The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX Some Afro-Americans Residing in the 37th Street Block on Forest Avenue. And on Other Streets and Avenues East of State Street Fail to Cut the Grass on Their Front Lawns. And to Keep Their Property Up in First Class Shape. One Section of the Red Light District Has Been Transferred to Calumet Avenue. Vol. XIV Some Afro-Americans siding in the Block on Fo And on Other Streets and Avail Fail to Cut the Grass on And to Keep Their Property One Section of the Red Light ferred to Calumet Avenue On the eve of passing up Wabash ave, for the present, and moving on further east, it is interesting to note that there is one fancy rooming house on Wabash ave., between 31st and 34th streets, it is run by a sporting Colored lady and low white women or female cats, hang out in this house and are kept on tap for Colored men, many Colored men who work hard for their money—some earning it by cuffing boots on the Pullman cars and in cleaning up and polishing shoes in white barber shops and so on and who really need every dollar they earn to pay their honest debts and to support their families—spend much of their money with those white, female strumpets who hang out in that fancy rooming house. One tall society queen residing on Wabash ave., who would delight to pass for a real white lady if she only could, exclaimed a few years ago that "she could not risk her reputation to visit Colored people living on Armour ave., or Dearborn street, no matter how respectable they claimed to be, but at the present time this same society queen feels highly honored to reside right in the midst of fancy rooming or sporting houses on Wabash avenue. It was our pleasure the past summer to stroll up and down Forest ave., four times and as many times on the other streets and avenues East of State street, on which the majority of the Afro-Americans reside, our object in making these tours of inspection sometimes late at night, was for the sole purpose of verifying the numerous reports, in relation to the actual condition of affairs as they really exist among the Afro-Americans living in that section of this city and the half of what we beheld while rambling around can never be dished up in the columns of this paper, for if we would do so, single men and married women and married men and single women, would pump out of the east side of this big town at the rate of one thousand each day. It was noted by us while walking around on the east side, that some of the Afro-Americans residing in the 37th block on Forest ave., and on other streets and avenues thereabout, have utterly failed to have the grass on their front lawns cut one time this summer, some of them living in the 34th block on Vernon ave., imitate them in this respect and the result is that the grass on what should be their beautiful front lawns, has grown up to seed with the weeds and in many places being burned out by the heat from the scorching summer sun and receiving no water nor other attention whatever, the grass on their front lawns has become yellow like unto corn folder. One Colored lady who is away up in high toned society and who did not know us from Adam's off ox, declared in our presences that "it was no matter if she did own a beautiful home on Forest ave, she had never paid out any money to have the grass cut in her front yard, when she resided on Armour ave, and that she would not pay out a cent to have it cut on For- est ave., many other Colored people who until recently lived on Dearbore street and Armour ave., now holding forth on the streets and avenues over East, gave expression to the same sentiments and as a consequence their front and rear yards are frightfully disgusting to behold. Aside from permitting the grass and weeds to grow up rank in their front yards and some of them being too lazy or too proud to cut it themselves, they also take no pride in beautifying their homes and in every way they fail to keep their property up in first class shape, which seems to indicate that they are absolutely devoid of esthetic taste, or high ideals and that they have no use for their fine homes, except to eat and sleep in them. Less than four years ago not more than three or four Colored families resided on Calumet ave., between 35th and 37th street, and the nice brown stone front houses on either side of the street were occupied by a respectable class of white people and not for one minute would they permit a "disorderly house," to flourish within those two blocks, but today not more than one or two white families live on Calumet ave., between 35th and 37th street and all their former lovely homes have fallen into the hands of Colored people—the having full sway on that street in every respect, and it is an everlasting shame and a burning disgrace to make this statement, nevertheless it is true and it sadly reflects on the moral advancement of the Negro namely, within those two blocks right now several "disorderly houses" are running at full blast, and there are also one or two good "time houses" within those two blocks, where old sports, come in contact with young girls buy them bottled beer, hug and kiss them and start them on the downward road to ruin and degradation. One of the "disorderly houses," it is claimed is conducted by a white lady and each evening after business is over down in the Red Light District and the fancy houses closed up for the night, she has the low white women, who are not engaged with sporting white men, to come to her house on Calumet ave., where they meet Colored men, and they spend the remainder of the night in drinking beer and cheap whisky and in having a high old time. Since one section of the Red Light District, has been transferred to Calumet avenue, between the blocks mentioned; the police with the red wheeled wagon, have within the past six months made several raids on the street and carted away men and women who had been arrested for disorderly conduct. It is up to the property holding and decent Colored people, on Calumet avenue, to rise up in their might, and drive the lewed characters, both black and white from that district bounded by 35th and 37th streets so that their neighborhood will be just as respectable and inviting, as it was when it was inhabited by the whites, who moved away and made it possible for them to reside in first class, sanitary homes. (To be continued.) CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 18, 1909. ALFRED R. PORTER The popular and painstaking Clerk of the Appellate Court, whose legions of friends are already booming him to make the race for City Treasurer of Chicago in 1911. "For four years the Niagara Movement has struggled to make ten million Americans of Negro descent cease from mere apology and weak surrender to aggression, and take a firm unaltering stand for justice, manhood and self-assertion. We are accumulating property at a constantly accelerating rate; we are rapidly lowering our rate of illiteracy; but property and intelligence are, of little use unless guided by the great ideals of Freedom, Justice and Human Brotherhood. "As a partial result of our effort we are glad to note among us increasing spiritual unrest, sterner impatience with cowardice and deeper determination to his men at any cost. "Along with undoubted advance and development within, there continues without unceasing effort to discourage and proscribe us. We not only