church
building in the town of Tuskegee, which lies nearly two miles from the
present school-grounds. Later in the same year the growth of the school
made it necessary to obtain additional room, which was found in a
dilapidated shanty standing near the church and which had been used as
the village schoolhouse since the war. These buildings were in such bad
condition that when it rained it was necessary for the teacher and
students to use umbrellas in order to protect themselves from the
elements while recitations were being conducted.

Students who came from a distance boarded in families in the town, where
the conditions of living were very much like those in their own homes,
and these were far below proper standards. Mr. Washington, understanding
the great need for colored people to be trained in correct ways of
living as well as to be educated in books, determined to secure a
permanent location for the school, with buildings in which the students
might live under the care and influence of teachers day and night,
during the whole period of their connection with the school.

[Illustration: WARREN LOGAN.

Treasurer of the School.]

It so happened at this time that there was an old farm of 100 acres in
the western part of the town of Tuskegee, well suited to be the site of
such a school, which could be had for $500. But where was the money to
be found to pay for it? Mr. Washington himself had no money, and the
people of the town, much interested as they were in the enterprise, were
wholly unable to give direct financial assistance. General J. F. B.
Marshall, then treasurer of the Hampton Institute in Virginia, was
appealed to for a loan of $200 with which to make the first payment.
This he gladly made, and the farm was secured. In a few months
sufficient money was raised from entertainments and subscriptions in the
North and South (one friend in Connecticut giving $300) to return the
loan of General Marshall and pay the balance due on the purchase of the
property.

The land thus secured, preparations were at once begun to put up a
school building, toward the cost of which Mr. A. H. Porter, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., gave $500, the structure being named Porter Hall in recognition
of Mr. Porter's generosity. In this building, which has three stories
and a basement, all the operations of the school were for a time
conducted. In the basement were a kitchen, dining-room, laundry, and
commissary. The first story was devoted