The age-herald., 1901-10-14

Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Insti- tute, has sent his annual report on the work of that institution to the Age-Her- aid. The institution at Tuskegee is known all over the country, and the report Is nationally of great interest.
 The report shows that 1253 students were in attendance the past year, and the average daily attendance was 1010 The average age of students was 1872 years, and none was admitted under IA. Twenty nine states and territories of the Union were represented, and six foreign coun- tries, including IA students from Cuba and Porto Rico
 The number of persons employed in in structing the students was 1O9. Operating Expenses. It now costs annually $100. 900 to operate | the institution. The reasonably certain income from all sources is $32, 900. leaving ''$6S 900 to be raised each year in order to meet the current expenses of the school" | The average cost of each student is only | SIS, and the students paid in labor last | year $67,29115.
 | One-half of the desired $5O0,OO0 endcw- ment fund has been secured. About $12O, 900 Is badly needed for new buildings and Improvements. During the year $2S00O was received in gifts for special building. MT. Carnegie has given $20,00O for a library building which is now in course of construction. The total amount of money received in the year for general purposes was $1S9. 30. of which SIP, 1O4- 34 had to be used to meet current ex- penses.
 Please send us money in any amounts to meet current expenses; even one dol lar helps us," Is the plea
 Work of the Graduates. MT. Washington, in discussing the work of graduates" says:
 Aside from those who have graduated. it is safe to say that there are more than three thousand who have not remained long enough to receive a diploma or certi- hcate but who, nevertheless, have been so much benefited by the school that they are doing praisworthy work.
 Tn the early years of the school, the larger proportion of our graduates be- came teachers. At the present time very large proportion follow the trade or in dustry learned at this institution during the whole of the time. Others combine their industrial knowledge with teaching. while still others teach a portion of the year and work at their trade the remain der of the time.
 'The calls that come to us almost daily, not only from the negro race but from whites, as well, for our graduates to en- ter various fields of usefulness, are many more than we can supply. The calls from white people for our graduates to take charge of various departments of agriculture, are especially numerous. If we had the room and means, we could find opportunities for the greatest use- fitness for many times more graduates than we are sending out.
 .In accordance with vote of the trus- tees the Rev. R. c. Bedford, one of our trustees, is spending portion of each year in making personal inspection of the work of our graduates and under-gradu- ates, and one gratifying fact in connec- ton with this Inspection is that very few men and women who have spent any con siderable time at this institution are to be found in idleness.
 "Since the entire value of our work is to be tested by the success of our gradu- ates. we feel that we cannot be too care full in keeping in close and accurate touch with the work of those who have been educated here.
 Establish Other institutions.
 "In several cases graduates of this in- stitution are planting the methods and the spirit of this work in surprisingly
 
 Virginia is Newport News. They are go- ing to Newport News to cultivate the Shipbuilding Company with view to selling that corporation some of its prod ucts. That is the object of the Newport News trip, and nothing more"
 When a reporter asked J. H. Adams, assistant manager of the Republic Com parN, what was taking his directors to Virginia, that genial official said: .T know but am not at liberty to tell you. They are going there on business; that is all can say"
 MT. Adams said this with an air of mystery, and he spoke the word business as if it were spelled with big B.
 The party remained at Newport News only from Friday until Saturday, long enough to look over the shipbunding plant and sell iron, perhaps but not long enough to locate plant as the Associat- ed Press intimates.
 MT. Kennedy did not accompany the Republic officials to Virginia, but went from Birmingham direct to his home in