The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-31
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE.
The Great Work 1t Is Doing i'm Ele-
waiting the COIored Race.
Newark Advertiser.

In the twenty-second annual report is
sued by Booker r. Washington, principal
of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial
Institute, Tuskegee, Ala, the statement is
ever been convicted of crime or sent TO a
State penitentiary. In part, the report
says:
During the present school year we have
had an enrolment OF 1850 students and the
average attendance has been 1,4i1. Both
the governments of Porto Rico and Hayti
for example, have made special provision
for supporting number of students here
Besides the students from foreign coun-
tries, thirty-four States and Territories
have been represented in our enrolment
The bulk of the students have come from
the Gulf States.
THE following industries have been
taught in addition to the regular academic
religious and moral training: Agriculture,
basketry, blacksmithing, bee keeping
brickmasonry, plastering, brickmaking,
carpentry, carriage trimming cooking,
dairying, architectural, freehand and me-
chanical drawing, plain sewing, dressmak-
ing, electrical and steam engineering
founding. harnessmaking, housekeeping,
horticulture, canning. laundering, machin-
cry, mattress making. millinery, nurse
training, painting, sawmilling, shoemaking,
printing, stock raising, tailoring, Timing
and wheelwrighting-thirt industries
in all.
Perhaps one of the most Important
services which the Tuskegee Institute has
rendered to the public since its organiza-
Il
of the race regarding labor with the hands.
During the first ten years of the existence
of the institution, a great portion of the
time and strength of the officers was de-
voted to getting the colored people to see
the value of industrial training. That the
battle has now been fought, and practically
won, however, is shown by the fact that
we are compelled. because OF lack of room
and means, TO refuse admission to about
LOCO students annually. The teaching of
the industries starting with the hampton
Institute, the parent institution, has now
spread TO such an extent that there are
few schools i'm the South that do not at
tempt something in this direction.
Through the generosity of New York
and Brooklyn friends, we have just added
a large acreage To our farm. The idea in
securing. this additional land is to make
agriculture i'm all it's branches still more
prominent even than it has been in the
past AS before stated agriculture Is the
one industry that We plan to make stand
out most prominently; more and more. we
expect to base much of our other training
upon this fundamental industry. There
are two reasons why We have not been able
to send cut many students from our
agricultural department as We have de-
sired.
First, in the earlier years of the school.
agriculture was the industry most disliked
qIiired nearly ten years to overcome this
opposition.
Second. because of the fact that nearly
all of the buildings some sixty-two in num-
ber upon the grounds, have been erected
by students labor, the building or mechan-
zeal trades have been especially empha-
sized AS soon as the building period some
what passes we shall be able TO turn out a
large number skilled in all branches OF
agriculture