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THE BROAD AX The Amateur Minstrel Club Last Friday Evening at the Appomattox Club Turned Over a Check for $425.00 TO S. B. JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE OLD FOLK'S HOME, 510 WEST GARFIELD BOULEVARD. THAT WAS THE NET SUM REALIZED FROM THE RECENT ENTERTAINMENT OF THE CLUB AT OAKLAND MUSIC HALL. THE REPORT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES PUBLISHED IN FULL IN THESE COLUMNS. JESSE BINGA, THE BANKER, JULIUS F. TAYLOB, MAJOR ROBERT B. JACKSON, CHARLES S. WASHINGTON AND FRANK B. WARING, CHOSEN AS A COMMITTEE TO OUTLINE AND FORM PLANS TO PROMOTE A COLORED CHARITY BUREAU FOR THE CITY OF CHICAGO. Vol. XIX. The Amateur Club Last Ring at the Club Turn Check for S TO S. R. JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE OLD POLK'S HOME, 510 THAT WAS THE NET SUM REAL TAINMENT OF THE CLUB AT THE REPORT OF RECEIPTS AND IN THESE COLUMNS. JESSE BINGA, THE BANKER, JULY JACKSON, CHARLES S. WASH CHOSEN AS A COMMITTEE T PROMOTE A COLORED CHAR CHICAGO. Last Friday evening the parlors of the Appomattox Club, were crowded with the members of the Amateur Minstrel Club and with those who had been invited to be present to witness the presentation of the check to the head director of the Old Folks Home, 510 West Garfield Blvd. Shortly after nine o'clock, Frank B. Waring, President of the Amateur Minstrel Club, started the ball to rolling by stating that after each entertainment each year the members always gathered together, generally at the home of some one connected with the club, and gave an entertainment or free doings for the edification of its friends, the members of the club going down in their own pockets to pay for the luncheon, the choice cigars and the other refreshments which they always serve; that all expenses incident upon the one evening of real pleasure is dug up among themselves so as not to touch one penny for that purpose which they realize from their public entertainments for the benefit of the Old Folks Home. At the end of his remarks he called on Charles S. Washington, secretary of the club, to read his report in connection with its last entertainment and when he had finished doing so, Howard Cornwell, treasurer of the club, was called on by President Waring to bring forth the check, and in a neat little speech he presented it to S. R. Johnson, President of the Board of Directors of the Old Folks Home. It called for $425; it was drawn on Jesse Binga's Bank, State Street and 36th Place. In accepting it in behalf of the Home, Mr. Johnson called attention to the fact that the Home was greatly in need of more money in order to make some urgent improvements. W. H. Jackson and George M. Turner were the other two speakers in the interest of the Home; the other speakers during the pleasant meeting were Jesse Binga, Julius F. Taylor, Major Robert R. Jackson, Charles S. Washington, Henry S. Anderson, A. L. McBride, R. S. Abbott and Frank B. Waring. Several members of the club sang their favorite songs, with all present heartily joining in the chorus, with David McGowan, musical director of the club, at the piano. Just before the club wound up its business for the past year and the speech making was at an end, Jesse Binga, Julius F. Taylor, Major Robert R. Jackson, Charles S. Washington and Frank B. Waring were chosen as a committee to outline and form plans to promote a Colored Charity Bureau for the city of Chicago. The first meeting of the committee was held last evening at the elegant home of Banker and Mrs. Jesse Binga, 8324 Vernon Ave. It may not be out of place to state right here that the tempting buffet luncheon and all of the trimmings was highly enjoyed by the jolly crowd of would-be minstrals. The following is the report in full of the recent entertainment given by the club at Oakland Music Hall. HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY Report of Amateur Minstrel Club— Easter Show and Dance, April 13, 1914: Receipts—Balance forwarded, $25.00; Box Office, $277.00; Programs, $14.27; Punch (by The X Club), $39.90; Ladies' Coat Room, $14.30; Men's Coat Room, $21.45; from Letters, $79.20; Tickets by Members, $14.50; Total, $61.52. Expenses—Music, $22.50; Hall Rent, $30.00; Rehearsals, $16.50; Printing, $29.35; Newspapers, $14.00; Costumes, $10.40; Stamps, $10.00; Frappe, $9.00; Coat Room Attendant, $4.50; Coat Room Checks, $1.50; Janitor, $2.75; Miscellaneous, $12.32; Total expenses, $162.82. Balance, $452.80; to Old Folks Home, $425; Balance on Hand, $27.80. The following statement is from the management of the Old Folks Home: On behalf of the management of the Home for Aged and Infirm Colored People: I wish to make public acknowledgment of the receipt of $425 from the Amateur Minstrel Club, being the net receipts of their Easter entertainment. We are grateful, not alone because it came at such an opportune moment, but also because the support given this magnificent body of men by the public shows the gradual development of the idea that Christianity and Charity go hand in hand and we are treading in the wake of the Jewish people, whose magnificent system of charities are the admiration of the civilized world. Note—We must pause for just one moment to state that The Board Ax was the only one of the three Afro-American newspapers in this city which reduced its advertising rates for the benefit of the Old Folks Home; it only charged the Amateur Minstrel Club three dollars for running its ad. in its columns seven times, which was about the actual cost for carrying it; while on the other hand the two other newspapers charged their highest advertising rate, although the affair was for charity and for the benefit of the Old Folks Home; hence the fourteen dollars for the newspapers. MAYOR CARTER H. HARRISON FAILED TO SELECT AN AFRO- AMERICAN AS A MEMBER OF HIS PERMANENT CITY CHARTER COMMISSION. By all Means He Should Confer that High Honor on the Rev. Hon. Archibald Jackson Carey. Ph. D. D. D. Mayor Carter H. Harrison has appointed the following persons as permanent members of his new City Charter Commission and, as he failed to select one Afro-American to serve on the commission, we respectfully request him to select the Rev. Hon. Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. D. D. D. as one of its members: Ald. John A. Richert, Ald. Thos. D. Nash, Ald. G. F. Harding, Ald. C. E. Merriam, Ald. J. R. Emerson, Ald. Lewis D. Sitts, Ald. John Teman, Ald. THE CONDUCTOR PROF. JAMES A. MUNDY One of Chicago's most popular musical directors; head of the Samuel Coleridge Taylor Club which will give a musical festival at Orchestra Hall, Monday evening, May 11, at 8 o'clock. MUSICAL FESTIVAL BY THE COLERIDGE TAYLOR CLUB. Orchestra Hall, Monday Evening, May 11, 1914, at 8:00. Grand May Musical Festival will be given by the Coleridge Taylor Club (of the Raymond School Social Settlement) at Orchestra Hall this coming Monday evening, May 11; 75 voices. James A. Mundy, Conductor, assisted by Mrs. Willa Sloan, soprano; Mrs. Carroll K. Dickerson, Violin; Y. M. C. A. Boys Glee Club, 25 voices; Chicago Mixed Quartette; Lily Nelson, soprano; Phyllis Woodward, contralto; Edward Borh H. E. Littler, Ald. Eugene Block, Ald. M. J. Healy, Ald. G. E. Trebing, Ald. John Haderlein, Ald. F. B. Janovsky, Ald. Ellis Geiger, George E. Cole, James Donahoe, Henry Horner, Senator Niels Juul, Senator W. C. Jones, Rep. D. E. Shanahan, Rep. S. Stedman, A. D. Weiner, John Fitzpatrick, S. S. Gregory, Angus R. Shannon, Miss C. Goggin, Mrs. Grace W. Trout, John C. Metz, George E. Hooker. "THE 9TH ANNUAL ELKS' GRAND BALL" OF GREAT LAKES LODGE NO. 43 I. B. P. O. E. OF W. One of the Real Features of the Season, at the Coliseum Annex, Thursday "Eve." May 14, 1914. On Thursday "Eve," May 14, 1914, the Colored "Elks" will give one of their unique and up-to-date affairs, for which this organization is famous, and for which the amusement-loving public has been waiting and watching for. That it will be worth the price, any one who has attended any of the past Balls of the Elks will testify to. One of the features will be a "Grand Tango Contest," participated in by all of the up-to-date exponents of this latest dance fad. The Judges will be "Lovie" Joe of the Elite fame, Jerry Mills and Charley Young. Another feature will be the grand march, led by all of the past officers. Music will be furnished by the famous Eighth Regiment Band. A number of well-known out-of-town vistors will