travel in public ignominy and discomfort, but at the instance of some of our weak-kneed leaders, the Inter-State Commerce Commission has recently sought to make a pitiful apology for this disgrace. "Our right to work is questioned not only by some who are attempting to fight the great battles of labor, but even by those very people who declare us fit for nothing else. "We are glibly told to deserve before we complain; yet those of us who do deserve are proscribed along with the least by men who know that ability and desert come oftentend through freedom and power. Such power we must have: Political power, Economic power, power of Mind. We had enough political power to rebuke the President who blundered at Brownsville and was too stubborn to say so; we still have enough power to rebuke the President who proposes to turn competent black men out of all positions which any white man wants. We have this power now but unless we use it we shall lose it. Our organized enemies seek to scare and vilify us while they despoil us. We have fewer criminals than our systematic training in crime warrants; yet we are daily pictured as thugs and murderers and lynched without trial for the crime of any scamp who blacks his face." "Peonage and prejudice are used to keep our wages low and education is proposed to fit us only for menial service. "Do men forget that the wages of white Americans cannot permanently rise far above the wages of black Americans, and do they not know that the half-drunken senator who can today slap a black laborer's face may tomorrow kick white laborers down stairs? And yet who too often lead the fight against us? Poor and ignorant whites spurred on by the richer and more intelligent who hide behind the mob and fatten on its deeds. Small wonder that Negro disfranchisement is practically coincident with those regions where white ignorance, political fraud and murder are greatest. "That black men are inherently inferior to white men is a widespread lie which science flatly contradicts, and the attempt to submerge the Colored races is one with world-old efforts of the wily to exploit the weak. We must therefore make common cause with the oppressed and down-trodden of all races and peoples; with our kindred of South Africa and West Indies, with our fellows in Mexico, India and Russia, and with the cause of working classes everywhere. "On us rests to no little degree the burden of the cause of Individual Freedom, Human Brotherhood, and Universal Peace in a day when America is forgotting her promise and destiny. Let us work on and never despair because pigmy voices are loudly praising ill-gotten wealth, big guns and human degradation. They but represent back eddies in the Tide of Time. The causes of God cannot be lost. ALDERMAN MICHAEL McINERNEY PRONOUNCES THE CONCRETE FOUNDATION On Armour Avenue and Dearborn Streets From 51st to 47th Streets, Good and Sound. Early on Friday morning Alderman Michael McInerney, in company with the writer, inspected the concrete foundation recently laid on Armour Avenue and Dearborn Street, from 51st to 47th Streets, by the Burber Asphalt Company, and he pronounced the foundation good and sound and of the standard thickness, six inches. Alderman McInerney feels proud of the part he has played in assisting to bring around the improvements of the South Side streets and especially the streets in the 30th Ward and the Town of Lake. Hon. William Dillon, member of the law firm of O'Donnel, Dillon & Toolen, Ashland Block, returned home the first of last week from a two months' vacation trip to his old home in dear old Ireland. Mr. Dillon is looking well and greatly enjoyed his journey across the briny deep. The Hyde Park Improvement Protective Club at Its Annual Meeting. ELECTED NEW OFFICERS FOR THE COMING YEAR PASSED STRONG RESOLUTIONS IN FAVOR OF EXPELLING OR FORCING THE NEGRO. TO MIGRATE FROM THAT ARISTOCRATIC SECTION OF THE CITY. SHERMAN T. COOPER, WHO RENTS PROPERTY TO COL-ORED PEOPLE ON ARMOUR AVENUE AND OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY ELECTED ONE OF THE DIRECTORS. TWO HUNDRED PROPERTY HOLDERS IN WOODLAWN ORGANIZED THEMSELVES INTO A CLUB AND AGREED NOT TO SELL THEIR PROPERTY OR, RENT HOUSES TO NEGROES. AND TO USE EVERY MEANS TO DISCOURAGE THEM FROM LOCATING AMONG THEM. REPUBLICAN MUNICIPAL JUDGE SHERIDAN E. FRY, BRANDS THE NEGROES AS "UNDESIRABLE" CITIZENS AND JOINS THE MOVEMENT AGAINST PERMITTING THEM TO LOCATE IN WOODLAWN. THE COLORED PEOPLE OF HYDE PARK BEING WROUGHT UP TO A HIGH PITCH OF EXCITEMENT WILL HOLD A MEETING THURSDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 23RD AT ST. PAUL'S BAPTIST CHURGH 5540 LAKE AVENUE. PARKER H. SERCOMBE, EDITOR OF "TO-MORROW" MAGAZINE WILL BE ONE OF THE MAIN SPEAKERS. The members of the Hyde Park Improvement Protective Club celebrated its first anniversary and at the same time held a meeting last Thursday evening at Boulevard Hall 47th street and Grand boulevard and after strong talks had been delivered by H. C. Davis, president of the club lawyer Francis W. Harper, W. H. Moore, C. B. Spencer and a few other dung hill statesmen, against permitting decent Negroes to buy any kind of property in Hyde Park or to live within one thousand miles of them, the following officers were elected for the coming year: President, H. C. Davis; first vice president, G. W. Varney; second vice president, W. H. Moore; third vice president, W. B. Costello; secretary, R. J. Murphy; treasurer, C. H. Spencer. Dr. N. C. Kemp, T. A. Collins, A. L. Howard, Daniel Dufferin, S. T. Cooper Murray, Wolback, C. E. Desmond, Wilmore Alloway and Major A. W. Allyn were elected directors. It will be noted that Sherman T. Cooper, who was born and raised in Ohio, and who owns much property on Armour avenue near 50th street, which he rents to Colored people and who was opposed to paving either Dearborn street or Armour avenue, because he felt that those streets were plenty good enough for "Niggers" to live on them even if they were full of mud holes and in an unsanitary condition was elected one of the directors. Resolutions were passed after the election of officers in favor of boycoting the merchants in Hyde Park if they persist in selling their wares to the Colored residents of that district and those mutton-headed, braying, long-eared donkeys labor under the impression that if the storekeepers adopt such a course, they, with No.50 Improvement Club at Its An- ing. FOR THE COMING YEAR SOLUTIONS IN FAVOR OF NG THE NEGRO. RISTOCRATIC SECTION OF RENTS PROPERTY TO COL- OUR AVENUE AND OTHER ELECTED ONE OF THE HOLDERS IN WOODLAWN LVES INTO A CLUB AND L THEIR PROPERTY OR, EROES. S TO DISCOURAGE THEM NG THEM. JUDGE SHERIDAN E. FRY, S AS "UNDESIRABLE" CITI- MOVEMENT AGAINST PER- CATE IN WOODLAWN. OF HYDE PARK BEING GH PITCH OF EXCITEMENT. HURSDAY EVENING SEPTEM- L'S BAPTIST CHURGH 5540 EDITOR OF "TO-MORROW" ONE OF THE MAIN SPEAK- the aid of the real estate agent will in time force the Negro to migrate from that aristocratic section of the city. Francis W. Harper, who poses as a white livered republican and who either looks or acts like a long-haired, blood and thunder, backwoods statesman, declared in his running off or foaming at the mouth, that "he had succeeded in securing the pledges of the great majority of the white real estate owners and agents, not to sell nor rent property to Negroes in blocks wholly occupied by white persons that the business of