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10   THE CRISIS

principal of the colored business high school, Washington, D.C.

¶ For the first time in fifteen years the Baltimore County school board has decided to increase the salaries of colored teachers.  The increase will be 14 per cent.

¶ Bishop Thirkield says of the public schools of Atlanta, Ga.:
 "Not only are the white children unprovided for, but thousands of colored children cannot be accommodated in either session of the public schools.  This means that they are  permitted to run wild on the streets in contact with the lower life of the city.  If criminal instincts are developed and these colored children thrown in the way of vice the authorities of this city are are responsible.
 "I have studied this situation for some years and am utterly amazed at the lack of foresight in building schoolhouses merely for the sake of saving on an investment which promises the largest returns in the moral and industrial life of the city."

¶ Tuskegee Institute has opened with the largest enrollment in its history. The plant consists now of 2,345 acres of land and 108 buildings valued at $1,339,248. The endowment fund is $1,401,826, not including 19,910 acres of unsold government land valued at #300,000. There are 9,000 graduates and former students.

¶ A colored woman teaching in Lowndes County, Ala., says in an appeal for funds: 
"Where I am now working there are 27,000 colored people and about 1,500 whites. In my school district there are nearly 400 children. I carry on this work eight months in the year and receive for it $290, out of which I pay three teachers and two extra teachers. The State provides for three months' schooling, but practically I am working without any salary. The only way I can run the school eight months is to solicit funds from persons interested in the work of Negro education. 
"I have been trying desperately to put up an adequate school building for the hundreds of children clamoring to get an education. To complete it and furnish it with seats I need about $800."

¶ About twenty-five years ago Miss Katherine Drexel, of the wealthy Drexel family of Philadelphia, took the veil of a nun and announced her intention of founding a Catholic order for the education of the Indian and colored race. Colored schools have been opened at Rock Castle, Va., Nashville, Tenn., two in Philadelphia, one in New York, one in Chicago, and one in Columbus, O. These Catholic schools are non-sectarian in the sense that they receive children of all denominations; they are taught, however, by Catholic sisters.

¶ J. Pierpont Morgan has agreed to give $10,000 toward a $60,000 fund for the St. Paul's Episcopal School for Negroes at Lawrenceville, Va. 

¶ The American Church Institute for Negroes in its sixth annual report shows that $89,582 has been raised for the support of its six schools during the year. The report contains a careful study of the needs of Negro education.

¶ The Church.

¶ The twentieth annual meeting of the colored convocation of the diocese of Southern Virginia was held recently. Thirty churches and missions reported 1,700 communicants and $6,000 raised by the colored people.

¶ Over 1,000 colored people from four States met in New Orleans to greet Bishop Thirkield, of the M.E. Church, who came to take special charge of colored work.

¶ The total membership of the Negro Baptist Church in America is now reported to be 2,444,055. There are 18,987 churches worth $25,000,000.

¶ Rev. J.S. Quarles of Columbia, S.C., has been appointed archdeacon of that diocese.

¶ For thirty-three years the colored Baptists have been engaged in missionary work in Africa. They have sent in all sixty-two missionaries and fifteen native workers; they have established eighty churches, 300 outstations and own about $30,000 worth of property on the West Coast. The Rev. L.G. Jordan is present the secretary in charge of the work.

¶ Pope Leo XIII. established two apostolic vicariates in equatorial Africa; that of Northern Nyanza and that of the Upper Nile. In the first there are 98,000 Catholics and fifty-eight schools and eleven hospitals. In the vicariate of the Upper Nile there are 19,000 Catholics and thirteen schools with fourteen medical institutions.