New York Age

THE NEW YORK AGF Crisis in Affairs of Church Over Pastor and Introduction of New Religion REV. GILBERT TO REMAIN AT Mt. OLIVET New York's Oldest and Largest Churches Have Troubles—Rev. Morris' Absence Causes Many Questions—Rev. Gilbert Succeeding at Mt. Olivet and Will Remain as Pastor. Affairs at Abyssinia Baptist Church on West 40th street, Rev. Charles S. Morris, pastor, are moving in any but a smooth manner. A week ago Sunday Rev. W. S. Holder, associate pastor of the church, who in Rev. Morris' absence has charge of the parish, roundly denounced the influence and teachings of the "Gift of Tongues Sect" with its holiness delusions and advocates. This past week an article appeared in a daily paper relative to the affairs of the church. The AGE correspondent learned that this statement was printed without any authority. forth in said article. In an interview later with a reporter of The Age he gave it as his opinion that this article was given to the paper by some unprincipled person who is opposed to him, and suggested that in future all reports concerning the affairs of Mt. Olivet Church be submitted to some member of the Board of Deacons before being printed in order to have their truthfulness assured. The congregation was larger and evidently much satisfied with Dr. Gilbert, as it took nearly twenty minutes to get the church cleared after the services. The collection was unusually large, and regarding the statement that it had dropped off nearly half since the beginning of the dissension in This article states that Rev. Morris, who was absent from this parish for several months this past Fall, was in the Wes interested in the workings of the Holiness Sect, and that upon his return a few weeks ago he had tried to introduce the teachings of the Sect into the church and endeavored to have members follow this new creed, which makes claims of attaining for its adherents the only true sanctification. Upon investigation among the members, this charge is met with many vigorous denials. Nevertheless there is most certainly some concern among the members. Mystery seems to surround the whole affair, owing to a reluctance on all sides of having the truth of the matter set forth. The Age correspondent called upon the Rev. Holder and failed to gain a verification of any of the above, he declining to speak except from the church pulpit. His statement Sunday morning is reproduced in this article. One chief cause of the dissatisfaction arises from the fact that no real reason has ever been furnished the members of the Church by those in authority concerning Rev. Morris' absence from the church. Questions have been asked the Board of Deacons concerning the pastor which remain unanswered. On his return from the West he was allowed a vacation and it is said he is at present in a sanitarium, being treated for nervous disorders, but this statement is unofficial. Rev. Holder continued his statements last Sunday morning as follows: "A paragraph relative to the church appeared in one of the daily papers the early part of last week, and because of which many questions have been asked me concerning same. I refused to discuss the matter outside of the church with those that are not identified among us, but for the benefit of all present this morning, I may say: I am not responsible for the publication in question. "Among other statements in the paragraph, portions of my sermon on Sunday night last have been quoted. I am glad I have not been misquoted, but I am sorry to see my words in print at this time. "About the whereabouts of our pastor, I do not know definitely. About his mental- or physical condition I cannot tell, as I have not been officially informed. What I learned came to me as second-hand information. "As an associate minister, you may readily picture my position, consequently I have to think more and speak cautiously. My intertitles and movements also are for the benefit of the Abysinian Baptist Church in prosperity, spirituality, ordinations, discipline and doctrines. "I am quite willing at any time to advise members in matters that tend to be of benefit to themselves and the church in general." At the meetings of the Board of Deacons the proceedings are not made entirely public. That the influence of the Gift of Tongues is upon a certain number of the congregation is evident or else why this spirited opposition? If a definite statement could be secured and issued from the church concerning the affairs of Rev Moris, it would relieve in a vast measure the strained attitude of the whole church, but such a measure seems out of the question, owing evidently to the desire to keep the affair quiet, which with the occasional utterances of different members adds to its mystery. That a crisis in the affairs of the church is near goes without saying. During the past week the Junior and Intermediate teachers of the Sunday school met in Conference on Tuesday evening under Miss Emmie Mason, superintendent of Junior Department. The Senior teachers organized an evening Bible class under Rev. Holder, on Wednesday last. The first period of the evening was taken up with "Conference and Biblical Differences Explained". Second period with "Makings of a Sunday School Teacher". Third period with "Evegesis of St John's Gospel". This class marks the beginning of an organization which, has for its aim the establishment of an undecomnational Bible teachers school. Mrs Mary S. Monroe is secretary. Sunday was a great day at M. Olivet Baptist Church. Pastor M. W. Gilbert was greeted with as large a congregation as has gathered in the church in many weeks. He preached an eloquent and stirring sermon from Gal. 5: 16-25. "Conflict between the flesh and the Spirit". Pastor Gilbert took occasion to make a statement concerning the item which appeared in last week's Ace, denying in every particular the facts set forth in said article. In an interview later with a reporter of The Age he gave it as his opinion that this article was given to the paper by some unprincipled person who is opposed to him, and suggested that in future all reports concerning the affairs of Mt. Olivet Church be submitted to some member of the Board of Deacons before being printed in order to have their truthfulness assured. The congregation was large and evidently much satisfied with Dr. Gilbert, as it took nearly twenty minutes to get the church cleared after the services. The collection was unusually large, and regarding the statement that it had dropped off nearly half since the beginning of the dissension in the church is denied by those in authority. After a special request by the pastor, a collection of forty-five dollars was raised at the eleven o'clock service alone. This certainly does not look like serious strife. At a meeting of the Board of City Baptist Ministers, appointed to look after the affairs of Dr. Gilbert, not a single fact has been presented to them that is detrimental to Dr. Gilbert's Christian character, and his resignation is not forthcoming. On the bull-tail board of the church those posted as being on the sick list were: Kate Williams, of 204 West 21st street; Deanon Jones, 135 West 32d street; Sister Washington, 104 West 32d street. Sunday services at Bethel Church were largely attended. Rev. Ransom delivered an eloquent sermon at the morning service. Communion was served in the afternoon. Rev. H. T. Johnson, editor of the Christian Recorder, preached at the evening service. His text was, "Render unto Cesar the things, that are Cesar's and unto God the things, that are God's." His sermon was strong and delivered in a forceful manner. Delegates elected to the General Conference from the First Episcopal District will meet in Bethel Church next Friday evening to organize. Quarterly Conference will convene next Friday March 6. All departments of the church are expected to have reports ready to read that evening. Belshazzar feast will be given at Majestic Hall for the benefit of Bishop's Chapel on March 9. The Bethel Literary Forum will meet Thursday evening. A large attendance is asked for. The Industrial Exhibition at St James' Presbyterian Church closed Friday evening and was a large success. The evening before was journalists' evening, but the attendance was not up to the standard, owing possibly to counter attractions. Judges, consisting of the following, Prof. W. Bulkley, Secretary T. J. Bell, Dr. York Russell, Dr. R. C. Fraser, Rev. C. H. Trusty, D. D., rendered favorable decisions. The many nights of the fair were well attended and the net sum realized is quite large and will be announced later. Sunday services at the church were well attended in spite of inclement weather. Pastor Butler praised fine sermons, Sunday School and Christian Lunday were also largely attended. At the four book meeting of the Y M C. A. Dr. York Russell addressed the meeting. His subject was "Emergency." He advised young men to prepare themselves so as to be ready for all emergencies, and further stated that a young man should either know how to avoid emergencies or have the ability to get out of them with credit when he meets them. Dr F. P. Roberts made a speech further emphasizing Dr Russell's remarks. Mr Bell, secretary of the branch, was absent, having an engagement to speak in Jersey. Mr. Wm Brown acted as secretary. Next Sunday's speaker will be Mrs. Fankner, whose husband has been doing work in Liberia. Interesting exercises were held at the V W C. A Sunday afternoon. The chief feature was an interesting paper read by Miss Rebecca J. Wright. The Richard Allen Tabernacle, "Order of Moses," gave their twentieth anniversary last Tuesday evening, February 25 at American Theatre Hall. The affair was a grand success. The hall was tilled and the audience showed fine appreciation of the entertainment. The popular cantata, "Belshazzar's Feast," was presented and rendered with credit to those representing the cast. Mr. Wim King displayed creditable dramatic art; Miss Eva Turner as Queen rendered the character better than ever; Mr. William H Briggs, as Daniel interpreted the part impressively; Mr. Arthur W Hellons as Hannamish; Mr. Soliforina Dumham as Lord of the Court; Miss Sadie Thomas, Lady of the Court; Mrs. Katharine Bradford and Miss Rose Simmons, as Jewish maidens; Mr. Lean S Adger, musical director. This was the third time the cantata has been given by these artists. The initial production was given at Bethel Church Thank-giving evening. After the cantata, the Moses having engaged the New Amsterdam Orchestra to entertain those who enjoy dancing, all seemed to take advantage of that opportunity. Mrs. Anna Taylor, of Troy, N. Y. one of the leading officers of the order, was present, also many representatives from neighboring cities. Last Thursday at the St. James Hotel, AN AFRO-AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NEWS AND OPINION NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1908 113 West 45th street, John Johnson, colored elevator conductor, and, a lady guest of the hotel had an experience they are not likely to forget in some time. Johnson ran the car to the tenth floor of the hotel in answer to the bell. The guest stepped aboard. Johnson closed the door and turned the lever. The car failed to move. Throwing the lever wide open the car made a few jerks and with a loud report shot downward. The guest and Johnson were thrown about and severely shaken up until the second floor was reached when the safety clutches began to work. The car slackened speed and sank more softly into the basement. The guest was bruised and one wrist sprained. Johnson was nearly petrified with fright and suffered a badly wrenched knee. VERNON AT BETHEL CHURCH Register of the Treasury Defends Race QUALITIES OF SUCCESS William T. Vernon Advises Race to Work Out Its Own Destinies—Duties to Others as Well as Self—Seriousness of Problem. "The passage of the war was necessary and just. The peonage, defined citizenship for the penalization of any should disfranchise its citi clared against this injustice of color. Then came struggle of 4,000,000 people result of such legislation at the race has made achie paralleled in the world's l increase in population f 1900 was 2,259,996, an increase per cent; showing that the ever-increasing element in can citizenship. With rega crease of illiteracy within achievements are quite as From 1870 to 1900 the ill race was decreased 43 per Emmett Brown, a barber employed by W. H. Warrington, of 71 West 99th street, was killed during the night of Thursday last while engaged in a prize fight with a white man. Much mystery surrounds the case, which will have to be straightened out by the police and at the coroner's inquest. Many witnesses have been detained and their testimony will aid materially in placing the blame for the unfortunate man's death. It is learned that Brown occasionally took part in fights held by different clubs throughout the city, but in this case the affair was held in a saloon on the upper East Side and was a private battle for a purse. Brown, according to reports, had the best of his opponent, but during the last round he was knocked down and while falling struck his head against a post fracturing his skull. When his real condition became known he was dressed in his street clothes and between two men, whose names are not known, he was taken out and laid in the street a short distance from where the fight took place. Conflicting stories are told by the witnesses concerning the affair. The birthday party given by Mrs. Larkie at her residence, 223 West 40th street, in honor of her little niece, Gertrude Perry, was a brilliant one. The parlor and dining room were decorated in flowers and smilac and Japanese lanterns. Many games were provided for the little ones, also dancing and piano playing was indulged in, and just before departing for home souvenirs were distributed, much to the delight of all the young jolks. The collision was served by a French caterer. Those present were: Misses Sadie Booker, Cora Washington, Renovica Green, Eveline Brown, Muriel Mann, Mildred Williams, Bernier Wilson, Masters S. Jerome Bentley, Vivian West, Joe West, Walter Green, Herbert Brown, Emuel Chaudress, Adolph Chaudress, Ernestine Sheoarch, John Williams, Edward Mann, Paul Roane, William Robinson and Clement Henry. PROVIDENCE WOMEN. Entertain Women's Clubs at Fifth Annual Conference. PROVIDENCE, March 3.—Sickness in the city of Providence is prevailing to an alarming extent. The death rate is very large for the month of February. Amie William, the daughter of late Rev. Albert and Abbie Wilson, of Portsmouth, Va., died on the 10th. Mary Windfield, daughter of Lewis Windfield died at the Rhode Island Hospital on the 15th. Her body was sent home to Virginia on the 10th. Another beloved son of Jennie Fräzier and grandson of Mrs. Ida Ward, died at his later residence at the age of 21 years. On the 17th John W. husband of Mrs. Justina Smith, passed away at the Rhode Island Hospital. Mr. Smith was injured at the fire of Tanner Starch factory. Mr. Smith's funeral was held in Windsor, New York, where Windsor Street, St. A. C. Crooke orienting. John Williams, of East Greenwich, R. I., died at the hospital on the 18th, at the age of 55 years. His funeral was held at his home Saturday from the Baptist Church. Reuben Maynard, who has been the waterman at the ruins of the starch factory was taken to the hospital, where he was away on the 21st. His funeral was held from Elenzo Baptist Church Sunday afternoon. He leaves a wife and three children. He was 47 years of age. Burial was at Grace Church Cemetery. Edwin Griffin, a promising young man of 21 years of age, died in the well village of Appalachia R. I., on the 21st. He was the son of late John Griffin. His funeral was held from his late residence. Also during the past month society has not had any entertainment owing to the great religious wave. The ministers have formed a union and have been holding revival services at the various church and the past week. A M. E. Church received a large number into the E. Church, received a brown number into the E. Church gave the right hand of fellowship. The meetings have been held at Bethel A. M. E. Church, Rev. C. P. pastor, congregation. Congregation Street Baptist, Rev. S. W. Smith, D. D. pastor; at Winter Street A. M. E. Church, Rev. M. E. Church free starch Street; M. E. Church Rev. W. E. Church; Pond Street Free Baptist Church, Rev. Z. Harrison, pastor. The donation to pastor Crooke last week was $50 instead of $30. Mr. John Charke, who was hurt in the starch factory explosion, and Elmer Scott, who was run into by an electric car, are improving. Mrs. Sadie Notes, who has been sick, is now able to attend the endowment of Bethel Church gave service Old Ladies' Home last Sunday, also the Pond Street Baptist Church. Mrs. E. B. Fayerweather presided over the fifth annual conference of the Rhode Island Union of Women's Clubs, held at the People's A. M. E. Zion Church. Sponsors were: Mrs. B. K. Bruno, address of welcome, Mrs. M. H. Dickerson, Rev. A. A. Crooke, W. A. Heathman, Mrs. T. Joter, J. S. Yares. In the evening a musical program was rendered, also reports read. Miss Roberta Dunbar, Mrs. Fayerweather and Mrs. B. Jamison also made addresses. The office of Mrs. E. B. Fayerweather, of Newport, are Mrs. E. B. Fayerweather, of Newport, R. I., president; Miss Marr E. Jackson, Providence, first vice-president; Mrs. H. R. Nelson, Newport, second vice-president; Mrs. Walter Williams, Pawtucket, third vice-president; Miss Blanche Bonzard, general secretary; Miss Jacintha Perry, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Levi Jackson, of Newport, R. I., treasurer. William T. Vernon Advises Race to Work Out Its Own Destinies —Duties to Others as Well as Self—Seriousness of Problem. William T. Vernon, orator, of Kansas, who President Roosevelt appointed Register of the United States Treasury, of the Bethel Literary Forum. His Thursday evening under the auspices of the Bethel Literary Formu. His subject was the "Negro in America." Among other things Mr. Vernon said in part: "No man in this American republic can afford to lose sight of his duty to others as well as to himself. In proportion as he has prospered and holds, a place which entitles him to a hearing should he more carefully weigh his words and consider his acts, because of the influence of the same for good or ill. With enlarging opportunities come duties of greater moment. We WILLIAM THE MASTER OF THE WORLD WILLIAM T. VERNON cannot escape our responsibilities. I must insist that there is no problem and that matters of racial development and social discontent will serve for the purposes to betray the fact that we have no conception of the condition of today and have profited not at all by the teachings or history. The leaders must have vision or the people will perish. The continuity of the problem confronting us is apparent to all who keep in touch with conditions in the various countries of our country, but the achievement of the Negro and his present condition with the spirit of helpliness and tolerance is the great men of the opposite race all day. Now we are to see a better day. "The possibilities of the government are encouraging to all those who desire a better era for these people who have proven well that they appreciate the full all the opportunities which may be open to them. I submit that a race capable of such achievements should be guaranteed the fullest rights awarded in the constitution. "This government of ours from its inception, had for its aim the fullest opportunity to all mankind. It was formed as a protest against discrimination, hate and injustice of centuries. "The descendants of men who had been oppressed by tyrans through generations, leaved the dangers of unknown seas, contests with wild lands and aborigines, transformed forests into great cities, reclaimed deserts, populated a thousand hills, and built a civilization to day the wonder of the world. While, they professed and wrought for justice and liberty, slavery contradicting their professions, waged and grew space with all our national development. The protest against this wrong became a living thing in abolitionists and just men, who wrought for universal freedom and purged America of this evil. Through blood and tears and martyrdom through death, by heroes wrought, our freedom was accomplished and we became that which America for three centuries had professed and practiced not, the fraternity of the hopes of those who throughout the years had hoped for, a government of liberty, fraternity, equality and law. "With our freedom was made the most radical change in the social order. From master and slave we became one as to interests political and material. We could no longer here have a system of vassalage and servitude, such as the aristocracy of slavery had known. Only by a democracy guaranteeing to each man that which is his due, could the white man be just to the Negro, and could the Negro be just to himself. "The passage of the war amendments was necessary and just. The prohibited peonage, defined citizenship, provided for the penalization of any State which should disfranchise its citizens, and declared against this injustice on account of color. Then came the upward struggle of 4,000,000 people, and as a result of such legislation and protection the race has made achievements unparalleled in the world's history. Our increase in population from 1880 to 1900 was 2,250,996, an increase of 34/3/10 per cent; showing that the Negro is an ever-increasing element in our American citizenship. With regard to the decrease of illiteracy within the race, his achievements are quite as remarkable. From 1870 to 1900 the illiteracy of the race was decreased 43 per cent. At the close of the Civil War the Negro was without a home. In 1900, 35 years later, 372,414 were owners of homes of which 225,156 were free from incumbrance. He has nearly 30,000 school teachers; 500 young Negroes pursuing special courses in the greatest institutions of learning in this and foreign countries, and he is paying taxes on quite $800,000,000 worth of property. "Unbiased men will admit that such a record deserves encouragement and gives just grounds for the belief that he is daily becoming an appreciated potent factor for good. "In a republic force and bayonets should have no place. The regnancy of an enlightened conscience, the just appreciation of one's duties, the loyalty T. VERNON to government, resultant of receiving rights and interest opportunity are the chief safeguard of the State. In addition a spirit of helpfulness and in independence must be practiced and practiced by those who light the We should class as enemies to our country any who seek to attack one class against the other. In their efforts to impede the progress of the Negro his country magnify his weaknesses and faults, and seek to hide his better qualities from the world. The purpose of this can be to widen the breach between the races and prevent between the homogeneity of purpose which is making America the most potent force for good and progress in the world. The problem of our large cities is to raise the number of the unemployed in the minimum, and give to the great working class the competency which makes for home, social upfit, and the rest of the whole population. All will admit that the greatest promise will be to result of any discrimination trying downward, while upfitation may put back of energy which they must all well to exercise. This course is retrospective in that every individual utter upfit or drags down the society of which it is a part. As a race we must remember that education is soberty, thrift and energy to the qualities which will give to us success, permanent and lasting. While seeking industrial opportunity and progress in the business world, the spiritual side which has to do with literature, art, science, culture and soul will should not be neglected. The thousands of Negroes in the professions throughout the country are a beneficiation to the race, and should be appreciated and supported. "I would advise that we remain here and work out our destiny. We shall that be a source of inspiration to the race everywhere, and can firmly rivet to us the four minded friends of the opposing race who will help us stand for the highest freedom for our people throughout America. "In spite of the remarkable achievements of the race, disfranchisement is now being practiced in certain sections of our country. Deprived of the right to vote, which means the right of protection and representation in a government which he is taxed to support, the attendant evils of proscription, Jim Crow' care, punishment without trial by jury, are making well tight intolerable conditions for a race of people whose bravery in war, whose loyalty through (Continued on page 2.) BRILLIANT FUNCTION GIVEN REGISTER VERNON Entertained at Home of Counsellor Cowan—Makes an After-Dinner Speech BRIDGE STREET EDUCATIONAL MASS MEETING Eloquent Addresses Delivered in Behalf of Two Deserving Educational Institutions—Longfellow Night at Meeting of Semper Fidells Reading Circle. One of the most brilliant social functions ever given in Brooklyn was that which was given in honor of Hon. W. T. Vernon, Register of the United States treasury, last Friday afternoon by Counsellor and Mrs. Alfred C. Cowan in their beautiful home, 16 Downing street. conservative press we need as a race but an 'absolute common-sense press. If THE AGE has ever