his club is to prevent Negroes from settling in white neighborhoods, and to prevent them from buying property in white districts and holding it for a bonus; that some of the Negroes have become extremely arrogant; that the editor of a Negro paper had told him that the Negro race will be obliterated by inter-marriage with the whites, that is what they are striving for." Such rot and dead rats! The editor of a Negro newspaper did inform Mr. Harper a few weeks ago to the effect that "thousands and thousands of the best white gentlemen in the South are assisting with all their might and main to bring forth thousands of half white Negro children each month in the year and at the rapid rate that the white gentlemen are turning out bastard white-Negro children that a thousand years from now there will be no Negroes in the Southland for they will all be absorbed by white gentlemen who strain at a gnat and gulp down a whole camel. In sum and substance these were the expressions of the Negro editor while talking to Mr. Harper, respecting the inter-marriage of the races. (Continued on page 2.) WILL preeminence and at all times upheld the true principles of Democracy, but Cathedral, Protestant, Priest, Inside, Single Taxa, Republican, or anyone the contrary, the contrary, the language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad An is a newspaper whose pages are used and for all, over claiming the editorial right to speak its own words. JULIE S. TAYLOR, Matter and Publ- liter. "Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 10, 1902 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 8, 1979." AN OPEN LETTER TO A REPUB LICAN MUNICIPAL JUDGE Hon. Sheridan E. Fry, 6330 Champlain Ave. City. Dear Sir: I trust my deep interest in the subject matter of this letter may plead my pardon for thus addressing you. I very much regret the appearance in the daily papers of this city a few days ago of an article in which you were mentioned with others in connection with an organization known as the Hyde Park Improvement Association From what I am able to gather from newspaper reports this organization has as one of its primary objects the removal from and exclusion of all Colored persons owning property in Hyde Park as being undesirable citizens. I first wish to say that I am surprised at the attack that is being made on members of my race by your and similar organizations. It is not only grievously unfair, but is wholly inconsistent with the spirit of fair play of which the American people boast. Until your organization gave utterance to its opposition to members of my race owning property, it was generally presumed that all fair-minded persons looked with approval upon the efforts of that man who was striving to provide a home for himself and family. You should realize, sir, that such efforts are irresistable in a community like ours, noted for business energy and "progressive impulse." I do not know how many of the good citizens of Hyde Park subscribe to the restricted meaning you apply to the term "undesirable citizens," but it stands to the everlasting shame of your association to give to this phrase a low and an unholy significance that the author of it was fair and noble of spirit to even contemplate. Those of any race or people who are thoughtful enough to save their earnings and acquire property, represent the best among them. You have nothing to fear from such citizens. They are interested in everything that works for the betterment of the community, and take a just pride in the paying of their taxes and assessments and in beautifying their homes. These considerations, it appears, find but slight favor with your organization, when the Negro is involved. The proudest boast of this country is that here the humblest citizen is given a square deal, and the scion of the hovel may aspire to any station in life to which his talents entitle him. Merit and worth is the measure for all races except the Negro. When you come to consider him, his color counts for more than intellectual fitness or moral worth. Have you ever asked yourself, "How would I have felt, should my aspirations for the bench have been measured by some mere physical characteristic"? The standard of the man in any race is not thus to be measured. It will, perhaps, avail but little, with your organization, to call your attention to the achievements of my race since emancipation or to cite instances of their marvelous progress. The struggle upward from slavery has been a trying one. We have had much to contend with that has not confronted other races. But by a sort of vis inertia, we have been able to stand and grow and develop in harmony with the civilization into which we were suddenly plunged. This fact alone is enough to entitle my people to more favorable consideration from those who boast their superiority. At this time when race agitation seemed to be in a quiescent state, when the feeling between the races in our city is most cordial, your organization seeks to arouse race hatred and antipathy. When men are engaged in this unworthy calling, where, pray, is their sense of justice? How long will a few men who are blinded by race prejudice continue in the dangerous work of trying to make one race despise another? The thoughtful, fair-minded men of every race should discourage such a propaganda. The position taken by your association is not only unwarranted and unfair, but is antagonistic to the spirit that has heretofore prevailed in our city. We are citizens of the United States and are proud of the State in which we live. It is the duty, and I can assure you that it is the aim of the better class of my people to make themselves worthy of their citizenship. We condemn lawlessness and viciousness not only in our race, but in every race. We stand ready and willing to assist any individuals or associations to rid our community of "undesirable citizens" based not upon color, but upon moral fitness. Our homes are our castles and we are willing to go to any reasonable extent in assisting the good citizens of our community in protecting not only our own, but all others from invasion by lawless and unworthy people. I trust, sir, being as you are, one of our judges before whom we must present our claims for justice, both for ourselves and our friends, that we may discover that newspaper account to which I have referred does not represent your sentiments toward a class of citizens who are striving to merit your good will and who have shown their good will toward you by assisting in electing you to the position you now occupy. I am, with much respect, Yours very truly, Walter M. Farmer. THE HYDE PARK IMPROVEMENT AND PROTECTIVE CLUB. (Concluded from page 1.) but it seems that he is too much of a man o caward to state the truth in relation to that conversation. President H. C. Davis, W. H. Moore and C. B. Spencer were among the other ratters at the meeting and they put themselves on record in favor of segregating all the Negroes in Hyde Park, into one district and to provide separate schools for them and none but Negro teachers to instruct them and they declared that it is only a "question of time when there will be separate schools for Negroes throughout Illinois." Who said rats and race prejudice? Under the influence of these same men a new club was organized last Saturday evening in Woodlawn at 6512 Cottage Grove avenue, and 200 property holders in that