The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-04
HAMPTON INSTITUTE.
INTERESTING SERVICE HELD IN
 UNITED CHURCH.

l uhdS TOT Industrial Seh0Ol-FeFsOnal Experience of the speakers-HistOry
 of the School
 There was an appreciative and inter ested congregation gathered last night in the United church. The service was held in behalf of the Hampton institute, which has long been recognized as the
 mother of the industrial schools of our country for the Indians and the ne~ groes, and it's methods have been adopted in many other institutions of learning. Rev. MT. Haynes presided and addresses were made by represen- tatives graduates of the institute and the principal, Rev. H. B. Frissell. A Quartette of colored men rendered old time plantation songs. The negro speak CT was a typical back country lad of Alabama, who struggled against tre- mendous odds for his education and | who told very interesting story. The | Indian representative is a graduate of the class of '89, and has since that time I been steadily at work at his trade and has an excellent record. A meeting with the same programme was to have been held yesterday afternoon at Dwight hall, after chapel, but owing to l the indictment weather 1t was postponed 1 till o'clock p. m.
 Rev. H. B. Frissell in introducing the object of the special services said: Hampton institute is very closely as- sociated with New Haven. Dr. Wool- sey was one of it's founders and the Sunday school of the church has so ! generously maintained for several years a scholarship at the school. We are engaged in a noble work, and being 1 in lack of funds to continue as the success of the school widens we appeal again to a benevolent and charitable north for support. I bring with me representatives of my school, who tell 1 the story of our work much better than l I. These represent tonight thousands of their race who have been benefited by the Hampton school; they have left l the school to return to their people and 1 shine as lights in darkness and are teaching them to live higher and more useful lives.1
 Then followed the quartette of ne- groes who sang very pleasingly The Church of God" and I'm Rolling l Through an Unfriendly World There was certain pathos and feeling in the singing, which further emphasized the ncgro's aptitude for simple melodies,
 The Indian followed with a recital of his condition before the influence of Hampton changed his nature for useful and higher labor.
 He said: ITO change an Indian to the custom of the white man is not so 1 quickly accomplished as people may | imagine The Indian habit of laziness | was caused by too free life. About l fifty years ago the Indian was being rapidly forced to new conditions of life, l caused by the encroachments of the white people. My people could not sl1b- 1 stst as in olden times. and if we did, we would surely be violating the laws of our white brothers before God. My parents died and some cause turned by attention eastward and first I engaged myself to work for a western farmer. There I met a deaf and dumb man. At 1 this time I knew only a few words of 1 English, and the thought occurred to me, if that deaf and dumb man can move among the English people why cannot I. So from that time I began 1 to think of a future work and life. heard of the Virginia school and headed for it. After six years left better man, with an honest trade learn ed. From that time have been lead- | ing a useful and successful life. I have l tried to learn to keep the good work going. am one of the 30 per cent. of the graduates from this school who are doing as I am. The Indian race must sooner or later teach itself to depend on | it's own efforts for some day the gov- ernment may stop the appropriations and then our people will be forced to condition which the Hampton institute 1 to-day trains Us to meet"
 1 The negro quartette followed the speech of the Indian by two melodies entitled "Oh, My Lord, Keep Me from Sinking Down" and "Oh, Yes.''
 Principal Frissell then introduced a negro graduate both from an industrial school in Alabama, near Booker Wash ington's school, and also a graduate of Hampton institute. His name is Loren. 20 Hall, and he said in part: "The place want to picture to you tonight is situated in the center of the state of Alabama; there cotton and corn raising are the only occupations. Log cabins there are being gradually replaced by crude frame houses with no glass win dows, and whose only ventilation is de- rived from providential crudeness of | the carpentering. The regular size is 16x1S feet, and with only one room. The methods of farming are as crude and unscientific as could possibly be 1 described.
 Under such conditions of life, you would naturally imagine our school and churches to be in a very deplorable | state.
 Among such conditions was I born and raised. At the age of fifteen years, having heard of a school, founded by MT. Georgie Washington, a graduate of 1 Hampton institute, I walked there and i studied and worked one year. I was not satisfied with my meager education, so I started for Hampton institute and ! stayed there for two years and went back as a teacher at the place where 1 two years before had sat as pupil. There I had charge of the schools l farm. The crop in that schools farm i testified to the fact that to stIldv a ori