honor the occasion with their presence, namely: Col. Jno. L. Slaughter, Milwaukee, Wis.; Col. Edward Gaither, Cincinnati, O. Included among those that will attend will all of the Colored business and professional men of the city. That Henry Jones is Chairman of the Entertainment Committee, ably assisted by the full membership of Great Lakes Lodge, bespeaks for it the unparalleled success it justly deserves. directors; head of the Samuel Coleridge-ical festival at Orchestra Hall, Monday den, Tenor; John W. Jones, Bass. Boxes seating six persons, $9.00. Tickets exchanged for reserved seats (without extra charge), at Orchestra Hall Box Office, Michigan Ave., near Adams St., on or after Monday, May 4, 1914. Prof. N. Clark Smith, for some years head chief of the famous Tuskegee In- stitute band will conduct Mr. Mundy's compositions, general admission main floor, $1.00. First row balcony 75 cents, rear balcony, 50 cents. Gallery 25. The above affair promises to be a very rare musical treat. GRADUATING EXERCISES OF THE NURSES OF PROVIDENT HOSPITAL Monday evening graduating exercises of the new nurses of Provident Hospital and Training School, 36th and Dearborn Streets, were held at the Y. M. C. A. Building, 38th Street and Wabash Avenue, and a large audience was present to witness the interesting exercises. George H. Webster, one of Chicago's most public-spirited citizens, Charles W. Cestnutt, of Cleveland, O., and Miss Sophronisba Breckinridge, were the principal speakers. Miss Maude Roberts and Mr. Hugh Buchanan, delightfully sang. The following were the graduates: Leila Martha Stubbs, Boston; Elizabeth Lillie, Cynthiana, Ky.; Yolande Marie Charleston, Rome, Italy; Chandler Battle, Wilson, N. C.; Florence Mahala Heron, Island of Jamaica; Mabel M. Hill, Cynthiana, Ky.; R. Allegra Webb, Peru, Ind.; Willie Edna De Priest, Rockford, Ill. And not one of them are residents of Chicago, which seems very strange indeed, when we come to think of it. Possibly the young Colored ladies of this city are looking for husbands or something higher and that they have no ambition to become trained nurses. F. A. RAWLINS ELECTED COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF OCCIDENTAL CONSISTORY NO. 24. The first of last week, F. A. Rawlins, the up-to-date funeral director, 4821 S. State Street, was unanimously elected Commander in Chief of Occidental Consistory No. 24, of Ancient and Accepted Scottish Right Free Masonry, of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States of America. Mr. Rawlins wears his new masonic honors with becoming modest. Hon.Frank P.Danisch,the Chief Clerk of the Municipal Court,Continues to Make a Splendid Record IN CONDUCTING THE APFAIERS OF HIS OFFICE HE IS UP-TO-DATE IN EVERY RESPECT. FORMER ALDERMAN JOHN S. DERPA AS CHIEF DEPUTY CLERK PERFORMS HIS DUTIES WELL AND FAITHFULLY AND WITH A PLEASANT SMILE ALL THE TIME. HE EXTENDS THE GLAD HAND TO ALL COMERS. ROBERT McKINLAY, WHO WAS ONE OF THE POPULAR MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF ILLINOIS IS MAKING A DANDY RECORD AS CHIEF OF THE CIVIL MINUTE CLERKS. A. H. ROBERTS, WHO HAS PROVEN HIMSELF EFFICIENT AS ONE OF THE CLERKS OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT IS STILL RETAINED IN HIS PRESENT POSITION BY MR. DANISCH. As a rule a change of the administration of an important office from one party to another, for some considerable time, is at the expense of efficient service. A notable exception, however, to this rule is the Municipal Court Clerk's Office. The Hon. Frank P. Danish was elected to this office in December, 1912. Easing a lawyer himself, as well as a public-spirited citizen, having a proper conception of the duty that a public servant owes the public, he set about to see that the standard of efficiency in the office, to which he was chosen, should not be lowered. While he felt the duty that he owed to the party that honored him with a nomination and an election he kept steadily before him his duty to the people, and made changes in the office force so gradually that no inconvenience came to the public. Each one of the department heads was chosen with special reference to ability and fitness. For Chief Clerk he selected Hon. John S. Derpa, a gentleman of splendid parts with a public record behind him of which any man might feel justly proud. Like the positions he has already filled with so much acceptance, he has performed the many duties incident to his present position, in a manner that entitles him to higher honors at the hands of an appreciative public. Recognizing the splendid talents possessed by Clayton Pickett and Chas. Krimbill, he has appointed the former as auditor and retained the latter as Chief Clerk of the Criminal department, positions that each of them held so acceptably under the former administration. Hon. Robert McKinlay, a former member of the Illinois Legislature, was appointed Chief of the Civil Minute Clerks. This was a most excellent selection. It's a position of great responsibility, for he is largely responsible for the work done in the Courts by the Minute Clerks. While he is mild mannared and courteous those under him are made to understand that their positions are more dependent upon the character of their work than the strength of their pull. Nicholas Budzban has been put in NEWSPAPER LAW. The Times at Neosho, Mo., says: "Judge James Ellison, of the Kansas City Court of Appeals, handed down the following decision in the case of O. D. Austin, of Bates County Recorder, vs. Burge, other members concurring, and published in 137 S. W. Report, p.618: 'The preparation and publication of a newspaper involves much mental and physical labor, as well as an outlay of money. One who accepts the paper by continuously taking it from the postoffice receives a benefit and pleasure arising from such labor and expenditures as fully as if he had appropriated any other product of another's labor, and by such act he must be hold liable for subscription price.'" No.33 P. Danisch, the k of the Mu- urt, Continues a Splendid OF HIS OFFICE HE IS UP-TO-DATE PA AS OHIEF DEPUTY CLERK PERF AND FAITHFULLY AND WITH A TIME. HE EXTENDS THE GLAD ONE OF THE POPULAR MEMBERS OF HOIS IS MAKING A DANDY RECORD NUTE CLERKS. TEN HIMSELF EFFICIENT AS ONE MIGIPAL COURT IS STILL RETAINED BY MR. DANISCH. charge of the Civil record room. He comes in close touch with the public. His is a trying position but he fills it in such a manner that reflects credit upon himself and the man who had the wisdom to select such a faithful and capable man for the position. Possibly the most trying position in the Municipal Court Clerk's Office is the head of the information bureau. He comes in contact with all kinds of people and handles them most diplomatically. He is called upon to speak every language and answer questions that one as wise as Solomon could not answer. Frank Venecek is the head of this department and fills it to the full. I have been in position to make the above observations and think that the public should be apprised of the splendid administration that Mr. Danisch is giving the people. He holds a position that may become an appointive one and not an elective one. Should that come in the near future I venture the prediction, on account of his splendid record, the Municipal Court bench would unanimously select him. While I am pleased to see Mr. Danisch recognizing merit above party in the retention of some White men of different political faith to himself, he has been just enough magnanimous enough, to show the same spirit in recognizing excellence in a Colored man by retaining Adelbert H. Roberts in this branch of the public service. I know that our readers appreciate this fitting recognition of merit in one of their own and will be delighted when an opportunity presents itself to show their appreciation of it in a substantial way. Mr. Danisch takes a deep interest in the welfare of the Colored people. He gave an ocular demonstration of this on the occasion of the great Douglass celebration held at Quinn Chapel last February. Being unable to attend himself he sent Mr. McKinlay, of his office, to convey his regrets and represent him as a testimony of the respect he had for the great man whose memory was being honored. "C" JENNIE WATTS BROWN GOES EAST. Jennie Watts Brown, Dramatic Reader, Character Impersonator, left Chicago for the East Monday and will make a short stay in Pittsburgh, Pa. On Thursday, May 7th, she will appear in recital at the Auditorium of the White High School Building in Kittanning, Pa., and will stop in Ohio on her return. STAG AND CABARET AT THE AP POMATTOX CLUB. This evening a stag, prize whist and cabaret will hold forth on the billboards at the Appomattox Club, 3441 Wabash Avenue. Game called at 9 o'clock sharp. Cabaret at 11:30. Each member of the club will be permitted to invite two friends. THE BROAD AX PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Inlands, Single Taxes, Republicans, or oppose them. The language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Axe is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever allowing 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.....