dollars more. The Jubilee Singers sang in England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Switzerland and Germany. Mr. Lowden, who was a member of the company while under charge of the University, took a company, on his own responsibility, to Australia, India, Japan and around the world.
Some idea of what these young women willingly and bravely encountered, that their less favored brothers and sisters might in after years enjoy the advantages of an education, may be gathered from the following words of Mr. Marsh:
At Zanesville, also, their concert did not meet expenses; but a friend paid their hotel bill, which amounted to twenty-seven dollars. What figure it would have reached had not the six girls been put into a single room over a shed, where the bed-clothing was so offensive that they were constrained to roll the most of it in a bundle and lay it on the porch while they slept wrapped in their water-proofs, is not known.
The gross receipts of the last seven days of their tour through Connecticut amounted to more than $3,900.
The total receipts of one month's work in England amounted to nearly $20,000. These two items alone are arguments, strong and forcible, in favor of what great things the race may accomplish by concert of effort.
On their return from New York to Nashville, having secured a first-class passage, they were ejected from the waiting-room for ladies in Louisville by some local prejudice which it seems the superintendent of the railroad could not overcome. Thereupon he placed at their disposal and for their own special comfort an extra coach. This he has willingly done every time since when they have traveled that road.
