verything that might be put up in
cans here at the school in feeding the students and
teachers, but there is an increasing demand among the
merchants of the South, in the large cities, for anything we
can produce on the school grounds.

"We very much wish that some friend might see his way clear
to give $3,000 with which to properly equip this factory."

The need for a new laundry building with equipment, a foundry, and a
veterinary hospital were similarly presented. The funds to meet each
of these needs were received as a result of these appeals, and a new
list of needs is now being advertised.

In concluding his annual report each year Mr. Washington would
summarize the immediate needs of the institution. In his last report
he thus stated them:

1. $50 a year for annual scholarships for tuition for one
student, the student himself providing for his own board and
other personal expenses in labor and cash.

2. $1,200 for permanent scholarships.

3. Money for operating expenses in any amounts, however
small.

4. $2,000 each for four teachers' cottages.

5. $40,000 for a building for religious purposes.

6. $16,000 to complete the Boys' Trades Building.

7. $50,000 for a Boys' Dormitory.

8. $50,000 for a Girls' Dormitory.

9. An addition to our Endowment Fund of at least $3,000,000.

A few months later, as he lay dying in a New York hospital, the
following letter was received for him at Tuskegee. It was at once
forwarded and passed him on his last journey to his home in the South.
He never saw it. The donor, a Northern friend who withholds his name,
has renewed the offer to the Trustees and they have accepted it.

_November 8, 1915._

_Dr. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama._

DEAR MR. WASHINGTON: I have read your annual report and also
your treasurer's report, and make you the following
proposition: If you will raise enough money to pay all of
your debts up to May 1, 1916, and add two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars to your endowment fund, I will give you the
sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for your
building fund, to be used in building the items such as Nos.
4, 6, 7, 8, and the "Barnes, etc.," mentioned under the head
of "Special Needs," and for objects of similar character.
The above does not include item No. 5, "Build