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The Second Ward Regular Democratic Organization Has Not, and Will Not, Endorse Former Alderman, Oscar DePriest for Alderman of That Ward. Hon. William J. Graham, Ward Committeeman, States: That "The Roger C. Sullivan Wing of the Democrats Will Stand Solidly Behind Clem Kuehne for Alderman; That He Will Receive Ninety-Five Per Cent of All the White Votes Cast, Democratic and Republican, Both Men and Women—That Mr. DePriest Will Draw Enough of Votes Away from Major Jackson to Defeat Him and with the Aid of Some Colored Voters, Mr. Kuehne Will Be Elected to the City Council from the Second Ward." THE SO-CALLED SECOND WARD DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION MET AT 3140 INDIANA AVENUE LAST SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND IT UNANIMOUSLY ENDORSED FORMER ALDERMAN OSCAR DE PRIEST FOR ALDERMAN OF THE SECOND WARD. FIFTEEN OR TWENTY MEN AND SOME WOMEN WERE PRESENT AT THE MEETING, WHITE AND COLORED INCLUDED. ITS PRESIDENT, CHARLES C. ROE; ITS VICE-PRESIDENT, J. GRAY LUCAS; CHARLES A. PARHAM, FRANK W. JONES, MRS. MINORA S. JONES, MRS. SWEENEY, MISS ANNIE OLIVER AND COL. JAMES WILLEW WERE SELECTED AS A COMMITTEE TO NOTIFY MR. DE PRIEST OF HIS ENDORSEMENT. BACH ONE OF THE ABOVE NAMED PERSONS MARCHED FROM 3140 INDIANA AVENUE OVER TO 3335 SOUTH STATE STREET, ODD FELLOWS' HALL, TO APPRISE MR. DE PRIEST OF THEIR ACTION. THEY, AND A FEW OTHERS WHO ACCOMPANIED THEM, WERE RECEIVED WITH SHOUTS OF GREAT JOY ON THE PART OF MR. DE PRIEST AND HIS FOLLOWERS, WHO WERE HOLDING A LARGELY ATTENDED MEETING AT THAT TIME. SPEECHES WERE DELIVERED BY THE NEW RECRUITS FROM THE DEMOCRATIC RANK BY CHARLES C. ROE, FRANK W. JONES, MRS. MINORA S. JONES, ATTORNEY J. GRAY LUCAS AND COL. JAMES MILLER. THEN AN EXTRAORDINARY AND BURNING DISGRACEFUL THING HAPPENED, FOR IN THE PRESENCE OF THE WHITE PERSONS SITTING ON THE PLATFORM MRS. FANNY MASON JUMPED UP AND MADE A BRUTAL AND SAVAGE ATTACK ON THE CHARACTER AND REPUTATION OF MRS. ROBERT R. JACKSON, SHE CLAIMING THAT SHE DID NOT KNOW WHETHER SHE HAD ANY CHARACTER OR NOT; THAT IF SHE DID HAVE ANY IT WAS NO BETTER THAN HERS; THAT WHAT SHE WAS SAYING SHE WOULD NOT TAKE IT BACK; THAT SHE WAS READY TO FIGHT MRS. JACKSON WITH HER FIST OR OTHERWISE. IT IS STRANGE TO SAY THAT NOT ONE MANLY MAN OR WOMANLY WOMAN HAD THE MORAL COURAGE TO REMIND MRS. MASON THAT THAT WAS NOT THE TIME NOR THE PLACE TO GIVE VENT TO HER BITTER PERSONAL FEELINGS AGAINST MRS. JACKSON; THAT SHE IS NOT RUNNING FOR ALDERMAN OF THE SECOND WARD. BEACON LIGHT COURT NO. 1 MET MONDAY AFTERNOON AT MASONIC TEMPLE, 3956 S. STATE STREET, AND MANY OF ITS MEMBERS, AFTER DISCUSSING THE ATTACK ON THE CHARACTER AND IMPUTATION OF MRS. JACKSON BY MRS. MASON, WERE IN FAVOR OF EXPELLING HER FROM THE COURT. In our most smiling manner we informed Mr. Graham that prior to the close of the primaries that the impression was scattered broadcast throughout the Second Ward that Hon. Roger C. Sullivan and his wing of the Democratic party in the Second Ward were more than favorable to the nomination of Mr. De Priest; that they had chucked in some money into the jackpot to aid him to put it over Major Robert R. Jackson at the primaries; that they were still willing to throw in some real dough or money to help Mr. De Priest to head Major Jackson off at the election, at that point in our conversation he declared that that "kind of noise was all ror or moushine that the Second-Ward Regular Democratic organization whose officers are as follows—Second Ward Regular Democratic Organization; Headquarters, 203 East Thirty-Seventh St., Chicago. William J. Graham, Ward Committeeman. President, James M. Quinlan; Vice-President, Patrick J. O'Malley; Secretary, Otte C. Woerter; Treasurer, Peter McGuinness, and Financial See'y, Henry R. Houle—were from start to finish before the primaries and will continue to the end to be with his friend Clem Kuechne for alderman of the Second Ward; that Mr. Kuechne will on Tuesday, April 2, receive ninety-five per cent of all the white votes cast—Democratic and Republican, both men and women—that former alderman Oscar De Priest will pull or draw enough of votes away from Major Robert R. Jackson to defeat or lay him out low that. Messrs. De Priest and Jackson will both be dead game political cocks in the pit; that with the aid of many Colored men who have become utterly disgusted with the personal fighting on the part of some of their followers; that Mr. Kuehne will easily land in the City Council from the Second Ward. Mr. Graham got a little warm in his high collar when we asked him point blank if "he really did reside in the Second Ward among the Colored folks?" He responded by saying that it would be utterly impossible for him to serve as the regular Democratic ward committeeman of that ward if he failed or did not reside in it and to settle that question in our own mind—just where he did reside he requested us not to take his word for it but to bust into the rooms of the Election Commissioners and find out for ourselves and to make a long story real short the registration books in the election commissioners rooms very plainly indicate that Mr. Graham resides at $223 South Park Ave., and those who are able to read are aware of the fact that many Colored people live near him and that he is friendly to them. As stated above the so-called or the rump Second Ward Democratic organization met last Sunday afternoon at 3140 Indiana avenue and not over fifteen or twenty men and women were present, including white and Colored and it is well to state right at this point that the members of this organization or the old dead Carter H Harrison wing of the Democratic party in that ward, supported some fellow by the name of Robinson at the Feb. primaries for the nomination for alderman and all told he received one hundred and thirty votes, notwithstanding this fact these false leaders of the Democratic party in the Second Ward claim that they own and control more than fifteen hundred votes which they are able to tote around in their tricky hip pockets, during the progress of the slimly or the poorly attended meeting speeches [Name] oratory for the Democratic end of the meeting: Charles C. Boe, Frank W. Jones, Mrs. Minona S. Jones, Lawyer J. Gray Lucas and Col. Long James Miller. Each of the speakers strongly intimated that they were ready and willing to take the stump for Mr. De Priest from that very minute until election day, Tuesday April 2. Just as the last Democrat had finished speaking and while all of the supporters of Mr. De Priest were feeling mighty good and happy, Mrs. Fanny Mason sprang or jumped upon the platform and in the presence of the White persons who were sitting all around her she made a savage and a most brutal attack on the character and reputation of Mrs. Robert R. Jackson; she very excitedly exclaimed in a very loud, shrill voice that "She did not know whether Mrs. Jackson had any character or not and if she did have any it was not any better than hers, that what she was saying she would not take back; were made by Messrs. Roe, Parkam, Jones, Miller, Lucas, Mrs. Sarah Hopkins, Miss Annie Oliver, Mrs. Sweeney and Mrs. Minona Jones. At the conclusion of the cut and dried meeting most of the speakers were selected by its President and chairman Charles C. Roe, to serve on the committee to notify Mr. De Priest of his endorsement and they and a few others with the writer tagging