The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-10-28

ACScivCu Ny the mayor ana OCnGr dis
tinguished citizens OF Alabama. The
presidents train was brought directly
into the grounds of the institute over
its private tracks, From midnight un-
til this morning, great crowds of coun-
try people, were arriving from all
sections surrounding Tuskegee.
The Presidents party consisted of:
Secretary William Loeb, Jr.: Surgeon
General Rixey, u. S. Navy; Hon. John
Mcllhenny Of Louisiana; Hon. John
c. Greenway of Michigan; M. C. Latta
and J. l.. McGrew, stenographers; II.
A. Coleman, representing the Associ-
ated Press; r. II. Hazard, represent
ing the Publishers and Scripps- McRae
Press Associations; Walter E. Clark
representing the New York Sun Press
Association; H. A. Strohmeyer. photo
grapher; Col. L.. S. Brown, general
agent of the Southern Railway Com
pany; and Judge Thomas G. Jones Of
the Federal Court OF Alabama, and
Hon. j. O. Thompson, Collector of IN
ternal Revenue, Birmingham, Ala.
who joined the Presidential party at
Montgomery:
me president was received by Prin-
clpall Booker 7. Washington and mem
Ders OF the institute, board of trustees.
he then entered carriage made by
the students of the school, drawn BY,
horses raised at the school, and driv-
en- by a student in the school uniform.
Six other CARRIAGES, also made by the
students, in which were seated other
pembersof the presidents party, fol-
lowed The party proceeded immed-
lately to an deliberately decorated
stand i'll front of the Office building.
surmounted by the presidents flag.
From this point he viewed the educa-
ton and industrial parade, upon the
preparation of which the students
and faculty have been at work for
several weeks. This parade was
headed by the institute band. led by
Bandmaster Gilbert B. Williams, OF
the Ninth United States cavalry. who
had been detailed to Tuskegee by The
waT Department.: fT1Ten came / $40
students of the school in two diyi-
slons; the young men; uniformed in
blue suits, with brass buttons. white
gloves and cadet caps; the young
women wearing blue dresses trimmed
with red braid, and blue straw braid
hats, followed, each bearing a stalk
OF sugar cane topped with a cotton
ball, and raised in the schools agri-
culture experiment station Immedi-
ately behind the student body came
sixty-one floats, representing the vali-
Gus phases of work of the academy
department and the thirty-seven in
Il .{Y.ic,1 ~ ~f r.,
this way examples Of work being car
ried on in all departments were put
in evidence. Among the more strik-
ing floats We're those representing
the broonlmaking and basketry, mil
linery, blacksmithing, shoemalling;
electricity, machinery, the last float
carrying all engine in operation made
by the students. Printing, brickma-
sorry and plastering, architectural
drawing. experiment station and ex-
pertinent teaching division. dairy,
truck gardening, nurse training. his
tory and literature, chemistry, train
ing school for gardening We're repre-
| sented. as we'll as the department of
| the agricultural division. In addition
| a Hambletonian stallion. five brood
mares and colts, pedigred jack and
mule colts represented another branch
of the agricultural work. The herd
| of Jersey and other fine strains Of
cattle was also In line.
introduction by Washington
| After the parade had passed and the
students, faculty and visitors were re-
| pairing to the chapel, the president
! io1 no 1fx, n h,1n o1,
the grounds and was shown the ex-
tent and scope OF work being carried
on by the institute. Then to the
chapel the party was taken, where
the Students led by the institute
choir of $50 voices, sang number
OF melodies. Principal Booker 7.
washington then presented the presi-
tdent in the following words:
! This is a great day for the Tuske-
gee Normal and Industrial Institute
too great to be described by words.
We have gathered to hear but one
|voice to see but one face.
I'm presenting our guest TO the stu
/ dents teachers and citizens, I must
| not omit to express the gratitude felt
| by the people Of Tuskegee Institute
and by the people of both races in
| this section of Alabama for the honor
which has been conferred upon them.
That the chief magistrate of our be.
/ loved republic of S0,0O0,O0o people
deemed it good and wise to include
/ Tuskegee Institute in his trip through
the South and spent few hours see
ing the work we are doing here, bring
to the heart Of every man and woman
fof+ orr race in. this country avdegTee
of encouragement and insuiration
(which it is impossible for any Ameri-
ican citizen not of our race fully 10
appreciate. MY friends, without fur
ther words Of mine I have the ples-s-
iure and the honor of presenting to
you the president of the United States
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt
President Rooseve,ts Speech.
President Roosevelt in part said:
To the white population as well
las to the black. it is the utmost i'm
portancer that the Afro-Ame9ican be
encouraged to make himself a citi-
zen Of the highest type of usefulness.
Within the last twenty years the
industrial operations of the South