The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-30

until properly aged.
ing post graduate work in the trades.
They represent nurse training. architec-
tural drawing. brick masonry. dressmak-
ing, millinery, tailoring wheel wrighting.
, mechanical engineering and agriculture.
A marked event in the year was the
return of Professor J. N. Galloway. after
sixteen months stay in Africa, with three
Tuskegee graduates, engaged I'm teaching
cotton culture to the natives. under the
patronage of the German Government.
| Mr.. Galloway was very enthusiastically
| received by every one ard. during dhe
| month he remained here, he spoke often
| to students and teachers. The story of
his work was widely spread by the ZOO
| farmers to whom he spoke al the Negro
| Conference. The three young men were
left in charge Of the work in his absence.
| They have all endured the climate well
| and have given great satisfaction to the
| German Government. On Mr.. Call ways
return he took back with him :our other
young men srd a young woman. the wife
of Hiram Simpson mentioned elsewhere.
The thought of this substantial Tusiieg %
in Africa, with Mr.. Galloway as It's head.
is constant inspiration to the school.
The building done by the school this
wear has been of great interest and Of
81 very high order. The Carnegie Libra
ry. costing $4,000 is the fineit exhibition
yet given. of what can be done by stu lent
| labor. The plans for the building were
| drawn by Mr.. r. r. Taylor. the schools
architect and director of Industries. 1t
| Is 50x1I0 and IS feet to the roof i'm two
| stories. At the entrance Is mag liiicent
portico with four mas i've Ionic columns.
rising to the roof. The first floor is one
large room. excepting the offices and Ii
| brarians room. 1t contaisl alcoves for
books with ample room fer newspapers
| and magazines and for reading. On the
second floor there is lecture room that
| Will seat about 800, also special study
| rooms. collections of books of reference
and museum. The building Is finished In
| the natural woods. and is exceedingly
! beautiful. All the furniture was made by
the school. 1t required $4,000 bricks. 1t
| Is well lighted by electricity The build
ing was given by Mr.. Carnegie, wholly
| without conditions. and is "a tribute by
him to the principle of self help, which
| constitutes the very heart of the school s
| work. No building on the grounds is
| more completely the work of students
| than this. 1t is greatly appreciated and
| Is occupied from carly in the morning
till late at night. The large hospital for
boys and girls. costing over 5000, is also
| finished and in use. A large number of
neat homes have been built for married
teachers. A substantial brick building for
| a girls bathroom Is nearly finished.
| Rockefellcr's Hall, d boys dormitory.
| 135x9O. three stories. is in the third story.
| The foundations of the administration
| building, 1lSX67 two stories. are laid and
| the first story is well under way. A tool
| and carriage house have been built. A
splendid recitation building, in honor of
| Mr.. G. p. Huntington, and the compile
| ton of the boys trades building, DOR
| mitory for girls, bath rooms for boys.
| and the Lincoln memorial gateway, are
! among the large things in prospects.
| few items will give some idea of the
magnitude of the work done by the stu
dents during the past year. They made
| 2,12S.22 bricks. OF these they have laid
| 1,S43. Sc. The school sold 2s4657 to outside
| parties. They cultivated about 800 acres
of land. They sawed from the logs 200 coo
| feet of lumber. a large part of which has
| been worked up into furniture wagons.
buggies. wheelbarrows and house trim
| mings of various kinds. They cut $50, 600
| laths and dressed 80 030 feet of lumber.
| The printing Office did over $1,000 worth
| of work during the year and made "a
| profit to the school of nearly 500 over all
| expenses. The bricklayers and pIasterers
| udNt tOiit d DuSiHtSS tbNPTiilS HS3,Ub LOT
labor and matei ials. The brick making
for the school and surrounding country
now requires the constant operation of
| two large machines. capable of over 10000
bricks each per day, and one yard, ope-
rated by hand. This is in marked con-
trast with the heroic struggles in the
brick yard of twenty years ago. as reiat-
ed in Mr.. WashingtOn's book. Up from
Slavery The value of buildings added
hNr.- f,,I1 I,,I, 4 +; Q oto
The shoe shop made $50 pairs of new
shoes and repaired 1,197 pairs. The cleo
trical division has installed 1.lS7 lights
The harness shop d d 81. 359 worth of work.
The machine shop and foundry have done
81 vast amount of work this year in con-
nection with the new heating plant and
waterworks, and the keeping in repair of
six steam engines located on the grounds
besides the repair work for large area
of country, there being no other machine
shop or foundry nearer than thirty miles.
Over seventy students have done work in
this line The work done has run from
500 to $1.1O0 per month. The blacksmith
shop has done about $3.50 worth of work.
great deal of labor has gone to the
farm and miscellaneous work of the
school The students have paid in labor.
toward their expenses. $IS.G3l.61s in cash.
sl6.S1z79.
The class that graduated today num-
hers thirty-fivc twenty-five boys and
thirteen girls. They represent II States
Alabcma, Is; California /: Florida. =;
Georgia, 4; Mississippi. D. Missouri i
Tennessee. /; Texas, 8: Kentucky, 3; West
Virginia, /; Massachusetts,. !. Six are
from Tuskegec. All have had thorough
drill in some useful industry. Five are
graduates in agriculture, one in tin
smithing. one in harness making and car
riase Trimming, three in dressmulling,
ore in tailoring. enc in dentistry six in
laundering and cooking. one in cooking,
one in laundering, two in nurse training
enc in sawmilIing. one in blacksmithing
one from the machine shop, one in print
ing. Others have received instruction in
various trades and will return next year
as pest graduates and finish them. They
Will all find immediate employment with
an earning capacity far beyond what they
possessed when they came to the school.
The girls of the class have had large
practical experience in housekeeping this
year. They have lived four at time, in
small building called practice home. -
where they nave kept house in every de-
tail. doing their own washing, scrubbiug.
| cooking - nj having the entire care of the
house. E>ch of tn four girls serves