along behind them, marched in a body from Unity Hall on Indiana avenue to Odd Fellows Hall, 3335 South State street. There was great rejoicing on the part of the five hundred followers of Mr. De-Priest who had crowded into Odd Fellows Hall, when the committee entered it for they labored under the impression that all of the real leaders of the Democratic party in that ward had joined hands with Mr. De Priest but such was not the case. After notifying Mr. De Priest of his endorsement by them the following persons finished the (Continued on page 2.) GW L HON. SHERIDAN E. PRY HON. SHERIDAN E. FRY One of the highly esteemed and learned make a first class Republican cand One of the highly esteemed and learned Judges of the Municipal Court, who would make a first class Republican candidate for Chief Justice of that court. THE SO-CALLED LEADING DEMOCRATS OF THE SECOND WARD ENDORSED HON. OSCAR DE PLEST FOR ALDERMAN OF THAT WARD. MAJOR ROBERT R. JACKSON'S PLATFORM. IT IS WORTH ANY ONE'S TIME TO CAREFULLY READ AND STUDY IT. 1. I stand for—The two greatest (Concluded from page 1.) that she was ready to fight Mrs. Jackson with her two fists or otherwise." The most dastardly and damnable thing was that there was not one manly man or womanly woman present who had the moral courage to gently remind Mrs. Mason that that was not the time nor place for her to spew out her personal bitter feeling against Mrs. Jackson, that she is not running for alderman of the Second Ward, that she had no moral right on earth to drag Mrs. Jackson into the very bitter political contest between her husband and Mr. De Priest. In this connection we desire to state in the plainest language at our command that for more than eighteen years that we have come in contact with Mrs. Jackson on many occasions that she has always borne a most excellent reputation; that her character has always been above reproach, that it was the very first time that we have ever heard anyone question it before; that she has always freely mixed or mingled with the very best and the most highly respectable people in this city and in other parts of this broad land; that she has always shown the greatest consideration for all those whom she comes in contact with; that she is modest and unassuming in her manner; that she is plain, sensible and very domestic; that she dearly loves her pleasant home; that she is devoted to her husband and to her children; that for some years past she has not enjoyed very good health and as a result of that fact she seldoms appears in society and right here it can be truthfully stated that there are thousands of women residing in the Second Ward and in other parts of this city who firmly believe in fair play, even in politics, who will never forgive Mrs. Mason for so brutally assailing the character and the reputation of Mrs. Jackson in a public political meeting. As an evidence of this fact on Monday afternoon at Masonic Temple, 3956 South State street, many of the ladies composing Beacon Light Court No. 1 devoted all of their time to discussing Mrs. Mason and her attack on the character and reputation of Mrs. Jackson and many of the ladies were heartily in favor of expelling her from that court. NEGEO SHOOTS 3 IN MIDNIGHT BRAWL. A Negro known as "Tennessee" drew a revolver when he and three other Negroes argued in a poolroom at 157 W. 35th street, shortly after midnight Thursday, and when the smoke had cleared away the other three, George Parker, 28, Milton Stenis, 28, and James Rober, 32, were lying on the floor wounded. Parker, shot through the head, probably will die. "Tennessee" escaped. PAGE TWO MAJOR ROBERT R. JACKSON'S PLATFORM. IT IS WORTH ANY ONE'S TIME TO CAREFULLY READ AND STUDY IT. 1. I stand for—The two greatest friends the Race has had during the last fifty years, Mayor Wm. Hale Thompson and Congressman Martin B. Madden. 2. I stand for—Making the Second Ward the greatest Republican Ward in the City of Chicago and for removing the stigma and correcting the newspaper statement "that the Ward contains the remnants of the old Red Light District." 3. I stand for—Clean streets and clean alleys that our Ward may be just as healthy a spot in which to live as any other Ward in Chicago. 4. I stand for—Universal transfers good on all intersecting surface and elevated lines and for the immediate building of a subway by the City of Chicago, there being no bar to a man's labor or employment in the building of the subway on account of his Race, Creed or Color. 5. I stand for—Doing all within my power to secure the appointment of Race Policewomen and the naming of at least one of our Race on the School Board, and to secure employment for our People in the City's Large Corporations. 6. I stand for—Assisting our new friends and citizens from the Southern States in every way possible and to aid in promoting their welfare among us socially, morally, religiously and fraternally. 7. I stand for—More and better playgrounds for our children, the location of a public market in or near our Ward, and a Bathing Beach at the foot of 31st Street, 33rd Street or 35th Street, the same for the benefit and use of all citizens without regard to Race or Color. 8. I stand for—Better housing conditions for our people and for the fullest exercise of our Constitutional rights as American citizens, to dwell wherever we choose. 9. I stand for—The encouragement of the highest friendly and cordial relations between our people and all other racial groups. 10. I stand for—Opposing with all possible vigor any and all forms of discrimination against our people; all unjust, police interference with the rights of the individual, our business and professional men. 11. I stand for—The organization of a Central Bureau or Committee among the Civic and Charitable bodies of our Race for the purpose of raising funds annually for the relief, aid and comfort of our public and Charitable Homes and Institutions. 12. I stand for—Giving my constant time and attention to all matters affecting the interest and welfare of the citizens of the Ward with assurance that in no case and at no time will compensation either in money or otherwise be enacted or accepted therefor. 13. I stand for—The enlargement of opportunities under the City Civil Service, so that more of our race men may be assigned to positions in the Fire Department, instead of limiting their appointment and assignment to the present single company located at Taylor and State Streets. 14. I stand for and have always stood for—Unalterable opposition to race segregation in any form and particularly maintaining involicate our present school system so that our children may attend public schools in the Dis- trict where they reside, no matter what the proportion of racial population. 15. I stand for—Honesty in office and to faithfully represent you in the City Council of our great City with the same degree of perseverance, Race loyalty, courage and diplomacy that characterized my five years service in the Legislature of our State, returning to you at the end of my term a record unbroken, Untarnished and Unsullied and of which you will not be ashamed and for which you will not have to apologize to any other Race of people. only those who appear to ers, like the white leafers, searched. No discriminat ever to be made because as regards searchings. E. P. CLA Lieut.