district assembled together, and decided to discourage as much as possible the settlement of Negroes among them. The new club will work in connection with the Hyde Park Protective Club. Municipal Judge Sheridan E. Fry, who is a red-het Republican, is in sympathy with the alms and objects of the club, and he made the leading speech at the meeting, in favor of keeping out of that neighborhood, what he terms, undesirable citizens; meaning the Negroes. The actions of the members of the clubs referred to, have wrought the Colored people in Hyde Park up to a high pitch of excitement and on next Thursday evening, September 23rd, they will hold a meeting at St. Paul's Baptist Church, 5540 Lake avenue. Parker H. Sercombe, editor of To-morrow Magazine, and A. L. Williams, will be among the speakers and they will make the fur fly in every direction. CHATEAU GARDEN RINK NOTES. Still the crowds continue to gather at the Chateau Gardens. Only a few more warm evenings left to enjoy the open air. Take advantage of them now. Visit it, the Chateau, tonight and have the time of your life. The game Sunday at Auburn Park, 79th and Wentworth avenue, between the Leland Giants and the Anson Colts promises to be one of the best games of the season. Go early and get a seat and avoid the rush. After witnessing the game visit the Chateau and meet your many friends. Don't forget the great contest Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Chateau, between the South Side and West Side boys. The prizes of $10, $5, $3 and $2 will be awarded the winners Sunday eve. Go early and get a good seat in the balcony. Miss Effie Simmons has returned to her home in Washington, D.C., after spending a very pleasant week at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Shanklin, 6004 St. Lawrence avenue. 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 BACKING BEHIND THE OLIGARCHY CHAPTER III. The real backing behind the oligarchy controlling the States of the South, when disclosed, may be plainly seen to be the machine, the shell, the "loaded dice," not the masses of the people. It is a characteristic of the cunning and shrewd "democracy" to speak of itself as "the South.' Let it be seen right here what part does the "democracy" consume of this scope of space and breadth of area they pretend to fill. The State of South Carolina is a "shining" example. The "democracy" of the State of B. R. Tillman sent to the Congress in the election of 1902 its entire delegation of seven members upon a combined "democratic" vote of 29,343. The total vote returned for all candidates was 32,185. The white voting population is 130,374. The total voting population of the State is 228,325. The fact is evident from this showing that the white vote of South Carolina is not in evidence as supporting the oligarchy in this State. There is a "taking to the woods" of the masses of whites, to say nothing whatever of the Colored voting population that is cowed down and terror stricken into voiceless pathos. Might a Colored man dare to speak for his rights under the Constitution of the Republic in a State where it is not dared, except to meet the assassin's bullet, for the white editor of a great daily newspaper to cry out against a dishonorable condition and as equally bad state of deviltry leadership? This situation is quite sufficient to halt the self-respecting citizen of the North from allying himself with a "democracy" South such as lives and has its being in South Carolina. If "Democracy" means that the people shall rule, then what is the "democratic" party in South Carolina. The editor who dares to become the defender of real democracy must be borne to the tomb. The voter who may cast a ballot to establish republican government is counted out. The republican who dares to speak out for it is "an enemy to the South" and "a foe to white supremacy." The whole vote of the "democracy" degenerate State of South Carolina, for all electoral tickets in 1900, was but 50,815. Mississippi leads the van of the oligarchial governments of the South and her "fostered son," Hon. John Sharp Williams, seated himself in Congress in 1902 upon a vote of 1,433. No opposition—of course not! Who would oppose anything or anybody "democratic" in Mississippi? One Mississippi member "broke into congress" in the election of 1902 with the mere handful of 1,146 votes. Of course this was all that was "necessary." The entire delegation from the State of Mississippi was elected to Congress upon a combined vote of 18,058. This State has a white voting population of 150,922, the total voting population being 349,179. From "democracy" to oligarchy, from oligarchy to Vardaman is the Mississippi situation. What a condition! The great State of Alabama may challenge comparison with these two States, perhaps, for the oligarchy has done "what it could" for "white supremacy." The total number of males of voting age in Alabama is 232,294 whites and 181,471 blacks, making, in all, 413,862 Alabama's oligarchy polled, in the gubernatorial election of 1902, 67,649, "democratic" allots for governor and there is a vote of 24,190 accredited to the republican candidate. There were 2,980 Colored citizens permitted to register and participate in this election. As compared with the congressional districts in States of the North, the Southern method is an easy road to Congress when traveled by the oligarchist representative. In the Xith Ohio district, represented by Mr. Grosvenor, there were 42,611 ballots cast for both candidates for Congress. This is only 24,233 more ballots than were required to elect the entire Mississippi delegation. Mr. Grosvenor received 28,124, while it required only 1,433 votes to seat Mr. Williams. Mr. Cannon, of the XVIIIth Illinois district, received 22,941 ballots in 1902, while his democratic opponent received 15,254 ballots, and the probibition candidate in Mr. Cannon's district makes a showing of 1,166 ballots. The prohibition candidate appears to lead Mr. Williams in getting out his followers to the polls. In the Xth Indiana district, represented by Mr. Crumpacker, the vote for all congressional candidates, in 1902, was 46,158 or 13,973 more ballots than were polled for the entire South Carolina delegation. Thus it does seem that the real backing behind the oligarchy of the States of the South is not such an entitle the leaders of this regime to arrogate to themselves the spokesmanship for "the South" and to assume to themselves the speaking of public sentiment of and for the actual South. The bourbon "democracy" of the South, with its "white supremacy" shell, is but a whited sepulchre of political pretension. It may endeavor to whitewash itself without, but within it is full of the decayed bones of a secession "democracy" and the tainted garments of a corrupt oligarchy. Posing as the keepers of the ark of the covenant of "white supremacy," these oligarchists have usurped the government of the States of the South from whites and blacks. The bourbon regime finally took the loaded political black belt dice with which to encompass the overthrow of the uprising of whites in rebellion against the "democratic" machine. The movement of this political despotism is now Northward. To the Southland the oligarchy has accomplished its height of political oppression. Its despotism is supreme. Popular government is here buried in the mire of bourbonism and only a Vardaman could pile on more political