The Gazette

TH1RTY-FIRST YEAR. NO. 341 IN UNION THEREA SATRUGHT PRESIDENT'S REAL MEDIATOR IS VILLA Relies on Rebel Chief in Carrying Out Mexican Policy, According to Report. Permission Has Been Given Gen. Funston at Vera Cruz to Extend American Lines to Protect His Position and Preparations for War Are Going On. Washington, D. C.—The situation in the Mexican tangle shows that President Wilson's present reliance in carrying out his Mexican policy is Gen. Pancho Villa. Mediators Working Hard. The A. B. C. mediators are taking their work seriously, but the president is not eager to commit his policy to their hands and will avoid appointment of the American representatives to confer with those of Huerta as long as possible. The president's real mediator is Gen. Villa, through whom he hopes to crush Huerta and thus end the tangle. It appears certain that three mediators and the Huerta representatives will agree on the recognition of Huerta as one of the essential first steps toward a just solution of the Mexican problem. In return for this Huerta will agree to salute the American flag in reparation for the Tampico insult. In his final word to Charge O'Shaughnessy, just before the expiration of President Wilson's ultimatum, Huerta said he did not see why he should be compelled to salute the flag of a government which did not recognize him as the responsible head of Mexican affairs. Should Huerta be able to hold his position in Mexico until May 18, President Wilson will be forced to appoint representatives to confer with Huerta's envoys or repudiate mediation. Either horn of the dilemma is distasteful, as one involves war and the other practical recognition of Huerta. The utmost caution will be used by the president in selecting representatives. Men like Richard Olney, John Bassett Moore, Hannis Taylor and Dr. David Jayne Hill have been mentioned. Huerta May Precipitate Crisis. If it appears that Villa is about to overwhelm Huerta, army and navy officials expect a decisive step from Huerta to precipitate a crisis with the United States that will bring the American army into Mexico City before Villa. Anticipating this contingency, permission has been given to Gen. Fonfaton at Vera Cruz to extend the American lines to protect his position, and active preparations for war are going on at the war and navy departments. Reinforcements to the extent of 5,000 troops are ready to sail from Galveston at a moment's notice. It is estimated that an assault on Mexico City would require a total force of about 50,000 men. Reports of a pending open rupture between Carranza and, Villa have strengthened Huerta's position. It is pointed out that dissension between the rebel chiefs would hamper a telling campaign against the dictator and give him a new lease of life. Secretary of State Bryan, following a conference with the A. B. C. representatives, reiterated his statement that the United States had not as yet outlined any basis upon which mediation would follow. Acceptance of the good offices of the mediators merely has been made. Accommodations at Niagara Falls have been sought by the peace envoys. It is planned to leave Washington May 14 and quarter at a prominent hotel on the Canadian side during negotiations with Huerta's representatives. STEAMER CIRCLES AROUND THE DOOMED BOAT BUT THINKS CREW ESCAPED. Halifax, N. S—An unidentified steamer, on fire from stem to stern and with no signs of life on board, was discovered 300 miles south of Cape Race by the steamer Seydltz from Bremen for New York. The Seydltz immediately called by wireless for assistance. The Seydltz circle around the burning vessel, but the smoke hung so heavy about her that her name could not be distinguished. As no small boats were discovered in the vicinity, and as the Olympic passured not far from the scene 12 or 15 hours before, it was believed here the vessel caught fire and that all hands were rescued by some ship which had no wireless. Astor-Huntington Wedding. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.—William Vincent Astor, son of the late Col. John Jacob Astor and heir to the bulk of the $87,000,000 Astor estate, and Helen Dinsmore Huntington, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Palmer Huntington, were married Thursday by the Rev. C. H. Duncan in a simple ceremony at Hopeland house, Staatsburg, the home of the bride's parents. The wedding service was short. After it there was a reception, which was less formal than most such society functions. THE GAZETTE COL. L. T. WALLER INTERNATIONAL MERCHANTS Colonel Waller of the United States marine corps was ordered from Mare island, Cal., to Galveston, and thence to Vera Cruz to take command of the marines at the latter city. He distinguished himself during the Boxer and Philippine campaigns. RICHARD OLNEY AS GOVERNOR AND FOUR OTHERS NAMED BY THE PRESIDENT. H. A. Wheeler, Chicago; P. Warburg, New York; W. P. G. Harding, Birmingham; W. Denman, San Francisco, Other Members. Washington, D. C.—W. P. G. Harding, president of the First National bank of Birmingham, Ala., is regarded as President Wilson's probable choice for chairman of the federal reserve board. Richard Olney of Boston, origi- ally slated for this honor, advised the president that advancing age made it impossible for him to accept. The other members appointed on the reserve board have accepted. Washington, D. C.—The federal reserve board as selected by President Wilson is as follows: Richard Olney, Boston, governor of board. Paul Warburg, New York city. Harry A. Wheeler, Chicago. W. P. G. Harding, Birmingham, Ala. William Denman, San Francisco. Secretary McAdoo and John Williams, comptroller of the currency, are ex-officio members. The selection of the federal reserve board will set in motion formally the new currency law which was signed Dec. 23 last. With the selection of the 12 regional reserve banks the organization of the board has been the most vital step in the operation of the new currency law. The banks are being organized and the expectation of officials is that within another month the entire system will be in full swing. Members will receive salaries of $12,000 a year each. The law stipulates that the members should be appointed with reference to the "geographical, commercial and financial divisions of the country." Warburg was connected with Kuhn, Loeb & Co. He is regarded as one of the foremost bankers in this country. Harry A. Wheeler is vice president of the Union Trust Co. of Chicago and president of the National Association of Commerce. William Denman is a lawyer, economist and philanthropist. GIRL HACKED TO DEATH GIRL HACKED TO DEATH TIFIED MAN. Pittsburgh, Pa.—Florence Dove, eight, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Dove, 44 Bellav, North Braddock, was terribly hacked and then assaulted by an unidentified man near the Edgar Thomson steel works, Braddock, Elizabeth Klenec, companion of the child, who broke away from the murderer after he had assaulted her, saw the death of her little friend. With a slash of a keen bladed knife the body of the Dove girl was cut from stomach to neck. Another gash in the back of her head is five inches long. The body was found by searchers lying in a ditch where the murderer had thrown it. After escaping from the murderer the Klenec girl begged and threatened him in an effort to save her companion, but to no avail. She then ran to her home and notified her parents, who quickly told police. Slashes Rare Painting. London, England—The portrait of Henry James, the novelist, by John Singer Sargent, the American artist, hanging in one of the galleries of the Royal Academy, was ruined by a suffragett. Carrying a butcher's cleaver under her cloak, Mrs. Wood approached the painting in a casual manner. While the attendant was in another part of the room she whipped out the cleaver and with swift, sure strokes slashed the picture repeatedly before bystanders seized and stopped her. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 9. 1914. AFRO-AMERICANS AS FINANCIERS Have Done Well In the Banking Field. PRACTICAL RESULTS SHOWN With Limited Experience and Small Capital, Coupled With Common Sense, Groups of Members of the Race Have Wrought Wonders In the Realms of Finance. By RALPH W TYLER. Washington.—On my trips through the country I was particularly interested in the conduct of banking institutions and insurance companies by Afro-Americans. Banking and insurance are usually regarded as possibly the two highest forms of business activity and requiring more care and financial acumen that any other forms of business. The chances of success in each are more limited and the possibilities of failure greater than in any other line of business. They are, too, the only two branches of business into whose mysteries the Negro has had no opportunity to become versed, since, with perhaps but few, rare and isolated instances, white banks and white insurance companies have afforded the Negro no opportunity to learn, have not employed him except as janitor, which position is so far removed from contact with the actual business operations as to make it impossible for one thus employed to gain an adequate knowledge of the business. How he has succeeded in mastering the banking and insurance businesses without opportunities to learn is almost as great a wonder as any enumerated in Mother Shipton's prophecies made several centuries ago. That he has learned the banking and insurance businesses, has developed them and is now conducting these branches of business with signal success constitutes one of the best possible answers to the statements by and race men that the Negro is an inferior race. Dr. W. R. Pettiford as Pioneer Banker. As 1 recall, Dr. Pettiford, president of the Alabama Penny Savings bank, was the pioneer Negro banker. He evolved from a minister of the gospel to a banker possibly because of having read so often in the Bible of the virgin who returned with 10 talents after having been given 5. When Dr. Pettiford established his bank at Birmingham incredulous white men did not regard it as serious enough to last and many colored men regarded it with distrust, as a sort of chateau en Espagne. Today a magnificent steel building is the home of that bank and over $200,000 in resources and regular annual dividends paid attest its wise and conservative management. Inspired by the success of this bank, other banks have sprung into existence in other states. In every city I have visited in which was located a bank or insurance company I made it my business to call upon each and ascertain facts about its establishment and its conduct, its assets and liabilities and the personnel' of its officers. I was accorded every opportunity to get at the facts—to learn the real condition of the institutions at the time. There was no restriction as to how far I should go nor any reservation of facts and figures. Of the sixty-four Negro banks that have been established from time to time not over ten have failed, and of those which failed persecution not more than two can charge their failure to fraudulent pulception on the part of officers. This speaks well for the honesty of the men who have controlled the colored people's money intrusted to these banks. The record of white bank failures shows a very much larger per cent of failures due to fraudulent transactions of officers. The greater number of Negro banks that have failed can honestly attribute their failure to either the failure of some big white bank regarded as a financial Gibbartur through which they cleared, to stringency which made it impossible to realize upon good securities or to excessive loans honestly made on what was regarded as fair security. Percentage of Failures Very Small. And the record of failures of white banks shows a very much larger percentage of white banks going down, either in good or in paucity times, than colored banks. Banking records also show that, in proportion to numbers, in liquidating, colored banks that have failed have paid a larger percentage of their liabilities than have the white banks. This is indeed a splendid showing and a high commendation for the Negro as a banker. I have visited banks conducted and controlled by Negroes in Montgomery, Ala.; Tuskegee, Ala.; Birmingham, Ala.; Jackson, Miss.; Indianola, Miss.; Memphis, Tenn.; Oleka, Mound