The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-10
WASHINGTON'S SCHOOL
PRINCIPAL OF TUSKEGEE IN
 STITUTE MAKES REPORT.
Average Attendance Last Year Was 1,21S and 1884 Pupils Were Enrolled-Review of In-
 dustrial Work.

QuStr1al Work.
 Tuskegee, Oct. 9.-(Special.)-The re- port of Booker T. Washington, principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute for the year ending May S1, was made public today. The report which has been transmitted to the Board of Trustees contains interesting informa- ton.
 The number of students enrolled during the year covered by the report was 1884, and the average attendance has been 1,2lS These students have come from thirty States and territories, and from five foreign countries. No one has been admitted under 14 years of age; 1887 of the whole number have boarded and slept on the grounds. The number which ] have given does not include the pupils in "The Ch.ldren's House, which is q primary school for the children in the neighbo, hood, and at the same time serves as model and training school for nor nal students. Neither does it include the 11 students In the night school in town, nor the IS students in the after noon cooking school in the town of Tus- ksgee; nor the thousands of colored men and women who are being reached and helped through the Tuskegee Negro Con- ferences
 In all the departments. religious. acad- emic and industrial, 112 officers and in structors and assistants of various kinds have been employed.
 Referring to these figures, Principal Washington says:
 If we add the number of persons in the families of our instructors to the num- Ter of students and teachers. it is safe to say that we have constantly upon. or near our school grounds a colony of 1 300 people. A large proportion of these fam lilies reside in small, neat cottages own ed by themselves or by the school, and the object lesson they afford is most val uable to the students and to our people in this part Of tke State.
 "A very large proportion of the students who do not remain to finish the full course, we find are doing most excellent work among their people-working at the trades and otherwise proving of value to the communities is which they live"
 Continuing the report, the Principal says:
 Up to the present time there have grown out of the Tuskegee Institute at least twelve schools of considerable size I mean institutions above the grade of common public schools. One of these. the Snow Hill Industrial Institute, at Snow Hill, Alabama, has 300 students, D teach CTS, 14 buildings, and property valued at 8, GOO
 Perhaps the most important work that the Tuskegee Institute, in connection with Hampton and other schools of similar character has accomplished, has been to find the most effective way to elevate the negro, and at the same time to make him most useful to the community in which he Is to live. This principle which has been demonstrated so thoroughly at Tuskegee Is capable of indefinite expan- sion; what Is most needed is the means to work with.
 Since my last report there have been received into our treasury from all sources and for all purposes $S1, ,401 .09. Of this amount $126,S64.29 have been used for current expenses, $46. .7SS have been ad- ded to the permanent endowment fund, and $50 2oS 95 for the permanent improve ment of the plant in the way of new buildings, industrial equipment, improve ment of the grounds, etc. The remainder, N7.545.05 were given for various special purposes. The present indebtedness of the school is $5,sS7.52.
 The endowment fund at present amounts to $299, ,759 .02. The investment of this fund is in the hands of the fol- lowing named gentlemen as an investment committee: Mir. William H. Baldwin, Jr.. 12S Broadway. New York City; MT. J. c. Phelps Stokes 47 Ceder Street, New York City; MT. George Foster Peabody, ? Pine Street. New York City and MT. Robert c. Ogden, Tenth Street and Broadway, New York City.
 By following strict business methods and practising rigid economy, we have been able to de the work of the school at total cost per student of SIP.
 Tt will interest you to know that the year has brought us the largest amount received in the history of the school from white people in the South. Five hundred dollars has come from MT. Belton Gill; reath of Birmingham. Ala, and $l, ,OOO from MT. H. M. Atkinson of Atlanta, Ga.
 Another interesting gift is that of $1. GOO from Mir. Robert F. Baptist of Galway, New York, colored man and at one time a slave. The gift of MT. Gilreath rep resents that of an ex-master the gift of Mr. Baptist that of an ex-slave. Our own graduates also remember the school with gifts each year.
 T find that in some places the idea pre- vails that this Is a rich institution, and that it is being supported by a few wealthy persons, or by some organiza- ton, and that We do not any longer need the small gifts of the many. This is far from true. We need the small gifts of the individuals and organizations as much as ever we did in the past. By far the largest part of the money which has enabled us to get through the year at all, has come from sman donors in sums of 50 cents each and upwards. The school is constantly indebted to friends who will not permit their names to be made public. but whose gifts are con- tinually helping to place the institution in a position of greater usefulness"
 The report of the principal closes with the following reference to the industrial work:
 As 1 review the history of this institu- tion nothing is more striking than the change which has taken place in this sec tion of the South among the people of my race with reference to their feeling toward industrial education as entertained at the time when the Hampton Institute was started in Virginia. What was true with regard to Hampton is equally true re garding the Tuskegee Institute. When this institution was established the bulk of the colored people, and especially those who had received some education. were opposed by words and acts. I am glad to say that this feeling has almost com pletely disappeared; so much so that we are now compelled for lack of room and means to refuse admission to a large number of students each year.
 During the first ten or twelve years of the existence of the school the growth of the industries was rot so rapid as it would have been except for the opposi-