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school. Students are not received in the night school who are under 16 years of age, and they must be able-bodied, strong and healthy, and not crippled in any way. Girls wishing to enter the night school, should write and obtain permis- sion to enter that department before com ing.
 WHAT BLACkSMITHS STUDY.
 The boy wno showed me over the place and drove me to the briekyard and farm was a student in the blacksmith division. He had come to the school with only about $10 and had worked his way for two years. It was his purpose to contin- ue for two more years. I asked him about the work in his department. It was detailed in the following manner:
 ''The blacksmith shop is located in room 37x60 feet, on the first floor of the Trades building. It is well lighted, and large enough to meet the growing needs of this division It is furnished with nine stationary forges, with Champion blow CTS, and an exhaust fan to give proper ventilation. Near each forge s an anvil weighing 120 lbs., and a tool bench two feet high, two and half feet wide and six feet long, furnished with drawers and a blacksmith vice. Each bench is supplied with the following tools: One sledge hammer, two hand hammers. eight rou-ld, iron bottom swages. varying from +. to 1 inch, one set collar swages, twelve pairs tongs, suitable for handling iron, varying in diameter from # to inch.
 Tn this room is the instructors office and a tool room, where variety or extra tools are kept and supplied to each pupil when needed to complete job. In the shop, ironing of carriages, buggies, wagons, carts, drays and wheelbarrows is done besides t-4e making of all kinds of tools and the shoeing of horses. The course of study follows:
 Course of Study.--First year. First term: Cleaning the shop. Making fires. Names of tools and their uses. Care tools and their places. The importance of keep ing water and coal in the troughs, also economy. Striking. The different size drills and how to run a drill press. The different size stocks and dies, also how to cut threads. How to keep shop in or der Compositions are written on these subjects monthly.
 "Second .Term.-The use of the hand hammer and tongs. The figures on the rule and measurements. The different sizes of iron. The formation of iron and steel. The different kinds and grades of iron and steel. Welding iron, also the diff ferent kinds of welds, viz: Plain, jump dovetail, and also long and short laps and their effect, and scarifying The use of sand. Practice in making lap links lap rings, staples. hasps, Shocks. gate
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 nation. equipment and endowment is in the neighborhood of SS0OOOO.
 In all the departments there are ninety instructors and officers, not counting clerks, etc.
 Instruction is given in twenty-eight diff 1 ferent industries in connection with q good English education.
 The institution is n-sectarian. bt moral and religious training is constantly emphasized.
 | The number of students that have grad uated or remained in the Institution long enough to lit them for effc ctive service either as teachers or industrial leaders and workers is nearly four thousand.
 The most embarrassing part or the work at present is. that the demand for our graduates from among both races in the south Is many mes larger than we can supply. Three have been recently en- ployed by the German Government to in uoduce the raising of cotton in d German colony in Africa.
 Beginning with nothing in the way of property at the present time the property or the institution consists of 23OO acres ol lahd; eounenS the smaller buildings as well as the larger oncs, there are fifty three buildings built almost wholly bv student labor. Inc real and personal property of the institution is valued at $S75, GOO.
 As a beginning of an endowment fr,nd We nave now $273o00, which is vested in conservative and marketable secureties by our Endowment Fund Committee in New York
 Aside from the cost of needed addition annually made to improve the plant the annual current expenses in connection with carrying on this many-sided work IS now nearly $l1O,00O, Of this amount. $32,Ooo is reasonably sure to come each year rom stated sources, leaving $,8.O0O to be raised in small sums by individual eHort for current expenses alone.
 PINE BUlLC!NG.
