CHAPTER XX.

THE MOVEMENT FOR A PERMANENT ENDOWMENT.

How the Money for Carrying on the Work at Tuskegee Was Being Raised during Eighteen Years--The Need of an Endowment Fund--The Grant of 25,000 Acres of Land by Congress--The Organized Effort to Secure Endowment Fund--The Meeting for this Purpose in Madison Square Garden--Ex-President Grover Cleveland Interested in the Movement--Prominent People Present at This Meeting--President Cleveland’s Encouraging Letter Stating His Inability to be Present--Hon. Carl Schurz Presides at This Meeting--Address of Mr. Walter H. Page--Mr. W. H. Baldwin, Jr., Speaks--Extracts from This Address--The Financial Condition of the Institute Stated--The Author Speaks at This Meeting--Dr. Rainsford’s Remarks--Some Immediate Results of This Meeting--The Gift of Mr. C. P. Huntington and Others Towards the Endowment.