€oo 



POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



trial education for the negro. As might be expected, then, we find 

 at Tuskegee practical hand training. The advantage is twofold. 

 The stndents not only learn to work, but in doiiiii; so many are en- 



An Institute Cabbage Field. 



abled to work out all oi- a ])iirt of the expenses which otherwise in 

 lunuy cases would have pi-cvciitcd them from remaining at the 

 school. 



Of the thirtv-cight buildings at Tuskegee, all but the first three, 

 and these are among the smallest ones, haye been built by the stu- 

 dents. Seyeral of the largest of these buildings are of brick, and 

 tlie educational process begins in tlic institute's own Krickvard, 

 where a class of muscular young men ai'c making bricks under the 

 direction of a capable instructor, and :n making them learn the 

 trade which they expect to follow in after life, 'i'his yard not only 

 makes all the bricks the institute uses, but many thousand more to 

 be sold each year for use in the surrounding country. 



I heard Mr. Washington tell to an audience of liftccn hundred 

 negroes, in Charleston, South Carolina, a characteristic story of 

 the beginning of this brickyard. " After I had been teaching a 

 wliile at Tuskegee," lie said, "1 began to feed that 1 was partly 

 throwing away my time teaching the students only books, without 

 getting hold of them in their home life and without teaching them 

 liow to care for their bodies and how to woi-k. 1 looked about for 