$2.99 Six Months.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application address all communications to 6007 FEDERAL STREET, CHICAGO, ILL PHONE DREXEL 4000. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher Battered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 18. Illinois under Act of March 8, 1698. CLEAN CITY CHAPTER This is clean up week; let no one fail to observe it. It is a fortunate city where its people co-operate for civic cleanliness. The Mayor has instructed the street department to put on extra men and teams during clean up week in order that all dirt and rubbish may be promptly removed as fast as the people have it ready. In order to facilitate the work of removal, rubbish after being raked or collected together should be placed in suitable receptacles so that the collectors can handle it easily and quickly. Do not pile rubbish of any kind in the alleys; use old barrels or boxes, which can be easily emptied and used again or utilized as kindling wood. It has been calculated that starting with one fly, June 1st, allowing that it lays 120 eggs, one-half of which hatch into flies that live, and these and their progeny go on increasing in the same ratio till October 1st, that they will then have multiplied at a rate that would mean 4,353,564,672,000,000,000 flies. These figures are vouchered for as being approximately correct; at any rate they serve to illustrate the importance of a campaign of vigorous swatting early in the season and of keeping it up all the time. Once the alleys in your neighborhood have been cleaned let everybody help to keep them so. The best way to do this is for all abutting dwellers to provide proper receptacles for their rubbish and cast off material the same as they do for their garbage. Alleys are dirty because the people contribute to make them so by using them as dumping places for their filth and rubbish of every kind. The city ordinance forbid the use of alleys for dumping purposes; but as it is difficult, almost impossible to catch people at this kind of mischief, the prosecutions for such offenses are few and far between. As a matter of fact there should be no need for prosecutions; for people who want to be good citizens should not dispose of their dirt and rubbish in a way to spoil the beauty of their own and their neighbor's surroundings and to lower the health conditions of the communities in which they live. Clean up Your house Your basement Your barn Your back yard Your share of the alley and place all your rubbish where the city wagons can get it and haul it away. In one of the public schools of the city the children in a certain room were asked to tell in writing what they would do if they had one hundred dollars. Several of the pupils said they would do something to help Chicago babies, and one little girl said she would use her hundred dollars in teaching people how to take care of their children. SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH, 30TH AND LASALLE. (RED LETTER DAY.) Salem Literary, Sunday, May 10th. 3 p. m. Subject: "The Missing Link," Rev. John Harlan Jackson's master- piece on Sociology. Mr. Jackson tells who Cain's wife was. Let every liter- ary and bible student be present. A fine program in connection. Prof. Keller and others. Mrs. Butler and others. Mr. E. L. Jackson. Rev. J. E. Heywood, Pastor. Mr. W. S. Williams, President. THE ANNUAL SERMON OF COURT GEN. ROB'T ELLIOT, 7895 A. O. P.'S, SUNDAY, MAY 3RD, AT QUINN CHAPEL, 24TH STREET AND WABASH AVE. Was a Splendid Effort, and Worthy of all of its Accomplishments. By L. W. Washington. Long before the hour of assembly the people gathered, both in the Lecture room and the Auditorium of the Church, making this Institution look, to an observer, a wonderful bee-hive of activity. Veritably the first impression one received was a beautiful Human Flower Garden. For there were over 1,600 red and white and pink roses, darted now and then with a piece of fern here and there, in the hair, and every where, pinned upon the lapel of the coat of every member of the Order. Again we learn and witness that our churches are too small for so large a gathering as the society here represented. It can be said of Rev. J. C. Anderson, it was a distinguished honor to be permitted to preach to two of the most important and largest fraternal bodies in the city the same day. The people did not come to this place of worship by the musical tread of a march played by our military bands as did those of the afternoon. But rather with the aid of silence made their way to the church of God, to be retold the story of their mission, their progress and success in the great competition of Society life, and went home well paid for coming, each with a smile of pleasure upon his face. Brother Hawley: "God, indeed, has been good to us to let us assemble in this house of worship tonight. We come here to celebrate Forestry; Forestry should be celebrated, because the men and women who constitute this order believe in the principles of Robin-Hood, Concord, Benevolence and Truth and Unity, the principles which will reserve a nation. If the 1,600 members were compacted together commercially as they are fraternally, what a mighty influence we would have in civic affairs." At the close of this address the meeting became one of solemn thought, which brought vividly to the Conscience of each, thoughts of our serious study. While the choir was chanting that sacred hymn, "Rejoice Ye Servant of the Lord," and the Souls of men and women were responding to its musical notes whose vibrations traversed every corner and crevice in this beautiful structure, while the lightning flashed with electrical intensity through the windows, the raindrops trickled down the panes with peculiar ecstacy, while the peal of the organ seemed to accord with the mighty rumblings of God's thunder beyond. The relief came when Dr. W. H. Marshal and W. A. Hann sang a duet entitled "Belshazzar," that lifted you from the depths to heights of inspiration, where sighs and sorrow were forced to flee and fly. Mr. Hann's base voice was superb; Dr. Marshal's tenor surprising; that made the writer give inward but favorable expressions, with these exclamations: Prophetic, Glorious, Touching, Fine, Swell, Profound, Great. What more could I say as I listen to that melody, proclaiming these thoughts, "My heart doth plead for thee." The audience gave applause after applause when they concluded with these remarkable words, "Strike for freedom, for wife and children." After the splendid address of Mr. McIntyre the sweet singer, Miss Roberts, thrilled the audience with joy and gladness when she sang the song "Hear my prayer," giving phonetic vibrations to the melodious expressions of the voice of a Whip-O-Will when, with a very high pitch, she said, "I'd rather be a door-keeper in the house of My God than to dwell in the House of wickedness." At the treble of the organ, like his majesty the King, Mr. Hagen read "Thanotopsis." The next number Brother Downs, accompanied by Mrs. Shaffer, with a bass and tenor voice, trained, cultured, refined, sang clearly the words to these Lyrics, "Hide Not Thy Face." The name of Bro. E. S. Dortch, "This is the 23rd annual sermon of the Society General Rob' B. Elliott No. 7895 A. O. F. We have with us Brother Roan, its founder, and other Charter members. We have connected with us today Two Lady Courts with 900 members, and 600 men, making 1,500 all told. We have given for the sick this year, numbering 86 persons, $2,700; to distress members, $150; for burial of six members, $1,100. And now this great drama was about to be closed when "I heard the crashing of thunder." Methinks I see in the distance the Spirit of the renowned singer of Arabia, Haroun Haskid, very befittingly