The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-25
OGDEN PARTY AT TROY.
Hon. Hugh H. Hanna Talks of the
 Negro Question.


 Troy, April 2A.--(Special.) )-The Ogden party which was to have reached here yesterday evening at o'clock did not arrive until about s o'clock. The long front of the Normal College building. where the party alighted from the train and was met by committed composed of the Mayor. President or the College. Chairman of the Board of College trus- tees and members of the faculty. A great crowd had already gathered to see the visitors and witness the exercises. and many were unable 10 get even stand Captain O. c. Wiley, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. delivered an address of welcome on the part of the college. after which Mayor Charles Henderson delivered an address of welcome for the city. Both of these gentlemen acquitted themselves in excellent style. and espe- cially were the pointed and appropriate remarks of Mayor Henderson, a subjeet of favorable comment among the visitors.
 Captain Wiley. in a short and appro- priate speech introduced R. C. Ogden. who entertained the large audience with a common sense speech, interspersed with
 Bishop McVicar. Dr. Hyde and other members of the party delivered able ad- dresses discussing c,sess St length the mos most local taxation for the support of schools. etc.
 After the close of the exercises in the n the visitors were then served with re- treatments.
 On account of the engine that pulled the train of the Ogden party having to | run a considerable distance down the road to be turned around, the party had | to stay her until about 10 o'clock D. m, During that time they were entertained by citizens at the college in Il social way and many expressions were heard con- | cerning the favorable impressions made upon them by the extensive college im- | provements and the apparent educational interest manifested by the people. Tn a private but very interesting cons versation with Hon. Hugh H. Hanna. cousin to the late Senator Hanna, and e large manufacturer of Indianapolis, Ind |. MT. Hanna said that he had always been tional burdens concerning the colored race. He did not then assume to speak for the educational board, but said that the salvation of the negro depended upon l industrial education along agricultural lines-that the field and like industrial occupations suited them best In his County in Indiana, nc said. there are about fifteen thousand negroes and he Is character.
 Mir. Hanna also said that the purpose fine its work to any particular section of the country-that the ignorant were the wards of the nation. and they purposed to better educational conditions wherev- CT 1t was possible to do so.
 Rev. Dr. T.. Mason Clark of Brooklyn. N. Y., said in conversation with your correspondent that there is a great deal of ignorance in portions of the North concerning the real character of the ne- gro. and that It was a pity that many more of them did not come South that they might be better informed on this subject
 The Ogden party made a favorable in1 pression upon the people generally. and some of them especially, because they seemed to be imbued with motives of true philanthropy.
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