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Afro-Americans, Including Many Members of the Sporting Element, Are Invading Calumet, Forest and Other Avenues and Streets East of State Street. The Whites Are Fleeing From Them in Every Direction. Wabash Avenue Has Become Their Grand Parade or Boulevard, And Rushing the Beer Can is One of Its Leading Features. One of the Prominent Colored Doctors Residing on That Thoroughfare Claims That the "Niggers" Have Become So Thick On It That He Can Scarcely Enter or Leave His Home. Vol. XIV Afro-American Many Men Sporting El Are Invading Calumet, F and Streets East of Sta The Whites Are Fleeing Direction. Wabash Avenue Has Bee or Boulevard, And R One of Its Leading Fe One of the Prominent Colore Thoroughfare Claims Th come So Thick On It Th Leave His Home. It was the ardent hope on the part of the whites—those who had always been friendly to the Colored people and had always wished them well that after it had been decided to permit them without the slightest hindrance, to buy elegant homes and to freely move into fine flat buildings, East of State street that none, but those possessing culture and refinement would ever have a sufficient amount of brass nerve to push themselves into that beautiful residential district. This was only a vanishing dream, or a passing cloud however, on the part of the whites, for within the past two or three years so many Afro-americans, good, bad and indifferent, including many members of the sporting element have invaded Calumet, Forest and other avenues and streets East of State street; that the whites are fleeing from them in every directino, they the whites all the time contending that the vast majority of the Negroes are loth to divide themselves off into two separate and distinct classes—that is the highly respectable and the unrespectable—that in the majority of instances they will not keep their homes and other property up in first class shape, and as all classes of Colored people want to put themselves on the same level or social plane with each other—therefore they have no desire to live next door neighbors to them. There may be some color blindness on the part of the whites in this respect, be this as it may, but one thing is certain and that is, up until about ten years ago, Wabash ave., from 22d street on South was considered one of the finest streets in this city, and many of the best and oldest white families lived and died on it and they took great pride in debarring the sporting element from residing on it right in among them, both white and Colored and it will be recalled that some years ago Vina Fields who for a long time ran a fancy house in the downtown district, which was filled with Colored women, for white gentlemen, bought a lovely home out on Wabash ave., and when the whites residing near the house she had purchased, became aware of that fact, they firmly and politely informed Vina Fields that "no woman Black or white engaged in her immoral line of business could ever reside in their midst," and she never did live in her Wabash ave., home. The Wabash ave., of those days and the Wabash ave. of today are far from being the same and there is as much difference between them as there is between utter darkness and HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAX the bright shining noon day sun; with in the past few years it has become the grand parade or boulevard of the Colored people, and the result is that the sporting element both men and women are flocking to it at a rapid rate. Two Colored women who not so long ago conducted fancy rooming huses further down the line, near 21st and Darborn street and still farther downtown are now located on Wabash ave., between 21st and 34th streets and many seemingly bright and promising young girls and married women to for that matter frequent their houses with their gentlemen friends and fill up on bottled beer and other good things. The majority of all the fine brown stone houses and first class flat buildings on Wabash ave. from 24th street, on South to 39th street are now occupied by Colored people, comparatively speaking only yesterday the whites held sway in them and gave their grand social functions and receptions, which were attended by the swell-dom among them, but that is a thing of the past and they have gone whistling through the dream of things that are no more. This being true the question may be asked what is the Negro doing to maintain himself in a befitting manner in those same beautiful houses and flat buildings? it is very painful to admit that many of the houses and flat buildings have been filled up with all kinds of men and women regardless of who or what they are or have been in the past. The majority of the men will not rent a room unless they have the undisputed right to entertain their best lady friends in their room, as long as they want to and we are sorry to say that many ladies who want to be away up in the social life will not remain long in any house nor flat building on grand old Wabash ave, unless she also has the right of entertaining her best gentlemen friends in her own room to her hearts content—many of those renting or buying those fine houses and flat buildings say to their men and women roomers that they can do as they please in their rooms, as long as they pay their rent that they are not responsible for their moral or immoral conduct, that they must have money to pay their own rent or to keep up the payments on their home and to maintain themselves in grand style. In order to accomplish these things many of those residing in those elegant houses and apartments will rent every room out to Tom, Dick an Harry, some of their front and rear gariors CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 4, 1909. M. Prominent Democratic Politician, ex-President of the Cook County Board of Assessors and chief promoter of the Forest Park Amusement Association who passed away late Thursday afternoon at his home 2328 Cleveland Ave. Late on Thursday afternoon, James J. Gray, prominent north side Democratic politician, passed away at his home 2328 Cleveland Ave., after being confined to his home for two months. Concussion of the brain was the immediate cause of his death. continued in this office until 1904, serving as president in 1903-4. He also served, as Master in Chancery in the Circuit Court until 1906, being appointed by Judge George Kersten until April 1906. Then he was appointed to succeed John A. Linn as Clerk of the Circuit court Mr. Gray was born in this city in 1861 and received his preliminary education in the public schools here. He learned the printer's trade and followed it until he was made deputy probate clerk in 1893. In 1895 he became deputy circuit clerk and was assigned to Judge Tuley's court, where he became minute clerk and record writer. During this period he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1896, forming soon afterward a law partnership with M. J. Moran, under the firm name of Gray & Moran. He was elected North Town assessor in 1897, running 4,000 votes ahead of his ticket in the town and 900 ahead in his own ward, the Twenty-first. He was reelected in 1898, with an increased majority, later being chosen to serve as the sole Democratic member of the Cook County board of assessors. He and sleep on a shake down each night themselves. Some of them always keep their rooming houses, and even their more private homes well stocked with bottled beer and other wet goods which they sell to their roomers; but many of their roomers, both men and women do not want to pay so much for beer and as they are common themselves they simply want common beer, and in order to get it they will take out of their rooms, the water pitchers, tin cans and any old thing both men and women, and make a bee line to State street, for beer, anyone who will take the trouble can witness this grand army of "Can Rushers" from 24th and Wabash to 39th and the same ave., they can behold them at all hours of the day and night and they seem to take more pride in toting beer onto Wabash ave., on Sunday, than any other day in the week. A large majestic looking flat building stands on Wabash ave. between 31st and 34th street, several years ago some of the best white families on the South Side made their homes in it, but at the present time it is occupied by Colored people, some of them are very undesirable characters, they sell continued in this office until 1904, serving as president in 1903-4. He also served, as Master in Chancery in the Circuit Court until 1906, being appointed by Judge George Kersten until April 1906. Then he was appointed to succeed John A. Linn as Clerk of the Circuit court, honorably serving in that capacity until January 1st, 1907. In the fall of 1906 he made the race for Sheriff of