. The heart of the South along the line of the Atlanta & West Point and the Western railway of Alabama . niasourj and plastering, brick-making, saw-milling, tinning, harness-making, tailoring, plain sewing, dress-making, cooking, lauudrj-ing, nurse training, house-keeping, bee culture, canning, stock-raising, - hitectural and mechanical drawing, and free-hand ing. Students work in all these departments, ami while learning their trades are paid something for their labor, thus enabling them to partly pay their expenses. Those who have no money work all day and go to school at night until th
. The heart of the South along the line of the Atlanta & West Point and the Western railway of Alabama . niasourj and plastering, brick-making, saw-milling, tinning, harness-making, tailoring, plain sewing, dress-making, cooking, lauudrj-ing, nurse training, house-keeping, bee culture, canning, stock-raising, - hitectural and mechanical drawing, and free-hand ing. Students work in all these departments, ami while learning their trades are paid something for their labor, thus enabling them to partly pay their expenses. Those who have no money work all day and go to school at night until they haveenough money to go into the day school. During the past year there was an averageattendance of 1,072 students—males 706, females366. 996 of this number were regular all the departments—literary, industrial andexecutive—88 instructors and ofificers were em-ployed. The property owned by the trustees is 80. valued at about $290,000. This propertj includes 2,267 acres of land. There are forty-two buildingsused for various purposes. There are 407 head of liv-e stock, including horses, mules, cows, oxen,pigs and sheep, and a large number of fowls. An agricultural building, costing $10,000, has just been completed. The Alabama StateLegislature has recently appropriated $1,500 to this school, to be used in establishing an agriculturalexperiment station here. Science Hall has also recently been completed. A new brick chapel, witha seating capacity of 2,400, and costing $30,000, was dedicated March 23, 1898. Last in thisconnection is the new Trades Building, to be erected at a cost of $30,000. This building has beenbegun, and when completed will be the home of the trades taught. Aside from these things, Tuskegee is making itself felt, not only through its graduates anduuder-graduates, but through the Tuskegee Negro Conferences held here annually, in whichthe condition of the negroes in the Blac
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