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Washington, D. C., Dec. 22—In an article written for her husband's weekly newspaper, Mrs. Belle Case La Follette, wife of United States Senator Robert M. La Follette, has the following to say on "Colored Folk of Washington." "In these days of research and statistics one fears to venture an opinion not based on exact knowledge. Recently a fine type of New England woman, who remembers the war as part of her girlhood experience, was asking me about the colored people of Washington. When I had given her my impressions she urged me to put them in writing. 'The theme interests me and is one upon which my mind often broils, and yet I can only speak of it from my own personal viewpoint. We must six years in Washington in the struggles—midway between the war and the present time. The race question was very much more in evidence then when now. The status of the Negro was still a political issue. Often the black and white persons of black folks be If there were two or three colored representatives from the Black Belt of the South. The Blair Bill, providing equal aid to education, was debated almost together as affecting our obligations to the colored race. At that time the citizens of Washington were also very quick to take sides on the race question. There were always those to denounce and those to defend the darkies, those who said niggers, and those who said Negroes, with equal emphasis. It is significant that to-day nearly every one says colored quite uncommonly. At that time whatever their viewpoint on the Negro problem, white folks assumed it was up to the superior race to solve it. Not even their strongest champions considered the possibility of black folks settling it for themselves. Quite naturally the Negroes took little thought of their obligation. Only a generation from slavery, they were but beginning to admit themselves to new conditions. There were among them many of the old type whose habits, manners, traditions, and example were wholesome. They were the strongest influence for good upon the new generation, who were, for the most part, inexperienced, little educated, and undisciplined; whose greatest longing, whose first ambition was to be like white folk. They did not refuse that abolishing slavery had not removed the barriers of race and color; nor had they awakened to the possibilities of separate race development. They were often foolishly initiative, sometimes offensively assuming. I remember their crowded Sunday afternoon dress promenades on Connecticut avenue, though innocent enough, were the subject of much humorous comment. There is nothing of that kind now. Lavea Colored Folka With all their faults, I loved the colored folk then, as I do now. The elemental quality in their nature appeals to me. They had then, as now, low voices, ease of manner, and ingratifying kindness. Those years in Washington were inseparately associated with Maria, the faithful nurse, her mother, a typical mummy, John, the waiter at the boarding house, with his wide, good-natured smile; Margaret, the cook, with her marvelous wisdom and judgment. Returning to Washington after an absence of twenty years, we find a great change. The colored people no longer appear to weigh on the conscience or the consciensiousness of their white brethren. Very little thought seems to be given to the race question, either public or personally. "Colored folk are presumed to settle their own problems and carry their own burden. And it seems to me it can be fairly said to their credit, they have not shirked, nor financed, nor failed. They constitute one-third of the population of Washington. They perform nearly all of the manual labor of the city. They are wage earners. They receive and spend a great deal of money. It is interesting to note the effect of their purchasing power on the trade. Quite lately I was in one of the best store stores in Washington, where a young colored woman was being waited on very courteously. A friend who accompanied me remarked that there were always colored people hoping shoes in THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1912. W. Russell. TELLING OF SANTA CLAUS that store. This led me to observe that when the customer came to the desk to pay the bill, the clerk told her he would make a memorandum of the number of the shoes she had just purchased, so she could get them again if they pleased her, evidently taking pains to hold her trade. "In Washington there is much complaint of the service of the colored people, and very little said in appreciation of it. When I hear employers finding nothing but fault, I wonder what Washington would do without the colored help. When women condemn the whole race-as women are wont to do—because of their hard experiences with servanta, I think how much more fortunate household are here, where there is always some help available, than in many parts of the country where there is none at all to be had. While the colored help does often lack reliability, much of it is very good. Married women stay in service, and this lends a stable element that is unusual. Our offhand average judgment of the Negroes is apt to be thoughtlessly unchartable. No allowance is made for their handicap, their disadvantages in opportunity and environment. There may be a class that warrants the charge of shiftlessness, but against that it should be remembered that there is a class of very wealthy and prosperous Negroes. More significant than either of these extremes is the very notable tendency of the working people to save and to buy homes. School Children Neat. If you observe the children out at play as you pass the colored school, you cannot but be impressed with the neatness and taste of their dress, and their bright attractive faces. In these times of high cost of living, you wonder how it is done. I happen to know how one mother gets up early every morning, gives her children a good breakfast, and gets each one ready for school, before beginning her day at service. Colored children are interesting, and often beautiful. Education and refinement help changing the expression and the attitude of the Negro. They have naturally good physique, good poise, and good manners. As I observe them on the street, in the cars, and in our homes, I wonder if, considering all the circumstances, there is a class of people more deserving of a word of appreciation than the colored folk of Washington. As a generalization, I would say that they consciously or intuitively recognize the color barrier; that they accept their place at the foot of the economic ladder; that they are availing themselves of the opportunity to develop as a separate race. They have their own standards to emulate, and naturally follow the line of least resistance. As they learn from experience the shortest road to advancement and achievement they care less to imitate white people, or to be allied with them socially. "As children suddenly coming to maturity are sobered by the responsibility of life, so the colored folk have lost some of that quality that Mr G. Stanley itall, the philosopher, calls "euphoria," the joy of living. It seems to me that almost every thoughtful black face carries its shadows of sorrow, but it is hardly ever too deep for a bright smile to break through. The long ages of hot sunlight darkened their skin, but it seems to have implanted deep into their nature an inner warmth and glow—a magnetism and hold upon the elemental life as different from ours as arctic ice from the Gulf Stream." Advice of Meyer Jarmulowsky East Side Banker, to Negroes HARLEM REAL ESTATE Values Have Deteriorated Since Negro Invasion Because Negro Became Tenant Not Owner. RACES SHOULD ARBITRATU Mr. Jarmulowsky says White Owner should confer With Negroes and Point a Working Agreement. "The Housing Problem of Negro Tenants from the Owner's Point of View," was the subject of an interesting address delivered by Meyer Jarmulowsky before the Young Men Guild of St. Philip's P. E. Church on Thursday evening. Mr. Jarmulowsky is a member of the firm of M. and L. Jarmulowsky, bankers, at 65 R. Broadway, and his efforts in bettering the condition of his race on the East Side are well known to many. The question talk was not only interesting but also instructive and helpful. At the beginning of his address Mr. Jarmulowsky stated that while there is the audience might differ from him in much that he had to say relative to the Negro, that he wanted it understood that he had no prejudice on color but desired to set forth an as he saw them. At another time Mr. Jarmulowsky, the fact that the house is not a commercial factor, was not able to agree on a working agreement. Mr. Jarmundy said in praise, "From a financial point of view, the situation up to the advent of Negroes in Harlem, real estate was controlled by white people who represented it that much above the ordinary. Some were merchants, others were professional men, and many were business men from the downtown districts, whose position made it possible for them to keep their property up to a high standard. "On the other hand, the country of Negroes to this locality without any financial backing brought about a decided change, as the colored people being without financial backing, were unable to adhere to the standard formerly observed by the whites. There was a deterioration in value for there was no market for real estate among the new comers, who were tenants and not owners. The black owners who were not at first poor by the Negro invasion were greatly forced out, as the banks and other financial institutions refused to finance money on mortgages on property for which there was no market. "Forty years ago the Jews on the East Side faced a similar situation in the Negroes today in Harlem. The only difference was the Jews took the place of the aristocrats in that section. However, not merely as renters but owners. By acquiring the property they have the market value up to the standard so that today the East Side property owned by Jews is one of the most valuable sections in New York. Now the banks which first refused to make loans are only too glad to do so." Mr. Jarmlowsky declared that the entire controversy over the Negro invasion in Harlem could be settled by arbitration, that the whites and black could come together and form some agreement whereby one would not in fringe on the other. He said while he did not believe in segregation on account of color he favored the plan where vast interests were involved as the situation is today in Harlem. Mr. Jarmlowsky is of the opinion that if a friendly agreement is entered into by both races the situation would be under control and white owners would not throw open their houses as they are now guilty of doing on the slightest pretence but would make an effort to fill their houses which have been opened in recent years, thereby creating a demand. By so doing the values would be brought up to the old standard. Mr. Jarmolowsky admitted that colored citizens paid more rent than whites who preceded them and but held that they are paying less than the tenants who occupied houses when they were first owned the people refused to move into houses and pay the high rents the lords would be compelled to lower the was the contention of Mr. Jarmolowsky. The speaker advised the Negro become a producer, stating that the Negro's problem was not so much of race but one of finance; that the must produce its manufacturers and corporated bodies and give financial just as the problem is being solved the Jews; that in becoming in position of material things the prejud against the Negro would gradually appear, giving new life, new hope a new ambition to the race. Abyssinian Warriors Were Heroes Tripolitan Campaign - Are Objects of Marked Attention. According to George Henry Payne, who was one of the local Roosevelt campaign managers aid who arrived in New York Monday on the Hamburg-American liner Moltke, a Negro question has arisen in Rome, Italy, over the marked attention being shown a regiment of Abyssinian soldiers by King Victor Emanuel. The white soldiers do not relish the regal consideration the black warriors are receiving. The Abyssinian soldiers conducted themselves with great valor during the Tripolitan campaigns. They distinguished themselves in many ways, and returned from the battlefield real heroes. King Emanuel was acquainted of the heroic work of the black soldiers, and ordered them to Roine, where they are acting as palace guard to the king, and honors galore are being bowed upon them. The white soldiers who heretofore guarded the monarch, do not relish the idea of being supplanted by the Abyssinian soldiers, and there is much discontent among them. Of course all the white soldiers can do is grumble, and the race question is not regarded as serious, as all the former guards of King Victor Emanuel can do is to show resentment among themselves. Mr. Payne says he expects to hear of a "race war" in the Palace grounds some day. 1,409 STUDENTS ATTEND HOWARD Dr. Newman, in Annual Report, Asks Secretary of Interior for Large Assembly Hall. Special to THE NEW YORK AGR. WASHINGTON, D. C., December 25. Higher salaries for the professors and instructors, an additional dormitory, a large assembly hall and a special building for the increasing work of the music department are made in the annual report to the Secretary of the In- terior of the Rev. Dr. Stephen M. New- man as president of Howard University. There were 1,409 students in the university last year, says the report, divided among the various departments of the university, as follows: College of arts and sciences, 243; teachers College, 139; school of medicine, 341; school of theology, 97; school of law, 121; academy, 355; commercial college, 102; students of music, 75 and manual arts and domestic science, 201. There were also thirty-five students taking the correspondence course in theology. "It will be seen," reads the report, that the increasing number of students cannot be adequately treated by an inadequate number of teachers. The classes of the institution are becoming so large that division is necessary. Some steps have been taken to remedy the serious situation, but additional ones must be taken the coming year. This is the great need of the present condition of the university. The quality of the teaching force is rising in value every year. Many of the teachers spend their summers in studying at Harvard, the University of Chicago and elsewhere, in order to make themselves more fit for their work here. Some of them have more than a local reputation. Howard University cannot hope to keep them unless adequate salaries are paid them, which is now not the case. The record of usefulness on the part of graduates of Howard University is a very high one, and it is confidently hoped that the graduates of 1912 will not be an exception to the general rule. "The advance of the year includes the inauguration in the college of arts and sciences of special courses in science leading to the degree of bachelor of science. The new Science Hall with its thoroughly up-to-date equipment for laboratory work in physics, chemistry and biology, and the largely increased teaching staff in sciences has made possible these courses, which are of the same grade with those in the leading universities of the land. There have also been inaugurated courses in civil, mechanical and electrical engineering and architecture. The attendance of these courses shows that they are meeting a large demand." Special to THE NEW YORK AQR. ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 24.—Miss Myrilla W. Waters, a senior in the Ann Arbor High School, has been elected captain of the basketball team. This is the first time in the history of the school this honor has been conferred upon a colored girl. She is the daughter of Phil Waters, chief deputy clerk Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who was also a great athlete when he was a student at the University of Michigan in the 90's. MOSAIC TEMPLARS PROSPEROUS. Partial to THE NEW YORK AQR. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Dec. 24.—The National Order of the Mosaic Templars of America. William Alexander, national brand, master, and J. E. Bush, national brand scribe, has issued its proclamation for the fifty-fourth quarter, embracing the months of December, 1912, January and February, 1913. 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Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Morris, daughter Eloise and son Earl, of Hudson spent Friday with Mrs. J. R. B. Smith and son, Frederick D., of Tenth street. Miss Christine Archer and Miss Edith Gibson left for New York Tuesday night, where they will spend Christmas among friends. Miss Gibson expects to join the remainder of the holidays among relatives and friends, visiting Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore and Washington. The funeral of James P. Harden was held from the Liberty Street Presbyterian Church Sunday afternoon, the Rev. James G. Carlie officiating. Special music was rendered by the choirs at both morning and evening services at the A. M. E. Zion Church Sunday. Colored residents of Troy and vicinity can feel proud to know that there are two young men attending the Renshaw Polytechnic Institute—Messrs. Garnet Hegeman, of Troy, and Earl Morris, of Hudson. UTICA. N. Y. UTICA, N. Y., Dec. 24.—Miss Louisa A. Rudd, 728 Whitesbush street, was taken ill Wednesday evening at 5 p.m. and died at 0.30 p.m. She was buried Friday afternoon from her residence, the Rev. R. J. Strother preaching the funeral sermon. Thursday evening the Blue Ribbon Club met at the chapel and formed a permanent society with the following officers: Mrs. Telen Smith, president; Sash Smith, vice-president; Mrs. M. A. Henry, treasurer; M. Walker, secretary; Mrs. Amos Lovendor, secretary; Albert Erbo, sergeant; Richard Robbinson, chaplain. Twenty-five new members joined the society. At the semi-annual election of Damon Lodge No. 6, K. of P., the following officers were elected: The Rev. R. J. Strother, C.C.; Sir D. A. Williams, V.C.; the Rev. C. H. Lloyd, Prelate; Sir Albert Ebo, K. of R. & S.; Sir F. P. Persill, M.E. and M.F.; Sir Adel Baird, M.A.; Sir Samuel Johnson, M.W.; Sir John Johnson, I.G.; Sir Lee Doby, O.G.; Sir Hughes, Sir John Eggbert and Sir C. H. Lloyd, trustees. At the next meeting the installation and banquet will be given. The Christmas sermon was preached last Sabbath with several exercises. The Christmas tree was had Christmas eve; primary department at 4 p.m. Bible class and senior department, 7:30 p.m. Several speakers of note made addresses besides the regular program. Hope Chapel congregation will have services Christmas morning from 5 to 7 a.m. At 10:30 a.m. they will attend a sermon at the First Presbyterian Church. Joseph Watkins is still on the sick list. The agent wants to make the following corrections: Miss Anna Lace, of New London, instead of Miss Anna Metror is visiting Miss Martha Bowden, 86 Plant street. The agent to Tau Ace regrets the mistake which was typographical. The agent extends a Happy Christmas greeting to his persons and hopes that many may be in his care. If you want to know what is going on in this country by our people like Tau Ace, the leading newspaper of New York. MT. VERNON. N. Y. Mr. VERNON, N. N., Dec. 25. The colored people of Mr. Vernon are determined not to be behind those of other cities of the Empire State in celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Through the efforts of L. S. Chr. Polite and Clas. Smith, president, Negroes of the community became interested in the monument, meetings were held and committees named with the result that on Wednesday, January 1, 1913, the event will be celebrated at the Centennial A. M. E. Church from 3 to 6 p. m. Addresses will be delivered by well-known gentlemen. His Honor, Mayor Edwin W. Fiske, will be present, and the Rev. Dr. J. William H. Johnson, Ph. D., will deliver the oration. The music will be furnished by the augmented choirs of the colored churches under the direction of Chas. Denby. Supper will be served in the vestry of the church at 6 o'clock by the ladies of the stewardesses board. General committee—Miss Pryor, Mrs Trye, Mrs. Hunt, Mrs. Martin, Mrs Sarah Belding, Mrs. S. Bailey, Mrs. Denby, Miss Davis, Messrs. Carrington, Chas. Huzzard, Joseph Smith, Thomas Nelson, Thomas Harney, Thomas Hayes, J. Harvey, Wm. Worten, Alfred Staggers, J. St. Chair Politte, S. Henry, Wm. A. Boker, Whittey, Denby Preram committee—Chas. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Denhr, Wm. A. Boker, Mrs. Lyle, and Mrs. Daniel. Special emancipation sermons will be preached in all the churches on Sunday December 29. The services at St. Cleggen's Protestant Episcopal Church 9 N. Paul Street the Kes, E. N. Pearl near well attended on Sunday December 29. Marked a service in the church of permanent worship at St. · TO CORRESPONDENTS All available matter received or than Tuesday, December or 24, will be published in the next issue. Church for Negroes of Mt. Vernon and vicinity. The choir wore their vestments for the first time, and special Christmas music was rendered at the evening service. The work has been going on for some time now, and it is the intention of the vicar and trustees to procure a suitable site for the erection of an edifice. YORKTOWN N. I. YORKTOWN, N. J., Dec. 24.—William Trusty, of this place, who was held for the Salem County Court from June 6 to last week, charged with the murder of a white farmer, was acquitted. There was not sufficient evidence to convict. School closed for Christmas holidays last Friday. Miss R. L. Watson, who is in charge, left for Wilmington, Del., her home. Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Johnson are spending the holidays in Virginia, the home of Mr. Johnson. They will also visit friends in Baltimore and Washington, D. C. Miss Lillian Thomas, who has been quite ill, is improving. James Robinson, of Williamstown, formerly of this place, spent a few days here last week. Miss A. B. Corse, a public school teacher of Woodstown, spent a few days in town, the guest of Mrs. Sara E. De Shields. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ford entertained at luncheon last Saturday Miss Mortie De Shields, D. Cottingham, Alfred Jackson and the Rev. H. A. Ivey. PATERSON, N. I. PATTERSON, N. J., Dec. 25.—The Rev. Solomon P. Hood and the Rev. White of Trenton, spoke at the Colored Citizens' Association Monday, December 16. A committee was appointed to gather exhibits and data for the exposition in Philadelphia in September, 1913. The Rev. W. W. Walker has gone to Carlisle to spend his Christmas vacation. Mrs. Walker and children are visiting her sister, Mrs. Eva Parker, 218 West 133d street, New York City. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to all Tina Ack readers and long hate and success for Tus Ac. Mrs. Matilda Robinson Watkins, of Petersburg, Va., with her niece, Miss Estelle Robinson, was the guest of her sister, Mrs. M. Robinson Collins, 128th street, the past week. It was a joint meeting, because they had not seen each other for twelve years. Miss Robinson will remain indetinitely, but Mrs. Watkins returned home on Wednesday. There will be a sacred concert on Sunday evening, December 29, at the Calvary Baptist Church. Members and friends are cordially invited to attend. Alexander Jackson, president, Prof. H. Collins, organist and chorister. Santa Clans will visit the children of the Calvary Baptist Sunday-school on the evening of December 20. The school will render appropriate music and recitations. Prof. Howard Dangerfield, of Newark, N. Y., gave an organ recital in the A. M. E. Zion Church Sunday afternoon, December 8. The Rev. C. C. Williams, pastor of Zion Church, filled his pulpit at morning and evening services. At the evening service the Holy Communion was administered and two children baptized. The Zion Sunday School with Mrs. W. C. Hart as directress will give a cantata on Friday evening, December 27, entitled "What Happened to Santa." Miss Campbell entertained the officers and teachers of Zion School at his home, 10 Lake street, Friday evening, December 15. Mr. Campbell served a very time Enchance, which was enjoyed by all present. Mrs. Elizabeth Demorest, who has been on the sick list for the past week, convalescent. Mrs. Chrity Anderson and Mrs. Nose Wright are on the sick list. A spreaded sacred candle, was given by the M. M. Zion Sunday School last Sunday night, the younger people spending most of the restations and songs. A good audience was present and a large Christmas offering was raised. JERSEY CITY, N. J. Jessie Curr, S. J. D. 24. N. N. Krolld, late of the FI Club, Baconna is now at Fred C. Vanboven's cafe 811 age avenue. Amid curling smoke from Marshall Forwards and the sparkling froth of White Seal, a few friends, led by John Williams, of the Golden Tree Cafe, reminded H. D. Golden, of Roundtree & Golden, that he was 54 years old Thursday. December 19. Those present were Tom Anderson, Clark Scymerys, T Nicholas Bell, Thos Lynch, Ben Moore and John Harris. C. M. C. Branham and daughter, Irma to Oak street, are spending the holiday in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and York, Pa. M. Rena Jones, 39 Oak street, is visiting her mother and other relatives in Baltimore during the holidays. The All Men's Club of St. Mark's A M. E. Zion Church, Monmouth street, the Rev. M. L. Harvey, pastor, will direct an all day service at that church Sunday, December 29. The pastor will preach at 10 o'clock, addresses will be made by different pastors of the city at 3 o'clock, and the pastor will preach a special sermon to the men at 8 o'clock. Music will be furnished by St. Mark's chore in the morning, the Amsterdam orchestra in the afternoon, and singers from Orange at night. The club will serve a turkey dinner from 12 a.m. to 2 p.m. for 30 cents, and will serve upper from 5 to 6 p.m. for 25 cents. Children will be served for 15 cents. Officers of the club are Robert Owens, best man M. H. Bolden, first vice president N. D. Wynn, record secretary P. Robert S. Treadwell, and vice president N. D. Wynn. The club will be open to all members of the dinner Sunday will be at 11 a.m. The choreman M. P. Lewis serve interment at R. Ohlson R. Ohlson H. D. Golden L. O. Steward, A. Voyghan, M. Best R. H. Rhesse, S. Simmons N. D. Wychoff, Frank Wychoff, S. Nesbit, Harye Gale, Mr. Hutchinson Services at Bethel A. M. E. Church were well attended last Sunday, Dr. West, the pastor, occupying the pulpit morning and evening. The morning subject was "Heaven-An Abiding Place—Permanent Rest—Everlasting Horse." At night the pastor discussed "The Emmaus Journey and Its Lessons," and preached a fine sermon to a full house. There were three accessions. The class rally in the Sunday School was a success and the children are ready for the Christmas festivities which take place Friday, December 27 at 8 o'clock. The prayer and class meetings Tuesday evenings have been a great help in keeping the fervor and enthusiasm at high pitch, the pastor leading the prayer meeting side and afterward turning it over. The over attendance has been blessed with six conversions in these meetings during this conference year. The board of stewardesses met last Thursday evening at the residence of Sister Susie Myers, 61 Jewett avenue, Sister Addie Banks, acting president during the absence of Sister Ida Jackson who is visiting her daughter at West Philadelphia. Sister Myers served a splendid collation at the end of the meeting, consisting of chicken salad, sandwiches, hot cocoa, cake and souvenir candies. The deaconess board, Sister H. J. Stokes, vice-president, met at 116 Harrison avenue last Friday evening. The pastor pronounced the benediction at close of the meeting. Mrs. Anna McKenney and Mrs. Josephine Till invited the board in to the dining room where an elaborate report was served, consisting of creamed oysters, chicken salad, ice cream and bye-bye cake and coffee. The board of the deaconess board of Orange were presided over by Dr. and Mrs. B. B. Smith. Mrs. Davis, 121 Ege Avenue, is very much impressed. Mrs. Martha Bailey, 110 Harrison avenue, who has been suffering, for a long time, joined Bethel, A. M. E. Church last Friday night, was baptized by the pastor, and on Sunday the Lord's Supper was administered. She is confined to her bed. The guests of Mrs. George E. Cannon during the holidays will be her mother, Mrs. J. E. Wilkerson, and her brother and sister, John F. Wilkinson and Miss Rosetta Wilkinson, of Washington, D. C. St. Mark's A. M. E. Zion Church, the Rev. M. L. Harney, D.D., pastor, had good services and congregation in the morning. Dr. Harney preached a gossel sermon of power. The evening services were well attended. There will be special services next Sunday. In the evening the pastor will preach. Subject, "See if You Can Find a Man." There will be special services on watch meeting night. The pastor will preach a special sermon for the close of the year. Subject, "What have we done?" Mrs. L. H. White. 