Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-07

promptness. neatness and obedience The
teachers are the best that can be found,
men and women inspired with noble pur-
pose.
While there is an excellent academic de-
partment and post graduate department In
kindergarten and public school teaching.
the attractive departments are agriculture
and the trades.
Courses in Trade Department.
The trade department. includes courses in
carpentry. wood turning, bricklaying, plas-
tering. painting. wheelwrighting, black
smithing. machine work. steamfitting.
tailoring. shoe and harness making tin
smithing. upholstering and printing.
trade course usually occupies three
years-the first in the trade school; the sec
ond In one OF the productive industries,
where the student gets an idea OF the COM
mercial value of his work; and the third in
the trade school again. where the course
| is completed.
Besides offering opportunities for teach
Ing the student the market value Of his
work, the productive Industries, including
the various shops, two large farms and
the boarding departments, enforce Hamp-
tons principle of self-help. by providing
the students with work for which they are
credited on their accounts
Each trade is taught with a view to sup
plying, the special needs of the communi-
ties to which the students expect to go.
The largest number of students take up
carpentry, and to this has been added In
struction in bricklaying, painting and tin
smithing, in order 10 give the all-round
mechanical training which is so greatly
needed in the isolated country districts of
the south and west. The mental and moral
Improvement which is made through the
careful work exacted of these young men
is in itself a result well worth the effort
and expense of such training.
The total number of Hampton's negro
graduates is 1,273 the number of negro
ex-students. not graduates, over 5000. A
much larger proportion Of those who now
enter the school remain to graduate than
was the case in former years OF 317
negro trade school graduates over 50 per
cent are known to be either teaching or
practicing their trades. Over 20 per cent
of the men and 80 per cent of the women
graduates now living are teaching at the
present time.
Farmers and Mechanics
Over % per cent of Hampton's graduates
are either farmers mechanics. In
twelve counties in the Immediate vicinity
of the school over 80 per cent of the negro
farmers own and manage their own farms
1t has been often said that IL Hampton had
done nothing more than to train Booker T.
Washington its work would have been well
worth all the money and effort ii has cost
And he has said: Il have always loved
Hampton and / love her more and more
because she is not only giving the negro
knowledge, but is seeing and reaching the
needs of the race as no other institution is
doing"
Among the Washington party were Baron
Rosen. the Russian ambassador; Justice
David j. Brewer and Mrs. Brewer, Com
missioner of Patents Frederick l. Allen and
Mrs. Allen, Commissioner of Corporations
James r. Garfield and Mrs. Garfield, Col.
Archibald Hopkins. Miss Hopkins, Mr.. and
Mrs. lockwood Hoar, NJ. c., Mr.. and Mrs
c. E. Littlefield M. c.; President Charles
w. Needham of George Washington Uni
versity, Miss Mott. Miss Wise. Mr.. Asher
c. Hinds Mr. Richard Hooker and Mr..
Philip F. Gerry.