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One Year. 81 80 Six Months. 1 00 Three Months. 50 Subscribers are requested to remit by post office money order or registered letter. Entered at the post office in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class matter. All communications should be addressed: H. C. SMITH. AUTED PRINTING TRADE S COUNCIL CLEVELAND CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, AUG. 31, 1901. THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. We hope the report being circulated by the press of the country to the effect that the McMillan Publishing Co. is withdrawing from the market William Hannibal Thomas's disreputable and alleged history of the "American Negro" is true. It ought never to have been published. The Mobile (Ala.) Weekly Press seems unfamiliar with the Afro-American of the North and his condition. Our good friend, Editor Johnson, should study both more thoroughly. The powers-that-be in both the government and Republican politics care no more for the northern Afro-American and his vote than for our southern brethren. This is true for the first time since the close of the war. Ohio Afro-Americans and others of the north are seeking to change this condition. We do not propose longer to "endure the evils" without resorting to means and methods which we feel sure will bring about a change in our favor. It will not be necessary to affiliate with the democratic party to accomplish this, either. In spite of the protest of the white Cubans, Gov. Gen. Wood, an American (white), insists upon barring the colored Cubans from the new Cuban artillery organization which is soon to be formed to garrison the Havana forts when United States troops are withdrawn. Wood is very close to President McKinley, who, in repeatedly elevating the former in the last few years, has broken all army records since the war of the rebellion. He is this country's chief representative on the island and would not dare take such a step unless it was sanctioned by President McKinley and Senator Hanna. The McKinley administration is not only ignoring the disfranchisement of four or five hundred thousand Afro-Americans in the south, but is also adding to this vital injury the distressing insult of mistreating colored Cubans and building up an American color-line in that country, something heretofore practically unknown there. Ohio Afro-American republicans, particularly, should study carefully this situation and understand it as soon as possible. Our readers will notice by referring to the Worcester, Mass., letter on our first page to-day that the statement made in The Gazette of last week, to the effect that the white professional bicycle riders of this country had formed a combine, as a result of their prejudice, to prevent "Major" Taylor, the champion American cyclist, from winning the honor again this year, is correct. Taylor confirms our statement in an interview published in the letter referred to. There seems to be no limit to the increasing American prejudice against the Afro-American. However, there is still a chance for the "Major" to again win the championship, owing to the fact that a number of additions have been made to the list of circuit meets, if the mistreatment he calls attention to is stopped as it should be. Kramer leads Taylor by about 20 points and Lawson by two or three. The "Major" is unquestionably the fastest rider in the world. The very fact of the existence of the combine referred to proves this, when it is remembered that he has so recently beaten the champion of Europe, Jacquelin. Much indignation prevails in colored church circles, because, under the guise of talking about poor Ruthven's conversion, Mrs. Clara A. Bissell went to St. Paul's church on Sunday afternoon and delivered a republican stump speech. But perhaps she had to do this as part of her political work, to earn the $10,000 which it is said the party has promised her if she wins back the colored vote of Ohio to Nash.—Columbus (O.) Afro-America. Mrs. Bissell (white) is the lady who espoused the cause of Nicholas Heeney (white) and had much to do with securing for him a life sentence in the penitentiary instead of electrocution. Heeney most brutally murdered an old man here in Cleveland for a few dollars, who had given him food when he was starving. This much he confessed to. Ruthven, an Afro-American, convicted on CIRCUMSTANTIAL evidence none too strong, was sentenced to death in the same court room and electrocuted. Of twenty odd persons convicted of murder, in a year, he, the only Afro-American of the number, was sent to the electric chair, and, too, on circumstantial evidence none too strong. If he killed Officer Shipp no one saw him do it. Therefore there was and is no direct proof, nor can there be, that Ruthven was guilty of the crime for which he was electrocuted. Un- der the circumstances, Afro-Americans of Ohio were justified in asking Gov. Nash to commute his sentence to life imprisonment, and we are indeed sorry that it was not done. Gov. Nash is a gentleman of the "old school," an eminent jurist, and, we believe, friendly to our people. Such acts as Mrs. Bissell's, the one to which the Afro-American objects, are only calculated to aggravate an already bad condition, and we suggest their discontinuance. The excuse given, that Mrs. Bissell is interceding with the governor in the interest of a pardon for "Mrs. Ruthven" but adds fuel to the fire. Our people are not interested in the woman because she is not entitled to their sympathy, nor was she Ruthven's wife. We take no "stock" in the $10,000 part of the Afro-American's statement. SOUTHERN LYNCHERS ASSAIL ITALY. The lynching outrages in America still continue as an exceptional business in the affairs of the world. It is an extremely American practice, but in savagery and cruelty it surpasses anything known among heathen nations. Whence originated this spirit of barbarism needs scarcely any argument when it is remembered that Americans trained themselves to deeds of crime and brutality in time of slavery and are to-day reaping what they sowed. But being a people of strong mental calibre, it seems hardly pardonable in them that the animal should dominate the intellectual and thus debase in character the noblest nation on the face of the globe. But the truth of this declaration is being verified every day. Enervation and imbecility seem to constitute the dominant feature of the national character. The display of pride and pomp and of power, wealth and learning is no evidence in proof that within so short a time deterioration is not gradually taking the place of our once maturing growth. But the cowardly and dastardly act of taking human life without law reveals the fact that no man's life is safe in America. If he be black or if he be poor and the hand of suspicion points to him, the maddened gang is allowed to do its murderous work and no brave man dares plead the cause of justice. The killing of the two Italians at Erwin, Miss., only betrays the insanity and recklessness of a set of men whose inordinate passions had impelled them to over-reach their wildest dreams. These Italians were poor men and they were foreigners. So these bad men considering the fact that poor men and foreigners were not as a matter of course in line with the bloods and the aristocracy whose bidding they serve, at once assumed the task of heartless butchers. The world, however, is not in sympathy with this sort of butchery and the continuance of cases of this kind must eventually bring other nations to see that an insult to Italy is an insult to themselves and if Italy must submit with impunity, so must they. Bad enough as it is that Americans kill their own citizens without law, that the poor, the helpless and the proscribed are made victims to lawless bands and no word of protest is heard from the sister nations. Yet if the great powers of the earth understand themselves in their relation to each other, it becomes them to shield not only their citizens and subjects, but to insist that the laws of Christian civilization and of justice shall be everywhere enforced and respected. Americans have no more right to murder one of their own citizens without law than they have to seek and take life in some foreign country. Life at home should be held more sacred. The ties of a common citizenship and a common people should be so endearing to every American heart that no man should lose his life without the verdict of the law. But Americans more in the spirit of sheer cowardice abuse their own authority and strike with vengeful hand those who are offtimes found to be innocent victims. Southerners themselves are to be concerned in this lynching. They invite immigration to their section and Italians for very good reasons seek those states most congenial to themselves, and it is claimed that there is need in the south of that sort of labor for which Italian immigrants from the peasant classes are so well adapted, and even a million of Chinamen, it is said, are urgently needed in the south and at once. This seems to be the demand of the southern white press. But if the Negro labor element of the south is to share so little protection in life and property, what inducement can there be to any laboring class to seek homes among the southern people? We are of the opinion that the same spirit which defies law and vents its spleen in vengeful wrath against one labor element will lead to greater complications and involve the country in such international questions as to baffle the best efforts of the government to allay the growing evil of the mob unless more stringent measures are adopted to destroy now and at once the force and influence of the lynchers. Mob violence should be suppressed, the leaders of the mob should be hunted down and they should die. The taking of human life is an unpardonable crime; because it is an assault upon the life of the nation, and he who sheds human blood in the name of the mob, and especially innocent blood, is as much