89 Ease avenue has returned alter several weeks in Keyport. N. J. with Mr. and Mrs. Vancey Anderson. DUBUQUE, PA Dineng E, Pa, Dec. 12. - The Rev Mr. Wood, pastor of the Baptist Church, preached a sermon which was pictured in the minds of the people. He preached from the birth of Jesus Christ to his death. The Rev Billy Sunday's test accounts of the Rev Mr. Peacock is doing great work in Dupresne and had over three hundred converts during his test work. BOSTON MASS. Bostos, Mass., Dec. 24 — A "social service" meeting was held at the Ebenezer Baptist Church last Thursday, in which the Rev. Powhatan Bagall, chairman of the social service committee, presided. The chief speaker was Mrs. Thomas J. Baker, president of the Women's Municipal League, who is a sister of President Lowell of Hagley. Miss Maria Baldwin, Mrs. Moxley Wright, Miss Malel Grest and Mrs. F. Lord made remarks. Last Wednesday the Georgia club observed its third anniversary with a dance at Love and Charity Loaf. Jenkins's orchestra furnished music. Elmer Leon Payne presented the choice of Japan at the Twelfth Baptist Church last Thursday evening. The production was well received by a large audience. A dance was given at Palm Garden Hall last Wednesday night by the "Johnson Boys." Music was furnished by Cummings and Johnson's orchestra combined. The theater was in charge of James Brooks. Sunday, December 22, the choir of the Church of the Messiah, the Rev. Poshatun Bagmall, minister, rendered a special program, assisted by an orchestra. A. LeRoy Curtis appeared as violinist soloist. The Rev Bagmall preached on the subject of "The Blessed Optimism, the Gift of Little Bethlehem" At the regular meeting of the St. Mark musical and literary union last Sunday the Rev. B. W. Swain of the M. E. Zion Church, Columbus avenue, The God Wh Dwells With Men", Lawrence A. Osley and Harry S. Hicks were ushers Boston Branch No. I, National Negro Business League, elected the following officers last week: P. J. Allston, president; J. H. Madison, vice president; W. A. Cox, secretary; W. C Swett, treasurer. A public installation will be held in the near future. "Honorary members and guests night" was observed by the Wooden Musical and Literary Circle last Thursday evening at 218 Northampton street, Mrs. H. A. J. Jones presided. The program was Club song by the circle, minutes by R. F. Dixon and R. F. Peters, pop-ups by Theodore D. Peters, movies by Ms. Pheasant Power, minor movies by Mr. Wendell Wendell, and The Real Friends of the South End and Porsbury. The Sharon Hall Club is distributing Christmas presents, among the children of the South End and Porsbury. Thembilus Phipps and Miss Marie Goodwin were married at the residence of the bride 28 Newcomb street, De- cember 19, by the Rev. W. J. King of the Fourth M.E. Church. The couple will reside at 28 Newcomb street. Pleasant D. Heggie and Miss Mildred Leone Hazel were married at the residence of the groom, 34 Windsor street. Roxbury last Wednesday by the Rev. Smith of Winchester. The couple will reside in Winchester. Jesse Goode has just returned from North Carolina, where he was called by the illness of his mother, who died. A "Christmas Festival of Music" was given in the Columbus avenue A. M. E. Zion Church, the Rev. B. W. Swain, pastor, on Sunday, December 22. The St. Mark Musical and Literary Union held their exercises just before the program was rordered. Alfred P. Russell, Jr., preached. The program follows: Second Chorus—"Achieved is the Glorious Work" (Creation) Glorious Work" (Creation) Haydn Choir Organ Solo—(Selected) F. C. Gilbert Overture—"Queen of Autumn" Bigge Orpheus Quartette A. R. Portunado, violin; C. A. Wilson, cello; D. H. Johnson, violin; J. H. Barkley, Jr., piano. Chorus—"The Lost Chord" Sullivan Choir. Soprano Solen—"Consider and Dear Me" Me" Miss M. Wiggleworth Wooler Anthem—"How Lovely are the Messenger" (St. Paul) Mendelssohn Women's Chorus—"The Lord is My Shepherd" Shubert Idylle—"La Fontigne" Lysberg Orpheus Quartette Soprano Solo—"The Babes of Beth- lehem" Dressler Mrs. Augustine E. Barrows Largo----"Trust in the Lord" Choir, Organ Solo----"March Religious" A. Gullmant R. Percival Parham, Jr. Secretant----"The Hope of the World" Schwecker Assisted by *Orpheus Instrumental Quartette*, Dr. W. O. Taylor, Conductor. Instrumental Chorus—"Ring Forth Ye Bolls." WASHINGTON D.C. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 25.—The Florida Avenue Baptist Church formally took possession of its new building on Florida avenue, near Seventh street, Sunday. A special two-week celebration is now going on. The congregation is the result of a split of members of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church over the selection of a successor to the late Rev. George W. Lee. The officers of the church are; James Langhorn, chairman of the board of deacons; Jabez Lee, chairman of the board of trustees; James H. Winslow, treasurer, and George Roye, church clerk. Dr. Jesse E. Moorland, an international secretary of the Y. M. C. A., has returned from Indianaapolis and Chicago where he went to look after the new Y. M. C. A. buildings being erected in those cities. The Ally Improvement Association gave a treat to poor children at Shiloh Baptist Church to lay The monthly meeting of the Inter- national Ministerial Alliance was held at the Y M C A. Monday. Governor P. B. P. Pinchback has been endearing treatment for gout at the Treadmow's Hospital. According to the annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury, Winfried Wolkmann, collector of the port of Georgetown, travel compensation amounting to $57750 during the last year. Google Center, of Denver, Col., is spending two weeks in the city. Bison W. Layns, former register of the treasury, is spending the holidays at Attorney Thomas L. Jones left Tuesday for a visit to New York and Philadelphia. Henry of Slaughter, other of The Old Fellows, journal was reelected secretary of Corinthian Lodge of Qdil Fellows. The Whitman Sisters are at the Harvard Theater Washington, this week. The M. Farthest By Booker T. W. Author of "Up from Slavery." This is the record of a trip made the purpose of studying conditions illuminating book. For there is no and understanding enables him real of the man farthest down like Slavery;" and the great beauty of its optimistic observations founded on as "Bad as conditions are in some I visited any place where things are some years ago." His journey sadlest spectacles in European life will think, perhaps, that everythi commonplace or bad, and that I avail nary or worth while looking at. M in fact, not looking for the best hunting for the man farthest down book is that, having found the man an abundance of hope for him. The Man Farthest Down By Author of "Up from Slavery," "My Larger Education, Etc. This is the record of a trip made by Dr. Washington for the purpose of studying conditions in Europe, and it is a most illuminating book. For there is no one whose keen sympathy and understanding enables him really to depict the conditions of the man farthest down like the author of "Up From Slavery;" and the great beauty of it is that it is filled with such optimistic observations founded on solid fact and deduction as "Had as conditions are in some places, I don't think that I visited any place where things are not better now than they were some years ago." His journey was a journey among the saddest spectacles in European life. As he says: "Some people will think, perhaps, that everything I was looking for was commonplace or bad, and that I avoided everything extraordinary or worth while looking at. My only excuse is that I was, in fact, not looking for the best but for the worst. I was hunting for the man farthest down." The inspiration of the book is that, having found the man farthest down, he shows an abanance of hope for him. With Frontuspiece Map Net $1.00 Doubleday, Garden City AUSTIN, Tex., Dec. 24—Dr. J. H. Hubbard, secretary Stuart Foundation for Africa; Dr. J. H. Reed, president of West Monrovia College of Liberia, Africa; Dr. J. W. E. Bowen, Dr. Penn, Dr. Wyatt and others visited our city. They visited and addressed Samuel Houston College. Ebenezer's Sunday School distributed $100 worth of groceries to the poor on Christmas. The Metokas will entertain the Galedas at Mr. Rainey's palatial home. The Rev. M. M. Haynes says New Hope Baptist Church will hold a Christmas bazaar this week. Dr. J. B. Pius weeded out the drones of his council last week, and seventy communicants received their passport. The voters of Austin carried the proposition to extend the Oakwood Cemetery, four blocks east, and the old residents in those blocks will have to go farther out. The mayor intimates that he will ask the coming legislature to amend the city charter so the State can sell the present site of Metropolitan A. M. E. Church for the erection of a Carnegie Library. Consideration, $5,000, when it cost $14,000. There is an epidemic of la gripe in the city. Mrs. John Ward, Dr. J. T. S. White and others are confined to their beds. Lonnie Franklin, a colored boy, was killed by a white boy by being struck on the head with a rock. The Rev. J. A. Amos, who goes to Trinity, will be succeeded by the Rev. Irene Laplin. The Merrida-Henders on mutilations were solemnized the past week. Dr. L. I. Campbell officializing. They will be at home in Clarksville near the Austin Dam Boulevard. We thank all for their patronage and wish you, a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Tau Ot. can still be found at Woodmen's office, or ring old phone for P. A. Williams. RALLEIGH, N. C., Dec. 24 - Tuesday evening, December 17, will be long remembered by the members of St. Pantl A. M. E. Church, the occasion being the banquet given in honor of the retiring presiding elder, Dr. A. J. Wilson. On the following day Dr. Wilson left with his family to Wilmington, N. C. At the request of the pastor, Dr. J. W. Walker, Bylie B. Hunter acted as toastmaster. After making a few remarks the following spoke of the appreciation of Dr. Wilson and family, and expressing regret to have him leave the city in which he had so faithfully labored: The Rev. P. P. Deberry, Miss Leah Gorham, Miss Hattie Baker, Dr. A. L. Pegues, superintendent Deaf and Dumb Asylum; the Rev. Paris St. Ambrose, P. E. Church; Dr. L. E. Fairley, Davie Street Presbyterian Church; Miss Emma Hunter, Silas Malett, Dr. B Bloune, Dr. J. W. Walker and Prof. H. S. Smith. In reply Dr. Wilson then addressed the audience feelingly, stating that this was one event in his life he would never forget. A purse with money and other presents were presented to Dr. Wilson by friends. Refreshments were served by a committee of ladies, consisting of Mrs. W. H. Peace, Mrs. Addie Garham, Mrs. Miss Carrington, Miss Harriett Hawkins. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson, David A Wilson, Prof. and Mrs. H. S. Smith, Mrs. Lucy Davis, Mrs. Emmi Jones, Mrs. Anna Okely, Miss Esther Okely, Dempsey Holman, Mrs. Eliza Hunter, Mrs. Bette Harris, Mrs. Lucy Davis, Miss Washington, Miss Moid, Mrs. Maggie Dunston, the Rev. Michelpa, St John's A M. E. C. Johnson, Perry Mrs. Mammie White, Mr. Mrs. Thomas Ingrigs, Miss Larry Lacee, Mrs. Naim Burgess, Willey Williams, for number of minutes, for number of minutes, for number of minutes, for number of minutes were invited Thursday evening. The mans were invited Thursday evening. A sketch from St Ambrose P. L. Church at the Rev. L. K. King of Charlotte, N. Co. indicating, Dr. John Tintner of Philadelphia in the city spending the Christmas holiday with relatives and friends. Mrs. Mattie Barber, of Atlantic City N. J., arrived Friday morning and will spend some time with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Watts Mrs. J. S. Whitted left Sunday ... Man at Down Washington "My Larger Education, Etc. made by Dr. Washington for us in Europe, and it is a most no one whose keen sympathy really to depict the conditions the author of "Up From it is that it is filled with such on solid fact and deduction me places. I don't think that are not better now than they money was a journey among the e. As he says: "Some people thing I was looking for was avoided everything extraordi- My only excuse is that I was, but for the worst. I was down." The inspiration of the man farthest down, he shows piece Map 11.50 Page & Co. AUSTIN, TEX. RALEIGH, N. C. New York Jessie Boggess spent Sunday with his brother, David, in Revanna. Mrs. Edith Creamer and son of Sherpheistown, W. Va., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Geo. Warick, 709 West Rayen avenue. Oscar Davis is the guest of his mother in Caldwell, N. J., during the holiday. Louisa Edward Court No. 30 will meet in regular session Wednesday evening, January 1, 1913, in their hall. All members are requested to be out at 7:30 sharp. Mrs. Charles Smith of Glenwood avenue is on the sick list. Mrs. James Johnson and niece of Connersburg were in the city Saturday calling on friends. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vergle Stewart, 820 West Redland street, is able to be around after a week's illness. Phone 3574 Bookmen WILFORD H. SMITH 150 NASSAU ST. NEW YORK dec 28 3m KOONS 90n 7 Chas. E. Toney ...LAWYER... 80 Wall St. New York jan 18-3 m Telephone 3783 Cortlandt JAMES L. CURTIS Attorney and Consultant of Law Office: Reederson SOME 403 TEMPLE COURT 225 W 13TH STREET 6 Beckman St. Phone 7289 Morningdale NEW YORK CITY. MORTGAGE LOANS 54 NASAU STREET NEW YORK Room732 Tairune Bldg. Phone 497 Bedman Telephone 7189 Morningside Dr. James A. Banks SURGEON DENTIST Gas administered. Porcelain Crown and Bridge Work a Specialty. Ten years with Dr. D. C. White. 204 West 133rd St. New York DR. CHARLES H. 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The soil is espically adapted to the growing of oats, corn, cotton, peas, potatoes, sugar cane and peanuts, as well as for a large variety of vegetables. These farms adjoin a good church and are within easy distance of a good school when is in session eight months in the year. Aside from this, they are located not far from the Normal. This is a good chance for farmers who want to stop paying rent and be independent and at the same time educate their children at a complete model school. The community is one where the very best relations exist between white and colored people. For further information and terms, write to ART, Agent Macon County ACADEMY 55th St. R. W. JOETIC Director English Composition. Conventional Eng Latin. Antithetic. Algebra. Geometry. Civil Service. College & reparatory. Requ partners. has but of students limited and no progress. Write or call. $1.00 CHANICAL COLLEGE A. R. STEWART. Agent Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Macon County OPPING COURSE IN: English Grammar, English Composition, Conventional Essay Writing, Biochemistry, German, Artificial Intelligence, Archaeology, Geography, Fraternity Physics, Statistics, and more. Each Subject under competent and patient Instructors, but bar of students limited assesure of careful, personal attention progress. Write or call, or 17 min. AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE OPEN ALL THE YEAR ROUND FOR MALKS ONLY Facilities unsuppressed. Strong Faculty. Practical Courses. Board. Lo- gistics and Tuition $7 per month. Winter Term begins December 2, 1912. Wear to-day for catalog or free tuition. J.A.S. B. DUDLY, President GREENSBORO, N. C. Durham, N. C., where she will spend Christmas. Mrs. L. M. Hunter will leave this week for Wilmington, N. C., where she will spend the Christmas holidays with her mother, Mrs. P. J. Smith, Sr. The funeral of Mrs. Jack Yarbrough took place Sunday evening at 3 o'clock from the Tupper Memorial Church, South Blount street, the Rev. Wyche officiating. "The Star of Bethlehem" was the subject of Dr. J. W. Walker's text at St. Paul's Church Sunday morning. One of the features of this service was that many male members in the congregation wore in the lapels of their coats a bright little star. Mrs. Rebecca Hargraves, of Wilmington, N. C. is in the city, the guest of Prof. and Mrs. J. H Branch, North Manly street. The custodian of Wilmington, N. C. is the guest of Mrs. Nellie Whitted. Edington street. YOUNGSTOWN. O. YOUNGTOWN, O. Dec. 24.—Mrs. William Sanders and Mrs. James Kelley are able to be around the house. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jackson are the guests of relatives and friends in springfield, Chicago and Indianapolis, and will return home about January 15. HAY'S HAIR Pomade Does All and More it Promises to Do HAY'S HAIR POMADE straightens coarse. kinky hair and makes it glossy and luxurious. You can dress your hair in any position and keep it no, if you USE HAY'S HAIR POMADE REGULARLY. Any one with kinky, coarse hair that is stubborn, will always get satisfactory results from HAY'S HAIR POMADE even if it is not fully failed. Highly Perfumed Present this ada. with 25 cents, and get a large jar; and free sample of HARFINA SOAP, BIOLOGICAL BIOLOGICAL Philo Hay Speo. Co. Sole Manufacturers Newark, N.J., U. S. A. Dixie Wheat White Cream For removing wrinkles, lines, crow's feet, tightening sagging muscles, and rejuvenating the complexion, heals, and large pores, gives results where creams lotions, massage, and other beauty treatments are applied. Free from lead and other toxic substances, less to the most delicate skin. Will bleach the skin. Will not rub off, and is delicately perfumed. For salon all struggles. $50 and $1.00 per hour. DIXIE SUPPLY CO. PROFESSIONAL ```markdown ``` A NEW SPIRIT IN THE SOUTH. ONE OF THE most hopeful things in the South is the new spirit among large employers of Negro labor as to the general welfare of such labor. This fact has been recently emphasized in the Far South by an advertisement issued by the Kirthy Lumber Company of Houston, Tex. The advertisement is of a character which we think deserves a much wider circulation than it has had in Texas, and we are for that reason, reprinting it just as it appears on the large-sized placards which have been sent by thousands, throughout the populous Negro centers of Texas and Louisiana: Wanted by the Kirby Lumber Co. One Hundred and Fifty Colored Families At the Kirby Lumber Company's Mill, the Company takes in and instructs and who will have their wages. The Company pays of once every month in Cash. You Unlumbered Labor. $1.50 to $1.75 per day of 10 hours. You Stilled Labor. $1.70 to $2.50 per day. The Company takes interest in the Moral Bluff of its Laborers, and Churches of the Methodist or Baptist Denomination are parents desiring to give their Children a Good Education will find a School at each Mill Site wholesome and Hardy. You can raise Chickens and Hogs and have your Cows and if you desire, you can cultivate around your house to cultivate a Garden. Good comfortable Houses for each family is healthy and surrounded by a Quiet Neighborhood. Not only are the wages offered considerably in advance of those usually paid Negro labor in other parts of the South, but the company goes further and emphasizes its interest in the moral uplift of its laborers. It has taken pains to say that churches are established and maintained at each of its mill sites. The company also emphasizes the fact that Negro laborers nowadays are demanding, a better home life, and so it ensures its laborers that they will not only have good comfortable houses to live in, but that they will also have ground enough provided for gardens. The company does not fail to recognize the fact that the Negro laborer now usually seeks those locations where his children may be educated, and for that reason, it emphasizes the fact that a good school is maintained at each of its mills. We hope that three honors the South something of the spirit of the Kirby Lumber Company will animate other large employing firms, and that they may manifest something of the interest and concern in their Negro labor mani- fested by this large employing company. Mr. John H. Kirby, the president of the Kirby Lumber Company, the Guiding Spirit of this $40,000,000 enterprise, is a native Texan, who has never been afraid to do the fair and square thing by those who have helped him to create the vast wealth controlled by the company which bears his honored name. We hope that throughout the South there may be in the future many more men of the same noble unpulse as this master capitalist. The flamboyant Senator James Ell Martine, of New Jersey, who an easily spills over as an uncorked champagne bottle, says that Col. William Jennings Bryan should not only be Secretary of State in the new Cabinet, but that there is "nothing too good for him." That's the sort of hero worship Thomas Carrion clarified and Lord Macmillan riddened with mercam. We also favor Col. Bryan for Secretary of State but we do not because the job will keep him so busy looking after our foreign affairs that he will have no time to look after and run our home affairs. of starving millions groaning from the underworld of the earth and large cities of all lands, while the revellers in the great white ways and the red light districts dance and make merry, deaf to the jangling noises of the skulkers in the streets and alleys and slums. The wail of life is the wail of death, even as the wail of death is the wail of life. The two go together from the cradle to the graye, and are always indistinguishable. The cries of the infant and the cries of old age are much the same, as the pains that gripe the one gripe the other. Nevertheless, the chimes in millions of steeples and the tongues of millions of people, born of the universal hope for better conditions of life, voice the anthem: General Condition of Affairs The general condition of affairs of the nation during the past year has been one of great prosperity in all directions. The accumulated wealth available for productive industry, the output of field, mine and factory, the average per capita wealth of the people, as represented by the volume of money, and by the savings in the banks, together with investments in home property values, and the enormous $400,000,000 volume of the export trade, representing the National production in excess of the home needs and consumption, have never in the history of the Nation been greater; but, on the other hand, while wages have never been higher, the cost of living has never been greater, and the money actually in circulation per capita has not been sufficient to meet the every day needs of the average person. The explanation for this condition is that the agencies of production and distribution have gathered together in restraint of trade competition and for the regulation and control of prices, regardless of the interests of the average consumer, and the vast volume of the National money is concentrated in the hands of a small group of financiers who have a working understanding with, if not a money interest in, the agencies of production and distribution of the articles of consumption, of necessity as well as luxury. Taxation, both Federal and State, is preposterously high, due to the extravagance of legislatures in multiplying current expenditures and loading the future with bonded indebtedness for public works which those of the future may not need or want but must pay for as to the face value of the bonds, with interest. The general condition of affair has been one of great prosperity wealth available for productive factory, the average per capita w the volume of money, and by the investments in home property volume of the export trade, re excess of the home needs and cost of the Nation been greater; but, never been higher, the cost of money actually in circulation per the every day needs of the aver condition is that the agencies gathered together in restraint oflation and control of prices, rega consumer, and the vast volume in the hands of a small group of understanding with, if not a monetion and distribution of the art well as luxury. Taxation, both high, due to the extravagance of expenditures and loading the f public works which those of the must pay for as to the face value What Discontent Has Done. The discontent produced by this condition of affairs, which was first felt acutely in the winter of 1907, came to a focus in the elections of last November, when the Republican party, which has ruled the Nation, with the exception of eight years, since 1860, was turned out of power in the Nation and the States, only four out of forty-eight States, with twelve electoral votes, remaining true to it. The people hope by the change to get a better condition of living, in a more rigid control and regulation the Federal Government and the States of the agencies of production and distribution and of money used in the production and distribution. The people laid their discontent upon the shoulders of the Democratic party, which shows how desperate is their discontent, as the Democratic party has never had anything but discontent and troubles of its own all the long years of its existence. The discontent produced by first felt acutely in the winter occasions of last November, when the Nation, with the exception out of power in the Nation and eight States, with twelve election people hope by the change to more rigid control and regulation States of the agencies of production in the production and distribution upon the shoulders of the desperate is their discontent, as anything but discontent and trust its existence. Segregation of the Races. The movement begun in the Southern States long ago to separate the races in all the public and private relations of life, of which disfranchisement and mob law are coercive agencies, has extended to the attempt to segregate the race in its living in and buying of reality into districts—districts in which one may purchase or rent or live in real property, together with that other attempt to restrict the Negro in his bread-winning occupations—has steadily gained headway, not only in the Southern States but in most of the States of the North and West, including New York. The Negro will be in a hopeless condition in all of the States if the movement succeeds to segregate him in his living districts, to restrict him in his bread-winning occupations and to disfranchise him in his right to vote for others and to be voted for by others. The movement has got a good headway, and the Negro has got to face it. How! It depends upon State and local conditions. Methods wise and expedient to employ in New York would be disastrous in Atlanta, while those employed in Atlanta would be disastrous in Chicago. It is for the wise men and women in each State and locality to meet their peculiar problem in the way that promises the best results. But the best results will always be got along the line of character and home owning and family building in the Christian virtues rather than in the Christian vices, the two dwelling together in every life and every community and striving always for mastery the one over the other, and in wage saving and business development and expansion. Segregation can be made respectable and to pay, if we will keep our living homes and districts as clean in every sense as others do theirs, and if we will buy and sell among ourselves whatsoever we need or desire to dispose of. We shall have more to say in the future, on how to make the most of segregation when forced upon us or voluntarily resorted to by us for community building, such as Allensworth, Boley, Mound Bayou, Greenwood, North Atlanta, and the like. We need not accept what others want to force upon us unless we desire it. The movement begun in the race in all the public and private dischisement and mob law are the attempt to segregate the race into districts—districts in which real property, together with that in his bread-winning occupations only in the Southern States but and West, including New York less condition in all of the State gate him in his living districts, occupations and to disfranchise him to be voted for by others. The and the Negro has got to face in local conditions. Methods wise as would be disastrous in Atlanta, we be disastrous in Chicago. It is State and locality to meet their poses the best results. But the best line of character and home owntian virtues rather than in the together in every life and every mastery the one over the other, development and expansion. Se and to pay, if we will keep our every sense as others do theirs, and selves whatsoever we need or do more to say in the future, on he when forced upon us or voluntar building, such as Allensworth, North Atlanta, and the like. We to force upon us unless we desi Business Outlook for the Year. The meeting of the National Negro Business League at Chicago, in August, the incorporation of the Anglo-American Finance Company at Richmond, in December, together with the starting of the Cotton Seed Oil Company at Mound Bayou, in November, are the most important business movements among Negroes of the year. The meeting of the Business League was one of the best and most encouraging of the twelve annual meetings that had preceded it, and the reports of the members of conditions in their States and localities indicated that the race has got its business stride in earnest and should have steady and appreciable growth in the future. Educational and Church Outlook The meeting of the National in August, the incorporation of the pany at Richmond, in December Cotton Seed Oil Company at M most important business movement meeting of the Business League w aging of the twelve annual mea reports of the members of con indicated that the race has got its have steady and appreciable grow Educational and Church Outloo The educational work maintained its steady development in the preparation of our youth for the high duties of manhood and citizenship. The general interest in education, instead of falling away, has shown a healthier growth and enthusiasm than in former years. Reports of Conferences of school groups and summer teachers schools in our great centers of education, like Hampton, Laurenceville, Va. (St. Paul work), Durham and Tuskegee Institute, bear us out in this conclusion. All our churches of the Methodist group held General Conferences during the year and reported increased membership and revenues as the results of the work of the past four years. Conclusion. In conclusion, THE AGE staff stends a Happy New Year greeting to all the host of its readers scattered far and wide over the globe. THE AGE has striven to give the race the best news and opinion during the past year and hopes to do so during the year just At the recent conference of governors at Richmond Gov. Blease of South Carolina created a sensation by declaring that he had pardoned hundreds of convicts who had served long sentences, some fifteen and some twenty years, for small offenses. The Age directed attention some months ago to the statement of one of the state's attorneys of Atlanta, who spent some days in the chain gang, among white convicts only by selection, "to see how the system works." His narration of the horrors he saw and experienced read like a canto out of Dante's "Inferno" and helped to create a healthier public opinion in Georgia against the lease system. Negro inventors should be careful to patent their work. It is not possible to estimate their value until the demand for them has been measured. Some of the simplest inventions, like the bread-saving knife and the hooks and eyes for dresses, have been the most useful, and profitable. If such inventions are not patented unscrupulous firms and corporations do not hesitate to appropriate them, and while WHITELAW REID. Mr. Whitelaw Reid, the American Ambassador to Great Britain, who died at Dorchester House, London, December 15, had acted a very prominent part in Republican politics and journalism since 1856, when he made speeches and wrote editorial articles in support of John C. Fremont and the new party's freedom. His continued service to the Republican party of fifty-six years ended only with his death and in the year when the party lost its control of the confidence of the voters of 40 of the 48 states of the Federal Union of state. There may be no coincidence in the two events but they are nevertheless not without significance, that one of the party's pioneers and chief ornaments