Cook County on the Independence League ticket, and almost 50,000 of his friends voted for him, for he was always very popular with the masses and honest to the back bone. For years his law offices have been located on the 15th floor of the Ashland Block. He was the founder and the chief promoter, of the Forest Park Amusement Association. He was a bachelor and resided with his sister Mrs. Samuel T. Grant, in his own apartment building at the number mentioned above. Mr. Gray, was one of our oldest and warmest friends, and we join with his relatives and his host of warm friends, in mourning his untimely end. bottled beer, they will rent out their rooms to men and women for a long or short time, they pull off cat hops or dances at sny time and they sing loud and bang away on the piano at all hours of the day and night, but no one must attempt to correct them for it must be remembered that they are simply Colored people. One of the big Colored Doctors, who resides on Wabash ave., between 31st and 34th streets, who can do as much cussing and damning as any man in town, while referring to this, that and the other "Nigger" as he always delights to refer to the members of his race, to all outward appearances is not exerting himself to improve the moral conditions nor to remedy these evils which have been referred to which have and which continue to flourish like a green bay tree right in the district where he owns property and resides; but this big leading Doctor, assumes an air of none concerns and it appears that he is happy and contented with his surroundings and with the world; by simply exclaiming that "the Niggers" have become so thick on Wabash ave. that he can scarcely enter or leave his home. The Rise and Reign of The Bourbon Oligarchy In The Southern States. By Joseph C. Manning, Editor of the Southern American, Alexander City, Alabama. The Ante-Bellum Political South. CHAPTER I. The following is the first chapter on "The Rise and Reign of the Bourbon Oligarchy in the Southern States, and it is worth anyone's time to read this and the other chapters which will appear in these columns from time to time: "The compromises on the slavery question, inserted in the Constitution, were among the essential conditions upon which the Federal Government was organized. If the African slave trade had not been permitted to continue for twenty years, if it had not been conceded that three-fifths of the slaves should be counted in the apportionment of representatives in Congress, if it had not been agreed that fugitives from service should be returned to their owners, the Thirteen States would not have been able in 1787 to form a more perfect union." These adjustments in the Constitution were effected after the Congress of the old Confederation had dedicated the entire Northwest Territory to freedom. The ancient commonwealth of Virginia had, for the good of all, generously and patriotically surrendered her title to the great country north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi, which today constitutes five prosperous and powerful states and a not inconsiderable portion of a sixth. This was the first territory of which the general government had exclusive control, and the prompt prohibition of slavery therein by the Ordinance of 1787 is an important and significant fact. The ante-slavery restriction would doubtless have been applied to the territory south of the Ohio had the power existed to impose it. The founders of the government not only looked to the speedy, extinction of slavery, but they especially abhorred the idea of a geographical line, with freedom decreed on one side, and slavery established on the other. But the territory south of the Ohio belonged to the Southern States of the Union, Kentucky to Virginia; Tennessee to North Carolina; Alabama and Mississippi to Georgia, with certain coextensive claims put forward by South Carolina. When cessions of the Southern territory were made to the general government, the States owning it exacted in every case a stipulation that slavery should not be prohibited. It thus came to pass that the Ohio river was the dividing line, North of it freedom was forever decreed. South of it slavery was firmly established. Within the limits of the Union as originally formed the slavery question had therefore been compromised, the common territory partitioned, and the Republic, half slave, half free, organized and sent forth upon its mission."—Blaine's Twenty Years in Congress. Students of American history are as conversant, no doubt, with the formation of the Union as they are with the revolt of the Colonies and the coming into political existence of the Thirteen States. This chapter is begun, however, with the above quotation from "Twenty Years In Con- Reign of The Oligarchy In Western States. Editor of the Southern City, Alabama. In Political South. ER I. gress," by James G. Blaine, that, from reading this clear and terse language, it may be the more distinctly recalled how the States of the South had their beginning in the Union of States. North of the Ohio "freedom was forever decreed" and "south of it slavery was firmly established." The one section of the Union had become in fact a free government, with government by the consent of the governed. The spirit of 1776, that of no taxation without representation, had come into actual political life. The States of the South, the other section, went forward upon the mission of master and slave, of free men and human chattels. The States north of the Ohio found their industrial and social conditions just what free government and free men may evolve. Continued in the system of chattel slavery, the States south of the Ohio saw the resultant growth of the slave holding power reaching into every relation and condition of Southern life. In the North the industrial conditions, and the natural result of its free environments, developed the steady supremacy of popular government and the rise of a statesmanship close to the hearts and homes of the whole people. The government of the States of the South was dominated by "foremost citizens" of what had come to be a slave holding aristocracy. The citizen of the ante-bellum South who was not a member of the slave holding regime was in evidence neither in political nor social life. Even the old-time plantation darkey, the chattel slave, breathed from the master the lofty spirit of disdain for the common herd and the slave gave expression to this sentiment of superiority by reference to the common whites as "poor white trash." The ordinary white, without slaves, was practically a mere political camp follower of the slave holding lord of immense agricultural possessions. The poorer whites who had cast their lots immediately about the princely holdings of the slave owner were as much a nonentity, were as pliant to the domineering decrees of the slave master, as were the slave subservient and acquiescent to the orders of the slave driver. The aristocracy of slave owning wealth was the dominant and the domineering influence in church and state. The pulpit and press, the law-making and the law-executing powers, had behind them the motor power, the driving wheel the controlling sentiment of the slave holding regime. In no free government, in name, had a distinct class so entrenched its hold upon governing authority and no oligarchy ever came into existence in, as alleged, a "land of the free and home of the brave" that held tighter grip upon the weal or woe of the whole people and their destinies. After reading pages to follow it will be seen whether or not the Southern "democracy" has been, in the historic years passing, any the less disposed to yield its tenacious hold upon the throat of the Southland, so long sub- (Continued on page 2.) ```markdown ``` Will promulgate and at all times uphold the principles of Democracy, but Catholic Protestants, Priests, Indians, Slave Taxors, Republicans, or anyone else can oppose them. The language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose pages are broad enough for all, even claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 5088 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1870. FOUR THOUSAND CONSUMPTIVES STARVE YEARLY. Many Indigent Dying Cases Are Being Sent to Southwest. Cruel and inhuman practices are all alleged in a statement given out today by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis against the eastern doctors who persist in sending dying cases of consumption to the Southwest. Fully 7,180 persons hopelessly diseased with tuberculosis annually come to die in the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Colorado, most of them by order of their physicians. The statement, which is based up on the testimony of well known experts, and all available statistics, shows that at