filth. Shall rights of men of the North be further invaded and encroached upon and become, sooner or later, so poisoned with political pollution as has become the South? The apportionment prior to the civil war, conceding to the South three-fifths of the slave population to be counted in the representation basis, then made three slaves South equal to five whites North in the general government. The present status of the oligarchists is the usurpation of the representation of all blacks and a majority of whites and the leaders of the minority regime of force and fraud, while denying the suppressed vote any voice in the government of the States, insist upon it as right that the North should permit the oligarchists to misrepresent this immense population in the affairs of the republic. The Negro is taxed, but is not a voter in state or national elections. The "democracy" claims that it would be taxation without representation to cut down "the South's" representation in the general government! Is it that these leaders of this reprehensible condition believe that they can fool part of the North all the time? How long will the patience of a patriotic people, who gave to the nation a Lincoln and a Grant, be so trifled with. The method by which the "democratic" oligarchy fastens its hold upon the "democratic" machine in Alabama, and the other Southern States, is the basing of the representation in conventions of the party and in the Alabama legislature upon an apportionment embracing the disfranchised blacks in the black belt counties, and thereby prohibiting the control of the party or the legislature by the white counties of the States. Tallapoosa county, in Alabama, with a white registered vote of 4,006, has only two members in the House and one-half senator, it requiring a district of this and one other white county to name a senator, while the black belt county of Lowdnes, in the same congressional district, with a white registered vote of 1,001, has two members in the House and one State Senator! There are not more than twenty-five registered Colored voters in Tallapoosa county and only about fifty Colored registered voters in Lowdnes. In "democratic" conventions in Alabama Tallapoosa county has seven votes and Lowdens eleven. Thus it is apparent how and why the strength and the supremacy of the black belt oligarchy, even within the lines of the boasted party of a "white supremacy." (To be continued.) COMMENDS THE WORK OF THE BROAD AX. Chicago, Ill., Sept. 15, 1909 Julius F. Taylor, Editor of The Broad Ax. 908 Armour Ave. City My Dear Sir: I desire to congratulate you on the fight you are making upon social conditions as they exist in certain localities of our city. I have always been a stauch admirer of your paper and the many fights you have made in your efforts to save the race from itself, and it might be well wished that we had many more such men as you, who would hew to the line regardless of who the chips strike. Your life proves that you have not remained silent when it was essential to speak out. You have reminded both the pulpit and the pew of the importance of leading straight and upright lives. You have pointed out to the preacher the danger of his "appetite," whether that appetite had a tendency to drunkenness or the spoiling of virtue by flaunting their immoral conduct in the faces of their congregation, or whether it evidence itself in ill gotten gain. You, sir, have been man enough to show up these ministerial cohorts of vice and crime who depend not upon their work, but rather more upon the skill of their corruption. You, sir, have turned the searchlight upon their saintless, smiling faces, behind which there is no conscience and whose priestly robes are stained and polluted with immorality. These same divines are now loudly crying "Hollier than thou," but, sir, this cry of virtue is but a sham and a vain attempt to stifle their own cowardly conscience and in their effort to besmirch the character of others, who refuses to be used by them. But permit me to say, they are not bringing to themselves any substantial power nor permanent good, but instead disappointment and mortification, which is the common fate of a vaulting ambition overleaping itself. They will find in the ultimate end that their apparent success is but a "barren scepter within their grip, thence to be wrenched by unlienial hands, no son of theirs succeeding." And in closing permit me to say continue the fight which has now become a part of your life's work, until the arrow of truth shall have penetrated the very vitals of dishonesty and the perpetrators be made to cry out as did another sinner of the same type, over 1900 years ago, "Lord, what shall I do to be saved." Yours with respect, A. N. Fields. ROUT RESORT NEAR SOUTH SIDE CHURCH. Members of the investigating squad of the Dogulas Neighborhood Club who attended the opening of a new alleged disorderly resort at 3435 South Park avenue appeared as the accusers of Marie Walsh when s.e.w was summoned before Lieutenant Hanly at the Thirty-fifth Street Police Station and told to leave the neighborhood within five days. The two investigators—S. P. Wilson, 3232 Vernon avenue, and W. H. Rogers, 3241 Vernon avenue—told Lieutenant Hanly of their visit to the Saturday night, when they obtained the evidence which they reported to the police and to Rev. M. C. Hartzell, president of the club. At a saloon on Thirty-fifth street the two men met Marie Walsh and another woman. The women urged them to go to a new place they had just fitted up. The investigators consented and were conducted to the house, which is less than two blocks from the South Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. "I have just bought this house and have most of the furniture in," explained the Walsh woman when they were inside. "It cost me $8000 and I have it all paid. I have another place at Twenty-second street and Wabash avenue, but it is just a cheap place. Can't we have a drink?" Mr. Wilson purchased two bottles of beer from the housekeeper. When these were empty Mr. Rogers was called upon to buy. It was the first sale in the house, the owner assured them. When the two men confronted the woman who had showed them her new home with so much pride at the police station she burst into tears and promised to sell her property and leave the neighborhood. The investigators say it is their intention to keep up the campaign against vice until every disorderly resort in the Douglas boulevard neighborhood is driven out—The Chicago American, Sept. 16, 1909. NEGROES AND PROPERTY VALUES. Chicago, Sept. 4.—(Fditor of The Tribune.)—Let me tell you my experience with Colored neighbors. I have a six flat building on a good residence street on the South Side, next to which was an empty house, and by some hook or crook a Colored family with four children of their own and who entertained other Negroes lavishly got hold of this house, in spite of the efforts of neighbors to prevent it. Before these Negroes moved in I averaged $60 per month for these apartments and all were rented. Now three of them are empty and for one of the others I get $30 and the other two $25—and glad to get it. The neighborhood has changed completely in less than a year. The well to do white people left the block as if a plague had struck it. How would you like to have a large Negro family, with all that means, move in next to you or next to property owned by you? Why do they want to go where they are not wanted? Colored people have no business in exclusive white neighborhoods, and I am sure you will agree with me, and with the many others who read the letter in question with the utmost indignation. I am by no means the only property owner who has cause to feel bitter on this subject. One Colored family in a block means a depreciation in values of 50 per cent—you know this.