New-York tribune., 1907-04-24
A MILLION FOR NEGROES
TO AID COUNTRY SCHOOLS.
Hiss II. r. Jeanes Creates Fund
Washington and FrisseH Trustees.

Philadelphia. April 23.-A gift of S1OOOOO0
for fund for rudimentary schools for Southern
negroes was announced here tOnightk The
giver is Miss Anna T. Jeanes. of this city.
Booker I. Washington, head of Tuskegee In
stitute and Hollis Burke Frisseu head Of the
Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute, are
named as trustees of the fund but neither or
the institutions they represent will share in the
gift. The income of the $1.00O.OO0 is TO be used
for the sole purpose of assisting in the South
ern United States community. country and rural
schools for the great class of negroes to whom
the small rural and community schools are
alone available" The deed of gift was executed
yesterday. and in it Mr. washington and MT
Frissell empowered to appoint a board OF
trustees in connection with the fund. The
Pennsylvania Company for assurances on Lives
and Granting Annuities of this city. will act as
fiscal agent for the trustees.
Miss Jeanes is about eighty years old, and
comes from an old and wealthy family that has
been prominent for more than century in tire
Society of Friends. She has long been inter-
ested in the welfare of negroes. and has been
a contributor to institutions for their education.
She has known Mr.. Washington for decade.
In transferring the $lOOOOOO to the trustees
Miss Jeanes says:
Trusting and believing in the practicable and
far reaching good that may result from the
moral and elevatng influence of rural schools
for negroes in the Southern States, taught by
reputable teachers l do hereby appoint Booker
T. Washington, Of Tuskegee. Ala, and Hol-
lis Burke Frissell. of Hampton. Va, and their
successors in the trust appointed and created
as hereinafter directed the trustees of an en-
dowment fund in perpetuity of S1,OOO.OOO. which
is hereby created TO be known The Fund
FOR Rudimentary Schools for Southern Negroes.
The income thereof shall be devoted to the sole
purpose of assisting in the Southern United
States community, country and rural schools
hA ola
rural and community schools are alone avail
able.
Should the said Booker T. Washington or the
said Hollis Burke Frissell die decline to serve
before they shall have established the board Of
trustees Of said endowment fund. or If. for any
reason. the same shall not have been cOnsti-
tuted by them within period of six months
from this date. then l request and empower the
trustees of the Hampton Normal and AgricuI-
tural Institute and the trustees of the Tuskegee
Normal and Industrial Institute TO select and
create from members of their own boards a
special board of trustees 10 act trustees of
the said endowment fund in perpetuity hereby
created and l direct that such board apply
the income upon said fund in like manner solely
toward the maintenance and assistance OF rural,
community and country schools For the South
ern negroes and TO encourage moral influence
ana social refinement which shall promote peace
In the land and good Will among men.
In a statement signed by Messrs Washington
and Frissell they say:
While we cannot speak definitely. we feel
quite sure that IT will be the aim OF the trus-
tees Of this fund to work in hearty sympathy
and close cooperation with the county and
state officers IN assisting schools, and II will be
the policy Of the trustees 10 the interest Of
this fund in way to stimulate sef-help and
not replace local schools. but 20 supplement the
money being appropriated by Southern states
toward the education Of the Negro.
We think cannot too emphatically state
that not one cent of this money will go 10 help
the Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute
10 the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial In
stitute, and will in no way relieve the needs
of these institutions. Every cent will go tow
ard helping the rural schools. according TO Miss
Jeanes's wish and directions.