should die in the same year that the party was rent asunder by interstrife and voted out of power in the states and the Nation, but those who read the signs of the times that man history will see in it both coincidence and significance. Mr. Reid was born near Xenia, Ohio October 27, 1837. His parents were poor, but he was ambitious and managed to secure a liberal education. He taught school a little after leaving college and then entered the University and remained in it as owner of the New York Tribune. After the impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson-Horace Greeley induced Mr. Reid to join the McFair staff. After the nomination and defeat of Mr. Greeley as the Presidential candidate for the Liberal-Democratic coalition in 1827 and the death of Mr. Greeley in the same year, Mr. Reid secured a controlling interest in the Tribune and be his energies with much success to rebuild its fortunes, which had fallen away because of Mr. Greeley's firing with the South after the war. In 1892 Mr. Reid was the Republican candidate for Vice-President, but was defeated with Gen. Benjamin Harrison. Since 1897 Mr. Reid has been almost continuously in the foreign service. He was also the author of many books. It is a great and rare distinction to live to the age of seventy-five years and spend fifty-six of them in high and honorable service for humanity and the Nation. Such a life as Mr. Reid should be an inspiration to all poor but ambitious youths of the Republic, but especially so to Negro youths, to make the most of the splendid advantages of education and opportunity which are within their reach. SUFFRAGETTE ENTHUSIASM. Swept forward by what is called erthusiasm for a cause, some of the best men and women in history have done some of the queerest and most foolish things. Take Miss Rosalie G. Jones and the thirty-four woman suffragists who left New York December 16 to "hoof" it to Albany, 140 miles away, to present a petition to Gov. Sulzer the day after this inauguration, what a queer lot they must be! It will take them fifteen day to walk the 140 miles and they will be "heats" to see when they reach Albany. Some twenty-two fell by the wayside the first day out, and only six are isolated to walk the entire distance. Opinion is greatly divided in this country and Great Britain, where the agitation is most pronounced and aggressive, upon the vital question of giving to women the rights of citizenship enjoyed by men, but there is none as to many of the undignified and criminal methods of the women to attain their object, especially in Great Britain. I woman was mentally and physically capable of discharging the full duties of citizenship, and if her interests of every sort were not now adequately protected by law and equity, the neglect of the home and the imperative duty and obligations of motherhood would still have to be considered, along with that other bothersome question of the enmity the Lord God placed between the serpent, the man and the woman. There is complaint everywhere that the husband and wife and the children have now too much strife among them and keep the courts too much engaged arriving to straighten their domestic angles; when the woman is a full citizen more discord will be introduced into the home and whole families are liable to be hopelessly divided over political policy and individual candidates as they are to be of one mind. There are already too many provocations to domestic discord without adding another, but many good men and women do not look at the situation from that viewpoint. They may not be able to do so until it is too late to correct the evil. The news dispatches do not state that of them may go by train to Albany, and be in at the presentation of the positions to the governor; but are we sure they will act wisely if they remain at home and look after their husbands and children. CAPITAL "N" FOR NEGRO. After a good deal of effort we are gradually getting to the point where the most dignified and responsible publications in the United States are beginning to capitalize the word "Negro" just the same as they do the words Jew or Irish. Both the Outlook and the Century Magazine have recently decided hereafter to spell the word Negro with a capital "N." This we think is a distinct victory. We hope that publications like the Independent and the New York Evening Post will soon follow the Outlook and Century. HEAVEN'S CHRISTMAS GIFT. Written for The New York Age. Walked the Master 'mong His flowers, In His bountieous Heavenly bowers, Where they are aglow with light. Fair are mine, He said, most splendid, Nurtured from a fount of love, Framed with wreathed will stand. Kept by Heavenly hands above. Then He earthward looked, aye, sadly, At confusion here below. But a thought came to Him gladly, They are mine, yea mine also. And I must reach forth and save them, From Time's ravages; I know It was a who spake and gave them Birth. And lo! how rank they grow! What is best for me to send them, That my love they'll know and feel? How may sinners hear them? How to may my I appeal? I will give—oh! what is nearest, How may sinners vile be won. Ah!! I will send that is nearest, In the gift of My dear Son. I will give my richest treasure, I will send my best loved one; Yielding full, abundant measure, I will give my Soul soaring. ARMOREL E. STERNE. EDITORIAL NOTES The world's work is not done by the world's loafers, habblers, robbers and gamblers, and their parasites, but these keep those who do the world's work busy supporting workhouses, penitentiaries, and an enormously expensive legal machinery, besides a vast system of charity associations, in which the church catallments must be included. One real worker, honest and true, is worth more to the world than a thousand of the choicest parasites that ever fattered on the industrious and frugal. The Southern Christian, Recorder gives its readers "Seven Ways to Kill a Church." They are summarized: Stay at home; go late; take a back seat and family with the pastor or some new brothers and sisters; to go to church alone, refusing to take any of the members of the family with you. Given other ways to kill a church would be hard to think out. President-elect Wilson has returned from the West Indies and resumed his duties as Governor of New York. The newspaper been unable state, and they do not like it. Governor Wilson knows his own thoughts and how to keep them to himself until the proper time to make public display of them. He has done this all through his term as Governor. It is a splendid trait of character and has been possessed in more or less marked degree by all men who have ever accomplished anything. The talkers have never been the down of the world's work. The good white people of Dalton, Ga. are said to have revived the days of the Ku-Klux-Klan recently, when they took John Watkins to the center of the town and, after giving him a seven whipping, gave him three days in which to leave the town. He was charged with allowing some disorderly white woman to occupy one of his houses. The habit of taking the law into their own hands without fear of being called to account is essentially a Southern white man's habit, which has gradually spread to the other sections of the country, and become a manace to their well being. Talking about Col. Roosevelt's brutal statement that the Republican party is such that "no honest man can be in K." the New York World says the Progressive party has no motive for existence except spite," and that "Mr. Roosevelt's place in history depends upon his ability to hold the new party together." However that may be, Col. Roosevelt has already been placed in nomination for the Presidency, in 1916, by the thousands of his party, "many of whom bound to happen between now and 1916 as those of us who got there will see. With a flippancy unusual in the vast mileage of Texas the Dallas Express says: "Now that politics is over, let us turn our attention to the guy who puts the heat in the sun." The mystery of the sun and the mystery of man are necessarily the mystery of the Creator of them. Blasphemy, speaking flippantly or jestingly of the Creator of man and the Universe, one of the creators of the Earth. The Dallas Express is an ably edited newspaper and Editor King should be above such flippancy. --- What shall we do with our bodies after death? It is an ugly question and makes the flesh creep to ask or answer it. Every rice has had its own way of disposing of the dead, but Christian people have adopted that of Abraham, who purchased a burying ground of Ephron the Hittite of the children of Heth. There is a cremation room where it may be incinerated after death. Any how, 200 physicians of Brooklyn and Long Island have voluntarily placed their bodies at the disposal of science after death. "To add in educating the public in the necropsy for more autopsies," says the unnouncement, and they are urging their friends and relatives to make the same disposition of their bodies. The suggestion does not appeal to us. A man sound or mind does not need to be carved up literally like an ox or hog after he is dead to aid science or to be served for food. Announcement is made of the engagement of Miss Helen Miller Gould of New York to Mr. Finley J. Shepard of St. Louis. Miss Gould is forty-four years old and one of the richest women in the country. She is more than that; she is one of the most Christian and charitable women in the country. She has felt as kindly for the little black as for the little white waff. And she is the only member of the wealthy Gould family that has taken much interest and spent much time and money in seeking to better the condition and make happier the unfortunate and the poor "we have with us always." It is no better for a woman than for a man to live alone, and they never seem to grow too old to wed when they get to it. The Chicago Defender is outraged to find out that separation of blacks and whites is made in the Cook county jail and wants the discrimination done away with at once. Things are not what they used to be with the Negro in Chicago. Since 1830 its public opinion has shifted entirely from right to left on the Negro question. The Declaration in 1830 states that the unfavorable conditions that had grown up in the past twenty-two years; so are other Negro forces working for good in the Negro life of Chicago, along with some white forces. They should be encouraged in the work. Indeed the necessity for such race work in every section has, as we have repeatedly stated, been forced upon us by the logic of the situation and our men and women have got to meet it. Cardinal Farley on Colored Missions. Speaking of increased population of the colored race in Manhattan, in a report by Cardinal Farley, who has been named the "Cardinal of the missions," said: "Father John E. Burke," said the Cardinal, "has given up his life to the work. It is a noble work. The Noean Catholic, and therefore good citizen, of them in Manhattan, over 10,000 of them, I believe, in the Paulist parish. I hope to see them all gathered into the fold. What we want in America, is the country. The country could not have too many of them, be they black or white." Re i an a rn Zerg Da a 2 era ~ JOHN MORGYALL 224 WEST 134th STREET - 7 PHONE (3323} HARLEM ai _ Conducts a Reliable, Straightforward and Progressive Business Real Estate ©@ Insuranc - | Private Houses in Best Neigh- | | Apartments to Let in hanna borhoods For Sale or To Let Houses with All Improvements . INCLUDING ELEVATOR SERVICE, TELEPHONES AND HALL BOYS BANK REFERENCES | ; WOMEN’S DEPARTMENT ‘Riles Martel will easwer through this eolamen Gusdtions of interest [0 women, ‘Mddrese her in core of Tux Ace : HERE AND THERE. (BY MAY MARTEL) : A Mothers’ Club as auxiliary to the Hope Day Nursery work bas beer "organized by Mra. M. C. Lawton, Beate Organizer of the Empire Seate Federation of Women's Clubs fs object is to get in close touch with the mothers, and to have lec- tures each moath by the physicians md tramed nurses of the city on the eare and training of children. At the ;Decensber meeting Dr..E. P. Roberts ‘spoke om “Motherhood.” The Janu- ‘ery meeting is to be on January 21. De. A. S. Reed and Dr. Chas. H. ‘Roberts are to be the speakers. Mrs. ‘A. M. Robinsoa, through whose ef- fects the club wes orgaeized, is how- ‘orary president; Mrs. Robert Willis, poogideet; Mra M. Marshall, vice- president; Mrs. Lewis Porter, treas- wer, and Mrs. John Campbell, sec- “ famages of “what's m a name,” [ Ge, Steet CGolersdc Taylor ss an : i Taylor 28 cn f. F. T- “Taylor war 3 Diack man and a ; it matters mot what one calls ther Negro, colored man or Aaghe-Afsicza—he | ‘lignifed = the wecee. A got, om a subway train at 135th atreet = few days. ago, and was sand- wicked between two persons of color who. had the odor of six months’ péuking in their clothing. ’ Some folks mever open their win: dows during the winter months, and pever air their clothing, and instead of heaving the essence of flowers phowt their person, they carry that of pagetables, such as cabbage, onices, Re., and are highly obnoxious to waryhody but themselves. { ro BW TO @iALe. +. Rauge, and men will say yu ought wat’ $0; den't, arid they will say you t Moral: Get it ‘on s0 skil- that they will thing nature did dt, and will rave show! your exgsisite <0ines gefecting a hushaad ‘feel of (hanes cm learn if it io tender, and Iie pocketbook to secertpim if it is ae! if yew just can’t make your ¢ yen can trai them nor = misbetmviog on itipos- eo man gets far cnoygh along ask Sf We may heave se, be in- to take one whether of no. I oy the Savor by saying yes. ve you put -your trust in 2 r%. pst the man ia 2 safe and your trust amy net be mis- Geatlemen: I cannot bein to tel you all the benefits ] have received since the arrival of the two specimens of Loudstones you seat me. For many years I was coavimced that mo person lived who was more unfortunate than myself. Loss in busi- ness; death of loved ones amd other troubles too numer- ous to mention, were driving me to a state of frenzy. A friend told me to write you for information regarding the system of two Loadstones and their power. As u sast resort I did so, amd inter purchased two of them.“ Since then the great change in my career has been so remarkable as to be almost beyond bellef. My business imcreascd rapidly, and pet a thimg has occurred * to mar my state of happiness. You are at Mberty to us” this letter as reference, for I believe it is my duty te let the world know of the wonderful change in my life, that [ believe was brought aboet ‘through the power and influence of two Leadstomes, Frank Temey. Babylon, N. ¥. Dear Sirn: Several weeks ago I foolishly laid the chameis beg containing the two Rencstomes 6m (Re Cremer ane forget tncm. Trouble bewam as ef cfd: my husband wrs fretful amd fmding fauk with everything. I was all out of sorts myself and wondered what hed happemed te caver se much dte- cord all at once. Fipally I remembered (hu Loadstomes and began to search for them. 