The age-herald., 1901-10-14
BOOKER WASHINGTON
 ISSUES ANNUAL REPORT
Costs One Hundred Thousand Dollars Annually to Operate the InsttutOn-lncome $32,000, Leaving Deficit of
 S68,000 to be RaiSed-Need New Buildings

successful manner, on large scale, in
 various parts of the South Especially is
 this true of the school known as the Mt. Meigs Institute at Waugh, Ala; the Snow Hill Industrial Institute, Snow Hill Ala; the Christiansourg Institute, at Cambria, Va. the Denmark Industrial
 School at Denmark, s. C., as well as sev-
 eral others. It is notable and encour-
 aging fact that in the case of the schools
 at Snow Hill and Denmark that the
 prime movers in starting and encourag- ing these schools have been Southern
 white men.
 More and more each year we are aim ing to secure the most promising students
 from a wide section of territory and to
 so train them that they will return to their homes and give their communities the benefit of their training.
 "As fast as possible we are encouraging our graduates and others to introduce
 training in agriculture into the public schools of the South. This we think very important for the schools located in the small towns and rural districts.
 'In the industrial training we keep specially in mind the emphasizing of
 those industries at which the students can find immediate employment as soon as they leave us.
 Growth and Expansion.
 "The experiment which we began try ing some two years ago of giving train 1 ing to a portion of our young women In such outdoor industries as gardening, hor- ticulture. dairying, bee raising and poui- | try raising Is proving quite successful.
 This is especially true of poultry raising.
 Several of the new agricultural buildings
 mentioned in my last report have been
 completed All of these were buildings
 greatly needed, among them hennery.
 This new building gives us the opportnn- | ity of teaching the raising of all kinds of | fowls in the best manner. The same friends whose gift made 1t possible for us to erect the hennery also enabled us to build a new barn for the dairy cows | and a new dairy house. All three of these buildings were much needed and put us | in a position to do much more effective | work
 Dorothy Hall, the new trades building
 for girls. given us by friends in New
 York, to which made refefence In my ldSI report IS COHnpieteu dilu was ueui-
 cated April 22. 1901. This is very satis- factory building and put us in a position | to give more effective training to girls | than ever before,
 "A friend in Boston has given us 5000 to be used in the erection of a training school building, and another in Connecti-
 cut has given $4O00 for hospital. Both of these buildings are in process of erection | and are much needed.
 MT. Morris K. Jesup of New York has given $5O0O for a new barn for horses and
 mules. This building is also being con- structed.
 Spirit of Industry.
 "The spirit of industry Is so strongly lodged in the minds and hearts of the students that every student upon our rolls pursues some branch of industry in addition to other studies Every stu dent who graduates has received such training in some branch of industry as
 will enable him to earn his living.
 'In conclusion, wish to add thought
 which I have tried to express before, and
 that Is. more and more, each year, I feel that agriculture should be made, in very large degree, the basis for our | work; that the salvation of my race will | largely rest upon it's ability and willing | ness to secure and cultivate properly the
 soil I believed that everything possible should be done to enlarge and increase i the efficiency of our agricultural depart | ment. In this connection am glad to add | that arrangements have been made to reserve three acres of land around the new training school to be used in giving | agricultural training to the smallest chill dren. My feeling grows stronger each | year that perhaps in the heat of passion, | growing out of racial and sectional preju- dices. we have not always given the | southern people due credit for the im- | mense amount of help rendered the ne- | gro during the period that he was a slave. The negro as slave was started l on the foundation of agriculture, mechan- | ics and household arts. While I would by no means limit his present education to these, but would in all cases add acade-
 mic and religious training. I do believe
 we shall find 1t helpful for number of | years to come, in our methods of educa- tion to give great attention to these fun damental occupations. In proportion as
 one owns the soil and has the mastery of these fundamental occupations, in the
 same proportion does he lay the founda- ton for the highest and most complete
 development of himself and children. When we consider the past, l regard that from every point of view the pro-
 gress of the negro race Is satisfactory
 and the relation of the races encouraging.
 It is the duty of all patriotic and conser-
 vative citizens to see that present condi-
 tions are not disturbed by hasty, radical
 and unnecessary legislation"
 TO INSPECT EQUIPMENT.