The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-29
ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT
 OF WASHINGTON'S SCHOOL
Great ThrOng Of Visitors Poured Into Tuskegee to Witness Interesting EXerciseS--Work Ac-
 cOmpliShed by Institution.

Rev. J. P. Sims. pastor of the Congre-
 gational Church. Montgomery, gave tho annual address. most earnestly exalting
 the Bible as the greatest inspiration to
 service. Each year this department of Tuskegee's work grows in value and in
 fiuence
 The country for miles around is visited
 by the students and churches, Sunday Schools and day schools are helped by them. The sick are looked after and cases of need are promptly reported and relieved. Though they are all poor they have contributed. this year. over 80 for benevolent work.
 | The annual contest for the Trinity Church. Boston. oratorical prizes of $25 and s15 took place in the chapel on Tues day night. Joseph Lawson, K. S. Johnson and Samuel Young of the senior class and William Randall, Aaron Piper and Joseph Bills of the A middle class were 1 the contestants. l.. c. Wheeler of Chica- go Father Dorsey of Baltimore and Rev. | pr. Stevens of Boston were the judges. | They awarded the fisrt prize to Joseph Bills. second prize to Samuel Young. The orations of all the young men were excellent. not merely for their oratorical character, but especially for their good sense and practical bearing. Joseph Bills | spoke on What Can the Tuskegee Grad | uate do to Make His Community Better?" He is a graduate of the Bible Training School and enters the senior class of the Normal School next year. He has strong voice and one of rare sympathy with many of the requisites for effective pub | lie speaking. Samuel Young spoke on the ! Uses of Cow Peas" Aside from it's ora tory this was. probably the most f1n- ished production of the evening. The graduating exercises of the indus trial departments took place Wednesday lac at 4 nfn in tha nha nal K. Taylor, Director of Mechanical In- l dustries. presided owing to the severe Ill., ness of J. H. Washington, General Su- | perintendent of Industries.
 Seven students spoke most interesting | ly. Wade Hammond of Attalla, told | How Crops Grow" illustrating his sub | ject with diagrams and plants. King
 Johnson of Brazoria. Tex. spoke of Truck Gardening" He had a table piled ! with vegetables of every kind and showed | to the delight of all how money could be
 made out of intelligent gardening. Stella | Spikes of Kosciuska, Miss, deeply inter- | ested the audience by the way she cared | for a model bed room, placed on the l platform. Mary Lizzette Strong of Little l Rock. Ark, gave a beautiful exhibition of cheese making performance entire | ly new to most of the audience. With great pride she held up her finished pro- duct in the shape of fine cheese. Mary Crittenden of Salisbury, N. C., made ready a hospital for an emergency | case In a way that startled the audience | boy rushed in saying, some one has | been injured at the brick yard and they | were bringing him to the hospital" In | a very short time he came, in a helpless condition. borne by two men. Though | apparently very badly used up he was l quickly healed and passed off from the stage, behind the scene The whole scene was so real and the work so neatly done | that the nurse received most hearty ap- | plause.
 William Randall of Macon, Miss, spoke on The Office of Mans Tools" He | laid a section of brick wall before the l audience and gave a very fine description
 of the technical part. He looked every
 inch a brick mason.
 J. B. Twitty of Lenexa. Tex, repre-
 sented the electrical department. He
 spoke of Generating Electric Currents" |"
 He had an engine and dynamo both
 made by students, on the platform.
 Steam was applied and engine and dy-
 namo ran smoothly, while the audience
 heartily cheered the performance. A l beautiful device hung over the platform I on a background of yellow and red. At | the four corners were incandescent lamps l forming the letters TT. N. I. l." and in
 the middle the letters. "Ele. Div" The bulbs were of different colors and when
 the current was turned on the effect was
 
 as their prolonged cheering showed. | The industrial exhibit was one of the | finest ever made by the school. The | "Childrens Garden" connected with the
 training school, made a beautiful show | of vegetables and flowers. The display | of vegetables was very large and varied
 for the season of the year. It included
 almost everything known to the ordinary | garden and of the very Best quality | There were also Belgian hares and rab- | bits. in boxes, snow white honey, in one | pound sections whole mound of vel | low butter and tables full of cheese. of | several varieties. There were all sorts of | good things to eat in a large glass case | From the sewing rooms and millinery | department were the finest specimens of | girls work. The tailor shop had stylish suits the laundry snow white linen. The
 basketry room made fine display. There | were many varieties of woodworking | beautiful harnesses and fine shoes. The
 machine shop and foundry made a splen- | did display. The blacksmith shop had an | elegant line of forgings and tools. The l wIIeelwright shop showed a fine trap. the | tin shop a wide variety of tin work and | the brick yard the finest of bricks. The following persons were awarded prizes in the industrial departments. The w. Graham Tyler prizes of $10 | each are given to the members of the se- | nior class who have done the most satls- | factory induStrlAl WOTk, uurlnR the year and who have exhibited great earnest ness and diligence.
 The first of these prizes was given to Robert Leon Campbell, machinery. He is the inventor of a reversing valve which has been patented.
 Second prize. Ralph Alexander Daily. ! carpentry.
 Third prize Eleby Leon Burke, wheel wrlghting.
 Fourth prize. Reuben Montgomery Pat ton. printing.
 Fifth prize, John Perry Powell asri- culture.
 F. w Osborne of Brooklyn, N. Y, has established a prize of $1O to be awarded the student whose record is most sats- factory in mechanical drawing during the cure mt year. This piize was award ed to Thomas Haley Dickson.
 The Industrial Publication Society awarded a set of books to the student who made the most progress in carpen- try This prize was given to Moses Small.
 The w. B. Belknap Hardware Company donateda chest Of tools to be given