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Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization. 184 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. Page 256 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 24.03.2006
Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization. 185 24.03.2006 two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for your building fund, to be used in building the items such as Nos. 4, 6, 7, 8, and the "Barnes, etc.," mentioned under the head of "Special Needs," and for objects of similar character. The above does not include item No. 5, "Building for religious purposes," as I am not interested in that sort of work. I shall be glad to know whether this proposition interests you. Yours very truly, ------. The interest of this giver was first aroused by his reading "Up from Slavery" when it appeared in book form in 1901. As soon as he had read the book he sent Dr. Page 257 Washington a check for $10,000 for his work which he has renewed each year since until he made the above offer. "Up from Slavery" has brought more money to Tuskegee than all the other books, articles, speeches, and circulars written by Mr. Washington himself and the many others who have written or spoken about him and his work. Among its larger immediate results, aside from awakening the interest of the anonymous giver already mentioned, was its similar effect upon the late H. H. Rogers, Vice-President and active head at the time of the Standard Oil Company, and upon Andrew Carnegie. Mr. Rogers became so much interested that he not only gave large sums for the general needs of Tuskegee but eventually financed a large part of the rural school extension work, which has been described in earlier chapters, and which is now so important a part of the school's activities. Under Booker Washington's inspiration and guidance, too, Mr. Rogers later combined railroad building with race building. In building his Virginia railroad he undertook a wide-reaching work in agricultural education among the Negro farmers living within carting distance of his road. Booker Washington had demonstrated to his satisfaction that by increasing at the same time their wants and their ability to gratify their wants he would be building up business for his railroad. Shortly after the publication in 1901 of "Up from Slavery," Frank N. Doubleday, of Doubleday, Page Co., the publishers of the book, in playing golf with Mr. Carnegie mentioned Booker Washington and told him Page 258
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