—R. H. Green.—From The Chicago Tribune, Sept. 10, 1909 DEATH OF MRS. JAMES E. THOMPSON. Mrs. Nancy Newland Thompson, wife of the late Rev. James E. Thompson founded and Rector of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Earnestine B. Smiley, 229 E. 22nd St. Tuesday morning Sept. 14th at 7:15 The deceased was born in Curryville, Mo., Jan. 25th, 1856 and has resided in Chicago for the past twenty-nine years. She was of great assistance to her husband in his early religious work among the Colored people of this city. Seven children survive her, namely, Wm. P. James de Koven, Creighton, and Miss Hazel Thompson, Mesdames Rosa Harden, Earnistine B. Smiley and Florence Woodward. The funeral services were held Friday morning at eleven o'clock at St. Thomas Episcopal Church. Messrs. C. H. Smiley, Mr. Curd, Casius King, F. A. Rawlins, Wadsworth Holmes, and Maj. Jno. C. Buckner, served as pall-bearers. There were many beautiful floral tributes from relatives and friends. Rev. J. B. Massiah officiated. Interment Oakwoods Cemetery—"T." GRAND CONCERT. Thursday, Sept. 23, 1909. Midland Jubilee Concert Co. Bethesda Baptist Church, Four Eminent Soloists Grand Opera Oratorio and Plantation Miss Marguerite Field, soprano. Miss Caroline Dixon, contralto. Mr. Richard Waren, Tenor and Instrumentalist. Admission—Adults, 25c; Children. 15c. Concert at 8:15 p. m. Rev. Martin Pastor. : CHIPS Miss Lucy Lindsay, 4110 Calumet avenue, is visiting her nephew, Mr. Thomas Motts, in Milwaukee, Wis. Dr. E. Leigh, who has been spending his vacation in the city, will return to Boston Thursday to complete his course in pharmacy. Mr. W. R. Sobers, 5606 Lake avenue, entertained a party of ten ladies at dinner Monday evening in honor of Miss Effie Simmons of Washington, D. C. Mr. Samuel W. Thompson has given up his legal residence here and purchased a "bungloo" in Los Angeles, Cal., where, with his wife and two children, he will reside permanently. Miss Dr. Dillon Watson, who spent her vacation in the city, will return to Dennison, Texas, where she will take charge of the Ransom Pharmac. Mrs. Grant Gardner, Grand Haven, Michigan, spent the last two weeks in Chicago, where she resided for a long time. She returned to her Michigan home Monday. Frank H. Lewis, head boss of the Railroad Inn, 51st and Armour avenue, is very popular with the railroad men and they liberally patronise his Buffet with their friends. a Rev. L Nu Daniels, located at rora, Tit, where he has charge of the A. M. E. Church, was in the city Monday, and after this coming Con- ference h¢-may be transferred to Chi- cago. = Mrs, Nellie Phelps, 131 W. srst St, and her fittie son and daughter, Mas- ter Harold and Miss Clara Phelps, with a few friends, made a pleasant trip to Aurora on Thursday. The party all greatly enjoyed the outing. ‘Mrs. Béward 8. Miller, 8642 Wab- ash avenue, left Thursday evenins on) a two weeks’ vacation trip with friends at Danville and Winchester Ky., where she spent her girlhood days. Manager Ches. P.Williams of the! Jubilee Company, is visiting his rela- tives im the, south, and making final preparations for his two year's tour of the European countries with his company of entertainers. They will sail on or about the gth of October. ‘Mrs. C. Weston Miller and sister, Mrs. Cora Williamson, have returned to their home, 7114 Champlain avenue, after a wisit of three weeks in the east. They are very much in love with New York, Philadelphia and Atlantic City, N. J. Mr. R. A. J. Shaw was forced to cut his vacation short and return home to the bedside of his sick son, who is now improving in health very nicely. Mr. Shaw was in Baltimore, Md, when he receivéd his summons to return home. ‘Miss Gretchen Crowder of 3544 State street, has returned to the city after s pleasant visit to friends and relatives in Springfield Ohio, ‘Miss Evelyn Liverdose, of New Or leans, is the guest of Miss Bernice Hawkins. ‘Mrs. Booker T. Washington passed through the city Friday evening last where, with her son, Booker T., Jr. she wiill visit the Fair at Seattle, and other interesting points efore taking up hher arduous tasks as an instructor and Girector in the work at Tuskegee Insti- tute—"T.” . Dunn and Hight, owners of the “Budwiser,” 6050 State Street hbeve their English chop house and chop suey cafe running in first class shape, and their patrons and the public in im general will find that it is te right place to get on the outside of good eatings. Rev. T. A. Clark will leave Wedues. Gay morning to attend the A M. E Conference at Moline Til Rev. Clark ‘will be the proper preacher t~ be se lected to carry on tle missionary work in Ciicago. He stands well ‘with its citizens both white and Col- ored. Mr. Henry Hardy of Erie, Pa, is visiting his brother, John W. Hardy, of 6250 Sangamon street, who is president of the North Fork Coal & Iron Company. Mr. Henry Hardy will remain in the city for ten days, in or- der to meet Rev. R. B. Hardy, B. D.., of Charlottsville, Va, who is enroute there for a reunion, as these three brothers have not met for thirty-five years. There will be likely something Steam Meated Fiate for Rent. We have for rent 7room steam heated fiats, 3882-7834 and 3836 Wab- ash svenue. All hardwood trim and floors. Janitor service, Wm. D. Neighbors & Co., 95 Washington St, Phone Central 4266. SeSS of tha Chiemsee. fm the Revue d'Hygiene Dr. Male gmon, who lived for many years is 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 eaters of eggs, which they take bard boiled. One finds them in all the roadside places for refreshment. The Celestials hare an expression, Eggs of & bundred years.’ The eggs are not always a century im age, but one is ‘able to get them of many years’ stand- ing. The Celestiais have a preference for the egg of the duck or goose. They are placed with aromatic berbs in gaked lime fer a period, the minimum time of trestment being five or str weeks. Under the influence of time ‘the yoke Jiquefies and takes « dark green color. The white coagulates and becomes green. The product of the jeges, which bes 2 strong odor, from which @ stranger ‘Detakes himeeif jquickiy, the Chinese eat as hors and it ts said to have the ‘taste of lobster.” : An Ecttash | tm the churchyard of Leigh near Bolton. will be found = tombstone bearing the following amazing sen- tence: “A virtuous women is Se. to her besbend.” The explanation seems to be that space prevented “a crown” argced that 2 crown equals 5 shillings. —Lenadon Notes and Queries eee ae. (Pmwee Grates aces JoehnJ. Dunn wuroe HCOALC mee lGvop Pitty-Firet 81, and Armeonr Ave. Rom Wenner Sosa heer ee, CHICAGO eel Dorsey’s “| WHITE ROSE Petrolatum Per Chapped Wands, Fees and Lips KINGSTON PHARMACY WV Seine mre, tieg ur turnsto Putty ond Bacereny - DR. A. WILBERFORCE WILLIAMS ampounces the Removal of bis office to a Street SalteA (CHICAGO, FLL. Hours 10 to 12 m., 2 te 5, 6:30 te &:30 ‘AND FRIERDS WILL GE CORBLALLT RECEIVED . Phose Aldine 2208 Bee sees ‘Tel. Cobumet 3221 Dr. M, J. Brown