a murderer as the tried and convicted criminal dying upon the gallows. His Father, the Sexton. His Father. The section. Towson, Md. — Rev. Charles W. Brooks, of Birmingham, Ala., preached on August 18 at Trinity P. E. church (white), of which his father, Albert Brooks, sr., is sexton. An invitation was given to our people to be present, and a number availed themselves of the opportunity. The clergyman is rector of St. Mark's P. E. church at Birmingham and has charge of the Academic and Industrial school connected with the church. He was ordained in Trinity church some time before he went south. He married a former teacher in one of our schools of Baltimore county. --- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1901. "JIM CROW" CAMP-FIRE The Second Color-Line Act of the G. A. R. Encampment Executive Committee. Hop. Frederick Douglass' Son and Attorney Pinn, Both Old Soldiers, Denounce the Executive Committee's "Jim Crow Tag Ends"—Our Newspapers Speak Out! From one end of the country to the other our prominent men, newspapers and organizations, including many of our old soldiers and sailors, are denouncing in no uncertain tones the "Jim Crow" attempts of the local G. A. R. encampment citizens' executive committee. This is as it should be. We predicted when the "Jim Crow tag end" committee was first constituted and then reorganized that that was only the beginning and that other color-lines would be drawn as the preparations for the encampment progressed. Now comes a "Jim Crow" camp-fire—just as we predicted—and all the Afro-American veterans who come here to attend the national G. A. R. event will be crowded into the Grays' armory on September 11, if such a thing is possible. Those of the original committee (a majority) who refused to serve on the "Jim Crow" committee are entitled to unqualified praise. I nose who were appointed to succeed them and accepted show that they are ashamed of their action by keeping their names from the public. That they have that much shame left is all that surprises us. Their acceptance of a place on such a committee shows what they are, and our people should mark them. The excerpts from the newspapers and the letters that follow, are self-explanatory. Messrs. Douglass and Pinn are both old soldiers, the latter being an official upon the staff of the commander of the G. A. R.: "The citizens' committee" of Cleveland, O., would not dare sidetrack the colored heroes of the civil war, were it not for a kindred feeling in the G. A. R. ranks. True, there are a few Grants, Shermans, Healys and Butlers left to battle for right and they have the power to enthuse others and gain a signal victory and send the hydraheaded demon—caste—to everlasting oblivion. In defense of the Union and the flag, the blood of black and white mingled, and their bones bleached on hundreds of battlefields, and now, in their hoary age and decrepid condition, will the old men—all on the verge of the grave—turn their backs on the black heroes of Richmond, Petersburg, Nashville, Port Hudson, Fort Pillow, Olustee and other famous battlefields? God forbid. Had it not been for these black men's bravery the flag may have been torn to shreds and the sacred cause of right and the life of the Union lost. Read the folling and then swear to God as Butler did, and live and die by the oath as he did, and let us live for all time to come, as we fought, in love together.—Martinsburg (W. Va.) Pioneer Press. JIM CROW IN CLEVELAND True to its record, The Cleveland Gazette devotes considerable space to the action of the committee, in that city, in making preparations for the G. A. R. meeting there this fall. It seems that at first no attention was paid to the Negro at all. When it was discovered that several thousand Negro comrades would attend the encampment, an "auxiliary" committee composed of 18 Negroes was appointed. Out of this 18 only four or five attended the meeting, as will be seen by reading The Gazette article in another column. The World is glad to note that a majority of these Negroes refused to accept the appointment on this "Jim Crow" committee. If there is any place where the colorline should not be drawn it is certainly in Grand Army circles. It was by the bravery of the white soldier that the Negro received his freedom and was admitted to citizenship. The Negro troops were placed on the same footing and received the same pay as the white troops. There was no "auxiliary" committee at Fort Pillow where so many Negro troops were ruthlessly slaughtered. There white and black stood shoulder to shoulder, with their faces to the foe, until overpowered by the enemy. There was no "auxiliary" committee when the 54th Massachusetts, on the 18th of July, 1863, under the leadership of the gallant Col. Shaw, charged Fort Wagner and left half its number dead or wounded upon the field, Col. Shaw being among the killed. Negro soldiers were good enough then to lead the assault and draw the fire of the rebels, and we are sorry to see the situation as it exists in Cleveland. That situation, however, is not of the Negro's making and he ought to be able to stand it if the white man can. Our friend, Hon. H. C. Smith, of the Cleveland Gazette, deserves great credit for the persistent and intelligent fight he is making against this condition, and we are inclined to think that the failure of the majority of the "auxiliary" committee to attend the meeting is due in a great measure to his well directed blows against such things in the past. With enough papers like The Gazette and The World to keep pounding away at the Negroes who show a disposition to play second fiddle in cases of this kind, there are grounds for a faint hope that in time the race will reach a point where all will refuse to assist the white man in drawing the color line in such affairs as a G. A. R. encampment, at least. — Indianapolis (Ind.) World. DOUGLASS' LETTER. Washington, D. C., Aug. 8, 1901. Friend Smith: Your exposure of the "Jim Crow" features of Cleveland's entertainment for the Grand Army encampment is timely. I regret that it cannot get into every paper in the land so that no self-respecting Negro veteran will darken the doors of Cleveland or accept its "Jim Crow" hospitality. Yours truly, CHAS. R. DOUGLASS. (Major C. R. Douglass is a son of Hon. Frederick Douglass.) Massillon, O., August 17, 1901 Massillon, O., August 17, 1901. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir: In today's Cleveland Leader under the head of "Program for G. A. R. Week" on page 5 is printed a list of campfires, and among them is the following: "Gray's Armory, Sept. 11.—Camp fire of Colored Veterans. Speakers: President McKinley, Hon. Charles W. Anderson, Gen. O. O. Howard, Governor Nash, Hon. T. E. Burton, Corporal Tanver. I am acquainted with IN pursuance of an order of the Probate Court of Cuyahoga county, Ohio. I will offer for sale, at public auction, on Saturday, the 7th day of September, 1901, between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock a. m., at the south door of the Court House in the city of Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga and state of Ohio, the following described real estate: Situated in the city of Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga and state of Ohio, and known as being 26% feet front and rear off the front side of sub lot No. 70 in James M. Hoyt's allotment of part of 10 acre lots 123 and 124, the same amount of land, in 1 page 23 of maps and subdivision of lands in said county, and is 26% feet front on McHenry street, and is 1:2 feet deep. Sald property is appraised at nine hundred dollars ($900.00). Terms of sale: One-third (%) cash in hand; one-third (%) in one year; one-third in two years from date of sale with interest. Payments to be secured by mortgage upon the premises sold. J. R. DUNNING, Admir. de bonis non of the estate of Peter Burke, deceased. 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This encampment proposes to be a meeting of all veterans of the Civil War and they are supposed to meet upon a common level and mingle freely with each other. It is neither an encampment of white veterans nor of colored veterans but I am sorry to note the fact that in your city of Cleveland, where, if at any place, we would expect fair treatment, we have seen the color line drawn in all of the preparations. I see no colored men's names on the lists of any of the committees, but instead there is one and perhaps more colored committees. Why is this? Can the people of Cleveland explain? The veterans who propose to visit your city have certainly not asked that any such distinction be made. Very truly yours. Aide-de-camp on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, G. A. R.; Past Commander, Hart Post, No. 134, and Past Junior Vice Commander, Department of Ohio, G. A. R. Prejudiced Americans "Fired." Prejudiced Americans "Fired." London, England.—The Afro-American delegates to the international ecumenical council, which is to meet in Wesley's chapel in City road, London, next month are already arriving. Their advent is causing unexpected difficulty at one of the big hotels in the West End, where a large number 01 fool white Americans are staying. The latter affected amazement at the announcement that some 200 Afro-Americans were coming, protested to the proprietor, and asked that the Afro-Americans be accommodated in a separate part of the hotel. They got a "hot turn-down." The proprietor declined to interfere, with the result that some of the prejudiced Americans are already arranging to leave, much to the satisfaction of those most concerned. The proprietor says: "I could not think of offering an insult to such men as Bishop Derrick, of New York; Bishop Tanner, of Philadelphia; Bishop Gaines, of Atlanta, and Bishop Arnett. I told the Americans that when the Indian princes were here no one objected to meet them, and I don't propose to make any distinction at the expense of Africans." New Brighton, Pa., Brevities. New Brighton, Pa., Brevities. Mrs. Robert Webb accompanied Mrs. J. F. Stewart Thursday to New Jersey.