paving the way for the sermon to be preached by Rev. J. C. Anderson. His gestures made you feel that the earth was opening beneath your feet and the Elements bursting forth with a vengeance, entering into a pacific calm. Rev. Anderson's Subject was "The Divine Plan of Human Life." Text, Mieah 8th, Chapter "He Hath Spared Thee Oh Man." "Nations, my friends, have succeeded only as they have been able to follow P.K. HON. FRANK P. DANISCH The up-to-date and extremely popular Chief Clerk of the Municipal Court of Chicago THE ANNUAL SERMON OF THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS OF THE JURISDICTION OF ILLINOIS. ing their badges of recognition with a smile; the foundation, the rock upon which Pythianism rests secure from the enemies of its advancement. And At Quinn Chapel Church, 24th St. and Wabash Ave. Dr L W.Washington Last Sunday, May 3rd, 1914, was a day of events among the Pythians of this city. A day of pastime for some; a gala day for others. It was likewise to the members of the courts of Calanthe; it was a day of reflection, a day of pleasure, a day of mirth and sorrow, a day of note historically; Pythian day. Seriously considered, The Lord's Day; The Sabbath; a day of rest. A day set apart by the K. P.'s and Courts of Calanthe, known as thanksgiving day. According to the annual proclamation of the Grand Chancelor over the jurisdiction of the State of Illinois, Dr. Allen A. Westly, the following committee is due much credit: Frank L. Chittenden, chairman of the committee, Miss Josephine Polk, Mrs. Martha Cranshaw, Mrs. A. M. Hubbard, Clark P. Crawford, William Sutton and Fred D. Price, for the splendid rendition of so excellent a program, of no ordinary merit. The writer soon discovered, with a number of other persons, that Quinn Chapel Church, the largest and finest edifice of worship owned by our people in this city, was minus in its seating capacity by one half for the accommodation of the members and friends of the Order. So there was as many people standing on the outside of the church as there was inside. We are told that next year this will not be so, for the beautiful Armory of the 8th, Illinois National Guards of U. S. A. will have been built, and will be the most befitting place, the most accommodative for such large gatherings; an Ideal Place. The music for this program was under the personal direction of Mr. Ed. F. Morris. Piano accompanists were Miss Gertie F. Jackson and Mrs. Shaffer. And well may we pause for the day and lift our hats to the spirit of Unity, demonstrated here in reality, showing the true elements of Friendship, Benevolence and Truth as taught and expressed openly by the Sons and Daughters of Damon and Pythias. It was a picturesque sight and all-inspiring scene for any observer to behold. A wonderful drama of brotherly love and sisterly devotion; a lifting up of the Soul from the depths, standing it erect upon its feet: triumphing over the deliverance of an oppressed but hopeful people, to the Glory of God, the Divinity, celebrating the Pythian Period XXXV. We stood at first in the center of the gallery and saw elevated above all the rest, sitting in that half-moon pit of that sacred dome, in white, the Choir, quite angelic in its appearance. Lower down upon the rostrum, decorated with flannel trousers, navy blue coats, ornamented with beautiful braided cords, glittering insignias of gold, looking with regal splendor of a true plume Knight, was seated Major Gen. R. R. Jackson, commander of an army of uniformed stalwart abledbodied men, who are not afraid to die; 22,000 strong trained men, the equal of any soldier: the Negro Knights of Pythias. Back of him was his staff, Gen. George Terrell, Gen. Stuart D. Fowler, Gen. Clint Hill, Gen. J. Harris, Gen. Homes and Gen. Bibbs. In the foreground, to the left of the pulpit were seated Grand Chancellor Dr. A. A. Wesely, Supreme Financial Secretary of the temple Dv. department; Edward D. Green, Grand Attorney; R. A. J. Shaw, Grand Treasurer; W. Womack, and Grand Secretary William F. Elliott. To the right were seated Grand Representatives of the Courts of Calanthe: Mrs. Annie W. Fitts, Mrs. A. A. Hubbard and Mrs. Samuel M. Amos. Upon each side of this beautiful circle there were resting the pretty banners of the various subordinate lodges. And six large vases of beautiful flowers stood upon a table in the center, the contributions of the Courts of Calanthe, to be presented by Miss Josephine Polk to the recipients worthy of the days effort. And then last, but not least, covering the whole audience room, and a part of the gallery, were seated members of the subordinate lodges in their simplicity, wear- ing their badges of recognition with a smile; the foundation, the rock upon which Pythianism rests secure from the enemies of its advancement. And then we could hear the sweet tones of music coming from without, echoes of the 5th Illinois Regiment Band and the 12th Regiment Band of the Odd Fellows, playing the notes in keeping and in harmony with the tune "My Country 'Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty, of Thee I Sing." And the organs in appealing thunder tones made one feel that the very gates of heaven were open unto him. Three raps stood that mighty concourse of people upon their feet, while the Chaplain prayed, and then we said All Hail Ye Knights of Pythias, all Chicago is willing to submissive bow before thee, and permit thee to have the glory and the honors of the day. Once more the rap to silence with the gavel of authority brought forth the Choir chanting this hymn, "I will praise Thee O Lord," and as the last faint sound passed beyond the reach of our ears the Grand Chancelor arose to address this august assembly. "Two years ago we could get all of our members in this church and today we cannot get one half of them in, which shows conclusively a progressive, united people, constituting one grand united Order. It pleases me to note the advancement of the races, as we find the facts in history. That period in which man stopped or retrograted is known as the Dark Ages. But he awoke, however, from this condition and set all Europe ablaze." TUERCULOSIS FIGHTERS WILL DISCUSS NEW METHODS. WASHINGTON, May 7th: Leaders in the anti-tuberculosis campaign from all parts of the United States will assemble here this morning at the opening session of the Tenth Annual Meeting of The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, at which time it is expected that President Wilson will comment on the progress of this movement during the last ten years. Among the significant subjects which will be discussed in the two-day session, probably one of the most important will be a discussion before the Advisory Council on the question of the medical examination of employees, at which time papers will be presented showing how the regular inspection of all employees in large industrial corporations in Chicago and elsewhere has helped to increase efficiency and has proven "good business." Important topics to be discussed before the Sociological Section of the meeting include "The Family and Tuberculosis" taking up questions of childhood infection, pre-natal and early care of children, and those dealing with the school child; the difficult problem of what to do with cases discharged from tuberculosis sanatoria, with reports of investigations which will be the basis for interesting experiments to be tried in New York and Philadelphia in the employment of consumptives in the white goods trades; and the relation of public health problems, both state and municipal to tuberculosis. Among the most interesting papers before the Pathological Section will be several significant reports dealing with the most recent experiments in attempts to immunize cattle against tuberculosis. The Clinical Section of the Association will discuss some of the latest methods of the treatment of tuberculosis, particularly the use of artificial pneumothorax and other forms of pulmonary surgery. The President of the Association is Dr. John H. Lowman of Cleveland. The chairman of the various sections are Dr. Theodore B. Sachs of Chicago, Advisory Council; Dr. Louis V. Hamman of Baltimore, Clinical Section; Dr. Paul Lewis of Philadelphia, Pathological Section; and Dr. R. H. Bishop, Jr., of Cleveland, Sociological Section. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Moseley and their daughter, Miss Bertha, have removed from their home, 6248 S. Sangamon St., to 4381 Forestville Ave, where they will reside for one year at least. HYDE PARK NEWS By L. W. Washington Watch this Column The funeral of Mr. Chas. Boyd, one of the old residentors of Hyde Park, was held Friday, May the first. The church was crowded, a carriage full of flowers were also in evidence. A wife and daughter mourn him. Rev. Higgins of St. Mary's A. M. E. church, Father Macey of the Episcopal church, were present and assisted the Pastor Rev. W. H. Griffin in the exercises. As we go to press we learn that several of our boys have been arrested for stealing bicycle wheels. We will say more about this next week. The missing wheel of Dr. Perkins is the cause of their arrest. Mr. J. E. Spurlock of California is here on a visit. He was highly entertained by Mrs. Charley Johnson at their residence, 4940 Dearborn St. Mr. Spurlock is stopping, at present, at 5244 Dearborn St. Their many friends would be pleased to know that Mr. Johnson and Mr. Spurlock were the first Colored head bellmen at the Chicago Beach Hotel. Mrs. Albert Brown and daughter is now a resident of Hyde Park. They are living at 5462 Kenwood Ave., with Mrs. Martins. The services of Hyde Park was well attended last Sunday. The collection was good. Rev. Reed, the blind singer and preacher, received $8.00 in and after collection, which shows that the hearts of the people are in the right place. Last Sunday was rally day at St. Paul's Baptist Church. Their services were well attended. Mr. William Johnson has returned to the city from Cairo, Ill. Mr. Tom Daniels, after being in the Pullman services for several years, has returned to the city again and has occupied his old position as third waiter at the Windemere hotel. We are glad to know that Mr. Fred Wells is out again after having a slight operation at Provident Hospital. Miss Hassie Goldsmith and Mr. Geo. Wilson were united in matrimony last week and now reside at 5624 Lake Park Ave. Mr. Goode, the popular head waiter of the Windemere hotel is receiving many congratulations for the well conducted department in his care, both from the guests and management. NEGRO DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE TO MEET IN CHICAGO ON JUNE 10. W. T. Scott, president of the Negro State Democratic League, headquarters in this city, was authorized by the executive committee composed of two members from each congressional district, to call a conference of the league and friends to meet Wednesday, June 10, at Chicago, for the purpose of considering and discussing the different candidates for United States Senator, Supt. of Public Instruction and State Treasurer on the Democratic ticket and transact other business of importance for the coming primary election in September. W. T. Scott, editor of the Springfield Leader, a Colored Journal, is the national committeeman of this state of the Colored National Democratic League of which Bishop Alexander Walters, of New York, is president. Mr. Scott stated in an interview that there are 20,000 Negroes who will vote in the Democratic primary election in this state and they will be a large political factor in deciding who will be chosen to lead the Democratic host to victory in the November election.—The Register, Springfield, Illinois, May 3, 1914. WHY EDITORS GET RICH A child is born in the neighborhood; the attending physician gets $10. The editor gives the loud-lunged youngster and the happy parents a send-off and gets $0. When it is christened the minister gets $10 and the editor gets $00. It grows up and marries. The editor publishes another long-winded flowery article and tells a dozen lies about the "beautiful and accomplished bride;" the minister gets $10 and a piece of cake and the editor gets $000. In the course of time it dies. The doctor gets from $25 to $100; the undertaker gets from $50 to $100; the editor publishes a notice of the death and an obituary two columns long, lodge and society resolutions, a lot of poetry and a free card of thanks and gets $0000. No wonder so many editors get rich—Ex. Mr. and Mrs. Vance Anderson have removed from 5156 Wabash Ave., to 4333 Forestville Ave. THE DEATH OF MISS AGIE HARRIS The mother and father of Agie Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd, live at 3750 State St. This young woman unfortunately had her head nearly severed from her body last Sunday. She was, we are told, a widow but had an infant five months old, left without a mother's care. The young man who had been allowed the courtesy of her presence, slew her, taking no thought of that innocent babe. "The young men and women may take the warnings of Solomon when he said, 'Bread stolen in secret places is good, but know ye not that the dead are there?''" She was buried in Lincoln Cemetery, Thursday morning, by Rolly Green, the undertaker, 3832 State St. She was killed at 3838 State St. The murderer is still at large. None seem to find him. THE FUNERAL OF MRS. MAMIE BURR, AT EBENEZER BAPSTE CHURCH, WAS LARGELY AT TENDED. Tuesday funeral services were held over the remains of Mrs. Mamie E. Burr, who was one of the most prominent church workers in this section of the West, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, 35th and Dearborn Streets, and almost two thousand people in all walks of life turned out to honor her memory. All the Baptist ministers in and near Chicago, occupied seats in the pulpit, Rev. J. F. Thomas and others importing words of consolation to the remainder of her family and sorrowing friends. MRS. J. GRAY LUCAS, ONE OF THE POPULAR SOCIETY QUEENS, BECOMES ONE OF THE CITY CENSUS ENUMERATORS. Mrs. J. Gray Lucas, 508 E. 36th Street, was this week selected by Mayor Carter H. Harrison as one of the City Census Enumerators. Mrs. Lucas has for years been one of the social queens among the select 400, which composes the cream of the Afro-American race in this city, and her host of friends feel highly confident that she will ably discharge the exacting and responsible duties in connection with her new position. FRENCH RING BODY RECOGNIZES JOHNSON. Paris, May 7.—Jack Johnson is now recognized as the heavyweight champion pugilist here. The French boxing federation, the principal authority in ring contests in France, which for a time refused to recognize him, to-day accepted his claim to the title. The management of the fight between Johnson and Frank Moran of Pittsburgh which will take place on June 27, has been assumed by Theodore Vienne, a prominent member of the boxing federation. CHIPS CHIPS Mrs. John J. Taylor and her little son J. W., Jr., of Cincinnati, O., are in the city visiting Mr. and Mrs. Oliver W. Hatfield, 4522 St. Lawrence Ave. Dr. Joseph A. Kelly, 36 W. 35th St., continues each day to look after the wants of his many patients and at the present time he is side-stepping the political game. Rev. Father Theobold, the only Afro-American Roman Catholic priest residing in St. Paul, Minn., will conduct the 9 and 11 o'clock mass at St. Monica's church, 36th and Dearborn Sts. Sunday morning, May 10. A Missouri woman advertised and secured a husband. The ad cost her $2.00. The husband had been a soldier in the Spanish-American war, and he died the other day and left her $3,000 life insurance; besides, she will get a widow's pension from Uncle Sam. It pays to advertise. Attorney William G. Anderson returned home. Tuesday noon from his second trip to Washington, D. C., where he had spent ten days in the interest of the District of Lake Michigan Land Association. He has removed his law office from 143 N. Dearborn St. to 108 N. Dearborn St., fourth floor. Miss Nellie Callaway, 3300 Rhodes Ave., to the regret of her many friends, has been confined to her home with illness the past week, but she is much improved at the present time and she expects to be able to attend the May musical festival at Orchestra Hall, Monday evening, May 11. Last Friday it was impossible to stop the printing press long enough to note the fact that Dr. Stork, on that date, presented Col. and Mrs. Franklin A. Denison, 5413 Calumet Ave., with another fine baby boy, and in time, the new arrival expects to succeed his father as Col. of the 8th regiment. The following Bargains will be OPEN FOR INSPECTION from 3:40 P.M. Daily. Be sure and see them. 3228 Calumet Avenue, brown stone front, newly decorated, 2-flat; rooms all light, large brick barn, near 33rd Blvd.; good transportation. 