Bayon, Miss.; Indianapolis, Ind., and Washington and Philadelphia, Pa. All appeared to be intelligently and conservatively conducted, and each had resources sufficient in excess of liabilities as to render them "safe and sound" and able to stand the most scrutinizing investigation by the bank examiner. With the increasing number of Negro banks being established and the safe and successful operation of those already established, an opportunity is be- ing afforded young colored men to learn that branch of business for which the Chinese have been famed for centuries as the masters in the orient and the branch of business in which the Jew in Europe and America is almost in supreme control. New Chapter in Race Development. The entrance into and the success attained by him in the banking business constitute a chapter in the history of the American Negro so marvelously wonderful, so apparently utter inconceivable, considering his opportunities to learn it, as to make it read like a bit of fiction from the highly imaginative brain of a Hugo, a Dumas or a De Maupassant. Still, banking business among Negroes is but in its infancy. The next ten years, under the lash of race prejudice and inspired by race pride and unity, many more banks will be incorporated, some with still greater capital. There are at least twenty cities today whose Negro population warrants the establishment of a bank. Equally surprising and gratifying is the success the Negro has made in the insurance business. How he has succeeded in this particular branch of business without previous experience, with a coach and even without the semblance of encouragement is really more surprising to white men than to the Negro himself. So substantial has been his success, so rapidly are colored insurance companies being organized that the big white companies are beginning to take them seriously, so serious as to contemplate a recognition of the race as administrative employees in some of their companies into whose business the Negro insurance companies are cutting. In Philadelphia there are at least three insurance companies controlled and conducted by Negroes making inroads on the big white companies and registering a high average of success. One of these was established a few years ago by perhaps a half dozen men, who each put in not to exceed $50 plus a lot of energy, sincerity and confidence and today the company owns its own building and has resources a talent to satisfy the stringent insurance laws of the Keystone State. One of the other companies had about the same beginning, and it, too has been a success and is wisely and conservatively managed. Notable advancement in Atlanta. At Atlanta, Ga., there is a $100,000 paid up capital company controlled and conducted by men of the race and two or three others, strongly established and efficiently managed, meeting every requirement of the state insurance laws. North Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, the District of Columbia, Kentucky, Virginia and other states have chartered insurance companies successfully and profitably managed by colored men. Recently one of the companies operating in the District of Columbia publicly distributed over $1,400 in dividends to its stockholders. That the colored insurance companies are being profitably conducted proves the erroneousness of the claim made by most white companies that the Negro is a bad risk. The success which has followed the Negro incursion into the banking and insurance business constitutes an encouraging sign of race progress, proves the adaptness of the Negro for the two highest forms of business and clinches the argument of the Tuskegee leader. Is the Negro fitted to become a financier? His banks and insurance companies are the answer. NEW WELFARE MOVEMENT. How the Philadelphia Round Table Will Aid Neglected Children The Philadelphia Round Table For the Welfare of Colored People at a recent meeting decided to conduct a vocational training and boarding school for boys between the ages of ten and eighteen years. The organization has been in existence for the past five years. Its headquarters are in the Charities building on South Fifteenth street. Mr. John T. Emlen, secretary of the Armstrong association, is the prime mover in this new feature for the advancement of our people. Mr. Emlen considered the matter from the standpoint of the number of boys available for such an institution, the opportunities these boys would have to do work, the existing educational facilities and the type of institutions outside of Pennsylvania now giving their attention to vocational education. At the request of William B. Buck of the Sebeyt institution, a study was made some months ago by the Armstrong association of the number of dependent, neglected and poor colored children especially needing vocational training in Philadelphia between the ages of ten and sixteen years. The number found was reported as follows: In public and parochial schools, Society For Charity and miscellaneous organizations boys 265, girls 139. In addition there were 364 children on waiting lists, or who had applied and been refused. There is, therefore, a possible total of 385 boys and 200 girls between the age of ten and sixteen who are in need of some special instruction which will fit them for life. To Build Home For Delinquent Girls. The architect's plans for the erection of the state home buildings for incorrigible colored girls at Tipton, Mo. have been submitted to and approved by the board of managers of the institution. The central edifice will be 153 feet long and 66 feet wide. With the proposed group of buildings, will be of fireproof construction. The estimated cost of the buildings is placed at $89,000. WORK OF EDWARD WATERS COLLEGE Institution Fostered by the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Jacksonville, Fla., Placed on Firm Footing by Bishop John Hurst With the Cooperation of the People. Jacksonville, Fla.—Edward Waters college, the A. M. E. school of Florida, situated at Jacksonville, under the wise management of Bishop John Hurst, D. D., of Baltimore, is fast forging to the front. Debt ridden since its birth back in 1855, it has had a most heroic struggle for existence. After the destructive fire that swept away the greater part of Jacksonville in 1901, when the college was destroyed, Edward Waters saw some very hard times. Sometimes hardly existing, the college was moved from place to place, now in a rented hall and again in some building, but always with the hope that some day it would have a fixed abode. Every Bishop who has served the diocese, together with the good men of Florida, has striven hard to realize that hope, but one reverse after another came until some began to think that surely a relentless fate must be following the institution. Bishop Salter, although enfeebled in health, got behind the movement on his going to the district and with the help of the then president, Dr. A. Henry Attaway, and the men of Florida who had never given up the struggle, erected Salter hain, a large building of sixty-four rooms, situated on Kings road, the beautiful drive that stretches through the western part of the city. JOHN A. GREGG, B. A Still heavily encumbered with debt, the school struggled on, but with renewed hope. After his elevation to the bishopric at Kansas City in 1912 Bishop John Hurst, who was assigned to the diocese of Florida, hastened to the state to look the situation over. The outlook was not very promising; but, with the courage and belief in the ultimate triumph of right that have always characterized the man, he at once set to work. He evolved a plan whereby the people of Florida, putting forth herculean efforts, have swept away the last penny of indebtedness against the school. Never have the faithful presiding elders, pastors and people worked so before. At the grand rally held at Mount Zion church in Jacksonville on Oct. 1, 1913, more than $13,000 was raised. Now African Methodism points with pride to her school, and a new day seems to be dawning for the institution. The old episcopal residence had in the meantime been converted into a beautiful thirty-two roomed dormitory for the boys, so that these two newly painted main buildings, situated on a little over six acres of ground, call forth words of praise from the many passersby on this main traveled thoroughfare. The Rev. John A. Gregg, B. A., the present president, seems to be grasping the work in a way that spells success for the institution. His preparation and travel have peculiarly fitted him for the work, and Florida is blessed in having secured his aid. He was born in Eureka, Kan. Feb. 18, 1877, and attended the public schools of that place and as the only colored member of his class, having served it as president. He graduated from the high school with honor in 1890. He then took the scientific course in the Southern Kansas academy of the same city, graduating from the same in 1897 as class orator, which honor he won against nine other contenders, all white men. In the fall of 1897 he entered the Kansas State university. When the Spanish-American war broke out in 1898 he left school with a number of his schoolmates and joined the Twenty-third Kansas volunteers and served as quartermaster sergeant with his regiment in Cuba. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS © HARRIS & EWING. Eleanor Wilson, youngest daughter of President Wilson, was married on Thursday, May 7, to William Gibbs McAdoo, secretary of the treasury, in the White House. This photograph shows Mr. McAdoo, and the bride in her wedding gown, which is made of ivory white satin and is trimmed with real old point lace. The bodice is draped with satin crossed and brought to a point below the shoulders, front and back. The V-shaped neck is finished with folds of tulle and the sleeves are of the same material, while the old point lace is draped over the right shoulder and is fastened with a spray of orange blossoms. The sweeping train is three and a half yards in length. ELEANOR WILSON IS NOW MRS. McADOO Daughter of President Becomes Bride of Secretary of the Treasury. MARRIED IN WHITE HOUSE Ceremony Takes Place on Platform Erected in South Bay Window of Blue Room—Bride Escorted by Chief Executive, Groom by Dr. Cary Grayson. Washington, D. C.—The wedding of Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson and Mr. William Gibbs McAdoo took place on Thursday afternoon, May 7, at 6 o'clock, in the blue room. Wedding Procession. The wedding procession proceeded from the main stairway into the corridor, through the north door of the blue room, to the platform erected in the south bay window of the blue room. Miss Sallie McAdoo led the procession, followed by Mrs. Sayre and Miss Margaret Wilson. Mrs Nancy Lane directly preceded the bride, who was escorted by the president. The groom, with Dr. Cary Travers Grayson, met the wedding party at the altar. Mr. McAdoo wore evening clothes and Dr. Grayson wore his uniform. Rev. Sylvester W. Beach performed the ceremony. After the ceremony the wedding party proceeded to the red room, where they received the congratulations and good wishes of the company. The Marine band furnished the music. Supper was served at small tables in the state dining room. The decorations of the blue room were lilies and ferns and the decorations in the dining room were pink and white roses. Bride's Bouquet. The bride's bouquet was of orange blossoms, white orchids and illies of the valley. Her gown was made of white satin and trimmed with real old point lace. The bodice was softly draped with satin, which crossed in front and was brought to a point below the shoulders, front and back. The V shaped neck was finished with folds of soft tulle. The long mousquetaire sleeves were made of tulle. The real old point lace was Frank Loses in Court. Atlanta, Ga.