Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-11-16
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Alabama State Officials VIII Attend Obsequies
 Booker T. Washington.

TuSkegee Ala Nov 15.-Funeral arrangements are being made today Tor Booker T. Washington, negro educator and founder of the Tuske- gee institute, who died here yester- day. Services will be held at the in- stitute Wednesday, morning at 10 o'clock, followed by interment in the institute grounds. The body will lie ln state ali day tomorrow. Thousands are expected to attend the funeral. special train will be run from Montgomery to bring state officials and others.
 Messages of condolence reached the Washington home here today from throughout the country. They came from leaders of thought and endeav- or in all walks of life. While it is announced that the question of q successor will not be considered un- til after the funeral, Emmett J. Scott, secretary of Dr. Washington is said to be the most likely candi- date
 Wanted to Die in South.
 The negro leader had been in fail ing health for several months, but his condition became serious only last week while he was in the East. He realized the end was near but was determined to make the long trip South to bear out his oft-ex- pressed statement that he had been born in the South, have lived all my life in the South, and expect to die and be buried in the South.'
 Born ill Slavery
 Washington was born in slavery near Hales Ford, Va, in 1857 or 1858. After the emancipation of his race he moved with his family to West Virginia. He was an ambitious boy and saved his money for an edu- cation. When he was able to scrape together sufficient funds to pay his tage coach fair to Hampton, Va, he entered Gen. Armstrong's school for negroes. there and worked his way through asl' academic course, gradu- ating in 1875. Later he became a teacher in the Hampton institute, where he remained until 1881, when he organized an industrial school for negroes at Tuskegee. He remained principal of this school up to the time of his death.
 The institute started in rented shanty church and today it owns g. 800 acres of land i'll Alabama and has nearly 10G buildings valued at half million dollars.
 c7 support of the leading Southerners by speech in behalf of his race at the Cotton States exposition in At lanta in 1885, Of undoubted ability and breadth of vision his sane lead ership enabled him to accomplish more for and among the negroes of the United States than any negro of his time.
 In addition to his prominence as an educator, Washington gained con- siderable fame as an author. He re- ceived an honorary degree of master of arts from Harvard university in 1896 and was given an honorary de- gress of doctor of laws by Dartmouth college in 1901.
 An incident af Washington's career made him figure of national prOmi- hence during the administration of President Roosevelt. He sat down to lunch with the president at the white house either Oy formal or in formal invitation. There was storm of protest. particularly from the South. but in spite of the resulting hostility shown toward him by many white persons Washington continued to exert widespread influence to- ward the betterment of his people.
 Charleston, w. Va. Nov. 15.-Me- morial services for the late Booker T. Washington will be held here Wednesday. Heading negro citizens from all parts of the state where Dr Washington resided after being freed from slavery are expected to be pres. ent.
 Mound Bayou, Miss, Nov. 15.- Chas. Banks, vice president of tht National Negro Business league. O. which the late Dr. Booker T. Wash ington was the president. sent thi! message to the negroes of the entire United States:
 "Whereas, it has pleased the Al mighty to remove from the walks O life Dr. Booker T. Washington 0 Tuskegee institute, and whereas, il his lifetime he was president of thu National Negro Business league, ant did much to encourage business en ternrise among the negroes, I sug gest that the business people of th negro race close their places of busi ness for one hour on the day of hi funeral Wednesday, Nov. 17, as mar kof respect and testimonial fo his untiring labors in their behal even unto his latest breath.''