least 50 per cent of those who go to the Southwest every year for their health are so far advanced in their disease, that they cannot hope for a cure in any climate, under any circumstances. More than this, at least 60 per cent of these advanced cases are so poor that they have not sufficient means to provide for the proper necessities of life, which means that 4,315 consumptives are either starved to death, or forced to accept charitable relief every year. It is not an uncommon thing, the National Association declares, for whole families, who can hardly eke out a living in the East, to migrate to the West in the hope of saving the life of some member of the family. In most instances, the abject poverty of such cases forces them to beg, or to live on a very low level. Often consumptives who cannot afford the proper traveling accommodations are found dead on the trains before reaching their destination. The resources of almost every charitable organization in the Southwest are drained every year to care for cases which would be self-supporting in their Eastern homes. It cost, on an average, at least $50 per month for the support of a consumptive in the Southwest, including some medical attention. The National Association strongly urges no one to go to this section who has not sufficient funds to care for himself at least one year, in addition to what his family might require of him during this time. It is also urged that no persons who are far advanced with tuberculosis go to so distant a climate. Consumption can be cured or arrested in any section of the United States, and the percentage of cures in the East and the West is nearly the same. Any physician, therefore, who sends a person to the Southwest without sufficient funds, or in an advanced or dying stage of the disease, is guilty of cruelty to his patient. Renewed efforts are being made to stop this practice, and to encourage the building of small local hospitals in every city and town of the country. Attempts are also being made in Southern California and in Texas to The Rise and Reign of The Bourbon Oligarchy in The Southern States. (Concluded from page 1.) jected to the reign of the bourbon political despotism. political despotism. True it is that prior to the great civil war there was developed, here and there, a tendency of independence among the masses and immigration brought to some of these States south of the Ohio many men inclined to revolt and particularly in the mountain counties of Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama there were those who hoped for disenthrallment from the dictatorial reign of bourbonism. These men of the common people, and here and there a more thoughtful and sane slave owner, were not so yielding to the arrogant domination of the slave holding oligarchy. It was from the hearts and homes of these brave men that eminated opposition to and protest against the revolutionary and fiery movement of secession, that was precipitated by the slave controlling interests, and be it to the credit of these brave and patriotic men, who dared to aspire to a true democracy, that their contentions and expressions for just principles was the planting of the seed from which has sprung a strong growth of sentiment for popular government until now there are thousands in the South who are come to believe that real democracy means that the people shall rule and that an actual democrat is one who insists that a fair and honest ballot should be inviolate in their hands. The power of the oligarchy over the whole people of Alabama was not so strong, in fact, at the verge of the war o f the Rebellion, for the managers of the secession cause dared not to refer to the Ordinance of Secession back to the people for ratification. The putting of Alabama out of the Union was by a method that is tainted with the usual shadow of political force hovering over the achievements of the leaders who have, more than once, brought question and dishonor to the name of the so-called "democracy" of the South. Secession by Alabama was not, indeed, popular expression of the public will at the time. The fiery and adroit appeals to the masses finally worked up the people to indulgence in this radical course. Strange it may appear that the system of chattel slavery in the South should produce a political condition in which the 350,000 slave owners dictated to and dominated over the 7,500,000 whites of this section at that time. Strange it is, but passing strange will it become, when further looking into this Southern condition, to realize that the great masses of the South have not yet been aroused and delivered from the political serfdom into which they fell before the yoke of servitude was taken from the necks of the humble blacks. CHARGED WITH PEONAGE. Rich Georgia Planter Alleged to Have Kidhapped and Held Negroes. Atlanta, Aug. 26.—James A. Smith, a rich planter, ex-State Senator and once candidate for Gov. of Georgia, is accused of employing agents to kidnap Negroes and carry them to Smith's plantation in Oglethrope county and there hold them in peonage. The charges against Smith developed when Simon Rouse, one of his alleged agents, was arrested in Atlanta accused of kidnapping and held under $1,000 bond. Sensational testimony was introduced to the effect that Negroes were held on the Smith farm for indefinite periods without pay and that they were treated in the same manner as convicts. Many blacks who had been on the farm were present and said that when they made any effort to leave they were whipped unmercifully and put in chains. Julius Rucker, who ran away from the farm some time ago, was handcuffed here and forced to return there by Rouse, according to the evidence. Becky Rucker, an old Negro woman, the mother of Julius Rucker, testified that she was on the farm for fourteen years and received no pay for her services. Pearl Lee said that she was left on the farm several years ago by her mother and that she was whipped three times a day until she was 21 years of age. She said that many other Negroes swore they had been kidnapped and held as peons on Smith's farm. James A. Smith is one of the original convict leesers and made it great fortune by working prisoners.—The New York Sun. Nothing was said by Bocker Taft Washington and his followers, at the meeting of his Business League, respecting the true state of affairs in Georgia; they did not speak above a whisper in relation to the existence of peonage in that state, and the brutal treatment accorded to the victims who fall into the deadly clutches of some of the best friends of the Negro; the very fact that Booker T. Washington at all times utterly fails to speak out against some of the many wrongs heaped upon the Negro, totally unfits him to ever become a true leader of his race.—Editor. JEWS URGED TO SHUN VICIOUS OF OWN RACE. Samuel Aischuler, in Discussing His Must Be Militant For Law and Order. "There is likely to be a Jewish question in this country, as there is in other lands, unless the Jews of the United States let it be plainly understood that they do not condone or have the slightest fellow feeling for those comparatively few Jews who have turned to vice, to graft or to other wrong-doing as a source of income. The Jews must be militant for virtue, for law and for order." Samuel Alschuler had that to say, with other things, yesterday afternoon, in discussing the speech he made on Sunday at the laying of the corner stone of the Congregation Ohave Sholem Mariampol on the West Side, when he declared that good Jews must avoid dive-keeping Jews and vicious Jew "as a pestilence." "There is such a prejudice against the Jewish race," said Mr. Alschuler yesterday, "that the Jew must be better than his Gentile neighbor to have the reputation of being as good. "When one Jew is caught grafting or in other dishonesty, or is arrested for vicious practices the average non-Jew, always thinks of the offender as a Jew and not as a mere individual. When a "member of some other faith our race commits a crime, he is regarded as an individual. But a Jew who does wrong is always regarded not so much as an individual as a member of the Jewish race. The Jew who commits wrong thus not only commits a crime against the nation as a whole, but he commits a particular crime against his own kindred. "The masses of Jews in this country should take particular care to see that they shun members of the race who engage in vicious business enterprises and who break the laws. The Jews must be known as a race which stands always resolutely and insistently for the good. Vote Tramcker a Peril. "One of the unfortunate features regarding the Jew in Chicago is the existence of the cheap Jew politician, who traffics in votes. The Jewish race should rise up in its might and let it be known that a bad Jew cannot deliver any part of the Jewish vote. Then the unscrupulous Jew politician will find his power of brief duration. Just/one Abe Ruef will do the Jews of the United States more harm than 10,000 noble acts by other Jews can overcome. "As a rule the Jew is known as a law-abiding citizen, virtuous in his home life. It is well that this reputation be continued. The Jews have to battle against the handicap of prejudice to such a degree that they must live finely and nobly, and align themselves aggressively on the side of virtue in order to maintain their full possibilities in the nation."