—Judge Hill overruled a motion for a new trial for Leo M. Frank, convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan and sentenced to be hanged. The hearing has been in progress several days and has been attended by many charges of false affidavit making. Judge Hill ruled that the evidence presented in behalf of Frank was not sufficient to warrant a new trial. The judge then granted a bill of exceptions which enables the defense to carry the case to the supreme court. --- POSES FOR MOVIES RECEIVES INJURIES EX-NEW YORK CITY OFFICIAL IS HIT BY BOMB WHICH DID NOT EXPLODE. Former Deputy Police Commissioner Dougherty Falls Too Hard and is Rendered Unconscious From Cut on His Head. New York City—Former Deputy Police Commissioner Dougherty was hit by a bomb and severely injured. He was cut about the head and rendered unconscious, but refused to go to the hospital after he had been attended by an ambulance surgeon. It was not a Blackhand bomb, however, and the bomb did not explode. After trying all sorts of hazardous stunts in the course of a long career as a detective, Dougherty took his life in his hands and posed for a moving picture film. It was part of the performance for a villain to throw a bomb at him. It was Dougherty's part to fall when the missile of death hit him. The villain did his part and so did Dougherty. The only trouble was that Dougherty fell too hard and not in the right place. In the tumble he hit his head. The stunt was realistic. The great detective stayed down. The rest of the performers waited. Then they grew anxious and investigated. The former deputy police commissioner was unconscious. gracefully draped over the right shoulder to the left side of the waist and fastened with a spray of orange blossoms. The lace then continued as a border to the long transparent tulle of tulle which graduated to the side of the skirt at the train. The long, sweeping train was three and a half yards in length. A cap effect bridal wreath of orange blossoms and long draped veil was very effective. The flower girls carried white chiff hats, hung by ribbons, filled with flowers. Miss Margaret Wilson's gown was of soft blue crepe with panfers and waist of blue tulle. The neck was finished with a cream lace ruff and a flowered sash completed the costume. With this costume was worn a blue lace hat, trimmed with pink roses and touches of black. Mrs. Sayre's costume was exactly like Miss Wilson's except that the color was pink. The gowns of the little flower girls were white with blue and pink ribbons. "I Started Chicago Fire." "I Started Chicago Fire." Lima, O.-The legend that Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over a kerosene lantern and started the fire which swept Chicago in 1871 is challenged by the deathbed declaration of Miss Rebecca Thrift, who died in the county infirmary here, aged about 70. Further details, whatever those details may have been, were sealed by death and was buried in the potter's field along with the body. The GAZETTE One Year.....$1.50 Six Months.....1.00 Three Months......50 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class matter. Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of -ny newpaper 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. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans.. 160,000 in Ohio. 20,000 in Cleveland. Cleveland CITY CITY SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1914. *Be sure to notice and call your friends' attention to the State Civil Service Commission's announcements elsewhere in this paper.* The wonderful sprinting ability of Howard P. Drew impresses itself upon the entire country with his every appearance as a contestant in a race. The entrance of the Hon. Myron T. Herrick, ambassador to France, into the race for U. S. senator, insures the nomination of the Hon. Joseph Benson Foraker. After six months of Wilson's "new freedom" in tariff, there are thick-and-fast reports from all over the country of falling wages and closing mills. But the people are getting what they voted for—only they didn't realize it. - President Wilson wrote to the Democratic candidate in the 7th Congressional district in New Jersey that he hoped the electors would so vote as to "show their judgment with regard to the present Administration." They did; and they condemned it overwhelmingly. Owing to ill-health, R. W. E. Ferguson of Albany, O., editor and publisher of "The Message," a splendid race monthly, has discontinued its publication. This is a distinct loss to the race. We sincerely hope Mr. Ferguson's health will soon improve and that he will be able to resume the publication of "The Message." An alleged newspaper cablegraph from London, England, to American dailies, May 2. says, "Because the home office indicated to the promoter its strong distile of matches between white and Negro pugilists, the projected fight between 'Gunboat' Smith and Sam Langford, set for June 30, has been declared off." The fight may have been postponed all right, but not for the reason stated. That will prove to be, as usuala a prejudiced "Americ" can. English sports have not as yet degenerated to such "Americ" can smallness and pettiness, and this fact will soon be made clear in this case, too. It seems to be the consensus of opinion of those who attended the Williams Jubilee Singers "concert" at St. John's A. M. e. church, this city recently, that their efforts are properly placed in a theatre or hall, and not in a church. The bluff "speech" one of them made at their "concert" here, in an effort to justify the company's objectable (in a church) "concert" features, only aggravated the matter. As the Williams Jubilee Singers are soon to return to the city, to repeat their "concert", it is well to have a clear understanding now, in order that St. John's and our other churches may not be imposed upon again. --- While the leaders of the Bull Moose party keep on voicering that they never never will re-unite with the Republican party, the majority of the man who voted for Roosevelt are quietly "returning home." Last week there was a registration in McKearn County, Pa. In this county in 1912 Roosevelt received 3,419 votes; in the registration last week the Bull Mooseers ("Washingtonians") they call themselves in Pennsylvania) only listed 1,084 less than one-third; the Taft vote in 1912 was only 1,245, while the Republican registration last week was 3,361—almost three times as many. The Democratic registration fall off considerably. The spirit of patriotism brought to a glow by the war in Mexico will naturally cause an accession to the personal strength of the distinguished scholar in the White House. But it is manifest that immediately preceding the commencement of the activities of the American government in Mexico the President's personal popularity was considerably on the wane. That was shown by the result of the recent congressional election in New Jersey, when the Democratic candidate was overwhelmed, notwithstanding that a special appeal was made by the President to sustain his Administration; and later, even after the capture of Vera Cruz by American blue-jackets—when a Republican was endorsed for re-elected by independent Democrats is Governor of Tennessee, against the strong efforts of Mr. Wilson. INDIANA BULL MOOSERS. The free-lance Indianapolis correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer says that in Indiana "the weakness of the Democrat position as manifested at this time is the evident determination of its leaders generally to rely on the Bult Moose vote to give them another big majority. * * * Yet there are many shrewd observers who say they detect an unmistakable drift toward the Republican party among business men of all classes and among farmers." * * and the correspondent makes this very significant statement: "One of the notable things about the Republican State Convention this week that should give the Democrats and Bult Moose leaders food for soup is the large number of Bull Moose whistlers who identified as Democrat or Bult Mooser who attempts to convince himself that many men who were prominent in the new party in 1912 are not working hand-in-hand with the Republicans this time is willfully deceiving himself." LUNA *PARK AND THE COLOR LINE. The Gazette will not change its stand in regard to our people of this community and Luna Park, unless the management of the latter ceases to discriminate against them in some, if not all of its features. We still maintain that Negroes who will flock to that place of amusement because all or nearly all of the departments are open to them on a few special days of the year, when on all other occasions they are denied the citizen right to enjoy all of the privileges of the park, are certainly not self or race respecting, nor are they entitled to any better treatment than they have received at the hands of the management of that park heretofore. One of the main reasons why there is so much discrimination in public places in this community is made clear by those who pay prejudiced whites so liberally with their hard-earned money for thus insulting and degrading them. COST THE THEATRE MORE THAN $300. In October last, Miss Hattie Hairston purchased two tickets for herself and friend, Miss Maud York, for seats on the lower floor of the Colonial Theatre, this city, for a matinee. Upon arrival at the theatre they were not denied admittance, but were refused their seats, the doorman refusing, on demand, to return their tickets, claiming they were for another day and offering to return the girls their money. This, of course, they refused to accept. Quietly leaving the theatre, they placed their case in the hands of Stanley and Horwitz, attorneys, located in the Williamson Bldg, this city, who promptly brought suit under our Ohio civil rights' law for Miss Hairston against the Constock Amusement Company, which owns the in the Municipal court, the latter part of January. The theatre people demanding a jury, trial was had before six jurors (twelve) in the court room of Judge Dan Call. The manager of the theatre, the treasurer and two ticket-takers, testified that the tickets were for another day, but upon cross-examination could not satisfactorily account for the fact that they did not produce the tickets in court. After two days of trial the jury brought in a verdict in favor of Miss Hairston for $140 and costs. The verdict was unanimous. The theatre company did not carry the case to a higher court, and in this showed good judgment. On March 21, it paid the full amount of the judgment and in addition to that $29.75 court and jury costs, and their attorneys' fees, which made this total cost considerably over $200. Attorney, Stanley, immediately upon the conclusion of the Hairston case, prepared a petition for Miss Maud York, who had located in Toledo, and started suit against the theatre company for her. Rather than again go into court and face sure defeat, the theatre company paid $50 in settlement of Miss York's claim, she accepting the same because of the expense and trouble necessary to come to Cleveland from Toledo to attend the trial of the case. Miss York was Miss Hairston's only witness. It is to be regretted that she did not push her case, also, in court just as Miss Hairston did, and give our people of this community the benefit of a second full victory over racial and color prejudice. The result: The Colonial Theatre for its 'critical to give these two girls the seats their tickets called for, even though it did not refuse them admittance to the theatre, paid in all to them and the court $229.75 and in addition to that, a large amount for their attorneys' fees and a court stenographer, the grand total being more than $200. A rather expensive refusal to save the least. The course followed by Miss Hairston, in this case, is the only one that will ever lead our people, in Ohio at least, to a full and untrammeled enjoyment of their civil rights and privileges in public places, and the sooner they fully realize this fact and act upon it far more generally than they do, the better for all concerned. When your rights are denied you in public places of all kinds, take the matter into the courts, fight for your rights like MEN and WOMEN, and stop whining and making excuses for such insults and denials, and claiming that you are not able to employ attorneys to prosecute your cases because the letter is not true as a rule. The cost is small and in many cases nothing at all. WILLING Her poor guitar did not discern That her gowns cost more than he'd earn. Said she, "How could you dress me?" He blushed and said, "Bless me! That's something I think I could learn." THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1914. U. S. SENATOR WESLEY L. JONES HON. A. H. GRIMKE, OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD AND OTHERS, SPEAKERS. Mrs. Geo. W. Cook, Dr. Joel E. Spin garn, Miss Mary W. Ovington, Hon. Chas. J. Bonaparte, Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Dr. Kath- erine B. Davis and Cardinal Gibbons. Special to The Gazette. Baltimore, Md.