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Show and ate and slept in the little cabins on Lis route, lie found the negroes wretchedly poor, and improvi-. , dent; , Ilia training' school was opened in a stable and a henhouse. . The two men who helped, him j nios in starting the school were George W. Campbell, Camp-bell, a white man and an ex-slaveholder; the other j Lewis Adams, black, and an ex-slave. Thirty students stu-dents reported for admission the first day.' Mr. Washington was the only teacher. ' Most of them were public school feathers and some were nearly 40 years old." At the end of six weeks Miss Olivia A. Davidson entered the school-as a teacher. She later became Mr. Washington's wife. Many white families in the neighborhood assisted with gifts of money and needed articles: . Brickmakingand otlier industries were successfully carried on and supplied real wants in the community. Mr and Mrsi.Wash-ington'traveled Mrsi.Wash-ington'traveled through the North-and South, asking ask-ing interest and aid. A boarding-chool was built and board charged at f 8 a month. Tuition cost $50 a year. Bedding Was sadly lacking. Yet there were no complaints. On the contrary, the students were constantly asking what tkey could do to lighten light-en the burdens of the teachers. On one occasion Mr. Washington traveled five thousand miles to deliver de-liver a five-minute speech in thq interests of the school. By his personal dignity, and eloquent speaking speak-ing he has cotnmanded the deep respect of men like President Harrison, President Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland and others of hardly inferior position. Recently Andrew Carnegie made a gift of ?GOO,000 for Tuskegee. Now the school is doing more for the negro that all other institutions to which the black man is admitted. Mr. Washington is a wonderful won-derful man. If the Southern negro would follow his advice there would.be no race problem to. solve, south of the Ohio. He is a splendid citizen and should be welcomed to the West on account of the good he has done. Booker T. Washington and the West.. Every citizen of Utah who is interested in uplifting up-lifting the negro should indorse the effort w hich is being made to induce Bocjker T. Washington to deliver, de-liver, a series of lectures in the far West. It is suggested sug-gested that one of these lectures be delivered in Salt Lake City. Mr. Washington is easily the leader of his race. -Hia wonderful work at Tuskegee, Ala., has attracted the attention of the whole civilized world. Mr. Washington himself has described this work better than any one else could in his remarkable autobiography, "Up from Slavery." Tbe first steps toward founding the industrial school at Tuskegee - were taken in 1881, when Mr. Washington traveled throigb; Alabama, making known what he hoped to accomplish by it. , ne rode a mule most of the time s ; : |