 A description of one of the buildings is as follows
 The Slater-Arm strong Memorial Trades Building for boys, is the largest building on the grounds and one of the hest The outsloe dimensions of this building are two hundred and eighty-three feet bv three hundred and fifteen feet. Tt is roo angular in shaps, built around an in- ner court. It IS Of brick with tin roof, nnished throughout in yellow pine and ia heated by steam and lighted bv cleo trlclty Except for the rear annexes if is two stories high. The plan after which u IS pu1lt affords all of the shons annie lght and air. The blacksmith shon is q iair sample of the accommodations given the industrial classes. That room, is tbir- weight feet by sixty-one feet souare ioitH' hghted on thEee sides and fitted with an exhaust fan for ventilation The snop contains nine stationary forges blowers anvils, and all the necessnry tools. Blacksmithing is a favorite trade with the young men. and the shop's forca is always full. An idea of the standard of the work done here may be had from the tact @ that many Of the blooded horses from all over the country are bro,,s.,,, here regularly to be shod. because tho teacher In charge of the shop is such an expert workman. All of the indoor trades Tor boys are accommodated in this build Ing with the exception of those which I
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this school was incorporated as the
 Hampton Norman and Agricultural lh- stitute" The first principal of Hampton Institute was the late General S. C. Arm strong. who for some time previous had heen an official of the Freedmens Bureau at Hampton Washington graduated from
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of work begun during the war by repre- sentatives of the American Missionary Association among the Negro refugees who had fiocked to Hampton by thou
 sands. In 1868 a regularly established
 school for colored pupils was opened as a result of this preliminary work. In 1870
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here' in 1875; afterwards he taught there two years.
 HOW START WAS MADE. In 1880 the member of the Alabama leg jslature from Tuskegee. prominent Democrat, and afterwards speaker of the
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WASHINGTON TALKS.

have described as being located near tn entrance to the grounds. '"
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HISTORY OF SCHOOL,

Naturally the story of this work is the story of the life of Booker Washington. Born in a slave-cabin this man has pass ed up through the world until he Is now one of the most prominent figures in the affairs of this country-especially in 80 far as the education of the blacks Is concerned. His birth was in Franklin County, Virginia, during the year of 1858 or 1859. The month or day of this coming is not known.
 The story of his earlier days is the same as of most negro boys of that time He first began to learn things while at work 1t Maiden, Va, in a salt mine This work he continued through many ups and downs until he finally reached Hamp- ton College in Virginia, where he studied until just before coming to Alabama
 Max Bennett Thrasher in book on Tus- kegee tells of a visit made to Maiden by Washington and himself as follows:
 The first house in which Washingtons 8 mother lived when they came to Maiden is gone entirely. This was a log house. and we could find no trace of 1t, except few bricks of the chimney buried in a forest of weeds. The house in which the family lived when Booker started for We also visited Father Rice" the griz- zIed old negro preacher who was Wash ington's first Sunday school teacher He has lived in Maiden all these years He was delighted to see his former pupil, of whose fame now he had heard rumors. and gladly consented to stand with him In front of the parsonage that they might be photographed together. l asked him
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-12-06
MUTINY in MlDOCEAN
SECOND MATE OF BRITISH SHIP
KILLED AND CAPTAIN WOUNDED.
MurderOus Sailors Were Americans
and Escaped on a Raft North of
Pitcairn Island.

QUEENSTOWN. Dec. 5-The British ship
Leicester Castle, from San Francisco July
26, arrived here to-day. Her commander
reported that on Sept. three American
seamen mutinied, and Captain Peattie and
his second officer were shot. the latter ia
tally, after an encounter with the mutt
neers, who left the ship on raft in mid
ocean. Captain Peattie gave the names of
the mutineers as w. A. Hobbs, Ernest
Sears and Turner. They were all shipped
in San Francisco.
The second officer. Mr.. Nixon. shot
while attempting to rescue the captain.
In the darkness the mutineers got few
planks and coops, formed raft. and
launched il from the ship, which was then
about three hundred miles north of Pit
cairn island. The captain searched for the
raft the next day, but IL was not sighted,
and Ii was surmised that IL went to pieces.
Captain Peattie added that Hobbs was
the actual murderer of Mr.. Nixon, whom
he shot through the heart. The captain
himself was shot twice, but had quite re-
covered when he arrived here. When the
chief officer discovered that three men had
mutinied he mustered the rest of the crew
on the poop, intending to await daylight
and capture the mutineers, but the latter
escaped in the interim.
