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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



equipped with the necessary machinery. Whatever lumber is 

 needed in the erection of the buildings is cut on the timber lot, 

 drawn to the mill, and sawed. In this way one class learns to saw 



and handle lumber. Besides the reg- 

 ular carpentry classes, joiner work 

 and carriage-making are carried on. 

 A large part of the furniture in the 

 buildings, including the beds, tables, 

 and chairs in the dormitories and din- 

 ing rooms, was built in this way. All 

 the carts, wagons, and carriages which 

 are used about the place were built 

 in the carriage shop, and the hickory 

 lumber wagons turned out there have 

 so good a reputation that all not 

 needed on the place are sold readily 

 to be used on the near-by farms. 

 The carriages are painted, ironed, and 

 trimmed by the young men, and 

 no better proof of the workman- 

 ship can be asked than some of the 

 rides I have had in them about Tus- 

 kegee. 



The management at Tuskegee tries to have a building always 

 in course of construction for the benefit of the building classes. 

 This year they are erecting a trades-school building. Last year 

 they built a handsome brick church, which will seat two thousand 

 persons. The building of this church shows well what the school's 

 building classes can do. The designs were drawn by Mr. R. R. Tay- 

 lor, the young colored man who is the instructor in mechanical and 

 architectural drawing. One of his pupils designed the cornices 

 with which the building is finished, and another designed the pews 

 which furnish it. These pews were built in the school's joiner 

 shop. The bricks were all made in the school's brickyard, and laid 

 by the students. Men learning slating and tinsmithing covered 

 the roof, and the steam-heating and electrical apparatus were also 

 put in by the students, although this is one of the first of the build- 

 ings where the students have been sufficiently advanced in those 

 trades to do the last-named work. 



As it was determined to employ only negroes as instructors at 

 Tuskegee, it was at first difficult to find enough men and women of 

 that race skilled in the arts and trades which it was wished to have 

 taught there, and teachers were brought to the institute from all 

 over the country, ^ow, however, as each year sees the industrial 



" BUILDING A HAT " ; MILLINERY 

 DEPARTMENT. 



