The colored American., 1903-12-05

Donated and Sixteen Hundred acres
of Fine Agricultural nd Secured
For the Inculcation Industrial
and Agricultural .rsuits. = The
School Has the Good Will and Co
Operation of the Leading White Peo-
pie of the State.-Plan and Scope of
the Work.
Rev. Ralph Amos, the President
and General Manager of MOntrOse
Male and Female, Industrial and Ag
ricultural School, located at Montrose,
Ark, is visitor at the nations cap
ital on his trip through the North
raising funds for the building up and
completion of the work of the school,
which is now over two years old. DR..
Amos comes from the most thickly
settled part of Arkansas, where the
colored people outnumber the white
people, and where his school seems
to have come to fill a long felt want.
He doesn't come unknown, neither
does he come empty-handed. His tes-
timonials are of the highest order.
The leading men of the State have in
dorsed his work and school. Among
his indorsers are Attorney General
Hon. George w. Murphy, Secretary of
State, Hon. John w. Crockett: Hon.
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J. NJ. Conner, President of Negro State
Business League of Arkansas, and
the popular choice for Bishop of the
A M. E. Church.; Mr.. Harry H. Myers,
Register U. S. Land Office, Little Rock,
Ark; Hon. H. M. Sugg, Postmaster at
Dardanelle, Ark; Mr.. John B. Crown
over, President Peoples Bank, Dardan-
ellie, Ark; Mr.. r. D. Richardson, Clerk
Circuit Court of Ashley County, with
headquarters at Hamburg, Editor j.
N. Heisken of the Arkansas Gazette.
Dr. Amos is well known, is highly
respected and has the confidence of the
people of his State, having been
preaching the gospel for nearly eigh-
teen years, and being a most active
and influential factor in the African
| Methodist Episcopal Church. He was
born in Plaquemine, La, some forty
years ago, of slave parents. He OBJ
| tanned such education as could be had
| in the common schools of that section
at that time. Being ambitious and of
a religious turn of mind, he early con-
nected himself with the church. He
was an omniVOrOus reader, and a
close student, and it was not long be-
| fore he had saved enough to become
a student of the New Orleans Universe
/ ty for a course of two years. He is
a self-made man in the fullest sense
of the word. AS a speaker and pull
| pit orator he stands in the first rank.
| An evidence of his oratorical powers
was given at the Metropolitan A. M. E.
| Church of this city on Thanksgiving
! evening, where he charmed his audi
| ence by the witchery of his eloquence.
| The Montrose School has been estab-
| lished two years, there being but seven
ty pupils the first year, and eightytwo
/ the second year.
| If the school had the facilities many
more hundred of boys and girls could
be accommodated. The school prop
! erty consists of one block in the city,
| given by the Miss. Hamburg Western
IR. r. Co. In addition to this city
| property, where the main building
is located, a track of 1910 acres of
| rich land only five miles from the
| town of Montrose has been secured
and is now being put into cultivation.
1t is on these rich acres that the ag-
| ricultural feature of the school will be
! developed. Everything that can be
| grown will be cultivated to the best
| advantage. DR.. Amos states that
the race problem in Arkansas is near
ing solution. There is no ill-feeling
nor friction between the races,-the
/ leading white men as we'll as the col