New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
BRING SCHOOL HERE
THAT is, BY MEANS OP
MOVING PICTURES.
Work of Tuskegee Institats
To Be ShozCn at Car
negie Hall.

Several years ago. in the cours. of
Journey through the Southern states. II.
President Roosevelt visited Booker
Washington's school at Tuskegee, Als
The time allowed for his stay at Tusksy.
was brief. He was expected TO make
speech TO the students and country foH
and it was feared that he would have ltn
time to see the work OF the studsnr
which is spread out over g acres Z
land.
To circumvent this difficulty the Tu
kegee people adopted a novel expedien.
They got together several hundred wagons
loaded a large part of the school upca
them-enough. at any rate. to show all IA.
thirty-seven different industries as vel a
the other departments of the institutss
work-and hauled them in procession b.
fore a reviewing stand which had bssa
erected for Mr.. Roosevelt and his party
1t has long been one OF the problems 4,
the Tuskegee Institute. in it's effort TO Il
terest the public in its work, TO ind som.
method of showing people a thousand miles
away just what the school is actusllv
doing and what industrial education. As
Booker T Washington conceives IL, means
This year new method OF solving this
problem has been adopted. At the public
meeting to be held January "A at Carnsg;s
Hall it is planned to bring the work Of
the school home 10 New York audisre.
by showing il in the form OF moving pict
ures BY this means IL will be possible Il
show students at work in the fields. plant
ing pIoughins, milking. working in ths
dairy and building roads. as well as pct
~ rEe EN.1Tz E11vs Sfx~ ~.c-
hundred students in motion, marching %
chapel, all in life size moving pictures.
The plan 10 put Tuskegee into moving
picture show did not originate at Tuskesss.
however. but in Boston. a group Of negra
business men in that city. recently organized
a company to present moving pictures 70
negro audiences throughout the country.
They conceived the idea that il would %
a good thing. as we'll a paving invest
ment, to produce some pictures that would
show negroes what negroes are doing ons
of these scenes pictures. for example. tns
cotton industry-a thing in which. IN ous
way or another. the great majority OF ne
negroes Of this country are engaged An
other series will show the 10th CaVsf''
the crack negro regiment. at Fort ETHAN
Allen. Vermont. The most succeSSrui PCT
ures thus far. however are those wniea
show the great negro industrial schoei az
Tuskegee in action
The Tuskegee school has been srea'
subject of contention among negroes. par
ticularly in the North Many of them aaSs
believed that a school which taught negroes
TO work was going 10 be an obstacle to ne
higher education OF the race Those Nh'
have been most opposed to the WORK o
Tuskegee Institute. however. have of's'
been those who were ignorant OF It's scope
1t has been the plan of this company "
send its pictures about the country ana
show them in negro churches they paw
thus performed an important educauo"N
work among the masses of the negro peO.
pie. because the pictures OF what 'a'
school is actually doing are the best alsa.
ment that can be made in its favor. anu :.
is important to the success OF the "o'A
that DR.. Washington is trying TO co e,a.
all the negroes. as we'll as all the W.
people. should understand and apprec'1..
the large and novel educational eNpefi-h..a. -.
he has undertaken for the masses u -
race.
The pictures will be shown Tor inc -
time in New York at the meeting rei' a.
to at Carnegie Hall on Monday. Jahuai'