Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-12-03
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coins proclamation Booker was put
to work by his stepfather in a West
Virginia salt furnace. Schooling was
intermittent. He learned his first
written symbols on salt barrel. He
obtained work in coal mine and later
made his way to Hampton institute,
where he worked his way through and
vas given place on the faculty.
Then Tuskegee institute was started
by the joint efforts Of Col. George W.
Campbell, an ex-slave owner, and
Lewis Adams, an ex.slave, both Of
Tuskegee. They conceived the idea
of establishing normal and indus
trial school for Negroes. They wrote to
Hampton institute for man to take
charge of the work. Booker T. Wash.
ington was sent. This was in 1881,
and Washington began work with a
dilapidated shanty and an abandoned
church as the school structures and
only 80 pupils.
Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barrett said:
Our race has lost its greatest lead
ing man. Booker r. Washington was
great not only as race leader but
he was one of the greatest orators-I
mean oratory in its broadcast sense,
and he was the peer of any publicist
before the country today.
LAS a constructive force on the
lines of industrial education he was
the equal of any living educator. We
are wonderinw where we will find
his successor. There is no Negro be.
fore the public today who has the
confidence Of the influential white
people that DR.. Washington had. and
that is what makes our loss so great.
The natural separation between the
two races can be bridged only by one
who is in ready communication with
| both sides"
Col Theodore Roosevelt made the
following statement on the death of
Booker T. Washington:
Il am deeply shocked and grieved
at the death of DR.. Booker T. Wash
ington. He was one of the distin-
guished citizens Of the United States,
a man who rendered greater service to
his cwn race than ever had been rem.
dered by anyone else. anu who, in so
doing, also rendered great service to
the whole country. I mourn his loss
and feel that one of the most useful
citizens of our land has gone"
The exposition at Chicago. August
% to September 16, in celebration of
the f1ftieth anniversary of the eman.
cipation of the colored race, included
an exhibit of more than thousand
patents which have been granted to
those of that race. Manifestly the list
Is incomplete. as 1t is impossible to de-
termine from the patent office records
whether an applicant and patentee 10
white or colored, but much effort was
m" de by Henry F. Baker. who was de-
tailed by the commissioner of pat.
ents in charge of the patent exhibit
to make it as complete. as possible.
M. Baker, himself colored man, is
an assistant examiner in the patent
ONCE, having entered such Office in
January. 1876. as copyist., He was
appointed to the examining corps in
March, 1888, and has been promoted
from time to time to his present po-
sition as second assistant examiner.
Another colored man, Edwin ..
Clarke, was appointed to the examin-
ing corps in August. 1893, but resigned
to accept professorship In a college.
A man thinks he has many sins OF
omission and but very few of commits.
sion
However, the less a man talks, tho
more he doesn't have to apologize.
All the southern states have sepa,
rate schools for white and colored