digressed politically it will never digress outside of the Republican party. If it 'objects to men and measures it will state its objections and fight within its party lines but will support the candidate or nominee of the Republican party whatever differences. The guests, which numbered about 50 consisted of the most representative men and women of Brooklyn and Manhattan. Among the artists present were: Joseph Douglass, grandson of Frederick Douglass; Madam Fannie B. De Knight, one of Manhattan's favorite elocutionists; Madam Azalia Hackley, whose fame as a cultured singer is known throughout the country; Prof. J. F. R. Wilson, Brooklyn's acknowledged pianist and Mistress Bessie Howard, of Manhattan, who is a singer of rare ability and an accomplished musician. The tables were beautifully and tastefully decorated with miniature American flage and potted ferns and a splendid collation served. Counsellor Cowan was toastmess and the following persons gave brief but thoughtful talks. Dr. R. C. Ransom, Counsellor James D. Carr, Mrs. W. J. Johnson, Mrs. R. C. Ransom, Mrs. Robertson, Hon. S. R. Scotton, Prof. D. F. Tobias The guest of honor, Register Vernon spoke in part as follows, "I have not come here to discuss politics. If you hire a hall I may at some time return and make a political speech. I am neither the Register of the Republican party nor the Democratic I am everybody's Register because it is everybody's treasury. I shall endeavor to so act while in office that at the expiration of my administration some other colored man may succeed me. If the opposite party, should be victorious then I hope some good colored Democrat will be appointed. I believe we should all use our lives to my best interest of our unfortunate fellow men, and unless we do this we have not fulfilled the mission for which Prudence has sent us. Our people should be a unit in teaching those things' which stand for high class American citizenship. In proportion as a race that our lives are given to the inner and nicer things of life, betterment of humanity, etc., in proportion will our leadership succeed. We should so live from day to day that whoever touches the hem of our garments would receive some virtue from our lives and be healed of his weakness. Life is not worth living if in our lives we have not assisted or benefited some one." At the close of the dinner the guests re-assembled in the parlor and were highly entertained as follows: Original instrumental solo, Prof J F R Wilson, "A Woman's Revenue" was excellently recited by Madam Eamie R De Knight; "The Flower Girl" a vocal solo was charmingly rendered by Madam Vadia Hackley, so enbustiastic and genius was the applause that she responded by singing effectively "Comin' This the Rev' after which Miss Bessie Howard gave a vocal solo to the delight of all present. Among those present were: Dr and Mrs R C Ramson, Dr and Mrs H. B. Parks, Counsellor James D Carr, Mr and Mrs Joseph Douglas, Rev W H. Lacey, Mrs Rachel and Stella Parker, Rev and Mrs W L Johnson, Madam Eamie R D Knight, Mrs Edwin F Horn, Mrs Bessie Howard, Miss Corine Lykt, Hus S R Scotton, Midam Vadia Hackley, Mrs M C Lawton, Mr Daisy Laplay, Prof D E. Tobias, Mrs L C Smith, Dr James G Trimble, Prof J F R Wilson and Mr John Lykt. The regular meeting of the Semper Fidelii Reading Circle was held last Wednesday evening at the residence of Mrs. Gertrude Johnson Rush, 196 Putnam avenue, its president. As the meeting occurred so near the birth of Longifellow, the evening was spent in the study of "Evangeline" with proper quotations from the famous poet Mrs. Johnson beautifully depicted the story in question, which was highly instructive and entertaining to those present, after which the Rev H. E. Gantt read an excellent paper on "Mutual Forbearance," which was well received. The paper was full of wholesome advice as to how one may aid others by the employment of the rare virtue, forbearance, with the weaknesses, faults and short-menings of others. Mrs. M. C. Lawton then gave a brief talk on literary societies and their benefits. At the next meeting Mrs. M. C. Lawton will read a paper on "Success." The educational mass meeting which was held at the Bridge Street A M. E. Church last Sunday afternoon was well attended and was full of interest. Counselor Leonard Fravier presided and made a few remarks preparatory to introducing the speakers in which he said, "These educational meetings have a two fold purpose. First, they give the people an idea of the training imparted in these institutions and secondly to create a fund whereby the youth may receive the best education possible. Nothing can be accomplished as a race without individual co-operation." The first speaker, Mr. Fred R. Moore, editor of THE NEW York Age, gave an interesting talk on a "Wise and Conservative Press," which was well received. Among other things he said, "It is not a INCTION REGISTER VERNON Counsellor Cowan—Makes Inner Speech NATIONAL MASS MEETING On Behalf of Two Deserving Educa- vow Night at Meeting of Semper conservative press we need as a race but an absolute common-sense press. If THE Age has ever digressed politically it will never digress outside of the Republican party. If it objects to men and measures it will state its objections and fight within its party lines but will support the candidate or nominee of the Republican party whatever difference. A wise and conservative press can do much toward the success of the race by wise counsel and advice. We must learn to follow our leaders. I would rather follow the leadership of a wise colored man 365 days in a year than a white leader for one day. The white people will appreciate us more than they do when they find we stand together, co-operate with each other." Counsellor L. C. Collins, the next speaker, spoke substantially on: "What Training Should We Have; What Training Do We Need?" Dr. T. J. Askew, the financial secretary, the next speaker, said, "We do not measure institutions by their environments but by actual achievements. Wilberforce is great because for 40 years it has stood as a dispenser of light and knowledge to a people so much in need. It has been a veritable beacon on a dark sea. Of the 7,554 students who have attended that institution, 411 have graduated from the literary course and are successfully combating with the problems of life; 359 have graduated from the various courses of trade. For 300 years the Negroes' position in the body politic of this country has been the subject of contention. His qualifications and fitness were also attacked but Frederick Douglass answered that in element oratory. "As a race in this country we have reached the high noon of criticism but with uplifted hand, we must make up our minds to destroy this vile sentiment if the Negro race is to survive." Miss Mary White Ovington gave a most interesting talk on the conditions as they exist among the colored peopl and of the effort on the part of 18 friends to improve those conditions and made a strong plea for co-operation along all lines pertaining to racial advancement. Dr. R D Stinson, of Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Ga., one of the instituicas in whose interest the meeting was held, outlined the work of the institution and stated the needs, etc., in his characteristic pleasing manner, after which Rev. H. T. Johnson, D. D., made a brief remarks. A collection was then taken for the two institutions, Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Georgia, and Willberforce University, Nexia, Ohio. --- The first grand annual ball of the Long Island Chauffeurs' League, held at Summer Hall, on Thursday evening of last week, was noted for its large attendance, enthusiasm and social diversion. Like the Coachmen's Renewel League, this new organization was formed to further the material interest of its members in a specific way along the lines of this new phase of employment. There are a hundred chauffeurs among Negroes hereabout, most of whom are graduates of some school of automobile instruction; hence the need of an organization among them to give strength, reference and encouragement to the men who have equipped themselves for this kind of work. Painter's Orchestra furnished excellent dance music and the merry throng whiled away the time well into the wee hours of the morning. President George R. Durham and his staff of officers, consisting of H. C. Wilson, vice president; William Anderson, secretary; Frank Abbott, treasurer; J. W. Jones, sergeant-at-arms; J. W. Walker, assistant sergeant-at-arms; and T. Arinstead, warden of colors, made it pleasant for their patrons, while the committee of arrangements headed by H. C. Wilson, chairman; J. H. Jones, H. Walker, W. Jewell and Floor Manager Walker preserved perfect order. The growth of Hiram Lodge, No. 23, F. and A. M., in membership and efficiency in ritualistic work is making for it an invisible record among fellow craftsmen. The last stated communication held on Tuesday evening, February 25, was not only interesting, but gave evidence of the proficiency of its members in the higher branches of the Order. The work on the trestle-board for the evening was the third degree. Visiting members from Widow's Son Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, were Right Worshipful Deputy Grand Master William F. Abbott of the second Masonic district, Worshipful Master, T. R. Smith, Past Masters, Drummond, Reed and Johnson. Applications were received from Messrs Walter J. Jones and George Washington Jones, of Glen Cove, Long Island, and were referred to the investigating committee. After all routine business had been disposed of Worshipful Master Jackson proceeded with the work of the third degree, which was conferred upon Messrs John H. Dietz, Daniel Dougherty and John H. Loving. The work of this sublime degree was made extremely interesting, its solemnity made a deep impression upon the members. The Worshipful Master and his assistants 'wat their best on this occasion and ever one seemed anxious for instruction f.c. all the stress and onward march of America cannot be, controverted. As a result of these injustices, labor, the source of wealth in any community is becoming restless and is migrating to more inviting fields. "The South to-day is struggling industrially with the rest of the world. The building up of this section cannot be accomplished without the labor of the Negro. These people, discriminated against, with their schools diminishing are not given an opportunity to do the best within them, and thus give to their country the splendid efforts which they could otherwise give. "That an element in the Southland is moving this condition, is evidenced by the public utterances of the most far-minded men of that section, whose friendship and sympathy can prove so helpful to the Negro. I have faith to believe that for every evidence of this sympathetic attitude the Negro will show his appreciation and prove his worth by his works, as well as by his words. "It is our hope that the fair-minded white men of the North will give opportunity for self help and industrial employment to the worthy, competent Negroes. Any discrimination against them because of color, means enforced idleness, a dependency which hinders self-respect and may ultimately lead to criminality. BISHOP WALTERS RESIGNS. Why Bishop Walter Resigned From the Great Northern Realty Company. JERSEY CIRY, N. J. Dec. 31st, 1907. Mr. Melvin J. Chisum, President of The Great Northern Realty Co., 308 W. 1190th street, New York City. My Dear Sir,—I hereby tender my resignation as a Director of the Great Northern Realty Company, said resignation to take effect from this date. Sincerely yours. (Signed) ALEXANDER WALTERS. Personal letter written the same day: 28 OAK ST. JERSEY CITY, N. J. December 31st, 1907. My Dear Chisum—Enclosed is my resignation, which, for both you and the company's sake, I regret to feel compelled to send in. I have recently read an editorial in one of our colored papers, which states its opposition to clergymen taking such an active part in the various financial concerns of the race; this editor promises to have more to say upon this subject soon, and to me it seems to point the way that maybe, many of our men are thinking. As I do not wish to bring unnecessary criticism upon myself, I have concluded to withdraw from concerns of a business character, and devote my entire attention to my espicial work. I might add that my only reason for having consented to go into your and other enterprises, was, to help the race, and so far as my money goes, I shall continue to help those that I believe to be worthy, for I believe in this way only, can the older men of our race help the younger ones. I do not intend to withdraw my money. I do not with- raw from the company because of less for it, or Chisum and his work, but use I must be true to my every a the Church. May God's blessings ever attend you and I remain. Your cordial friend. (Signed) ALEXANDER WATILLS Plainfield Easter Installed. PLAINFIELD, March 3.—Services were held at the Christian Banner Calvary Baptist Church, Rev. G. W. Bailey, pastor, preached two excellent sermons. Baptismal services were also held after the services. The Rev. David W. Cannon was installed in the Ebenezer Baptist Church Sunday, March 1. Rev. H. H. Mitchell, of Elizabeth, N. J., preached the installation sermon. The hand of fowlship, on chalf of the coor church, was extended by Rev. M. A. Alexander. The Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in behalf of the ministers, Rev. G. W. Bailey. On behalf of the white churches, Rev. J. W. Mussor, pastor of the Faith Chapel Baptist Church, Rev. L. L. Crown was master of ceremonies. Mrs. Jill Brown died Saturday, February 29. Mrs. Jill Understaking room. She was a native of St. Thomas, W. L. and twenty-five years of age. Rev. G. W. Bailey officiated. Oscar W. Green, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Green, died February 28. Funeral held at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. Rev. M. W. Alexander, pastor, Mary Haldane, pastor, the Cancer Hospital of New York City having recovered, has returned home. Mr. Spencer Conway, who has been quite ill, is convalescent. NEWARK, March 3. Under the management of a committee of ladies of the Plane Street; Presbyterian Church a Martha Washington tea was given in the lecture room of the church on Thursday evening last. The tea and supper included proved, to be a very brilliant affair, and was well attended. A very nice program was rendered by the young people, consisting of instrumental and vocal selections. The interior decorations of the room, and the pretty costumes of the ladies of the committee, added much to lustre and charm of the evening's entertainment. At the conclusion of the exercise a carefully prepared financial benefit derived from the affair is for the building fund for the edifice in which they now worship. Mrs. Long is president of the club and Mrs. Wm. Frazier, secretary. Rev. E. Frank Engleston, of Grace Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, Md., arrived in the city on Thursday last, and began his labors on Sunday at the Plane Street Presbyterian Church as permanent pastor, and preached very intelligently at both services. Revival services are held at the Bethany Baptist and Mount Zion Thomas Street Church, with much success. Rev. Mosher, a noted evangelist, assisted at the Bethany Baptist Church, and Rev. Brown, pastor of the Mt. Zion Church, had twenty of baptismal services on last Sunday. Schneckindy Noise Mr. David A. Johnson preached his initial sermon Sunday as a local minister. Rev. G. Henry Moss left Sunday night for Jamestown, N. Y., where he will be united in marriage on Thursday noon to Miss M. Delphine Scott. Thursday night there was a deploring party at Mary Purnell, Mrs. Minnie Bosch, Frank Bethalia, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Scott, and Mrs. W. Rhinardt, Mrs. Arthur Jors, Mr. Thomas Ricks, Miss Maud Jorv, Little Cecelia Jackson and eye, th Horton, both little tots, under Fare, so very painful Operations. Both deeds are comfortably. Interesting Curve of a Politician and Newspaper Man. Christopher Stewart, whose death was announced through the columns of Tun Ace two weeks ago, was a New Yorker by birth and up-bringing. The decreased was the son of Christopher and Mary Ace, 70 East Houston street, August 24th, 1869. He was educated in the public schools of New York, graduating from the old 30th street school and stood well in his classes. In college he received a bachelor and a brilliant future was predicted for him. He was a life-long member of St. Phillip's Episcopal Church and sang in the choir when the church was located in Murray street and was a member of a part in the affairs of St. Phillip's Guild. At an early age Mr. Stewart took on active interest in politics. By the energy he displayed and the intelligent handling he became well known and greatly respected in political circles, both colored and white. In fact, he devoted his entire life to newspaper work and political affairs, caring but little for the public. In 1887 John J. Freeman was the proprietor of a newspaper called the Progressive American. Mr. Stewart entered his office and became a prominent editor. After remaining in this position for a year, during which time he filled it most creditably. Mr. Stewart accepted a position as law-clerk for Jacob II. Nima, a prominent lawyer, and was the proprietor of a newspaper called the New York Echo, which was launched by Mr. Slim in the Spring of the year 1888. Mr. Stewart, whose ability as a newspaper man was established, was appointed to position on the editorial staff of the Echo. In June of the same year Benjamin Harrison was nominated for the Presidency. This year marked the actual beginning of Mr. Stewart's presidential career and he continued to the work he did in his district. His first public speech in support of Mr. Harrison's election was delivered shortly after the nomination and created a most favorable impression. In addition to his public speaking, he was active part in local politics and from the beginning his endeavors were recognized as important in the affairs of the old Eleventh Assembly District. He rose in the ranks to the position of deputy to H. H. Sims, the colored leader of the district. Mr Blessing was a very much respected character who served the waters of his district. They were in the rear of the building and desiring to be rewarded for his hard work and devotion he received an appointment in the mental services repository in that position and through such hard work and devotion in the district Mr Blessing was appointed to edit the manual and edited another newspaper called the New York Star and with the exception of a new newspaper continued to edit the manual. Mr Stewart during the past year of his life was also connected with the firm of Miller Mould & Co.焊匠ers of 62 West 11th Street as a焊接 clerk. It was Mr Stewart who was the first to design and build which designed it and which manufactured from which he did after all illness of three weeks. Mr Stewart's sons and nieces and nephews were in a similar position and took an active part in all efforts that pertained to the material welfare of the family. He was recording scores of the years. He was progressive with Bethel A M Church Progressive with Bethel A M Church national positions in the Republican organization throughout the county. He was in the county committee office during the administration of Lemuel H. Stuart, a former U.S. senator, to himself. Mr. Stewart was an unchanging Republican adherent, serving the party with a strong allegiance through the many strong political battles held during his tenure. Mr. Stewart which is remembered as the most troublesome of the 55 districts of New York City, and through it all he had never been accused of being charged with disloyalty to his county. His death suddenly after a short illness was a severe blow to his relatives, many friends and admirers. To fill the role of an influential and well equipped county clerk, Mr. Stuart is no small task. He was a self-made man; noticing all emergencies with a determination and same judgment and coming out enthusiastically. Through a young life he had the benefit of association with such stellar colored Republican leaders as Jacob H. Sims, who organized the first colored point organization, known as the North County of New York; Caleb A. Ship, president of the first colored organization that was identified with the Republican County Committee; Charles F. Butler, Mr. Sims; Rene R. Sims, who assisted in organizing the State of New York and the counties. THE NEW YORK AGE: THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1908 Training Needed and Training to Be Used Bidgently Set forth in a Fine Speech. Address delivered by L. C. Collins, of the Metropolitan Mercantile Realty Company, at the Morris Brown meeting at Bridge Street Church, Brooklyn: Training should be given that creates business and which will encourage our people in every walk of life. It is impossible to treat this subject properly without glancing briefly at the field of opportunity and activity of our people. What training do we need? The answer is another question. What training can we use? What is our field of activity? My observation, as one who has travelled in many of the States of the Union, will cause me to bring you a message of cheer; I have found our people in every walk of life from the individual dealer carting his wares about the street to the corporation magnate, with a grasp upon industries in many cities. From the kindergarten teacher, shaping the minds of the little tottlings, to the deans and chancellors of the great universities, training the matured minds for diplomatic and consular service, professorships, authors and journalists, from the wood-chopper in the forest primeval to the level-headed jurist passing upon the conflicting claims of citizens and interpreting the Constitution of the United States. In some walks of life we find many. In every walk of life we find some. Activity has increased with opportunity, and personal fitness is fast measuring up to the demands of the times. The last score of years have been particularly concerned with substantial progress. The first twenty years of freedom found our people reaching for the superficial, for pomp and splendor, rearing structures upon quicksands, striving for the most advanced positions of trust and honor, when not possessing the rudimentary principles of business and professional life, nor the virtues of self-reliance and cooperation. It found them neglecting or overlooking the necessity for that training upon which every civilization must rest. Who could fail to contrast with favor them and now? Here and there upon the face of our continent now stand great colleges and universities, like beacon lights, teaching the things requisite for progress that is lasting, laying the foundation that is necessary for, the most advanced civilization, as well as the one to be used in the most elementary steps. It is just as impossible for professional and business men to reflect credit upon the race while the proper training of the masses is neglected, as it is to comprehend the classics, and advanced mathematics without a knowledge of grammar and arithmetic. This is true of all people: It must be true of us. We are surrounded by the same conditions as other people. We have the same needs. We are conquered by the same problems. In all times and under all conditions there have been masses and classes, and the masses have been a burden upon the classes if neglected, or a help to them it permitted. If we would make substantial gians in our advancement our training must mean all men up and not some men down. We must cater to the needs of the many and not simply to the wants of the few. What schools existing today have carried this policy more to its logical conclusion than Wilberforce University and Morris Brown College? Great institutions of learning are these. Inestimable is their effect upon the community and upon sentiment. What has their training meant? The result has been as beneficient as their curriculum has been sensible. The crude and obsolete methods of the planters have disappeared before the scientific methods now being taught has these and similar schools. Cobblers have been replaced by skilled mechanics and are daily getting a firmer grip on the various vocations in the South. But few structures are erected in the South except with colored machines. But few are erected in the North with them. Domestic babies are changing and improved sanitary conditions are adding to the longevity of life. Proficiency is what it all means. And proficiency is bringing better wages to the workman, access to all the trades and a monopoly of some. The industrial and commercial advancement of our people within the last two decades, I believe to be unparalleled. In every city, town and village is the grocery store, the drug store, dry goods store, shoe store, tailoring shops, and in some the factory and even the bank while here and there is the railroad magistrate, the broker and the corporation. Would it not seem then that the training must be in keeping with these opportunities? It must enable us to keep and improve up the advantages that we have acquired. It must be broad enough to fit men for every walk of life, to motivate up to the most advanced ideas. But what is more, I don't believe it is possible for two races to live together in peace and harmony if their ideals are different and their purposes of variance. But peace and harmony will prevail, when personal fitness, industrial and financial worth, and religious and educational qualifications, and moral courage teach that each will enjoy the inalienable rights of life and liberty, regardless of cost. Training should teach men to do. The world loves to the man who accomplishes things. Results count. "All things come to him who waits" runs an old saw. It were better put. "All things wait for men to come after them." One writer has said that no experience in the history of men or nations are so sad as an opportunity unimbraced. But opportunities pass quickly; they linger but a moment and are gone. This means that we must be up and doing if we would enjoy the largest liberties and acquire the greatest benefits. We must keep our fingers upon the pulse of popular sentiment and affairs in order to correctly register the trend of public progress, and casting aside the frivolous and clinging to the essential, we can maintain our place in the front ranks of the civilization of the world. WILLIAM WHITE'S 300 W. 39th St., New York S. W. corner Eighth avenue Newly furnished rooms. Bath, heat and all modern improvement by the day, week or permanent For the benefit of HAINES NORMAL, AND INDSTRIAL INSTITUTE, Augusta, Ga. Friday Evening, March 13th, 1908 The program is under the personal direction of Miss Dora Cole and Mrs. Dolores Turnbull The following artists will appear: Violinist, Mr. Joseph Douglas; Dramatic Reader, Mrs. Joseph Douglas; Pianist, Miss Jesse Fortune; Contralto Soloist; Miss Elinabeth Howard (of Demarcoch's Institute of Musical Art); Tengr Soloist, Mr. Benjamin Balon; Child Soloist Miss Cora Washington. Music by the New Amsterdam Orchestra Admission, including Wardrobe Check, 50 Cents. Supper served by Mr. and Mrs. Olmsted Franier. Program promptly at 8:30 P. M. From down town take Tahle Aye, "L" on Leonex Aye, Subrata 10, 12th St. OFFICERS—Mr. Charles C. Davis, New York, President; Mrs. J. T. Brown, Jersey City, Vice President; Mrs. Robert W. Williams, Brooklyn; Secretary; Mrs. Charles C. Davis, New York, Assistant Secretary; Mr. Jobu R. Hillery, Brooklyn, Treasurer; Mr. James Gwathmoy, Long Island, City, Chapel. 