-Col. Fourth Illinois try, Commanding. The riot was over the day the issue of this order. Passed the famous Jacks put the "Birth of a National business in the State of Illinois bill was fought by the mov THE BRILLIANT AND UNTAR- NISHED RECORD OF ROBEET R. JACKSON IN THE GOVERNMENT SERVICE OF THIS CITY AND IN THE LEGISLATIVE HALLS OF ILLINOIS. Entered the Government Service (Post Office) 1889 and Resigned in 1910, 21 Years of Faithful Service. Member of the 9th Battalion and 8th Regi- ment, Illinois National Guard, 25 Years, Served in Two Wars, Was Retired with a Record of Excellent and Long and Honorable Service. Elected to the Legislature in 1912. Immediately took hold of the Jim Crow bills aimed at the Colored people and checked the progress of the anti-intermarriage bill introduced by Mr. Karch and had it recommitted to the Committee on Miscellaneous Subjects and of which he was a member. Finally killed the bill in the committee. Killed the two Anti-Intermarriage bills introduced by Mr. Hollenbeck and Mr. Poorman. Appeared before the Judiciary Committee, contended for the preservation of the rights of his people and succeeded in having the bills striken from the calendar. Killed the infamous full crew bill that had for its object the discharge of all Colored "trainmen" on railroads in the State of Illinois, and put to rout the strongest lobby for the passage of a bill that ever appeared on the floor of the Legislature. Passed the bills appropriating $50,000 (without a dissenting vote) to commemorate in the State of Illinois the 50th anniversary of the emancipation of the Negro with an exhibition and celebration and creating a commission to conduct the same. The Exposition was held at the Coliseum. Passed a bill for $25,000 granting an emergency appropriation to the State Institution for the Blind. Amended the Civil Service Act, placing all old soldiers and veterans of the Spanish-American War at the top of all civil service examination lists. Passed an amendment to the Civil Rights Act preventing discrimination in the burial, of the dead in cemeteries and providing a penalty therefor. The vote was 89 yeas, and nays none. Stopped the progress of the new marriage laws bill because it contained the word "Colored" and which compelled Colored people to state their color before being granted a marriage license. Bill died on the calendar. Aided successfully in the passage of an amendment to the Civil Service law putting the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium under the Civil Service laws of the City of Chicago, which prevent for all time to come a repetition of the Giles case. Amended the Civil Service law of the state and caused an amendment to be placed in the act preventing the discharge of employees on account of Race, Religion or Color. Defeated the amendment to the State Civil Service bill intended to compel the Civil Service Commission to certify the first three names on the eligible list and which gave them the right to select one out of the three so certified. We would have been the chief sufferers should this amendment have passed. Aided in the defeat of the zoning bill that would have operated against the race in the matter of renting and purchasing houses in the City of Chicago in certain residential territory. He presented arguments on all bills passed and opposed and was honored by the entire membership of the House with a unanimous vote on all propositions. He caused to be issued the following order affecting the rights of the race in the East St. Louis riot in May and carried the order to East St. Louis and remained there until the order was issued and obeyed. East St. Louis, June 8, 1917.—Members of the race were forced to appeal to Representative Robert R. Jackson, state representative from the Third District, owing to the treatment they were being subjected to by soldiers on guard. "Fighting Bob" got busy and as a result the following order was issued by the commanding officer at East St. Louis; Commanding officer directs that all whites appearing to be loafers be searched for arms. If found carrying weapons they are to be placed under arrest and sent to the station. Negroes attending to their business not to be molested in any way, nor embarrassed by being searched; only those who appear to be loa-fers, like the white loafers, are to be scareded. No discrimination whatever to be made because of color as regards searchings. E. P. CLAYTON, Lieut.-Col. Fourth Illinois Infantry, Commanding. The riot was over the day following the issue of this order. Passed the famous Jackson Bill that put the "Birth of a Nation" out of business in the State of Illinois. This bill was fought by the moving picture interests representing more than $10,000,000 but they suffered defeat at Jackson's hands. Was appointed a member of the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives that had to do with the sixty-five millions of the people's money of the state. The only Negro to ever serve on this all important committee and to receive this honor. Nominated and elected Colonel John R. Marshall assistant doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, the only member of the race to ever fill the position. His clear-cut appearance at all times, affability, display of shrewdness and ability, coupled with diplomacy and his bull-dog courage in winning his seat won for him the admiration and respect of the entire membership of the House and Senate. He had the ear of Speakers McKinley and Shanahan, Lieutenant Governors O'Hara and Oglesby and Governors Dunne and Lowden. JUDGE KENESAW MOUNTAIN LANDIS LITTS ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS OUT OF THE HIP POOKET OF COL. SHADRACH BAILEY TURNER, WHO CLAIMED THAT HE HAD STANDING AND INFLUENCE WITH THE JUDGE. Col. Shadrach Bailey Turner, Negro lawyer and politician, was fined $100 for contempt of court Tuesday by Federal Judge K. M. Landis for saying to Dr. A. B. Mercer, Negro, after he left the witness stand: "It's a lie. Every word you have said is a lie." Dr. Mercer, who had gotten into trouble with the court for charging $50 for making bond for F. W. Riffo, a Negro, accused as a postoffice thief, had sworn that Turner had approached him, asked for a fee, and told him that he "had influence with Judge Landis." Sam Wright, another Negro, in trouble over the same bond, testified that Turner had told him of "influence with Commissioner Mason." When Mercer left the stand and took his place beside Turner, before the Bench, Turner frowned and whispered to Mercer. Denial vs. Affirmation. "What did he say?" asked the court. "He called me a liar," said Mercer. Mercer was put back on the stand and testified under oath that the lie had been passed. Judge Landis then asked Turner if he would swear he didn't say it. He said he would; whereat Judge Landis put William L. Martin, Negro attorney, "in trouble" over the same Riffe case, on the stand. He swore he had heard Turner call Mercer a liar. "Now will you swear it?" asked the court. "I'd rather take something else up first," said Turner. It was here that Judge Landis ordered Turner to pay $100 for contempt. He offered a check. He was given until noon today to get the money. Sworm, Turner was asked by the court: "I haven't got any influence with you," he replied. "I didn't ask you that. I know you haven't got influence with me," said Judge Landis. "I asked you if you said you had." "No, your honor, I didn't," said Turner. It was no more than to be expected that Col. Turner would run up against a buzz-saw in this direction. For many years past he and several other Colored men in this same class have boldly and constantly let it be known, while loudly talking on the corners of the streets, that they had influence and could fix this, that or the other judge as the case might be; and hundreds of ignorant Colored people, not knowing anything pertaining to the courts, their usages, and the laws, have freely turned over thousands of dollars of their money to this class of Colored gentlemen, who have in most cases informed them that they needed no lawyer to handle their cases in the courts; that they could get them out of trouble much more easily with their pull and influence with the state's attorney and by fixing the judges. It is too bad that Col. or Brother Turner got hooked up with Judge Landis, who lifted without the slightest compunction one hundred dollars out of his hip pocket for contempt of court and for holding out the idea that he had influences with him; that he could sway him, either one way or the other, in rendering his decisions, either in favor or against the litigants in his court.