The captain is unable to account for the
mutiny. He SuppoSes IL was the intention
of the mutineers to murder the officers and
the men who refused to join them. and take
the ship to Pitcairn island. Ii is said that
Hobbs came from Illinois, Sears from Idaho
and James Turner from Portland, Ore. The
mutineers took a weeks provisions with
them on the raft.
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EX. SPEAKER IMPROVING
THOMAS b. REED WAS RESTING COM
FORTABLY LAST NIGHT.
Quantity of Saline Solution and a
Tank of Oxygen Kept In the Sick
Room for Emergency.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-The improve
ment in the condition of former Speaker
Thomas B. Reed noted in the physicians
bulletin this morning continued during the
day. although they say it is still critical
Tonight after their visit to the patient.
which lasted for more than an hour, they
issued the following bulletin:
'1O:30 p. NAT the present time Mr..
Reed is resting comfortably. Owing TO un-
avoidable excitement this afternoon there
was slight elevation of temperature. This
has subsided and his temperature is now
normal-9S 6-10 respiration So, pulse IS. Re-
tains nourishment, mind clear and ap-
pendical symptoms continually abating"
The physicians say that Mr.. Reeds re-
covery at best will be slow. For precau-
tionary reasons the physicians have on
hand a quantity of saline solution and a
tank of oxygen, but the use of neither has
been resorted to. The oxygen may be used
during tonight IL this is found necessary
said DIR. Gardner. before leaving the Ar
lington Hotel Its purpose, he said, was
poison which may have developed as a re-
suit of the uraemic disorders. Dr. Bishop
DIR. Gardners assistant, will remain in
charge of the patient during the night and
If it is found his symptoms require Ii will
make use of the oxygen. Its application
the physicians declare, docs not necessarily
indicate dangerous condition.
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STRIPES FOR A BREWER
c. j. DENNY, ST. LOUIS MILLIONAIRE,
GUILTY OF PERJURY.
Punishment Fixed at Two Years in
the Penftentiary-Case Growing
Out of "BoodIe" Scandal.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. 5.-After two days
of trial, Charles ]. Denny, millionaire
brewer and director of the Suburban Street.
railway Company, formerly member of
the House of Delegates charged with per-
jury in connection with the suburban bill
Doodle deal, tonight was found guilty and
his punishment fixed at two years in the
penitentiary. The only defense offered by
Judge Krum. attorney for Denny, was
testimony in behalf Of the defendants good
character. Judge Krum argued that while
the defendant may have had information
that $4,000 had been placed on deposit In
the Lincoln Trust Company to be paid out
for the passage of the suburban bill, he had
no positive knowledge of IL and therefore
did not commit perjury when he told the
grand jury he had no such knowledge.
Then followed an argument on the differ
ence between knowledge and information.
Circuit Attorney Folk, In closing for the
State, insisted that Denny did know abso-
lutely that the money had been deposited
and therefore perjured himeslf before the
grand jury I'm his denial The case went
TO the jury shortly after noon.
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ANTI. SOCIALIST SPEECH
BITTER ADDRESS BY EMPEROR WILL
LIAM TO wORKINGMEN.
Socialists Accused of TerrOrizing and
Enslaving TOiIers I'm Order to En-
gender Class Hatred.

BRESLAU, Prussia, Dec. 5.-Emperor
William, addressing a deputation of work
ingmen to-day, made a bitter anti-Socialist
speech, declaring il was a lie to say that
workmen had to rely on the Socialist party
for a betterment of their positions. The
Socialists, he said, had terrorized and
trodden the workmen under foot, and as
men of honor they must have no more to
do with them. The presence of the work.
men, Emperor William maintained. showed
they had not disappointed him in the ex-
pectation he expressed at Essen and had
helped to keep free from reproach the men,
ory of his friend. the late Herr Krupp. The
working classes were always the object Of
deep interest and solctude to the En-
peror Therefore. he was justified in adj
dressing a word of warning to the work.
men. For years they had let themselves
be led by agitators and Socialists under
the delusion that they must belong TO that
party If they wished to better their posi-
tion- That was a great lie and a serious
mistake. These agitators had tried to stir
up the workngmen against their employ
ers, against other classes and against the
throne and altar, and at the same time
they had most scrupulously exploited. ter
rorized and enslaved them in order to
strengthen their own power, not for the
promotion of the welfare of the working
man, but in order to SOW hatred between
the classes and disseminate cowardly SLAM
ders from which nothing, not even the
grandest quality. the honor OF German
manhood. remained immune. With such
people the working classes, as honor-loving
men, should have nothing more TO do.