127 and 129 West 133rd Street 5 large rooms and bath. 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Delightfully located one block from the ocean, and ten minutes walk from Rockaway Beach, thoroughly up-to-date in equipment and operation. Perfect in cuisine and service. Boating, bathing and fishing. For descriptive booklet and full information address Wiley H. Collins or Vincent Taylor. Managers. 43 West 66th Street, New York. aug 29 l-yy Read the Answer The action of the House of Representatives at Washington on the 22d day of February in this the year of our Lord 1908, with respect to the amendment to the Washington street car bill, providing for jim crow cars in Washington, constitutes the best possible answer to such Negroes who are advocating the bolting of the Republican Presidential nominee, if he be Secretary Taft. The amendment providing for jim crow cars in the national capitol was introduced by a Southern Democrat, Representative Helin, of Alabama. When put to passage, every Southern Democrat, not a single one excepted, voted for it. And likewise every Northern Democrat, not a single one excepted, voted for it, voted with their Democratic brothers from the South to subject the Negroes of Washington to jim crow street cars. The Republican members, every one of them, voted against the measure. Had the Democrats had a majority, Washington would again, after the elapse of many years, had jim crow street cars. Not only would Washington have jim crow street cars but every State in the Union would have them if national legislation by the Democratic party could provide them. Negroes who talk of voting the national Democratic ticket, have little or no conception of the disastrous results that would follow for the race if the Democrats should again get control of the federal government. But these fellows who are talking of bolting are simply "breaking a noise like money." Biston Derrick's Views On December 2d Bishop Derrick submitted to an interview in a white shirt, that voiced his sentiments with regard to the justness of President Roosevelt, and his freedom from color prejudice. The bishop also, at the same time, rebuked the inflammatory men of our race, "Lest we forget," we quote the Bishop's interview: "I am personally acquainted with the President. I know the man. I knew him before he went into the Legislature of New York. I helped to elect him Governor of the State. When he was elected, I sent him a telegram of congratulation and told him it was only a step to the White House. "He is a great man and I am not discussing his wisdom or his sinity in this matter. He is impulsive, but his impulses are always on the side of justice and right, therefore. I cannot believe that color or race questions entered into his decision to have those troops discharged. I could not believe it unless he told me so with his own lip. I believe he would have done this thing regardless of color or nationality, wherever men were guilty of what he thought was a wrong. " I depreciate very much the seemingly inflammatory statements which certain man of color, who ought to be more soler in their statements, have made in regard to the President. "I am not here to question his wisdom. He is too great a man for me to debate with. He is impulsive, but 'always just and right, and I am sure he did what he thought was best,' with no thought of these men' color influencing him in the least." Bishops and the President We congratulate heartily the majority of the three groups of Bishops recently assembled in Washington upon their dignified and wise bearing during this important session. We will not attempt to hold all or a majority responsible for the misdeeds of the few. Doubts much good, sensible work was accomplished. It is exceedingly regretful that a few of the Bishops suffered themselves in common language, to "overtalk" themselves. It is encouraging to note that the majority of the Bishops conducted themselves in a dignified, sensible manner and a few overtalked. The average Bishop of any church is not supposed to dabble over much in politics and especially would it be considered a mistake by white Bishops for them to enter into a general tirade against the President of the United States, especially when meeting almost under the shadow of the White House itself. The whole race is injured by such actions on the part of its Bishops, and worst of all the dignity of the office of the Bishop is lowered. The outside world will not consider, in any large device, the fine work and sensible work done on the inside of the Board of Bishops; they will think only of the unwise and uncalled for talk on the part of a few, who seemed more anxious to get their names into public print than to serve the highest cause. The Age has stated over and over again that it condemned the President's action in dismissing the soldiers at Brownsville in the way he did. It still disagrees with his action and feels sure that he made a grievous mistake, but having said this, we are not going to enter into a personal tirade of abuse against the President of our country. This is our country and our President and we should be as loyal in our support of him, as dignified in our attitude toward him as any other class of citizens. Just as We Predicted And now it turns out just as we predicted and expected the so-called Constitutional League which made so much noise before the public a few months ago is now a regular political organization promoting the candidacy of certain indiguals. Letters are being sent out from 500 Fifth avenue, the headquarters of the Constitutional League, urging the nomination of certain candidates for the Presidency. An effort was made to have the colored people understand months ago that this was a broad-gauged, non-political organization that existed for the benefit of the Negro race rather than to further the candidacy of any individual. We think it will be a long while before the Negro race will suffer itself to be used by any such organization again. The race now has its eyes open. The Meaning of "Lily Whitism" The Meaning of "Lily Whitman" We are often asked what the meaning of the "lily white" party in the South is. It simply means that element of white people who are Republicans in name only, but who at heart are Democrats trying to use the Republican party as an adjunct to the Democratic party in the South. The "lily whites" have nothing to do with colored people and are simply trying to create two Democratic parties in the South, one to control in State matters and the other known as the "lily white" party to control in national matters. Several of the States, however, have not succumbed to the "lily white" influence. Among them is Alabama, which under the leadership of Hon. J. O. Thompson as chairman of the regular Republican State Committee, has stood out against "lily whitman" successfully. Georgia is another State where "lily whitman" has not been able to get control. In Louisiana Hon. Walter L. Cohen has made an excellent fight and has kept up against the influence and, spread of "lily whitman" in that State. South Carolina is another State where "fly whitish" has been kept down. Before the end of this campaign we hope that this hurtful element in the Republican party will be completely blotted out. An Unholy Trick There was published in the in Washington Post during the time that the three groups of Bishops were in session in Washington the following editorial with head lines just as it appears below. It was sent widely through the country: "We, the Colored minister of the A.M.E. the A.M.E. Zion, and the C.M.E. Churches of the United States, in conference assembled in the city of Washington, do hereby raise our voices in stern and solemn warning to the coming Republican national convention not to put in nomination for the Presidency either President Roosevelt or Secretary Tait on pain of having arrayed against either of those gentlemen at the polls next November the almost solid Colored vote of the North." There are two tricks in this which were meant to deceive and have deceived many readers. In the first instance the words "resolutions of Bishops" are inserted to mislead. In the second place, it is noted that in the body of the matter the word "ministers" is used instead of Bishops. The truth is that no such resolution was offered in the Board of Bishops nor by any of the Bishops. The printing and circulation of this resolution is nothing more nor less than a dirty piece of trickery calculated to deceive. We have refrained from speaking of this matter until we could get at the facts by personal consultation with the Bishops and others who were on the ground. Be A Democrat Ten Reasons why the Negro should Support the Democratic party and leave the Republican party 1. Because every slave trader was a Democrat 2. Because every slave holder was a Democrat 3. Because every man who fought to keep the Negro in slavery was a Democrat 4. Because every member of the Klu Klux Klan was a Democrat 5. Because every member of the mob that has hanged and burned hundreds of Negroes was a Democrat 6. Because every "Jim Crow" law has been passed by Democrats 7. Because every legislature that has disfranchised Negroes has contained a majority of Democrats 8. Because Bign Tillman, Governor Vardaman and Hoke Smith are Democrats 9. Because the Democrats are now attempting to disfranchise the Negro in the State of Maryland THE NEW YORK AGE: THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1908. 10. Because the Democratic party has made a rule in every Southern State where the main strength of the party is to the effect that no Negro can vote in Democratic primary elections, and has proclaimed openly that they do not desire the Negro vote. For all these reasons, and more, all self-respecting Negroes should (?) support the Democratic party. Religion Cheapened Every sober-minded citizen will regret that the three Boards of Bishops which recently met in Washington suffered themselves to, be drawn into passing political resolutions. It does not in any way add to the influence or dignity of the Board of Bishops which suffer themselves to pass political resolutions in the way that was done in Washington. The regrettable part of this consists in the fact that no matter who is nominated for President, President Roosevelt of Secretary Taft, many of these same Bishops will be the first to be on hand to ask favors and recognition. White religious organizations keep clear of political matters; Negro religious organizations should do the same thing. They cheapen and hurt the whole cause of religion when they dabble into politics. President Roosevelt, as was true of President McKinley, has been especially considerate in granting favors to members of the Bethel and Zion Church organizations. "Our Net" "All men are born free and equal" That is a statement that will be argued as long as time shall last. Darwin will have his followers, who will sweep by the monkey and the ourang-outang, and Tillman and Vardaman will have theirs. But many well-regulated persons will cling to the Bible theory and believe in Adam as the only genuine forbear of the human race. Aristocracy and democracy will exist long after the question has ceased to vex those of the age. In Chicago, recently, the chauffeurs employed in a princely establishments became very indignant because it had been stated that they would take a leading part in the Coachmen's Charity Ball. Coachmen, faced. These men of the goggles were highly insulted, just as much so as would be the members of New York's Four Hundred if they found their names associated with the servants. When one tries to draw the line in social circles of a great city, the circles will lap, and overlap as the ripples on a stream during an April shower, but they are as fixed as if they were hoops of steel. When a speaker grows eloquent and talks of brotherly love, and the union of the masses and the classes, there may be a great amount of hand-clapping, the dainty kind glued palm-chewing the resonant slap-bang of horry hands. But the fact remains as unalterable as the laws of the Medes and the Persians. "She is very sweet, but she does not belong to our set," that settles it. Don't get sourd and think the world hard. Just look pleasant and enjoy your own little circle of friends and listen to their conversation. You will hear some of them saying: "He's all right, but he does not go to our church." Let's all be heard minded and big and generous, but for goodness sake don't let an interp get in "our set." Fault Finders Mr F H Murray, one of its editors of the Horizon seems to find a great deal of fault with his employer, Secretary Taft. The average man who finds as much to criticize adversely with his employer would resign and find another job. We shall expect to see Mr Murray doing this within a few days. We note already that another national convention has been called by Mr Harry C Smith and others to meet in Washington early in March. We presume others will follow in quick succession. And now it turns out that Mr George H Jackson, ex Treasurer of the Niagara Movement has started a paper known as The Argus in Cincinnati for the purpose of supporting Secretary Taft. The man who participates with his party in selecting its nominee, and then retains to abide by the decision of the majority honestly reached, is too narrow to make a useful citizen. --- The man who sells his vote or influence for cash is immediately placed in the doleful column by his peril. D. Augustus Straker Dead. [From the Cleveland Gazette.] Hon. D. Augustus Straker, of Detroit, Mich., well known among our people throughout the country, died there on the ground of a heart attack. His association of that city, and its citizens generally, endorsed the former's strong set of resolutions of esteem and respect. David Augustus Straker was born on the island of Barbados, British West Indies, and raised in the country and located in Kentucky, where he taught for three years. He then entered Howard University law department, Washington, D.C. After graduation, he married and moved to South Carolina, partitions until 1875, when he went to South Carolina as a custom's official. Later on he served as a member of the South Carolina legislature and as a professor in Albany University, that state, where, in 1876, he was elected a circuit commissioner, serving two terms creditably and satisfactorily to all. Until his death he continued the practice of the law, an adopted district attorney, and a life interest in a house and lot in Detroit. Helping the Boys and Girls We will start your boy or girl in business without the expenditure of cash on your part. Why not let us do so? We want a boy or girl to sell. The New York Age in every town. The work can be done after school hours on Fridays and on Saturdays. It is pleasant and profitable work, besides it gives your boy or girl a fine business training. NO MONEY REQUIRED TO BEGIN. The first week's supply of Ten copies of The NEW YORK AGE is sent FREE. These are to be sold at Five Cents a copy, and the money to order the paper the following week at wholesale price is thus provided. Address THE NEW YORK AGE PUBLISHING CO. 7 & 8 Chatham Square NEW YORK CITY TUSKBOEE INSTITUTE Report of the Seventeenth Annual Session of the Tunkegue Negro Conference. TUNKEEK, ALABAMA, February 19.—This annual pictureque scene attended the Tunkegue Negro Conference, which met here at the Tunkegue Normal and Industrial Institute, for the seventeenth time to-day. Negro farmers came to this famous school for Negroes, of which Booker T. Washington is principal, on horseback, in wagons and vehicles of various degrees of sightlines, foot, and on train; some of them have traveled all night to be here for the opening of the session. Delegates are in attendance from all of the Southern States, the greater number from Alabama of course, while nearly two hundred visitors from the North and East and from nearly all educational institutions for the education of Negro youth are represented. On every side among these struggling farmers are evidences of kindly sympathy and brotherly love, an interdependence, an earnest desire to help each other, an earnest desire to help each other, and this "their one day in school." The meeting was called to order by Mr. Washington promptly at 10 o'clock. An old, ante-bellubin minister read the Scriptures, another led in prayer, and a third inonel one of the old plantation melders read the Scriptures, and another among the Negroes of the South and made much of by such institutions as Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes and Fisk University at Nashville. These meetings in many respects reocrete meetings. The delegates "testify" as to their moral and material progress, not overlooking the spiritual in their oft-repeated insistence upon clean ministers and clean teachers. The stories run the whole gamut of struggle and failure and improvisation, and the improvisation. Here for instance is the story of a man who had long wasted his money buying cheap jewelry, in going on occurrences, and for whiskey and frivolous necessaries, who had seen the money for what he could buy for what he really needed; then another story Helping to We will without Why no sell New in every school he pleasant your boy NO The first NEW Y to be sold to order sale price THE NEW 7 & 8 Chatha of going into debt by borrowing with no moral hope of repaying, and then coming to his senses and learning that earning should always precede spending; and then, story after story of time wasted in being in debt and working with all of might and earnestness; of rented lands and mortgaged crops, and of land owned and improved, of crops free from mortgage and debt of content in one room shanties and then of descent homes with two three-bedroom unfurnished schoolhouses, in infrequent teachers and junior ministers. These stories came from areas as widely separated as North Carolina and Texas, and were characterized in the main by that of these simple folk, Mr. Washington, who has presided at all of the Conference sessions as he did at to-day's session, has taken note of certain fundamental facts, and these are kept in evidence of the story of some tinnid speaker, and in his sharp, pregnant, advisory comments. He believes to begin with: (1) That the great masses of the Negroes of the South are permanently to remain there; (2) that an individual race is national, and that its advance is most certainly assured when a quickening impulse to become self-selfish is awakened; (3) that the lines of all permanent progress are to be found in continued integration, and the perceptual and practice of moral obligations. Mr. Washington in his opening remarks reminded the delegates that the man who would receive the best hearing today was the one who had done some kind of study and had something of progress to report. Of these farmers who attend the Tuskegee Negro Conference a Northern observer observed the farm. The South is generally pictured as dull, slovenly eld, without foresight or thrift, almost as lazy and irresponsible as his mule. The picture may in some cases be fairly accurate, but a description of the farmers who are here to day. They are coughly but cleanly dressed as befits their occupation; they talk about as correctly as the average farmer of Alabama or New York. They are as alert in appearance as their Northern neighbors; and are far superior to the poor whites who lounge about the railway stations in the western Carolinas and the Northeast. They are directer to the point and show not only power of expression, but sharp observation. Of course these men who take the trouble to attend institutes are above the average; but they are conclusive proof of a fact—which no longer needs proof that a writing number of students are active in the industrial, the intellectual, and the moral life of this community. Politically they may be a negligible quantity, but though deprived of a vote, they are in every true sense worthy builders of a nation. It was to representatives of this class that Mr. Washington to-day spoke. He said in part: Extracts from Address of Booker T. Washington. "Perhaps the greatest element of good so far gotten out of these annual Negro Conference has been a determination on the part of the masses of our people to improve their material, educational, moral and religious condition. The masses of our people are dedicated in part of the South, are thoroughly convinced-that they have it within their power to make improvement in these directions. So long as a race is hopeful and cheerful, it will find its place and its reward in the world hard to help to succeed. We believe that success and has a future. These conferences, attended as they are by representative men and women from all sections of the South, have demonstrated above anything else that nothing can discourage or dampen the spirit and ambiance of a direction of improving their condition. "We may congratulate ourselves that this has been a year for the most part of peace and good will between the races in this country and especially in the South. While here and there have been outbreaks of violence and lawfare and good will in one another's centres of population in the South a friendly and helpful spirit exists between the races. "We must not overlook the fact that we occupy mainly as laborers and agricultural workers nearly one-fourth of the physical territory of this country. We will not be permitted long to occupy such a large proportion of one of the lands we have been working to demonstrate that we can get as much out of this territory and, especially out the Boys and C will start your boy or girl in b but the expenditure of cash on you not let us do so? We want a boy o The New York A ery town. The work can be done hours on Fridays and on Saturdays int and profitable work, besides i boy or girl a fine business training. O MONEY REQUIRED TO BE first week's supply of Ten copies YORK AGE is sent FREE. The old at Five Cents a copy, and the or the paper the following week at ice is thus provided. Address NEW YORK AGE PUBLISH am Square NEW draw the soil, as any other race. Men may draw rheal and color mueses, but soil and pain and sunshine yield their riches as readily to the toil of the black hand as to the toil of the white hand. "I am sure that each one gathered here joins with me in expressing gratitude for the wave of temperance that has swept through the entire South. The closing up of the bar rooms, the getting down of the streets, the physical, moral and religious protection and strengthening of our race. Our leaders especially should see to it that they throw off the full effort throughout the South in the manufacture and sale of whiskey are strictly obeyed. Our people have made much progress in the past forty years, the whiskey, in my opinion, is going on much better, still greater progress in the near future. "We must not fail to call the attention of the public officials constantly to the need of better educational opportunities in the country districts where the majority of our people live. It is impossible for our race, or any race, to be able to attend a school that is in session long enough each year to enable the children to get some benefit. It is impossible for our race or any race to be contented in the rural districts without a school term long enough each year to enable the children to attend a school. The neglect of school facilities in the country causes many of the people to move to the cities and towns where they are not as well thought of as in the country. Some people argue that education helps the Negro. Certainly a little education is not much education. Education in the school should be closely connected with life in the home and on the farm. In most sections of the North our people are to be commended for their efforts to extend the school term and build new school-houses. We must never offer ourselves to grow dependent or combined. We must keep our faces turned toward the sunrise and not toward sunset." At the conclusion of the session a series of declarations were adopted, nearly three thousand packets of garden seeds from the Secretary James Wilson of the Department of Agriculture inington were distributed among the farmers so as to encourage them to diversify their crops and raise their own food supplies; and an old-fashioned Southern barbecue for the refreshment of the delegates was weeded them before starting for their homes. Declarations: Tuskogee Negro 'Conference, February 18, 1964 The declarations adopted are as follows: 1. We urge our people to seize upon our opportunity to get possession of land, and that they should have homes of their own and become permanently settled. We would further urge that these homes be made comfortable and safe for the sake of our children. They should be made to prefer home to any other place. We regret that so many of our people who are able to do no neglect supplies and beautify their homes. This is a serious mistake. 