—Editor. J. C. H. HON. JOHN J. BRADLEY Reappointed United States Marshal for dent Woodrow Wilson, whose record the affairs of that office has been wi Marshal Bradley. UNIVERSITY SOCIETY DEPARTMENT. Reappointed United States Marshal for the Northern District of Illinois by President Woodrow Wilson, whose record for the past four years in administering the affairs of that office has been without a blemish, which speaks volumes for Marshal Bradley. Reappointed United States Marshal for the Northern District of Illinois by President Woodrow Wilson, whose record for the past four years in administering the affairs of that office has been without a blemish, which speaks volumes for Marshal Bradley. Negro Soldiers in the Wars of the World. (Article No. 4.) By Irene McCoy Gaines. NEGRO SOLDIERS IN NUBIAN WARS. From George W. Williams' History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, and from Burckhardt's Travels in Nubia, we find that "in modern as well as ancient Nubia Negro troops were employed in large numbers." The Sultan of Wara has among his troops many Negro soldiers. At Mocha Negroes were highly esteemed as soldiers, and as such were kept in numbers by some of the more powerful chiefs of southern Arabia, playing prominent part in the Nubian and Arabian wars. Negro Soldiers in Japan. In the wars of the far off empire of Japan the Negro soldier played a distinguished and conspicuous part. "We can cross the whole of Asia," says Dr. Chamberlin, "and find the Negro again, for, when in far off Japan the ancestors of the modern Japanese were making their way northward against the Ainu, the aborigines of that country, the leader of their armies was Sakanouye Tamuramaro, a famous general and Negro." Negro Soldiers in Russia. The Negro distinguished himself in the Russian army. Dr. Chamberlin has pointed out that among the favorites of Peter the Great was an Abyssinian Negro, who was educated in France and who was given the name of Hannivalov, and who because of his distinguished military services in the Russian wars rose to the rank of general and received many other important honors bestowed upon him by the Russian government. His son became a general of artillery and built the harbor of Cherson. The son of this great Negro general gave to the world in his son, A. S. Pushkin (1799) perhaps the greatest and sweetest singer of the Russian poets. Negro Soldiers in British Wars. The Negro has won for himself a high place in the British army, navy and British wars. John Perkins and John Nesbitt, two Negro soldiers, rose by special military services to the rank of commissioned officers in the British navy. There is a law that no foreign nationality may be officers in the fighting forces of the crown; yet, Baptiste Lapointe, a Negro, because of special and distinguished military services, was promoted to the rank of general in the British army. Negro soldiers by the thousands fought with success and daring courage in the British wars in the West Indies, in West and South Africa, in America and in other lands, and today thousands of them are stationed in the British colonies scattered around the world, and thousands have been called from British Africa to participate in the present struggle that is being staged across the seas. France is more friendly toward the Negro than most of the European nations, and he in turn has rendered her invaluable military services in her many wars. He has filled all stations in her armies from the ranks to command, and in them all he had proved a tried, trusted and valiant soldier. He served on the National Guard with honor and distinguished himself on the battlefields in the Franco-German War, Franco-Italian Wars and the French Revolutionary War. In the Franco-Italian War under Napoleon, Alexander Davy Dumas, a Negro soldier and the father of the French Negro novelist, defended a bridge alone, against the enemy until the French army could come to his relief. For this intrepid feat he rose to distinction in the French army and Napoleon in 1795 presented him to the Directory of the French Convention as the "Horatius Coeles of the Tyrol." With equal distinction he served in the Franco-Egyptian wars. Moreover, there are French Negro troops employed by France and stationed in Algiers, consisting of two regiments, and when on a war footing contain 16,000 Negro soldiers. On account of their discipline, bravery and daring fighting qualities they are commonly called "Turcos." They served with singular distinction in 1865-66 in Mexico and displayed such splendid fighting qualities in the Franco-German war of 1870 that they are referred to as "the bravest of the brave." More recently they won additional glory in the French campaign in Tonga; farther India, under their famous Negro general, Alfred Dodds, of whom T. G. Steward says: "We have seen General Dodda, a Negro soldier, returning from a successful campaign acclaimed throne France his immense popularity threatening Paris with a renewal of the hysterical days of Boulanger." Among those who distinguished them selfs for feats of unsurpassed valour and military renown in the great French Revolution of 1790 was a Negro soldier Jean Francois Dugommier, who commanded 60,000 men in the battle of St Sebastian, November 18, 1794, and who attained the rank of general for his military prowess. His name now decorates the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Two other Negro soldiers, Antoine Chanlatte and Martial Besse, for their splendid military bravery and daring were given the rank of brigadier general by the French Convention in October, 1795, at the same time that the Barras resolution conferred a similar rank on Napoleon Bonaparte for similar services in defending the convention against the Paris mob. PHYLLIS WHATLEY CLUB NOTES The regular monthly meeting of the Phyllis Wheatley Club was held at the Home, 3256 Rhodes Ave., Wednesday, March 6, 1918. Reports were read and plans formulated to celebrate the Club's twenty-second anniversary at the residence of the recording secretary, Mrs. Nora Lee, 5259 Dearborn St., Sunday, March 17, from 3 to 6 p.m. Program, music and refreshments. All friends are cordially invited. Mrs. Cooper, chairman of the Domestic Science Department, will have charge of the meeting Wednesday, March 20. War food recipes will be discussed and the official