility of this
trip. yet he speaks of it encouragingly.
ness" he declared, "for Shaw does not do
business by the trumpet's blast. We do not
even publish Shaw bulletin and yet you
know and any who knows us, knows that
our work is thorough and truly that of
developing men and women, who like
Shaw go out quiet, unobtrusive, but pow
erful in doing their duty / have per-
haps the finest quartette of singers that
has taken the field for years and reader
of Dunbar's and other negro selections
seldom equalIed anywhere. We sing in
large church at Hampton, Va, Friday,
the 18th and from there we go via Bos-
ton to Springfield, Mass, where the
Northern Baptists hold their anniversaries
May 20-27 inst. We are engaged for that
week, after which we take in Western
Massachusetts, then East, then down East
for July and August"
What is your immediate purpose for
this campaign was asked.
well, sir, Shaw is now and has been
contintinually expanding like the nation,
and especially like our Southland, Shaw
has never stood STILL We are enlarging and
systematizing our industrial plant. new
cooking school for our girls and new
laundry to match with our fine sewing
school have been decreed We must
have them for we deserve them, for we
have said it, our students have demanded
it. our friends South and North, our trus-
tees and our invincible presidential
have said Shaw needs these and must
have this cooking school and laundry de-
partment at once, and consequently we
are going after it and Shaw wins, you
know"