523 East 36th Street, newly decorated, 3-flat; lot 50x150, two street frontages, hardwood floors. This is a decided bargain. See it to-day. For special appointment to see any of our several hundred bargains, phone our Mr. Thomas between 10:30 and 12:00 A. M. Buy from Bartlett's and save commission charges and save money. TITLES ARE ALL GUARANTEED. FRED'K. H. BARTLETT & CO., Owners, Chicago's Largest Real Estate Operators, Merchandisers of Real Estate PHONE RANDOLPH 3751. 59-69 W. WASHINGTON ST. CHIPS Where there is no hope there is no endeavor. Rev. Father Daniel Croke, who succeeded Rev. Father Edward A. Kelly, as pastor of St. Cecilia's Roman Catholic church, 45th St. and 5th Ave., possesses such a broad Catholic spirit that it forbids him to look upon any person on account of the color of their skin or nationality. Father Croke is doing good and lasting work in his parish. The New York giants played a double header last Sunday, winning both of the games—4 to 3 and 10 to 7. Had a large crowd, the weather was fine. Paleo hurt his leg Saturday and Gatewood had to take his place, playing right field and kept up his hitting reeord, getting 3 sharp singles and a walk. They will play the Cubanitan next Sunday. Joe Williams is getting along fine and is as happy as a kid. It was announced a few weeks ago, in the columns of the greatest weekly newspaper in the world, that on July 4 all the Colored men and women working for the United States government at Washington, D. C., would be discharged, but as an offset to that piece of wild-cat news, last week the United States Senate confirmed the nomination of Robert H. Ferrell for one of the judges of the Municipal Court of that city. He had been highly recommended for the position by Attorney Gen. McReynolds, who hails from Tennessee, and President Wilson put one over on Senators Hoke Smith, James K. Vardaman and Company, who bitterly opposed the nomination of Judge Ferrell, simply on account of the color of his skin. FIVE BOOM MODERN FLAT TO RENT. Nice five room modern flat to rent; newly decorated. 5025 Federal Street. SPECIAL NOTICE All parties having social or personal items or other matter for publication. Such social items and so on must reach the editor not later than on Thursday morning, prior to the Saturday the articles are expected to appear. Write plainly and on one side of the paper only. Personal or social items and short church notices, will be published free. If you have friends visiting you, or if you are going on a visit out of the city, or move from one section of the city to another, or buy a new house or flat building, or if any of your near and dear friends become united in marriage to some one, or join the Heavenly host in the great beyond; or if you give a dancing party or other social functions and so on; all such information plainly and shortly written will be considered news matter. And as stated before will be published free of all charges. Remember that all communications along this line must be short and to the point. Address all communications to the editor of The Broad Ax, 5027 Federal street. Phone Draxel, 4590. Luck is too uncertain to sit around and wait for it. It never improves a woman's appearance to put on airs. Perhaps next Asquith will be trying on the king's crown. Many a man can't tell black from white when it comes to a lie. It isn't every man who can reap his reward without cutting his fingers. We don't blame a hog for being a hog, but we blame a man for being one. ME AS RENT. 2-FLATS AND COTTAGES. 75 TO $5750 We OPEN FOR INSPECTION from see them. Cocennes Ave., 2-story brick, newly hardwood floors, cement basement, as; lot 25x150, two street frontages. stone front, newly decorated, 2-flat, orn, near 33rd Blvd.; good trans- rated, 3-flat; lot 50x150, two street This is a decided bargain. See it of our several hundred bargains, phone our on charges and save money. ETT & CO., Owners, Real Estate Operators, of Real Estate 59-69 W. WASHINGTON ST. Where there is no hope there is no endeavor. A hero is a man who hasn't been found out. Trying to be content with what we have is some trial. Heated discussions don't always make warm friends. Kissing causes colds, says a doctor. Don't let a cold catch you kissing. Success may ruin some persons, but that does not deter the strugglers up the ladder. A music trust is to be formed. Its promoters ought to be able to work in harmony. It is twice as hard to make a good matter better as it is to make a bad matter worse. The speechless banquet will be popular with all except the man who has rehearsed his. Love laughs at locksmiths, and when poverty comes in at the door he also laughs at glaziers. Good men help one another, even without suspecting it. The bad deliberately oppose each other. Time has delicate little waves, but the sharpest cornered pebble, after all, becomes smooth and blunt at last. Experiments with radium prove that it will do wonderful things if science con only find out just what they are. Even in London they are learning that time is money. A "Book of Hours" sold there for $700 the other day. Alphonse Bertillon made it easier to detect criminals. But the police records do not indicate any great diminution in crime. It is estimated that 100,000,000 fish in New York state have cancer. And a good many of them are sure to get the bookworm. A music professor has evolved the theory that soprano singers should marry tenors. Isn't this a little rough on the sopranos? Not only do the poor pay more than the rich for food products, as has been shown by expert inquiry in New York, but they pay cash. Presently some forehanded reformer will make a hit with the plain people by demanding government ownership of moving picture shows. Some one says "no thoroughly occupied man was ever miserable." He is liable to be, however, if he occupies himself with the business of other people. An Italian poet has just celebrated his one hundred and second birthday. In the matter of dying, however, it's the same with poets as it is with other men. "What comes after the honeymoon, Uncle Heck?" "The simoom usually," replied the grouchy old bachelor.-Puck. If you would buy cigars for me Buy just the sort you're able; But, ch, dear lady, hear my plea: Don't choose 'em by the label! —Detroit Free Press "What's the trouble with the boilers?" "You see, sir, the boss told the engineer to fire the furnace, and he made a mistake and fired the stoker."—Baltimore American. When weather chat brings general cheer Be careful what you say. We mustn't talk too loud for fear We'll frighten it away. —Washington Star. "We are going to name our baby after one of his uncles, but we can't decide which." "That's easy. Which one has the most money?"—Pittsburgh Press. DOWN Have Done Well In the Banking Field. PRACTICAL RESULTS SHOWN With Limited Experience and Small Capital, Coupled With Common Sense, Groups of Members of the Race Have Wrought Wonders In the Realms of Finance. By RALPH W. TYLER. Washington.-On my trips through the country I was particularly interested in the conduct of banking institutions and insurance companies by Afro-Americans. Banking and insurance are usually regarded as possibly the two highest forms of business activity and requiring more care and financial acumen that any other forms of business. The chances of success in each are more limited and the possibilities of failure greater than in any other line of business. They are, too, the only two branches of business into whose mysteries the Negro has had no opportunity to become versed, since, with perhaps but few, rare and isolated instances, white banks and white insurance companies have afforded the Negro no opportunity to learn, have not employed him except as janitor, which position is so far removed from contact with the actual business operations as to make it impossible for one thus employed to gain an adequate knowledge of the business. How he has succeeded in mastering the banking and insurance businesses without opportunities to learn is almost as great a wonder as any enumerated in Mother Shipton's prophecies made several centuries ago. That he has learned the banking and insurance businesses, has developed them and is now conducting these branches of business with signal success constitutes one of the best possible answers to the statements by anti-race men that the Negro is an inferior race. Dr. W. R. Pettiford as Pioneer Banker. I recall, Dr. Pettiford, president of the Alabama Penny Savings bank, was the pioneer Negro banker. He evolved from a minister of the gospel to a