Physician and Sergeon 2701 Dearborn Street, - CHICAGO Hours: 10 te 12 mi 2004 Tt dpm EQUAL PAY FOR BOTH RACES. Georgia Arbitration Board Against Seniority of White Firemen. ‘The award of the Georgia railroad strike arbitration board. which was egnnounced a few days ago, is against the sentority of white fremen over Negroes and provides that the Georgia railroad when using Negroes as fre- men, hostiers or hostiers’ helpers shal pay them the same wages as whites men in similar positions. Arbitrator Hardwick dissented from this. Firemen tn the line of promotion to the position of engineer must bave three years’ experience before being Promoted to the position of engineer ‘and are to be promoted in the order of their seniority. If they refuse or fail to pass the first examination they will be reduced to freight service without losing their seniority. Failing on the second examination, they will be re @uced tothe bottom of the extra list or disposed of as the company desires. Firemen now in the service who are physically incapacitated for service ) Will not be subject to this rule. ‘Mr. Hardwick in 2 dissenting opin- fon from the proposition fixing Ne- grees’ wages the same as those of ‘Whites sald: “In so far as the above finding per- mits the continued employment of Ne- gro fremen I dissent because I believe from the evidence that such employ. ment is 2 menace to the safety of the traveling public.” ‘The arbitrators, chosen as a result of the recent strike of the white fire men. were ex-Secretary of the Navy Hiftary Herbert for the road. Congress man Hardwick for the white fremen and Chancellor Barrow for the Negro eeiieae Bishops’ Case Dismissed. Five bishops of the African Metho- ist Episcopal eburch, who complained to the interstate commerce commiaxion some time ago that they were discrim. fmated agdinst by soutbern railroads and by the Pullman company fn trans portation. dining car and sleeping car facilities, have been informed by tbe commission that their complaint was Bot warranted. ‘The bishops are Wesley J. Gaines. HL M. Turner, Evans Tyre. C. 8. Smith and F. W. Lampton. Most of the com plainants and their witnesses testified that they actually did ride on sleeping cr. It ts held by the commission tn tts Gecision that. undue discrimination or prejudice was not shown, and the complaint, therefore, was dismissed. Political Independence. ‘There is a growing spirit of inde pendence among the younger element of Negroes, which is a bopeful sign of the future for the Negro politjcally. ‘The tendency of our fathers to pose 88 martyrs to the cause of the G. O. P. ‘while white demagogues in that party had working agreements with their political opponents which enabied them to swap votes for certain offices, sing the Negro as a pawn in their Gesperate game, will not be so pro- Bounced in the future state and ne- tional campaiges. Tbe young Negro ts going “to. play ball” when the political season opens again, and be will certainly make some political leaders sit up and take notice. Ne gross are slow but apt scholars Race Question Sidestepped. ‘The prevailing opiaion that Prest- Gent Taft bas sidestepped the Negro question seems to be not wholly with- vat foundation. Well, the race that ean stand 250 years of the most dem- ‘able bondage thet ever cursed « Fees ont eee See Capea oe. survive the perSdy of a poittica! party. Se i ae ee ee races. He will not disappear, reports ‘Detwita- ‘The Gouching Been. ‘To the ordioery bousemaid the fal img of a bouse plant into « vislent paroxyem of coughing ts naturally isconcerting. Yet there are plants ‘which will do this when the broom or the Guster begins to make dust fy. ‘This singular plant is the “coughing Dean,” known to the botanist as the ‘Butada,tussiens. It is a native of ‘Warm and moist tropical countries and ‘cannot and will not stand Gust. Whes ust settles upon the breathing pores 4m the leaves of this plant and chokes ‘them & gas accumulates inside the leaves and when it gains sufficient ‘strength forcibly “blows off.” clearing the pores of dust and making a sound exactly lke coughing. At the same time the leaves trembie and the plant ‘Sctually “gets red in the face” through the sinking of the green chlorophyll grains and the appearance of red par ticles on the leaves. This plant ts Sometimes used as a bouse pliant. and ‘Sweeping the room sets it coughing. to the intense astonishment of persons wet familiar with its peculiarities- ‘Leadon Chronicle. aid Far the Kies, Lerd Northcote was coce made curt ous use of while governor general of Australia. says Londes M. A FP. Streil- {ig one sight through an. avenue ef somber trees to a friend's house to Ginner, be was suddenly pounced upon by a maidservant, who kissed him ef- fusively and pressed a little parcel into ‘Bis band. “Here's « sausage for you ‘Ican’t come out tonight, as master bas company,” she whispered and as mys teriousty disappeared. When be got to the house be found one of bis servants loitering by the gate. “What are you doing there?’ asked Lord Northcote. “I'm waiting for my sweet- beart.” the man stammered. “Where isabe?" “In service bere.” “Ab, then, }1 am right Here is a sausage from your sweetheart. and she wishes me to tell you that she cannot come out to night, as ber master bas company.” Seeing that the man looked nervous, be added kindly: “She also gave me a kiss for you. but perhaps you would rather wait until you see ber. Here ts Gabillings instead” Round About Derkine. ‘The neighborbood of Dorking. where George Meredith lived. bas many liter ary associations independent of tts connection with that famous novelist It was at Burford Bridge, sear Dor King. that Keats completed “Eadym fon" in November, 1817; close by. at the Rookery, was born Father Mab thus, the popular economist, and. ai West Humble Frances Burney. after ber marriage with General d'Arbiay, built Camilla cottage with profits of her novel of that name and settled Gown. Sherifan resided at Polesden and John Stuart Mill at Micklebam. while other illustrious residents tm the eae on To and Daniel mest peeia Somers cis cuncticmmean sociation of Dorking ts with Dickens, for was it not at the Marquis of Grap- by’s, variously identified with the White Bart and the Old King’s Head. that Mr. Weller, Sr., wade the fatal blun- Ger of proposing to a “vidder?"—West- minster Gazette. Enalich Difficult te Proncunce. ‘The dificuity of English for stran- gers does not lie in its orthography, but in its pronunciation. Abroad peo- ple will constantly say that they cap read and write English readily, while unable to utter a word or to under- stand 2 word of the spoken language, as, of course, vice versa, a great many English and Americans can read and write French long before they cap un- derstand or make themselves under- stood. The other languages are just as difficult for them to pronounce as Enzitxh ts for others. The only dif- ference ts that English stands alone with its system or lack of system of provunciation. When a Frenchman ‘knows bow to write German be is at the same time able to speak the lan- guage, if not beautifully. at least so as to be understood. The same holds for a German speaking French—Pro fessor Albert Schinz in North Amert- eon nero } ‘The Battle of the Nations. The conflict called the “Battle of the Nations” was the battle of Leipsic. 