Milford chronicle., 1907-04-26
BIG GIFT TO
SOUTHERN NEGROES
Philadelphia Quakeress to Establish
Rudimsntary Schools.
GIVES sl,OOO,OOO AS ENDOwAENT

Philadelphia, April PA gift of ST.
100000 for the establishment of fund
for rudimentary schools for southern
negroes was announced here. The
donor is Miss Anna 7. Jeanes, a Quak-
eress of this city. Booker T. Washing
ton, head of the Tuskegee Institute,
and Hollis Burke Frissell president OF
the Hampton Normal and Industrial
Institute, are named as trustees of the
fund but neither of the institutions
they represent will share in the gift.
The income of the S1,000000 is to be
used for the sole purpose Of assisting
in the Southern United States COM
munity, 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, and in it Mr.. Washing
ton and Mr.. Frissell are empowered to
appoint a board of trustees in con
nection with the fund. The Pennsyl
vania Company for Insurance on Lives
and Granting Annuities of this city,
will act as fiscal agent for the trus-
tees.
Miss Jeanes, the donor, is about so
years of age, and comes from an old
and wealthy family that has been
prominent for more than a century in
the Society of Friends. She has long
been interested in the welfare of the
negro and has been a contributor to
institutions for their education. She
has known Mr.. Washington for a de-
cade.
In transferring the s1,OOO,OOO to the
trustees, Miss Jeanes states that
trusting and believing in the practi-
cable and farreaching good that may
result from the moral and elevating !
influence of rural schools for negroes |
in the southern states, taught by |
reputable teachers, do hereby appoint |
Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, |
Alabama, and Hollis Burke Frissell, |
of Hampton, Virginia, and their sue |
cessors in the trust appointed and |
created Ps hereinafter directed, the |
trustees of an endowment fund in per
petuity of s1OOO.0OO. which is hereby
created. to be known as THE Fund
For Rudimentary Schools For South
ern Negroes" the income thereof shall
be devoted to the sole purpose of as
sisting. in the Southern United States
community country and rural schools
for the great class of negroes to whom
the small rural and community schools
are alone available.
SHOULD the said Booker T. Wash
ington or the said Hollis Burke Fris-
sell die or 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 be
constituted by them within a period Of
six months from this date, then | re-
quest and empower the trustees of the
Hampton Normal and Agricultural In
stitute and the trustees of the Tuske- !
gee Normal and Industrial Institute
to select and create from members of
their own boards a special board of
to act as trustees of the said
endowment fund in perpetuity hereby {
and | direct that such board
shall apply the income upon the said
fund in like manner solely toward the l
and assistance of rural,
community and country schools for
the southern negroes and to encourage
moral influence and sociay refinement {
which shall promote peace in the land
and good will among men,"