banker possibly because of having read so often in the Bible of the virgin who returned with 10 talents after having been given 5. When Dr. Pettiford established his bank at Birmingham incredulous white men did not regard it as serious enough to last and many colored men regarded it with distrust, as a sort of chateau en Espagne. Today a magnificent steel building is the home of that bank and over $500,000 in resources and regular annual dividends paid attest its wise and conservative management. Inspired by the success of this bank, other banks have sprung into existence in other states. In every city I have visited in which was located a bank or insurance company I made it my business to call upon each and ascertain facts about its establishment and its conduct, its assets and liabilities and the personnel of its officers. I was accorded every opportunity to get at the facts—to learn the real condition of the institutions at the time. There was no restriction as to how far I should go nor any reservation of facts and figures. Of the sixty-four Negro banks that have been established from time to time not over ten have failed, and of those which failed perhaps not more than two can charge their failure to fraudulent peculation on the part of officers. This speaks well for the honesty of the men who have controlled the colored people's money intrusted to these banks. The record of white bank failures shows a very much larger percent of failures due to fraudulent transactions of officers. The greater number of Negro banks that have failed can honestly attribute their failure to either the failure of some big white bank regarded as a financial Gibraltar through which they cleared, to stringency which made it impossible to realize upon good securities or to excessive loans honestly made on what was regarded as fair security. Percentage of Failures Very Small. And the record of failures of white banks shows a very much larger percentage of white banks going down either in good or in painty times, than colored banks. Banking records also show that, in proportion to numbers, in liquidating, colored banks that have failed have paid a larger percentage of their liabilities than have the white banks. This is indeed a splendid showing and a high commendation for the Negro as a banker. I have visited banks conducted and controlled by Negroes in Montgomery. Ala.; Tuskegee, Ala.; Birmingham, Ala.; Jackson, Miss.; Indianola, Miss.; Memphis, Tenn.; Boley, Okla.; Mound Bayou, Miss.; Indianapolis, Ind., and Washington and Philadelphia, Pa. All appeared to be intelligently and conservatively conducted, and each had resources sufficient in excess of liabilities as to render them "safe and sound" and able to stand the most scrutinizing investigation by the bank examiner. With the increasing number of Negro banks being established and the safe and successful operation of those already established, an opportunity is be- mg annoted young colored men to learn that branch of business for which the Chinese have been famed for centuries as the masters in the orient and the branch of business in which the Jew in Europe and America is almost in supreme control. New Chapter In Race Development. The entrance into and the success attained by kim in the banking business constitute a chapter in the history of the American Negro so marvelously wonderful, so apparently utterly inconceivable, considering his opportunities to learn it. as to make it read like a bit of fiction from the highly imaginative brain of a Hugo, a Dumas or a De Maupassant. Still, banking business among Negroes is but in its infancy. The next ten years, under the lash of race prejudice and inspired by race pride and unity, many more banks will be incorporated, some with still greater capital. There are at least twenty cities today whose Negro population warrants the establishment of a bank. Equally surprising and gratifying is the success the Negro has made in the insurance business. How he has succeeded in this particular branch of business without previous experience, with a coach and even without the semblance of encouragement is really more surprising to white men than to the Negro himself. So substantial has been his success, so rapidly are colored insurance companies being organized that the big white companies are beginning to take them seriously, so serious as to contemplate a recognition of the race as administrative employees in some of their companies into whose business the Negro insurance companies are cutting. In Philadelphia there are at least three insurance companies controlled and conducted by Negroes making inroads on the big white companies and registering a high average of success. One of these was established a few years ago by perhaps a half dozen men, who each put in not to exceed $50 plus a lot of energy, sincerity and confidence, and today the company owns its own building and has resources sufficient to satisfy the stringent insurance laws of the Keystone State. One of the other companies had about the same beginning, and it, too, has been a success and is wisely and conservatively managed. Notable Advancement in Atlanta. At Atlanta, Ga., there is a $100,000 paid up capital company controlled and conducted by men of the race and two or three others, strongly established and efficiently managed, meeting every requirement of the state insurance laws. North Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, the district of Columbia, Kentucky, Virginia and other states have chartered insurance companies successfully and profitably managed by colored men. Recently one of the companies operating in the District of Columbia publicly distributed over $1,400 in dividends to its stockholders. That the colored insurance companies are being profitably conducted proves the erroneousness of the claim made by most white companies that the Negro is a bad risk. The success which has followed the Negro incursion into the banking and insurance business constitutes an encouraging sign of race progress, proves the adaptness of the Negro for the two highest forms of business and clinches the argument of the Tuskegee leader. Is the Negro fitted to become a financier? His banks and insurance companies are the answer. NEW WELFARE MOVEMENT. How the Philadelphia Round Table Will Aid Neglected Children. The Philadelphia Round Table For the Welfare of Colored People at a recent meeting decided to conduct a vocational training and boarding school for boys between the ages of ten and eighteen years. The organization has been in existence for the past five years. Its headquarters are in the Charities building on South Fifteenth street. Mr. John T. Emlen, secretary of the Armstrong association, is the prime mover in this new feature for the advancement of our people. Mr. Emlen considered the matter from the standpoint of the number of boys available for such an institution, the opportunities these boys would have to do work, the existing educational facilities and the type of institutions outside of Pennsylvania now giving their attention to vocational education. At the request of William B. Buck of the Seybert institution, a study was made some months ago by the Armstrong association of the number of dependent, neglected and poor colored children especially needing vocational training in Philadelphia between the ages of ten and sixteen years. The number found was reported as follows: In public and parochial schools, Society For Charity and miscellaneous organizations, boys 263, girls 139. In addition there were 364 children on waiting lists, or who had applied and been refused. There is, there fore, a possible total of 385 boys and 209 girls between the age of ten and sixteen who are in need of some special instruction which will fit them for life. To Build Home For Delinquent Girls. The architect's plans for the erection of the state home buildings for incorrigible colored girls at Tipton. Mo. have been submitted to and approved by the board of managers of the institution. The central edifice will be 135 feet long and 66 feet wide. This, with the proposed group of buildings, will be of fireproof construction. The estimated cost of the buildings is placed at $89,600. GREAT LEADER AND ORGANIZER Notable Career of the Rev. Dr. I. N. Ross. HIS RISE TO PROMINENCE. Brief Review of What the Pastor of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church In Washington Has Accomplished In the Ministry—Hint That He May Be Elected Bishop. Washington.