—The Chicago Record Herald, August 30, 1909. It would be well indeed, if the Negro, would drink in much of the advice, which Samuel Alschuler, has imparted to the Jewish people. Editor. Lloyd Garrison Wheeler, 60 years old, died in Tuskegee, Ala., Aug. 28. He was born in Hillsboro, Ohio, May 29, 1849, and during his early years his father was connected with the "underground" railroad of the civil war days. He came to Chicago when 11 years old and after a few years became a mail carrier. While doing this work he studied law and was the first Negro attorney admitted to the bar in Illinois. Since 1903 he had been business agent of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. He assisted in the organization of the Provident Hospital, the Sixteenth Illinois Infantry, now the Eighth Regiment, the philosophy section of the Unity Club, the Evolution Club of Chicago and the Prudence Crandall Club. Mr. Wheeler's demise is mourned by a wife, a daughter, four sons and a host of friends both Colored and white. Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones of All Souls Church of which the deceased was a member, officiated at the funeral services, Tuesday afternoon, and greatly emphasized the fact that his church is the church of all peoples, and the sight of Mr. Wheeler in his congregation frequently inspired his best sermons. He also spoke of Mr. Wheeler's connection with Tuskegee Institute, and concluded by reciting several verses written by Paul Laurence Dunbar. The remains of the deceased were cremated, at Graceland Cemetery.—"T." CHATEAU RINK NOTES. The crowd still continues to visit the Chateau Gardens every evening, which goes to prove that the only real live place in the city is the Chateau Garden. Good music, first-class vaudeville, free dancing and roller skating all await you at the Chateau Garden. Come tonight and see for yourself. Eventually you will want to skate this winter. Why not learn now. It is a healthy amusement for both old and young. Just keep in mind that the Chateau Garden closes its season on September 26th, and you have only a few more weeks of its great out-door pleasure, so go out often between now and Sunday, September 26th, and have the time of your life. Bring your friends. Mrs. B. F. Moselev, wife of lawyer Beauregard F. Moseley, and her daughter Bertha, have returned from the West, where they have spent the past eight weeks, visiting points of interest and friends at Colorado Springs, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle. Both are looking fine and report having had a splendid time. INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH NOTES Last Sunday morning the services at the church were well attended and the many strangers in the audience were seemingly edified. The pastor will give Sunday night the last of the illustrated sermons. The subject is, "Paradise Lost and Regained." Illustrated songs, etc. Sunday morning the great evangelist, Master Hilbert Stewart, will give an organ selection appropriate. Brother Briscoe will conduct a 20-minute song and praise service. Ten days Gospel Mission, under the auspices of the Intermediate C. E. Society will begin Tuesday night, Sept. 7th. Spring chicken dinner Monday, September 6th. Dinner served from 1 to 10 p. m. Dessert, ice cream and chicken all for the asking. Monday night—White Cross Army Drill for the Conference funds under the direction of Mrs. Canada—"S." TAFT LESSENS PEONAGE TERMS. Sentences in Three Florida Cases Are Commuted to Six Months. Washington, Aug. 29.—The President has commuted to six months the term of imprisonment imposed upon W. S. Harlan, S. E. Huggins and C. C. Hilton and has denied commutation or pardon to Robert Gallagher and Walter Grace, all of whom were convicted at Pensacola, Fla., of conspiracy to commit neonage. Pensacola, Fla., Aug. 29.—The Attorney-General has instructed that the Supreme Court mandate in these cases be filed immediately and that the sentence be executed, without further delay. Harlan is a nephew of United States Supreme Court Justice Harlan. President Taft seems to be working overtime, to assist to firmly establish peonage in the Southern states—Editor. Down in Alabama, the home of Booker T. Washington, a bill has been introduced in the state legislature by one of the 2 by 4 statesmen which has for its purpose to prevent any person with Colored blood in their veins from holding office in the state. These are some of the people that our distinguished educator, Dr. Washington, is pleased to call our best friends. —The Advocate, Portland, Oregon. Brother Cannady, it seems to us that Booker Taft Washington does not care what kind of laws his best white friends in Alabama enact to ham-string the Negro, as long as they permit him to continue to beg and rake in the money.—Editor. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO CHICAGO SUBSCRIBERS. On September 1, 1909, the renumbering of streets in Chicago went into effect according to the ordinance passed by the Chicago City Council. In order to correct our mailing list and have this publication going through the mail to subscribers in Chicago properly addressed, the publisher asks you to kindly cut out the following form and after answering the questions appearing thereon, to mail it under cover of envelope sealed, postage prepaid (two cents). To the Publisher, The Broad Ax Address 5038 Armour Ave. Name of Subscriber. New Street and Number Old Street and Number Subscripiton Number D. A. CAMPBELL, Postmaster. MAN SHOT IN DUEL OVER WOMAN IN CROWDED CAR. Bradford Beard, twenty-three years old, 2438 Dearborn street, was shot and slightly wounded by Ernest Smith, twenty-one years old, 2928 Armour avenue, in a State street car between Thirty-second and Thirty-third streets early to-day. The car was filled with passengers returning from a picnic and a panic resulted. Beard was taken to the Provident Hospital and Smith was arrested. Both men are Colored.—The Chicago American, August 30, 1909. REAL ESTATE ITEM. Vernon Ave.. 272 feet South of Thirty-fourth street east front 18x64, August 31, 1909, (incumbrance, $3,600. F. H. Bartlett to Archibald J. Carey, 5,600 among the real estate transfers Sept, 2. 1909 published in the daily press, Sept. 3, 1909. CHIPS Mrs. James E. Thompson, 69 E. 22d St., is still alling. Dr. R. H. Harding is in the East attending the convention of the Ancient Order of Foresters. Mrs. A. Wilberforce Williams of 3408 Vernon avenue, left Thursday for Danville, Ky., to visit her mother for a month. Mr. George R. Arthur, recently visited Detroit, Mich., in the interest of the Pacific Express Co., for which he works as assistant to the Master of Transportation. Dr. J. S. Dorsey is meeting with success in his neat little drug store, 116½ W. 51st street, and Miss Hawkins, his able assistant, is one of the chief attractions and drawing cards. Frank L. Gale, 3140 State street, the only Afro-American dealer in new and second-hand pianos in Chicago feels greatly encouraged with his venture in the musical business. He sold three dandy pianos the past week. Walter M. Farmer, National Grand Master of the United Brothers of Friendship, returned home Monday morning from St. Joseph, Mo., where he attended the sessions of the Grand Lodge of that Order and of that state. Miss Sallie M. Jones Downs, 3668 Wabash ave., recently entertained a small party of friends at cards and dancing in honor of her several Nashville friends who are visiting the city. R. M. Leach, the successful expressman, 3228 State street, departed Monday evening for Xenia, Ohio, his old boyhood home, and New York City. He contemplates being absent two weeks. Miss Desdemonia Lee, 3437 Armour Ave., gave an informal party, Wednesday evening for Miss Ruth Lee, her Miss Charity Boyd, one of the poppopular and efficient school teachers of Frankfort, Ky., who spent the summer months in visiting with Mrs. Ed. Nixon, 2827 Wabash avenue, returned to her Kentucky home last Saturday morning. Mrs. Mary E. Smith, 2918 State street, has been very seriously confined to her home for the past two weeks with a complication of ailments. The doctors now pronounce her out of danger and on the road to recovery. Rev. Jesse S. Woods, the hustling pas'or of St. John's A. M. E. church, Englewood, will give his annual barbecue in connection with the church, at Wilson's Grove, 60th and Ada streets, Monday, September 6th. Labor Day. The public is invited to be present and join in the feast. Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams returned home Sunday morning from Boston, Mass., where he attended the sessions of the National Negro Medical Association. He was re-elected treasurer of the organization, and he states that it was an interesting meeting to the leading M. D.'s but it was not as largely attended as its former sessions. Mrs. Rosa T. Lively of Chicago and Mr. Greene Raby of Gulfport, Mississippi were quietly joined in wedlock Monday morning last at the home of Mrs. Mary A. Williams, 6618 Vernon ave., the bride's sister. Rev. A. J. Carey read the ceremonies, after which the bride and groom accompanied by Miss Raby left for their Southern home, where it is said the groom assisted by his sons does a lucrative express and transfer business. Mrs. Eva Redman, 649 Wells St. entertained a party of her South side friends at a coursed dinner Wednesday evening, in honor of Mr. Thomas Wallace Swann, whose after dinner speech consisted of an outline of the "Exposition Extraordinary" which will be opened at Bethel Church Sept. 15th. Messrs. Julius B. Street and Noah D. Thompson also spoke of the rapid progress being made by the various bureaus connected with the project. Mrs. Charles G. Martin and the Misses Redman also made appropriate addresses for the occasion. Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, 6450 Champlain avenue, returned home Saturday morning from Louisville Ky. She was the official soloist at the meeting of the Negro National Business League and while in that city she was the guest of Mrs. Briggs of W. Madison street, As Mrs. Anderson had entertained Mrs. Booker T. Washington at a select musical at her home here during her visit to the city. Social honors were showered upon them equally by the best citizens of Louisville during their visit to that city. Sunset In "the Red City" of Bavaria. The numerous entrances to the old town of Rothenburg are guarded by beautiful watchtowers, which are inhabited by impoverished old women, who rent their airy lodgings for a nominal sum. The red twinkle of their lamps high over the dusky streets of Rothenburg at night—for it is as mediaeval in its lighting as in many other ways—is very charming in effect. The walls of Rothenburg are a constant delight to visitors, who, by dint of much squeezing through narrow passageways and groping in darkness, are able to make a circuit of the city, getting glimpses on the way through loopholes of the green country outside. Wondrous views of the town are also to be had from many of the distant hills. At sunset the sight of its graceful towers and clutter of roof tops is like a fair vision of romance. The city blazes for a moment in a fiery mist, then suddenly melts, mirage-like, in the gathering dusk, leaving a sense of something born of dream, the illusion of an enchanter's wand.—Rothenburg Letter to Vogue. In the Revue d'Hygiene Dr. Malegon, who lived for many years in China, gives some curious details of the food of the Chinese. This is what he says of the sons of heaven and the way they eat eggs: 'The Chinese are great eaters of eggs, which they take hard boiled. One finds them in all the roadside places for refreshment. The Celestials have an expression, "Eggs of a hundred years." The eggs are not always a century in age, but one is able to get them of many years' standing. The Celestials have a preference for the egg of the duck or goose. They are placed with aromatic herbs in slaked lime for a period, the minimum time of treatment being five or six weeks. Under the influence of time the yoke liquefies and takes a dark green color. The white coagulates and becomes green. The product of the eggs, which has a strong odor, from which a stranger betakes himself quickly, the Chinese eat as hors d'oeuvres, and it is said to have the taste of lobster." Established 1895. Plains Ontario company John J. Dunn COAL WOOD Wholesale and Repair Furniture Inc. Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. Bent, Toronto and M.L.A.S.H.A., and St. and Knox Ave. Dorsey's WHITE ROSE Petrolatum For Chapped Hands, Face and Lips. KINGSTON PHARMACY J. S. DORSEY, R. Ph., proprietor 116 1-2 W. 51st Street, near Dearborn. Chicago TELEPHONE ORLAND 302 Our Motto is Purity and Accuracy DR. A. WILDERFORCE WILLIAMS announces the Removal of his office to 3255 State Street, N. E. cor. 33d Street Suite A CHICAGO, ILL. Hours 10 to 12 m., 2 to 5, 6:30 to 8:30 YOURSELF AND FRIENDS WILL BE CORDIALLY RECEIVED Phone Aldine 2208 Colonial World's Fair Home Miami-Suite Floor $30,000 a century of Justice Supreme Court $200,000 State Arsenal Springfield Illinois State Park CARS TO STATE FAIR GROUNDS. Visitors to the Illinois State Fair this year will be pleased to know that the transportation facilities have been practically doubled between Springfield and the fair grounds. The street cars will run in nearly a straight line under the Chicago & Alton tracks on Ninth street to the grounds. Besides, the salondid shuttle train services of the Chicago & Alton will again be in operation. Twenty thousand people every hour can be carried between the city and the grounds by these machines. There will be no complaint this year on account of insufficient transportation to the grounds. What Secretary Dickirson Cannot Do —Demand for Space Exceeds Limits —Farmers Learn—Sacred Services The Illinois State Fair for 1909 which opens its gates at Springfield. Friday, Oct. 1, will be a nine days' exhibition of the agricultural and mechanical prodigies and inventions of the age in which we live. It will be a wonder this year. One cannot even imagine the completeness and vastness of the State Fair unless he visits it. Last year it was predicted that the limit had been reached, and that nothing new under the sun could be shown. But the extent and variety of the exhibition this year far exceeds that of 1908. Every inch of space was taken weeks ago and Secretary Dickirson is being besieged every minute for more room. "I declare," he remarked the other day "I don't know what we are going to do. I can do most anything any human man can do. But I can't climb a tree with my hands tied and my legs in shackles. The demand is something terrific. I wish I could turn some of these insistent exhibitors loose on the legislature," and he smiled at the pleasing prospect, "and maybe the legislators would appreciate the State Fair just a little bit more than they did last spring. But I am not complaining at the legislature. The statesmen didn't understand the situation." The sheep and swine exhibitors are asking for room by the score. Two thousand beautiful and valuable animals have been denied proper quarters for the past three years. But they will be at the Fair this year, and those who didn't get in early will use the pens again. It's all very wonderful, and the city man cannot understand it all. But the farmer and breeder who visits the State Fair learns there how to add fifty to 100 pounds to his beef and swine, and he understands all right. He finds a farm implement that will save labor and increase his net earnings for the year. Lovers of good racing—and the man who doesn't love a good horse is wrong in his head—will be pleased to know that the State Board has added a beautiful inside track in front of the grandstand for running races. It cost a pile of money. But the people wanted it, and it was provided for them. Supt. Hopkins of the speed ring, is now corresponding with the sensational racers of this season. Poultry fanciers are also given a new and modern set of coops. The old patched, battered affairs have been burned and an entire new equipment provided. The Night Horse Show, a sort of aristocratic setting for the State Fair, where $5,000 in cash will be handed to the handsomest and best horses in the world, will be given in the spacious Coliseum for three nights—Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Magnificent decorations and illuminations have been provided and the proudest horses in the west will show themselves to the prettiest women in Illinois. It is to be the fashionable event of the State Fair, and has been a pronounced success at State Fairs in neighboring states. The Chamber of Commerce, Springfield, has pledged visitors that they shall have comfortable quarters this year. Railroad rates are all right, and everybody had better go to the State Fair this year. It is a great show. The best wild west and vaudeville entertainments have been provided. Information Bureaus are located in principal hotels. No charge. Ten bands will furnish music. Sacred services on