2. The masses of our people will remain on the farms engaged in agriculture; it is our imperative duty to see that such methods of farming are amenable to the farm and to produce more per tree on the farm and at the same time build up the soil. We would urge the planting of more corn, grass, pean, oats, potatoes, etc., along with cotton raiding; the cultivation of better gardens, the raising of more live stock and the raising of more livestock to effort to change the crops on their land from year to year. We would urge the use of improved farming implements, and that our farmers organize themselves into county farmers institutes, local farmers associations. The benefit to be derived from such organizations if properly managed is obvious. 3. Business opportunities that present themselves should not be allowed to pass by unimproved. In many places gins, sawnmills and stores may be established, but the owners will yield profitable returns. We should also study the home market, and as far as possible get all the profit possible out of dairying, truck-gardening, poultry-raising and fruit-growing. 4. It is the duty of our people to educate their children. Nothing should be allowed interfere with the education of our children. Any sacrifice this direction will be abundantly rewarded. Every school district should have a good schoolhouse, well lighted, well furnished, and well heated. The school should be well maintained or eight months, and we should to this end supplement the public fund wherever Girls business your part or girl to Age one after days. It is it gives BEGIN. of The these are the money at whole- FISHING CO. NEW YORK CITY necessary. All farmers should make an effort to send their sons who are to succeed them to schools where they can obtain instruction in agriculture. As a people we must ever keep before us the best home we are in. The home is the proper school of morals. There our sons and daughters must receive that wholesome moral instruction which is to influence their after life. Therefore nothing should be left undone and our homes all that they should be. Our homes are leaders in all matters pertaining to morals, should be well prepared in character and intelligence for their work. We should be content with no other kind. We should do all in our power discourage and discourage gambling and vagrancy. G. It is graffying to us that the prohibition movement is gaining headway so rapidly. Intemperance among a large class of our people should be overcome. We can do much to give life to this generation by providing lessons to abate the evils which have not been addressed of our youth to jail and penitentiaries. 7. Finally, let us not be discouraged; in spite of all we are making progress, should hearsen our people everywhere, who are our students, our opportunities and progress, along with a reminder of our duties and responsibilities. Our greatest security is in the practice of the elemental virtues, in the award of every man, white and black alike. To tomorrow the Workers' Conference will be held. The discussions will be participated in by leading educators, students, and many others interested in work among Negroes. Tuskegee, Ala., Feb. 29. The second day's session of the Tuskegee Negro Conference was held to day in the assembly room of Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall. The program of discussion as outlined by the participants. 1. What are the Schools and Colleges Doing for the Improvement of Their Immediate Communities? 1. Teachers Individually or by an organized effort? 2. Students individually or by an organized effort? 3. To encourage the community to contribute to the support of their own education. The discussions yesterday were confined to what the farmers are doing for themselves, and for their schools and work in the main confined to the day work in the main confined to the work among the Negroes, assisting in their moral and educational upift. X. wealth of valuable data was secured. Among the prominent persons Mr. John Hope, President Atlanta Baptist College, Atlanta, Ga.; Dr. Chua, P. McSerey, President Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C., and Mrs. Moseyre, Minneapolis Institute, Minneapolis, B. C.; Dr. J. W. E. Bowen, President Gammon Theological Seminary, South Atlanta, Ga.; Hon. Thomas E. Miller, President Colored Normal I. A. and M. College, Orangeburg, North Carolina, State N. and I. School, Tallahassee, Fla.; Dr. James G. Snodercer, Supt. Stillman Institute, Tuscaloosa, Fla.; Dr. Joseph A. Booker, President Arkansas Baptist College, Little Rock, Ark.; Dr. Wm. H. Stewart, Ky.; Mr. H. J. Deermart, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., and Mrs. Deyermart; Rev. T. O. Failor, Principal Howe Institute, Memphis, Tenn.; Rev. T. J. Searcy, Chairman Board Trustees, Howe University, Howe, Va.; Dr. G. Woodworth, President Tougaho University, Tougaho, Misc.; Mr. Imac Fisher, Principal Branch Normal College, Pine Bluff, Ark.; Mr. W. C. Bolina, Secretary Prairie View State N. and M. College, Prairie View, Fla.; Mr. H. A. Hunt, Principal Fort Valley High and Industrial School, Fort Valley, Ga.; Mr. Walter S. Buchanan, Principal Corona Industrial Institute, Corona, Ala.; Prof. N. W. Collier, Principal World Baptist College, Jackson State Baptist Convention of Georgia, Macon, Ga.; Dr. C. T. Walker, President Walker Baptist Institute, Augusta, Ga.; Mr. George E. Haynes, International Secretary Colored X. M. A., Jr.; Mr. George E. Haynes, Harman representing Boston Transcript, Boston, Mass. FORTUNE FAVORS TAFT. Nays He Has a Good Chance for Presidential Nomination. (From Fortune's Freeman.) A large number of bishops of the church were in session at Washington last week and some very pronounced views on the political situation were shared with the daily papers. President Roosevelt wasrained way up yonder for the Brownsville discharge order and Secretary Taft for sustaining it. There was nothing for Secretary Taft to do but to sustain the order, as Secretary of War, or resign from the Cabinet. We have said in another publication that he should have resigned rather than sustain the order. That is an extreme view of the matter which now we modify on reflection. Secretary Taft was absent from Washington when the order was first issued, and was not con- sidered to be responsible for it and was the responsible party in the matter. He is the master to hold to account and not his Secretary of War. We might as well look the political situation and the Brownsville business squarely in the mouth. Secretary Taft stands a good chance to be the Republican nominee for President. If he should be will the good bishops vote for the Democratic nominee? No! Secretary Taft is one of the strongest Republicans in the country. His record on the bench, in the Philippine Islands and as Secretary of War places him in the front rank of American statesmen. When it is assumed that he is an enemy of the Afro-American very great injustice is done him. As Governor-General of the Philippine Islands he measured evenhanded justice to Filipinos, to American whom he consistently befriended as the latter knows, and to other sorts of American who are not in opposition to Governor Taft and friendly to Vice-Governor Luke E. Wright, a Tennessee Democrat, whom the furries ran out of? the Islands after President Roosevelt had made him Governor in succession to Governor Taft. Where is Luke E. Wright now? We are not going to line up with the clamor against Secretary Taft. He is a strong man, with a clean record, and we are going to give him a square deal in Fortune's Freeman. If he gets the nomination we are going to support him. Deptal from Z. W. Mitchell To the Editor of THE NEW YORK ACE: My attention has been called to an editorial elipped from your issue of Feb. 20. Were it not for the fact that the article to which you refer, published in a sensational socialist paper of this city, was absolutely unfounded, I would not take the time to write you on the matter. Not one line of the entire article in which I was reported as saying the things published by you, together with many other absurd and ridiculous statements, was true. I never had an inference that the paper of that subject and did not see any single word of all of the not that was published. Hence you unintentionally do me an injustice and I will be pleased to have you at least say to your readers that I deny most emphatically having ever uttered one word of what you have quoted from that paper. As an evidence of the truthfulness of my statement I am enclosing my attorney's legal demand for retraction preparatory to a suit for damages against the lying sheet in which the article was published. Z. W. MIRCHEIT, Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 25, 1908. DIVISION NURSE APPOINTED Miss Martha H. Upon Elected to an Important Post in Settlement Work. Important Post in Settlement Work: The appointment last week of Miss Martha B. Upson as the first district nurse appointed in the Borough of Brooklyn is most satisfactory, not only to those who have been appointed to the entire community. The settlement work has been going on for some time, but is greatly hampered, for the lack of a suitable building, for the lack of a bending all of their energies toward creation of a home which will be adaptable to the conditions and in which the District Nurse will reside. Miss Upson has demonstrated complete ability in which she has been so successfully engaged and to which she has been elected. --- Negro Rights in Mississippi. A gratifying judicial decision in a case in which a Negro had been convicted of murdering a white man is reported from Mississippi. The jury was composed wholly of white men. Negroes having been purposely excluded from it; and this is held by the Supreme Court of the State to have invalidated the verdict. That decision is one of the growing number of indications that denials in legal rights to Negroes are not in accord with the sentiment of the South as a whole and that the genuine democracy of that state is making itself heard—The Politic. Boston, Feb. 24. - By far the most brilliant function held in Boston for some time was the banquet and ball open to celebrate the completion of the quarter centenary of the founding of Boston Lodge 2418, G. W. O. of O. F., at Paul Revere Hall, Friday evening. Feb. 21. About 200 of Boston's elite gathered about the splendid banquet board at eight o'clock and mirth and good humor prevailed. During the progress of the banquet delightful music was discoursed by Matthews' splendid orchestra. Mr. E. E. Brown, the genial toastmaster, introduced Mr. Gilbert C. Harris, who spoke briefly of the financial condition of the Judge. James J. Ellis who told of the inception and growth of the lodge from twenty-five members in 1883 to over one hundred and eighty at present and the outstripping of Summer Lodge 1884, which made them. Mr. Louis Pascow spoke of important changes to be made in their benefits. The members and their friends then moved to the ballroom, where to the delightful strains of Toy's magnificent orchestra the merry throng spent the fleeting hours in the various dances until a wee hour and all regretted when the evening's pleasures were brought to a close. Quite a number of visitors from out of town were present who, welcomed the opportunity, to renew old acquaintances. The committee of arrangement and reception were as follows: Dr. L. E. Courtney, Gilbert C. Harris; E. E. Brown, James J. Ellis, W. Augustus, B. Matthews, George Roberts, Geo. Draper, A. B. Kountze, James B. Elliott, Geo. Venable, J. O. Taylor, J. F. Henry, J. C. Marshall, W. T. H. Miller, John B. Hall, Laurenzo D. Carroll, S. A. Coward, Julsor Dorscy, H. J. Donaldson, Walter Reed, T. T. Webb. The funeral of Miss Rachael Mr. Washington, a widely known musician and the first colored graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, was held Monday, Feb. 17, at Charles Street A. M. E. Church. The final services, significant of her chosen calling, were of a musical nature and rarely, if ever, has there been such a gathering of musical talent of the race as participated in the program. The musical program was under the direction of Mr. Fred. White, who presided at the organ, and was as follows: "This is not Death," Mrs. G. C. Harris; "Passing Out of the Shadow," Mrs. Nellie Brown Mitchell; "Lead himself lightly," the Adelais; "Semper Terrae New Day is Adelais"; "Columbian Glee Club"; "I heard a Voice from Heaven," quartette consisting of G. L. Ruffin, W. H. Richardson, Miss Adah Gaskins and Miss Genevieve Lee; "Nearer to Thee," Riverside Quartette, consisting of George QBrien, Chas W. Johnson, W. H. Hamilton and Edward Rollins; "To the Angels," Miss Adah Gaskins; "Looking this Way," by Womans; Baptist Mutual Relief Association, of which she was one of the founders and for many years its secretary. Tributes were paid by Miss Eliza Cerdner, a schoolmate and life long friend, and Prof. J. T. Ramson, chorister of Zion A. M. E. Church. The collin was buried beneath a mantle of handsome floral tributes, designated by Rev. D.J. Harrell pastor of the Union Baptist Church, Cambridge, ally assisted by Rev. T. W. Henderson. Many local singers were taught by her and the musical fraternity of Boston has suffered a great loss by her demise, for few indeed have that devotion and musical talent as exemplified by Miss Washington. Mr. Pomp Gray, the popular headwairer at the Venture Hotel, is seen wearing a happy smile on wagwag; for last week a small nine-pound addition of "Pomp" came to join his family. An occasion long to be remembered was the third annual carnival and ball held in Cypress Hall, in New York, by the Cricket Club. About 100 couples tripped the light fantastic to the entrancing strains of Wolf's Orchestra to the wye hours. Mr. Sandiford was door director and entire club were his capable aides. Miss Ruth Lillian Fisher, the charming daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Fisher, of 16 Truro street, has entered the New England Conservatory of Music to take courses in vocal and instrumental music. The ever-popular Phalanx Associates dance of their delightful winter dance Friday evening, Feb. 14, at Old Follows Hall 415, Trument street. Major Taylor, the black whirlwind, although not in the finish of the great six-day race held at the Park Square track last week, owing to the refusal of his team mate to continue in the last day of racing because they were one lap behind, nevertheless rode grandly throughout the race, and time and again won the leading honors in the final evening sprints. It is interesting to note as an evidence of the estimation in which Taylor is held in France that Albert Champion, the French rider, has received an order to send 200 words on every race in which the colored rider takes part. In Theo, Parker Memorial Hall, corner Berkeley and Appleton streets, the Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Co. will hold an afternoon and evening meeting on March 10 to discuss the various business enterprises of the company. The afternoon meeting is solely for stockholders, but evening meeting is for the public generally and will be addressed by Mr. H. W. Barett, secretary-treasurer of the company, Rev. W. A. Crediti, Messrs. J. H. Atkins and L. C. Collins. The regular weekly meeting of the Thursday Evening Club was held at the home of Miss Portia Bird, 359 Northampton street. A very interesting address was given by Mr. Rell, S. Hart groves of Boston University, whose subject was *Common Feast*. Mr. Rell, S. Musier trade Miller and Mr. Edwin Harleston ably discussed the paper. Rev W. J. Cullis returned to Boston on 15th inst. after a short visit to Washington, where he was attending the meeting of the Board of Bishops of A. M. E. Zion Church. He also attended the joint conference of the bishops of the A. M. E. Zion and C. M. E. Church. Mr. Copely Square Hotel, Tuesday, Feb. 18, the eleventh annual dinner of English High School Class 97 was held. Merrits. Fred. R. Smith and A. S. Latt. timore, two of our popular young men, were speakers. One hundred and fifty guests sat down to a splendid dinner given for benefit of Rev. S. A. Brown, pastor of St. Mark's Congregational Church, by a social committee selected from the choir. The room and tables were tastefully decorated and all report a splendid time. Rev. Sam Ormer, of Hartford, Conn., after a stay of two months in Boston, left for home last Saturday. On Easter Sunday, April 19, there is to be at the Charles Street A. M'E Church a grand union house, by all commemorated of Rhode Island and Massachusetts districts of Knights Templar. Representatives from Newport, Springfield, Providence and Worcester will be present. The services will probably be conducted in the afternoon by Rev. T. W. Henderson, who is a Past Rt. Em. Gr. Commander of the State of Kansas. One of the prettiest affairs of last week was the wedding reception given by Mrs. Rose Perry at 218 Columbia street, Cambridge, in honor of the marriage of her daughter, Mary Ellen, to Mr. Lawrence A. Oxley. Rev. Mrs. Taylor, the noted evangelist, left Boston Monday, February 10, for Paterson, N. J. A paper of vital interest and importance, the first of a symposium in an attempt to define the lines of direct effort in the solution of the race problem in the United States, will be given before the St. Mark's Musical and Literary Union Sunday, March 1, entitled "Effort in the South," by Mr. Ferdinand Quentin Morton, a distinguished student in the law department of Boston University. A public meeting under the auspices of the Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Association was held Sunday. February 23, at the Zion A. M. E. church, to discuss "Hygiene" in its various phases, Dr. B. E. Robinson, the rising young physician of the city, read the paper, which, perhaps, was of more vital importance, dealing with "Personal Hygiene." Dr. E. I. Wright discussed "Oral Hygiene" and Dr. William A. Cox "Practical Hygiene." Mr. Robert Bonner, a distinguished graduate of Yale, read a splendid paper before the St. Mark's Musical and Literary Union on "Aesthetics as a Moral Factor." Sunday, February 23. Mr. Bonner was thoroughly conversant with his subject and presented it in such a manner that following him as he outlined the essential requisites of beauty. Mr. Bonner, who sees beauty in everything, dac recently connected with the "native sheet" and tried to instil beauty therein. A paper of such interest not fail to inspire and was ally and intelligently discussed by Mr. W. O. Taylor, Rev. Brown, Mr.alker Seales and Miss Ethel Davis. Music was furnished and organized but highly accomplished trio. "The Masqueraders," consisting of the beautiful and highly accomplished young ladies. Miss Narka Lee, Miss Leila Stubbs and Miss Genevieve Lee. Wednesday evening, February 19, Pocahontas Lodge, No. 129, I. B. P. O. E., of W., gave their first animal reception and ball. The lodge certainly does not intend to let the grass grow under its foot, and its initial ball was a huge success and quite on a par with the affairs of older lodges. The hall was beautifully decorated with palms, flags and bunting. Many anthered friend were present from Chicago and Hartford. Much credit is due to G. V. Thomas, T. V. Jones, Alfred Krauner, H. J. Whitfield, H. A. Walker, A. A. Talbott, W. F. Brooks, L. F. Flint, Dr. C. Harrison, Mrs. Sarah Williams and L. Nichols. The Imperial Dancing Association gave a somber party last week, which was largely attended and proved a most enjoyable evening. TAFT CERCAN OF FIRST BALLOT. Conservative Figures Give Him 494 Deliverers, Five to Spare. WASHINGTON, Feb 29 — Secretary Taft has reached a point in his Presidential campaign where his friends are talking of his nomination as a certain and of his nomination on the first ballot as approximating the stage of certainty. Supporters of the secretary are crediting him with 400 votes on the first ballot, or more than enough to nominate, without making allowance for a number of doubtful delegations, some at least 'of which Mr Taft is practically sure to get. This table has been prepared by supporters close in the confidence of the Arkansas 18* North Carolina 24 Alabama 22* North Dakota 8 California 20* Ohio 46 Colorado 10 Oklahoma 14 Connecticut 8* Oregon 8 Florida 10 South Dakota 8 Idaho 6* Tennessee 20 Lowa 26* Texas 36 Kansas 20* Virginia 20 Kentucky 14* Washington 10 Maryland 12* West Virginia 14 Massachusetts 20* Wyoming 6 Michigan 26* Alaska 6 Minnesota 22* Arizona 2 Missouri 36* New Mexico 2 New Hampshire 4* Philippines 2 Total 966 These figures are not based on conjecture, but on calculations as certain as anything can be in politics. The delegation from Montana is not included, but since the table was made up inurance have come to Washington that make a certain Montana is for Taft. Without much question Nebraska will send to Chicago a nearly solid Taft delegation. It is not included in the list. No mention is made of various States whence numberous Taft delegates will unquestionably come. In other words, the table is ultra conservative from the Taft stamppoint. Sixty-four delegates have already been instructed for Taft. Pittsburg News The Antonio Maco Literary of St. James A. M. E. Church will render a program at the A. M. E. Church, Monongabee City, March 5. Last Thursday evening, at the close of the literary excercises, the members, repairing the church, "All Round Club" served refreshments. St. Patrick's Day will be duly observed with an entertainment. The occasion will be a donation for the pastor, Rev. A. L. Bondin. The Pittsburgh Plate Glass factory shut down Feb. 28, throwing many men out of work. Rev. T. Taras, the pastor, will be but now improving. Rev. A. L. Bondin filled his pulpit at 3 p. m., delivering the communion sermon. THE NEW YORK AGE: THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1908 The United Aid and Benevolent Association and The United Realty Company (INCORPORATED 1901) Telephone, 1128-J Home Office, 45 MONTGOMERY ST., Jersey City, N. J. There is no beneficial insurance anywhere in the North to compete with this association, it having a membership of 15,000. All claims paid promptly. Receipts for 1998 for insurance department, $17,672.75 paid out for sickness and death, $7,182.75. For-the Real Estate De- partment, $10,169.51, $10,581.51, a total of $28,353.56. The United Aid Realty Company is now offering $10,000 worth of shares at $5.00 each. Come and join us. Own a few shares and share in the profits. JAMES WELLS, Pres. U. A. & B.'s Ann. J. L. MATHEWS, Pres. U. A. R. C. I. H. ROBERSON, Secretary and Manager GOOD AGENTS WAFTED EVERYWHERE. Oct 24-3 mos KNOWLEDGE MEANS PROGRESS. Knowledge of the Best That Is in A Mdn Will Multiply That Best. It was Emerson who said, "No man can be heroic except in an heroic world." His saying is too high for me to reach the uppermost limits of its meaning, but where it reaches downward it takes in a truth that is clear even to my mind, and that is this: It is not easy for a man to be his best in a world that is unappreciative of that best. To keep away into practical applications, it is clear that the best that the Negro is capable of would more readily be developed under sympathetic and appreciative conditions than under conditions either of indifference or of hostility. A genius who happens to be a Negro has never yet had good reason to complain of lack of appreciation except among his people. Camer Washington, Dumbar, modernist author that illustrate this truth as positively as it was illustrated in the instances of a Dumas or a Douglass. The moment that a