—The N. A. A. C. P. held its sixth conference here, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of this week. The credit of an orderly and systematic execution of carefully planned details is due to the uniting efforts of the Baltimore conference committee, of which Rev. Harvey Johnson, D. D., was chairman. The meetings were held in various parts of the city, especially advantageous from points of accommodation to the residents of the several sections, and the assurance that numbers of people would come into knowledge of the real purpose of such a movement. The opening meeting was held at the Lyric, the largest music hall in the city. More than 2000 people were in attendance and by their earnestness and enthusiasm evidenced their understanding of the importance of the Association and its work. One of the features of this meeting was a letter from Cardinal Gibbons, who enunciated his hearty endorsement of the cause of the Colored people and regret that preparation for his departure for Rome prevented his being part of the Conference. Senator Wesley L. Jones from Washington state, after detailing the unprecedented advancement of the Negro along all social lines, gave some very sincere and salutary advice to the young people attending the meeting to be honest, industrious, patient, faithful, sincere and sober and to be come independent through the possession of land. The Rev. R. W. Bagnall of Detroit, Mich., delivered a stirring address on "Color and the Church" Renewing the foundational principle of the church as the spirit of brotherly love, after citing historical evidences of equal participation by the young people in the revolution of the church, Rev. Bagnall the coming of the color-line into the church of God, and reviewed the operations of race prejudice in that institution today. He closed with the C PROFESSOR J. E. SPINGARN. WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. THROUGHOUT OHIO What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical — Marriages, Deaths, Etc. CADIZ—Mr. Alex. West is able to be about again—P. P. T. Brown and children spent a few days last week in E. Liverpool—Rev. O. W. Childers preached at Sco, and Mrs. Henrietta Smith, C. H. Christian and Mr. Joe Jones were there also, Sunday—Mrs. Elva Wallace was out of town, and Mrs. Emma Mason visited Pittsburgh, last week. Will Hull is in town again, Mrs. Laura Olmstead was in Steubenville Saturday—The W. G.'s were entertained by Heloise Ballard. SANDUSKY.—Three of Mr. Jeffrey's family are convalescing. The A. M. E. church is prospering and is looking forward to the improvement of their edifice.—Mrs. E. Williams is ill at her father, Mr. David Anderson's.—Miss Bessie Brown of Cleveland visited her brother, J. R. Davis. The Second Baptist Church of Cleveland has been promised fifty years ago. Those who made the promise are dead, but Rev. Geo. D. Smith, the pastor, who believes in making every promise good, had revs. J. L. E. Burr and B. H. Ware of Cleveland, come here and ordain three deacons, with impressive ceremonies. They are Messrs. Samuel Scott, J. R. Davis and David Anderson. So the board is now composed of the Messrs. Stephen Wallace, Wn. Jeech, S. S. J. R. Davis O. R. Shackelford, R. Wilson and D. Anderson, with Rev. G. D. Smith.—Read The Gazette. SMITHFIELD.—Miss Mumie Beal closed her third term at school at McIntyre, Friday. An interesting program was rendered, Saturday evening. Many from here attended.—Mrs. Lola Ramsey and children, of Hopeville were guests of Mrs. H. Harris. Mrs. Lola Ramsey and W. Warren trained at a four-course dinner, Sunday, in honor of Mrs. Ramsey.—F. T. Davis returned to Pittsburgh, Sunday, after visiting his wife and son.—Fred Carter and G. D. Binsnied Harvard, Sunday. Mrs. Lewis returned Thursday from Vernon and Akron. Mrs. Binsnied Cook visited relatives here this week.—Mrs. E. Beall is very ill at Mrs. Jas, Beall's.—Norman Bigsby and G. Binsn were in Belmont Co., last week. Mrs. Alice Washington passed through Sunday, en route to Steubenville, Mrs. Josie Smith was there Saturday. Mrs. Geo Wheeling and Martins Ferry.—Mrs. Geo Freeman died, Sunday, after a long illness. YOUNGSTOWN—James Whithee and Clarence Reeder of Baltimore, were in this city, last week—Mr. and Mrs. John Seaton spent Sunday on Lake Erie with friends—St. Augustine E. mission will, in the future, begin services at 10 a.m. on Sundays, eastside, Geenna and George. Spooner spent two weeks in Pittsburgh with an aunt, Mrs. Emma Harris—Mrs. A. I. Berry of Leonia is convalescing, Mr. Berry was here Sunday—Logan lodges' club will give a reception in Excelsior Parlors, May 28—Miss M. R. Berry of Leonia is convalescing, Klaus' guest—The Waldorf cafe opening, Friday evening, was attended by about 300. D. M. Branch, prop—Steve Clark gave a luncheon in honor of William Hopwell's 46th birthday. Covers were laid for 36. A number of interesting speeches. H. P. Parker, Mrs. Harry Irvin and son are ill—Alex Covers, Years, died at the City hospital, Saturday evening. He was in N. C. DAYTON.—Mrs. F. E. D. Grissby royally entertained the E. S. C. club. The club colors, blue and white, were used in decorating and the favors were little flower pots filled with ferns. Mr. Wm. Allen is very sick. Mr. Willard Payne is able to be at his store because he is a teacher. He hear from Robert Bolden. A very congenial gathering, last Friday evening, at Pythian Castle when Miss Duncan entertained at a dancing party in honor of Mrs. Hattie Douglass and Mrs. Winnie Howard of Akron. Those present: Mr. and Mrs. Wellon and Alonzo Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Webb, Mr. and Mrs. James Blackburn, Robinson, Enoch Jackson, Thomas,inders, and the hostess, Miss Duncan, Messrs. Clarence Warmack, Benj Wright, Frank Willite, W. H. Histoe, Grant Jackson, Arthur Weaver, Harry Clemens, Benj. Richardson and Ted Banks. Music was furnished by Smith's Saxaphone, Trfo.—Mrs. Mary Scott is quite ill. Please see the Enclud Ave. A. M. E. church. Sunday. The play, last Friday evening at Armory hall by Steel High school students was a success. They are entitled to credit. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that of their employer. You should wrap about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for by the post office. Line six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. Send postal note and not stamps during warm weather. DREW WON TWO EVENTS. Philadelphia, Pa.—In the University of Pennsylvania amateur sports carnival here, April 25, Howard Drew, world's champion spinner, won the 100-yard dash and also the broad jump. He won his trial heat in 10 seconds flat, and the final in 10 1-5 seconds. Drew left here for N. Y. City to participate in the Loughlin yleum races, Apr. 27. Referee Sullivan, speaking of Drew, said that after seeing Drew run his heat in 10 seconds flat on a water-soaked track, he was ready to believe that his performance of 9 3-5 seconds in California was accurate. His distance for the running broad jump was 22 feet. DOINGS OF THE RACE A moving picture show and meat market, operated by Afro-Americans, are needed in Cleveland on Central Avenue E. 31st and E. 20th Sts, respectively. Splendid field for persons with money and experience in the business. This latter is absolutely necessary. Pass the word along. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Zanesville, Newark, Lancaster, Lebanon, Chillicothe, Toledo, Troy, Canton, Springfield, Piqua, Columbus, Cambridge, Steubenville, Bellshire, St. Chirsville, Portsmouth, Chelsea, Ct. Hickory, Sabina, Galipson, Rendville, Wellesley, Mt. Vernon, East Liverpool, Wellsville, Akron, Dayton, Middletown, Bellefontaine, Lima, O., and other places where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O, and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending us the names of persons in the cities named above or other to whom we can write relative to the matter. SOME GOOD JOBS Examinations Open to All Citizens Without Regard to Color and Opportunities Columbus, O.—An examination will be conducted by the State Civil Service Commission on the morning of May 19th for one of the biggest positions that has yet been filled by that commission. It is for a supervisee, a member of the board of rates and service in the public utilities commission. It carries with it, at a salary of $4,500 and expenses while traveling. This position was filled several months by O. P. Gothlin, who recently resigned. Applicants should be conversant with the work of public service companies, as one holding this position will investigate and adjust claims of shippers and to make inspection of railroad tariffs and should possess a general knowledge of rates and service. The subjects of the examination are duties, educational, experience and training, and report. The examination can be held at the office of the State Civil Service Commission in the Majestic Theater building at Columbus, Ohio. Another examination for deputy game wardens will be held by the State Civil Service Commission on the morning of May 21st. The salary connected with this office is in some cases fees and in others $60 a month and upwards. The subjects of the examination will be duties, experience, report, physical (including strength, agility, sight and hearing). In order to the necessary number of applicants, the commission has decided to hold examinations at Chennai, Dayton, Athens, Zanesville, Wapakoneta, Defiance, Bucyrus, Carlton, Vangentown, Portsmouth, Chillicothe, Columbus, Steubenville, Finlay, Sandusky and Cleveland. The State Civil Service Commission will hold a special examination for state highway and bridge inspectors at 9 aclock on the morning of May 12, 2014. The exam will be used to create a special eligibility for a bachelor's, Franklin, Hamilton, Lucas, Mahoning and Montgomery, and any other counties requiring this service. The subjects are duties, experience, educational and report. The salary is $3.00 per day. These examinations are held at the State Civil Service Commission, Ohio, in the law library in the old court house at Cleveland, and in the court houses in Cincinnati, Youngtown, Toledo and Wapakoneta. Short Story Writers. The speaker was an artist. He continued: "Mr. Wells said that there was very little money in short stories. He said that the yarns about the enormous sums paid by magazines for short stories were mostly fakes—fakes got up by editors, which writers supported out of vanity. "In fact, Mr. Wells concluded, 'in fact, despite these fakes, you'll find that all short-story writers are short.'" Being Awake! Moral reform and improvement are the effort to throw off sleep. Why is it that men give so poor an account of their day if they have not been slumbering? If they had not been overcome with drowsiness they would have performed something. The millions are awake enough for physical labor, but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred million to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?-Thoreau. Sight Worth Seeing. H. Hamilton Fyfe, English journalist, was talking, in New York, about Mexico, whence he had just returned. "Among the Mexican Indians," he said, "two things astonished me—first, the early age at which the children begin to smoke, and, second, the late age at which they continued to be nursed by their mothers. "Frequently the Indian babies are suckled till they are four years old. By that time they have learned to smoke, and it is not uncommon in the Indian villages to see a child leave its mother's breast and immediately light up a comfortable 'after-dinner' cigar." Members of The Race Refuse to Honor Him in the Northwest. 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Others, delinquent, will meet the same fate, next week. Be sure to read the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. advertisement, elsewhere in this paper. Oswald Garrison mume. FOR RENT—Houses and Rooms— If you have them to rent or if you want to rent, advertise in The Gazette. It brings results. NOTARY PUBLIC.