—Mrs. Scott, of Pittsburg, was here visiting her son, Earl.—Mrs. Dawson's two nieces and nephew from Andover, are here.—Miss Mary Bean left for Pittsburg and Miss May Webb for New Castle recently.—The True Reformers of Rochester had their annual sermon preached by Rev. Anderson Sunday.—Bethel church of Bridgewater held a reunion picnic at Beaver Falls Thursday afternoon.—The True Reformers held a festival the 29th.—Rev. Hawkins, pastor c Zion church, of Bridgewater, held camp-meeting at Hookstown the 25th.—Mrs. Samuel Webster, of Rochester, was here Friday.—Mrs. John Webster and daughter are visiting in Allegheny.—Mrs. Williams and daughter left the 27th for Washington, Pa.—Miss Nellie Lee, The Gazette correspondent, is visiting in Youngstown, Jailed for Marrying: Wheeling, W. Va.—Frank Graves (white), of good appearance and evident breeding, and Rev. J. R. Atkins, pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist church, were arrested on the 22d and jailed on what seems to be a serious charge. On the 21st Graves, whose home is in this city, was married to Irene May Taylor, of Pittsburg. Irene is dark brown with nearly straight hair and good looking. Atkins performed the ceremony. The West Virginia statute provides a fine of $100 and a year in prison for any white person who marries a Negro, and a fine of $200 for the minister or officer who performs the ceremony. 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Meyers has resigned his position in the Marine band to accept a better one.—Miss Leola Allen and Mrs. Mabel Curry, guests of Mrs. Allen, left for Cleveland Tuesday.—Miss Sylvia Grimes spent a day in the city last week. As to Mixed Marriages. It is said that mixed marriages—those of whites and Negroes—have increased in New York City in the past five years. In 1895 there were 729 such marriages, 369 Negroes having married white women, and 360 colored women having been married to white men. Last year there were 1,846, in which 920 Negro women were married to white men, and 926 Negroes married white women. While we are not the least anxious to see this kind of business carried on, we prefer it to the system of concubinage so generally practiced between the races throughout the south. This unlawful system is responsible for a greater number of lynchings than is the unnamable crime to which they are usually credited.—New Orleans S. W. C. Advocate. 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Arrives—INDIANAPOLIS, 8:10 P. M. Arrives—ST. LOUIS, 9:45 P. M., same night. Arrives—KANSAS CITY, 7 next morning. Arrives-KANSAS CITY, next morning With Fine Vestibule Coaches, Drawing Room and Dining Cars to Indianapolis and St. Louis, also Coach and Parlor Cars to Columbus and Cincinnati. One of the fastest and finest trains in the country. 5 Fast Trains to Columbus, 4 to Chicago, with Sleeping and Dining Cars. Trains from and to Cleveland. Leave. Arrive. *Col. Cin. Ind. & St. Louis. 3:35 a.m. 1:50 a.m. *Galion & Intermediate. 7:00 a.m. 6:30 p.m. *St. Louis Ltd. Ind. Col. Cin. 8:00 a.m. 10:25 p.m. *Col. Springer'd. Day. Ind. Springfield, Day.... 12:35 p.m. 2:55 p.m. Cln.... 12:35 p.m. 2:55 p.m. *Indianapolis & St. Louis. 1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. Gallon to Cleveland. 9:00 a.m. To Gallon and 'columbus. 4:00 p.m. *Col. Spring, Day. 9:40 p.m. 5:50 a.m. Get Tickets. COLLVER'S. 116 EUCLID AVE. PHEL Main 910. NICKEL RATE. The New York, Chicago & St. Louis R.R. All trains stop at Euclid avenue. Broadway and Pearl street. City ticket office 189 Superior street. Tel Main 218. All trains arrive and depart from Van Buren St., Union Passenger Station, Chicago. Eastward. Arrive. Depart. No. 6, Standard Express... 9 55 am 10 12 am No. 4, Eastern Express... 2 06 am 2 16 am No. 2, Nickel Plate Ex... 8 12 pm 8 22 pm Westward. Arrive. Depart. No. 1, Western Express... 4 46 am 4 56 am No. 5, Standard Express... 7 00 pm 7 20 pm No. 3, Nickel Plate Ex... 11 13 am 11 20 am Local Freight *8 50 pm *6 40 am *Daily. except Sunday. All express daily. Through sleepers on all trains. Chicago, Buffalo, New York, and Boston. Unexcelled dining cars and depot restaurants operated by the company. Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling R'y. VALLEY DEPOT. Depart. Arrive. Cleve. & Wheeling Ex..... 7 20 am 12 00 m Cleve. & Wheeling Ex..... 1 55 pm 6 00 pm Cleve. Uhrichsville Av..... 5 10 pm 9 50 m Sunday trains between Cleveland and Uhrichsville arrive at 9:00 a. m. and 6:00 p. m. Depart at 7:20 a. m. and 6:00 p. m. Cleveland Union Station. Pennsylvania Lines Foot of Bank Street. TICKET OFFICES at Union Station, Euclid Av. and Woodland Av. Stations. New City Ticket Office, N.A. Euclid Av. Cor. Public Sq. THROUGH TRAINS RUN AS FOLLOWS BY CENTRAL TIME Daily. Daily except Sunday. From Cleveland to Leave. Arrive. Pittsburg & Bellaire. *+7 00am *+11 20pm Salem & Pittsburg. *+8 00am *+8 30pm Salem & Pittsburg. *+4 0pm *+11 30pm Philadelphia & New York. *+00pm *+11 30pm Baltimore & Washington. *+10pm *+11 30pm Pittsburg, Bellaire & East. *+14pm *+16 30pm Baltimore & Washington. *+14pm *+16 30pm Ravenna & Alliance. *+5 0pm *+8 10pm Philadelphia & New York. *+11 30pm *+5 0pm Baltimore & Washington. *+11 30pm *+5 0pm Pittsburg & Wellsville. *+11 30pm *+5 00am MT. VERNON & PAN-HANDLE ROUTE. From Cleveland to Leave. Arrive. Akron Columbus & Cincinnati. *+8 10am *+5 50pm Indianapolis & St. Louis. *+8 10am *+5 50pm Milersburg & Columbus. *+12pm *+10 50pm Col. Cn. Ind. & St. L. *+7 30am *+7 30am THE GLEVELAND, TERMINAL & VALLEY R. R. GO. Depot foot of South Water street. City office 241 Superior street. Arrive. Depart. Valley Jc. & Way Stations... *0* 20 pm *7* 15 am Wheeling & Chicago... *0* 25 pm *7* 15 am Akron, Canton & Pittsburgh *0* 23 pm *11* 20 am Akron, Canton & Wheeling *0* 10 03 am *3* 25 am Akron, Canton & Chicago. *8* 00 am *6* 32 am Akron, Canton. Marietta *2* 10 pm *11* 00 am Wash, Balto and Phila... *10* 5 am *3* 00 am *Daily except Sunday.* *Daily.* Pullman vestibule sleeping cars between Cleveland and Chicago also between Cleveland, Pittsburg, Washington and Baltimore. J. E. GALBRAITH. Traffic Manager. Half Rates TO INDIANAPOLIS and Return VIA BIG FOUR ROUTE ON ACCOUNT OF Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., September 16th to 21st, 1901. Round trip tickets to Indianapolis, Ind., will be on sale from all "Big Four" points on September 13, 14, and 15, 1901, (also on September 16th from points within a radius of 100 miles from Indianapolis.) at rate of one fare for the round trip. (No fare less than 25 cents.) Tickets good for return until September 23rd, 1901. AND TO Norfolk, Va., ON ACCOUNT OF Concatenated Order of HOO HOO, September 9th to 13th, 1901. Round trip tickets to Norfolk, Va. will be on sale on September 7th and 8th, 1901, from all "Big Four" points at rate of one fare for the round trip. Tickets good for return leaving Norfolk not later than September 15, 1901. For full information and particulars as to rates, tickets, limits, etc., call on agents "Big Four" Route, or address the undersigned. WARREN J. LYNCH, W. P. DEPPE. Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt. Asst. G. P. & T. A. CINCINNATI, O. D. JAY OLLVER, 116 Euclid Ave. CLEVELAND, O. Visitors to the Pan Am. If you want delightful accommodations stop at THE ROSEMOND 246 Glenwood Ave., BUFFALO, N. Y. In the beautiful "Cold Spring" district. 12 minutes ride from Exposition grounds. Special rates to parties and by the week. Address, MRS. NELSON S. FAIRBUSH, 246 Glenwood Ave., BUFFALO, N. Y. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—Subscribers not receiving THE GAZETTE regularly should notify us AT ONCE. We desire every copy delivered promptly. We advise our patrons to carefully examine THE GAZETTE's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of Afro-Americans. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line. CLEVELAND. SATURDAY. AUG. 31, 1901. PUSHAW'S News Store, Cuyahoga Building opposite the Post Office. Open Sunday. N. HEXTER'S News Depot, City Hall Building, cor. Wood and Superior streets. Open Sunday. S. H. MOODY'S News Store, No. 387 Superior street, second west of Bond street. Open Sundays also. GOODMAN'S News Depot, No. 586 Central avenue, cor. Sterling avenue. Open Sunday. TARRER & THOMAS' Restaurant, No. 608 Central Ave. Open Sundays also. F. VALENTINE'S Grocery Store, 366 Central Ave. ALEX. O. TAYLOR, Local Reporters. J. EDWIN DUNJILL MR. HENRY TAYLOR, Advertising Solicitor WANTED—Bright young man or lady (Afro-American) to canvass for a high-grade staple article. Trade once established gives you a permanent income. Call between 10 and 11 a. m. at No. 372 Colonial Arcade. Mrs. W. H. Valentine and children, of No. 3 Quebec street, left the past week for Mt. Clare, N. J., to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Turner. Mrs. J. W. Nooks and little daughter, Madeline, left last week Wednesday for Chicago to visit her father and brother, Mr. Robert Jones and son, jr. Miss Ada G. Mackey, of Richmond, Ky., stopped with Mrs. Sadie Turner, of 27 Quebec street, a few days last week while en route to the Pan-American. Rev. F. L. Ferguson, P. E., will be in Cleveland Sunday and will hold quarterly meeting at Cory chapel. The Epworth League and S. S. institute will convene at Elyria next Tuesday and Wednesday. The Willing Workers will give a social Monday evening. Misses A. Wilson, M. Nunn, N. Bedford, M. Corbin and Willie Donaldson will go as delegates to Elyria from Cory chapel. Mrs. Katie Corman and son, of New York City, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Coe, of No. 72 Grant street. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Moore have issued invitations to the marriage of their daughter, Anna J. Evalena, to Aaron John Oliver, September 19, at Mt. Zion church. A reception will be held from 8:30 to 12 p. m. at No. 565 Central avenue. Mrs. Walter Brown is visiting her sister in Detroit. Mr. John Frazer has returned from Detroit. Miss Marguerite Wilson has resigned as organist of Shiloh church. Miss Almeeta Johnson succeeds her. Miss Wilson has served the church faithfully the past five years and will for the next few weeks devote her time to matrimonial preparations. Prof. W. H. Mayo, principal of the colored schools of Frankfort, Ky., was the guest of Dr. Joseph Carroll last week. Mr. and Mrs. J. Walter Wills, of Central avenue, gave a very pleasant reception last week Friday evening in honor of Mrs. Dr. J. G. Mitchell, of Wilberforce. Among the guests present from abroad were: Mrs. Henderson, of Indianapolis, and Mrs. McAdoo, of Columbus. Mrs. J. W. Noble is quite sick. Mrs. Ora Johnson, of Ann Arbor, Mich., is the guest of Mrs. F. F. Scott, of Sterling avenue. Rev. Chas. Mohammed, of Tangier, Morocco, North Africa, preached last Sunday evening to a large audience at St. John's church. Mrs. Barber, who was the guest of Mrs. Walker, of Harmon street, has returned to Wheeling. Miss, Mary Booze and Miss Ferrell, of Bluefield, W. Va., were guests of the former's cousin, A. L. Seames, last Sunday. Miss Booze is lady principal of the Bluefield institute and Miss Ferrell a teacher. They were en route home from Buffalo. Misses Fox and Ella Manley, of Tiffin, were guests of Mrs. Whiting, of Halsey street, last Sunday. They were en route to Buffalo. Miss Margaret B. Wilson, of 15 Cedar avenue, organist of Shiloh church the past five years, resigned recently. She will be married Wednesday evening, September 11, to Dr. J. Milton Hopkins, at Trinity cathedral. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson will reside in Alexandria, Va., after October 15. Miss Almeda Johnson, of Greenwood street, has succeeded Miss Wilson as organist. Mr. John Scott, aged 70 years, of No. $679_{1/2}$ Sterling avenue, died Thursday, August 22, and was buried Saturday, Rev. J. S. Jackson officiating. The deceased was born in Baltimore, Md., May 20, 1831, and lived here about 21 years. He was a sergeant in the Sixth U. S. C. T. during the rebellion. Mr. Scott was highly respected. He leaves a wife, two sons and one daughter. The latter desire to thank friends for kindnesses during their father's illness. J. A. Rogers, our undertaker, had charge of the funeral and rendered splendid service. Interment in Woodland cemetery. Be sure to attend the Labor Day party at Woodliff hall, Monday evening, September 2, under the auspices of the Century Social club. Music by Gilliam's orchestra. Admission 25 cents. MissLouise Snyder, daughter of Mr. James R. Snyder, of Norman street, left last week for a visit with her uncle, Mr. Oliver Copes, of Oberlin. The last outing and picnic of the season will be given by St Andrew's mission at Puritas Springs, September 12. They will be joined by Elyrin, Oberlin and Wellington people. Mrs. George Queen, of Livingston street, has returned from an extended visit east. Messrs. M. F. Walker, of Steubenville, and Prof. Wm. H. Mayo, of Frankfort, Ky., while in the city last week, called at The Gazette office. Co. D, Ninth battalion, left for Newark Tuesday afternoon to camp on state grounds. They will return to Cleveland Monday night. Miss Mattie Sands, "The Daughter of the Battalion," spent Saturday and Sunday in camps and left Sunday night for Columbus where she will spend the fall and winter. While there she will represent The Gazette and The Colored American Magazine of Boston. Miss Diana Hackley, of Chicago, formerly a resident of Springfield, O., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Brock, of 12 Vine street. Miss Hackley arrived last week and will remain part of next week. Hon. R. T. Teamoh and wife, of Boston, and Mrs. E. A. Fielding, of Worcester, Mass., arrived from Buffalo last week and were guests of the Forest City house. Our people here have the honor of having the first twentieth century moral crusade organization in Ohio. The object of this movement is to circulate pure literature among our ministers, teachers and parents, especially, to aid the south in order to foster the needed home-training and thus aid in the removal of the alleged cause of lynching and other lawless acts. Rev. J. S. Jackson, of Mt. Zion church, has taken an active part in this work. About 50 at his church this week signed the pledge and thus became the first auxiliary organization. Those persons desiring to affiliate can do so by communicating with Rev. Jackson, enclosing stamp for reply. All our ministers here warmly sanction this movement and will have organizations in connection with their churches. Mrs. A. J. Braggs has returned from Steubenville. Miss Grace Tucker and Ernest H. Burke wee married the past week. Burke were married the past week. It has been rumored that C. N. Sellers and Miss Carrie Southern, of Cincinnati, will wed in the fall. Mr. Alfred Sutton and Miss Mae Sutton, of 108 Marcelline avenue, are visiting in Bridgeport, Kirkwood and Wheeling and are having a delightful time. Rev. E. D. Dandridge, of Shiloh church, returned Wednesday from his vacation. Sunday, August 25, he preached in Rendville. He desires to thank Rev. Levister for services kindly rendered during his absence. Communion at Shiloh church Sunday evening. John Cisco was asked to succeed a member of the "Jim Crow" committee who refused to serve on it, but said to a Gazette representative that he would not do so. Mrs. H. Johnson, of Ann Arbor, Mich., is the guest of Mrs. F. F. Scott, of 683 Sterling avenue. Miss Florence Scott gave a surprise party on Mr. Luther Gordon Monday night at her residence. Mrs. Wash Smith, guest of her cousin, Mrs. Henry Taylor, of Sterling avenue, the past ten days, left for her home in Detroit Tuesday evening. There is no way of dodging the fact that the Hon. Harry C. Smith of Cleveland is the strongest Afro-American in the state of Ohio. His life and work stand out high up as a complete testimony of the above statement.—Clarksdale (Miss.) Journal. The Cleveland (O.) Gazette is the best Afro-American paper in the Middle West. Its heroic efforts for humanity as against oppression have won for it the respect of the world. It is now 18 years of age. May many years yet be spared to it to push its righteous cause.—Dallas (Tex.) Express. Winter is coming and you will want The Gazette to come into your home every week. Why not subscribe for a year now? The Cleveland Protestant Orphan asylum, 1460 St. Clair street, has a very light' colored baby boy, four months old, exceptionally nice, a little boy nearly five years old, quite light; a baby girl eight months old, rather dark, for whom good homes are desired. None but responsible persons need apply. J. W. Crawford is serving the best well-cooked meal in the city for 20 cents. It would pay those taking their dinners down town to give him a call. Mr. Crawford is doing a splendid business at No. 324 Prospect street. There will be no "camp-fires" for German and Irish and Jewish G. A. R. veterans, but a "Jim Crow" one has been forced upon our people of Cleveland and the Afro-American G. A. R. veterans who will attend the encampment in this city next month. Hon. H. C. Smith, of Cleveland, O., is one of the brightest and ablest men that the race has ever produced, and we predict that he will yet live to see the treacherous thieves and ingrates who betrayed him some day at his feet.—St. Louis (Mo.) Times. A Chanec to Make Money. The old reliable Gazette desires an energetic and honest agent, and a good correspondent, in every city and town in Ohio and adjoining states having a number of Afro-American residents. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Lima, Hamilton, Painesville, Oxford, Lorain, Toledo, Wilmington, Kenton, Portsmouth, Chillicothe, Delaware, Washington C. H., Lancaster, Newark, Urbana, O.; Allegheny, Pittsburg, Washington, Braddock and other western Pennsylvania cities and towns; Wheeling, Charleston, and other West Virginia cities and towns; northern Kentucky and eastern Indiana cities and towns. Address a card to the editor of The Gazette, Case Library building, Cleveland, O., and our terms and full instructions to agents and correspondents will be sent at once. Send us the name of any good person or persons in any of the cities named above to whom we can write relative to the matter. Labor Day at Buffalo Excursion leaves Cleveland, Sunday, Sept. 1st, at 2:06 a. m. via the Nickel Plate Road for $10.00, all expenses for 2 days and nights, will be paid, including transportation, lodging, meals, admission to Exposition and one trip to Niagara Falls. Inquire of G. B. Hoag, City Ticket Office, 189 Superior St., Tel. Main 218. Notice to Agents. Agents will please send postal notes and not stamps, in payment for papers. A postal note can be purchased for three cents. Subscribers, agents and all others forwarding amounts to The Gazette will please remember NOT to send postage stamps. Longer Limit-One Cent a Mile Buffalo and return via the Nickel Plate Road every Tuesday and Saturday. 5 day limit effective Aug. 20th. See nearest ticket agent, or E. A. Akers, C. P. & T. A., Cleveland, O., No.154 The Nickel Plate Bond will sell excursion tickets to Buffalo after Aug. 19th, at one fare for the round trip, good 15 days. Inquire of agents or address E. A. Akers, C. P. & T. A., Cleveland, O. No. 155 THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1901. Washington Ignored Lynching. Chicago, Ill.—The National Negro Business league convened here last week at Randall hall. Prof. Booker T. Washington, president, delivered an address but said nothing about the lynching in Pierce City, Mo., and others of recent occurrence. Mr. Ferguson, a delegate from Jacksonville, Fla., who has a fine livery stable there, told in an interesting manner of his starting out in life a poor boy and becoming the prosperous business man he is now. L. G. Wheeler's address also was interesting. Miss Miller, of Brooklyn, told how our business women of New York were organized and that a united effort had won for them greater and wider recognition. A reception and banquet was tendered the delegates at the First Regiment armory by the members of the Business men's league of Cook county. The meeting adjourned Friday night. All the old officers were re-elected. Next year they will meet in Richmond. Ninth Battalion in Camp. Newark, O.