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Muvris, Prapetetey’ TH ay THE MUSIC OF THE MUSIC OF THE MUSIC J. LEUBRIE HILL Manager of the United Colored Vaudeville Exchange COLERIDGE-TAYLOR'S CHILDREN Under the caption, "The Children of a Genius," the New York Times publishes the following about the children of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, with bers of the A. A. U. was ture of the evening, allow national champion, and All metropolitan champion, the contestants. Drew allowed Meyer bers of the A. A. U. was the star feature of the evening, allowed P. Drew, national champion, and Alvah P. Meyer metropolitan champion, being among the contestants. Drew allowed Meyer a two-yards start, but overhauld him in the first ten yards. At the finish he drew ahead and won by a foot, in the fast time of 7 2-5 seconds. The perennial death of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the Anglo-African composer, a concert in whose honor took place on November 23, has around some curiosity as to his two children, named Hiawatha and Gwendolon. The widow of the composer being an Englishwoman, the children are the fruits of one of these mixed marriages which are always interesting. Both their father and mother having been musicians, it is hoped that the time is not far distant when they will give to the world proof of the force of heredity. Already Hiawatha, who shows great talent for acting, is engaged in rehearsing a Hiawatha, a playful of his own conception, which has been favorably criticised by an student actor. He began to study the violin and theory of music at the age of four, but it was his father's wish that he should commence his music lessons for a time. Gwendolon inherits much of her father's musical genius and many of his songs, notably the Pahy Shahad. She reads at eight very well, and possesses a good musical memory. The composer wished that both his children should eventually receive their musical education at the Guildhall School of Music, under the guidance of his great friend, London Ronald, with whom he frequently discussed the subject. HOWARD'S "GYM" FUND. The Central Gymnasium Committee of the General Alumni Association of Howard University reports that since the ground breaking on the proposed site for the new gymnasium building, at commencement June 5 last, activities have been redoubled along all lines. Many of those who attended the commencement returned to their fields of labor with increased enthusiasm for the extensive work of their beloved university. They have been instrumental in securing pledges, and in many instances contributions to help swell the $10,000 gymnasium fund now being raised among the alumni. Plans are on foot locally for a sweeping campaign, with the intention of reaching and enlisting every available source of aid. To this end, one of the prominent ministers of this city has tendered an open session of his church service for the purpose of interesting his congregation, and those who worship with them, in the movement for the gymnasium, and acquainting them with the beneficial ef- Drew Again Victorious. Stuyvesant High School held its eighth annual indoor games Saturday night in the armory of the Seventy-first Regiment. A seventy-yard dash. invited, with the University choir and Handicap, especially arranged for mem- a representative from the gymnasium CRESCENT THEATRE 36-38 WEST 135th ST., NEW YORK CITY Under New Management Harlem's Most Popular Playhouse Refined Vaudeville Latest Photo Plays A Merry Christmas :: and :: A. Happy New Year JOHN B. FRIOB & JOSEPH MARTINSON, Proprietors SAM D. HYAMS, Asst Manager IN VAUDEVILLE A Merry Xmas AND A Happy-New Year To All Friends in and out of the Profession. Hope to see you soon. FIDDLER & SHELTON ....Compliments of the Season.... THE MISSING MEN OF THE WORLD THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN CHAS. E. BARTON'S Comedians, producers and composers. Now writing a two-act musical comedy for coming season. Managers, Beware! Of the Male Member of the Team of Lewis and Lewis, Whose Cuts Appear Herewith THE BLAKE About four months ago I booked above act. Wired tickets ten days before time to open, also wired instructions about where to get tickets, etc., with privilege to wire at MY EXPENSE anything that might occur to prevent him being on time. Act was to open on Monday; four days before Monday Lewis wired, "Be there Saturday." Act did not get in Saturday. Monday came and act did not get in. Wired Lewis, "What is wrong?" Got no answer. Three days after time to open a certain Mr. White came in on one of my tickets and said Lewis told him to tell me that his wife was sick. Three days later gof wire from Lewis, "Tried to get team to take my place, could not do so, will come alone now." Waited several days, Lewis failed to appear. Wired him to send me my tickets, as same was void day after date of issue: Also had refund on ticket stopped. Later wrote him at his last address, also in care of The Freeman; both letters were delivered, as my return address was on both envelopes. I have waited all this time in order to give Lewis good time to square himself. I have not heard one word from him since last telegram above referred to. Am always willing to send tickets when necessary to good legitimate acts, but won't stand such actions as above. Am running this ad, in the interest of managers and the profession generally. This ad. has cost me several times the value of the tickets already and I shall spend several times more. I shall run it in every colored paper of any value in the United States to show this fellow up. Ticket is worth just so much blank paper to Lewis; to me it is worth face value. It would cost Lewis just 2 cents to send same to me. Papers having a circulation among managers and performers in the South send copy and rates. CHARLES H. TURPIN ...THIRD RECITAL... By WILLIAM A. WHITE, Organist SIOAM PRESSYTERIAN CHURCH, Lafayette Avenue bet Franklin and Clayton Aven. FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1913 Associated by—Miss Amy Pinder Bailey, Boopano, R. I.; Mrs. H. H. Price, Plianist of Boston, Mass.; Mr. Henri Strange, Render; Mr. William C. Klinen, Musc Cantante; Mr. W. H. Wiggins, Violinist; Mr. L. Wise, Cellist; Mr. Melville Charlton, Accompanist. Programme Right-thirty VICKETS TWENTY-FIVE GENTS Refreshments 1895 1913 ALL ABOARD FOR TRAIN DE LUXE TO THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL BALL and RECEPTION OF THE N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R. PORTERS BENEFICIAL ASSOCIATION (Inc.) At LENOX CASINO, 116th St. and Lenox Avenue Thursday Eve'g, January 16, 1913 Music by the New Amsterdam Orchestra, Prof. Wm. A. Riker, Director ADMISSION 50 CENTS BOXES Seating (6) $1.50 ON SALK-At Tonsiorial Partors, 235 West 133rd St. Pres. of Awn. C. H. Leffwich, 858 Morris Ave., Bronx; Trotter Advertising Agency, 135 West 133rd St. Amsterdam News, 17 West 133rd St. Leroy's Cafe, 135th St. and 5th Ave. Connors Cafe, 71 West 133rd St. CAPK and BAK under control of the Association. 1864 THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL 1913 ...RECEPTION... OF THE Coachmen's Union League Society OF NEW YORK CITY Organized Oct. 17, 1864 WILL BE GIVEN AT YOUNG'S CASINO, 134th St. and Park Avenue Friday Evening, January 10, 1913 MUSIC BY THE CELEBRATED NEW AMSTERDAM ORCHESTRA ADMISSION Including Wardrobe Check 50 CENTS PRIVATE BOXES $2.00 Boxes can be had of John Brooks, 141 West 54th Street and 238 West 154th Street, J.D. Hedrin, Telephone 4000 Beckman. Offices of the Society William H. Smith, Pres. Leon D. Kahl, Vice-Pres. Joseph Shylo, Rec. Secy. Clarence Sanford, Pin. Secy. Joseph Mavo, Rec. Secy. Thomas Barnum, Treas. John T. Kiar, Asst. Treas. Isafah Hegerman, Chaplain. George Batton, Custodian James R. Robinson, Marshal. Frank Robinson, Asst. Marshal Board of Trustees James R. Robinson, Marshal. Frank Robinson, Asst. Marshal Alfred C. Barney, Jacob Van Allen, President. Sam Bailer, Secy. Eljahid C. Trent, Alfred C. Barney, Jacob Van Allen, President. Connie G. Connie G. Trent, Alfred C. Barney, Jacob Van Allen, President. Thomas Lane, Treas. Thomas Barnum, Asst. Treas. John T. Kiar, Secy. Walter A. Boyd, Asst. Secy. Thomas Scott, James T. Robinson, J. D. Hadwin, Arthur Turkins, Washington Loftus, John Brooks. dec 26 2017 OOME TO "BUTTERFLY LAND" THE FLYING SQUADRON On Friday Evening, January 3, 1913 At MAJESTIC HALL, 125 Fast 125th Street DORA COLE NORMAN, President LOUISE R. LATIMER, Treasurer LOTTIE JARVIS, Vice-President BESSIE M. PIKE, Secretary Proceeds for the benefit of The National Asso'n for the Advancement of Cofedore People General Admission 50 cents Reserved Seats 75 cents Procenium Boxes Seating 4 - $4.00 Boxes Seating 8 - $4.00 Boxes Seating 5 - $3.00 PROGRAM BEGINS AT 8:30 P.M. MUSIC BY WILLIAM WIGGINS Tickets on Sale at the Crisis Office, 2 Avesa Street dec. 19-31 COMING TO YOUNG'S CASINO, 134th St. & Park Ave. New Years Eve Night TUESDAY EVENING, DEOEMBER 31, 1912 "THE LAST NIGHT IN THIS OLD YEAR." Everybody IN SEARCH OF Real Enjoyment MUSIC - MUSIC - MUSIC RIKER'S CHALLENGE DANCE ORCHESTRA. Playing Twenty Pretty Pieces "SOME GOOD TIMES" Tuesday Evening, December 31, 1918 New Years Eve Night Admission - - 35c. - Admission FRIDAY EVENING December 27, 1912 YOUNG'S CASINO, 134th St. & Park Ave. ...Grand Post Holiday... CARNIVAL and DANCE Handsome, Handy, Holiday Souvenirs FREE TRACEY COOPER and his "SWEETIE DEARS" will Make Much Mirthful Music Mostly Modern Melodies. ADMISSION 35 Cents ADMISSION A second visit to West 53rd street in the section known as "San Juan Hill" has been made by a representative of THE Age in following up the investigation begun several weeks ago as to business conditions among the Negroes. The large Negro population in this section is well represented in business enterprises and it is also the location of several institutions whose work is intended to develop the Negro child's capacity for business and for future living at the same time. One of the most important of these is the Lincoln Day Nursery which was established for the purpose of taking care of children whose mothers are compelled to go out each day to work and have no one to leave in charge of the little tots. Unfortunate mothers whose husbands are unable to get work or who are widows, or whose husbands have deserted them, find in this nursery, which is open from 7 a. m. to 6:30 p.m., a place for their children while they are working where the child is cared for in every way, trained nurses being employed to look after their every need. The Lincoln Day Nursery is located at 202 West Gird street, under the superintendency of Mrs. E. E. Green, who is herself a trained nurse, a graduate of Provident Hospital, Chicago. Under her are two nurses, Mrs. Lottie Mattox and Miss Luce Hubert; Mrs. S. C. Richardson attends to the cooking, Mrs. Oliva Grant the housework, and there is a man to look after the furnace and heavy work generally. Institution Unique. The nursery was established in April, 1910, and is unique in that it is the only institution of the kind established for colored children that is endowed. From the endowment fund an annual income of $5,000 is derived, which is sufficient for the present expenses of the institution. This endowment is provided by one man, a prominent business man and philanthropist, who will not, however, allow his name to be made public. The institution owes its establishment to the inspiration of Mrs. Ernest F. Walton, Hartsdale, N. Y., who conceived it and succeeded in securing the funds necessary for its establishment and maintenance. Mrs. Walton makes frequent visits to the nursery and keeps in close touch with the work. She receives valuable assistance from Mrs. Caldwell, also of Hartsdale, and another lady and two gentlemen whose names cannot be used constitute an advisory board which looks after and provides Mrs. Green, the superintendent with whatever is needed for the work. Children from six weeks to 16 years old are received, and the nursery cares for from thirty-five to forty children every day. The mothers wash, dress and feed their children in the morning before they bring them to the nursery, and they take great pride in having them make a good appearance. At the nursery the children are fed three times a day. A sample bill of fare for one day is: 9:30 a. m., milk and bread; 12:00 m. beef, stew, rice and potatoes; 4:30 p. m., cereals and milk. For the infants who cannot be fed this diet, modified milk is supplied, an outfit being provided in the nursery for the preparation of the milk. The above bill of fare is varied from day to day, other dishes being substituted for the ones given. Many Improvements Made on Nursery Building. The building in which the nursery is located is the property of the Union Baptist Church, 204 West 63rd street, and an annual rental of $1,500 is paid. Before taking possession, the building was remodeled at a cost of $8,000. An additional story was added, making it a four-story building, and special conveniences for the work of the nursery were put in. The first has the mothers' reception room, where they bring the children in the morning. On the second floor is the office of the superintendent; the entire rear is used by the M. F. Walton Kindergarten, the Club for Colored Children under the M. F. Walton Kindergarten Association, and the Music School Settlement. It is used at night as an assembly room by the Childs' Welfare Club, the Kindergarten Motherers' Club, and the Girls' Club Mothers. The Working Girls' Club, under Miss Eva G. Burleigh, meets here on Thursday. On the third floor is the Lincoln Day Nursery. The dining room for staff and children and the nursery proper are on this floor. On the fourth floor are the bedrooms of the staff, the kitchen and laundry, and at the rear is a miniature roof garden where the children spend most of the day playing in the open air. At Mt. Kisco, N. Y., the nursery owns a farm of ten acres, and each year from June to September, the children with their parents are given two weeks of out door life on this farm, going out in groups of fifteen. It is cultivated, and fruits, vegetables, milk and eggs are provided in abundance. An investigation which will cover a year is now being conducted by the gentlemen interested in this work with a view to ascertaining the conditions on "Sam Juan Hill." and this is intended to lead to the further development of the work of the Lincoln Day Nursery. Other institutions on "San Juan Hill." The barber shop at 301 West Street has been run for ten or eleven years. Its present proprietor is U. G. Crooks, and the manager is Mr. Marshall. It is a nice shop, well appointed, with all sanitary appliances, and enjoys a good business. Tyne, the barber, is located at 285 *41rd street, with an up-to-date shop which enjoys a good patronage. He has been in business for two years. At 228 West 63rd street J. T. Jigget runs a fine barber shop, which he opened about three years ago. He gets his share of the patronage. H. Warner, coal, wood, ice and general expressman, is the sign over the basement door at 211 West 63rd street. Has been in business two years and has a good trade. Next door at 213 is located the coal, wood and ice business of H. Warner, who has been in business three or four years, and is doing a good-business. A general express business is conducted at 203 West 63rd street by M. E. Sims. He is perhaps the leading expressman in that section, having been in business about nine or ten years. He is a cousin to Dr. G. H. Sims, pastor Union Baptist Church. At the same number is located the business of the late T. C. Hewlett, who died on his van during September. The business is conducted by his widow. She is assisted by her brother, who is the manager. The business is about ten years old. The Rev. R. R. Mont, undertaker and real estate agent, is located at 211 West 63rd street, where he has been about ten years. The biggest business on the corresponding block of 62nd street is that of Wm. Smith, at 218, who conducts a real estate office. He also handles insurance, mortgages, loans and investments. He owns the building in which his office is located, and has the renting of nearly every apartment house on the block. He has been in business six or seven years. In this square is located the Union Baptist Church, of which the noted Dr. G. H. Sims is pastor. 