Just before the arrival of the President's party the Legislature arrived, headed by the governor and other state officials.
The citizens of Tuskegee had decorated the town from the station to the school in a generous manner.

In order to economize in the matter of time, we arranged to have the whole school pass in review before the President.

Each student carried a stalk of sugar-cane with some open bolls of cotton fastened to the end of it.

Following the students the work of all departments of the school passed in review, displayed on "floats" drawn by horses, mules, and oxen.

On these floats we tried to exhibit not only the present work of the school, but to show the contrasts between the old methods of doing things and the new.