—Companies A, B, and C, Ninth battalion, arrived at noon Tuesday. The work of the advance guard had been so complete that by 4 o'clock Companies A and B were on the field drilling and they made such a good showing that Gen. McMakin, who is at camp with the rifle team, and was watching the drills from one of the mounds, complimented the commanders. Company D, of Cleveland, and the band arrived at 8 p. m. the same day. Promptly at 6 p. m. first call for dress parade sounded, and the three companies that were in camp marched on the field and made a very creditable parade. A Mixed Marriage: Youngstown, O.—Because the laws of West Virginia will not permit the marriage of Afro-Americans and whites, Wade Williams, the Parkersburg pugilist, was married here August 27 to Anna Duff (white). Williams was taken back to West Virginia and had the ceremony performed here before leaving. Mayor Brown made the two man and wife. Williams caused a reign of terror and disabled several policemen here before he was captured. A "People's Hospital" Incorporated. Cincinnati, O.—The "People's Hospital," an institution dedicated to our people throughout the state, has been incorporated under the laws of Ohio and located here in Cincinnati. The following officers have been elected: Geo. W. Hayes, Cincinnati, president; C. E. Newsome, Wilmington, general manager and superintendent; James Tyler, Columbus, first vice president; Hon. Harry C. Smith, Cleveland, second vice; Chas. Cottrell, Toledo, third vice; Andrew De Hart, Cincinnati, treasurer, and A. L. Stewart, secretary. National Negro Business League. Chicago, Ill.—The second annual session of the National Negro Business League convened here at Handal hall the 21st, 22d and 23d. On Wednesday, August 21, addresses of welcome, on behalf of the state by Gov. Richard Yates; the city, by Mayor Harrison, and our local business men and women, by W. F. Taylor, were delivered. A boat excursion for the delegates and visitors to Milwaukee and return was given on Saturday morning. Booker T. Washington was re-elected president of the league. Against a "Color Line." St. Paul.—By a vote of 42 to 18, and after a contest lasting several hours, the New Central club (white), one of the leading woman's clubs of this section, adopted a resolution "protesting against any "color line in the Minnesota State Federation, and desiring the conditions of membership to remain as at present—intellectual and moral fitness." The color question has been agitating the State Federation of Woman's Clubs for a long time. A Splendid Appointment The board of trustees of Avery college trade schools, Allegheny, Pa., have accepted the resignation of M. Rachel Syphax Wright as matron and accepted the services of Miss Susie D. Cooper, of Booker T. Washington's school has been remodeled and refurnished and is to-day the best appointed school of its kind in the north. Oldest Mason Gone. Baltimore, Md.-Lemuel G. Griffin, aged 93 years, who died here recently, was, no doubt, the oldest Mason in the country. He attained all the degrees in Freemasonry and held every office. "Fired" Out of Church Richmond, Va.—Editor John Mitchell, of the "Planet," has been "turned out" of the First Baptist church, of which he has been a member for a long while. Trouble about a "Pastah." Twenty-Day Limit Tickets after Aug. 19th to Buffalo and return will be sold for one and one third fare via the Nickel Plate Road. See nearest ticket agent, or address E. A. Akers, C. P. & T. A., Cleveland, O. No. 153 THE WORLD'S RAILWAYS. Mexico has over 15,000 kilometers of railways. British railways pay income tax on £36,400,000, mines and quarries on £13,420,000 a year. Two cars, 71 feet long, with four motors, will soon be running on the elevated road between Berlin and Zossen, at a speed of 125 miles an hour. Most western railroad companies are building cut-offs to shorten distance between Chicago and the Rocky Mountains. About 150 miles in all will be saved. A late suggestion to progressive railroad managers is to build freight roads ten feet gauge with 200-ton engines and cars holding 200 tons, which will make express speed. The railway companies entering Berlin have recently adopted the American plan (with modifications) enabling passengers to check baggage to their homes before arrival of the train. At no time have there been so many enterprises in hand in the southwest for building railroads and electric lines as now. Requirements for material and supplies are pouring in on manufacturers. Often the dropping of a type makes the table announce the running of a train on a time altogether different from the schedule. In such cases it is usual to make the train comply with the schedule until the latter can be changed. Ours is Best, Because It's Ours. The United Aid andBeneficial League it organization in the world owned and operat capitalized in the sum of $100,000.00. It is backe sold to members at $2 per share, which earns Persons are protected from one to seventy ye aging from $1.25 to $10 per week, and death be 6 Year Limit Endowment and cheapest issued by any organization of its ch eese dues after 16 years' membership and are at of their policies. The Sick and Death Department on the most mutual basis and members enjoy by any rival company. operates its own BANKING INSTITUTION, ized and chartered under the laws of Pennsylv all members can be stockholders and par is the strongest organization in the world owned and operated by colored people, being capitalized in the sum of $100,000.00. It is backed by investment stock, which is sold to members at $2 per share, which earns 12 PER CENT. ANNUALLY. Persons are protected from one to seventy years of age with sick benefits ranging from $1.25 to $10 per week, and death benefits from $15 to $500. The 16 Year Limit Endowment Policy is the safest and cheapest issued by any organization of its character. Members pay no more dues after 16 years' membership and are at liberty to draw CASH VALUE of their policies. The Sick and Death Department is also operated on the most mutual basis and members enjoy advantages in this not accorded by any rival company. which is capitalized and chartered under the laws of Pennsylvania in the sum of $50,000.00 and all members can be stockholders and participants in the profits therein THE AMERICAN HERALD is the official journal of the organ member by mail at least once a month detail of the work. It is published per year. It is brimful of interestin sheet) edited on the most high-toned unclean or objectionable items or ad Advertising rates are as cheap as any known on application. For detailed journal of the organization, a copy of which is at least once a month, that they may keep post. It is published weekly and mailed to a subrful of interesting NEWS MATTER (not a the most high-toned character, and pains actionable items or advertisements are inserted as are as cheap as any first-class journal can a cation. For detailed information address, is the official journal of the organization, a copy of which is sent to every member by mail at least once a month, that they may keep posted as to every detail of the work. It is published weekly and mailed to subscribers at $1 per year. It is brimful of interesting NEWS MATTER (not a cheap patented sheet) edited on the most high-toned character, and pains are taken that no unclean or objectionable items or advertisements are inserted in its columns. Advertising rates are as cheap as any first-class journal can afford, and made known on application. For detailed information address. League headquarters, 1024 S. 20th St. The 32d ANNUAL OF Colored A. & B. WILL BE HELD in Lexington, Ky., SUNUSUAL A. The Finest Stock Exhibition The PEOPLE'S BAND OF COLUMN catalogues or information address; T. J. WILSON, PRES. READ THE "THE PROCEEDING TIONAL NEGRO BANK" Which held its first convention in BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. This convention was the first business men ever held in a line of business was represented by educator, the doctor, the lawyer, the merchant and rulers of murdered and papers read are all in of delegates and others, which the convention. BOUND IN CLOTH C. Send Express or Postoffice Money Order J. R. HAMM, PUBLISHER, 40 32d ANNUAL HISTORY OF THE RED A. & M. ASSOCIATION WILL BE HELD AT BOSTON, Ky., Sept. 10, 11, 12, 13 UNUSUAL ATTRACTIONS. Highest Stock Exhibition in the WEST BAND OF COLUMBUS, O., will furnish the information address; BOSON, Pres. A. L. HARRIS No. READ THIS BOOK THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE' which held its first convention in Boston, Mass., August 23-24, 1880. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, President and Founder. Convention was the first National Convention for men ever held in this or any other country. Business was represented: the farmer, the bar, the doctor, the lawyer, the manufacturer, the print and rulers of municipalities. The address papers read are all in this book besides overviews and others, which makes it a valuable source. BOUND IN CLOTH ONLY. PRICE, $1.00. Mass or Postoffice Money Order to M, PUBLISHER, 46 HOWARD ST., BOSTON A Book From The Story of My Life and WORK IS AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, and the Negro of our times. The book is published in one large 400 pages and beautifully illustrated with over 50 and original drawings by Frank Board. Size, 6x8½ in. in cloth, $1.50. Here indeed is a life-story strand. 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Besides Correspondence from All Parts of the Country, Portraits and Biographical Sketches, Interesting Serials, Editorials, ODD FELLOW, MASONIC and other Lodge News, it gives from week to weak a General News Summary of THE RACE'S DOINGS, Which alone is worth the price of the paper. To any address, upon application. SUBSCRIPTION One year.....