Emperor William concluded with asking
the deputation to send comrade from
their midst. a simple. unpretending man
from the workshop. into the national Par
lament. Such man would be gladly
welcomed as working representative of
the German working class. The repre-
sentatives of other classes would willingly
work together with such representatives,
however many they might be.
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HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
Several Bills Passed and Number
Introduced.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 5.-The House de-
voted the day to bills on the private calen-
dar The most important bill passed was
one to adjudicate in the Court of Claims the
claims of certain importers of steel blooms
who between 1879 and 1882 paid customs
duties equivalent to 10 per cent. al valorom,
when. it is claimed. the correct rate should
have been 80 per cent. About S350,O00 is in
volved A bill to pay Smith Meyer & Peltz.
architects of the congressional library, $780,
600 additional compensation was defeated.
A bill was passed authorizing the follow
ing persons to accept presents ana decora-
tions from foreign governments: captain
B. III. Mccall, L. S. N: Doctors Eugene
Wasdin and H d. Geddngs, L. S. Nj. III. s;
Henry E. Afford. w. A. Taylor, II. w.
Wiley NJ. A. Carleton and John l. Shuttle,
of the Department of Agriculture; Jonn a.
Okerman, of the Mississippi river COM
mission: Casper S. Crowninshield, United
States commercial agent; Miss Anna Tol,
man Smith. and Lieutenant and Colonel
+. III. Phipps
bill introduced by Representative Jen-
kins by request makes newspapers or other
periodicals unavailable which contain any
pictures of suicides or details relating 10
suicides beyond simple statement OF dealh
by suicide and imposing a penalty.
Representative Cooper introduced copy
of the bill heretofore introduced in the Sen
ate, fixing the rate Of duty on articles inn
ported into the United States from the
Philippine islands at 25 per cent. of the
rates fixed by the Dingley law instead of
20 per cent, as in the existing law.
Representative Bromwell, with view to
securing a minimum of a nine-foot stage
of water in the Ohio river. introduced hnl
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In New England.

BOSTON, Dec 5.-After an unusually
long period OF calm, mild weather a spirited
storm from the gulf brought grim winter
to New England to-day with great sudden
ness and for the first time this season cov-
cred the entire region with snow to the
depth of eight inches. The storm ap-
parently was severe in southwestern New
England, where there was considerable
wire prostration and delay in railroad
traffic. New England received the full BEN
eft of a northeast gale, which in some
places attained a velocity of forty miles
an hour.
The only shipwreck reported was that of
a schooner which ran on Dog Bar break
water in Gloucester harbor. No lives were
lost. a fishing vessel from Boston, the
James r. Clark, ran into the breakers off
Manchester, Mass, this afternoon, but she
is expected to -be pulled out of danger.
Seven of the twelve men on board landed
in safety.
a bad railroad wreck due to the storm
occurred at South Ashburnham, in which
one brakeman was killed and another
fatally injured.
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MARINE DISASTERS.
Schooner and Crew Lost and a Steam
err Possibly Sunk.

HATTERAS, n. c., Dec. 5.-The observer
of the Weather Bureau reports that the
four-masted schooner Wesley M. Oler went
ashore at Hatteras inlet life-saving station
early this morning during the storm. She
was pounding in the surf about mile off
shore until $40 a. m, when the foremast
went over, carrying probably the last man.
Almost Immediately the vessel went to
pieces. The life-saving crew could do moth
ing to save the crew. No bodies have
washed ashore yet.
NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 5.-Reports re-
ceived in Norfolk tonight are to the ef-
feet that none of the Inflated schooner
Wesley NJ. Oler's crew escaped. Only one
chance of a rescue is known. The German
steamer Koln. from Bremen to Baltimore,
reported the crew of an abandoned schoon-
er aboard while entering the capes to-day.