—For such services call at The Gazette office, No. 3 Blackstone building, No. 1424 W. Third Street, near Superior Ave. FOR SALE.—Houses or lots. If you have either or anything else to sell, or if you wish to purchase, advertise in The Gazette. If anything can bring you results, it can and will. WANTED.—Women for housecleaning washing and ironing, by the day. ACME Employment Co., 308 W. Superior Ave., near W. 3rd St. For Rent.—In Oberlin; a 5 room house, 133 S. Park St., large garden, well-water and cistern; $7.50 per month. Also one 6 room house, 144 Groveland St., water, gas a garden-lot, beautiful street; $10 per month. Apply or address W. C. Wright, 142 Groveland St., Oberlin, O. Cleveland Sixth City Rev. D. A. Walker has returned to Ripley. Miss Virginia Lee of Albron, has located here. The None-Such club banqueted in Clayton hall, one evening last week. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Nickens have moved from 1116 E. 1138 St., to 8505 Edmunds Ave. The Philliegan's band and a few friends went to Elyria, last week, Thursday evening. Mrs. T. J. Hicks attended Mr. Huston and Mrs. Francis Bell's funerals in Columbus, recently. Do you know what "Puro Herb time" means? Read the advertisement in col. I, page 3.—Adv. Quick service and the best, is the slogan of the Sanitary barber shop. See advertisement elsewhere in this paper. Mrs. Nellie Vactor-Griffin, who sustained an operation, recently, is doing nicely at her parents' 235 Howe Ave., N. W. Be sure to read Chas. R. Matthews' advertisement, in this paper. There is something in it of special interest to you. Mrs. Frances Jane Brown, mother of Miss Hallel Q. Brown and Hon. Jere A Brown (deceased), died at her home in Wilberforce, recently. Others came and go, but "the old reliable" "Gazette remains with you. It may save you money to remember this. It has others, many times. "Parker's Popular Players" orchestra, of Columbus, have returned home after a successful engagement, since November, 1913, at the Hollenden hotel. Mr. and Mrs. O. V. Hamlin were given a delightful surprise by about twelve of their young friends, last Friday evening, at their home, 2167 E. 43d St. If you owe The Gazette and it does not arrive this week, please remember that we are discontinuing delinquent subscriptions as rapidly as we can get to them. The Junior DuBois club's concert at Mt. Zion Congregational church, Monday evening, was a success, Mr. Noble Sisle's singing and the other program numbers pleasing greatly. At Mt. Haven Baptist church, 2828 Central Ave. Rev. J. L. E. Burr, pastor, will preach, Sunday, at 10:45 m. and 7:45 p. m. S. S. at 12:30 p. m. B. Y. P. U. 6:30 p. m. Eastern time. It takes "real" money—not "stage" money—to publish a newspaper. Therefore, if you owe The Gazette pay promptly, please. Either call or send the amount to the office, at once. Wm. Dixon, age 17, died at 2291 E. 90th St. May 4. Funeral services, May 6, 2 p. m., conducted by Rev. C. H. Young. Interment at Lakeview cemetery. E. F. Boyd, funeral director. --- the Gazette regularly should notify they delivered promptly. finitely examine The Gazette's adver- sises. Business men who advertise in magazines or And Americans. The fact that they want it. pertisements) ten cents a line (six A number of delinquent subscriptions were dropped, Apr. 25. They evidently forgot to heed our notice to them; their money to the office. Others, delinquent, will meet the same fate, next week. Be sure to read the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. advertisement, elsewhere in this paper. Oswald Garrison Villard is one of the race's best friends. He is aggressive in our interest and a splendid speaker. - Adv. Mrs. C. E. Webster, widow of Rev. W. G. Webster, her children and relatives, extend thanks to all friends for the interest manifested during the recent illness and since the loss of our husband, father and brother, respectively. Our advertisers want our trade. Those who do not ask for it in The Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask for your trade in this paper. Loula Vaughn Jones entertained the Misses. Edith Tocus and Hannah Keny Young. Your nester day evening. Over thirty couples were present and a delightful time was spent by all. He appeared in a recital at Youngstown, April 23. Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette's offices, suite 2, Blackstone Bldg. If you wish to see the editor call there, please. Omit matters for publication in current issue. The Gazette is located in the office by 4 p. m., WEDNESDAY at the latest. Mrs Ruby Joe Wiburn of 311 Scovill Ave., died May 1. Funeral, Monday, from Lane Memorial C. M. E. church, Rev. C. L. Howard, the pastor officiated. Rev. and Mrs. Howard left, Monday night, to attend general conference at St. Louis. There will be about 400 delegates in attend- Mrs. Waterloo B. Snelson, wife of Rev. F. G. Snelson of Columbus, former pastor of St. James A. M. E. church, East End, died, Sunday noon, Funeral there, Friday afternoon. She is survived by several daughters, a son and husband, all of whom have the earnest sympathy of our people of this community. According to the police census there are JL1218 Afro-Americans in Cleveland. There were that many here twenty years ago. The "Colored" population of Cleveland is 20,000, more than half of whom form the average nonwhite could not tell whether they were white or Colored. Many others they did not enumerate. In honor of the formal opening of his neat and new up-to-date restaurant, known as the Walloosac Inn, inc. Central Ave, and E. 31st St, Mr. Peter Ross entertained a number of personal friends, and admirers, Wednesday evening, from 8 to 10 p. m. at a delicious dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Ross are entertaining, energetic and genial. Their success seems assured. Local Odd Fellows and Households of Ruth will have their annual serman preached, Sunday, at St. John's A. M. E. church, by Rev. R. A. Jones of Akron, who is expected to arrive that day with a couple of suburban cars filled with Akron Odd Fellows and friends, who will make Woodliff hall their headquarters. Miss Nannie Banks of Middletown, will also participate in the exercises. * * * * ExChaplain T. G. Steward' of the U. S. army, vice president of Witherforce university, preached at St John's church, Sunday; addressed the S. S. at noon, and delivered his fine lecture, "Our Civilization," at the church, Monday evening. Chaplain Steward is not only a fine speaker but also writer, and is one of our leading men. He is author of the best his life has ever written, a future soon to be published. He paid the Gazette sanctum a very pleasant visit, Monday afternoon. The services of the B. Y. P. U. of Antioch Baptist church, were well attended, Sunday evening. An instructive and inspiring talk was delivered by the president. The banner was awarded to the girls and not the boys. The young folk are doing a great work. "And a child shall lead them"—the topic, was beautifully discussed by Mr. Javan Maxwell. A piano selection, Miss Madline Jones; reading, Miss Jessie Wadkins. Sunday is "Mothers day." A special program. Everybody cordially welcomed. The male Bible class, No. 5, entertained. Monday, at 2171 E. 43d St. the young ladies' class. "Tyrphaena." The latter were evening gowns and as a token of appreciation the gentlemen presented each a carnation. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1914. Gazette M.I. Ave. M.I. Ave. N.W. M.I. Ave. D'S. M.I. Ave. St.. Ave. Standing before the altar, 45 young people, all converts of last winter, were read into full membership at St. John's A. M. E. church. Sunday, it was a grand sight. Dr. Chas. Bundy, pastor, had indulged to make a splendid record while in charge of St. John's this time. In two years and five months, with the assistance of energetic and faithful members, he cleared off the mortgage debt of the church of $5,200, in addition to caring for the current expenses, spending between $700 and $800 in renovating the house next to the church, which it owns, repairing the roof of the church and redecorating the interior. The St. S. and prayer meeting attendance was never so large, and the Allen league has added 601 to the church and given hundreds of dollars to charity, under his pastorate. As a speaker, Dr. Bundy has not only pleased, but surprised his large congregation and the community. MINISTER Denounce Home" ocratic, Wedge grazing ward. Mr. Presl. Colore You, your 30th, 1914, organization LY for CO to submit I. We, 126th St. I has been Chas. E. S. care of the same, maize no in institution o crasi publ E. H. Krueger, Esu, attorney for A. Wesley Carter, sent the following statement to The Gazette, Monday, in reply to the local item. In our last issue, sent The Gazette by Attorney Roy L. Cheeks, secretary of the Morgan Hair Refining Co.: "A. W. Carter's case is still in court and he expects his suit against the Morgan Hair Refining Co., asking for $1,000 damages, filed some time ago, to come up for trial soon. Mr. Carter was badly burned by an application of the refiner, being confined, several weeks, at Eddy Rd. hospital. The attorney for the hair refining company filed a motion to strike from the petition of the plaintiff, "that the refiner was dangerous to human life and health and of a caustic burning nature," with the intent to lure their demurrer that Carter did not have a cause of action against the Morgan Hair Refining Co., was also overruled, April 27, 1914. This case is still in court and not dismissed, as stated in The Gazette, last week. The same, being case No. 22,822, Municipal Court." EAST END NOTES Mrs. Hill of E. 108th St. Mrs. Geo. Fields of Dunlap Ave., and Mr. Wm. Dickson of E. 90th St. are confined to their homes. Our chauffeurs in this section of the city are "making good." There are no complaints. This speaks well for the race. Mr. Russell Jones' horse ran away, last week, Tuesday. He and Rev. Cole escaped injury for the second time within a week. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Williams of Shaker Heights, are stopping at Mrs. Hammond's, Norman St. Messrs. Warrick and Webster are "making good" at Chandler and Rudd's East Store. Mr. Fred Ad仕 has not missed a Sunday at Sabbath school in a year, to date. A few days ago one of our ladies in this section had occasion to write the head of the street railway company about the conduct of one of its employees on the E. 105th SL. line. She received a prompt and satisfactory reply. Soon thereafter she boarded the same conductor's car and found him civil and very pleasant. Here is a "pointer" for others. MRS. F. G. SNELSON, SR., DEAD. Columbus, O.—Gov. Cox on Monday at the request of Gov. McCraery of Kentucky, granted a pardon to Stephen Taylor, doing life in the Ohio penitentiary for murder at Cincinnati Taylor is the son of an old family employee of Gov. McCraery's family. Gov Cox was assured by Gov. McCraery MRS. E. G. SNELSON, SR. that "Steve" will never be allowed to return to Ohio, but will spend his remaining days with his old mother and father in the "blue grass" state—Mrs. Waterloo B. Snelson was buried yesterday. She was the wife of Rev. F. G. Snelson, and died, Sunday noon. Several daughters and sons survive her. F. G. Snelson, Jr., and Mr. Jackson, chauffeur for Gov. Cox were in Cleveland last week. DREW SETS ANOTHER NEW MARK. Jack Johnson Now But One of Our Champions No World's Champion New York City, Howard P. Drew of Springfield, Illinois, for the University of Southern California, established a new world's indoor record of 9.15 seconds for a ninety-dash at the games of the Longhill Lycene held in the Thirteenth Regiment army in Brooklyn, Monday evening. The former, record, 9.25 seconds, was made in this city four years ago by E. A. Fey. Fred W. Kelly, (white), also of the University of Southern California, earned the second high yard high hurricane record of 9.45 seconds made by F. W. Shule, at Milwaukee, Wis., last year. Drew and Kelly left here at midnight, Monday, for Los Angeles, where they are to take part in the western championship games today. Saturday. VILLA AN AFRO-AMERICAN Baltimore. Md.