$1 50 | Three Six months.....1 00 | In club In clubs of five, one year... Write for Our Extraor ments to Ag SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $1 50 | Three months....$\ 1 00 | In clubs of ten, one year....1 In clubs of five, one year.....$1 25. for Our Extraordinary Induce ments to Agents. SUBSCRIPTION RATES; One year..... $1 50 | Three months..... $ 50 Six months..... 1 00 | In clubs of ten, one year..... 1 20 In clubs of five, one year..... $1 25. Write for Our Extraordinary Induce ments to Agents. Addres H. C. SMITH, "THE GAZETTE." CLEVELAND, OHIO. 3 "JIM CROW ANNEX." A Disgraceful Attempt to Draw the Color-Line By a G. A. R. Committee. Dur Leading Men and Women Dnounce it—The First Attempt to Hold a Meeting of the "Jim Crow Tag End" Committee a Failure — Another Hot Time. Many months ago a citizens' committee of 100 or more of Cleveland's most prominent men (white) was constituted to take charge of and make all arrangements for the coming national G. A. R. encampment which convenes in this city this fall. All committees including the executive committee were made up of members of the general citizens' committee. After the lapse of the many months referred to it finally dawned upon the members of the citizens' executive committee that there would be hundreds and possibly thousands of Afro-American veterans of the War of the Rebellion, members of the G. A. R., in attendance upon the national meeting of the organization here this fall. In constituting the general committee through an oversight or otherwise no Afro-American was given a place upon it. This mistake should not, of course, have been made. For some reason or other the executive committee has failed and refuses to recommend such action. The result is that no Afro-American has or can have any regular connection with the citizens' general committee, the executive or any other of its many auxiliary committees. Recognizing this condition and being desirous or unloading to a greater or less extent the care of the colored ex-soldiers and their visiting friends who will attend the encampment, the executive committee authorized the appointment of an irregular auxiliary committee made up of Afro-Americans with the result Ed Doty, its secretary, notified the following named persons of their appointment: Charles W. Chestnut, esq., (chairman), Rev. Charles Bundy, Rev. J. S. Jackson, A. T. Abbott, J. E. Reed, H. J. Embrey, H. M. Foote, W. B. Wright, Alexander Martin, James E. Benson, T. W. Flemming, J. H. Davis, John J. Bolden, George Vosburg, Willie Green, George Sampson, Willie Clifford, George Myers. On July 12 this alleged committee was notified to indicate their acceptance of the color-line honor (?) and to attend a meeting to be held on Monday evening, July 15, in the committee rooms in the chamber of commerce building. A number of the persons mentioned upon receipt of the notice were bright enough to recognize this "Jim Crow" movement and appreciate the intentional or unintentional insult to our old soldiers and the race its composition implies. Among this number were Rev. Bundy, Rev. J. S. Jackson, Messrs. Abbott, Reed and others. Indeed only four or five attended the July 15 meeting, Mr. Abbott being one of the number. He, however, went for the purpose of rebuking the others for tamely submitting to such an outrageous insult. He paralyzed the alleged meeting, which was hastily adjourned without having taken any action. It will be seen that among those named for membership on this "Jim Crow" committee there are a number of men of color who in spite of their long years' residence in Cleveland have little or no standing among our people here because they have had practically no association with or shown any interest in them. For one reason and another they have held themselves aloof from our people, their organizations, churches, etc., showing absolutely no interest or care for them. They are, therefore, anything but "representative colored men." Then, too, there is one of them that will not even accommodate men of his own class in his place of business, unless the Afro-American seeking the same is a guest of the institution in which his place of business is located. Rev. Charles Bundy and others of our pastors are most outspoken in their denunciation of this latest "Jim Crow" movement. After his sermon Sunday morning: July 14, at St. John's church he discussed and denounced it thoroughly and very properly, taking severely to task the members of the race, especially those on the alleged committee, who failed to resent so open and aggrassing an insult. Rev. Bundy very properly stigmatizes it as a "Jim Crow" annex to the G. A. R. encampment and general committee! "The appointment of a 'colored committee' on entertainment for colored troops is a terrible blunder," said Rev. Bundy July 16. "It is an attempt to draw the color line in Cleveland, of all places. In Cincinnati or St. Louis one might understand the motives behind such an attempt. In Cleveland it is perfectly inexcusable. Here on the Western Reserve, famous for its love of freedom, liberty and fair play, such discrimination against colored people is an outrage. I do not think that the people will endorse such a thing if it is brought to their attention. "If it was even a question of nationalities there might possibly be no objections. If a committee of Germans and another of Irish citizens had been appointed, for instance, to look after the interests and comfort of the troops of their nationalities, then a colored committee to look after colored soldiers might be in place. "No such thing has been done, however. The general committee will look after the entertainment of all veterans except the colored men. A 'Jim Crow annex' is to care for them. The colored soldiers are members of the Grand Army. They are entitled to care at the hands of the general committee, with other veterans. "No self-respecting colored citizen will serve on that 'Jim Crow' committee. If their co-operation is wished a place could be made for some of them on the general committee. Then if their services were especially desired in the interests of colored soldiers they could be detailed for that work. But it is an insult to ask a man to serve on a committee whose very existence indicates an attempt to draw the color line against his race. "A serious mistake has been made by this attempt, and the sooner it is rectified the better." Rev. Bundy paid absolutely no attention to the notice placing his name on the "Jim Crow tag end" committee, and he feels intensely indignant because of the act, the more so because, he says, that he was consulted about the matter some time since, and plainly responded with his views on the subject. To a daily newspaper reporter on July 16 the editor of The Gazette also said: "We want no recognition on the executive or general committees unless voluntarily given, but we will not for a minute submit to the apparent plan to put the colored veterans by themselves while in this city. "If the Irish are going to look after the Irish veterans and the Germans after the German veterans, then we will look after the colored veterans. We will not, however, submit to any class distinction." Our people should denounce with every breath this effort to establish a "Jim Crow" committee and the misguided individuals of color who undertake to act on it. The citizen committees will have the honor of caring for the encampment; therefore let them do the work—all of it, including that necessary for the proper care of the Afro-American contingent. The effort to shift it to somebody else simply because these old soldiers belong to our race and are of a little different color, is exceptionally contemptible even for the average prejudiced white person. These old soldier heroes of ours did their part to save the great American government and should be esteemed too highly by the citizens' general committee of this city to permit of any such exhibition of prejudice and smallness as would be a "Jim Crow tag end" committee such as has repeatedly been referred to. That "Jim Crow Annex." With a citizens' committee of two or three hundred members from which all sub-committees are taken, we fail to see the necessity and wisdom of the appointment of a committee for any purpose, the members of which are not members of the citizens' general committee. The appointment of a "colored committee" for the very evident purpose of shifting to our people the care of the Afro-American ex-soldiers and friends who attend the G. A. R. encampment to be held here this fall, ought to be followed by the appointment of Irish, German, Bohemian, Jewish and other race or class committees, for the care of the ex-soldiers of the various nationalities who will also attend the encampment. To be consistent and prove that they are not intentionally drawing the color-line and creating a "Jim Crow annex" for purposes obvious, the citizens' executive committee must at once appoint two or more of these other race or class committees. To say that they are following precedents established in other cities where the national encampment has been held, is no argument in favor of a "Jim Crow tag end" committee in Cleveland for this fall or any other time, or for this or any other purpose, because there is only one Cleveland in the Western Reserve of this country. By this last we mean there is no city of its size in the country where there is so little excuse for such ridiculous action. The citizens' executive committee could have saved itself much humiliation had it conferred with leading Afro-Americans before taking the insulting action referred to. If they do not desire to provide for the Afro-American ex-soldiers just as they do for those of other classes, without any more reference to or consideration for their class or color, they should give way to broader-gauged men who can and will provide for the heroes of the war of the rebellion without any regard for class or color. We are perfectly willing, and so will be all of the ex-soldiers of color who visit our city this fall, to accept the care and treatment provided for all without reference to class or color. The oversight which resulted in a failure to place leading citizens of color upon the general and executive committees in charge of the coming G. A. R. encampment, should not lead the members of the latter into making a far greater and more aggravating mistake, namely, the creation and maintenance of a "Jim Crow tag end" committee. Cleveland has a reputation the country over for fairness in the matter of the treatment of Afro-Americans which all "Jim Crow" movements mar. This in addition to a personal feeling is what leads the intelligent and manly of our people as well as the broad-gauged whites to oppose such a disgraceful line of action as the creation of a "Jim Crow" committee, upon the part of the citizens' executive committee. We sincerely trust the obnoxious movement will be abandoned and that all concerned will understand that all calls upon the local public for assistance, etc., in the care of the old soldiers who will convene here this fall, will mean the same to and have a like effect upon the Afro-Americans of this community as upon all other loyal residents of every class. Beneficial Egotism. "It's real nice since Ella got an idea that she's such a grand singer." "How's that?" "Why, she has such an exalted opinion of her ability that she won't sing when you ask her."