genius is discovered the accident of his race relation becomes a mere incident that does not lessen the warmth of his welcome nor abate the fervor of the appreciation of the admiring world into which he is specially introduced. But the world does not judge a race by a genius of that race; it claims the genius but judges the race from which he comes by the average man of that race. At present the judgment of the world as it regards the Negro is darkened and warped by many prejudices. There is no just ground for complaint about the chances open to a genius to reach a sympathetic and appreciative world, but what of the millions of ordinary individuals who are struggling to do their best, but whose best is not recognized? The most universal and deep seated complaint within the average Negro's heart is this: "The white people do not understand us." That is the complaint that is being made in relation to the recent writings of Baker; that is the ever-present thought of the Negro when he is subjected to Jim Crow treatment or injustice of any sort; that is why the heart of the Negro does not grow resentful god bitter but rather becomes more firm in the determination to let the white people him in a river light. There is no desire among the Negroes so universal as the unspoken and perhaps unconscious but ever present desire for the white people to attain a correct knowledge of the race as it actually is. That is why orators, magazine and book writers of the race place so much stress upon statistics. In hundreds of ways this desire to be correctly known is daily manifested. Were the American people to correctly know and to honestly appreciate the real character of thousands, of Negroes who are forced to submit to John Crow treatment, such wicked discrimination would vanish within a year The white people of the South have a like sort of feeling. They feel that the Negro does not understand them and that the people of the North do not understand them, and they are always setting up the claim that they understand the Negro and are his best friends and will show it if it let alone. The average Negro of to-day does not understand the white man of the South any more than the average white man of the South understands the Negro. It is this ignorance of the best that is in the other that breeds distrust and engenders strife and misunderstandings between the black man and the white man of the South. It is the recognition of the other that is the basis of Dr. Washington's constant pleas for more friendly relations, more charity, more honest recognition of the real facts. There are thousands of united instances which if known would show that whenever a Negro in the South gets a peep way back behind the prejudices, and misconceptions, of a white man's heart and into its real feelings, it becomes friendly toward that white man and that white man becomes friendly toward him and they get along together without friction and without humiliation to one or the other and yet never forget the fact of race variety. Nothing that has a tendency to cause friction between the race breeds distrust, while all things that increase the spirit of friendliness hastens the day of better mutual acquaintance and pleasant relations. The abnormal conditions that exist now are due to ignorance upon the part of each race as to the real and true character of the other. As the Negro becomes more appreciative of the best white men, their number will increase and their friendship will broaden, and as the white men become more appreciative of the best Negroes, their number will increase, their influence will extend among their fellows, and their friendship for their white fellow citizens will broaden. Lack of knowledge DELSARTE'S ANTISEPTIC TOOTH POWDER AND MOUTH WASH Found by DR. L. J. DELSARTE DENTIST 797 Fulton Street, Brooklyn Telephone 3721 L-Prospect A 3-Year Policy for the Furniture in your flat at very lowest rates. Only the best Fire Insurance Companies. D. A. GREENE, Insurance Broker 47 Albany Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. july 23-19 accounts for many things which are charged to a wicked disposition. Electricity existed in the days of Moses and would have operated a telephone then as well as now; it is merely the lack of knowledge that accounts for the non-existence of the telephone. Adam would have left to his descendants a photograph of Eve had he possessed the knowledge. The caravan will disappear from the deserts of Africa and the mountains of its place. Knowledge means progress. A sympathetic and appreciative knowledge of the best that there is in a man, white or black, will multifly that best. ATHLETIC SOLDIERS In Military Meet in Philippine Island Colored Soldiers Mand Out. MANILA, P. L. Feb. 28—In the athletic tournaments of the military meet held recently the Negro troops showered themselves with glory, winning all the main events in the purely athletic tries. The standing of the athletic teams, representing the different regiments, at the close was as follows; 24th Infantry, first; 30th Cavalry, second; 25th Infantry, third. All these regiments are black regiments. The program consisted of baseball, swimming, shooting, hundred yard dashes, running 225 and 500 yards, hurdle races, obstacle races, that races for cavalry, hippopotamus races for cavalry, wall scaling, etc., etc. Just what a wonderful feat the triumph of these black troops, numbering about one to six to their white comrades, is can best be shown when it is explained that the best troops in all the departments of the Philippines were contendants. All four of the Negro regiments took part in the meet, but one the Tenth horse, failed to gain any signal feat in team work, although scoring high in individual tries, many of the Tenth's men receiving models and ribbons for their individual work, animal meets are the capping features, and art is work in the Philippines, and are not designed as to bring out all that is best in the man behind the gain in every branch of the service. They are the creations of General Leonard Wood and begin in December and terminate in January. To insure that only the best men are brought to the division meet, a tournament is held in each department and the winning team in every branch of the maneuvers prescribed face each other in the finals at the division tournament. The first place in each of the three departments compiling the division of the Philippines was won by a Negro regiment for the year before coming to the division meet. But there, they left as they come, the winners and bearers of such a silver cup or other prize. Such athletic contests do not getting off the earth for the black man. Rather it hints that he will stay to shoulder the "White Man's Garden" when the white man shall have found it too heavy to carry in the titanic struggle of Orient and Occident that is inevitable. BISHOPS MAKE A KICK. Five Join in Protest to Interstate Commerce Commission. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26—Five bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church joined to-day in a complaint to the Inter-State Commerce Commission of unjust, discriminatory, and unlawful treatment at the hands of several inter-State railroad companies in the South. The complainants were: Bishops Wessley J. Baines, H. M. Turner, Exams Tyree, C. S. Smith and E. W. Lampont, and their complaint was directed against the Seaboard Air Line, the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, the Southern Railway, the Central of Georgia Railway, and the Pullman Company. The petitioners say they are members of the African race and are bishops of the A. M. E. Church; that the passenger coaches furnished to them when they purchase first-class transportation "are dirty and filthy and are not of the first-class quality of description in consideration of the first-class fare paid; that the coaches furnished white passengers are better in quality and description; that the coaches for Negro passengers are compartment cars partitioned by swinging doors and are altogether unit and unimobile for the use of passengers who pay first-class fare; that in addition to curing and filth, such cars are usually fitted with passengers of every description of character who smoke, drink and curse in the presence of women and all shirts who do decent breeding"; and that the defendants refuse to sell Negroes sleeping car tickets or supply them with transportation on sleeping cars, or permit them to eat in the dining cars. The leading Home in the City. Patron- led by the traveling public from all sections of the country. B. D. WHITEHURST, Prop. As we journey through life let us live by the way. Dec. 5 3m Phone: 5711 Madison Square. The ALLEN HOUSE Removed from 411 West 45th Street to 258 West 47th Street Between Broadway and Righth Avenue Nearly furnished rooms ifor permanent or transient guests. MRS. P. R. WHITE. Jan 9-3m. Proprietors Newly Furnished Rooms By the day, week or month J. T. DELPH 214 West 134th Street Between 7th and 8th Aven. oct 10 13t BOURBAN PLAN, NEW YORK. FIRECLASS CLASS ACCOMMODATION. Courteous attention. Modern convenience and comfort. Convenient convenient. The patentee of either soldited or of Transient guests respectively. J. JOYFUL. Jan 30-km. Frequencies. 214 to 216 West 29th St., N. Y. HOTEL Fifty Handcoweely Furnished Rooms with best, bath and all conveniences, by the date of January 1st, in New York, $1 per day. Meals if desired. Jn 23-3m FRANK C. HOLMES, Prop. TH The most stale of coloured la improvement. Phone 1185 714 THE WALL This more elaborately furnished and decorated house is the center for the accommodation of colored ladies and gentlemen. All modern improvements. 104 West 50th Street, near Sixth Avenue 109 West 133rd Street, N.Y. Beautifully furnished Light rooms to let wild or without board by day, week or month. Private parties, luncheons and dinner a speciality. THE TRANSFER INN Choice Wilson, Liquor and Cigars. Wilson, Old Crown, Liquor and Cigars. Will brands of Scotch Whiskies, 10 cents a drink. Edward S. Corbin, Proprietor All care t. offer here and give you time to get a drink. A goods bought from Engel, Angel Co. 29.31 First Avenue 213 West 53rd Street, N.Y. First-class Accommodations ONLY. Handome, Steam Heated, Pumished Rooms for Permanent or Transient Guests. Headquarters of Clergy and Business Men. First-class Restaurant. Regular Dinner, including Wine, 33c., 6 p.m. to 8. Sundays, 1 to 8 p.m. 45c. BENJAMEN F. THOMAS, Prop. Dec. 19-3m HENRY HOUSE Has Removed from 262 West 40th Street to 566 Seventh Avenue, near 41st Street. Newly Furnished Rooms. First-class Accommodations Only. For Permanent or Transient Guests. Apply MRS. C. TURPIN, Proprietress. Jan 9-3mos. Tel. 3598 L-Harlen For first class accommodation, stop at HOTEL PRESS FORMERLY THE WALKER HOUSE MANHATTAN HOUSE 212 West 40th Street Neatly equipped, Running hot and cold water in each room. Hot and cold water baths. Rooms to let by day or week. CLARY & MITCHELL, Proprietor. 10:29 3m THE NORMAN HOUSE 115 West 25th Street, near Sixth Ave. Neatly furnished rooms by the day, week or month. Special accommodation for transients. Moderate rates. A. H. THOMAS, Proprietor dec 26-3m Imported and Domestic Wines and Liquors Family entrance and drinking parlors. Your patronage is requested. JOHN C. JONSON and EDWARD J. JONSON 31 and 33 West 135th St. New York Dec 12-19 ( Formerly THE CLANTARF ) Anderson Booker, Manager 53 West 133rd Street, New York A Pull Line of WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS. Oct 31-3m SAMUEL A. KELSEY FURNISHED ROOMS TO LET Handomey furnished large and small rooms. Well heated, hot and cold water bath. For permanence or transient guests. Moderate rates. Apply Ms. REBECKA. SIBLEY. jan 2m 3 350 LENOX AVENUE At 128th Street New York Telephone 3590 Harlem nov 14-3m APARTMENTS TO LET To respectable colored families only. Gas, bells and letter boxes. Apply to W. M. SMITH REAL ESTATE BROKER 218 West 64th Street Or Janitor on premises 217 East 56th Street, Between Second and Third Avenue. Pleasant temporary lodgings for working girls, with privileges, at reasonable rates. The Home solicits orders for working dresses, orders, etc. Address MES. FRANCES BRYNOLDS KYRHER Superintendent MAY-20-91 O'FARRELL'S 410 and 412 Eighth Avenue Near Sixth Street. NEW YORK CITY. FURNITURE, CARPETS, BEDDING, ETC. Houses, Flats and Apartments Furnished Complete. CASH OR CREDIT FRANK DONATIN Oldest and most reliable store in the City. nov 18-19 WILFORD H. SMITH COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW AND PROCTOR IN ADMINISTRY, 180 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK Revenue 905-6-7. Phone 5674 Bookmas nov 7-8 am. Damage Sale a Specialty. The Clarendon House 115 WEST 27TH STREET NEW YORK CITY WILSON HOUSE THE LAWS HOUSE 248 WEST 20TH STREET Between 7th and 8th Avenues Handsomely Furnished Rooms. First class Accommodation. For Either Permanent or Transient Guests. EL MORRA EL MORKIS (EUROPEAN PLAN) 403 West 55th Street one door from Ninth Ave, and 164 West 153rd Street Elegantly furnished rooms for permanent or transient guests, with or without board. Convenient to all lines of cars. All latest improvements and courteous attention. MRS. STEPHEN BUNDY Oct 24, 1930 CAFE WILKINS 253 West 35th Street B. D. WILKINS, Prop. Modern Rathkakerli Restaurant. Cafe and Large Billiard Room. Latex improved tables. Telephone and Messenger service. Restaurant open 7 days a week. "TWO FREDS, Caterers" Oct.24-3 mos Handsomely Furnished, Large and Small Rooms. Bath, Hot and Cold Water. All Countries. Board if Desired. Pleasant Surroundings for permanent Guests. Also a handsome back parlor, suitable for physician or surgeon. 19-21 W. 133th Street, New York First class room by the day or week, buffet cafe and restaurant connected. Large parlor to let for receptions. J. H. PRESS, Manager feb 13-3m HOTEL ALEXANDER 111 and 113 West 13rd Street Always open and perfect order guaranteed. Meals served a La Carte. Table d'Hote Dinner, 35 canta, from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday Dinner 50 canta, from 2 to 5 p.m. Rooms at reasonable rates. T. ALEXANDER. Procurement, in 30 p. BOOKER'S CAFE Real Estate Agent, Broker and Appraiser All classes of property for Rent, Sale and Exchange TOLET 137 & 139 West 25th St. Near Sixth Avenue Four large rooms, Newly decorated. Toilet on floor. Electric bells. Rent very moderate. Apply JANITOR 139 West 25th Street feb27-ef We do all kinds of JOB PRINTING New Marpland House ENLARGED AND REMODELED. Broadway, New West 59th Street. Nicely furnished Rooms by the Day, Week or Month. REBUSTAURANT ATTACHED. Meals at all hours. JOHN WALCOOT, Proprietor. Dec. 19-30 THE BRADFORD 73 WEST 134th STREET, New York A fast-food restaurant that dispenses nothing but fast-food food and is well seasoned to the taste. We serve the best, regular dinner in town for 25 cents. Furnished rooms to let. JOHN E. BRADFORD Proprietor Oct. 3-8am. WHITE ROSE ELEGANT FLATS To Let. Handome Apartments with all improvements at Modesto Rentals in THE DOLLY-MOUNT, 211 W. 60th St. THE SARATOGA, 200 West 60th St. THE VENICE, 210 West 61st St. THE DOBIN COUNT, 217 West 61st St. Above houses have First-class senior service and are always in good condition. Apply BOBERT CARTER 200 West 61st St. C. A. BRADLEY TREODORE CAMPBELL, 217 West 60th St. 210 West 61st St. dec20-19th PHILIP A. PAYTON, JR. REAL BETTLE AND INSURANCE My company is the management of Dolton Township AGENT, BOOKER APAHNER 67 West 134th Street. Telephone: 217 and 218 Harlem. Logwood and Middleton Real Estate Dealers Fine Apartments To Let at all Times In Desirable Localities 172 West 138rd Street Dec 19-Buses P. Bourke, 22 years with J. T. & J. A. Pursue Tel. 1306 Eivardade. Palmer Bourke. George J. Bourke. J. P. Bourke & Sons REAL ESTATE AGENTS, BROKERS AND APPRAIERS. All kinds of properties for sale, rent or exchange. Fire Insurance. 12 WEST 99th STREET. Jun7-8m MELVIN J. CHISUM REAL ESTATE BROKER 900 West 119th Street Fine apartments to let at all times in Desirable Localities Telephone, 6655 Morningside. oct 25-19 John B. Moseley 164 Montague St., Brooklyn, N.Y. REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE Brooklyn, Flatbush and Long Island property our specialty. Bury payment. Oct 6-8 JOHN M. ROYALL, Real Estate-Insurance, Stocks and Bonds. 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WALTON ```markdown ``` A MEMORABLE EVENT Twas only a matinee that held the boards at the Majestic Theatre last Friday afternoon; and at that a professional matinee where dollars and cents were for once given secondary consideration. Yet, this performance was truly historic and will be looked upon in days to come by Williams and Walker as a pleasant and tender reminiscence. The performer does his best to please the newspaper critic, believing that the latter's work, if complimentary, will do much toward attracting the public to the theatre, thereby assuring financial success. However, even when the critic has pronounced the work of the performer O. K., and the public has shown its unqualified approval by crowding the theatre at such great cost, the public will just one more something to make joy complete—praise from the brother performer. So Williams and Walker were in a jubilant mood last Friday. Not because the box office receipts were large—for less money was paid for admissions at this performance than any since "Bandanna Land" opened in New York City. Their faces were wreathed in smiles because the most critical and representative members of the profession had unanimously declared their new show a success. There was Lew Fields, Joe Weber, Geo. Cohan, Victor Moore, John Mason, Kyrle Bellew, Sam Bernard, Edna Wallace Hopper, Margaret Illington, Charlotte Walker and a score or more of the theatrical celebrities who are making good on Broadway in dramatic and musical shows at this time. "It's certainly a great show." "Gee, but cono shows are rapidly coming to the front." I think Williams and Walker have at least hit "were out of the works heard as the professionals were leaving the theatre. But Williams and Walker did not become enthused over the expressions heard after the show. They knew they had made good from the applause they received during the performance. ance—applause that was lavish, lusty and From the initial appearance of the comedians in the first act until the finale in the last act they were enthusiastically received. In the first act their reception was in the nature of an oration, and at the end of the oration the number "Bon Bon Buddy" was cointed to bow and bow. Until they appeared in front of the curtain and Bert Williams made a short yet pointed speech in behalf of Williams and Walker and their company for the generous expressions of approval. George Walker seemed to please the professional contingent each time he appeared in a new suit. The encores he did on behalf of Walker were his dancing of the "Merry Widow" waltz reminded one of the applause received nightly by the principals in the "Merry Widow" show. Bert Williams sang his new song "I'd Rather Have Nothin' All of the Time Than Something for a Little While." For an encore he sang his old song his "Nobody," and was forced to stop when the members of the company might be permitted to go to supper and return to the theatre in time for the evening's performance. We regret very much that Abbie Mitchell Cook was indisposed and unable to sing her son "Red, Red Rose." It is hoped that the sweet singer will be on hand at the next professional matinee to show the white performer that the Negro can certainly sing other coon songs. An answer part to sing, though alightly ill would, have been appreciated considering the importance of the occasion. In the place of Abbie Mitchell Cook a recitation was rendered by R. Henri Strange, without doubt one of the most talented legitimate actors of the race. Judging from the applause he received he more than made good with his hearers. Considering the histrionic ability possessed by Mr. Strange we regret Williams and Walker have not better advenience. As if his receptions compel one to conclude that it is just thrown is as a filter or to show the public what Mr. Strange can do. The white performers of the calibre mentioned above can do much toward assisting their Dusky brother to rise in his profession. If they will, Heretofore they have enough champion certain colored actors in their hard struggle to reach Broadway. It was only last Friday that our leading white stars evidenced to no uncertain degree that they had put all race colors on the stage, hats off to colored performers and were old to see a "coon show" in a first-class New York theatre on Broadway. CONTROVERSY OVER W. AND W. Williams and Walker have aroused a race controversy among the New York theatrical folk; in which such well known stars as George Cohan, Joe Weber, Lew Field and W. Moore are on one side and such less important and耻辱ier performers as Walter C. Kellner, James J. Morton and the members of "That Quartet" are on the other. It is pleasing to note that the champions of Williams and Walker are the prominent stars (as is usually the case in a race question), people who can do them some good. At the trouble is about Williams and Walker heading the big bill last Sunday evening at the Academy of Music for benefit of the Newsmen's Home Club, which was managed by George M. Cohan; a New York theatrical idol, and his partner, Sam H. Harris. After Williams and Walker had created such a favorable impression last Friday at the professional matinee of "Bandanna Land," they were asked by George Cohan to take part in Runday's performance. When the performance continued and in billing the benefit in the newspapers they were put ahead of every star act on the BM. When Kelley saw how Williams and Walker were billed he called a meeting at Hotel Metropolis Saturday night, to protest against the actions of the management in billing Williams and Walker, abbe everyone, and white performers not to appear on the stage Sunday. "That Quartette" and Morton were the only ones to send in their regrets, and they were not in any manner missed. The affair was the greatest success ever given for the benefit of the "new and over $6,000 was raised for the fund." The New York Daily Globe, after a long and enthusiastic account of the failure of the New York Stock Exchange. "Two acts particularly received the most unusual applause, that by Williams and Walker, with their entire company, and the Merry Widow walts by the originators, Frank Keeney and Frances Cameron. When Williams and Walker appeared the galleries at the former W. O. Kelly, a monologist, known as "The Virginia Judge," and who also had not even volunteered his services for the benefit, held a meeting in the Hotel Metropole, and tried to influence a number of the performers not to appear on the same stage with the colored comedians. He even went so far as to send out telegrams to several, requesting them to give positive feedback with theatrical James J. Morton and "That Quartette," neither of which was missed." "The newbies were indignant. At a meeting yesterday they resolved to send letters to every leading show house in the country in order to explain to them the reasons for their attitude and to request them to consider that in giving him an engagement." "Those present declared Williams and Walker never gave a better act. There was a delightful drollness about their humor. The theatrical men never showed a finer philanthropic spirit than they did last night. Nearly every manager bought large number of seats. He bought $100 for each and then turned the tickets in to the box office to be resold. Sam Harris gave $100 for a single box." Several seasons ago Kelly refused to appear at Hammerstein's because Williams and Walker topped the bill. He was allowed to go his way in peace, thanks to the Hammerstein's who don't bother about race prejudice. Washington Conservatory of Music Enjoying Prosperity. WASHINGTON, D. C.; March 4—Owing to the large increase in attendance at the Washington Conservatory of Music it has been decided to enlarge the building and [Image of a silhouette of a person with a crown and a mask.] MRS. HARRIET GIBBS Moscow, 1917. THE CATHEDRAL OF THE ORTHodox Church OF THE Nativity. add more teachers to the faculty as soon as conditions will permit. Aside from the above decision nothing definite has been reached. The Washington Conservatory of Music and School of Expression was founded October 1, 1903. Over a hundred students have registered representing not only Washington, D.C., but many cities throughout the country. Applications are received almost daily from people living in distant points. Mrs. Harriet Gibbs Marshall, president of the managing board, in speaking enthusiastically to a correspondent of THE Age said: "The many applications from out-of-town people and the increase in attendance at the Washington Conservatory of Music makes the necessity of enlargement imperative. It tends to show that a general awakening and realization for the defence of the highest development in art." It has been the aim of the founders of the school to centralize and focus the Walker and Managerial know, for they are no quail, and excalibur place, where they show would never. We are sorry the does not know the d personal attack and a What we need is more men—men who will rights. "Shon-Fly Regiment" GRAND RAPIDS, M. Johnson are at the last of this week troit next week. Smart Set Company New