—The Rev. Dr. I. N. Ross, the successful pastor of the Metropolitan A. M. E. church in this city, was born in Hawkins county, East Tennessee, Jan. 22, 1856. His parents, with their ten children, migrated to Green county, O., in 1861. His father was a sturdy, palmstaking, thrifty farmer. His mother was a woman of strong personality and Christian pltery. Four of the five sons of these Christian parents became preachers. The Rev. Dr. I. N. Ross is, however, the only surviving member of the well known quartet of Ross preachers. His early life was spent on the farm and in attending the public school. The Rev. Dr. Ross' career as a minister extends over a wide area, having been over thirty-one years in the tini- P. E. REV. DR. I. N. ROSS. erancy of the A. M. E. church. His first charge was in Ohio, whence he was transferred to Pennsylvania, again to Ohio, next to Georgia and then to the District of Columbia; in all of which places he has held the leading charges. He joined the Ohio conference in 1880 and spent about five years in the Third Episcopal district without any intermission or without missing an appointment, pastoring the following churches: Oberlin mission, Ohio; St. Paul's A. M. E. church. Washington, Pa.; Oll City and Titusville circuit Pennsylvania; Brown's chapel, Allegheny city, and Wiley Avenue A. M. E. church, Pittsburgh; Warren chapel, Toledo, O.; St. Paul's church, Columbus, O., where he entertained the general conference in 1900; five years at Alien temple, Cincinnati; three years and six months at Big Bethel, Atlanta, Ga. All of these churches have been financially and spiritually quickened and improved. Some of them were relieved of their heavy indebtedness. Most prominent among those relieved were Brown's chapel, Allegheny City, where a mortgage debt of $3,858 of twenty-seven years' standing was entirely lifted. His work at Metropolitan A. M. E church stands out, up to the present, in bold relief. He has installed steam heat and made other needed improvements on the interior and exterior of the church, reduced its bonded debt $2,000 and greatly increased the congregation. Another noteworthy feature in the administration of Dr. Ross' work is the awakening of the various auxiliaries of the church to a complete realization of the fact that they are a part of this organization and that each has a duty to perform in the effort for financial betterment. This is evidenced by the readiness of all in responding to the calls of the pastor at all times. The board feels proud to have such sterling qualities in its presiding officer. In the opinion of the members of the church, he is an ideal pastor, whose chief aim seems to be the welfare of his congregation. Knowing that Dr. Ross is a representative of the highest type of Christian manhood, the members feel that they can sincerely commend him, if the necessity or opportunity arises, to any church, any representative position, even to the highest ecclesiastical honor within the gift of the church, knowing full well that whatever position of honor, of trust or of ecclesiastical responsibility may fall to him during the coming years he will not be found wanting. He has been honored by the denomination in many ways. He has been a delegate to the general conference each session for the past twenty years and a trustee of Wilberforce university for a like period of time. This college conferred the degree of doctor of divinity upon the Rev. Mr. Ross in 1902. 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Phone Douglas 6001 Phone Douglas 8078 Automatic 72-384 Office Hours—8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Dr. MacENRY J. BROWN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON OCULIST Practice Limited to Diseases of Eye and Ear 3502 S. State St. CHICAGO Office Phones: Res. 5133 So. Wabash Ave. Oakland 6062, Auto. 73-058 Phone Dreszel 18815 Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST 4709 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO Hours 9 A. M. to 5 P. M., 7 P. M. to 9 P. M. Sundays by Appointment THE AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF ILLINOIS. Under State Government Supervision. $100,000 deposited with the State. Policies of all kinds, ranging from five cents to ten thousand dollars. Our industrial Contracts give to the colored policy holder the company for the same weekly premium. Colored Agents to Write and Collect Your Business. Information of rates and values at your age will be furnished from, upon giving your age, name and address to The American Life Insurance Co. of Illinois, Tol. Randall 5, Home Office—Harris Trust Building. 115 W. Moore St. TELEPHONES Oakland 1609 Rev. Oakland 1768 Auto. 79156 HENRY G. BOMAR & SON FINE FURNITURE AND PIANO MOVERS, PACKERS AND SHOPPERS 3 Trigge Daily to All Deposits 4706 Indiana Ave. CHICAGO FOR RENT. Desk Room for business purposes in branch law office of W. G. Anderson & L. A. Newby, 35th and State St., N. W. corner. --- WORK OF EDWARD WATERS COLLEGE Wins Success After Hard Struggle For Existence. Institution Fostered by the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Jacksonville, Fla., Placed on Firm Footing by Bishop John Hurst With the Cooperation of the People. Jacksonville, Fla.—Edward Waters college, the A. M. E. school of Florida, situated at Jacksonville, under the wise management of Bishop John Hurst, D. D., of Baltimore, is fast forging to the front. Debt ridden since its birth back in 1885, it has had a most heroic struggle for existence. After the destructive fire that swept away the greater part of Jacksonville in 1901, when the college was destroyed, Edward Waters saw some very hard times. Sometimes hardly existing, the college was moved from place to place, now in a rented hall and again in some building, but always with the hope that some day it would have a fixed abode. Every bishop who has served the diocese, together with the good men of Florida, has striven hard to realize that hope, but one reverse after another came until some began to think that surely a relentless fate must be following the institution. Bishop Salter, although enfeebled in health, got behind the movement on his going to the district and with the help of the then president, Dr. A. Henry Attaway, and the men of Florida who had never given up the struggle, erected Salter hall, a large building of sixty-four rooms, situated on Kings road, the beautiful drive that stretches through the western part of the city. [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. JOHN A. GREGG, B. A Still heavily encumbered with debt, the school struggled on, but with renewed hope. After his elevation to the bishopric at Kansas City in 1912 Bishop John Hurst, who was assigned to the diocese of Florida, hastened to the state to look the situation over. The outlook was not very promising; but, with the courage and belief in the ultimate triumph of right that have always characterized the man, he at once set to work. He evolved a plan whereby the people of Florida, putting forth herculean efforts, have swept away the last penny of indebtedness against the school. Never have the faithful presiding elders, pastors and people worked so before. At the grand rally held at Mount Zion church in Jacksonville on Oct. 1, 1913, more than $13,000 was raised. Now African Methodism points with pride to her school, and a new day seems to be dawning for the institution. The old episcopal residence had in the meantime been converted into a beautiful thirty-two roomed dormitory for the boys, so that these two newly painted main buildings, situated on a little over six acres of ground, call forth words of praise from the many passersby on this main traveled thoroughfare. The Rev. John A. Gregg, B. A., the present president, seems to be grasping the work in a way that spells success for the institution. His preparation and travel have peculiarly fitted him for the work, and Florida is blessed in having secured his aid. He was born in Eureka, Kan., Feb. 18, 1877, and attended the public schools of that place and as the only colored member of his class, having served it as president. He graduated from the high school with honor in 1896. He then took the scientific course in the Southern Kansas academy of the same city, graduating from the same in 1897 as class orator, which honor he won against nine other contenders, all white men. 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