—"Pancho" Villa, leader of the rebel forces in northern Mexico, is a Marylander and was a sergeant in the Tenth United States cavalry until fifteen years ago, when his enlistment expired." This was the assertion, Tuesday, of Trumpeter Frederick Harris (white) of Co. E. Fifth regiment. Maryland National guard Harris for more than eight years was a member of the Second regiment, coast artillery, stationed along the Texas border. "Villa was born in Maryland," said Harris. "Every soldier on the border knew this. As a soldier he was a good one. As a captain he was a good one. Gen. Andrews at Washington said the war department's records show no such name as Villa, because he enlisted under the name of Geo. Goldsby. MINISTERS' ALLIANCE PROTEST! Denounce the Alleged "Mt. Pleasant Home" As Segregation, As Undemocratic, UnChristian, An Entering Wedge of Jim-Crowism, As Retrocession and a Wide, Step Backward. Mr. President and Brothren of the Colored Ministers' Alliance: We, our committee, appointed Jan. 20th, 1914, to investigate the alleged organization of a Home EXCLUSIVELY FOR COLORED children, beg leave to submit the following report: 1. We find that the Home on E. 126th St is a private enterprise and has been mainly supported by one Chas. E. Stewart. Relative to the care of the children or condition of the same, we express no opinion, and have recommended since the institution is private, or, at the most, quasi public. 2. We find that a public home for Colored children, exclusively, has been projected, and a tentative organization has been actually formed, with officers elected, a membership fee decided upon, and membership blanks printed. 3. We also find that this proposed institution has the endorsement of Dr. E. A. Smith and Mr. Thaxter Eaton of Cleveland Humane Society, and T. C. Woollett, assistant secretary of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. We, our committee, do hereby enter our most earnest and vigorous protest against the establishment of such an institution, for the following reasons, to wit:¹ 1st—There is absolutely no necessity for such an institution. The city, the county, the state have made ample and satisfactory provision for all of its dependent children, without regard to race, color, or previous conditions. 2nd—The multiplicity of such institutions simply increases the public burden and must, ultimately, lead to the increase of taxation, now already heavy. 3rd—The initiation of such an institution will inevitably lead to the displeasing undemocratic and unchristian policy of segregation and therefore, become the entering wedge of "jim-crowism," so detestable to all self-respecting Negroes, the world over. 4. Such a step is plainly and unmistakably retrogression, a wide step backward toward slavery and proscription, and a prudacious publication of the principles fought for, and obtained at the cost of much sacrifice, privation and bloodshed. 5. We are an English speaking people, thoroughly American, loyal to every interest of our government, and firmly believe in that perfectly democratic principle so long unexcited by Dr. Lyman Abbey and our own Dr. Washington Gladsen - The Eartherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man." Respectfully submitted, ELAM A, WHITE, H. C. BAILEY, CHAS BUNDY, G. V. E. W. G. WEBSTER. The above report was unanimously adopted by the Ministers' Alliance, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 1914. HOMES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. As a result of Judge Addams' and Sheriff Smith's urging, the county commissioners are planning a large detention home for boys and girls, the boys' detention home on the west side and the one for the girls on this side of the city, being inadequate to meet the demand. An agreement with the Salvation Army Rescue Home and The House of Good Shepherd, in addition to the detention home at 2393 E. 43d St., are not sufficient to provide places for girls. Pending arrangements for a permanent and large detention home for both boys and girls, Judge Addams has asked the commissioners to rent the premises adjoining the present detention home for girls in E. 43d St., and a house on the West Side to supplement the present boys' detention home which occupies the two upper floors of the Detroit-West 29th St., police station. Supplementing the foregoing are, the home for boys at Hudson, and The Cleveland Girls' Home, opened at Warrensville, under the city department of public welfare, and immediately under the supervision of Miss Vera Schafer, 10214 Hampden Ave. N. E. in the face of the foregoing, will some one find the shadow of a good excuse for the existence of that "jim-crow" Mt. Pleasant children's home. OPPOSED TO "JIM-CROW" HOME. At a recent metting of the City Federation of Women's clubs, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted and ordered printed in The Gazette: We, the City Federation of Women's clubs, do earnestly enter our protest against establishing the "Mt. Pleasant Home for Colored Children," there being no necessity for such a home, our children are being better cared for in local institutions for all. We shall fight such an effort and use every influence to wipe out the objectionable "Home" and any other, promoting discrimination and segregation. We, the women of the Federation, many of us belonging to the Auxiliary to the Juvenile Court and Human society, organized to assist in the work of placing and relieving dependent children, know the abundance of work done by our people to help the above named organizations, and the organization such a "home" is entirely unnecessary, non-progressive and an insult to our race, and do hereby enter a vigorous protest, placing ourselves squately on record as opposing such a harmful movement, and as determined to use every influence to wipe it out. The statement being made, to the effect that the alleged "Children's Home" in Mt. Pleasant, has been promised $1,000 in aid such a stop one year, only aggravates the situation and, if true, but shows the determination of a few prejudiced persons in this community to establish and maintain, if possible, this segregation attempt and consequent color-line. City Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Blanche A. Glimre, pres. WHERE IS MRS. McKENNEY? 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One-third of them walk, some come five miles, and returning to their homes every night, gladly making these trips in order to get an education. The balance of the students are fed and lodged on the premises, and all hands must work, for there education has no frills. With out going into details, it may be said that intelligent industry is the applied purpose of the school, and thrift and economy is the characteristic of everybody about the place, from Mr. Nicholson and his wife down to the smallest kindergartner, who is beginning the act of intellectually and morally rising. Much more interesting than the school itself is the land buying and development which has been going on for a quarter of a century under the leadership of Mr. Nicholson. It should be said at the beginning that the land purchases were, and still are, made largely on credit, in the case of each effort at expansion of ownership. Like all real credit in this case, it is based on confidence. Necessarily, this means confidence which responsible southern white men have in Mr. Nicholson, and the men who have become or wish to become land owners. Traveling from farm to farm we examined some of the results of this land experiment within a radius of ten miles of Bettis academy. In this section colored men own and operate about fourteen thousand acres of land. In the main, this land was bought in considerable tracts, often by Mr. Nicholson assuming the original responsibility. Then it was divided to suit the buying capacity of the colored people who now own it. Along a stretch of country ten miles in extent the farms, with only an occasional holding by white men, are owned by negroes. Half of the 1,000 acres is paid for, and by the practice of economy and industry that would be a credit to any race. The reputation of this colored community is of the best. No reputable white man has anything but the highest praise for Mr. Nicholson and his land experiment. Crime is practically unknown among the men and women on these farms. White men of character rather seek to buy farms on the border of this settlement. By so doing they insure themselves against the undesirable citizens of both races, not hard to find in South Carolina. The output of motor cars in the United States in 1912 is estimated at between two hundred and fifty thousand and two hundred and eighty-five thousand. "For several months," L. A. Hubert, in charge of the board of welfare at the hospital at Kansas City, said, "the Provident Hospital for Negroes has been conducted by responsible negroes and a little disappointment has been felt by them because their hospital was not included in the list of charities indorsed by the welfare board. This came about because the Provident Hospital for Negroes and the Phyllis Wheatley Hospital have been combined, so as to have only one negro hospital in the city. The name of the new hospital has not been selected. The new project represents a desirable development for negroes and should have liberal support from all people interested in the welfare of the negroes." It's a good plan for a man to say nothing and saw wood, but, of course, it isn't a woman's place to saw wood. The colored academic teachers at the Calhoun institute in Alabama are graduates of college or normal school, and are accomplished in the latest methods of the foremost classrooms. Most of these instructors are in the primary grades, because they can best sympathize with the children's habits of thought and standards of life, in many instances brought from the cabin, and are most patient in correcting the imperfect language of such pupils and in using pure English comprehensible to them. Under Calhoun's conditions the colored force is not only efficient, but also indispensable. The nurses, graduates of high-grade Northern hospitals, perform services in the community which a white woman would indeed be willing to give, but which the negroes could not bring themselves to accept, save from one of their own race. So with the care of the persons and habits of the children of the school, and the sanitation, cleansing and other intimate directions given in the negro homes. The farm at Tuskegee contains 2,350 acres. There are more than a thousand domestic animals and hundreds of chickens. Last year Tuskegee raised 16,000 bushels of sweet potatoes and 10,000 bushels of oats. The other large crops are hay, corn, peanuts, peaches and garden truck. On the farm are 110 buildings, large and small, some of which are very beautiful. Nearly all of these buildings, grounds, equipment and live stock are worth almost one million four hundred thousand dollars, and there is an endowment of about two million dollars. Most of the familiar licorice root comes from Syria. It is gathered and piled into great stacks, where it remains until it is thoroughly dry. It is then taken to the factory to undergo certain processes. The finished product is used for flavoring confectionery and beer, as well as entering into the makeup of many brands of tobacco. Any electric current of sufficient volume to be used commercially is capable of causing death under very favorable circumstances, according a The sixteen negro workers of Calhoun have proved themselves efficient and indispensable. Of the eight men employed six are colored. These six are in charge of the demonstration farm, the shops, buildings and repairs, and the life and work of the male pupils. There are five colored women teachers. There are two colored nurses for school and community. Three of the five directors of girl's industries are colored, as is the house mother. The list would be incomplete without the mention of the pastor of one of the best rural churches of the state, whose leading members are land owners, thanks to Calhoun. Though he is not in official relation with the school, his house is adjacent, he is often engaged for special service, and the religious part of the extension work is done with his help and counsel. The efficiency of these teachers and workers is attested by the reputation of the school, which so largely