The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-11

ington. It consists of seven hundred
 acres of as beautiful rolling upland and
 loWland, and forest and stream, inter-
 spersed with meadow, garden and field
 as ever blessed the eyes of man; where
 three hundred slaves rose and toiled to
 the sound of the great farm bell, which
 now calls their children to school and
 to worship as freeman, seeking prep
 aration for useful and honorable lines. Continuing, Professor Ferris said, q
 want you to see this great work as
 see it. There are nearly hundred
 thousand colored people in Washing
 ton. and in Washington you will find
 many cultured and refined negroes. But you will also find many poverty
 stricken and illiterate negroes. They | come to Washington from the country districts for miles around, regarding it | as a paradise. The result is that there are hundreds of ragged, neglected col ored boys roaming the streets of Wash I ington, sleeping in allies begging a crust of bread now and sometimes stealing 8 loaf. Many are waifs oth-
 CTS have apologies for parents. In the
 words of Pohl Miller, The little colored waifs of the District of Columbia have
 been picked up by the officious police
 men, carried to the police courts and to the common jail as vagrants, and
 thus let along on almost inevitable roads to crime, for, true to the prevail ing spirit, almost every door of mercy or reform is shut against these children because of the color of their skin" These boys from infancy breathe foul moral atmosphere. They develop into criminals not because they are naturally bad, but because they have never come under ennobling influences,
 And the unique feature of Professor Harts work is that it is the first sue cessful attempt to solve that social pro blem caused by the overcrowdng of the negroes in large cities. Another inter- esting feature of the work is the intro duction of the Georges Junior Republic Idea. Congress has shown it's confi- denee in Professor Har'S work, paying two hundred dollars per capita per an- mum for the sixty wards of the govern ment who are sent there, thus contribu- ting twelve thousand dollars annually for the support of the school, leaving the general public to further patronize and support as it sees fit. For two hundred dollars a year Professor Hart must house, feed and clothe boy for twelve months, pay the doctors bill when he is sick educate him and learn him a trade. They are young and growing boys and need nutritious food, Many of them are very young. And instructive labor wastes more material and costs more than productive labor. Ire result is that Professor Hart has been obliged during the past four years to go down in his pocket month after month in order to meet the expenses in cured for running the institution.
 The present needs of the school are a twelve thousand dollar we'll equipped building, four stories high, the first floor to be used for blacksmith and shops, the second for a school room and the third and fourth floors for dormitories, twenty thousand dollars to pay off all outstanding debts against the school and farm, and three thousand dollars year to help run the institution
 Among the endorsers of the school are Hon. John w. Ross, commissioner of the District of Columbia; Hon. J. T. Petty, auditor of the District of Co., lumbia; F. H, Clement, editor of the Boston Transcript; and Rev. Charles Gordon Ames, of Boston. Dr. Henry Davies, pastor of the Westville Congre- gational church, will be pleased to re- ,eive any contribution you or your friends may care to make. l feel that he negro already owes much to the spirit of northern philan- .hropists and we are reluctantly con- strained to appeal again for aid"