New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-14
TUSKEGEE HEAD
NOT SELECTED
Trustees Leave DR.. Wash
ington's Successor to
Subcommittee.
by Telegraph to TIE Tribune ]

Tuskegee, Ala, Dee. 13.-After ses-
sion which lasted all day here to-day,
the board of trustees Of the Tuskegee
Institute decided to defer the matter
Of selecting successor to the late DR..
Booker 7. Washington and appointed
special committee with power to act.
The committee consists of Chairman
Seth Low, Vice Chairman w. W. Camp
bell. Of Tuskegee, Ala; Victor II. Tu-
lane, of Montgomery, Ala; Frank
Trumbull, of New York, and Edgar A.
Bancroft, Of Chicago.
Creation of a S2,O0O00O Booker T..
Washington memorial endowment for
the Tuskegee Institute was authorized
to-day by the institutes trustees, who
announced that s450,000 already had
been pledged, some Of it contingent
upon raising the remainder
Colonel Roosevelt had full and busy
day at Tuskegee, spending the larger
part of the morning in the trustees
session.
Under Warren Logan, the treasurer,
and Emmett J. Scott, the secretary, the
institute work can be carried on with
out interruption until the committee
names a new principal
The only names mentioned by the
| trustees as a possible successor to the
great negro educator were Emmett j.
Scott, secretary of the Tuskegee lnsti-
tute, and Major X. K. Motion, com
mandant of cadets at Hampton lnsti-
tute. Scott for eighteen years was DR..
Washington's secretary and intimate
co-worker IN building up the work Of
the school
The following statement regarding
/ the Booker r. Washington memorial
/ fund was issued:
"Tuskegee Institute is Booker +.
/ Washington's monument, and his most
fitting memorial is the perpetuation of
/ its great work for the benefit of the
| colored people and for the promotion
/ Of helpful relations between the races.
/ The gap at present existing between
I the ordinary income of the institute
and its annual outgo is approximately
, $4,000. II is not desired TO close this
/ gap so completely as to make ths IN
| stitute independent OF the interest and
support of the living, but II is desired
: to reduce this gap to manageable pro-
portions.
THE trustees therefore propose to
invite subscriptions 20 the Booker T.
/ Washington memorial fund Of $1,000
/ 600 for the continuance of the institute
and of the work for the negro race
/ which centres there.
I at is hoped and expected that $780,
\ 900 of this sum will be given by ne
groes. out of which fund a suitable
memorial for Booker T. Washington
/ shall be erected on the grounds of the
/ institute. The trustees have already
received subscriptions Of more than
$3.50. 00O some of which. but not all, are
conditional upon larger sums being
raised. The negroes may therefore
+ feel that every dollar they give will be
met more than dollar for dollar by
+ gifts from white people. The found 10
be invited from the negro people will
3 be managed from Tuskegee Institute
and will be under the charge Of En-
/ nett J. Scott, secretary. Other sub
/ scriptions TO the memorial fund should
| be sent TO William G.. Wilcox, treas
urer OF the investment committee,
/ South William Street, New York City,
/ or to the treasurer OF the institute,
Warren Logan, Tuskegee Institute,
Alabama"