The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-31

blacksmith shop, S2.lss; paint shop. $2,154; department 0f repairs. $l,I4' harness shop. n.671: shoe shop. N,oOo; having made about 300 pairs of new shoes and repaired 600 pairs Of old ones: wheelwright shop d.157. includ- ing thirty new wagons. The dairy has yielded products, for the year, to the value of $e,Ss2' with an average of nfty-five cows per month. Seventy COWS are now givlhs 150 gallons of milk per day. The gar dens have furnished the school $l,sl4 worth of vegetables, and meats, to the value of nearly $5,00o, aggregating l0O,- 2tl pounds, part of which was bought of outside parties. The Dressmaking Department has done about S1,o00 worth of worl: during the year: the depart ment of plain sewing Sl,749 worth, the department of millinery S334. The showing of this department is small because of the long sickness of the Su- peiintendent, Miss Eliza Adams. The laundry has washed and ironed about zoo. 900 pieces during the year. The mattress factory did s110 worth of work. having made, among other ar ticles. 112 single and fifty-seven double mattresses. 13o pillows and nearly 200 ticks. This department also resears cane and splint bottomed chairs. The electrical division has added several hundred new lights and installed a tel ephone exchange so that all heads of departments are in close connection with each other and easily reached, at any moment, by the Principal. Today marked the close of the twen- tieth year of Tuskegee's work. The school opened with one teacher and thirty pupils in a rented building. This a nf n the Normal School, 90S boys. 346 girls, and 1SS in the Training School. A night school of SS and an afternoon cooking class of 13 are taught in the city of Tuskegee. A force of 109 off, csrs' and teachers are required to carry on this work. A otal of 1852 people are connected with the daily opera tions of the school. The school has the appearance of a busy, prosperous village.
 The students have come, this year, from twenty-six States, two territories, Africa, Cuba, Porto Rico and the Ba- hamas. Alabama sends AZ; Georgia. s29; Mississippi, e1; Louisiana, sS; Tex as, q; South Carolina, 63; Florida, 53; Tennessee. 3S; Kentucky, North Caro- lima. Ohio and Cuba. II each. With this years class the graduates will number about 500. They extend from Africa to the Sandwich Islands. They arc in every Southern State and in many Northern States. In addition to the graduates those who have attended the school. for longer or shorter pe- riod, number more than 5000. The TCskegee idea is not merely to grad uate a student, but to follow him into his work. with kindly sympathy and helpfulness. In this way many of the graduates have founded schools, sim liar in spirit and aim to Tuskegee. which now have almost the size and power that Tuskegee had, a, tile same age. Snow Hill Institute Tt Snow H.Il, Wilcox County. Ala, will serve as an example. This school was started eight years ago, by W. J. Edwards, graduate of the class of '93. He had absolutely nothing except an en- dowment of Tuskegee spirit Mr. R. o. Simpson, wealthy planter of Will COX County. on whose land MT. Ed wards was born, saw that he was ca- pabic and in earnest, and gave him forty acres of land. to locate on. He helped him otherwise, as did other cit izens of Snow Hill and Furman. A charter was secured and the work has gone on through these eight years. During the year just closed 400 stu dents were enrolled, over 100 boarding students Eighteen teachers and super intendents were employed all of them graduates or former students of Tus- keA ee. In addition to a literary course. almost equal to that of Tuskegee. the following industries have been carried on: Farming, blacksmithing. wheel wrighting. carpentry, printing, brick making, brick masonry. sawmilling, painting,' laundering, sewing, cooking and housekeeping. The property is valued at $30,000. The receipts and ex- penditures for the year have been over $16,000. Abundant evidence can be giv- en to show that not only grad uates but even many of those who were at Tuskegee but a very few weeks have held, with wonderful tenacity, to the Tuskegee spirit, of doing some thing. and made enviable records.
 The class that graduated today num- bers 60. all told. Forty-two received diplomas from the Normal Department More than one-half of this number have received a certificate for the com pletion of some industry. All have had valuable training of the hand. Nine of the very best here, in the class are graduates In Agriculture. As an evidence of the deep interest in inn proved agriculture 1t is interesting to note that all of them have good posi- tions. Many of them are young men and women of strong character. The following is a complete list of the graduates and post-graduates. with their addresses and tr"des:
 Charles Philip Adams, Agriculture, Baton Rouge, La.
 McLane Mcclellan Birch, Agriculture, St.. Francisville. La.
 William Christopher Brown, Tailor ing, Macon, Ga.
 Thomas Jefferson Bush, Shoe- -mak- ing, Union Springs, Ala.
 Emma Vincent Bryant, Housekeep- ing. Montague. Mich.
 Milton Lewis Galloway. Harnessma- king Union Springs, Ala.
 Cyrus Campfield, Printing, Savan- nah. Ga.
 Annie Marie Canty. Cooking. Co., lumbus. Ga.
 Francis Henry Cardoza. Agriculture. Orangeburg. s. c.
 Edward Harrison Carry, Victoria, Texas.
 Julia Belle Cooke. Cooking. Selma, Ala.
 Byrd Theron Crawford. Agriculture, Panther. Ala.
 Christiana Dismukes. Macon. Ga.
 Marcellus Walter Freeman, Printing, Fafayette, Ala.
 Henry Lotion Graham. Columbia, Tenn.
 William Bentley Graves. Tuskegee, Ala.
 Pinkie Greene. Tuskegee, Ala.
 Margaret Jennette Greenlee, Nurse, Asheville, N. c,
 Wade Hampton Hammond, Attalla, Ala.