depends upon them, by the pure character and fine discipline of the student body, recruited mainly from the Black Belt, and whose organization for moral, religious and mental improvement is under this direction. A special indication of efficiency is the recent removal of any supervision over the colored directors of industries except the principal's general oversight, which encourages independence and initiative. At present the county superintendent of education, recognized as among the most progressive in the state, is introducing into the county schools, white and colored, the methods taught in the Calhoun shops. One of the fields of the demonstration farm has been pronounced the best in the state, and reports of government farm experts are full of approvals for results of special value to negro farmers to whom the school farm is the standard. The national convention of Congregational Workers Among Colored People was held at the Lincoln Memorial temple, Washington, with the co-operation of the People's and Plymouth churches. The opening session was held April 15. Rev. D. J. Flynn of Charlotte, N.C., conducted devotional services. Sessions were held three times each day during the convention, which closed Sunday night, April 19. The officer are: A. W. Lawless, Louisiana, president; H. H. Proctor, Georgia, vice-president; H. S. Barnwell, Georgia, recording secretary; D. J. Flynn, North Carolina, treasurer. Executive committee—S. N. Brown, District of Columbia; N. B. Young, Florida, and M. F. Faust, Texas. Vice-presidents—J. E. Smith, Tennessee; J. R. Sims, Alabama; R. E. G Harris, Kentucky; H. H. Dunn, Louisiana; Y. B. Sims, Arkansas; O. Faduma, North Carolina; B. F. Ousley, Mississippi; B. F. White, Texas; W. N. De Berry, Masaachusettts; W. L. Cash, Georgia; J. L. Wiley, Florida; W. G. Price, Virginia; E. T. Ware, Atlanta university; C. W. Morrow, Fisk university; J. M. P. Metcall, Talladge college; E. M. Stevens, Straight university; F. G. Woodworth, Tougaloo university, and I. M. Agard, Tillotson college. Commission of five—H. H. Proctor, Georgia; A. C. Garner, District of Columbia; H. Paul Douglass, New York; E. G. Harring, Kentucky, and E. C. Silsby, Alabama. Auditing—B. W. Smith, Alabama. In a class of 108 pupils in a Brooklyn public school, according to the Crisis, two colored girls, the only colored pupils in the class, took the only prizes offered, a bronze medal for proficiency in spelling and a silver medal for excellent work in German. There is nothing spectacular about Tuskegee. It endeavors to train its students so that they will go out and engage in some industrial pursuit. While the school has received a large share of the money gifts of our philanthropic millionaires, this money cannot be said to have been wasted or used extravagantly. The work of Tuskegee in training negro youths and in increasing their earning capacity has been of great value to the South in dollars and cents. The Tuskegee teachers are up-to-date in their work and methods, and are a well-dressed, intelligent looking body of men and women. W. M. Crawford, a railway conductor of Jackson, Ga., has a curiosity in a $30 bill, which was offered him for fare. The bill was issued November 2, 1776. A Kentucky humorist declares that for simplicity of living his people deserve the blue ribbon. Discussing the matter of breakfasts, he says: "The standard Kentucky breakfast has been from immemorial times fixed by Lexington. It is simple, manly, stimulating, and, above all, free from ostentation: Rise at 5:30 a. m; three cocktails; a chew of tobacco; coffee." In Germany the number of persons without religious profession has increased from 17,000 in 1807 to nearly two hundred and six thousand. Egypt is solely a producer of raw material its entire needs of manufactured goods and prepared material are met from abroad. Raw cotton represents four-fifths of the total value of its exports, and cotton and seed four-sevenths of the remainder. The public debt of Egypt amounts to $430, 534,014 and is almost wholly foreign holding. It is estimated that an army of 2,400 men will be required for the maintenance and operation of the Panama BASEBALL The Washington club had Walter Johnson's right arm insured for $100,000. "The Giants are in better condition than any team in baseball," voices a New York critic. Young O'Hara is cavorting around short for the Dodgers. He looks like a fixture with the Robinson crew. IMPORTANCE OF MANAGERS Connie Mack, Leader of Athletics. The best manager in the world can do nothing without a team, but it takes the manager to collect a team. Connie Mack actually does not win any world's series: Baker Collins. SLIT SKIRT FROWS Best-Dressed Writers of Fashion TURN TO CLASS Little Doubt The Modes Are to Vival — Senile Largely Dedicated of A Manager Jennings of the Tigers probably will send Outfielder Hugh High to Providence for the season. Artie Riggs has been put in charge of the team that Selma will enter in the Georgia-Alabama league this season. Five years ago Fred Clarke was tagged to quit, and now he is going to lead the Pirates for the fifteenth year. Jake Daubert says the Dodgers will be in the race from the start. So will seven other National league teams. From all accounts "Rabbit" Maranville is the real live wire of the Boston Braves, not excepting the scrappy Jawn Evers. According to Ira Thomas, captain of the Athletics, Eddie Plank is already showing world's series form. McGraw please note. If Ray Demitt, Detroit recruit, is sent back to the minor leagues he hopes that his old club, Montreal, will not claim him. Tyrus Raymond Cobb says there is money in baseball, demonstrating that the truth will dawn upon even the most obtuse at times. Cncl fans think highly of Howard Shanks, the Washington outfielder. He seems to be a corker as to ground covering and smothering flies. Napoleon Lajole gave part of his moniker to the Naps, and they continue to carry it. New Jimmy Sheckard has named his team the "Shecks." The Montreal club of the International league has signed John Smith Peoll, the husky young catcher who was with the New York Yankees for a time last year. --- Outfielder Oberta, purchased by Troy New York State league from Lincoln, Illinois-Missouri league club has been turned back to that club by Manager Ramsey. Jack Dunn, manager of the Baltimore Orioles, has gathered up a fast bunch of players this year, and believes his team will outclass the Baltimore Fed outfit. The only fault to be found with the new plan to eradicate professionalism from college baseball is that it will. eradicate college baseball.—New York American. Seven former Boston players have joined the outlaws. They are Rarlden, Campbell, Smith, Quinn and Myers of the Braves and Moseley and Anderson of the Red Sox. When the Cards had Ed Konechy they thought he was the best first sacker in the business. Now they have Jack Miller, former Pirate, and hail him as the greatest ever. ```markdown ``` Manager Bill Carrigan of the Red Sox believes that in Everett Scott, the St. Paul sensation of last season, he has found a classy understudy for Shortstop Helne Wagner. Fred H. Brown, formerly a player with the New Bedford, Haverhill and Lowell clubs of the New England league, has buckled down to his outfits as mayor of Somersville, N. H. Will Shepard, the young semi-professional pitcher, who came to the Detroit Tigers from Stockton, Cal., on catcher Oscar Stanage's recommendation, has been released to Providence. Louis Bellhron, president of the Central league, announces that the following umpires have been signed by the organization: Harry Geisei, George M. Ross, J. R. Gochler and R. H. Morgan. ... President Lyon of the North Carolina league announces that his umpire staff will include William M. Radcliffe of Chicago, William E. Van Buskirk of Washington and Frank Miller of Versailles, O. Hy Jasper is going to use soap instead of saliva this year. The Sox spitballer believes this means of moistening the ball is better in every way, and says the others will adopt it. Anyway, Bill Dahlen has it on most of the former big league managers. The Brooklyn players gave their former boss a chest of silver, whereas most managers are decorated with thware when they are dropped. Hank O'Day opines that Elmer Koestner, once with the Cleveland Naps, will make good with the Cubs this year. He has shown plenty of stuff in training, which concedes him a chance of sticking in the big arena. Young Eddie Kantelbuer, Pirate southpaw, is included in the quartette of reliable pitchers by Manager Clarke. The twirler was picked from the Prairie league of Pittsburgh, and has convinced Clarke as to his ability. He has a variety of curves that will fool the best. Connie Mack, Leader of Athletics. The best manager in the world can do nothing without a team, but it takes the manager to collect a team. Connie Mack actually does not win any world's series; Baker, Collins, Bender, Barry and others attend to that. However, it is the crafty Cornelius- who collected these boys together. McGraw has not been exactly as successful as Mack in picking an all-star bunch. The Little Napoleon, however, always keep his club in the fight and can get more out of mediocre talent than any manager in baseball. McGraw's teams have not been particularly great. Of course, they have had Mathewson, Marquard, Meyers and Doyle, but it is doubtful if the Giants would have won a pennant the last three years without the aggressive McGraw to prod them on. George Stallings is another example of what a manager is to a ball club. The Braves finished last for four years in succession. Stallings took over the miserable aggregation last spring, made a change here and there, and lo and behold! the Braves jumped to the top of the second division. In 1909, Stallings took over the Yankees, a tail-end team, and leaped to fifth. In 1910 his bunch landed second. In an interview with a western reporter Jimmy Callahan said he has five pitchers as good as Walter Johnson. The White Sox twirlers honored are Benz, Walsh, Russell, Scott and Cicotte. --- President Gilmore of the Feds says he will insist on drawing-room conduct on the bail field, but just wait and see what happens when F. Otto Knabe steps on Joe Tinker's toes again. Pitcher Hettle Green, whose status was the subject of considerable controversy last year and who finally drew his release from Indianapolis, is again with the Waco team of the Texas league. --- Ty Cobb writes that he wears lead in his shoes during the spring to improve his footwork. It is hoped that "Ping" Bodie will see the wisdom of this plan and wear a few slugs of lead under his cap—New York Journal. If you desire—and perhaps you don't—to attach the goat of any of the returned world tourists, hand him the English slogan and suggest that the game he is playing is nothing but "glorified rounders." That was the shot that landed with a noisy thud seven inches under the belt.