—Philadelphia Bulletin. "I suppose, now that you're married, you call her your better half?" "Yes; that's what I call her, but she doesn't like it." "Why, how's that?" "She wants to be the whole thing."—Puck. In a Desperate Strait. The Shirtwaist Girl—Ethel says the handsomest young lifesaver saved her life this morning. The Sunbonnet Girl—Yes, she hadn't seen a man for a week, and he flirted with her.—Brooklyn Eagle. Consolation. "Poor Dyikins, made despondent by years of sickness, took his own life last night." "Poor fellow! But then, you know, he didn't have a great deal to take." —Leslie's Weekly. Nothing Unusual. "He has a heart of stone," she cried. Her friend laughed sardonically. "No wonder; he is the ossified man in the museum." — Chicago Daily News. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1901. The "Jim Crow Tag-End" Committee of the G. A. R. Encampment Citizens' Executive Committee. Every One of Our Local Ministers Sign Resolutions Denouncing the Disgraceful Attempt to Draw a Color Line. In response to a call sent out Thursday, July 18, Rev. Chas Bundy all of our ministers, except Rev. E. D. Dandridge, met Monday, July 22, in the study of Antioch Baptist church, on Central avenue, to consider and pass upon the appointment of the "Jim Crow" committee appointed recently by the citizen's executive committee (white) which is in charge of the arrangements for the G. A. R. encampment soon to be held in Cleveland. Rev. Dandridge, of Shiloh Baptist church, who was unavoidably absent, is in hearty sympathy with the opposition to the "Jim Crow" committee. The editor of The Gazette was also present at the meeting on the invitation of Rev. Bundy, of St. John's A. M. E. church. A temporary organization was effected with Rev. Bundy as chairman and Rev.F.G.Brookins, of Antioch church, secretary. After the call was explained by the presiding officer, an expression was had from each person present, which included in addition to those already mentioned, Rev. S. H. Ferguson, of Cory M. E. church; Rev. J. S. Jackson, of Mt. Zion Congregational church, and Rev. J. C. Turner, of the Second A. M. E. church, East End. There was absolute unanimity of expression upon the part of all present in condemnation of the appointment of the "Jim Crow" committee "on colored troops" by the citizens' executive committee (white). After a full and free discussion and thorough handling of the matter, the following persons were elected a committee on resolutions: Rev. J. S. Jackson, Rev. Chas Bundy and Hon. H. C. Smith. This committee met with the chairman of the meeting in the study of St. John's church on Tuesday, July 23, and reported to the general meeting held at 6 p. m. on the same day in the study of Antioch church. The following are the resolutions formulated, presented and unanimously adopted: Whereas, The citizens' executive committee on entertainment for the G. A. R. encampment has seen fit to create unnecessarily "a colored committee on colored troops" and has not created class committees to care for troops of other classes of people or nationalities, and Whereas, The creation of a "colorline" committee is not only unnecessary and obnoxious to the loyal and intelligent Afro-Americans of this community and an unfair reflection upon the splendid reputation abroad of this city for fair treatment of all people without regard to class or color who come within its borders, but will also prove to be most aggravating and distasteful to the thousands of Afro-American veterans and their families and friends who will visit the city during the encampment, therefore be it Resolved, first. That the undersigned do most vigorously protest against the color-line action in the appointment of a "colored committee on colored troops" and respectfully request the citizens' executive committee to rescind the objectionable action. Secondly, that in case this is done, we pledge the citizens' executive committee our assistance in common with all other loyal people of the community without reference to class to do all in our power that may be required to assist in providing for the "wants and comforts" of all the veterans and visitors who may come to our city to attend the encampment. Signed: Rev. Chas. Bundy, pastor St. John's A. M. E. church. Rev. E. D. Dandridge, pastor Shiloh Baptist church, Rev. F. G. Brookins, pastor Antioch Baptist church, Rev. J. C. Turner, pastor East End mission, Rev. S. H. Ferguson, pastor Cory M. E. church, Rev. J. S. Jackson, pastor Mt. Zion Congregational church, Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette. The following communication written on July 19, appeared in the daily Leader of July 22, and is self-explanatory: Editor Leader: As a matter of fairness, I feel sure you will permit one publication of the following reply to the article which appeared in your paper of July 18 anent the discussion which resulted from the appointment of a colored committee "on colored troops" by the Grand Army Citizens' executive committee on encampment. Rev. Chas. Bundy and the writer esteem as highly as other citizens of this community the members of the citizens' committee and desire no controversy with it. We know that the executive committee has made an unfortunate mistake, possibly on the solicitation of some misguided Afro-American, which ought to be rectified at the earliest possible moment. There is no more excuse for such a class committee than there would be for committees of other nationalities to attend "to the wants and comfort" of the veterans of the various classes or nationalities who will attend the grand encampment. It is entirely unnecessary, because my people of this community will take as much pride and pleasure in doing all they can for the Afro-American veterans as any and all other classes of people for the veterans of their classes and, too, under the direction of the citizens' executive committee. There is no city of its size or larger in this country where there is so little excuse for such obnoxious action as the creation of a "Jim Crow" committee. Cleveland has a reputation the country over for fairness in the matter of treatment of Afro-Americans, which all such creations mar, and I sincerely trust that this latest attempt will be abandoned. Very respectfully, HARRY C. SMITH. THE LINE OF MARCH. Parade of the G. A. R. at Cleveland Will be Two Miles Long; Cleveland, Aug. 23.—The greatest number of visitors who will be in this city during Grand Army encampment week will be reached on Wednesday, September 11, the day of the grand parade. This is the history of every encampment. For the fact there can be little wonder. The parade of the veterans of the civil war is a unique thing; unlike anything else in the world. The departments of the Grand Army will march in the order of their seniority, Illinois first because the order was organized in that state. The line of march will be just two miles long. It will begin at the intersection of Euclid and Case/avenues. The start will be at 10 a. m. and will be announced by the firing of three guns from a point near the head of the column. It will be fully 3 o'clock before the veterans all have marched and the procession disbanded. The parade will march west on Euclid avenue to Bond street, north on Bond street to Summit street, and west into Lake View park and Wood, Ontario and Seneca streets for disbanding. At the foot of Bond street will be the large grand stand to be occupied by the school children who will sing patriotic songs as the parade disbands. The greatest possible pains will be taken to make the march as easy as possible for the veterans. Their Parade Will be a Notable Feat for the Cakewalk. Cleveland, Aug. 27.—The naval parade of encampment week, which will be participated in by the National Association of Naval Veterans, the National Association of Union Ex-Prisoners of War, the Seventh O. V. I. Regimental association and other organizations, will take place on September 10, the anniversary of the victory of Commodore Perry at the battle of Lake Erie. The parade will form at 9 a. m. and will move at 9:30 a. m. The parade will be reviewed from a point on Bond street opposite the Central armory by Commander-in-Chief Rassieur, of the Grand Army, and other notables. In the afternoon there will be a reception to the naval veterans in the Cleveland Yacht club house on the lake front and a display of boats in the harbor, among which will be the steamer Michigan, of the United States navy, the revenue cutter Fessenden and the Yantic and the Hawk, respectively the naval reserve boats of Michigan and Ohio. There will also be an exhibition at the life saving station. In the evening will be a display on the lake front and the dog watch of the National Association of Naval Veterans will be held in Grays' armory. This dog watch is similar to the Grand Army camp fire. NAVAL VETERANS. Their Parade Will be a Notable Feature of the G. A. R. Encampment. Cleveland, Aug. 27.