war cook book will be sold. Visitors are always welcome. Elizabeth Lindsey Davis, Prest. Juanita Hawkins, Cor. Sec. H. WILLIAMS Understaffer ALDERMAN JOHN TOMAN Chairman of the License Committee of members, who will, on Tuesday, April fourth Ward. DEATH OF MRS. CELIA PARKER WOOLLEY. Chairman of the License Committee of the City Council, one of its most popular members, who will, on Tuesday, April 2, be re-elected to it from the Thirty-fourth Ward. Mrs. Celia Parker Woolley, retired utarian minister and one of Chicago's best known and most earnest social workers, passed away at the Frederick Duglass Center, 3030 South Wabash avenue, of which she was founder and the head for the past fourteen years, saturday afternoon. She was almost twenty years old at the time of her death. Death came following an illness of three weeks from a complication of disease. Makes Great Sacrifice. Mrs. Woolley's career was one of philanthropic effort, culminating in the great sacrifice of her life when she went to live among the Negroes of the south side. In addition to her work as a preached and social worker, she was active as a club woman and author. Among several novels which she wrote are "The Western Slope," "Rascal Armstrong," "A Girl Graduate," and "Roger Hunt." Before assuming her duties as head of the Douglass Center, which she founded, Mrs. Woolley was pastor of the Independent Liberal church of Chicago. She was born in Toledo and came to Chicago with her husband, Dr. J.H. Woolley, in 1876. She was a member and served as president of the Women's club and the Fortnightly club. Mrs. Woolley's religious creed was "to establish reason and conscience as final authorities in matters of religious belief." Her determination to abandon her career as a preacher and writer caused a profound stir, but she proved obdurate in her intention to finish her life in uplift work among the Negroes. Funeral services were held over her remains Tuesday morning, at Abraham Lincoln Center; Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones assisted. Many of the friends of Mrs. Woolley, both White and Colored, attended the services. Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. As the head and front of the Fredrick Douglass Center, she must be given full credit, for accomplishing much good in the way of bettering the conditions of all classes of people who resided near her. At a meeting of ministers representing several ministerial organizations of the races in Chicago, held in the Ebeumer Baptist church last Tuesday at 5 p.m. it was decided to call a general meeting in the hope of having the presence and co-operation of all the ministers of Chicago, in a meeting at the Y. M. C. A. building (Wabash Branch), at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 19th. the object of the meeting is to formulate a propaganda and organize a vigorous campaign for "A Dry Chicago." The meeting will be interracial and all subsequent meetings and work will be absolutely void of any semblance of aggression. We are yours in His name, John F. Thomas, Chairman of the meeting, Geo. H. McDaniel, Sec., John E. Hammond. For Reign of Reason. NOTICE! NOTICE! the City Council, one of its most popular April 2, be re-elected to it from the Thirty. LEGAL HELPS. By Attorney Harris B. Gaines. This column is open to readers of The Broad Ax for legal questions of general interest. All questions are to be addressed to the Editor of the Legal Helps Department by Wednesday of each week. No personal answers will be given unless enclosed postage is sent, Harris B. Gaines, 6221 S. Halsted Street, National Theater Building. Chicago, Ill., March 11, 1918—(Editor Legal Helps): I live in a large two-story building with front and rear flats. No lights are kept burning in any of the halls at night, making it very dangerous to climb the steps. Can the landlord he forced to keep lights burning in dark hallways? M. G. There is no law requiring the landlord to maintain lights in buildings less than three stories high. Chicago, March 9, 1918—(Editor of Legal Helps): How much is a drafted soldier allowed for the support of his two children and wife? J. S. A drafted soldier is allowed $32.50 for the support of a wife and two children. Chicago, March 11, 1918—(Editor of Legal Helps): Sometime ago I bought a real estate mortgage at a bank. The trust deed and interest notes the bank gave me are lost. Can I have them replaced? S.P. If the trust deed was recorded you can get a certified copy at the Recorder's office. In order to have new notes made it would be necessary for you to make an indemnity bond with good security to indemnify the maker against any loss by paying to you. If the lost notes get into the hands of a bona fide purchaser without notice of the loss you may have some trouble. Attorney F. L. Barnett, 184 W. Washington street, returned home Wednesday morning, from a short business trip to Memphis, Tenn. Mrs. Edna Denison, 3132 Calumet avenue, departed Wednesday evening on a three or four weeks' pleasure trip through the east. Attorney Charles A. Ward has moved from the Y. M. C. A. to 30 E. 44th street. Mr. Ward is still seriously ill and under the care of Dr. Daniel H. Williams. Dr. D. E. Burrows, 3221 S. State St., phone Douglas 1222, enjoys the most extensive practice of any of the physicians in this city. His office at all times during office hours is constantly crowded down with patients, which amply proves that he is up to snuff along medical lines. Bethel Literary Society of which Sandy W. Trice is president, extends a cordial invitation to everyone to attend their meeting tomorrow afternoon at four o'clock. Mr. Frank W. Henry will address you. Subject, "The Signs of the Times." Good music, admission free. Rev. W. D. Cook, D.D., Pastor; Mrs. A. T. Owen, secretary; Bethel Church, 30th and Dearborn streets. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MARCH 16, 1918 CHARLES E. STUMP VISITS BELAND, FLA., AND DAYTONIA, FLA. WHERE VICE-PRESIDENT THOMAS R. MARSHALL, BISHOP JOHN HURST, HON. EMMETT J. SCOTT AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED CITIZENS ASSISTED IN DEDICATING THE ADMINISRATION BUILDING OF THE GIRLS' INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. 1930 DeLand, Fla.—We are living in an age of strange things and unusual happenings, and you may go to sleep tonight and wake up tomorrow and find an order directing you just what you must do and what you must not do, and unless you abide by this order something is liable to happen. This is what should be in order that we win this war. I am glad that I belong to this race, and soon I must be on the farm. Already they have started to work for me, and I want to see just a few more things like I have seen in this world and perhaps I will then be ready to depart in peace. To me this has been a week of feasting, a week of great big things and I have been just shouting all over myself and the people at the same time. Of course you know I am in Florida, because you have had a letter from me since I have been down here in this land of great things, the land from where so many of our people have gone, but you can hardly miss them. I spent a few days in Jacksonville, where the people of our race are just attending to business, and where they are really making the white man sit up and take notice and I don't blame them for it. Their business places are side by side with any other. Now there are Anderson & Co., bankers, and that is just one more she' nuf bank. The head of this bank is the treasurer of the National Negro Business League, Charles H. Anderson, who is also a first class fish dealer, and a first class man in every particular. But then turning from that Jacksonville, and visiting the Bethel Baptist church of which Dr. John E. Ford is pastor, and touching many other people, riding in the automobile of a millionaire, hearing William H. Harrison, of Oklahoma make one of his telling speeches, getting around with some of those big men of the city, I then turned my attention to other things. Perhaps you want to know something about the other things, and since you want to know I will have to tell you. I made it to the place where I am now, for I had been invited here by Bishop John Hurst, D. D., of Baltimore, Maryland, to see his conference, and I thought it would be a great thing, having spent so much time in the Chicago snow, I thought it nice to be in the Florida Sunshine. I rode around in the ear of Dr. John A. Gregg, who is slated for South Africa, and is at present president of Edward Waters college, and one of the finest men I have met since I have been Colored. At the appointed time I was at the stable ready to take the Seaboard Air Line for this place. That old horse did snort as if he would be sick unto death. At times he would stop for rest and some people would get off and new ones would get on, until he cried out "Deland" and that is where I was to get off. Off I got and went right on to the A. M. E. church living house, where I found Bishop and Mrs. John Hurst sitting on the veranda or some other place out front, and he at once arose shook hands with me and told me I was welcome with him, and Mrs. Hurst furnished a smile which assured me that she was in accord with her husband. The Rev. Dr. Braboy was pastor of the church, and he soon had me going to a first class stopping place in company with one of the bright minds of the conference, Dr. Charles S. Long, who is slated to succeed Dr. J. C. Caldwell. Supper was soon announced and I took that meal with the bishop and his wife. I was also invited to accompany them to Daytona on Thursday morning. There is no question about it, Bishop Hurst knows how to treat a man, because he is a man himself and has seen some of the world. He can be reached by any man in his conference, matters not how large or how small. Now about the conference. They had addresses of welcome on Tuesday night, and I never saw so many white people in one meeting in my life. They were there and to enjoy the conference. After the addresses, then followed a banquet and all free. It was in keeping with the order of the food administrator, for they served rooster salad. The rooster had been killed to order, and it was his body which laid on the altar for the preachers and others. It was good. I did eat that and plenty spoon food in shape of ice cream. The conference opened on time Wednesday morning, and I was delighted to be in it with all those good people. I witnessed the opening and heard the address of Bishop Hurst and saw them elect officers, and thought it was time for me to do a few things in keeping with the eternal fitness of things. Well it was over during the night and I was off bright and early Thursday morning. I went by had a talk with Dr. R. R. Wright, editor of the Christian Recorder and one of the brightest minds in the church. Off we were to see Daytona and the dedication of the administration building of the girls' industrial school, of which Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune is the founder. A great big car drove up to the door, and I was told that it was for Bishop John Hurst, his wife and his special guest, and I almost fainted when I was told that I was that special guest. Just to think of it, a man direct from the farm with his head still covered with hayseed to be the guest, and special guest at that of a bishop and his wife. I took the special seat in that car, and it all but left the earth, making the 22 miles in one hour, and then some time left. Now why all this? I tell you it is a great thing to be associated with big people, for you get so much out of life. You can see those who live up stairs and are contributing to the history making of the world. Mrs. Bethune is a member of our race, and if you see her you will see it at a glance. She has a fast color warranted not to run, and then she is so refined and polished with it. It was manners for me to see her and institution she has planted right down here in Florida, and has been able to bring to it some of the greatest men in America. The wealth of the country have visited this institution, and have left their marks there. On this trip Bishop Hurst was to dedicate the building and believe me he did. I never saw so many white people at a meeting of our people since I have been in the world. They were begging for standing room. They forgot all race differences and tried to get inside and there were people who were willing to have their names printed on the pro- [Name] ALDERMAN JOSEPH HIGGINS SMITH. One of the most popular members of the City Council from the Fourteenth Ward, who will not have much trouble on his hands in being re-elected to that body at the April election. gram. Now why all this? I tell you I have never seen anything like it in all my life. The afternoon was for special exercises and addresses, and you can't guess who it was that made that address. Of course you can't but it was the Vice-President of the United States, Thomas R. Marshall, and he was introduced by the Governor of Florida Sidney J. Gatta. On the same program were Dr. J. W. E. Bewen, Hon. Emmett J. Scott, and Bishop Hurst. The most important part was performed by Bishop Hurst. Scott. I have not told you all, and will not be able to do so, for it would take a whole paper. I must stop now. Will write to you again before I die. BUSINESS LEAGUE BOOSTERS NUMBER THREE By Albon L. Holsey. If this particular little article was not already named "Booster Number Three," I would call it "A Conference I Would Like to See." You know this thing of getting to When he introduced Vice-President Marshall, he was given an ovation, and he commenced his address in the following manner: "I'm not worrying about the war. We are going to win the war—win it by answering the Kaiser's battle cry of "Dutschland Ueber Alles" with "Duetchland Unter Alles." Business will take care of itself. There will always be some one to look after business. Our main concern is to see that when the world returns to its permanent condition our republic will be led by men who will preserve to the future generations the priceless heritage our fathers gave to us. Our boys are going 'over there,' some of them will never come back—perhaps a whole generation of young manhood will disappear." I wish you could have heard the rest of that address. It was one more great speech, and we were all glad to hear it. It means that there is to be on the map another Tuskegee, but this will be alone for the making of mothers, for the making of home life for the race, for it is a school for girls only. God bless Mrs. Bethune. Then followed the Governor of Florida who told the people a few things himself, for he was able to do that. This Governor advocated education as the solution of the great American problems and for a democracy. But then I shall not be able to tell you all the things he said or even