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Show FOR EDUCATION OF SOUTHERN NEGROES $1,000,000 IS GIVEN NEW YORK, April 23. Booker T. Washington, -president of the Tuskegeo Institute, Alabama, and Mollis Burke Frissell. president of Hampton institute, Virginia, are here to organize a board of trustees to handle the endowment fund of $1,000,000 given by Mies Anna Jeanes of Germantown, Pa., for the assistance snd maintenance of elementary schools for Southern negroes. Dr. Washington says that the board will consist principally princi-pally of Southern men, some white and ome colored, and that great care 1 being be-ing taken to pick men well qualified for the trust. |