The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-07-11
S AT NEGRO EXPO SHOW PROGRESS OF RACE DURING HALF CENTURY
EVIDENCE OF ADVANCEMENT
OF RACE ON EVERY SIDE
Nost traiitabie Display Of Products
~ Mind and Hand OF Negroes Prom
81 All Parts of Country Are I'm Nd
nsinistration Building.


s. All Parts of Country Are In Nd
nin4stration Building.
3. ii is most creditable display OF
d exhibits that Is made at the Negro
+ Historical and Industrial Exposition
y ~ the state Fair Grounds. and visit
ora 10 the Fair Administration build
ing are fayorably impressed. more
they are almost amazed at the show
Ing that is made by people OF
{ race barely fifty years from slavery.
From many states North. South
AID West. there are exhibits made by
y iudlvfduals, by public and private
4 schools and by colleges and uniVer-
Y stiles for the colored people. There
are exhibits too from such institu-
tions as insane asylnms and homes
for deaf, dumb and blind. In al
there is shown evidence of a skill
and readiness or aptitude to as
simulate the training. hteracy'
4 technical or otherwise, that inpresses
one with the fact that the negro has
made wonderful progress
Many Splendid Exhibits.
The building is nearly filled with
apiensid exhibits that form an index
40 the many fields In which the negro
has performed successfully and that
si,ow that the negro has progressed
10 the point that members OF the race
IRE now. and have been Tor some
years, fully equipped for carrying on
4 the work of the education and or the
npiIft of the race Among the most
Undressing of the exhibits are those
which come from the Institutes OF
Earning throughout the country
There are well represented. Many ~
u <iivlduai exhibits of arts and CRAFTS
Also are made and they come from
every part of the nation, sno"ihR
that the progress is not limited ny any
Held or by any section
On the right of the main entrance
~ the building is the booth In which
q "a shown the work of colored chill
ffrcn In the Deaf. Dumb and Blind
1nefftute at Raleigh. n. G, the dis-
p1av In of needlework in art pieces
ina In articles of clothing OF various
Inscriptions for children. The IN
EYtnates of the institution. in spite OF
kheir handicap, have done work
that reflects credit upon them ana
45pou Mrs. Blanche Williams, who for
fveuty years has been their teacher
n she. too, is deaf and dumb.
Works OF Art.
The next exhibit Is one OF art he
1nw the work of John w. Hardwick.
II Indiana negro, twenty-three years
Il nd. IT consists of nine oil paint
E1nea OF flowers and portraits.
From the Central State Hospital
rnr rolored Insane at Petersburg,
where instruction and profitable en-
picyment are given patients under
fhe direction of DR.. W, f. Drewry,
there Ia a. display Of needlework and
Of basket weaving. Several of the
pieces shown are the products of suf-
ferers with suicide mania, who are
! Nnder close surveillance
The Hagerstown. Md. Manual
Training School for boys under six
teen years of age shows the pupils
Il or the institution have been care
fully and successfully instructed in
the crafts. Other Maryland institu-
fions having exhibits are the public
schools of Hagerstown. Sharpsburg
ana Clear Spring.
Virginia Well Represented.
In the Virginia miscellaneous
booth. In the womans department
and among the exhibits of art made
by Virginia negroes are scores Of in
feresting and very attractive pieces of
work. Some of the finest bits Of cro~
rhef ano fancy needlework ever
shown In this city are to he found in
These exfIf bfts. There are Individual
and school exhibits from Roanoke,
Boydton, Richmond, Orange, Covtng-
T1AFEi&bhbaFBt
Salem and Phoebus. Other Virginia
communities are represented in cary
inxs, agricultural products. products
NJ carpet and rug looms, metal pro-
ducts of hand and machine and nu-
HATous miscellaneous articles,
Among the colleges and universi-
ties represented are Atlanta Univer-
stty. Howard University, Storer's Col
lege az Harper's Ferry. Hampton In
~.
trial Institute at Lawrenceville. Va,
Btnhpp College. at Marshall, Texas
Y Hospital School for Nurses at Charles
ton, &. G., public schools AT Spring
Y i11id. Mass. Atlantic City. N. j., Manas-
n amA Industrial School the ST Emma
Industriai and Agricultural College NJ
n Rockcastle. Va, Armstrong Public
school at Norfolk. Voorhees, Industrial
H school at Denmark. s G.. Shaw Uni
wersity. AT Raleigh, James X. Brick
school at Bricks. n. G.. Biddle Univer-
y n34y. at Charlotte. ST Augustines
School at Raleigh. and public and rural
Il 6chools OF Oxford. Greensboro, Colds
4 boro, and Guiiford county. n. G. Hen
rico county and Richmond.
Mammal Training Exhibits.
Much interest is evinced under the
n E4raction OF the Richmond and Hen
rico schools. The former is under the
s#85rectfon OF j. a. scott, supervisor or
4 Snanuai training In colored public
4rho0ls, and the latter directed by Vir-
&I3nia Randolph who has been teach,
E8tne for twentythree years and who
ka3abltshed the school in l9oS
The versatility of the negro and his
&hfIify 10 overcome obstacles Is shown
4Xa many OF the exhibits. in which new
&anfxrtals for work have been found to
q r3utAee those used before supplies were
INT on by the European war
ne Industrial activities of the ne.
&x1 In many lines. and what the grad
6&4ao OF American Institutions Of
&a1Axning are doing in all parts Of the
3oxld are shown IN dozens of ways.
$38 fully realize just how much the
o1Ho has accomplished in the con-
T&&Sktyeiy short time be has been free
must visit the exposition There
&< many things of unusual interest
1SGzNyed in the agricultural indus
and educational exhibits and
I&oe4 orfour hours may be profiatbly
4k Within the administration build
xnewhere on the grounds are en-
&xnment and amusement to be had.
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