Y. WILMINGTON, Del. Smart Set with S. H. its way to New York. It is the jersey are doing good business Philadelphia no. efforts of art teachers for a dedicated and far-reaching purpose, which can only be attained through the development of the talents of those especially endowed by God. Therefore, much thought and time has been spent to make the methods and management thorough and progressive and the curriculum broad in its scope. The Washington Conservatory of Music is divided into the following departments: Piano, vocal expression, voice culture, history of music, violin, wired instruments, theory, and modern language. The members of the managing board are: M. Harriet Gibbs Marshall president; George William Cook, treasurer; Louis G. Gregory, financial secretary; A. L. Glenn, secretary, and Miss Anna E. Grinage. New York, February 24, 1908. Lester A. Walton, Dramatic Editor, NEW YORK AGE, NEW YORK City. Dear Sir: As The AGE has always maintained a position of fairness I trust you will consider this letter no intrusion and allow it to appear in it. I demon the attack on Mr. Shoemaker, manager of Williams and Walker, which appeared in a recent issue of THE AGE, most unwarranted. In the first place Mr. Shoemaker I would deem already wide awake or he could not have piloted Williams and Walker through four years of strenuous show business, alive to every situation and not omitting the importance of his colored patrons, who, while numerous, do not by any means constitute a major portion of the theatre-goers who support the show. The theatre does not for a representative of any kind of a colored race and such is stimulated in the contract, therefore, the two upper balconies were the only parts of the house where the critic could sit. Furthermore, the dramatic column and the dramatic editor are a new venture in THE AGE, and the influence either can wield with the people of the race is still a matter of conjecture, while Williams and Walker's prestige is already established. This attack would also signify that Williams and Walker are unaware of their colored patrons. Allow me to state that they, or any other artists are too keen in pursuit of success and the almighty dollar, to allow a prejudiced manager to at all interfere in that aim. After reading your letter and its conclusion, I maintain that Mr. Shoemaker "can't get in bad." He has made good and in your representative's case, he simply could not offer him another seat in the whole house, same being sold out. I would also advance this argument that he you would have an manager in advance of your intended visit to the theatre on the evening in question, the opening night, a seat would have been reserved for you. I admit, as you say, that "Bandana Land" is a good show, and further think that no colored man or woman, boy or girl in New York will miss it, even though you publish your complaint about the color of your shoes. You might have been used to more profit if you had repeated a former article from your pen which appeared in THE AGE some months ago, relative to the conduct of the colored members of the audience, instead of this tirade against Mr. Shoe. You might have merely personal affair. Very truly yours. J. HARRISON BAILEY. The AGE receives daily such letters from ambitious writers, and we print same as a sample to show our readers what an aggressive spirit some of the members of the race possess. Relative to comment of any length we do not do them same warily. In the case we do desire to carry on any undue controversy in these columns over Manager Shoemaker, as an understanding has been renewed. All bona-fide dramatic representatives of Negro papers are receiving the consideration due them whenever they present their card at the Majestic theatre—and they don't have to sit in the gallery either. Apologies have been asked and same accepted. For the benefit of our readers we wish to state that Williams and Walker are not "too keenly in pursuit of the almighty dollar" to allow Negroes to be insulted. We begin, Williams and Walker, as well as Manager Shoemaker, in fact any MAN, admires a fighter who will contend for his rights. If we had more fighters we would accomplish more results. Williams and The cox at the arm of the music wh in the PH go R daepe The conjoined the Walker and Manager Shoemaker certainly know, for they are fighters. They did not quit and exclaim they knew their place when they were told that coon shows would never do on Broadway. We are sorry the writer of the letter does not know the difference between a statement and a statement. What we need is more appreciative Negro men—men who will contend for their rights. "Shoe-Fly Regiment" in Michigan GRAND RAPIDS, March 5.—Cole and Johnson are at the Majestic Theatre the last of this week. They are in Detroit next week. Smart Set Company Heading for New York. WILMINGTON, Del., March 6. —The Smart Set with S. H. Dudley, in making its way to New York. It played Camden, N. J., the first part of the week and are doing good business here the last half. Philadelphia next week. THE NEW YORK-AGE; THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1908 J. L. Lippman Notes from Cube and Johnson's "Snow-Fly Regiment." Since the "Snow-Fly Regiment" was last seen in New York the company has enjoyed a continuous trip of prosperity in the West and Canada. Neither the financial crisis nor the weather has affected business in the least. Time has brought many a change in the lives of the company. Mrs. Mollie Dill will in the future spend her vacations in Louisville, Ky. Miss Daisy Brown is longing to get back to New York so that New Yorkers can see her working with Edgar Connor is "Susanna." They are taking three and four encounters nightly. Miss Lulu Coleman, who has been a slick girl, has joined the company in Grand Rapids. John Jackson and John Wesley Jenkins are inexperiable pale. Sam Lucas says he has a touch of la giraffe, but he doesn't seem to feel it when he does the "Bode of Edification." Just as young as he used to be. Arthur Ray, as Napoleon, is getting many a laugh now throughout the show. The base ball ball has begun to buss in the company. Every one is figuring on his respective positions. Yes, Bob Cole says he is going to be one of the pitchers. while J. Rosamond Johnson claims he is going to be the John McGraw. Frank DeLyons is singing the kind of bass that makes the people talk. Well, Frank is a natural talker, also. Mike Belle fororgan, the genial wardrobe woman, seems to have an idle moment. She can make some more dress. Messrs. Cole & Johnson presented Edgar Connor with a beautiful gold watch Composer of Ragtime Now Writing Grand Opera. Since syncopated music, better known as ragtime, has been in vogue, many Negro writers have gained considerable fame as composers of that style of music. From the white man's standpoint of view he at present is inclined to believe that after writing ragtime the Negro does not figure. There are many colored writers busily engaged even now in writing operas. Music circles have been stirred recently by the announcement by Scott Joplin, known as the apostle of rythm, is composing scores for grand opera. Scott Joplin is a St. Louis product who gained prominence a few years ago by writing the "Maple Leaf Rag," which was the first rythmian instrumental piece to be generally accepted by the public. Last summer he came to New York from in Springfield, Ill. Mr. Philip Robson, the manager of the company, gave little Edgar a gold fob. Now Edgar is filled up with pride. Herbert LaSlee was a visitor in Bay City, Mich. You know he trooped with Holt Cobb ago. And Anthony Trible, as Ophelia is making that same old hit, He is a scream the moment he appears on the stage. Miss Emmie Wise and her brown bear are taking six and seven encores. Everybody in the company send regards to Ernest Hogan and wish him a speedy recovery. Arthur Talbert is very much disappointed because the show did not play Chatham, Canada. No wonder, for Arthur wanted to show the old folks at home that he has developed into a real actor under the tutorship of Bob Cole. H. C. W. Barnes was at his home in Saginaw, Mich. Until the show played Michigan everybody thought his home was wherever he put his hat. G. W. L. Among the Youdsvilleans. The Boldens are in town from Boston, Murphy & Francis are at the Novelty Theatre, Brooklyn, this week. Ada Robinson has joined the big musical act of the Five Musical Spillers. Al Bailey and wife are on the bill at the Atlantic Garden this week. The Five Musical Spillers left Sunday for Cleveland Ohio, where they are appearing this week. The famous Wangchoodle Comedy Four—Glenn, Robinson, Goodall and White—arrived in the city Sunday. Deas & Deas after closing an engagement of several weeks at Wilson's Casino, left Sunday for Montreal, Canada, where they are appearing this week. The Hall, the well-known lute of the Eminent Eoghan "Oyster Man" Company, left Tuesday for Jacksonville Fln., where he joins the Black Patri Troubadours for the balance of the season. Henderson Smith and the Fourteen Black Hussars arrived in the city Monday after a week's engagement at Schenectady. NX they are bound to appear at Keith & Proctor's 58th Street Theatre next week. Griffith B. Wilson has sufficiently recovered from an attack of paralysis to return to the stage. At one time he enjoyed an enviable reputation as a contortionist and aerobat. He has signed to appear with Veronica K. Troubadours for the stage. He has signed to appear with Avery Hart left Sunday over the Orpheum circuit. They will be out West until the middle of spring. Jimmie Worles, George Lynnier and Annie Smith have returned from a vaudeville tour through Pennsylvania. Al Watts and Mabel Gant are making good in their new vaudeville skit --no dialogue-- just singing and dancing. Fiddler and Shelton are at the Columbia Theatre, St. Louis, this week. "Old Fid" is said to be making good this season in vaudeville. Odessaan Warren Quite Stage to Engage in Business. Miss Odessa Warren has announced her permanent retirement from the stage and will hereafter confine her labors in the direction of business pursuits. Her conclusion to leave "stagdon" for good was decided on recently; after she had single-handed made the "Bon, Bon Buddy" hats for the cloaks girls of the Williams and Walker show, and was praised in the highest "cring by the mankind." She will in the future devote her time to the millinery business and if she secures the patronage of the professional people as has been voluntarily promised. her establishments at 49 west 194th Street and 65 West 194th Street, will resemble some of the busy millinery departments down town. Miss Warren has been in the theatrical profession for several years and has always been regarded as an Al worker. Rumor has it that Sylvester Russell, for the past eight years stage critic on one of our weekly papers, is about to resign. However, nothing defaults has been given out by Mr. Russell, who is planning for weekly publications, is publishing a magazine at Hasleton, Pa., known as Sylvester Russell's Review. DOUGLASS AT OSSINING Concert Company Gives Good Recital at St. Matthwa. OBSERVING. March 2. — At St. Matthew's Church, Sunday, Rev. E. F. Morris preached at both services. In the morning his subject was "Running the Christian' Race with Pattence." The subject for evening was "Love." Friday night the revival ended, when the invitation was given six young men and women went to the altar and five were converted. There have altogether been twenty converted and five backbuilders relaimed. The meeting will be continued in St. Bethlehem Church, in which St. Matthew's will begin. Mrs. Henry Ayers, the Misses May Ayers and Henrietta Hazzard were in Tarrytown Sunday: Mr. Powell, of Bristol, R. I., has been spending several days at Croton, as the guest of Mr. and J. L. L. St. Louis and it was the opinion of all that his mission was one of placing several of his ragtime instrumental compositions on the market. The surprise of the musicians and publishers can be imagined when Joplin announced that he was writing grand opera and expected to have his scores finished by summer. From ragtime to grand opera is certainly a big jump—about as great a jump as from the American Theatre to the Manhattan and Metropolitan Opera Houses. You can believe that the time is far far on when America will produce several S. Coleridge Taylors who will prove to the public that the black man can compose other than ragtime music. The composer is just in his thirties and is very retiring in manner. Critics who have heard a part of his new opera are very optimistic as to its future success. Mrs. Jacob Peterson. Also Mr. William F. Kinsland, of Tarrytown, and Mr. Scott, of Dobb's Ferry, were present at the class. Mr. Daniel Thomas was in New York Wednesday evening, attending to Massic business. The Joseph Douglass Concert Co. were at St. Matthew's Church on Wednesday evening, Feb. 26. The playing of Mr. Douglass on the violin was wonderful. Mrs. Douglass is also an accomplished pianist and an elocutionist of a remarkable ability. Her condition of the poem "Hinwatha" was a high order. The concert will be repeated the last week in March. Mr. and Mrs. John Armstrong and daughter, Mrs. M. Richardson, attended the Williams and Walker play a few evenings ago. VERONICA R. NAPPLESON A. N. Street 21 Christopher Team Defended To the Editor of THE NEW YORK AGE: One is hard put to conceal his disgust of the arrogance of the Smart Set people. But after all, there is a great deal in names, and it may be that these people are simply endeavoring to live up to their name "Smart Set. In fairness to the St. Christopher Club it must be said that he made that article in our issue of February 27 vilified that organization. That man, who he is cannot even claim a prospective acceptance with the truth. The facts are these: After a basketball game played at the Incarnation Starish House, and which game was fairly won by the St. Christopher team - 12 to 14—but which, thanks to the referee and timekeeper, was allowed to go to the Smart Set. I made a protest to the official and stated then and there that there would be no more games between St. Christopher and Smart Set teams. I was fairly faced. At a subsequent meeting of the Olympian League the protest was again renewed by Messrs. Alien Johnson and Arthur Reight, who also stood upon my previous declaration that there would be no more games between the two teams until justice was done. Further, Mr. Allen Johnson told Mr. Robert Latimore in person that the St. Christopher team was determined not to bridge an inch from their resolution. Now it would seem concisive from the foregoing facts that if courtesy be not a factor of the St. Christopher Club, that a regard for the Smart Set Club, one feels strongly inclined to apply to the shorter and uglier word which they deserve. The Smart Set having prevalence of such display of cowardice, arranged another came. Does not that give away the whole thing? We have suffered ourselves to be written up without deigning to reply—when we won we never shuddered, and when we lost we were maliciously represented—but, this last report is so outrageously false that we feel compelled to let our friends know that the Animals Club has been formed over in Brooklyn under the Smart Set. High Point Team. HIGH POINT, N. C., Feb. 29. -- The High Point Red Stockings, who demanded the highest recognition of every reputable team of the state last season, is undecided as to whether or not they shall stand at the head and supremely rule the diamond this season, as the case was last year. The City, N. M. C. A. has added to its regular system a new feature: athletics. This will come under the management of Mr. Ouse Davis. MAJESTIC THEATRE Broadway & 50th Street 2nd MONTH Williams & Walker In their Greatest Hit "Bandanna Land" THE GO-AND-SEE IT-AGAIN-SHOW. Boxes can be obtained by applying to H. H. Demis, Manager, 14 West 135th Street. Telephone 12:2-Columbus CONCERT BEGINS at 8:45 P. M. feb 22 28. SECRETARY TAFT AT SPRINGFIELD Kathmanduatically Received and Speaks N. M. Grace Worth Other Notes ENTHALIMENTARY RECEIVED AND SPONDED BY Y. M. C. A. WORK—Other Notes. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., March 4.—WILLIAM H. Taft, Secretary of War, and Republican aspirant for the presidential nomination; addressed a large audience of men Sunday afternoon in the Gouart Square Theatre. The meeting was held under the auspices of the local Y. M. C. A. and was presided over by secretary William Knowles Cooper. Mr. Taft's visit to this city had been heralded to the local public many weeks previously and it was anticipated with much eagerness by my friends. He took the subject of his talk the Young Men's Christian Association, and spoke especially of its beneficial influence in the Philippine Islands and in the Canal Zone. The secretary was enthusiastically received by an audience upward of two thousand. Quite a number were unable to gain admittance. The Orange Tea which was given under the auspices of Circle E at the St. John's Church Friday evening, was well attended and gave satisfactory results. Miss Etta Bailey, of Main street, gave a social Friday evening to a number of the children. The teacher pleased them spent in playing games, etc. Miss Clara Brown, of Morris street, is visiting relatives and friends in Washington, D. C., and Philadelphia, for a few weeks. Mr. William B. Jones, of Elmwood street, is in Boston this week to take the State examination in dentistry. Mrs. William H. Grant, who has been ill at the home of her parents in Lebanon street, has returned to the school. Mr. and Mrs. Brown of Amherst, were in town last week and attended at the Patterson house. Mr. Ernest Green of the Worthy Hotel spent last week in New York city, visiting friends. Mrs. Robert Clare, of Orleans street, arrived home from Washington last week after having spent several days visiting in that city. Miss Iannahle Morse, who has made her home in this city for quite a while, has returned to her former home in North Brookfield Mass. Mrs. William A. Gardiner, of Hull, spent last week work with friends in Pittsfield Mass. Tickets are out for the cantain to be rendered Friday evening, March 20, at Graves Hall, for the benefit of the Third Church. The participants in this cantain have, under the direction of Mr. J. A. Apher, put a good deal of time into it and it bibs fair to be well worth seeing. DR. WASHINGTON IN BROOKLYN. Guest of Honor with Collector Anderson at Dinner by Mr. W. H. Smith. A notable social function was the reception given by Mr. W. H. Smith, at his residence, 692 Lafayette avenue, on Friday evening, last week, in honor of Collector Chas. W. Anderson and Dr. Booker T. Washington. Nearly forty representative citizens, including some from the Borough of Manhattan, were present to greet the distinguished visitors. The early part of the evening was spent in informal conversation of various topics, after which an elaborate collation was served in the dining room. After full justice had been done to the tempting menu, speech making followed, with Mr. Chas. H. Lansing as toast master. Among those who spoke were: Dr. Washington, ex-Governor Pinchback. Counselor D. Macon Welter, Dr. W. H. Wurkwitz, Dr. Francis H. Hurchel, E. W. Cushion, Mr. Francis H. Gilbert, Rev. E. W. Daniel, Rev. J. W. Johnson, Mr. Henry T. Mars, and Rev. E. N. Holines. Among others present were: Messrs Edward Barefield, Francis H. Carmand E. V. C. Eato, Charles E. Clagett, Wm H. Heviger, Theophilus A. Fisher, Dr Wm H. Warrick of Philadelphia, Dr E. S. Mars, Prof James M. Baxter of Newark, James F. Thomas, Peter W Downing, Thomas B. McKeel, Edward S. Lucas, Charles W. Bayel, Wm H. Sullivan, B. W. Rennon Roy E. N. Holling of Jarniaon, J. James C. Thomas, John W. Dias, Wm H. Davis, A. C. McKeel, Charles F. Moore, Vernor C. Murray, J. B. Peterson, F. H. Gilbert, J. Engene Mars. ART CIRCLE OF JERSEY CITY. Give First Exhibition—A Pleasant Loan Year Dance The concert given by the Mozart Globe Club was a success and was appreciated by the members and friends of the Montreal Baptist Church. The Ladies Art Circle of Jersey City gave their first reception and exhibit at the residence of Mrs. A. Queenan on Friday evening, February 28. Despite the cold weather the guests were numerous, viz.; Mr. and Mrs. Hayes, Rev. and Mrs. Trusty, Mrs. and Mr. Smith, Mrs. McCannon, Mr. and Mrs. Dicks, Mosses Brown, Lee Contee, Day, Mr. and Mrs. J. Harris, Mr. Summers, Hill, Queenan, and Mr. T. Johnson and L. Smith, Misses E. Dickrum, M. Smith and C. Brown, Msdames Pinston, Bunting, T. Brown, J. Green, Branham, R. Brown, Coles Christian, Monday, Bennett, Bozz, Landry, Lunenbach, T. Brown, Mrs. Stummard, and Miss Branham. The evening was pleasantly spent in music and games and the table was unmistakably spread. The home of Mrs. J. Daniels was the fingers, February 28, when sorrowfully guilt --- attired young men and women attended the leap year party given by Misses Rae T. Oliver and Lillian A. Steele. The young people enjoyed themselves very much, and the young ladies experienced much pleasure in asking the young men to dance with them and to escort them to supper and to their homes. The supper room was appropriately decorated with red hearts and a tempting cake, and singing the supper Mr. Granville Dash and a number of young men tendered several of their college yella to the hostess of the evening. Small red hearts were given to the young ladies and arrows to the men as favors. New York, Brooklyn, Orange, Newark and Jersey City were all represented, and at 1:30 the guests took their departure after waltzing to the straining of "good-bye, Sweetheart, Good-bye," played by Miss Rae T. Oliver. Miss Steele was presented with a beautiful bouquet. Rae Shepard and Sturbridge Pa. prepared an entertaining at Oak Street Bethrelle M. A. E. Church, Rev. I. Horses pastor, Sunday, March 1. Communion services were also held. Messame F. Aazalia Hackley, of Philadelphia, Pa., who sang at the Pro-Lenten Recital, New York City, was a week-end guest of her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. William Hackley, of 100 Kearney avenue. Mr. James Dickson, 23 Oak Street, spent several days at Prinston, N. J., visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. Martin. Leap Year Social. ASSUMEY PARK, March 3.—The Blue Bell School of young ladies gave a Leap Year social to the Young Men's Literary and Musical Club, which comprises the Victor orchestra, at the Abby cottage on Saturday evening, February 28. The young ladies called for the gentlemen and escorted them to the social. This social arrangement given by the young man Christmas night to the Abby. The Victor orchestra furnished music for dancing. Games were played, recitations and solos were rendered by the ladies, after which the refreshments were served, the ladies waiting on the gentlemen, who were seated at a very prettily decorated table. Those who were present were: Loum F. Harris, Alfred H. Haynes, George Haynes, Fred, King, Frank Walker, Fred, Nicol, Arnold Laudin, E. H. Griffin, Joseph, Leroy Vondreve, E. H. Griffin, Joseph, Leroy Vondreve, Hattie Prayer, Elizabeth Dotson, Watson, Elma Rutts, Elizabeth Leonard, Louis Wells, Anna Beeks, Lillie Reeks, Eunenia Watson, Lydia Watson, Elaine Ranks. Worcester Pastor Geta a Benefit. WONDERSTER, Mar. 3. - Misses J. Lynnie Kenned and Marie Kenned spent two class in Boston last week, the guest of Miss Narka Lee. Mr. and Mrs. George Dominis are rejoicing over the arrival of a little daughter, born Monday, February 24. On last Thursday night there was a concert given in Arbanum Hall, for the benefit of the pastor of the Bethel Church. Among those who took part Miss S. E. Wilson, Mrs. Grace Johnson, Mr. Taylor from Boston, and others. The committee in charge were: Miss S. E. Wilson, Mr. Silas Laus and others. Rev. W. B. Perry is making preparations to go to the annual conference of the M. E. Church to be held in Philadelphia on March 17. On Sunday, April 4, Mrs. B. Barro presiding elder of the Bethel A. M. E. Church will be in the city and will conduct the services. Schenecindy Notta. Mrs. Nellie DePaul entertained at whist on Saturday evening the following members of the Black Hussars and friends: Messrs. Miller, Adkins and Boland; Meodames Frazier, Boyd, Davis and Mr. W. H. Jones; Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Jones entertained at dinner Sunday, Rev. G. H. Morse and bride, Mrs. E. David M. A. Frazier and Mr. E. David H. G. A. Frazier and Mr. Snaadess had the misfortune of all their clothing in a fire last Thursday night, Mr. Walter Henderson had to be removed to the Ellis Hospital suffering with inflammatory rheumalism. all advertising matter must be in Tues. nite office by Tuesday at 5 p. m. All give matter must be in by Tuesday at each week. We do job painting—let us do your work? Miss Julia L. Mossley has returned from a visit to her mother in Detroit, where she remained for two months. She attended Garnara Pals and several point-of-Canada. The Atropine White Club met at the house of Mr. Lawrence Arnold, 8 West 19th Street, on Monday evening, March 2. A large number of young men and women attended, but displayed all their energy and ability in making the meeting of the most progressive yet. Refreshments were served in a dainty style. The club was organized by Mr. Thomas; the guest attendant; Miss Mary R. Lau, vice-president; Miss Anna Laffouse, secretary; Mrs. Thomas Laffouse, vice-secretary and treasurer; Mr. Lawrence Arnold, Mrs. B. Franklin, Mr. David K. Hammond, Mr. B. Hart, Mr. H. W. Hammond, Mr. Veronica E. Hart, Mr. S. Marwell, Mr. J. Ouborn, Miss A. E. Johnson, and Mr. and Mrs. Payne are members. Mrs. Nettie Griffin of Cortland Avenue entertained Mr. and Mrs. Charles Himmel and Mrs. dinner. After which they attended the Pre-Lenten Recital. George Young, Merchant Tailer, Ladies Suits to Order. 