thought. The Mayor of the town spoke, and in his opening remarks he declared that never before in the history of Daytona had such an eminent company gathered on a stage. He dealt with the benefits of Mrs. Bethune to Daytona, and said they were all proud of her. Now coming back. Mr. Scott missed connection but was there for the evening, but Dr. Bowen cleaned up in his speech. I wish you could have heard him, for it would have made you happy also. That evening Bishop John Hurst came back with an address that surpassed anything we had ever heard. He was the speaker of the speakers, for his address was the dedicatory address. He went back just thirteen years, when the school was on paper. He told how Mrs. Bethune entered the city with $1.50 to start a school, and how she was approached with opposition and discouragements, but she had decided that the school must be a go and she was going to place on the altar her own life. She had made up mind to win and win she did as Bishop Hurst told them. He spoke on the making of a home, and the part played by women in this. He could see a great people lifted up through the home, through noble strong and noble womanhood. He told about the woman, untrained, with her clothes pinned up to keep them from falling off of her, and many other good things. He said that the man who was discouraged in the face of the accomplishments of Mrs. Bethune should go way back and sit down. It was a wonderful speech, and then followed Mr. 1914 the City Council from the Fourteenth Ward, his hands in being re-elected to that body Scott. I have not told you all, and will not be able to do so, for it would take a whole paper. I must stop now. Will write to you again before I die. BUSINESS LEAGUE BOOSTERS NUMBER THREE By Albon L. Holsey If this particular little article was not already named "Booster Number Three," I would call it "A Conference I Would Like to See." You know this thing of getting together is "in the air." Talk with men and women of the race and all of them are agreed that what we need is for the race to get together. Race unity, race loyalty and all the other terms applied mean simply that there should be more pulling together among us for permanent progress along all lines, and I noticed last week that half a dozen or more of our leading papers were pulling hard as usual for us to pull together. Now, we return to that Conference that I would like to see. It is this: In each city or town of any size, let there be an occasional conference between housewives of our race and the Negro merchants. There is every reason, it seems to me, to commend and encourage such local conferences. In the first place, women purchase 85 per cent of the merchandise consumed in homes, which means that Colored women have control over a "mighty big" purse; a purse that jingles a billion dollars a year. These good women have said in the past some of our merchants charge higher prices; fail to give good service, to carry a diversified stock, to keep their stores attractive, etc. We know that many of our business men are modern in every particular and cannot be classed with slip-shod merchants, but the fact remains that if more of that billion dollars was spent with Negro business men, many more Negro boys and girls would be provided with suitable employment amid wholesome surroundings. So we say that now since the Government is helping to regulate prices it places our merchants on the same footing with other merchants, at least in one more particular, and there is every reason why such local conferences would serve to get our women better acquainted with them. Whoever calls a conference in your city will begin a movement of far reaching possibilities. All of which reminds me that the progressive Local Negro Business League at Savannah, Georgia, has decided to have a Ladies Auxiliary. That Local League is a model in many respects. (To be continued next week.) ST. MARK METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 50th St. and Wabash Ave. The pastor's morning sermon on Neighborhood Prayer Meetings was well received by the people. Last week there was held more than a score of these Neighborhood Prayer Meetings in different sections of the city. Each leader is holding one or two in the section of the city given him. How to fight the high cost of living was the subject at the Lyceum last Sunday afternoon. A very interesting discussion was held. The dedication of the service flag will be held Sunday night under the auspices of the Sunday school. Special music. Address by the pastor on "The Colored Soldier." PAGE THREE The CRANFORD Apartment Building 3600 Wabash Avenue THE NEW YORK MUSEUM FREE STYLE BOOK --- HAIR To Colored Women We are the largest manufacturer of Colored Women's Hair. Our latest book shows new styles in hair dressing new free. We now sell men should have one. We sell thousands our hair and add the inflection guaranteed or money back. We make the best MILKY HAIR guaranteed. With each comb we give lamp cap FREE. Send money order or stamps. MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFACTORY. $129 postpaid. POSTPAID $199 Hair note, business, comb and toilet articles manufacturer's price. Send two-count stamp. Agents Wanted. Address as follows: HUNAMA HAIR COMPANY. 121-IN Park Row, New York City. 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M., 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P. M. SUNDAYS: 1:30 to 2:30 P. M. and by appointment OFFICE AND RESIDENCE: 1924 W. Lake Street, CHICAGO DUCING OIL Euthers May Go, but Steady ra Home, the "Dough." These are the times when all classes of people, whether they so desire or not, are forced to take careful and serious thought as to their daily food supplies. For the first time in the history of this country, which has always produced more foodstuffs than its own people could consume, there is a serious shortage of almost everything that goes to supply our tables. This does not mean that we have not produced, as we always have, more than enough to meet our own needs; but it does mean that we are called upon to share with other peoples, not only our surplus food supplies, but a goodly portion of that which under ordinary conditions we would use ourselves. It has often been charged, and now admitted, that we are a careless, wasteful people. Now, because of the conditions created by the great world war, we are compelled to practice the most rigid economy, even to the point of self-denial, in the use of foods, and all to the end that starvation and famine may not obtain in the lands across the sea. So that where we have been lavish, careless and wasteful in our use of foods, now we must be careful and economical. This is why we now have meatless and wheatless days here, in order that we may help to prevent eatless days, both at home and abroad. The U. S. Food Administration is now giving some timely hints on food saving, both in the matter of selections of foods and in the ways they are prepared to make them both palatable and nutritious. For example, meat in the form of stews is highly recommended, because they can be made from the cheaper priced meat and when combined with vegetables and properly made they are delicious and nourishing. It is a mistake to think that one must eat a lot of meat in order to be strong. Meat is good to build up the body; so too are many other foods. In a meat stew part of the building material you need comes from the