Sunday, when all the exhibits will be in place and open, but no machinery will run. The State Fair of 1909 will be stupendous—better go. The State Arsenal. Occupying a quarter block of ground, extending from Monroe to Adams streets on Second, this is one of the "show points" of Springfield. Citizens of Springfield gave $40,000 for the part of the block the State did not then own on condition that the Arsenal was erected. It seats 10,000 people. It contains the largest agricultural and geological museum in the State and is open to Fair visitors without charge. The Artistic Woman's Exhibition Illinois State Fair Splendid Dairy Products Building, Illinois State Fair The Immense Exposition Building Illinois State Fair Lincoln Monument—A Nelson's Shrine, Springfield, IL. Thousands of pilgrims visit the Tomb of Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, every year. It was erected soon after the death of the immortal War President by contributions from the different states, and cost half a million dollars. It is under control of the State, and visitors to the State Fair are always welcome. Many Lincoln relics are on exhibition. South of Lincoln's tomb is the mausoleum to the late Governor John R. Tanner, an artistic and beautiful memorial. Loans on first and second Mortgages Fire Insurance placed in any company Can Make From $5.00 to $25.00 a day It is the Best Seller That Has Ever Been Upon the Market A NEW BOOK HAS MADE ITS APPEARANCE By Giles B. Jackson and D. Webster Davis of Richmond, Va. This book is a novelty. It contains matter concerning the race never before published. It takes up the industrial, social, religious, ethological, domestic, inventive and business advancements of the Negro. One of its most important features is the origin of the Negro, why he is black and why his hair curls. Although it contains over 400 pages, with about 100 illustrations the price has been placed within the reach of all at $1.00 for board back; $1.50, cloth bound and $2.50, half morocco. Liberal arrangements will be made with agents. 10,000 are wanted throughout the country. For terms write to Giles B. Jackson, 602 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. Parties desiring to secure this book from the home office can send the price $1.00, $1.50 or $2.50 to R. T. Hill, Treasurer, 602 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. Postage 13c extra. BASE BALL 1909 Leland LOGAN SQUARES—May 9th, June WEST ENDS—June 6th, 19th, Aug. GUNTHFRS—June 5th, 13th, July ANSON COLTS—June 20th, July MILWAUKEE—June 26th, Aug. 8 After the Game Visit the Open 5324 State Street PIANOS ALL KINDS OF NEW PIANOS ON EASY PAY ... Call Before Local Branch Agent for EASY TERMS AND FRANK 3140 STATE Office Phone, 2445 Aldine Charles S Undertaker at 3249 State Street Fine Funeral Furnishing Connection. Open The Summer Schedule at 79th and Wentworth Avenue Leland Giant vs. SQUARES—May 9th, June 12th, Aug. 7th and 11th IDS—June 6th, 19th, Aug. 1st and 14th. RS—June 5th, 13th, July 31st, Sept. 12th. OLTS—June 20th, July 18th, Aug. 29th, Sept. 14th. EE—June 26th, Aug. 8th, 28th and Sept. 26th. The Game Visit the Open Air Musical Emporium 5324 State Street. Phone Went. 215. IANO ALL KINDS OF NEW AND SECOND HAND IANOS ON EASY PAYMENTS THIS MON ... Call Before You Buy... Branch Agent for Bissell, Cowen EASY TERMS AND EASY PAYMENTS BANK L. GA 3140 STATE STREET Face Phone, 2445 Aldine Residence Phone 5998 Doug Charles S. Jacks Holdtaker and Embalmer 49 State Street, Chicago, General Furnishing Goods and Linen Connection. Open Day and Night LOGAN SQUARES—May 9th, June 12th, Aug. 7th and 15th. WEST ENDS—June 6th, 19th, Aug. 1st and 14th. GUNTHFRS—June 5th, 13th, July 31st, Sept. 12th. ANSON COLTS—June 20th, July 18th, Aug. 29th, Sept. 19th. MILWAUKEE—June 26th, Aug. 8th, 28th and Sept. 26th. After the Game Visit the Open Air Musical Emporium. 5324 State Street. Phone Went. 215. PIANOS ALL KINDS OF NEW AND SECOND HAND PIANOS ON EASY PAYMENTS THIS MONTH . Call Before You Buy . . Fine Funeral Furnishing Goods and Livery in Connection. Open Day and Night. Spontaneous combustion can only occur when oxidation causes the temperature to rise to the ignition point of the material. Spontaneous combustion of the human body is impossible on account of the heat regulating effect of the 75 or 80 per cent of water contained. The enormous heat necessary to dry the tissues sufficiently would destroy life long before ignition could take place. An old idea was that the alcohol in a confirmed drunkard might promote combustion, but Liebig showed that even if the body could give off inflammable vapor and this could become ignited the body itself would not be set on fire. Man's Superiority. "Woman," exclaimed the suffragette. "Is the equal of man in every respect." "Oh, I don't know," replied a man in the audience; "it takes a man to put an angelworm on a flaskbook."— Detroit Free Press. Giants 12th, Aug. 7th and 15th. 1st and 14th. 31st, Sept. 12th. 18th, Aug. 29th, Sept. 19th. 28th and Sept. 26th. Air Musical Emporium. Phone Went, 215. NOS AND SECOND HAND MENTS THIS MONTH You Buy... For Bissell, Cowen Co. EASY PAYMENTS L. GALE STREET Residence Phone 5998 Douglas S. Jackson and Embalmer Set, Chicago, Ill. Goods and Livery in Day and Night. A Philosopher's Fable. Arthur Aull is responsible for this "Folly, Genius and Common Sense once went walking and came to a stream. Genius, having his head in the clouds, naturally started to wade across, paying no attention to the depth. The waters soon went over his head, and he was drowned. Common Sense hunted for a safe way to get across, and finally he found a foot log. As he got out about the center of the stream the log swayed, and he fell into the water and sank to rise no more. Folly stopped at the bank of the stream to amuse himself by throwing pebbles into the water and watching the waves. He sat upon the moist, cold bank until he caught a cold which developed into pneumonia, of which he soon died. Moral.—It doesn't make much difference, after all, whether you are a genius, a sage or a fool. You'll get it sooner or later anyway."—Erwahgen PATRICK H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel. Central 4009 O'Donnell, Dillon & Toolen ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1218-1219 Ashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS CHICAGO JAMES J. GRAY ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 1518 Ashland Block RANDOLPH AND CLARK STREETS CHICAGO Tel. Central 4723 Residence 57 Macallister Place Telephone Ashland 186 Office Telephones Central 1860 Automatic 5040 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW State 315-320 Reagan Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON ST& CHICAGO. Phone Main 4153 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence. Gray 5670 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 708, 171 Washington St. Res., 4856 Langley Av. CHICAGO JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR. AT LAW 320 ASHLAND BLOCK A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-06 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 to 619. Telephone Main 3077. Phone Oakland 1528 F. A. Rawlins The Modern Embalmer UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure. 4817 State Street CHICAGO Phone Douglas 1530 A Pleasant Summer Evening ARE YOU IN SEARCH OF ONE? Then Visit the "Chateau," 5324 State Street, Tonight. There is a fine Picture Show, Roller Skating, Dancing and superb music, refreshments and a jolly good time for good people. No proscription. Special prize program every Saturday and Sunday. Admission, 10 cents--one dime LELAND GIANTS' BASE BALL AND AMUSEMENT ASS'N. THE BROAD AX CAN BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS. From on and after this date, The Broad Ax can be found on sale at the following news stands: J. S. Dorsey, 116½ W. 51st St. A. F. Tervalon, a cigar store and news stand, 5004 State street. R. A. Jones new stand and barber shop, 5264 State Street. George I. Martin, maker of fine cigars, and news stand, 342 51st street, near State. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, cigars, notions and news stand, 131 W. 51st street, near Dearborn. W. S. Cole, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 384 51st street. SPECIAL DAYS AT STATE FAIR. Big Days at the Illinois State Fals this Year—Better Go. Friday, Oct. 1—Opening Day, when a regiment of "white wings" will plek up paper, lumber, packing cases and sweep and dust, burnish the brass, polish the silver and glass. Saturday, Oct. 2—The bands make their appearance, the wild west and rauville shows open their doors in Happy Hollow, racers are being accustomed to the track, fruits and flowers are grouped in artistic designs and the Alton arranges for its shuttle train service. Sunday, Oct. 3—Sacred services with music by the bands and a quartette, an eloquent lecture by an eminent orator. Exhibits will be open and ready for inspection, but the machinery will not run. Excursions for people who work during the week. Monday, Oct. 4—Children's Day, when thousands of children who attend the schools are admitted free and the best care taken of them. In all towns in central Illinois school is dismissed for this day and the children taken to the State Fair, where they obtain an intimate knowledge of the productiveness of Illinois soil. Special care is taken of the little ones. The racing begins, $2,200 in pursues being distributed. The show of handsome horses and fat stock in the Coliseum begins. Three splendid bands. Tuesday, Oct. 5- Central Illinois Day, when the different cities in the central part of the State meet their friends on the Illinois State Fair Grounds. An especially attractive racing card has been arranged, and $3,000 will be given out in pursues, including a $1,000 trot and a $1,000 pace. Five magnificent bands from the larger cities will be on duty. Wednesday, Oct. 6- Old Soldier's Day, when the veterans of the civil war will be guests of the State Board, and each one will be given a badge. Veterans of '53 who were at the first Illinois State Fair, will be received on this day, and will hold an experience meeting and tell of aud langayne. The Illinois Derby will be run, and $3,000 cash given to fast horses on the race track. The Night Horse Show will open at 8 o'clock sharp in the Coliseum. Six bands will blow. Thursday, Oct. 7- Governor's Day, when the Governor of Illinois will be the special guest of the Board of Agriculture. He will dine with the Board, look at the fat stock, the modern farm implements, the state exhibit of beautiful game birds, hold a reception and witness the races. There will be three great races for big purses-$4,000 being distributed to winners. It will also be a day for Illinois statesmen, the United States senators, congressmen and members of the legislature are expected to be present. The Night Horse Show in the Coliseum continues. Friday, Oct. 8- Springfield Day, when the shops and stores and offices in the Capitol city are closed and everybody attends the State Fair. It is a city holiday and an enormous attendance is promised this year. The Night Horse Show ends tonight with a test of jumpers, hunters and hurdlers. On the race track $4,200 will be distributed. Saturday, Oct. 9.—Automobile Day, when there will be some sensational races on the race track by dare-devil damons in goggles. THE STATE FAIR AND RAILROADS Low Rates Granted by All Lines—Cheap Excursions on Many Lines. All the railroads have made a rate of one and one-third fare for the round trip to the Illinois State Fair, October 1-9. Many of them will run excursion trains on certain days at a much lower rate than this. It is probable that there will be a rate of $2 or less for the round trip from East St. Louis, and $2.50 or $3 from Chicago. Ask the railroad agent. Amply accommodations will be provided by all lines. Talk to your neighbors. Get up a neighborhood crowd. Probably a special chair car can be obtained. Excursion parties are being arranged in this way from distant parts of the State to visit the Fair this year. The Springfield lines, Chicago & Alton, Illinois Central, C., P. & St. L., Wabash, C., H. & D., and B. & O. are making great preparations to handle the crowds quickly and comfortably. The Alton will land its passengers at the grounds. Better go. The Illinois Traction System is making a rate of less than one fare for the round trip. Better go. THE TRACTION KING OF ILLINOIS. An Illinois Statesman Who Doubles Farm Values—Friend of State Fair Central Illinois is gridironed with interurban lines owned by Congressman William B. McKinley, of Champaign. Springfield, the State Fair (Oct. 1-9) city, is the hub of most of them. Lines extend from the capital city to St. Louis to Decatur, Champaign and Danville, to Lincoln and Bloomington and to Peoria. Farm values have enormously increased on these lines. Mr. McKinley believes in the State Fair. He wants every farmer on his lines to visit it this year and has made a round trip rate of less than one fare as an inducement. As a congressman he pins his hopes on the farmer. He favors an income tax and a corporation tax by the federal government. "If we had a corporation tax years ago with its necessary publicity," said he recently, "there would be no trusts." He was mentored for United States senator in the legislature last spring, and doubtless will be a candidate when Mr. Cullem's term is out. The Dome Building. This is the colossal Dome of the Worlds Fair in Chicago, purchased and moved to Springfield by the Board of Agriculture in 1894. Its immense rotunda this year will be exclusively devoted to floriculture. The mammoth steel and glass dome, the largest in the world, requires a building 222-222 feet, and will comfortably house 100,000 people. SPECIAL PRIZES AT STATE FAIR. For Horses, Cattle, Swine and Sheep Exercise for Aristocrat In addition to the regular cash and trophy prizes of the Illinois Board of Agriculture special premiums are provided by breeders' associations and others. The horse gets most of them. The Night Horse Show provides $5,000 cash for show horses. The Percheron Society offers cash, gold medals and ribbons; the Percheron Registry company offers gold and silver medals; the Clydesdale association, gold medals; American Shire association will give silver cups and ribbons; the Belgian association, cash, gold medals and ribbons; the Saddle Horse Breeders a $100 trophy; the English and American Hackney associations, silver medals, and heavy horses bred and owned in Illinois get prize ribbons. Extra prizes are held up for Poland China, Duroc Jersey Reds, Chester Whites, Illinois Berkshires, Hampshires and Tamworths in swine. The Schuttier Wagon company give a blue farm truck for best pair of pigs. Extra prizes for sheep include cash for lambs bred and owned in Illinois, cash, for American Oxford Downs, and a silver cup for Angora goats. It pays to exhibit high grade cattle at the State Fair. Additional prizes to the amount of $750 in cash, one-half to Illinois breeders, is given by the American Short-Horn Breeders association, the Hereford association offers $300 in cash and the Aberdeen-Angus association $300. For dairy breeds the State Dairymen's association offers gold medals and cash. It pays the farmer to visit the Illinois State Fair. Better go. FOR STATE FAIR VISITORS. Accommodations for Stranger—Points of Interest in Saxonfield. or interest in springfield. The Chamber of Commerce of Springfield has taken in hand the matter of providing comfortable accommodations at reasonable rates for all State Fair visitors this year. Last year the arrangements were by no means perfect, but the pledge is given now that strangers by writing to Chamber of Commerce, Springfield, can obtain comfortable rooms at reasonable prices. Of course, if a stranger applies to persons he meets on the street, unknown to them, they may be gouged, but if they, will report this to the Chamber of Commerce the gouger will be severely disciplined. Information bureaus will be found at hotels. Springfield offers many objects of interest to State Fair visitors and all can been seen without charge. The Lincoln Monument and Lincoln Home, Tanner Mausoleum, Capitol, Arsenal, Temple of Justice, Camp Lincoln, Governor's Residence, Old State Capitol, National Cemetery (Old Camp Butler), Carnegie Library, Y. M. C. A., Masonic and Odd Fellows' Buildings, Country Club and half a dozen beautiful parks. Upon application to Secretary J. K. Dickerson, Springfield, a free ticket to the State Fair this year will be sent to every person who visited the first State Fair, in 1853. These veterans will meet at some convenient place on the Fair grounds on Wednesday of the Fair, and talk over old times. It promises to be one of the features of the 1809 State Fair. Over fifty already have registered their names, several from Texas and other distant points. There will be ten bands of music at the State Fair this year. Neighborhood excursion parties are being arranged for the State Fair this year. This is a most satisfactory and desirable way to visit the Fair. McHenry county, on the Wisconsin line, and Williamson county, near the Ohio river, are arranging parties. The center of the monster Dome building will be devoted exclusively to flowers and plants this year. It will be a dream of beauty. The state display of game birds alone is worth a visit to the State Fair. Dairy Products Building. This extensive building. 