223 W. 42. Phone 4467 Bryant. The annual dinner of the Lexington Avenue Branch of the Young Women's Christian Association of America, on Thursday, March 26, from 4 to 11 p. m. Learn to dance. Charles H. Anderson's Dancing Academy, Palace Hall, 7th Avenue and Slat Street. America's hall, for private lessons. American and more music than any school in existence. Special attention to beginners. Private lessons given. Clark Anderson's every concert. Anderson's 25 creats. The Hyperion Whist Club was entertained last Friday afternoon by the secretary, Mrs. H. R. Campbell, and the assistant secretary, Mrs. J. B. Black at the reception and handwritten residence. Owing to inclement weather and continued illness, all the members were not present, so the prizes that were to be awarded will be given with the others at the next meeting. The postgreses for the excellently prepared collation which was evidently enjoyed by all. The guests departed expressing themselves as having been well entertained. Learn to dance. Anderson's dancing academy of America. Established 14 years at 114 and 116 West Fifth-fifth street. Class sessions every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday eeings. Special attention to beginners. Private lessons given afternoon or evening. Classes which are now being taught—Ady. Mrs. Ellen Banks, of 20 West 1333 Street, met with a serious accident Tuesday morning. March 2, by falling down a flight of stairs, Mrs. Banks left her apartment, where her bank is located, which is on the second floor, to make a visit to the janitor. After reaching the first floor landing she started down the steps leading from the hall to the basement, and stood in the lighted at all times was out, leaving the basement steps in entire blackness. Carefully focusing for the balustrade she set her foot down on what she thought to be steps and cobble forward, striking her head and shoulders on the cement floor below. She is now confined in bed under the doctor's care. Mrs. Banks, who is sixty years old, is a member of the Moravian society orders. She will receive. Palace Hall, 56750 Seventh Avenue, corner of 51st Street, can be rented for balls, parties, rehearsals, etc. Everything is on date. Telephone: 212-333-4490. Columbus—4d9. On Feb. 15 there was a very pretty house party given by Mrs. Fila Larkin of 1522 West 40th street, in honor of her husband, Mr. John Larkin, who was her sixth birthday. During the evening the little ones were entertained with music and games. Refreshments were served to twenty five of her guests. The table decorations were candles and flowers. The guests arrived in pink and white. The birthday cake was cut by the little hostess. At the departure of her little friends each was presented with a favor. Many presents were received, among the guests were: Cindy Green, Millie Green, Amy Green, Eveline Brown and brother Earnestine Shoecraft, Mariel Mann, Bernice Wilson, Cora Washington, Virgin West, John Williams Jr., Walter Green Joe West, J. Paul Bonne, Adolph Mann, William Chaudhuri, Edward Mann, William Robinson, Clement Henry, Jerome Bontley. Mrs. J. L. Madocer, Mrs. Mand Brown and Miss Alice Hutchinson made a short visit last week to Mrs. H. Ellis, at New Bedford, Mase. Mr. Samuel R. Watson of Lakewood, N.J. was a visitor at Turt Office the day before. He was greatly interested in the size and workings of the plant. Miss Hattie Augustine and Miss Sadie Arnold, of Philadelphia, and Miss Lilly Brown, of Atlantic City, were guests last week of Mrs. Ida Maatch, of 127 West 152nd street. Mrs. R. Thiemann, husband of Lottie Thiemann, of 192 West 29th street, died after a lingering illness on Thursday, February 20. Mrs. Sarah F. Brown, 120 West 37th street, departed this life in the full triumph of faith after a brief illness on January 8, at the home of her daughter. The funeral services took place at the Abyssinian Baptist, Church on the 12th, two children, and a host of friends to moor her children. On Monday evening, March 2, Buiper Lodge No. 1 hold its regular communication at the Monastic Temple. 50 Sixth avenue. The Trustie Board shows work in the second degree. Bre. Marrion, the sister D. S. done his debut at the chamber work. On Monday evening, March 8, St. John's Lodge No. 29 will hold its regular communication at the Monastic Temple. 50 Sixth avenue. The Trustie Board shows work in the third degree. Five Fellowcrafts will be drawn to the work in the Master Monaster. The first section will be worked by Bre. J. P. Willi- nam, Master, and J. D. Harris. S. D. The second section will be worked by Bre. William, Master, and Purna. S. D. The third section will be worked by Tulliwara or craftsmen. There will also be a collation served by an attending caterer. All craftsmen are cordially invited. On Tuesday evening, March 10, Mt. Olive Lodge will hold its regular communication. Work will be in the third degree. All craftsmen are cordially invited. On Last Friday evening, February 28, El Síl de Cusah Lodge No. 28 held its regular communication. Work was in progress there, and the third in English, after which a semiconductor collation was served. Several craftsmen were out. On Friday evening, March & Celestial Lodge No. X. F. and L. A. M. will hold their regular communication on last Friday evening. February 24, Sixth Avenue. Work will be in the third degree, after which a collation will be served. Hiram Lodge No. A. F.' and A. M. held their regular communication on last Friday evening. February 24, Sixth Avenue. Work, after the considering of several applications the bodge closed at 11:30 p. m. Mrs. Mary Fubler, of 10G Front street, who has been confined to her bed with a cold is slowly improving, and could be held in her bed. The Abyssinian Baptist Young People's Union announces that they have resumed their meetings, and from now on will endeavor to present to the public Meetings will contend on Sunday afternoons at four, and on Thursday nights at eight fifteen o'clock. A pleasing feature of their meetings will be fifteen minutes before the regular services. On Wednesday evening of last work a beautiful marriage took place at the pastor's residence 247 West 85th street, the history couple being Mr. M. Johnson and Mrs. M. Johnson. Thursday evening a great crowd of people filled the St. Paul Church to witness the cantata entitled, "Jopah and His Daughter" under the direction of Mr. C. M. Johnson, Jr. The participants were joined by the Junior League of New York University in task box 10 of the joint with Mr. M. Johnson. These talented young women are among the armored with the many military members in the audience with the musicians in taking the part of Jopah Danzhizer. There was a large audience with both services on Sunday. The pastor's program a series of his Sunday morning was "The Fall of Man Its Effects." The Sunday School, under September 10, was not in town but attended in New York City. Mr. C. H. Harris was at trip in Buffalo. Moses Thomas led the meeting of ministers was maintained from start to finish. In the evening the pastor's residence and the parishioners of M. Johnson and Mrs. M. Johnson attended the ninth anniversary of the church. Miss Florence E. Marsh of 2 Sheridan Orange County, Ga. was born in Philadelphia and the Mattson Assembly, where she served as a teacher. Mrs. Charles W. Anderson is her home. Mr. William H. Harris, after an illness of more than a week, died Friday, February 21, at Lincoln Hospital of Philadelphia, Pa. August 12, 1944. He was a lawyer and trade and has been a resident of that city for a number of years. He was educated at the federal school at Carnegie Chapel, Monday, February 24. Burial was at Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn. Mr. Harris is survived by his daughter, Mrs. H. Bankwell, and several other relatives. On Monday evening the St. Christopher First and Junior teams gained two notable victories over the First and Junior teams of the Church of the Intercession (whole) on their court, Fifth street and Broadway. In the first game the St. Christopher Juniors plainly showed their superiority over their opponents and waged the warmer evenly contested. In the first half the St. Christopher led by 14 to 5, but in the second half the Intercession boys quickly drew up on iron terms. Here the visitors pulled Danielle and Cassie passing coupled by a splendid display of team work drew away once more and hold the lead, winning by the score 20 to 18. Both games were remarkably well contested, clearly played by the winning organization, who ended a successful season with a double victory. The lineup follows: St. Christopher, 25; James, Thomas, Charles Bradford, Gus Williams, Clarence Lewis, Henry J. Lewis, Banks, S. Banks, C. Vallane, T. Harley, Referee, Gerald F. Norman, A. P. C. C. Umpire, J. R. Banks, Intercession, St. Christopher Jrs., 27; Andrew Bishop, George Brown, Arthur William, Willow C. C. C. Jaw, C. Black, H. Klassman, A. M. Laughlin, J. Lake, R. Hutchinson. THE NEW YORK AGE: THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1908 Referee, Sheridan Bishop, St. C. Umpire, J. R. Blinka, Intervention. RELIABLE AGENTS WANTED (LADIES CHASINERED) TO SELL AND CANVAS MATERIALS FOR YOUR HOME AND BRING GOOD RETURNS TO THE CANVASMaker: A SUBS MONEY MAKER. CHATHAM SQUARE, FOR INFORMATION Newcomers Stock For Sale. I HAVE A CLIENT WITH 30 SHARES OF METROPOLITAN MERCANTILE AND MERCANTILE MATERIALS FOR Sale AT A GREAT SACRIFICE. A. J. KOHNSON, 225 BROADWAY. BROOKLYN The birthday of J. C. Price, founder of Livingstone College, Salisbury, N. C. was fittingly observed last Sunday evening at the Fleet Street A. M. E. Zion Church. The exercises were given under the auspices of the Sons of North Carolina. Owing to death in his family Counselor E. A. Johnson, of Manhattan, who was to be the speaker for the occasion, could not be present. After appropriate music and the placing of a wreath of flowers on the plaque of the life trait of the great orator by a number of little girls, Rev. F. M. Jacob, D. D., pastor of the church, delivered the address of the evening. The officers, members and friends of the Bridge Street A. M. E. Church take this opportunity to express through the columns of Tux Ack their gratitude to the staff, the volunteers, the precaution and gratitude for the splendid and generous gift of a beautiful thirty-light chandelier, made of oxidized brass, handmade embellished, together with the labor, material and installing, aggravated by the weather and the more. The chandelier was formally and fittingly presented to the church last Sunday evening and was the admiration of all who saw it. Special credit for this magnificent donation is due H. C. Watts, the chandelier's designer, the named firm bear such tangible evidence and esteem in which he is held. Dr. F. N. Searley, of the Young Men's Christian Association Training, Spring field, Mass., tiled his appointment with the Carlson Avenue Branch last Saturday, March 16, 1984, to the men on "Physical Development, or Manhood in the Making," which was beautiful outlined and made strikingly impressive by blackboard illustrations, delegation of young men from the various branches of the Y. M. C. A. in this city. On Monday evening at the branch occurred the second of the three special meetings on the meaning of the Y. M. C. A. which was allied discussed by M. J. M. Davies, director of the educational work of the Central Branch. Dr. W. R. Lawton and Prof. I. Albert Myers each made helpful re-views of the work, which begins to draw near interest in the outdoor and athletic branches of the work is taking on new life. The baseball team is overhauling its list of men for the var. number of pitches from good pitchers for league games. The interest which the Young People's Guild of Silicon Presbyterian Church is taking in the welfare of that church is worthy of the highest commendation. Their review of this trophy will on Friday be held in town, with prizes to afford a rare treat for lovers of music. Sunday was a busy day with both pastor and people at the Consoled Baptist Church. The pastor was attended by an unusually large number. Pastor W. T. Dixon presided. At the conclusion of this service Dr. Dixon baptized four candidates. This was the first time Mr. Harris Gaffney, son of Mrs. Emma Lodge No. 11, L. R. P. O. Elks, which Mr. Gaffney was a member of. Mr. Gaffney was the Sunday School of that church. He leaves a widow who is now in the South, stalked with temperatures. From there he moves where he obligated at the funeral of the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ciles. The Sunday School asked him to take an indentation N. B. Ciles. He attended the funeral of his son Stirling. At 3:50 the church was crowded beyond its seating capacity, it being the regular monthly communion service, prepares to which Dr. Dawn gave the hand over the bread. The offering for the poor fund at this service was large. The Christian Endeavor meeting at 6:30 and the church's evening service at 7:30 were both well attended. The fourth annual woman's meeting. The morning address will be delivered to Mrs. Mary E. Gordon, matron of the Howard Orphan Asylum, Mrs. Sylvan A. Harris will address the Sunday School at 2 p.m. and Mrs. F. R. Kesner, superintendent of the White Rose Mistletoe School at 2 p.m. The evening sermon will be delivered by the Rev. Florence Randolph, of Jersey City, N. J. Miss Eleanora M. Bonsack will preside over the Christian Endeavor meeting. On Sunday March 1, 1908, at 3:15 Dr. H. and Mrs. Eleanor A. Jackson, of 424 Brickwood, Bonsack, became the happy parents of a second son, Mother and baby are doing well. The services at Calvary P. E. Mission were conducted by the Rev. Geo. M. Plaskett in the morning; the evening service was conducted by the Clanne. The attendance at both services and the Sunday School was very encouraging. The fair which was held last week, notwithstanding the inclement weather, which affected the service. The funeral services of Mr. J. Wallace's youngest daughter were held at the home on Schenk avenue on Sunday last. St James A. M. E. Mission had very interesting services all day on last Sabatier. The pastor, Rev. J. W. Stewart, the Rev. J. W. Jackson, conducted the service in the evening. The attendance at the mission for the past three weeks has been such as to lay the meeting capacity to its utmost. Thank you for your attendance and friends of the missing who tendered a surprise on Washington's Birthday; it also was the pastor's birthday. The Two Aces and The Colored American Makers were times at the printing office of E. B. Hinda, 665 Belmont avenue. Rev. F. M. Jacobs prescheduled at Flet Street A. M. E. Zion Church, Sunday School at School, importantly attended, Geo. C. Boltett, importantly dent. The Christian Endeavor Society is increasing weekly in numbers, Mr. Geo. Mattteconn, president, Charles J. Mattteconn, president, the evening the State of North Carolina and Virginia turned, out to memorize the birthday of J. C. Previz. The societies were lead in by Miss Banna Butler. D. M. Mattteconn, president, the life of J. C. Previz. Miss Butler rev. F. M. J. Parker, spouse, Mrs. M. E. J. Parker is president of the Price Memorial Fund; and Mr. D. R. Fulton, speaking in behalf of that institution, for funds; $8.00 was cheerfully given. Mr. and Mrs. Worstly L. Young, of 380 Baltic street, entertained a large number of friends, among whom were: Mrs. E. Young, of Brooklyn; Mr. Maberry, Mrs. Boussa, Mrs. Farrell, of Jersey, and others. Mrs. Maberry, Mrs. Young's brother, presented her with a handsome diamond ring. Mrs. Emmara Farrell also presented her with Young, with a handsome silk umbrella. Mr. and Mrs. S. Greene, of Sheepshead Bay, N. Y., spent the past week with Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hoffman, and Mr. P. C. Parker, of Darton avenue. A drama and garland drill will be given under the auspices of the American importers, under the direction of Mr. E. L. Young and John F. Derrick Jr. of Square, Brooklyn, April 24. The unique feature of the evening will be the garland drill by twenty-four young ladies. Our rising tenor, Mr. Wm. Logan, will make his first appearance in Brooklyn, and will be produced by the Notabina Club, Ms. Armes Powell, president. DIED. CARNIA W. PEGERT to announce the birth of Mrs. M. PEGERT on February 3 this life on the 10th of February in the residence of her mother, Mrs. Lousia Col- bins, of Irving Place, Brooklyn "beautiful be the shiny slimness" MORRISON on Thursday, February 20th at 10:30 a.m. in the residence of her mother, Mrs. Morgan, widow of Rev. John R. W. Morgan. Dedicated had been a devout mother, whose her beloved was pastor in 1941. The funeral services took place at E. B. Etheridge on Friday, February 11th and E. B. Etheridge on Friday, February 12th. In lieu of flowers, Rev. R. R. Cannon who paid a growing tribute to the Christianity and de- dath of her mother and many friends, to mourn her loss. Mrs. C. Potter thanks the friends for their kindness and floral greetings. RELIGIOUS NOTICES BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH, West 25th Street, between 7th and 8th avenues. Sunday service—11 A. M. and 7.45 P. M. Holy Communion every first Sunday, 3 M. M. meeting 1.30 P. M. M. Sunday School 2 M. P. M. Prairie Meeting 6.30 P. M. Weekly Meeting—Clam Meeting on at 8 o'clock. Reserved Tuesday nights at 8 o'clock. Praised Meeting on Friday night. from 8 o'clock to 9:30 SEATS FREE. ALL WELCOME. Pastor's residence. Pastor. Pastor's residence. 248 West. 128th Street. At home from 8 to 10 A. M. 335 West Mac Street, New York City. Pastor C. Leloir Butler, Residence, 438 West 335 street office hours until 10 each morning. Preaching at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Praise meeting on Wednesday evening at 11 a.m. Y. P. S. C. 7 p.m. Sundays. Hour Commission first Sunday in each month at 10 a.m. Social Welcome to All. MERCY SEAT BAPTIST CHURCH. 45 and 47 West 134th street. N. X. between Fifth and Lenox avenues. Sunday services 11 a.m. and 7:45 p.m. Sunday school 2 p.m. Communication third floor. R. Y. P. U. Meet Wednesday 8 p.m. prayer meeting Friday 8 p.m. business welcome. Donares residence 60 West 134th street. Telephone 1822 Harlem. FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZOMZED OX MARROW" TO LET 502 West 125th Street Corner of Amsterdam Avenue 3 rooms, range and tubes, $15 21 Lawrence Street 3 rooms, range and tubes, $15 5 rooms, range and tubes, $18 361 West 125th Street 3 rooms, range, tube, bath, $13 2 rooms, range, tube, bath, $13 366 West 126th Street 3 rooms, range and tubes, $13 2 rooms front, $10 Inquire of janitor or W. M. MORAN, 366 West 126th Street PURNISHED BOOBS TO LET Light Hospitality Service R. L. Light 1479 Dearborn street, Brooklyn, 10034 NOTICE: House of every description for sale in the Orlando W. M. P. W. 15 Parrow street, Orange, N. J. 123-21-8 FOR RENT—Very pleasant furnished room; private house; all conven- ences. 15 Grove street. FURNISHED BOOMS for gentlemen or man and wife; all modern improvements, Mrs. M. B. Jones, 141 West 98th Street, New York. TO LET—A Door and furnished rooms, all conveniences; private house. Apply 218 Grove Street, Jersey City. Fb. 13, 4t. TO LET-Large back parlor, handmade furnished, to two gentlemen or man and wife. 59 East 132d Street, Meriden. Fb. 27-3t. TO RENT—Furnished rooms with quiet family, convenient to "L" and troglodytes; references required. Apply Mrs. A. B. Williams, 382A Quincy Street, Burlington. fb.27-4t. TO LET—Large and small furnished room, man and wife or two friends; improvements; reasonable. Mrs. W. B. 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TO LET - 2916 East 56th street, 4 rooms; mar5-21 3 rooms; $11 See Jauffer. TO LET - 2912 Second avenue, near 420 residential neighborhood, three large rooms. TO LET - 315 large rooms; rent $1412 very desirable rooms; 4413 West 50th street LABOR JACK PARISLOR 65 responsible people; immediate Mrs. Johnson; 30 East 1020 street; 1020-41 TO LEFT BROOK apartment low rent to rent in Brooklyn the half month of July. W 4th street. Impulse of janitor. WANTED: High class married couple to take charge of 25 boys in one of the cottages on the Upper East Side. A retired woman for Assistant House attorney. Apply to the Superintendent at Riverhead in Hoboken, New York City. PURNISHED rooms and board. Mrs. G A. Hamilton, 71 W. 4th street. 0777- Do you want a wedding breakfast or a dinner party served by one of the most popular restaurants in motion? I will serve a dinner for four guests and an au pair for four hundred at your home, at a hall or at a club Wilkinson. Prices Reasonable. I have successfully served as chef some of the most prominent clubs, cafes and hotels in both California and New York and stand ready to cater to the wants of our guests among our people Write for terms. TRIANGLES SURPASSING HOT COPPER PRICE LIST Less than 10 oz per gal. Black Coffee to serve with rich chocolate syrup. From 10 to 20 oz per gal. Black Coffee Milks I will rich milk. 30 cents. Coffee Milks with cloth milk. 40 cents. Coffee Milks with cloth milk. 40 cents. Sugar is not included in above price. We will award the coffee at the rate of 10 cents per cup. Coffee Trayzans is surpassing blend of Macha and Jana. We will be required promptly, and in all cases a deposit to cover the cost of same is required, which will be refunded on receipt of tank REQUIRED. One gallon of coffee will fill 14 large cups or cups as full as they can be served without spilling. We find it a safe rule to gather all the coffee for 14 persons to be provided for in a mixed company. ATTENTION 4 and 5 large light rooms with steam heat, hot water, bath open plumbing, electric light hall service, telephone. References required. RENTS REASONABLE APPLY TO SUPERINTENDENT M. B. JONES 141 West 98th Street THE MANHATTAN SHOP Ladies and Gents Furnishings 119 West 135th Street NEAR LENOX AVENUE NEW YORK Jan 9-3m 66 WEST 138TH ST 4 Rooms, $14.50 3 Rooms, $12.90 Janitor or H. S. WRIGHT 2044 Seventh Avenue mch-41 UNITED WORKERS' Realty Company Room 218, 1931 Broadway, near 65th Street, New York City PHILIP A. PAYTON, Jr. AGENT Elegant Apartments of 4 and 5 Rooms and Bath. Steam Heat. Hot Water Supply. Dutch Dining Rooms with Fancy Old Dutch China Closets Built in.. Every improvement. Norw. These house are to be thoroughly redecorated throughout, both balls and apartments PHILIP A. PAYTON; JR., Agent 67 West 134th Street, or Janitor in House No. 7. Apartment 3. Nos. 2227, 2229 and 2231 Fifth Ave. Elegant light and cozy apartments, 3 and 4 Rooms and Bath, Steam Heat, and Hot Water Supply. Steam heating plants of the latest type, guaranteed by the contractors to give complete satisfaction, have just been installed in these houses. No increase in rents. 67 West 134th Street, or Janitor. House No. 2227 Apartment No. 1 6 Elegant Rooms and Bath. Steam Heat, Hot Water Supply, Open Plumbing, Tiled Hardwood and Bath, Hardwood trim throughout. Rents $24,00 and $7.00 per month. North—These are positively the cheapest Apartments in the city for the accom- oations offered. Apartments have just been nicely decorated. No. 181 Wit 194th Street 5 Rooms and Bath. Ranges and Boilers— Rents $20 to $25. Cheapest Rents in New York City Nos. 242-244 East 130th St. Four Rooms, Hot Water Supply. Rents Only $10 to $12 per month. JUST O New Block Nos. 5 and 7 W Elegant Apartments of 4 and 5 Hot Water Supply, Dutch Dining China Closets Built in.. Every i Rents Only $18 6 Nork—These houses are to be thoroughly rede PHILIP A. PAYT 67 West 134th Street, or Jan Nos. 2227, 2229 and (Southeast Corner of 136th Elegant light and cozy apartn Steam Heat, and Hot Water S the latest type, guaranteed by the satisfaction, have just been inst crease in rents. $14 to $23 per M PHILIP A. PAYT 67 West 134th Street, or Apartment 554, 556, 558 and 560 West 126th Street Handsome apartments of four large, light rooms, ranges, hot water supply. All in First Class Condition. Select locality near Broadway Rents $18 and $19 per month Apply Janitor on premises WM. F. KOHRING, Owner Jan 9-31 FISHERMEN OF GALILEE EASTERN & WESTERN HEMISPHERES E. F. HOLLAND, Grand Master WE LEAD What more can you ask? We give you a Building Lot for $10. We build your house of brick, cement or frame from $500 to $5000 We also give you a share in the company's profit. Long Island Industrial Association 57 West 134th St., New York apr 26-1yr WHY SUFFER? JACKSON'S Famous Up-to-Date Magic Oil garanteed under the Pure Food and Drug Law No. 15.215. UNEQALED for Grampa Rheumatism, Pains and aches. Send for circulation and reissue. On sale by W. H. JACKSON 232 W. 6161 Street, New York UNITED WORKERS REALTY CO 1931 Broadway, N. Y. City Room 218 COLORED FAMILIES 250 East 136th Street also 472, near Third Avenue Four Large, Light Rooms, hot water supply $3.50 Weekly. See Janitors on Promises or THOMAS & SONS LATELY OPENED Furnished Room Houses 208-210 West 40th Street All modern improvements including kitchen privilege. Also large front porch for social and dage meetings. P. H. THOMAS, Prop. Dye 13-3m W. C. HAWES, Vice President and Executive Director GORGEOE BUERTON, 2nd Treasurer. C. H. WATKING, Assistant Secretary J. GITTERS BOSTON BROOK, Trussville REV. J. R. HAYNE, Traveling Representative R. LAMBERT and others OFFICE near 65th Street, New York City OFFICE OF PAYTON, Jr. GENT reet New York Are your rooms two small for your furniture? If so, inspect these. Nos. 44 & 46 W. 123rd Street One family to each floor. Six very large Rooms and Path. Open Plumbing. Rents reduced to $23 to $33 per month. No. 46 West 99th Street Four and Five Rooms and Bath—Steam Heat, Hot Water Supply, Open Plumbing, Etc. Rents $21 and $23 No. 109 West 134th Street Five Rooms and Bath—Ranges and Boilers Rents $19 to $21 per month. OPENED New Law Houses West 137th Street 5 Rooms and Bath. Steam Heat. Ging Rooms with Fancy Old Dutch improvement. to $27 per month Associated throughout, both bells and apartments TON, JR., Agent Janitor in House No. 7. Apartment 3. and 2231 Fifth Ave. (2 Street and Fifth Avenues) Items, 3 and 4 Rooms and Bath. Supply. Steam heating plants of the contractors to give complete installed in these houses. No in- Month. Apply to TON, Jr., Agent or Janitor, House No. 2227 ent No. 1 J. D. McCREERY Prescriptions Carefully Compounded 47 W. 135 St Bet. Stb & Lenox aves NEW YORK Oct. 17-19 3 and 4 Very Comfortable ROOMS RENT, $13 and $16 209, 211, 215 East 88th Street Empire of Janitor or addres John T. Stanley, 448 W. 23d St. Dec 26 3m Tel: 5122 Col. JAS. L. CURTIS Attorney and Counselor at Law DAMAGE SUITS A SPECIALTY 322 West 53rd Street NEW YORK Rw. 141 W. 53rd St. 