Putnam patriot., 1909-10-29
ana,her Year al In.a.ree.

Almost every intelligent person al the North is interested in the Taske gee Institute founded by Booker N ash. 1 ington, and Inc benefeent work il |. accomplishing for the elevation of The Southern black people. f k a mistake to think that intelligent white people of the South are mol interested in the great work being done for his kin y Booker Washington. They haze man. 1 lfested their kind feelings in the same way as those st the North.
 Booker Washington was born slave and now has n college degree. His his tory between these two extremes of in- tellectuaI and social condition is full of exciting incident. He was naturally intellectually endowed, hungefed for knowledge, and when enancipated en- tered Hampton, Va., Institute. After his graduation, his.gfeat desire was to i impart what he had learned 10 his fel low race.
 He began his great work in an old disIsed building at Tuskegee, AIaba- ma. Here, without friends or money he commenced his remarkable enter. prize. He gathered around him doz- en or so Of young colored people ambi- tious 10 acquire an education and be come something higher than human drudges. O.e must imagine the stfug- glcs they had 10 make to get even a fooshold.
 Now we can learn to what attain meBt that small beginning has feaeh- ed from the latest report of the trustees Of the Tnskegee Institute, which cov- efs the school year Wnieh came to an end May 9, 1903:
 The permanent abandonment fund now reaches sl ,a38, ,345. The receipts for cur rent expenses during the year totaled s2Ul ,4S3; entrance fees and gifts from friends, sii3,4s9; the unrestricted be- quests, fI42 ,gZ7. The sum now in the hands ot the investment committee k s27l ,9i0.
 The estimated value of the school plant Hand, buildings and equipment is si.il7,e56 The improvements made in the plant during the year cost sl9e,- 8s7.
 The applications for admission 10 the Institute exceeds it's room to re- ceiVe them, and Booker Washington has made public appeal for addition al gifts, however small, to improve the Institute and to Increase the endow- mcnt fund
 The number of students this year 1 ,I9s-coming from D States and 19 the care of i67 school officers, teachers and helpers. They received instruc- ton in thirty.eight different trades or industries. They harvested the big gest crop in the schools history. The notion that farm work has been crowd ed into the background k il mistaken notion. Farming for their future is re- garded as better for them than any other occupation.
 In no previous year have so many Of the South's best white people visited the school--at notime have they shown such cordial interest in It's methods and work. That's one of the pleasant things Principal Washington tells his trustees. Another Is that Macon coun- tvs white people are doing everything possible to help and encourage the negro farmers whom they see honestly trying to help themselves.
 Every one who graduates from the Institute, men or women, are fitted to engage in some useful work, and there is greater demand for their services than the Institute is ready to supply. As to the great benefit of trade schools for boys and girls there are no two opinions al Tuskegee; neither will there be in Connecticut, or elsewhere for white boys or girls, after they get them well established