Facts and Suggestions About the Colored People [pp. 32-42]

38 FACTS AND SUGGESTIONS [April,
lic sisterhood specially devoted to the colored mission an Episcopalian community was in the field. To their credit be it written,
these women have been known to send, and even to come themselves, for a priest, when asked to do so by the sick whom they
were visiting. Besides the organized efforts of the Protestant
societies and the private donations of their members, there is
another permanent revenue, which we may be sure will go to
them-" The John F. Slater Fund." Mr. Slater was a millowner of Connecticut, and gave one million dollars in four per
cent. bonds to form a fund for the education of the negro. Forty
thousand dollars yearly are administered by a board of trustees,
whose president is R. B. Hayes, ex-President of the United
States, and whose agent is a Methodist clergyman named Haygood, of Atlanta, Ga. At first the money was to go to normal
schools; later on the trustees concluded to help schools in which
trades were taught. The whole affair savors strongly of Methodism, and that denomination is likely to be the dispenser of this
revenue. It is needless to say that over and above all this there
are scattered efforts of various Protestant societies and individuals whose aggregate assistance must be very material indeed.
The History of the Negro Race gives as the number of pupils during 1879 in all such schools 14,054, very many of whom were
normal scholars or pursuing an~academic course of studies.
Let us now look at what the Catholic Church is doing. The
following figures, taken from Sadliers' Directory for this year, seem
to cover all our efforts:
No. of No. of
Dioceses. Schools. Pupils.
Baltimore, Md.... - 5 &o8 (Colored Sisters' Academy indaded.)
Charleston, S. C 1 100
Cincinnati, Ohio 1 90
Leavenworth, Kansas I 80
Loiiisville, Ky 6 312
Mobile, Ala.. I
Natchez, Miss.. 5`35
Natchitoches, La 3 6o
New Orleans, La 6 380 (No report of one schooL)
Richinond, Va 1 53 (Not in Directory.)
Savannah, Ga 3 75 (No report of one school.)
St. Augustine, Fla 5
St. Lows, Mo I 16o
39 2,253
The attendance of 8 schools is not given. Allowing for them
the average of the schools where the numbers are given-that is,
7~-then 576 must be added to the above total, making in all
2,829. There are, moreover, a few orphans in the asylum at