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After this edition is exhausted, the price will be one dollar. Address the OCCULT SCHOOL OF SCIENCE, 2005 Lexington Avenue, New York City, United States of America. Let Your Child Learn Business. The children of white begin their business career by selling papers and other things. Let your child begin business in a small way. I can start your son or either career in the business or in further information address A. J. Stewart, Postgraduate Institute. Ala.-april-19. Important to School Teachers. Many school teachers, men and women, can only a small salary. I can help them to supplement their salary by writing a short white letter known as the "White Letter" to the school board to request information written to A. J. Stewart, Postgraduate Institute. Ala.-april-19. the church of the city. It is a beautiful place. We wish it devotee is a humane front and cost $2,200. The church had at one time an industrial department, in which classes of young and old were given a chance to learn various useful and lucrative trades. With the establishment of the Henrietta public school at 224 West 63rd street, this department was discontinued and the pupils enrolled with the public school which is open day and night. The church owns also the building next door occupied by the Lincoln Day Nursery and the M. F. Walton Kindergarten. The building is the first colored church built in New York. During the year ending December 1, 1912, the church raised $11,479.2, and disbursed $11,315.72. The value of the church property is given at $106,000. Dr. Sims has been pastor since its organization, and has done a magnificent work in this church and neighborhood. He has baptized 887, preached 1885 sermons, married 772 couples, and attended 1,352 funerals. The present membership of the church is 1,890. Mrs. Sims, who is Dr. Sims' second wife, was Miss Louise D. Russell, of Cumberland, Va. A beautiful and bright little girl, Edith Thelma, blesses their home. Rodney Dade & Bros., undertakers and embalmers, corner West 53rd street and Eighth avenue, are the official undertakers for Bethel Baptist Church. They own their hearse and have built up a splendid business by strict attention to business and considerate treatment of all who have had dealings with them. MAY ELIMINATE NEGRO FROM ARMY Conference to be Held in January When Ranking Officers Meet. Washington, D. C., Dec. 24.—The proposal to eliminate the Negro as an American soldier will be a topic for consideration when the conference of the ranking officers of the army is held here on January 8. Some officers favoring the plan are prepared to urge it on the ground that in the Philippines the natives are said to resent the appearance among them of black troops, and that there are signs of dissatisfaction in Hawaii, owing to the fact that the Twenty-fifth Infantry, a Negro organization, has been ordered to the islands to form a permanent garrison. Friends of the Negro soldiers are preparing to make a strenuous fight in their behalf, pointing to their splendid record in time of war in Cuba and in the Philippines. STOLE NEGRO'S CLOTHES. (From Greenbore, N. C., Daily Record) A rather good looking white man, perhaps 22 years of age, was yesterday tried in Superior Court on a charge of the larceny of a suit of clothes, two shirts and a pair of shoes from a Negro. It was the contention that the man entered the Negro's house in the courthouse and carried the roods away in a suit case, but when the State rested its case proof was lacking. Every indication was that the man stole the clothes, but the evidence to convict was lacking and Judge Wheedbee dismissed the case, remarking to the defendant that he could not be convicted, "but had you been convicted," said Judge Wheedbee, "if a white man will break ten years, a white man will break into a Negro's house and steal should be severely punished," he said. The defendant had no lawyer, but he sat still and did not once rock the boat. TO LET JUST OPENED 113 W. 138th St. 119 W. 138th St. 133 W. 138th St. 135 W. 138th St. 28 and 30 WEST 131st STREET and bath. steam heat, an 151 WEST 133rd STREET, 70 and 72 WEST 142nd STREET 2147 FIFTH AVENUE, 5 ro provements. 10 & 12 WEST 133rd STREET 18 WEST 134th STREET, 6 provements. C. E. HU 5 West 134th Street 138th St. 6 large rooms, bath private rooms and half Rents. 138th St. 6 large rooms bath private rooms and half Rents. 138th St. 6 large rooms, bath private rooms and half Rents. 138th St. 6 large rooms, bath private rooms and half Rents. ST 131st STREET, Elevator apartm. steam heat, and improvements. 133rd STREET, 5 rooms and bath, hot ST 142nd STREET, 4 rooms, all imp. AVENUE, 5 rooms and bath, hot wnts. ST 133rd STREET, 5 rooms, all improv. STREET, 6 rooms and bath, ste. nts. C. E. HUTCHINSON h Street 10 & 12 WEST 133rd STREET, 5 rooms, all improvements. 18 WEST 134th STREET, 6 rooms and bath, steam heat, improvements. C. E. HUTCHINSON 5 West 134th Street N. Y. City TO RENT 3 private houses to at a moderate rental. Inquire AO Room 915 CARETAKER SIDNEY L. 314 West Management of Harlem Bond Given. RENTS I 82 West 120th Street, corner Am- turdam Ave. 3 rooms, range and tube.....$18 3 rooms, front.....$11 E1 Lawrence St. 3 rooms, range and tube.....$14 ALL APARTMENTS HAVE Inquire of Jennifer or W. MORAN, nov.7-4t CHEAPEST RENT IN MARLEM Open for impa- ments, handoomed trance; 2, 3, 4 large ranges, hot water Rent, $8 to $16 See OWNER near Third Avenue Under New Management 901 Grant Avenue Half block from 161st street cresstown cars. 4 and 5 large, light rooms, steam hot water, all improvements. Rent, $16 up. Concessions. dec.5-4 223 to 229 W. 40th St. 5 and 6 rooms and bath. Modern Improvements. REDUCED RENTS Apply to JANITOR aug 22-1f 223 West 40th Street 174 EAST 77th ST. Cheapest Cleanest Best 3 rooms. For quiet people. 174 EAST 77th ST. dec 12-3mo 60 & 162 W. 250 state houses to respectable color rate rental. Inquire AGE OFFICE or 31 LIBE CARETAKER ON PREMISES EY L. WARSAW 314 West 42nd Street ment of Harlem Colored Property a spec Phone NTS REDUCE 3 private houses to respectable colored tenants at a moderate rental. Management of Harlem Colored Property a specialty. Bond Given. Phone Bryant 622 RENTS REDUCED MORAN, 366 W. 126th Open for inspection, the finest new fixtures, handsomely decorated throughout; armor; 2, 3, 4 large, light airy rooms; all in ranges, hot water supply, tiled baths and open rooms, 88 to 116. See OWNER or JANITOR, 214-18 E. Pearl Third Avenue. W. MORAN, 366 W. 126th ST. TO LET We Pay Your Moving Expenses 214-218 and 226 West 64th st., 3 large light rooms; modern conveniences. Rents $11 and $12 per month. 309 East 97th st., 4 large rooms, $10. W. M. Smith, 218 West 64th street, or Janitor on premises. dec,19-3m ONLY COLORED HOUSE IN BLOCK 49 EAST 129TH ST. Near Madison Ave.; clean house; 3 and 4 light rooms; thoroughly cleaned; ranges, hot water supply; rents from $12 up; easy payments to good tenants. dec,19- 856 Ninth Near 56th St 5 large, light rooms are quiet house, Only color block. Rent $20-$22. Apply to Janitor, Peters, L. WILLIS. 124 Advertise in T as all-around tailor; Address E. B. Gray. Dec12-14 ED MALE. Special $60.00 course guaranteed good until died; real inmates B. Imperial Arte by violinist who also Lyceum Broman. WANTED—A first-class all-around tailor; must be first class. Address E. B. Gray, Box 906, Topeka, Nov. Dec12-47 HELP WANTED MALE. Auto Instruction—Special $40.00 course this month $35.00. Guaranteed good until pursued State examination; read lessons $1.60; per hour $3.00. Imperial Auto School, $25 W. 67th. HELP—A young lady violinist who also sings. Address Colt Lyons Bunce, Cleveland, Ohio. WANTED 6 large rooms, bath, steam heat private rooms and halls. Moderate Rents. 6 large rooms bath, steam heat private rooms and halls. 6 large rooms, bath, steam heat private rooms and halls. Moderate Rents. 6 large rooms, bath, steam heat private rooms and halls. Moderate Rents. ET, Elevator apartment of 5 rooms, all improvements. 5 rooms and bath, hot water. ET, 4 rooms, all improvements. rooms and bath, hot water, all im- ET, 5 rooms, all improvements. rooms and bath, steam heat, im- TCHINSON 62 W. 25th St. respectable colored tenants E OFFICE or 31 LIBERTY ST. ON PREMISES WARSAWER 42nd Street Colored Property a specialty. Phone Bryant 622 REDUCED 366 West 126th Street. 2 rooms, range, tube and bath ...10 2 rooms, range, tube and bath ...10 366 West 126th Street. 3 rooms, range and tube ...10 2 rooms, range and tube ...10 2 front rooms ...10 QUARTER METERS 366 W. 126th ST. action, the finest new fireproof apart- decorated throughout; elegant en- light airy rooms; all improvements, supply, tiled baths and open plumbing. JANITOR, 214-18 E. 127th Street, nov.7-tf RENTS REDUCED 36-38-40 W. 65th Street Most high-class location in New York. Done over to suit tenant. Select families only. dec. 12-tf JANITOR on Premises DO YOU WANT A HOME? LISTEN! We are selling lots at beautiful Westwood, N. J., from $90 up for $1 a week. When lot is paid for we will build you a five or six room houses with improvements for $500 and up. No money down. Move in or rent it out and pay $25 quarterly. FREE Tickets to property. Call or write WOMEN'S REALTY CO., 1931 Broadway, N. Y. City, mov. 7-3m 52nd Street West No. 325-327-329-331 Rigent Plain. 5 rooms and bath. Renta. $24.00 to $32.00 Reference required nov.19-44 Inquire of JANITOR 159 W. 61st Street Only rooms in the block open to Colored Feminine Four rooms, bath and hot water supply. Rent $21. Also two rooms on a weekly or monthly renting. et. 31 tf INQUIRE ON PREMIERS 10 LET 554-560 W. 126th St. Near Broadway Apartments of 4 large, light rooms, improvements, newly renovated. Res- pectable tenants. Moderate Rooms sept 26-8pm Apply JANITOR 856 Ninth Ave. Near 56th Street 5 large, light rooms and bath: very quiet house. Only colored house on block. Rent $20-$22. Apply to Janitor, Peters, or June 30-41 I. WILLES. 125 W. 116th St. Advertise in The Age 253 & 255 W.143rd St. Three Especially Miraculous Houses LARGE PRIVATE ROOMS, and HALLS; Steam and Telephone Service Suites of 5 and 6 Rooms. Select Block New Halk Month on Movien in Rent Reasonnable 63 & 65 -- 67 & 69 W. 131st St. "The HAMPTON & The BERWICK" SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS AND SPECIAL PRICES TO RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE 7 large, private rooms and halls; Servants quarters; butler's pantry; steam boat and open grate fire. Two doors from Lenox Avenue. 67{ West 140th Street "THE BELLECLAIR;" one 6 room Suite, in this most excellent house, with Phone and all convenient services. $30 per month. N. Y. City 131 { West 138th Street 6 large rooms, private halls, rooms, baths and all conveniences, near 7th Avenue. $28 to $32 per month. 10 { East 132nd Street 4 large rooms, percolate bath, hot water, front apartments. $18 per month. 11 { East 181st Street 6 Large, Light, beautiful rooms, steam heated halls and bath. $22 to $34 per month. 2214 { 5th Avenue 5 Large and very comfortable room; hot water and bath—between 134th and 138th Streets—$22 to $34 per month. JNO. M. ROYALL 21 W.134th St. TO LET 14-16-18-20 East 134th Street 5 large, light rooms. Rent $15 per month. Apply C. E. HUTCHINSON 5 West 134th St. NOTICE REDUCED RENTS 329 and 331 West 39th St. 4 large rooms with large pavement, $4.50 to $4.50 3 large rooms with improvements, $1.50 to $1.50. Well kept homes. Apply to JANETT or JOS. LEVY & SON, 389-8th Ave. APARTMENTS TO LET 115 WEST 60th STREET, 8 and 6 rooms. Rent $64 to $82. 2844 FIFTH AVENUE, 6 rooms and bath, hot water. Rent $17 and $28. 638 WEST 40th STREET, 8 rooms. Rent $7 and $11. 2188 FIFTH AVENUE, 6 rooms and bath. Rent $13 and $28. 107 WEST 180th STREET, 8 rooms and bath, hot water. Rent $22 1 Wax. 440 WEST 180th STREET, 6 rooms and bath. Rent $13 and $28. 194 WEST 184th STREET, 5 rooms, bath, hot water. Rent $12, 6 WEST 183th STREET, 9 rooms and bath. Rent $12. Private room. 26 WEST 183rd STREET, 7 rooms and bath. Private room. Room. 170 WEST 183rd STREET, 5 rooms and bath. Hot water. 1st FLOOR suitable for bedroom. Rent $15. 57 WEST 90th STREET, hot floor, 6 rooms, $15. 312 WEST 133rd STREET, 2nd floor, 5 rooms and bath, hot water. Room. 44 WEST 133rd STREET, 6 rooms and bath, hot water. Rent $15. 138 WEST 139th STREET, Just opened. 6 rooms and bath, stairs and hot w Route $20 to $32. NAIL @ PARKER, Agents Phone 7682 Morning 145 West 135th Street Real Estate & Insurance J. KELLY. 