1 was fought on Oct. 16-18, 1818, be ‘tween the soldiers of Russia. Prussia. Austria, Sweden. Denmark and Hol land, under Schwarzenberg. on the one side, and Napoleon's army of allies, on ‘the other. It was one of the greatest battles of modern times. A balf mi- Yon of men were engaged. and the casualties on both sides were 94,000. It resulted in overwhelming defeat for Napoleon and the liberation of Ger- many. Troops from every nation of Europe participated tm it, hence the “Battle of Nations.” Charles S. Jackson Undertaker and Embalmer 3249 State Street, Chicago, I. mine Coukecion. Opes Dey and Might 7 Over the Limit. Husband (reading from bis paper)— ‘Here, they say. is 2 comet coming to- ward the caryh. traveling at the rate of 2 million/miles a minute. Wife (awaking from « Gose}—Why don't they enforce the speed laws better? Baltimore American. eee»... | BASE | BALL 1909 ) Leland Giants , Loean SauAREe sey wo Joe $25 sZt ee eae ree tek’ ath; Duty, Siet Sent. et ANSON COLTS—June 20th, July 18%, Aug. 20th, Sept. 19th. / MIL WAUKEE—June 20th, Aug. Sth, 2sth and Sept, 20th, pier the Game Visit the Open Air Musical Emporiem. *” §8@h @tate Strect. Phone Went 20 It Makes « Difference. Te Lever’s “Charles O'Malley” the Dero’s boast while on his way to s |@uel, “I can break the stem of 2 wine- (giass at fifteen paces,” was met by bis friend and mentor with the comment “Yes, but the winegiass hasn't « pib tol to ite hand.” Feu || ‘They used to say I was @ man with 'e foture” ‘ “and now?” “Now they re’r to mo a8.2 man ‘with a past’ Wish I could have s present once.”—Cleveland Leader. PATRICK H. GODONNELL WILLIAM DILLON ’ CLARENCE A TOOLEN . ‘Tel, Gawtre! se09 O'Dannell, Dillon & Teplen ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1218-1218 Ashland Sieck RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS CHICAGO Rat te le 5 og ee ES Bs WM. D. 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Dunn Proprietors George Hight Ghe 66 = 99 Budweiser 5050 Sta.e Street, Chicago English Chop House Ghop Suey and All Chinese Dishes Served in the High- est Culinary Art by a First Class Chinese Cook. The After Theater Parties will find the “Budwiser,” The Proper Place To Enjoy A Delightful Repast, and all Patrons will be served by Polite Attendants. A Pleasant Summer Evening ARE YOU IN SEARCH OP ONE? ‘Then Visit the “Chateau,” 6224 State ‘Street, Tonight. There is a fine Fhe Sng Roller Skating, Dancing and ‘music, refreshments and a jolly good time for good people. No proscrip- tion. Special prize program every Saturday and Sunday. _ Admission, 10 cents—one dime LELAND GIANTS’ BASE BALL AND AMUSESIENT ASS’N. PIANOS ALL KINDS OF NEW AND SECOND HAND PIANOS ON EASY PAYMENTS THIS MONTH «++ Call Before You Buy... Local Branch Agent for Bissell, Cowen Co. EASY TERMS AND EASY PAYMENTS FRANK L. GALE ia, 3140 STATE STREET ‘THE BROAD AX CAN SE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS. From on and after this date, Ths Broad Ax can be found om sale at the following news stands: J. 8. Dorsey, 116% W. Sist St. 4 F. Tervalon, a cigar store an® news stand, 6004 State street. R.A. Jones new stand and barber shop, 5264 State Street. George L Martin, maker of fae @ gare, and news stand, 342 Sist street, Rear State Mra. Nelle Pheips, cigars, notions jand news stand, 131 W. ist strest, ear Dearborn, W. & Cole, cigars, tobacco ant ‘Bows stand, 364 Sist strect, & R Poters, cigars, tobeces, lems dry office and news stand, 338 Sit street, %. B Hall, iaundry office, cignss, tobacco and news stand, 282 20 street. | Mrs. Jas. H. Lewis, nations, cigars and news stand, 419 36th Street - B. Davis, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2632 State strest, BD. Dat, cigar, notions ot Rows stand, 3696 Stato strect WML Maxwell, notions, cigars, > ee Sete eC a Chee SPECIAL DAYS AT STATE FAIR. Big Days at the Illinois State Fair this Year—Better Go. Friday, Oct. 1—Opening Day, when a regiment of "white wings" will pick 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 raindeville shows open their doors in Happy Hollow, racers are being customized 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 productivity of Illinois soll. 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 lang yne. 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. 6—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 prob- able 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. Ample accom- modations 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 Stateman 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. 1-8) 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 pound trip rate of less than one farm 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 mentioned for United States senator in the legislature last spring, and doubtless will be a candidate when Mr. Cullom's term is out. 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 norticulture. 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 Extras for Aristocrats. EXTRA FOR ARTICULATES. In addition to the regular cash and trophy prices 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 Chinaj Duroc Jersey Reds, Chester Whites, Illinois Berkahres, Hampshires and Tamworths in swine. The Schuttler 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 Strangers—Points of 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 be 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 1909 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, is north of the Dome and is devoted to milk, cream and butter, honey and bees. The University of Illinois conducts a daily demonstration of buttermaking 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 $1,831,321.17, of which $388,685 went for premiums. For the same period the legislature gave the State Board of Agriculture $796,833.78, 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 State Board of Agriculture. THE MIDDLE STREET 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 Rea Estate on cond dents, including payment of taxes and loc 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 Sew 4740 STATE STRE Recent allowed on Savings Acc Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT Well Rea Estate on commission, manages estate payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Estate. Finally Invites the patronage of Chicago business 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 E. 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- ness 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 Rea 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 E. JACKSON FUNERAL DIRECTOR 2959-61 STATE ST., CHICAGO Branch: 1310 Bingham St., Pittsburg, Pa. Fine Carriages for Hire to Parties and Weddings M. F. LYNCH Plumbing, Gas Fitting and Sewerage 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 NOTARY 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. ILLINOIS GAMÉ EXHIBIT.. State Game Warden Wheeler Will Ex blight Beautiful Birds and Fowl. hibit Beautiful Birds and Fowl. Immediate 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. departate game needs and will form it. The the dismay were that they in Ill- versels for the pret- ing stud- grounds. w under 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?" Rutter went out and carried through his plan on his own judgment. The result was highly satisfactory. Rutter became president of the Central. Up to Snuff "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. 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