—The naval parade of encampment week, which will be participated in by the National Association of Naval Veterans, the National Association of Union Ex-Prisoners of War, the Seventh O. V. I. Regimental association and other organizations, will take place on September 10, the anniversary of the victory of Commodore Perry at the battle of Lake Erie. The parade will form at 9 a. m. and will move at 9:30 a. m. The parade will be reviewed from a point on Bond street opposite the Central armory by Commander-in-Chief Rassieur, of the Grand Army, and other notables. In the afternoon there will be a reception to the naval veterans in the Cleveland Yacht club house on the lake front and a display of boats in the harbor, among which will be the steamer Michigan, of the United States navy, the revenue cutter Fessenden and the Yantic and the Hawk, respectively the naval reserve boats of Michigan and Ohio. There will also be an exhibition at the life saving station. In the evening will be a display on the lake front and the dog watch of the National Association of Naval Veterans will be held in Grays' armory. This dog watch is similar to the Grand Army camp fire. Further Arrangements Made in Cons section with the Encampment. Cleveland, Aug. 29.—General orders issued from the national headquarters of the Grand Army in St. Louis a few days ago give full information on points connected with the national encampment of the Grand Army to be held in this city. Commander-in-Chief Rassieur has named the committee on credentials for the encampment. This committee will be on duty at headquarters in the Hollden from 4 p. m. to 9 p. m. September 10 and from 4 p. m. to 5 p. m. September 11. The committee will issue badges for delegates to the national encampment to department officers presenting their credentials. A committee has been appointed to apportion reviewing stand tickets pro rata among the departments, the same to be handed to the officers who present the credentials and receive the delegate badges. Among the amendments to the rules and regulations to be offered during the encampment is one submitted by the Department of Arkansas to insert the word "voluntarily" in the clause debarring from membership any who have ever borne arms against the United States. This is to open the doors to loyal men who were impressed into service in the Confederate army, but who afterwards escaped to the Union lines and fought for the flag. Beautiful cards of invitation have been issued by the Ladies of the Grand Army to a reception to be given in honor of the national president, officers and delegates, at the Hollenden on September 10. The Ladies of the G. A. R. have secured an automobile in which delegates will be conveyed from their respective places of arrival in the city to their headquarters and from the Hollenden to the Young Men's Christian association building, where the national convention is to be held, and return. According to statistics of the United States Weather Bureau, 45 per cent. of deaths by lightning occur in the open, 34 per cent. in houses, 11 per cent. under trees and 9 per cent. in barns. The total valuation upon which state taxes will be assessed this year against taxable property in Nebraska will be approximately $174,432,000, or $2,685,000 greater than the assessed valuation of last year. Lamentable Forgetfulness. As the steamer pitched and rolled in the waves the traveler heard through the thin partition a wailing voice in the next state-room exclaim: "Oh, mamma, it's coming on again, worse than ever!" Then he heard a sleepy voice in reply: "Marie, why don't you follow the directions you told me about before we came on board?" "Because we forgot whether I ought to breathe, was the vessel rises and let the breath out as it moves downward, or whether it ought to be the other way, and O! O! O! I wish I was dead!"—Chicago Tribune. A Scholarly Retort. A famous scholar, whose hobby was the derivation of words, had occasion to store his furniture while proceeding to the continent in quest of the origin of the term "Juggins." During his researches in Berlin he received from the warehouse company the following letter: "Sir—We have the honor to inform you that the mattress you sent to our store had the moth in it. Since the epidemic would expose the goods of other clients to injury, we have caused your mattress to be destroyed." The scholar replied: "Dear Sir—My mattress may, as you say, have had moth in it, but I am confident that it had an 'e' in it also."—London King. How He Loved Her. A negro man went into Mr. E——'s office for the purpose of instituting a divorce suit against his wife. Mr. E——proceeded to question him as to his grounds for complaint. Mr. E——looked up from his papers, and saw that big tears were running down over the cheeks of the applicant for divorce. "Why," said the lawyer, "you seem to care a great deal for your wife? Did you love her?" "Love her, sir? I jest analyzed her!!" This was more than professional dignity could withstand, and Mr. E——laughed until the negro, offended, carried his casl elsewhere. Short Stories. Seeking to Solve a Mystery. The little East end girl who had hash for breakfast the other morning looked at the last mouthful of her share long and earnestly as she poised it on her fork. Then she passed it out of sight. But the mystery still engrossed her mind. "Daddy," she said, "what was hash when it was alive?"—Recollections of Mrs. Min- Towne—I could never understand why political officeholders are called public servants. Browne—Why not? "Because they're really our bosses." "Well? I guess you never kept house, did you?"—Philadelphia Press. His Scheme. Tigg—Did you hear what Count Dedbroke tried to do when he came over here in search of an heiress? Nigg—No. What was it? "Wanted a position as tax assessor, so he could get inside information."—Baltimore American. At Norumbega Park. First Monkey—What is that standing out there with its hair parted in the middle and sucking a cane? Second Monkey—That's a man. "Just to think that such a looking thing as that should have descended from us!"—Boston Post. An Answer for the Anxious. Marie B., of Waverly—No, Marie, just because the young man writes you a letter on fly paper, you need not jump at the conclusion that he is stuck on you. No, indeed.—Baltimore American. Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease, A powder to shake into your shoes. It rests the feet. Cures Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating feet and Ingrowing Nails, Corns, Bunions. 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WIT BROUGHT TUTOR LUCK. The Apt Reply to an English Lord Gave a Needy Curate a Good Living. A story is told of an English clergyman who owed his appointment to a rich living to a lucky pun, says the New York Tribune. He was tutor to the son of a nobleman and had not long taken orders when he attended the funeral of the rector of the parish in which the nobleman's seat was situated. The father of his pupil was patron of the living and was also present at the funeral of the deceased rector. There was a young clergyman present also whose grief was so demonstrative that the noble patron was much affected by the sight and asked if the young man was a son of the deceased gentleman. "No relation!" exclaimed the nobleman in a surprised tone. "None, my lord; he is the curate, and I think he is not weeping for the dead, but for the living." His lordship, who was something of a wit and a cynic himself, was so delighted with the bon mot that he conferred the living upon the ready punster. SHARK AND WHALE FIGHT Portland Harbor Residents Witness a Fierce Marine Battle, But Miss the Finish. Early the other morning the residents of Long Island and of Evergreen Landing, Peak's island, Portland, Me., witnessed a marine battle such as was never before seen in Portland harbor. A thrasher shark about 15 feet long and a small whale got into an argument and swam in through Hussey sound. When the two big fish were between the two islands the contest began, and from the spectators' point of view the shark had the better of it. The shark would throw himself from six to eight feet out of water, coming down with such force that the spray would be thrown 20 feet into the air, and the back of the whale would appear and the water would be lashed to foam for a short time, after which the contestants would apparently take a rest only to come back in a few minutes for another round. The battle lasted for half an hour and drew a large crowd to the shore. Both fish later swam out to sea. A great deal of nerve is sometimes necessary to keep from being cranky.—Atchison Globe. It is always easier to praise virtue than to pursue it.—Ram's Horn. Big words do not always carry great weight of meaning.—Ram's Horn. Every man thinks he does an honest day's work.—Washington (Ia.) Democrat. It is because only the first step counts that the following ones are so easy.—Town Topics. Tastes change in many respects, as we grow older, but we steadily prefer the unobtainable.—Puek. Being ignored altogether is no more odious to a sensitive woman than forced gallantry.—Town Topics. It is better to be able to talk sense in one language than to chatter rubbish in two.—Ally Sloper. If you cannot have what you prize it is a good thing to prize what you have.—Ram's Horn. Miss Gabbeigh—"I had 15 proposals yesterday." Miss Sezzit—"Did the man stutter?"—Baltimore American. Our latest submarine is named the Adder. Her business will be to subtract from the numbers of the enemy.—Boston Transcript. 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