The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1916-03-04
NOTED men PRAISE
B. 7. WASHINGTON
Meeting Held at Carnegie Hall,
New York.
MOTION GIVEN BIG OVATION

MOTION GIVEN BIG OVATION
President Of Hampton Institute First
Speaker at Notable Service For Late
Educator Under the Auspices of
Three Great Institutions Organized
and Enheartened Race, Says Motion.
BY N. BARNETT DoDsoN.
New Y0rk.-Under the auspices Of
the board of trustees Of the Tuskegee
institute, the Hampton institute and
the National League on Urban Condi-
lions Among Colored People a memo
rial meeting in honor Of the late DR..
Booker T. Washington was held at
Carnegie hall in this city on Friday
evening, Feb. II. The hall was filed
from pit to dome by thousands Of peo-
pie, white and colored, who listened
attentively to eulogies Of the great ed
ucator delivered by noted men Of both
races who knew DR.. Washington init
mately.
Mr.. Seth Low, chairman Of the board
of trustees Of the Tuskegee institute,
presided. Music for the occasion was
rendered by a chorus from the Music
School settlement, New York; a quar-
tet from Fisk university and quintet
from the Tuskegee institute. The
speakers were DR.. Hollis B. Frissell,
principal of the Hampton institute;
Attorney William II. Lewis Of Boston,
who represented the National Urban
league; William R. Wilcox, president
Of the New York board of education;
James II. billiard of the Jeanes fund
and Major Robert R. Motion, who sue
ceeds DR.. Washington as principal of
the Tuskegee institute.
Major Motion received a perfect ova-
ton on being introduced by Chairman
Seth Low. Major Motion in part said:
It Is entirely fitting that on the eve
Of the birthday of the great emancipa-
tor we should gather here reverently
to pay our respects to the one who
stands 30 pre-eminently as the most
unique Individual product Of emancipa-
ton. Booker T.. Washington's life and
work alone would have justified Abra-
ham Lincoln's ideas and actions re-
garding emancipation.
These remarks are in no sense in
tended as a eulogy, for that would be
absolutely out of harmony with the life
and teachings and wishes of this great
leader. Ny hope is rather to call at
20, 90 for - tho nofnloQ
which controlled and guided his life
and enabled him to perform so great
and so beautiful service for the Ne
gro and for the nation, with the desire
that we may learn therefrom some les
sons and gain some inspiration that
may help and encourage us for the
great work which he left to us all to
carry on.
General Armstrong, through Hamp-
ton institute, responded the best he
knew-and he was a wise, farseeing
man-to the earnest, urgent appeal of
this unframed, poverty stricken black
boy for chance. He gave him. not
money, not even charity as such, but
he did give Booker Washington what
every American, in the last analysis,
deep down in his heart believes that
every human being should have, an
opportunity to make the most of him.
self, chance equal to that Of every
other man.
Booker T. Washington used this
chance in developing in every possible
way opportunities and chances for 9th
er people, whether in Alabama and the
south, the isles Of the seas or in At
RIGA. He struggled that men might
have a chance through Tuskegee Nor
NAL and Industrial institute, which he
founded and for which he labored and
sacrificed and to which he gave his life.
Few men in the worlds history have
been able to accomplish in 80 short a
period for SO large a mass Of people
what DR.. Washington was able to &C
complish. He organized and enheart-
ened a race, giving them a new idea of
education and Of life. He taught the
dignity, grandeur, beauty and neces-
sity Of industry and morality as funda-
mental in the development Of any peo-
pie.
He gave the Negro people definite
place in the thought and life of the
times. It was difficult, embarrassing,
f0reboding race problem which he
found. He left clear, definite, hope
full race program, the letter and spirit
Of which, If wisely and unselfishly fol-
lowed. will without doubt bring in the
long run a happy. wholesome and sat.
isfactory solution and an adjustment
mutually acceptable to all concerned.
He often said, mo man, either white
or black, from north or south, shall
drag me down so low as to make me
hate him." This, my friends, was his
LIES motto. and yet few men were
more sensitive to unfairness or injus-
tice. The effect Of misunderstanding
and prejudice is apt to appeal strongly
to most people, especially those who
are most keenly stung, but with DR..
Washington the underlying cause Of
prejudice and unfairness was Of far
more fundamental interest to him.
He interpreted with kindness and
patience and wisdom the north to the
south, the south to the north, the Ne
gro to both and both to the Negro. He
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