—New York Mall. SPORTING WORLD Napoleon, by Walter Direct, is said to be the star green pacer of the Geers outfit this year. "Doc" Tanner is said to be thinking of going to Russia and training one of the big stables. English boxers are now working on a salary just as the actors do, according to advices from abroad. Princeton has to be content with the gift of a $300,000 stadium, but what it really wanted was a Brickley. The professional golfers will be kept on the hop this season. The three big open events all occur in the short space of a week. Many of the experts figure that that sterling performer on the harness turf, Peter Voto, will enter the class of two-minute trotters this year. The chamber of commerce stake seems to match the M. and M. in class. It is a mighty hard matter to pick one or two from the bunch. Harvey Ernest is going to hold his filly, Ima Jay, until her five-year-old form in 1915. She beat 2:10 last season, and is a high-class prospect. The gray mare Mary Direct, 2:10% in a losing race, is being trained by Wirt Mallow of Maj. Mallow fame. She is in the chamber of commerce. Ferdinand Poggenberg is out with a pertinent suggestion as to the holding of open billiard tournaments in which professionals and amateurs may meet on even terms. The javelin throw has been added to the list of intercollegiate competition, demonstrating that the collegians still keep about six years in advance of the registration fee officials of the A. A. U. J. H. Leah is said to be getting ready to do a little raging this year as he has bought a new one by John R. Kurtz out of a mare by Online. J. E. Billingsley of Lynnville, Tenn., owner of the fast pacer Margot Hal, has sent a green one called Bwanna, by McEwan, to Lon McDonald. On hearing of the case in which Joe Choynski was left $10,000 by a Chiman, it is reported that several box fighters have started a flirtation with their laundrymen. --- SLIT SKIRT IS FROWNED UPON Best-Dressed Women in the Centers of Fashion Refuse to Wear It. TURN TO CLASSIC DRAPERIES Little Doubt That Ultra-Feminine Modes Are to Have a Wide Revival — Sensible Move Very Largely Due to Women of America. NEW YORK. At the moment every one in London and Paris is talking of the recent action taken by the Women's Protective league in connection with slit skirts and ultra-decollete evening corsages, writes Claude Cherys in the New York Sun. The Paris and London newspapers have debated this affair and several well-known society women in France have permitted their names to be freely used in connection with the discussion. The matter has even reached such a stage that one of the most famous dressmakers in the Rue de la Paix in Paris has publicly announced that she will not make any more slit skirts for private wear or for the stara. It is rather an amusing little tempest—in a teacup. For after all the slit skirt had sounded its own knell. It was very nearly dead when "tout le monde" set about killing it. It is some time since women of refined taste were cutup skirts unless a plaited underdress accompanied them. As to decollete evening corsages, all I can say is that though many are cut down in a very daring point at the Underwood & Underwood Ultra-Feminine Mantle. back, criticism of them is rarely justified because of the natural corset. it is only when an unnatural, pushed up appearance is given to the bust and shoulders that a decollete corsage looks not quite the thing. To Be Ideally Feminine. Worth and Redfern are both making delightfully picturesque lace and chiffon scarf draperies to accompany their more elaborate evening gowns. These scarfs are thrown on in shawl fashion, and as they are extremely fragile and transparent they add the charm of mystery to already beautiful skins. One finds such scarf draperies as these introduced on many of the latest models and with splendid effect. Notwithstanding all that has been said, and is still being said, on the subject of eccentric fashions we are in reality rapidly approaching a period of ideally feminine styles. No one who has the right to pass behind the scenes in the world of dress can doubt this statement. Everything points to the fact that women are going to be intensely womanly so far as dress is concerned in the year 1914. They are even going to be fluffy and frilly and clouded in perfumed mysteries composed of fine lace and plaited tulle. It is a long time since women as a sex have been really fluffy and frilly. It is a very long time since they condescended to wear lace mantles which might almost be called shawls; since they have permitted their little feet to disappear behind a foam of accordion plaited peti-tocat frills. A patent on a design for a prepayment telephone has been granted recently. The design, says the Electric World, is similar to that of a prepayment gas or electric meter. Provision is made for the deposit in advance of any convenient coin or coins which give credit for service to be rendered later. A proper charge is deducted for each call until the amount of money prepaid has been exhausted. An indicator may be provided to show how much unexpended money is But 1914 is to be large a year of frills and fountes, of lace and chiffon and embroidered tule, of flower-decked hats and streaming ribbons, of dainty little kid shoes and extra long buttonless gloves. The year 1914 is even going to be a year of flowing mantles. Before I take up the subject of these picturesque mantles seriously there is just one final word to be said on the subject of the "outrageous dress" question. A certain influential dressmaker in Paris has made a vigorous and absolutely unmerited attack upon American women in connection with this topic. He has said in print that "nothing is too daring for our American customers." He has also said: "it is the American and not the French woman who creates the demand for indecent dresses." American Women Conservative. Now this I believe to be quite untrue so far as American women are concerned. I do not say that certain American buyers are not responsible for many "outrageous" fashions, for some of these buyers care nothing about dress from an artistic point of view, they merely seek startling novelties. This I know to be the case. And though the majority of the American buyers who come to Paris several times each year are men of excellent and refined taste there are a few who insist on sensational novelties, and these novelties are shown and discussed and copied until they seem to represent the "latest Paris fashions." I think I remember speaking in a recent article of the semi-Spanish capes which began to be fashionable a few weeks ago and which are now an absolute rage. They are varied in design and in material, all but belong to the same family, for each one is loose and voluminous. Popular With Parisiennes. Cloaks of this order are immensely popular with the Parisiennes. They wear them at the races, in the street, at smart restaurants and in fact everywhere. It is worthy of note that several well-known Parisian actresses have always shown a marked liking for cloaks of this kind; for example, Marcelie Lender, who was for many years considered one of the most elegant women in Paris, and Mme. Rejane. This season it was Mme. Simone who revived the fashion. She wore a sensationally attractive cape wrap in "La Danse devant le miroir" and this garment has been copied again and again. One of the leading Paris tailors is making particularly effective cloaks for day wear which are exactly like the famous Spanish capa. They are very wide at the hem and circular. They are fashioned like an umbrella skirt, only without seams, and are finished off with a deep collar in velvet. The linings are a special feature of the capes. In some cases brilliant colors are employed, in others exquisite brocaded silks are introduced. At the last Auteuil race meeting Princesse Guy de Faucigny-Lucinge wore a delightful three-quarter length cape made of satin cloth in a warm shade of putty. At the same race meeting a handsome Russian woman wore a long military cape composed of turquoise blue velours de laine lined with Martine printed silk which showed a bold design in rust red on a midnight blue ground. Some of these long capes have important looking directoire collars. Others are finished with triple capes in the old-fashioned coachman style. Others again have simply a wide turned-back collar like the Spanish capa above mentioned. My sketch will show you an effective costume of the ultra-feminine type. Here you have the accordion-plaited skirt, which becomes more and more popular; here too, is the graceful shawl with a decorative skirt to the shoulders and which must be carried with languid grace. Artistic in the Extreme. The model shown in my sketch was eminently artistic in material as well as design. It was composed of broche silk which had a ground of bleu d'outremer (ultramarine) and conventional designs in petunia red and sage gray. The little shoulder cape or collar was in blue velvet and the same soft material was used for the bows which appeared at the back and in front. The finely plaited frillings were in smoke gray chiffon and the lining was in shet taffeta which showed subtle shades of red, blue and gray. This lining was lightly velled in gray chiffon. A picturequeuse hat is a Watteau model in Tuscan straw. It is raised on a bandeau at the back and slightly tilted over the forehead. A broad ribbon of deep blue velvet is passed over the flat crown and a quantity of roses in various shades of faded pink rest on the hair at the back. Mme. Paquin is reviving a charming fashion this spring. This is the little garment known as the "caracoo." This dainty mantle is being made in taffeta and in many new colors—yellow ochre, for example, or apple green. In some of the Manet pictures we find these caracoo mantles—which are going to be fashionable all the summer, and certain eclectic Parisiennes are having the pictured garments accurately copied—colors and materials being chosen with infinite care. The taffetta caracoo will be wori chiefly over garden party frocks in embroidered muslin or lace; it will also be worn at receptions and theater matinees, but of course it is not suitable for street wear. on hand in the box. Each time a call is made a push-button is pressed to give the operator a signal. This operation causes the control device to move a certain distance, thus indicating how much should be deducted from the prepaid deposit. Florists Alarmed Florists are somewhat concerned about the new fashions, because some of the new blouses do not contain enough material to pln a rose on. Youngstown Telegram. CAP and BELLS DEAREST HUSBAND IN WORLD Model Man Does Not Drink or Gamble, denies His Wife Nothing, But Will Play Golf. The girls were talking about their husbands "I have the dearest husband in the world," said Maude. "If he just wouldn't play cards and drink so much, he'd be perfect." "My husband doesn't gamble, and he never took a drink in his life," put in Mabel. "He would be a model man, if I could only know what he does when he stays away from home at night." "Ah!" smiled Margaret, "my husband is all that you wish yours could be. He has no bad habits, he comes home on schedule, he denies me nothing, there is no mystery about him. Why he goes to church every Sunday—or at least he used to." "Used to!" echoed the chorus. "Aha! Why doesn't he go to church now?" "He found that it interfered with his golf!" Margaret was voted winner of the prize package. — Cleveland Plain Dealer. His Friends. Bill!-I see hereafter any girl who goes to Panama to be a stenographer for one of the companies working there must sign an agreement not to get married for five years. Jill-Gee! I know a lot of women whom they might send down there, and I'll guarantee they won't be married in 500 years without signing any agreement. Needs Help. Yeast—A cane invented by a Frenchman is hollow, forming a siphon that can be used to empty a glass for a person who wishes to seem to imbibe freely of intoxicants for purposes of sociability. Crimsonbeak—Yes, but when the cane gets full somebody has to take it home just the same, don't they? Cutting Down on Material. Mrs. Styles—Well, dear, the dressmaker says it will take four yards of material for the dress, and it is $8.35 a yard. Mr. Styles—I never can afford that, dear. Can't you economize it on some way? Mrs. Styles—Why, yes; I can have it made with more slit! Too Good to Be True. Pollice Captain (to suitor for daughter's hand)—You dress pretty well for a boy with your salary. Suitor—You see, captain, I neither smoke, chew, drink, nor gamble. Police Captain—H'm! Better let me have your finger prints and I'll have the right answer for you tomorrow—Puck. Not In Her Wardrobe "I must put on my thinking cap and try to decide this matter," remarked Mrs. Wombat. "I've heard of those thinking caps," said Mrs. Wallaby, "and must get one of one of them. Where did you get yours, and how is it trimmed?"—Judge. Sillas—Why does that there man in ther band run ther trombone down his throat? Hiram—I reckon he has a taste for music. Automatic Cafes. Crimsonbeak—I see by the paper that automatic cafes are to be established at Sydney, Australia. What's an automatic cafe? Yeast—Why, I guess it's one that throws a man out when he's had enough. Headquarters All Right. The Lady—You say you are a member of an organization? The Tramp—Yes, ma'am; the Sons of Teil. "Where are your headquarters?" "In my hat, ma'am." Impressed. Judge—Did you, last night, really call this man imbecile and idiot? The Accused (gathering his wits) "I have some doubt of it; but the more I look at him, the more I think it possible—Le Rire (Paris).