62x152, in north of the Dome and is devoted to milk, cream and butter, honey and bees. The University of Illinois conducts a daily demonstration of butter making with sanitary appliances Cream tests will be made here and patent milkers exhibited. A REMARKABLE RECORD. During the past fifteen years, since the Illinois State Fair was permanently located at Springfield, it has given, principally to the people of Illinois, over a million dollars more than it received from the State in appropriations. It has handed out in that time $1,831,332.17, of which $538,685 went for premiums. For the same period the legislature gave the State Board of Agriculture $796,383.78, principally for permanent buildings. The value of the present State Fair site is over one million dollars, including the 160 acres upon which it is located. It belongs to the State as long as the State Fair is held there. This is a remarkable showing for the This is a remarkable showing for the State Board of Agriculture. THE MUSEUM S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent allowed Safety Deposit Vault REAL ESTATE As agent buy and sell Real Estate on cond dents, including payment of taxes and loo on Chicago Real Estate.' Especially Invites the patron Office Phone, Douglas 727 E. JAC FUNERAL 2959-61 STATE Branch: 1310 Bingha Fine Carriages for Hire M. F. I Plumbing, G Sewe 4740 STATE STR Recent allowed on Savings Acc Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT Rell Rea Estate on commission, manages estate payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Estate.* Finally Invites the patronage of Chicago business m e, Douglas 727 Res. Phone, Doug E. JACKSON GENERAL DIRECTOR 59-61 STATE ST., CHICAGO Branch: 1310 Bingham St., Pittsburg, Pa. Marriages for Hire to Parties and Wedd F. F. LYNCH Building, Gas Fitting Sewerage STATE STREET, CHICAGO owed on Savings Accounts Vaults, $3.00 per Year ESTATE DEPARTMENT state on commission, manages estates for non-resi- ses and looking after assessments. Money to loan the patronage of Chicago business men. 727 Res. Phone, Douglas 1856 JACKSON MAL DIRECTOR ESTATE ST., CHICAGO Bingham St., Pittsburg, Pa. For Hire to Parties and Weddings LYNCH , Gas Fitting and Beverage STREET, CHICAGO 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year As agent buy and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates for non-residents, including payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Money to loan on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. Office Phone, Douglas 727 Res. Phone, Douglas 1856 Fine Carriages for Hire to Parties and Weddings M. F. LYNCH 4740 STATE STREET, CHICAGO TELEPHONE DREXEL 3633 --- BARTLETT L. E. BARTLETT & S Real Estate ing, Loans and Insur Street L. E. Bartlett BETLETT & SON Real Estate loans and Insurance Chicago J. S. BARTL Real Renting, Loans J. S. BARTLETT & SON Real Estate Renting, Loans and Insurance 5126 State Street Chicag NQTARY PUBLIC Telephone Oakland 1061 This splendid structure 225x326 feet, was erected about ten years ago, but was entirely inadequate to accommodate the throngs of people. An extension was added six years ago, and it now comfortably seats about 6,000. A magnificent Night Horse Show will be given within its walls Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights. It is used to display horses and fat stock. ILL1NOIS GAME EXHIBIT. State Game Warden Wheeler Will Exhibit Beautiful Birds and Fowl. Immediately east of the broad road at the main entrance to the Illinois State Fair Grounds, during the State Fair, Oct. 1-9. State Game Warden Wheeler will display a score of varieties of pheasants, grouse, quail and other game birds which his department is propagating on the State game farms. Waterfowl in many breeds and other "animals with wings" will form part of this matchless exhibit. The bright plumage of the birds, the distant countries from which they were imported and the certainty that they will soon be plentiful enough in Illinois to serve as delicate morsels for the palate, make this one of the prettiest sights and most interesting studies on the Illinois State Fair grounds. They are protected by law under heavy penalties for several years. the State Warden of vari- quail and depart- ate game needs and will form it. The the dis- sney were that they in Illi- linois for the pre- ting stud- grounds. w under Rutter went out and carried through his plan on his own judgment. The re- sult was highly satisfactory. Rutter became president of the Central. Up to Snuff. A man in workman's garb one day called at a local dentist's, and the door was opened by a maid. Workman—Is the gent in that draws teeth? Servant—No, sir, but I expect he will be in shortly. Workman (pausing on doorstep)— Does he give gas? "Yes." "What does he charge?" "One dollar." The Official Goat. "Your wife doesn't seem to care much for that friend of yours." "No. He's the man I lay the blame on when I'm detained downtown."—Philadelphia Post. --- --- Estimates Given J. S. Bartlett The Coliseum. Prompt Attention to Jobbing L. E. Bartlett Commodore Vanderbilt discovered in James H. Rutter, then in the employ of the Erie railroad, a man he believed the freight department of the Central needed, says the Baltimore News. It is related that some time after he took charge of the Central's traffic office Rutter called on the commodore to submit a plan for improvement. When he had stated the case the president looked at him sharply and asked: "Rutter, what does the New York Central pay you $15,000 a year for?" The reply was, "For managing the freight traffic department." And then the commodore said, "Well, you don't expect me to earn your salary for you, do you?" "What-one dollar! Do you mean to say, miss, a fellow's got to swallow over 1,000 feet of gas to have one tooth pulled out? No fear. I reckon I knows a bit about it, for I work down at the gas works myself. I'll go to another dentist and have it pulled out without gas."-Exchange. Chicago HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob Feinberg Wholesale and Retail MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets JOHN J. BRADLEY Real Estate Loans Fire and Plate Glass Insurance 4709 S. HALSTED ST CHICAGO Good Colored Tenants Always Appreciate Colored Tenants Always Appreciate Good Colored Tenants Always Appreciated AND TREATED ACCORDINGLY Stove Heated Flat ve Heated E Stove Heated Flats TO SUIT EVERY MAN'S INCOME I am no Agent. I R You will save many a if you MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL Samuel Richards Telephone Main 2133 (Plea Agent. I Rent only my own F you will save many a weary step when you want a Flat if you first call on me. LOAN ON REAL ESTATE OR PERSONAL PR Richardson, 142 La Salle Main 2183 CHICAGO Room 1, OTIS B (Please cut this out) Lou Phone Oakland 1767. THE RAILROAD INN Ported and Domestic Wine Liquors & Cigars Cafe in Connection Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, American Brick Co. Agent and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLI MANUFATURERS OF Lemon and Sewer B Office and Yards: In and Robey S Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Telephone Yards 12 I am no Agent. I Rent only my own Property You will save many a weary step when you want a Flat if you first call on me. MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE OR PERSONAL PROPERTY Samuel Richardson, 142 La Salle Street Telephone Main 213$ CHICAGO Room 1, OTIS BLOCK (Please cut this out) THE RA Imported and Liquor Cafe N. E. Gerner Fifty-fifth - American President and Treasure Vice-President MANU Common and 45th and Yards running w with the latest i Output of Winter Yards Output of Summer Yards Telephone THE RAILROAD INN Imported and Domestic Wines Liquors & Cigars Cafe in Connection N. E. Corner Fifty-fifth and Armour Avenue, Chicago, IL. American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Output of Winter Yards ..... per day Output of Summer Yards ..... per day THE CONTINENTAL NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO ```markdown ``` --- Frank H. Lewis, Prep. Telephone Yards 693 s Always Appreciated ACCORDINGLY ated Flats not only my own Property my step when you want a Flat call on me. STATE OR PERSONAL PROPERTY 142 La Salle Street MAGO Room 1, OTIS BLOCK (at this out) ROAD INN Domestic Wines & Cigars Connection Armour Avenue, Chicago, IL. Brick Co. THOMAS CAREY. JOHN SHELHAMER, MARY, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. TURERS OF Sewer Brick and Yards: Robey Sts. and summer, equipped[ vived Wolf Dryer. Yards 128. FULL Weight That's merely honesty City Weightmaster Certificate PROVES IT QUALITY COURTS Is the Bearer of REAL Saving-Get it We match the BEST at the cost of the other kind. WHOLESAIL RETAIL MINES AGENT CHARLES R. PRICE CO. RAIL YARDS CHARLES R. PRICE CO. 800-222-8288 W. 43rd St. MAINSTATE FUR GUARANTEE. Owner: Charles With Each Lead, 2000 Pounds To Each Ton. Lou Golden,Mgr.