Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-05
NEGRO RACE OPENS
GREAT EXPOSITION
Work of Months eliminates in
Formal Launching of Big
Enterprise To-Day.
SHOWS NEGRO'S PROGRESS
Fair Grounds TEEN With Varied
Exhibits of Art and Crafts
manship.
SHOWS NEGRO'S PROGRESS

fractically every State in the Union
IN which the negro is a factor in in
oustriai life. is represented in the negro
eHPosition which opens at the Virginia
State Fair Grounds thi. rnornin, All
the negro schools and colleges in tho
soun'rS' with the sole exception of the
iuskeSee Institute. Of which Booker #
"aah'hgton is the head. have sent ex-
hibits.
cursorE inspection made yesterday
noon uhder the guidance of Giles
ID 'acRson and Professor G. A. Ed
wards. OF Shaw University. North Caro-
ma gave satisfactory evidence that in
the last nifty ynars the American negro
mas made wonderful and remarkable
strides in industrialism and the arts
and sciences. manufactured articles
the products of home and shop. school
work of all kinds. articles of millinery.
things made by children. the worIe of
skilled artlsanship. text books written
by colored authors and even portra,t
painting are displayed in the booths
Of the executive building
MAYOR AINsLIE WILL
MAKE WELCOMING ADDRESS
-
The exposition opens this morning at
O'CLOCK. Prayer will be delivered in
the auditorium constructed in a corner
OF the Administrative Building and
Mayor George Ainslie has been invited
to. deliver a welcoming address this
afternoon at l o'clock. 1t had been
hoped that Governor Stuart would he
able to take part in the opening cere-
monies. but he is now on his way to
attend the Panama Pacific Exposition
at San Francisco.
The formal opening will not take
place until the coming of President
Wilson. who has given assurances that
he Will make an earnest effort to be
present at an early date The expo
sition will continue for three weeks.
ending on July 81
The chief exhibits are on display in
the Administrative Building, which is
even now nearly full. while many ex-
hioits have not yet been unpacked
a nearby building will be used as a
big dining hall for the visitors, for
whose need and comfort ample pro-
vision has been made.
LARGE NUMBER OF STATES
HAVE SENT EXHIBITS
States represented include Virginia.
Maryland. New Jersey, PENNSYLVANIA.
New York, the two Carolinas, Massa-
chusetts. Illinois, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi and others. Giles jackson.
who has been the guiding factor in
bringing the exposition here and whose
efforts resulted in appropriations being
made by the city of Richmond and by
Virginia. New York and the Federal
government, is immensely pleased with
the result More to him than to any
other individual will be due the final
success of the first negro exposition
ever to be held in the South
II am seventy-one years DID," he said
yesterday afternoon, and it has always
been my conscientious effort 20 help
teach the colored generation Of to-day
in all lines Of industrialism. What the
negro has accomplished you will be
able to see In this exposition. 1t will
surprise the white people. for it has
never been made known before what
remarkable strides we have made and
what a large and important factor the
negro race has come to be in the de-
velopment OF the country and particu-
larly in the industrial life OF the South
Every article you see here has been
made by negro ands, and the products
which you see from the schools show
you what the negro has done in the
educational field"
INDUSTRIES AND ARTS
ARE WE'LL REPRESENTED
The Administrative Building, in
which all the exhibits are displayed,
is divided into four rows Of booths,
most of which are now filled. The deco
rations are profuse and artistically
arranged. To tho right is the art and
general handiwork of the Atlanta Uni
versity. Next is seen wagons and ali
sorts of other vehicles manufactured
by the pupils of st. Emma's Industrial
and Agricultural School. located at
Rock Castle.
The Voorhees, School, OF Denmark,
S. c., is we'll represented, and the
Washington Graded School, of Raleigh,
exhibits. all manufactured in the school.
Then come the displays OF the Hampton
Institute and Of the colored school at
Atlantic City, N. J. Perhaps the best
of all Is the diversified exhibit sent here
by Shaw University, Of North Carolina.
It consists of all sorts of handiwork,
fancy work and furniture.
From the Negro Deaf and Dumb School
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