New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-06

W5(&NSE ing from q tiny star placed over the town
Ac%ESA of Hampton were thousands Of red inc.,
NTEZ hundreds OF them terminating III caCA
Tr~Is Of the Southern States; scores reaching
G2EZ[ their slender threads into the great heart
Of the West; others spanning the peak
Of the Rocky Mountains again they carried their req
symbol into arid desert spaces; they made network
Of the bleak New England Coast Not few ran out lJ'
the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans marrying their unseen
terminals in the Orient Africa, and Europe. ,
Interested but not understanding, the principal "
Hampton Institute inquired its purpose.
When he was told that wherever Il lnc terminated
cod be found direct result OF his work for the better
rncnt of the human race, irrespective oil Greco o Coo
the doctor took immediate possession OF inc map OK
acting promise that it would never be rcdra"n.
@Itis neither kindness good taste to ald your l-
low, man and then wound him by telling OF 1t, was ms
gcntIe reDroof "Not l. but Hampton, and the HainI.
ton spirit arc responsible for it. Works that are 9oof
speak for themselves. We mu5Ih ara" maps "-
them ,....,.. 49,,
r,rlshIa school in the world, guided by the brain and
hort Of master builder Of character whose sane, cam,
judgment has brought 10 pass almost lnconcclFanI'
results remains comparatively unknown Hood "olh'
d. offcntiucs speak for themselves but IN cach IN
e.re their voice IS single and reaches but few at
hest But if the "gOOd works OF Hampton INSTITUTE
were assembled in cathedral chorus, their m'HVci'u'
chant wodld echo round the world ..i..
Perhaus il would be more nearly correct 10 say Iha
Hollis Burke FrisscI and his school arc comparatively
unknown in America Scores OF books ana ar,l,cs nt
Lra written in almost every European tongue aDout
this first and greatest Of all industrial institutes ana
there are few nations that have not sent lcT experts
across seas to study champion methods.
Yet in the United States, where through us 59Icy
and direction millions upon millions Of dollars have bcc
st and real 1attcrday miracles wrought tor the hcTa
material uDlift Of the white man. the Indian, ana inc
negro Ii tie has been written and less read
TT has become recognized fact by the great nWorIy"
L thoughtful intelligent men, irrespective OIL NofIIcHl
or Southern birth that the once terrible race pr9pcI
confronting the South is rapidly being Transformed lI'
merely an economic question capable 10 large ucRc'
Of being answered by the proper education Z" inc IchL
Wherever it has been possible TO tram inc negroes "
their work COmpetcnty, and nS'l lhJo Jiici"
edge Of the white mans moral standard, there you VIII
find any sort Of race problem reduced to minimum
The foundation rock upon which this invaluable huu5
trial and agricultural training has been built IS linpI"
Institute There under efficient corps OF more .ilt
hundred white instructors, negro you!h % ''O
sexes are taught not alone % labor slluly IN cG am
shop in home and workroOm, but TO understand IIic
dignity of labor and the honor Of service. CntcSn
implies knowledge; hence IT IS practically nnPo2Spc
10 record an adverse criticism the task TO Wnc III
Erisse has devoted the last thrtythrce years 81 MS
life. None the less the almost unbelievable results az
tanned would tax creduy, they not borne on. py
proofs that leave the investigator in amazed adnd"
al the work accomplished
In fortvfve years Hampton has sent out nearly nIic
thousand ,raduates and undergraduates 10 carry inc
HAMPTON spirit OF labor and service into the world
and the carefully kept records prove that more thah
eighty per cent have kept the faith AS an Illuminating
sidcght upon the permanent character OF the noid
training they eceived it IS fact that not one OF these
nine THOUSAND has ever been sent to penal institution
1t is exceedingly doubtful if the alumni Of any college
or universy in lhe world can show as clean a record
All ovr the South the thin red lines 10 school
great nd small modelled after Hampton and directed by
teers graduates whose training was acquired at the