The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15

he had about run the race of life and
 the end was not far distant Although
 his Physicians prevailed with him to
 remain in the hospital, knowing that
 he was in no condition to return to
 his school duties, he insisted that he
 shoulc. His largeness of heart and
 generosity of soul to serve his people
 would not allow him to remain idle
 though i'll. It is thought that he knew
 his time was short and he had de-
 sire, if indeed he must. to die where
 he had left footprints on the sand of
 time and erected in the form of great
 school monument to his race--in
 Tuskegee.
 Death a Distinct Loss
 While his death will be distinct loss to the whole civilized world, it will be more keenly felt by the col ored people, of whom he has always been regarded as leader. It was to | them he has devoted his best energies and for their betterment he died in action.
 Dr. Washington was not an old man. Born about the year 1S5S he was only 57. He was born near Hale's
 Ford, Franklin county. Virginia. After 1 the civil war he went to Maiden, w. l Va, where he worked, first In a salt furnace and afterward in coal mine; obtained some rudiments of education | in a night school there, and finally, after many difficulties, got to Hamp-
 ton NoI nal and Industrial Institute of Hampton, Va, where he studied from | lS72-75. After two years interval l of teaching at Maiden, he obtained further training at the Wayland sem :
 inary. Washington. D. C., and in 1879 | was Maoe an instructor at Hampton,
 his alma mater. He had charge of
 the work of the Indian pupils then being experimentally introduced into the institution and established the l night school as a regular and success full feature of the institute.
 l In 1871 he was slected by Gen. S. c.
 Armstrong, then principal of Hampton,
 on the application of citizens of Tus-
 kegee, to start in that place an insti-
 tuition on the plan of Hampton. The state legislature granted an appropria-
 tion of $2.000 annually for the salaries
 of the teaching force, but the Tuske- gee Normal and Industrial institute,
 then existed in name only without land, buildings. or credit Dr. Wash ington with himself as the only in- structor, opened the school with an en- rollment of 30 in an old church and a shanty. Later he purchased a planta- l tion about mile from Tuskegee and removed the school thither to its pres
 ent site. No wthe institution has more Sr
 a student body of more than 200O, and an income of more than half million dollars. It's development was due chief lily to the activity of Dr. Washington ! 1t is said, in bringing the nature and
 merits of the work to public attention
 and the originality and effectiveness ot his methods
 1 While he was by no means opposed to | the higher education of the negro, he was a firm advocate for industrial training, believing this to be the surest foundation upon which, for the good o1 ! the masses, the colored people should build. He was generally regarded as l the chief exponent of industrial educa- ton in the world, to whose ideas all nations took freely. And along these l lines he has aimed to give his people
 practical training leading to an ulti- mate positions of economic fndepend-
 ence in the south. If this were attained
 he asserted, political rights now denied would not long be withheld.
 l Always a Public Speaker
 1 He was always a public speaker ir great demand but perhaps his most Noteworthy address was given in 1S9s at the opening of the Cotton States and International exposition at Atlanta. He organized the National Negro Business 1 league in Boston in the year 1900. Aft CT 18 years time the league met again there last August with him still at its head. Other notable works of his are His collection of addresses and Sun day afternoon talks before the Tus- lkegee student and teachers body
 among his writings are '"rhe Future