The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 55, May 1890, U. of Illinois Press

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MAY · I 890 R. W. Taylor,3 Gloss Germany4 and Robt. Pindle5 who came in the office and asked that the band not be avowed to go out anymore as the way they acted was a disgrace to the school. ~ refer to the time that attended Anderson school. I did tell Foster he had taken to much libety ~ going to the carpenter shop ordering pole for drum major. As to what was said about them going to town I do not know as ~ was in bed sick. They have said nothing to me about music sacks. I think they saw Mr. Logan about that. J. H. Washington ALS Con. 98 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Samuel Berkeley Foster. 2 Marshall Gaston Daniels. 3 Robert Wesley Taylor, of Pensacola, Fla., entered Tuskegee in 1887. After graduating in 1890 he taught for a few years in his home town and then joined the faculty of Tuskegee Institute in ~ 893 as northern agent and instructor in mathematics. When in the North, Taylor was an eEective platform speaker who gave lectures on ''Booker T. Washington: The Inspirer of Negro Youths'' and ''Folks in Dixie.'' The proceeds of his lectures went to Tuskegee. (Circular, cat ~ go I, Con. ~ 76, BTW Papers, DLC. ~ When Taylor left the employ of Tuskegee in 1906' it was apparently at the suggestion of BTW, who believed Taylor had so much ability that he should engage in a business career more rewarding than his work as northern agent. He told Taylor what he said he had told many people, ''that you are the only person who has ever helped me raise any money . . . worth counting, and that your place could not be filled.'' (BTW to Taylor, An. to, 1906, Con. 34, BTW Papers, DLC.) Apparently Taylor's business venture was unsuccessful, for in 1907 he returned to the employ of Tuskegee. (BTW to United Merchants Improvement Co., July T. 1907, Con. 362, BTW Papers, DLC.) I Gloss Lorenzo Germany, Jr., of Union Springs, Ala., was a member of Tuskegee's class of 189~. After his four years at Tuskegee he taught for two years in Birmingham and then in Bullock County, Ala., schools. 5 Robert Alexander Pindle, of Columbia, S.C., attended Tuskegee from 1888 to :89~. After graduation he was a teacher and tailor in Sumter, S.C. To Atticus Greene Haygood ~Tuskegee, Ala.] May lo r~ ~o Dear Sir: While fully appreciating the help received from the Slater Fund in the past and being deeply grateful not only to the Board but to yourself for this help, I write to know if it is not possible for this school to receive an increase during the coming year. 55