The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-07
BACK TO THE NORTH
TUsKEGEE's MILLIoNAIREv VISITORS
 HAVE DEPARTED.
Hinted By Some That Large Dona- tions To the Negro Industrial School VIII Re the Result of
 the Visit.
Hx F G. RurroMs.

ny " HufT0Wes
 Tuskegee, April 6.--(Special. )--The uuarter-centenary celebration of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial In- stitute Is over. The quiet little. town of Tuskegee. which for three days has been overflowed with the influx of visitors from all sections of the corn- try, is again dropping back into it's normal occupations. The inhabitants. who have been interrupted by the throng of sightseers, are returning to their daily walks of life, and tomor- row will be uudisturbed by the pres- ence of alien visitors. With the com Ing of night. the last guests from other sections of the country. will have de- parted. The turmoil of the invasion will have ceased.
 ' For three days Tuskegee has been Iaboring under the incubus of foreign population. The hotel has been filled to its capacity, and many of the resi- dents of the town have opened their homes to visiting friends or relations Although not over-enthusiastico over tho cause of the celebration the little town has been hospitable to it's guests and has partaken to certain degree in the excitement of the occasion.
 The exodus of the throngs who at- tended the celebration began last night after the last exercises of the day. At that time, many of the visitors from Montgomery and New Orleans who had come to Tuskegee ,betook themselves homeward, Nearly all of the graduates of the negro school 4whe had spent three days listening to the big men who have come from the far North to see the Institute and address the students there, left last night. and practically all of the remainder took the morning f7ain today.
 There was an air of relaxation on the grounds of the Institute itself this morning. Everything had been done The program had been completed. The decorations that had been placed in evidence for the occasion were being taken down. classes were being res stunned, and the officers of the institu. tion were paying the last attentions to the departing guests. Tomorrow the Institute, too, will settle down to the old routine. With the speeding of the parting guests its grandeur will van ish. It will again become merely the quiet, working mechanism of negro education.
 The members of the Armstrong As sociation and their guests, who arriv- ed Wednesday afternoon from New York on the ogden Special. left al noon. During the forenoon, the visi- tors spent the time in quietly pre-. pairing for the long trip to the cold. CT regions of the North. During ths last few days they had been put through a lively pace, and this morn. ing after, they were taking their leis' ure.
 A number of them were to be seer taking a final survey of the grounds Others visited the homes of the faculty members, and still others the differ ent exhibits which had been prepared for their inspection. The majority oi them, however, remained on board the special train resting. and looking with what fortitude they could com mand upon the long and tiresome trir by train to New York.
 There was one exception in the par ty, however. At daybreak this morn ing, Andrew Carnegie left the Insti- tute in a private car for Atlanta There he was scheduled to take part in the presentation of a library. The citi- zens of Atlanta had arranged to hold their exercises when he should be South. They had invited him, and MT Carnegie could not resist a library. Accordingly, he went with the inten- tion of picking up the party when l. should pass through the Georgia town later in the day.
 The route the visitors will take on their return North is different from that traversed on their Southern way, From Chehaw. whither they were transported over the little Tuskegee Railroad, they follow the Western Rail- road of Alabama to Atlanta. From that point the Georgia Railroad Will take them to Augusta, where they take the Atlantic Coast Line to Richmond. Fol lowing the Richmond, fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad. they will go from the former Capital of the Confed- eracy to Washington, from where they will return to New York the way they came, over the lines of the Pennsylva- mia Railroad.
 What events may be expected to follow as q result of the celebration of the negro school are problematical. While the occasion of the exercises was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the institution, it is the general consensus of opinion that there were other objects in view in the minds of those who planned the festivities It is deemed more than probable that the occasion might be turned to finan- cial advantage, although during tho three days of exercises there was no indication on the part of any of the visitors of an intention to bestow any portion of their wealth upon the insti- tution. there are those who hint that 4 donation from some of the wealthy who came from New York on the ogden Special will follow
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