New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-10-22
INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTES NEEDS.
Scholarships for Negro Boys and Girls Not
Plentiful at Mayesville, S. c.

hiss Emma Wilson. the devoted principal Of the
MayeSvilIe Industrial Institute in Nayesvilie s
G, Is now making her annual trip TO the North or,
behalf OF the school which she started IN a cotton
shed and winch Is the apple OF her eye Things
are looking brighter for the Mayesvile Institute
than they did last year when the failure of the
crops IN the district In which It IS located u rly
forced the trustees to close the doors There has
beeh II Eood crop and this has added to the
schools resources. not only through IT'S own farm
but through the greater prosperity OF the families
OF the pupils. A new building has also been ac-
CURED. II was built by the boys, as all the Mayes-
vile buildings are, and the materials cost 81 900.
This is to be used a residence for the teachers
who have heretofore lived in the overcrowded
girls dOrmitoTy.
Another advance is the granting OF salary 70
the principal. She has never had a salary before
and she likes having one, because now she has
money Of her to give to the school and
doesn't always have to walt for Some one else TO
give IL Inc trustees protest against this use of
the salary. but Miss Wilson IS ncorrigible.
AS long as have n cent Of money" she says.
land the school needs II the school will have IT,
The school is what 1 live for"
And the school still needs a great many things
The dormitory is unfurnished as to its kitchen
have these rooms furnished by the time the school
opens on November l. and will gladly accept con-
tlibutions in kind.
I'VE need dishes very badly" she says. land viii
use any kind. We are not fashionable"
An annex to the girls dormitory is also badly
needed Here the girls have been sleeping. three
in a bed, and even four in a bed, when they are
forty had to be turned away last year.
Miss Wilson also pleads for scholarships Many
Of the pupils come from the cotton fields and the
rice plantations and too poor to pay anything
for their tuition. Thirty-fve dollars will keep
such boy or girl in the school for seven months.
the rest Of the expenses being covered by his or
her laboIs Some Of these pupils stay at the
school all summer working the farm and the
buildings, and It grieves Miss Wilson's motherly
soul not 10 be able TO feed and clothe them better
1t grieves her still more when pupils have to be
turned away, after having been taken I'm in the
hope that somehow IT would be possible TO keep
them.
1T is like turning them away from their only
hope" says Miss Wilson. Il have to hide myself
til IL is over"
Thirty-fve dollars will prevent one Of these
tragedies. and every little helps. the principal
says. Clothing is needed very much for often the
students with just what they have on their
backs.
There are a lot Of other things the school needs
but these the most pressing. and Miss Wilson
says:
IF our friends VIII only help a little longer
we will make the school self supporting"
Contributions in money may be sent TO Richard
II. Dana. No. 10 Congress street Boston Other
things should be sent TO tho school.
The Mayesye Institute is situated in the heart
Of q thickly populated negro district and Is the
great uplifting agency OF that part OF the country
The enrolment list last year than five
hundred.