The three-masted schooners William ID.
Hilton and Melville Phillips together with
several smaller craft, were blown ashore
in the harbor and lower bay in this morn
ings gale. The steamer Underwater,
which was towing the Oler from Nassau
has not been heard from, and fears are
entertained that she foundered in the gale
The crew of the schooner Ida Lawrence
abandoned that vessel in a rudderess con-
dition off Hatteras early this morning and
were rescued with great difficulty by life
savers.
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Street and Steam Railway Traffic In
terfered with and Navigation
Rendered Dangerous.
SEVERAL MARINE CASUALTIES
SCHOONERS AND BARGES SUNK AND
NUMBER OF CREWS LOST.
Telegraph Systems Hampered-NO
Communication Between Pittsburg
and Philadelphia for q Time.

NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-A heavy wind
storm, accompanied by rain and later by
snow, struck New York to-day, and for
a time seriously interfered with all rail-
road and steamship traffic, as well as with
business In general. Surface car lines, the
elevated railroad and all ferry boats were
compelled to abandon their schedules and
run as best they could. Part of the Third
avenue elevated line was tied up complete
ly, and the Sixth and Ninth-avenue trains
were badly delayed. The tie-up was so
severe that even the Stock Exchange be-
gan the day with an extremely small at
tendance Toward noon the snow ceased
to fall, but the wind continued high and it
became much colder. The maximum ve-
locity of the wind was forty-eight miles an
hour.
During the storm to-day several barges
that were being towed up the river broke
adrift near Yonkers and one of them sank.
Three brothers were on the barge that
sank. One was drowned and the two others
were found on the beach in an unconscious
condition.
The White Star liner Teutonic, which
reached her dock to-day, completed trip of
seven days and thirteen hours of almost
continual storms. The ship met particularly
severe weather last night approaching port
and anchored in the lower bay. The last
bit of the voyage up to the dock to-day
was made in blizzard. Every day of the
trip the passengers were kept within storm
doors, and of the crew was nearly
washed overheard.
The Buffalo day express on the New York
Central Railroad ran into freight wreck
near Cssining to-day. The passenger en-
gine was wrecked and the engineer was cut
about the face. A freight fireman was
caught between his tender and locomotive
and was bruised about the legs. No one
else was hurt. The accidents were due to
the binding storm that was prevailing.
The gale blowing across the Jersey mead
ows to-day tore down eleven telegraph
poles west of the West Hackensack bridge
on the Delaware, Lackawanna SS Western
Railroad. The fast mail from the west was
caught in the mesh of wires and the win
dows on one side were broken, the flying
glass cutting one of the women passengers
The train was blocked three hours.
Telegraph service was much hampered by
the storm. Both the Western Union and
Postal companies reported that their sys-
TENS had been shaken up. The worst con-
ditions for the telegraph companies were
in New England and in the Hudson valley
what delayed.
Dispatches from up the State showed that
the storm severe in the country dis
tricts and that the snowfall in the interior
was much heavier than in this city
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o'clock attained velocity of fifty-four
miles an hour. Telegraph communication
between this city and Pittsburg was prac-
tically paralyzed and suburban street car
and railroad traffic was badly crippled. One
life was lost as the resi- 4 of the binding
snow and a few minor accidents occurred.
During the height of the storm George
Chiverton drove an express wagon into
trolley car and was instantly killed and
two person received fractured limbs by the
collision OF two trolley cars in West Phil
adelphia.
In the anthracite coal region the fall of
snow amounted to eight inches, but mining
operations were not seriously interfered
with.
The only shipping disaster of moment
reported to the Maritime Exchange was
the sinking of the three-masted schooner
Virginia Rulon, at Assateague, Va, about
100 miles below the Delaware breakwater
PITTSBURG, Pa, Dec. 5.-During the
night the heaviest early snowstorm in years
visited this section. To-day there are five
inches of snow on the level and much in
convenience has resulted to street car and
railway traffic. Snow fiurries still continue.