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produce on the school grounds.
"We very much wish that some friend might see his way clear to give $3,000
with which to properly equip this factory."
The need for a new laundry building with equipment, a foundry, and a
veterinary hospital were similarly presented. The funds to meet each of these
needs were received as a result of these appeals, and a new list of needs is now
being advertised.
In concluding his annual report each year Mr. Washington would summarize the
immediate needs of the institution. In his last report he thus stated them:
1. $50 a year for annual scholarships for tuition for one student, the student
himself providing for his own board and other personal expenses in labor
and cash.
2. $1,200 for permanent scholarships.
3. Money for operating expenses in any amounts, however small.
4. $2,000 each for four teachers' cottages.
5. $40,000 for a building for religious purposes.
6. $16,000 to complete the Boys' Trades Building.
7. $50,000 for a Boys' Dormitory.
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8. $50,000 for a Girls' Dormitory.
9. An addition to our Endowment Fund of at least $3,000,000.
A few months later, as he lay dying in a New York hospital, the following letter
was received for him at Tuskegee. It was at once forwarded and passed him on
his last journey to his home in the South. He never saw it. The donor, a
Northern friend who withholds his name, has renewed the offer to the Trustees
and they have accepted it.
November 8, 1915.
Dr. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
DEAR MR. WASHINGTON: I have read your annual report and also your
treasurer's report, and make you the following proposition: If you will raise
enough money to pay all of your debts up to May 1, 1916, and add two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars to your endowment fund, I will give you the sum of
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