12 Wages, compared with white man's wages. 13 Steadiness of employment. 14 Single or married. Number of people supported. 15 How long in present line of work? 16 Present place of work. 17 Why did you take up present work? 18 Names of others in same line. 19 20 21 22 Organization. Is there any in your trade? Are opportunities for work in your line as good as ten years ago? Is there prejudice against colored men in your line of work irrespective of the question of skill? A. On the part of employers. B. On the part of fellow-workmen. Is prejudice greater in Philadelphia than in other places where you have worked? 23 A. Where were you educated? B. If not educated in a trade 24 25 school, where were you trained? Have you found the course you took at school adequate to give you a good start in business without the necessity of further school work or apprenticeship? Are young men or women in your line of work who have had industrial training superior workers to those who have learned their trade as apprentices? 26 Would colored people welcome the introduction of industrial 30 31 Remarks of person interviewed. Estimate of investigator regarding person interviewed. APPENDIX B Value To illustrate the method of "efficiency rating" utilized in this report three brief sketches are here presented, the first describing a person who has succeeded and is rated "good," the second, one who has done moderately well, being rated "fair," and the third, one who has done poorly or practically failed and is rated "poor." The three persons are all graduates of industrial schools. The first is a mulatto printer of 45, who studied four years at an industrial school. He worked for a number of printing firms, all of whom speak well of him, but found that he was not being promoted as rapidly as his white fellow workmen. He consequently decided to take up business for himself in 1903, now carries four helpers on his pay roll, and turns out work of a high grade of excellence. He is married, has three children, and owns his own home. This man is rated good. The second is a Negro bricklayer of about 30, who studied his trade at an industrial school for four years. He has a wife and child, rents his house, and has a hard time to make ends meet. Although his various employers speak well of him, he has been employed only half the time for several years. The investigator comments as follows; "Probably fair workman when working." This man is rated fair. The third is a young mulatto girl who took a two-year stenography course at a Philadelphia school. She was then employed for a short time as a substitute in an office, but was not satisfactory, according to the testimony of her employer. Since then, for nearly a year, she has remained at home. Both the girl and her mother seem very much discouraged. This girl is rated poor. M BISHOP MCVICKAR AN APPRECIATION BY FRANCIS G. PEABODY A talk given to the Hampton School on Sunday evening, April 23, 1911 ANY of us have thought much during these days of one of our friends who has died since our last Anniversary, and if I am to speak for a moment at this quiet, domestic, Sunday evening service where we gather in the intimacy of a family, I should like to say just a word of him. Wherever I turn I think of Bishop McVickar. I seem to meet him at each corner of these familiar walks and look for his sympathetic, cordial, happy greeting. No one will ever quite fill his place in our memories. He was, as many of you know, in stature a huge man, but he was as great in heart as he was in body. He was the Great-Heart of our company. The Old Testament says: of a great rock in a weary land." friend. "A man shall be as the shadow That is what one might say of our He was like a great rock behind whose shadow one could rest and be refreshed. Bishop McVickar became a trustee of this school in 1886—a time of dark days in our history. General Armstrong's health was beginning to fail; new friends and new resources were imperatively needed. Dr. McVickar was at that time rector of an important Episcopal parish in Philadelphia; and he threw himself into the service of the school with buoyant enthusiasm and enlisted the resources and loyalty of many Philadelphia friends. Later he became one of the vicepresidents of the Board and later still moved to Rhode Island as Bishop; being, as he used to say; "The largest-sized bishop of the smallest-sized diocese in the world." He was constant in attendance at the trustees' meetings, where it was, as a rule, his place to lead us in prayer; and none of us can forget the richness and sweetness of his voice or the sincerity and appeal of his petitions. He combined in a degree which no man I have ever known has equaled, the capacity for playfulness and the capacity for consolation. He was overflowing with humor, but he was equally abundant in sympathy. He passed with perfect ease from one mood to another. Nothing in his play checked the flow of his natural piety. I once crossed the ocean with him, and for ten days delighted in his gay companionship, yet he was a man to whom I would gladly turn in trouble, sure of his sympathy and steadying help. He had his own burdens to bear; he had the pathos of a lonely and unmarried life; he was passionately fond of children, never happier than when in a circle of young friends, delighting them with his talk. When Ralph Waldo Emerson, the philosopher, was at the funeral of Longfellow, the poet, the philosopher's mind was beginning to fail, and looking at the dead poet's face, he said, “I cannot name my friend, but I know he was a beautiful soul." That is what one would say of Bishop McVickar. He was a beautiful soul; full of the winsomeness and charm which the Bible calls the "beauty of holiness." beauty of holiness." He was a true bishop, a pastor of souls, a shepherd who went before his sheep and led them with the compulsion of love. We go our way into the unknown future, sustained by this precious memory, linking it with the memory of his friend, General Armstrong, in reverent reminiscence of our leaders and guides. What a privilege it is to have had the friendship of these men, and how gratefully and reverently we should pledge ourselves to carry out their work. "Seeing that we are compassed about by this cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us." At Home and Afield Closing Days THE HAMPTON INCIDENTS HE closing exercises for the term of 1910-11 began with the sermon to the graduating class on Sunday, May 21, which was delivered by Rev. George T. Scott, Associate Chaplain, the charge to the class being given by Dr. Frissell. The subject of the sermon was perfection through suffering" the advantage of disadvantages "a familiar theme at Hampton, where difficulties are looked upon as stepping stones to success. The motto of the graduating class-" Amid difficulties we ascend"-voiced this sentiment, and was the text of the earnest charge to the class by the Principal, which ended with the words: "Spend your lives in serving the people who need your help the most." "the General" and his friends and students who are buried there, the bugle ending the service by sounding "Goodnight ” ing "Goodnight" to the little company sleeping so peacefully. At evening service in Cleveland Hall, the school was addressed by Rev. Dr. Arthur Little of the Second Congregational Church, Dorchester, a lifelong friend of Hampton, who, with Mrs. Little, spent Sunday at the school on his return from a trip with the Loyal Legion to the battlefields of Virginia. Dr. Little spoke of the relation of godliness to everyday living; and also described to the school the funeral of Colonel Higginson which he had attended, referring particularly to the Negro guard of honor which was present on that occasion and to Colonel Higginson's lifelong devotion to the cause of the freedman. soldiers' monument in the National ON Monday was held, for the Cemetery which adjoins the school grounds, the school marching as usual in battalion formation and scattering after the service to decorate the soldiers' graves with flowers, and meeting again in the little school cemetery to remember first time, a competitive company and battalion drill, the six companies competing for the beautiful silver loving-cup, adorned with engravings of a Negro and an Indian boy, which had been offered by Major T. W. Winston of Fort |