meat, which is, of course, the expensive part of the dish; but a goodly part of this same needed material also comes from the peas, beans, hominy, barley and potatoes. The comparatively small proportion gives flavor to the meal and gives, with the cereals or vegetables, what your body needs. Here is a recipe for a stew for five people: One pound of mutton, $ \frac{1}{2} $ cut pearl barley, 1 tablespoon salt, 4 potatoes, 3 onions, celery tops. To prepare, cut the mutton in small pieces and brown with the onion in fat cut from the meat. Pour this into a covered sauce pan and add two quarts of water and the barley. Simmer for $ \frac{1}{2} $ hour. Then add the potatoes cut in quarters, seasoning, herbs and cook $ \frac{1}{2} $ hour longer. A delicious beef stew for five people can be made in the same way, using peas, carrots and potatoes. The stews can be changed to make them different and to suit the season. And in the making of these stews the meats can be of the cheaper kinds. This means the cheap cuts, such as the flank, rump, neck or brisket. The long, slow cooking makes them both tender and palatable. Game and poultry may also be used with equal success. In the making potatoes and barley may be used, or barley alone, or rice, hominy or macaroni. Carrots, turnips, onions, peas, beans and cabbage can be used as desired. In this way a variety of excellent stews that are both appetizing and nourishing may be served. See your seedsman early. Get his catalog and booklet of advice on gardening, or write at once to the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., and you will receive a circular giving valuable information on back yard and vacant lot gardening. THE WOMAN'S STATE COUNCIL OP DEFENSE. Rock Island County. "Moline women are wide awake and active in all branches of war work," writes Mrs. Frank Gates Allen of that city. "Every branch of Red Cross work is receiving due attention; food conservation is being taught in the schools, and several lines of educational work are being pushed. In the latter connection the night school maintained for the foreign born population, including many Belgians, is of great interest." Mrs. Allen, backed by the Moline Woman's Club, has been active in establishing a branch library in every township, using churches and school houses as distributing centers. Working with the Woman's Club the Moline unit of the C. N. D. has established three milk stations in as many school houses where milk is sold to children at cost. It is hoped that more of such stations will be opened. Alexander County is intensely patriotic. The ten schools of Cairo and the twenty-eight of the county are well organized, and are teaching food conservation and food production. Canning clubs are also being formed among the children. Public libraries are loyally co-operating and are giving constant information to the public by means of their bulletin boards. Great interest has also been aroused in the fight against tuberculosis. The county is planning to hire a trained nurse to give general instruction in the care of this disease. The Cairo Unit, C. N. D., has As Near As Your Telephone DISTANCE IMMATERIAL IN a Metropolitan City of this size, death knocks every thirty minutes at some door. Too often that death not only brings sorrow, but misfortune as well. Let the price you pay for a funeral be a business proposition and you will benefit by it in service, quality and cost to you in dollars and cents. The result of my campaigns built for me one of the largest and most magnificent establishments in the world. Consult me, I can save you Worry. Shipping to all parts of the Country Funerals a Specialty. Central Di Chapel. Call promptly answered da Ernest H. 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They have started a campaign for placing a food card in every window, and are sending out food bulletins through the school children. A demonstration on food production and conservation is soon to be given at Mattoon by the Household Science Department of the University of Illinois. The Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, 2559 Michigan Ave., Chicago, is offering its second course for volunteer workers with the Civilian Division of the Red Cross, with the Home Charities, or in protective work for girls. This will begin Monday, April 8th, and end May 17th. There is no fee for admission for this course but the student must pledge fifteen hours a week of practice work in addition to attending the lectures during the six weeks, and at least fifteen hours a week thereafter until 210 hours of practice have been accomplished. This practice work will be arranged by the school with the case work agency or with the Juvenile Protective Association. Mrs. John Patton, whose husband is connected with the 370th U. S. Infantry, has been confined to her home from illness the past week. Dr. A. G. Fairfax, the leading physician and surgeon of Maywood, III, is among the many new subscribers to The Broad Ax and he admires it very much. Roger Green, son of Mr. and Mrs. David O. Green, 10235 Charles street, Washington Heights, departed this life the latter part of last week from pneu- [Name] PHONE DOUGLAS 1714 DAN M. JACKSON GEQ. T. KERSEY DAVID A. MCGOWAN AHMED A. RAYNER Reliable Service Coles County. CHIPS Chicago, IL Phones Calumet 0114 Automatic 71-629 Automobiles for Him BOUGLAS IN Phone BOUGLAS IN AUTO. BIN CHICAGO monla. For some time he was one of Uncle Sam's soldiers. His father, Mr Green, has for many years worked in the Chicago postoffice, and he and Mr Green have the sympathy of their many friends. --- Edward Tidrington, 3221 Prairie avenue, who is one of the big Odd Fellows in this city, has been selected chairmen on the committee on arrangements for the celebration of "Peter Ogden Day" and to be actively connected with other festivities which will shortly occur among the Odd Fellows, including their annual sermon. THE FORWARD MOVEMENT BALLY WAS HELD AT BETHEL CHURCH LAST SUNDAY, UNDER THE AUSPIES OF THE A. M. B. MISTERS' ALLIANCE OF CHICAGO Under the Chairmanship of the Rev. Dr. Floyd Grant Snelson, president of the A. M. E. Ministers' Alliance of Chicago and Vicinity, the African Methodist Episcopal Churches held a man moth "Forward Movement Bally" to aid the Rev. W. H. Griffin and member of Hyde Park A. M. E. Church to award their building fund in the erection of their new church edifice. The pastor reported as follows: Dr. F. G. Snelson for St. Mary's A. M. E. Church, $55.50; Dr. A. J. Carey for The Institutional Church, $41; Dr. Timothy Reeves for Wayman Chapel, $20; Dr. I. N. Daniel for St. John Church, Englewood, $5; Dr. N. J. McCracken, $5; Rev. T. J. Merritt, for Morgan Park A. M. E. Church, $16.50; Dr. B. U. Taylor, for Stephen A. M. E. Church, $16, which will be increased to $50; Rev. W. H. Griffin, for Hyde Park Church, $41; Dr. J. C. Anderson for Quinn Chapel, $105.50; Dr. T. L. Scott for Grant Chapel, $60.50; Dr. W. D. Cook, for Bethel Church, $250.46; Bishop L. Coppin sent a check for $50 from Philadelphia. Rev. James Higgins, $5; Dr. Fenwick, $2. Grand total, $1,050.76. The sermon was delivered by Rev. T. L. Scott, and enthusiastic addresses were made by each pastor. It was undoubtedly the greatest African Methodist demonstration ever held in Chicago, the largest amount ever collected in an union effort of all the A. M. E. Church. The Forward Movement is a reality, and promises large results in the future.