'Phone 5817-R Riverside Angel-1m Harlem's Up-to-Date Men's Shop LENOX AVENUE Bet. 135th and 136th St. "Sub Station" SPECIAL COURTESIES To Colored Trade Lenox Optical Company EYES EXAMINED, PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED L. M. MAYER, O. D. GRADEATE OPTICIAN 507 Lenox Ave., near 135th St., N. Y. Dec 12-30s Real Estate Broker Renting fast, private homes, leasing property and managing colored tenants. Lowering rent a speciality. 68 West 133rd Street, New York Branch Office: 324W. 69th Street dec. 12-17 yr GEORGE A. BRAMBILL Ladies and Gentle Tailor 57-59 WEST 135TH ST. Full Dress Suits to Hire --- Political Leaders Study Effects of Law POSSIBLE CONGRESSMEN Opinions Differ as to Offices Obtainable. Under Provisions of New Law—"Black Belt" of Chicago will Bear Watching. CHICAGO, Mar. 3. Your correspondent being a woman, and therefore on the outside and just looking in, has discovered that the colored Republicans here in Chicago find themselves, in an entirely new situation politically on account of the new primary law recently enacted by the State Legislature. Herefore it seems that colored men who happened to get on the ticket for election to any office got there by grace of some of the big bosses and for the reason that it was considered "good politics." By the new primary law this is all changed. The colored aspirant for office can no longer look to the bosses but must take his chances of being placed on the ticket at a regular primary election. The colored men who affect to know all about the political game and are exceedingly wise as to what can or cannot, be done, differ widely as to what effect this new law will have on the colored man's chances for elective offices. They are holding weekly meetings at the Douglass Center to read this new law. There are about 8000 voters to be reckoned with in this county. Heretofore a good deal of political respect in the luscious form of patronage has been shown our people because of the large vote, amounting to a balance of power. In the opinion of some of the leaders, it will not be so easy hereafter for colored men to secure a place on the ticket as nominee for the large offices such as county commissioner. State Legislature and municipal judgements. Others are of the opinion that while they are compensating advantages in the increased number of smaller places that can be secured in districts where the colored voters are largely in the majority. It is an interesting and important fact that by reason of the rapid increase of the colored population in this city, the Negro vote has, in many precincts or districts, overcome the white vote. If things go on in this way, our astute politicians say that it will not be long before it will be easily possible to have a black "alderman" in the city council. This is not the most promising possibility. Your correspondent is justified in saying this, because it is the repetition of the opinion of the best informed politicians. They even go so far as to say that the way things are now shaping themselves it will be possible in the not too distant future to send a colored man to Congress, providing one can be found bigger in all respects than the average Congressman. What is called the "Black Belt" of Chicago is worth watching. There are many clever politicians, and they are of color. They are the white brethren in the game, and they are to be reckoned with in the future, as they never have been in the past. Dr. E. W. Irving, the well-known and popular physician of Memphis, Tenn., is spending a few days in the city attending, an important operation at Provident Hospital. Dr. Irving speaks in glowing terms of the growth and successful business enterprises among the colored people in his home city. Like most Southerners, he insists that Southern Negroes are far ahead of our people in the North in building up business ventures of all kinds. A commendable effort is being made by the colored people of this city to induce the powers that be to appoint Mr William Childs, the only colored desk sergeant in the police force, as a lieutenant. Mr. Childs won his present position by merit alone, and his record has been so exceptionally meritorious that he is legally in line for promotion. It will add much to the courage and luster of the administration to take a step so unprecedentedly forward. Fortunately the candidate is a fine example of official rectitude and efficiency, his commitment would be fully vindicated by the record he is quite capable of making. The Chicago Business League and other local organizations, together with prominent judges on the bench and many white attorneys, are urging this promotion on the deserts. FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS. REGULAR ORGANIZATION! NIT! To the Editor of THE NEW YORK AGE: BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, February 4. —We hope that none of your readers will be deceived by the actions of a handful of "lily white" Republicans, who met in this city last Saturday. This organization purports to be the regular Republican, organization of the State, but as everyone in Alabama knows, it is composed wholly of that branch of Republicans who refuse in any manner to affiliate with Negroes. Not a single Negro was present as a delegate at their convention. Judge Stratton, of Montgomery, Alabama, said a speech at this convention, "This is an organization of Anglo-Saxons for Anglo-Saxons." There is but one regular Republican organization in Alabama. That is the one of which Mr. J. O. Thompson is chairman. The height, of folly was reached by the "lily white" Republicans when they passed residuals endorsing Senator Foraker. This is the same hand of Republicans who met in convention some years ago and refused to let a Negro even enter the convention hall. They would not even permit one to sit in the gallery and witness the proceeding. This is the same band that President Roosevelt four years ago, threw overboard for their treatment of the R. Brothers Joseph W. Eleby, Graham Court, New York city; Harry Gardiner, 127 Duffield street; James A. Brooks, 102 Douglas street, Jamaica, and Benjamin Lincoln, 280 Pulaski street, Brooklyn, were reported on the sick list February 17. Chairman Benjamin F. Williams, of the relief committee, recommended the payment of $24, three weeks' sick benefits, to Brother Eleby; Brother Gardiner, $16, two weeks, and one week each to Brothers Brooks and Lincoln; same remitted. The following citizens made applications for membership: Messrs. Benjamin Chandler, G. Frank Shankle, J. J. Moseley, Richard McClellan and Albert H. Cook, which applications were favorably received and placed in the hands of the committee for further consideration and final recommendation to the lodge. Brother Silas E. Moore, late of Passaic, New Jersey, has removed his tortorial parlors to Pittsburgh, Pa. Brother Julius Domingo, formerly of 236 Marion street, Brookleyn, has purchased a house at 500 Elton street, Ouccus Borough. As a worker to cement the unity of the two Elk organizations, we are pleased to learn that Brother Will Grant, 1745 Bainbridge street, Philadelphia, Penna, clearly outlined his policies relative to reconciliation, in the Philadelphia Tribune, February 29. He writes conservatively, regarding the present separation of the general fraternity. We are extremely proud to learn that Brother Grant is quite willing to lay aside the "hatchie of war" and take up the cause of reconciliation. This is very gratifying indeed, and shows a fine fraternal spirit, worthy of our serious consideration and co-operation. As no name is given when he says: "I am aware of the true cause of the split," as one of the Brooklyn residents visited the lodge in 1906 and concluded our exalted order, but could not convert the lodge." And "I am aware of the fact that certain men on the Brooklyn side were anxious for office, and I have also seen several communications written to members of the local lodge, offering inducements that did not look very honorable for a set of men who claim to be striving for the right." As we had only one official representative on the road looking out for the interest of the grand lodge, authorized by our legislative committee of thirteen, we do not know to whom Brother Grant is referring. However, we can rest peacefully knowing that our official representative acted the part of a gentleman and an Elk; therefore, it doesn't behoove us to open old sores for individual profit on either side of the struggling fraternity. Yet we would like to know the names of the parties responsible for the criminal correspondence referred to, privately forwarded to Brother Moore, who knows the particulars of the 1906 movements. Is our intention to do this, possibly to create a worthy sentiment to reunite the parent and offspring fraternities as soon as practicable. Encourage the committees on arbitration to get "together and devise ways and means" whereby unity can be honorably restored. A line Elk reception was given in Cambridge, Mass., on February 19, by Pocahontas Lodge, No 129. The guests were cordially greeted at the entrance by the efficient reception committee: Brothers Alfred Krauser, chairman; W. Whiting, J. E. Webster, G. H. Thomas, R. C. DeLancey, A. S. Bivin, S. B. Noble, H. L. Whitfield, S. V. Jones, W. C. Chrunch, D. C. Harrison, A. Walker, Walter Green, L. Franks and W. Muckes. After the preliminary musical concert under the auspicious leadership of Prof Fred White, dancing was begun to the merry whirl of White's entire orchestra. Brother A. A. Talbot acted as floor marshal, and was aly assisted by Brother W. E. Brooks. The aly were Brothers. J. W. Richardson, Arthur Wilson, T. Taylor, W. Shankles, L. F. Flint and Charles Watkins. Madames Lulu Nichol and Sarah Williams, matrons, graciously and efficiently looked after the comings of the lady patron. Much credit, however, is due to the following brothers to whose enquiries the final species of the entertainment, Arthur J. Holden, chairman of executive committee, James S. Eps, secretary; Marshall McDonald, treasurer, and J. D. Jones, J. M. Griggsley, Charles Johnson, Daniel Ware, Charles Williams, J. O. Taylor, W. L. Henry and W. T. Page. Visiting Antlers; Brothers R. L. Phillips, P. E. R. and G. E. L. K.; A. J. Black, P. E. R. and grand district deputy; J. E. Binns, exalted ruler; W. S. Moore, P. E. R.; W. H. Bullock, W. N. Davis, John Alexander, George Allen, R. V. Ferguson, A. V. Jackson and B. Price, officially representing Pioneer Lodge, No. 19, of Boston, Mass. Visiting Antlers were present from Portland, Chicago, Albany, Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Long Island City, New Haven, Tarrytown, Rochester and other distant cities. The grand march to supper (a new feature) was led by Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Dunbar, exalted ruler of Pocahontas Lodge, followed by Mr. and Mrs J. L. DeKnight, Mrs. A. J. Krauser, Mr. and Mrs W. H. Jordan and the elite of Cambridge. Financially and socially it was a huge success. Pocahontas Lodge is growing tremendously and the best people are joining its ranks. Suit Jure Roemer, P. E. R., No. 22 Wilmington Notice. The mother of Mrs. S. G. Elbert, from Newport, R. I., is visiting the Dr. and Mrs. Elbert at their home on King street, Dr. and Mrs. H. I. C. Stevens returned from a visit to New York City, where they attended the pre-Lenten convent Dr. Taylor, manager of Elberts & Stevens drug store, is confined to his rooms with in gripe. The people of Wilmington swampize greatly with Dr. and Mrs. C. Banton, both of whom lost their dog as ago. Rev. Johna, of I. Zion M. F. Church, reports great results from the revival recently held in his church. Dr. L. A. Armstead, the only dentist of our race in Wilmington, is fast coming to represent a representative citizen. Since his coming to the city, he gained many friends and is in an example for energy and thrift. Besides his activity in his profession he has shown comments in church entertainment. His wife is the leading contralto singer of the race. THE NEW YORK AGE: THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1908 Dr. Washington to Make Plans for Best Use of the Funds, to Be Submitted to Executive Committee—New Officers Elected. Secretary Taft came to town yesterday on a double errand—to attend a meeting in the afternoon of the trustees of the Jeanes fund, of whom he is one, and to speak before the Brooklyn Bar Association in the evening. The trustees' meeting was held on the twenty-second floor of the United States Express Building. No. 2 Rector street, where the General Education Board has its headquarters. Mr. Taft arrived there at 2 o'clock. There were no outriders to announce the secretary's coming and he was unattended; but while the meeting was a serious one, to decide on ways and means of using the income of $1,000,000 left by Miss Anna T. Jeanes for rural tepee hotels in the South, there as a triple of good teachers in roomas Secretary Taft moved about. He bubbled over with joyousness to such an extent that it proved infectious. Miss Jeanes, who left $1,000,000 to Swarthmore, set aside the same amount to aid in the work being done by Booker T. Washington. This was done last spring, and the meeting yesterday was to organize, map out the general work to be done and approve of the work done up to this time. The meeting lacked the presence of Andrew Carnegie, but he was at the rooms in the morning and in a general way gave his ideas to one of the secretaries, who reported to the meeting for him, and Mr. Carnegie's views were found to be in line with those of the other trustees. The board consists of David C. Barrow, of the University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.; Andrew Carnegie, James H. Dillard, of New Orleans; Hollis Frissell, of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va.; David Bingham, Bingham, Ala.; Abraham Grant, of Kansas City, Kan.; George McAney, of this city; Samuel C. Mitchell, of Richmond, Va.; Robert R. Moton, of Hampton Institute; James C. Napier, of Nashville, Tenn.; Robert C. Ogden, of this city; Walter H. Page, editor of World Work"; George Foster Pearl, of this city; Robert L. Smith, of Paris, Tex.; Secretaries Tadhie Booker T. Washington and Dr. Takout Williams, of Philadelphia Abraham Grant and Dr. Talcott Williams, with Mr. Carnegie, were the only absentees; Officers were elected as follows: President, James H. Dillard, who was a dean of Tulane University before his appointment as a trustee of this fund; vice-president, Walter H. Page; treasurer, George Foster Peabody; secretary, Robert R. Moton, and chairman of the executive committee, Booker T. Washington. The executive committee was elected yesterday and is in addition to Mr. Washington of Messrs. Barrow, Frissell, Grant Mitchell, Smith, Dillard and Moton the latter to act as secretary. The finance committee chosen consists of Mr. Peabody, chairman, and Messrs. Page and Gilcrease. The details of the meeting were not given out, but it was understood that Mr. Washington was authorized to make a plan for the best use of the funds and to submit it to the executive committee. Mr. Taft had a conference with Mr. Washington after the meeting and it was understood gave him his role in the best way to apply the income of the fund. Mr. Taft declined to accept any of the offices, on the ground that he was too busy to do the work justice. Secretary Taft was in the best of health, apparently, and as cheerful as usual. He declined to talk about political matters. Whenever the subject of his candidacy was mentioned he had a keen eye for the beauties of the view from the windows. He was especially enthusiastic about the outlook across the Hudson River, and he could not see the tunnel. But he recognized the heights over the river, and he knew something about the Orange Mountain chain which, faintly discernible, stretched northward to Paterson Mr. Taft spent the night at his brother's home, No. 36 West 48th street. He plans to leave New York at 9 o'clock a.m. for Springfield, Mass., where he will deliver an address to the Young Men's Christian Association in the afternoon. From there he will go to town to see before the Republican Club. Mr. Taft will sit down when he would return to Washington, but he understood that he would reach there either early Tuesday morning or Tuesday night. PASSING RESOLUTIONS. Resolutions and Talk Infected in Enforcing Rights of People. The Editor of THE NEW YORK AGE, WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 21—Practically every organization of any character, which meets in the District of Columbia, passes resolutions or makes speeches in advocacy of certain laws being passed to protect the rights of the race. The recent meeting of bishops in this city was no exception. We wonder how many of our people realize that the mere passing of a law will not in all cases, affect what is desired; for example, right here in the District of Columbia, the Civil Rights Bill is enforced. It stands just the same as if the bill passed through Congress by Charles Sumner, the Civil Rights Bill provides, for example, in the District of Columbia that no discrimination shall be made in hotels, restaurants and theatres. In declaring the Civil Rights Bill unconstitutional, the Supreme Court left it in full force in the District of Columbia and the territories directly under the control of the Federal Government. Now, instead of talking so much about passing a law, what these people ought to do is to enforce their rights. It would have been a fine thing for Hair Dressers and Barbers. Green Ladies' Hair D MANUFACTURER OF Afro-American Hair All kinds of Wigs, Front Pieces and 589 Eight ug. 5-1 yr. NEAR greenberg's Hair Dressing Parlore INDUSTRY OF HUMAN HAIR GOODS American Hair Goods a Specialty Front Pieces and Switches in Stock, and Made to Order Eighth Avenue Greenberg's Ladies' Hair Dressing Parlors MANUFACTURER OF HUMAN HAIR GOODS Tonic and Dan- ly Re Massage in Food, Mme. 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Treatment of Occupational a Specialty. Manufacture in attendance. gov 7-due. Your Patron Satisfied. Undertakers RD WINTERBOTTOM & CO. UNDERTAKERS Wm. S. A. QUENN, Manager Rvenue, Above 37th Street, New York and 463 38th aug. 18-19th KLIN CARR BURIAL CO. OPEN ALL NIGHT Telephone, 2835 COLUMBUS UNDERTAKERS AND EMBALMERS 266 West Fifty-third Street Under J. EDWARD WIN UNDER Wm. S. A. 638 Sixth Avenue. Telephones 462 and 463 38th C. FRANKLIN C J. EDWARD WINTERBOTTOM & CO. C. FRANKLIN CARR BURIAL CO. UNDERTAKERS AND EMBALMERS 266 West Fifty-third Street Chapel with Seating Capacity of Two Hundred A Pull Line of Candals in Stock LICENSED LADY EMBALMER CAMP STOOLS TO HIRE Mrs. Bejamin P. Thomas, Trees; Francis S. Grant, Vice Pres.; Secretary. C. FRANKLIN CARR, Gen. Mgr. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Bejamin P. Thomas, J. H. Morgan Taylor, Francis S. Grant, Rev. Charles Walter R. Handy, C. Franklin Carr, Benjamin P. Brown, Jr. June 6 1-yr. and West Indian Testing & Manufacturing Co. arrested. PORTED AND DOMESTIC FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. GENERAL OFFICES AND SALESOONS: SEVENTH AVENUE Announcing to our stockholders and the general public, that we get a fresh lot of preserves, vegetables, pickles and sauces, domestic and are us. Give us your hearty support. Present price of stock, COUNT ON ALL CASH SALES OF 100 SHARES AND OVER. BRANCH OFFICES Bet. R. J. Furbert, General Manager Boulevard, Brooklyn, Mrs. E. L. Young Condence to James A. Hewlett, Sec. 444 Seventh Ave. Cc.; JOHN F. DERRICK, Jr., Free; REGINALD J. FURBERT, Trees Amicitia Amor et Veritas 1908 THE THIRTEENTH ANNUAL AND RECEPTION GIVEN BY Lodge, No. 3890, G. U. O. of O. F. HALL, 14th St. bet. Irving Pl. and 3rd Ave. By Evening, March 12, 1908 Music by Walter F. Craig's Orchestra Including Wardrobe Check 50 Cents Seating 6 and 8 Persons, $2.00 Head of Dr. York Russell, 317 West 38th Street; William T. Hooper, and Henry A. Bowley, 227 West 40th Street. LICENSED LADY EMBALMER CAMP STOOLS TO HIRE Rev. C. L. 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Including Wa- Boxes Seating 6 an BON TICKETS can be bad of Dr. York Rue. 410 West 36th Street; and Henry A. Bowley. H. P. Darden, Benjamin P. Thomas, J. H. Morgan Taylor, Francis S. Grant, Rev. Charles B. Becker, Walter E. Handy, C. Franklin Carr, Benjamin P. Brown, June 1-8 yr NOTARY PUBLIC DEALERS IN IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. GENERAL OFFICES AND SALESOURCES: 444 SEVENTH AVENUE We take pleasure in announcing to our stockholders and the general public, that we shall maintain on the market a fresh lot of preserves, vegetables, pickles and sauces, domestic and imported. Come in and see us. Give us your hearty support. Present price of stock, 50 cents. 5 PER CENT. DISCOUNT ON ALL CASH SALES OF 100 SHARES AND OVER. BRANCH OFFICES 315 West 59th Street, R. J. Furbert, General Manager 313 Winghby Avenue, Brooklyn, Manhattan Kindly address all correspondence to James A. Hewlett, Sec. 444, Seventh Ave. JAMES A. HEWLET, Sec.; JOHN F. DERRICK, Jr., Sec.; REGINALD J. FURBERT, Trees Theobald Lodge, No. 3890, G. U. O. of O. F. At TAMMANY HALL, 14th St. bet. Irving Pl. and 3rd Ave. Thursday Evening, March 12, 1908 BOX TICKETS can be had of Dr. York Russell, 317 West 36th Street; William T. Hooper, 410 West 36th Street; and Henry A. Bowley, 227 West 40th Street. Bishop Walter, Bishop Turner and others to have stopped at some hotel, or gone into some first-class restaurant, and enforced their rights under the Civil Rights Bill. If we are not ready to do this it is hardly justifiable and is to spend so much time talking about passing laws. Of all places on earth, if a law which has been made in our favor and for our protection cannot be enforced in the District of Columbia, how can we expect our people in the South, who are without protection to have laws enforced? We call this to the attention of such eminent men in this city at P. Kelly Milley, Judge Tercell, and Mrs. Bibble, who are stop talking and go to acting. 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NEW HAVEN, Mar. 2.—The Church of God and Saints of Christ, which was established here about a year ago, is prosecuting an extensive work in adding new members to their roll. Mrs. Martha Green-Jorkins, a life-long devoted member of Zion A. M. E. Church, acknowledged the persuasion of this church and was recommending an apostle same by being baptized at City Point in the New Haven Bay, and this was ratified at night by the washing of the feet, and the greeting holy kiss, at the Tabernacle, 48 Webster street, over which Elmo Bloom presides. Mrs. E. George Biddle, of 167 Gosha street, by special invitation from Mrs. Joseph Williams, of Troy, N. Y., pre-commissioned. Mission attended woman's day at ```markdown ``` NBAR NITE STRING ALEXANDER T. ANDERSON Upholder and Dealer in LOOK WHO'S HERE! 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Miss Florence received many pretty presents. Mr. E. W. Fisher who runs a confectionery at 148 Henry street, has added a pool and billiard parlor. Miss Dolphine Godlette, of 59 Auguir street, Auguirville, the daughter of Desson John Godlette, left last Monday en route to New Berno, N. C., where she will spend three months with her aunt, Emily Hown how, and her sister, Whalley Hown, is mending slowly after four weeks' illness. Rev. Alonzo Johnson, of St. Monica's P. E. Mission, Hartford, was in the city last Thursday, in attendance at the "Quiet Day" appointed by the bishop for the diocese of Connecticut in Christ Church. The united congregation of the city will be held in Trinity church, Wednesday evenings, at 7.45 p.m. m. The preacher at 2 and 3 services will be the Rt. Rev. Thomas A. Jaggar, D.D. WE must empty our stores entirely on account of extensive alterations to our building. 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