The following letter indicates one of the ways in which we are able to assist the public-school system from time to time:
Ethelville, Alabama, June, 1903.
Professor B. T. Washington.
I am very anxious to afford the coloured teachers of this county the best instruction possible, and so I write to ask if you cannot send us one of your teachers to conduct a Normal Institute, to be held at Carrollton, June 29th to July 4th—a teacher whom you can recommend. I am sorry to say the county has no money it can spend on this matter.
Yours truly,
W. H. Storey,
County Superintendent of Education.
The following institutions have grown out of the Tuskegee Institute and have been chartered under the laws of their respective States. Not only have they been founded by Tuskegee graduates, but the officers and in many cases the entire faculty are from Tuskegee:
Mt. Meigs Institute, Waugh, Alabama; Snow Hill Institute, Snow Hill, Alabama; Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South Carolina; East Tennessee Normal and Industrial Institute, Harriman, Tennessee; Robert Hungerford Industrial Institute, Eatonville, Florida; Topeka Educational and Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas; Allengreene Normal and Industrial Institute, Ruston, Louisiana; Utica Normal and Industrial Institute, Mississippi; Christianburg Institute, Cambria, Virginia.
The story of struggle, sacrifice and hard work connected with the founding of some of these schools is more akin to romance than to reality.
A FURNITURE AND REPAIR SHOP AT SNOW HILL
Snow Hill Institute, Snow Hill, Alabama, by way of illustration, was founded by William J. Edwards, of the class of 1893. This school is now in its tenth year, and was started in a one-room cabin. Soon after the school was established, Honourable R. O. Simpson, a wealthy white resident of the community, was so impressed with its good effect upon the Negroes of the vicinity that he gave the school forty acres of land. This has been added to, until the school now owns 160 acres, and property to the value of $30,000.