422-6th Avenue Sunday afternoon at St Mark's coloured a Christmas program was is a 14 under the direction of H. L. strutte newly elected president. It and the wittened by a lave gather the who took part were: Adhocer J. H. Anderson; violin solo, circus Wingina; selection by the La Music Probaterian Church of Jersey pamphletist M. W. Wilkinson, C. H. Coffee has his Poetry and a reading by his Pramie Dr Knight. Other Abbreviations made by the Rev. Dr. W. hat was and C. H. Allen. Before the against the newly elected officers were for only Juliet Club held its fifth meeting every residence of Mrs. Frank Chambers-brooklyn, N. Y., Saturday afternoon December 14. The Juliet Club is so recently organized and its set a dreaming and military-wizarded bus and hats. Each one helps the Man in that way they turn out pleasurable beautiful gowns. The club planner of Mrs Victoria Bishop, Miss Stacey Dixon, Mrs Lennon, Miss Terry, Mrs Kitty H. Ward and Miss Louise Latimer. After Geoffrey has a tumultuous repast was Moore. Mrs. Frances C. Cameron, 214 West 83rd street, celebrated her 83rd birthday, Friday, December 26, 1912. She was born in 1827 at Hamilton, Berkshire, Massachusetts. She is survived by children. Although her sight is slightly impaired, she is in good health physically, and received a number of friends who called to congratulate her on her 83rd birthday. Cameron was a nurse for forty years during which time she was associated with more than sixty of the leading physicians of New York. She is the mother of one of them, Mrs. E. E. Green, the superintendent of the Lincoln Day Nursery, 202 West 63rd street. The Club for Colored Children from six to sixteen years, under the M. F. Walton Kindergarten Association, 612 West 63rd street, Miss Helena Titus Miller and Miss Emeline McCabe assistants, had a Christmas tree for the children Friday afternoon. December 9. The tree was decorated with presents for parents of the children, which were the handwork of the children themselves. A number of friends and parents were present to hear the children's money and to see them at their games and dances. Among those who knew her was Ellen McCabe one of the chief patronesses of the institution. Grand Emancipation Celebration There will be a fulltime mass meeting in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negro women. Woman's Christian Association, 143 West 34th street, at 4 o'clock. Addresses will be delivered by Mrs James B. Cushman, first vice president, A. Mrs. M. C. Lawson of Brooklyn, and Dr. Reverdy C. Ramson, editor of the A. M. F. Church Review. Appropriate music will be rendered. The public is cordially invited to be present. AMONG THE CHURCHES Saint Davida Church. Amid the ringing of the Christmas bell St. David's Parish sends forth a message of greetness and good will to throughout the greater city, who have helped to hear the burdens of the work during another year. The work in the parish has been a source or great blessing and happiness to the faithful recipient, are bearing with him his responsibilities. The Advent services have been attended by large and interested congregations. Las Sunday the special service was attended by the Rev. Dr. Corrine B. Smith, rector consecrate of St. James' Church, 78th street and Madison avenue, who is an old and interested friend of the mission. The friends and members are reminded and currently invited to attend the watch night services to be held at 11 o'clock on next Wednesday evening, having one hour. The watch night services shall appear the New Year will have come and here again an opportunity is taken to send forth an opportunity to friends the New Year's greetings, in the hope that the Jews and members of the parish will be fully involved in the possibility of the future. We renew again our cordial invitation to our friends, especially those without a church home to come to St. David's and thus fulfill to themselves obligations which the New Year demands. Abysainian Baptist Church. The Rev. A. Chayton Powell, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, is not only an exceedingly practical preacher, but an intense lover of his race. This was evidence in his Christ-centered preaching: "He not grumble and complain about your trials and difficulties but weave them into character and usefulness and success. Are you discriminated against because of the color of your race, or against because of your status and desire you. Do not try to get away from your race by passing off for a white person or an Indian, or Cuban, or Philippine or a Frenchman, but just be a real Negro. Stick to the race. Do not be distracted by your color. Save your money, but your money and share all allow Negro to live in your heart, and you will make dark skin a badge of the most manhood and manhood in America. I am optimistic enough to believe, that if the Negro were to be allowed to To Hell with the Constitution, lynching Negroes for not paying their debts, and living upon grant received everywhere from disorderly houses, that we can so mould and shape our people within a hundred years white people will be trying to pass off for Negroes." John Braxton, 100 West 727th street was buried from the church on Thursday evening of last week. The deceased was born in Richmond, Va., and was five-lived in New York for the past fifty-five years. He was one of the best known among the older colored men of the city. He had been a member of Terry Lodge G. U. O. F for thirty-three years, of the Love and Charity Society for thirty years, and of the Southern Beneficial League for forty years. He was one of the Founders of the Abbyssinian Baptist Church. Mr. Brown served as deacon of the Abbyssinian Church for forty-three years. The deacons acted as ministers, and a littered cemetery was delivered by the pastor. The deceased was buried by a widow, Mrs Sarah E. Benson, a widow, and a widow, Mrs Joe. Alice Duncan and Mims Edith Johnson. The church was beautifully decorated last Sunday and there were large audiences morning and evening. The collection of books and gifts, 15,000 and 10,000 for the church and of the community a Christmas dinner which was served by the Missionary Society. Power will preach next Sunday morning and R.C. B. C. H. former pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church, will speak in the evening. There will be watch meeting services at the Church Tuesday night beginning at 10:30 a.m. a pennish in the main auditorium and the Rev. William Johnson in the vestry. 127 West 53rd St. UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT 27, 1912 Brocking Green Street St. Mark's M. E. Churoh. Christmas services were observed at St. Mark's M. E. Church, Sunday, December 22. The services were of a highly creditable nature and were carved morning the exercises began with the resumption of the processional by the choir, singing Mendelsohn's "Hark the Herald Angels Sing." After the regular ritualistic services Miss M. Brown and Abu Daesh Lily sang a piece by Theil Shuppi. Their Shop by Night. Dr. Wm. H. Brookes delivered an excellent sermon on the nativity of Jesus Christ to a large congregation, and the choir sang "The Lord Gave Me At the close of the Season." The Sevenfold Amen" for the first time. In the evening directly following a short sermon by the pastor, the choir rendered a Christmas cantata entitled "The Manger Throne" by Charles Fong. Minnie Brown, soprano; Mme. Daisey Taplay, contralto; George Taylor, basso and W. Reece, tenor. The choir was accompanied throughout the day by Messrs. Theodore Gibson, Stanley Harding, Frederick Pedro and Maurice W. Reece, tenor. The largest for the day, standing room only being available. At the loyceum hour the newly elected president presented an exceptionally successful a caper by Mrs L. W. Maydale an address, "Pett Lying," J. Anderson, violin solo; Wm. Wiglgae reading; Mme. Fannie deKnight, and selections by the city bishopry of Merrill City, county of Measur, J. M. Washington, M. W. Williamson, C. J. Coffey and E. R. Hayne. The following officers for the ensuing year were Hayne L. Pryor; vice president; G. Wilton Marshall; recording secretary. Mrs. Louisa Southall; corresponding secretary. J. Hainibah Thomas; treasurer; G. Wilton Marshall; chapitae. Mrs L. W. Mayfield; Executive Hour; Mrs M. C. Copeland, Mrs. Estelle Berkley, Miss Lottie Wilson, Miss Maynana G. Clarke, Foster, Goo, Young, John G. Clarke, Joseph Dugan and William Moorehouse. Christmas Sunday at Salem. The Rev. Cullen, the pastor, preached were added to the church. The Sunday school and young men's Bible class were largely attended. At 4 o'clock the auditorium of the church was crowded with a refined and cultured audience. G. W. Moore, of Columbia University, delivered the oration the subject was "Christian Patriotism." Miss Lois Kate Walker, the solitist, with her clear and sweet soprano voice has never been heard to a better soloist. "Christian Patriotism," rendered by Miss Moe C. Prime and D. N. Prime, accompanied by Miss Amy V. Prime, was a treat. The Christmas essay read by Miss W. Allen, the Workhouse," were of a high order. The Choral Union rendered special music. W. W. Allen, the president, was in charge. Sunday at 4 o'clock Herrman E. Foster will have charge of the program. Club Dinner and Smash It was a notable party of gentlemen who gathered in apartment 33, Victoria Flats, 552 Lenox avenue Saturday evening, December 21, the occasion being a dinner and smoker celebrating the opening of the rooms of the Montezuma Social Club, a new addition to club life among the Negroes of New York. The rooms are handsomely fitted up and the club will be one of the popular meeting places for political, business, professional and social leaders of New York. Walter W. Washington is at the head of affairs and the house committee is composed of C. M. Battley, Warrick Cheeseman, John Emmons and Wm. C. Thomas. A spiked dinner was served to the guests at the smoker, roast turkey, boiled ham and chicken salad being the principal dishes served. Among those present were Counselors Marshall, Carr, Sweed, Monsieur Hughes, Wilson, Creviel, Cheesman Emmons, Williams, Capt. Jackson. Oak Leaf Social GISB Presentation On December 12, the Oak Leaf Social Club of Brooklyn gave a presentation and dance at Moses Hall, West 30th Street and presented to Friendship and Love Society, No. 1 of New York a beautiful banner. The guests on the occasion were the Pour Leaf Clover Club of New York; the S. P. U. No. 2 of New York; Friendship and Love, No. 2 of Brooklyn; and Ladies P. U. No. 5 of New York. J. Harris was Master of Cemerald. The Masters of Oak Leaf Social club are: Carrow Harris, president; Mrs. Emma Davis, vice-president; Ev. Hamilton, financial secretary; Lillie Reed, treasurer. A. J. Harris, recording secretary. Owing to going to press one day earlier all available master received after Tuesday will appear in work week issue. DIED. BRAXTON:—On December 16, 1912, at his lace residence, 100 West 77th street, Dearborn John Braxton entered into rent. For ever Abysinian Baptist Church and filled that office in truth, and in deed. He was a faithful Abysinian Baptist Church and filled that office in town, Southern Beneficial League, Ms. Olive Taberancelle, No. 110, and branches of Love and Charity for thirty years, and a faithful Baptist Church. He will be missed for his good deeds and counsel. Surviving him to mourn their love is a loving wife, dutiful son, niece, and nephew. MRS. SARAH E. BRAXTON BAXTON. GEORGE BRAXTON "Sleep on and rest in the arms of Iena." Better houses for Negro tenants at the same rates that tenants of other nationalities have to pay, has been the motto influencing the real estate agency of John M. Royall, a firm composed of John M. Royall and Geo. W. Royall, and located at 21 W. 134th street, Manhattan. In this effort it has also been necessary to endeavor to secure a better class of tenants, and to this end an effort was made by Geo. W. Royall to interest the ministers of the city that they might lend their co-operation in a movement leading to the betterment of conditions among the Negroes of New York. The following letter was addressed to twenty-nine of the leading citizens of New York, including ministers, physicians, lawyers, newspaper men and business men. New York, Nov. 6, 1912. If you are interested in the improvement of life among the college office Monday, November 11, 8 p.m. The meeting will last twenty min- "Yours very truly, (firmed) "JOHN M. BOXALL" In response to this letter one minister, the Rev. J. K. Humphrey, pastor Harlem S. D. A. Church, responded. His talk with Mr. Royall resulted in a letter being sent to the ministers by the Rev. Mr. Humphrey inviting them to a consultation for the purpose of considering plans to better the social condition of the Negro in Harlem. To this meeting two ministers came. Notwithstanding this apparent laxity of the effort of the ministers, Mr. Royall has gone steadily forward in this effort and though it has meant the loss of money both to the firm and to the property owners, it has not stopped them. In fact, the landlords have joined heartily with the firm in their efforts to provide better houses for the better class of tenants and in some instances houses have been kept vacant rather than put undesirable tenants in them. All prospective tenants are required to furnish references as to their personal standing as well as their financial ability, and these references are always investigated. This entails a large amount extra fee for the office force, but the result justify it. A large extent the Royall properties are kept free from objectionable elements and the respectable class is kept freer them is usual from contact with undesirable neighbors. The same policy is maintained in the employment of their office force. Not alone must the prospective employee be thoroughly efficient and trained to perform the duties required but their personal character and standing is a prime consideration. This policy preserves a high order of efficiency among its employees, but to increase this factor, what George W. Royall terms 'efficiency meetings' are held once or twice each month when the employee ascribed to the firm by the heads of the firms upon those points which make for increased satisfaction in the service given the public generally, the tenants and landlords in particular. The firm is liberal in its treatment to its tenants when tenants are deserving, and they treat their employees in a way to increase their efficiency and make their service more satisfactory to the public and to the firm. Besides the hands of the firm, John M. and George W. Royall, there are employed M. H. Royall, superintendent of repairs; Morris Crim, C. P. A., head bookkeeper; Mortimer Smith, assistant bookkeeper; Miss Affreda Benay, head stenographer; Miss Madeline L. Army, assistant stenographer; W. H. Greene, head collector; W. H. Worcester, Wim Tanner, porter. All of the office force porters are specially trained and are capable of filling any temporary vacancy that might occur in the office force or of supplying extra service in case of an emergency. Besides the office force the firm employs from sixty-five to seventy janitors, and fifteen to twenty mechanics of various trades, who look after repairs on the many properties they handle. On Christmas eve at 2.30 o'clock the entire force were summoned to the office and after holding the regular "efficiency meeting" for the end of the month, the firm gave all of the force handsome gifts for their Christmas, and a half-holiday in which to make preparations for a joyous celebration. The Ace calls special attention to their half-page advertisement which appears in this issue. RED CAPS ELECTION The Amalgamated Railroad Employees Association, formed by the Red Caps, held the annual election of officers Wednesday evening, December 18 at the association's gala dinner, with Lenox avenue. The following officers were chosen: S. A. Jordan, last vice president; W. Brownwell, first vice president; Edward William, financial secretary; Edward Jones, record secretary; W. S. Bates, correspondent secretary; John Ellen, vanguard-staff. FEVER DESTROYED HER HAIR. Two years ago I had a fever which took hours to heal. I have a nice head of hair, long and thick; have a nice head of hair, long and thick; Mrs. Garrett, 6190 Dearborn St., Chicago. Ford's Hair Pomade is the old, time-tried remedy for harsh and unruly hair that has long been the favorite for over fifty years. Ford's Hair Pomade is a non-irritant skin remedy. It makes the skin white immediately upon application. Ask your drugstore about these remedies and get Ford's, company, by the phone or enclosed Ox Marlow Company, Chicago, IL. INSTANT RELIEF ASSOCIATION (Incorporated 1905) If you are three months in arrears and have no money you just tell the man. Jobs now and tell you the information formation and circulars call or write to the man. Phone: 555-1234. Web: www. City: Thebes 580 Greeley. E-mail: soyl14-3n RELIGIOUS NOTICES ABBETINIAN BAPTIST CHURCH, 242-46 West 40th St., between 7th and 8th Bldg. Sunday Services—11 a. m. and 7.20 p. m. Holy Communion every first Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7.80 p. m. Sunday School 2 p. m. Sunday Morning Band prayer meeting 8 p. m. Weekly Prayer Meetings—Tuesdays and Fridays at 8 p. m. D. W. B. 8 p. m. Thursday. HOME MISSION SOCIETY—Second Wednesday in each month at 8 p. m. Rev. A. C. Powell, D. D. Pastor, residence, 225 W. 134th street; phone, Morriganidge 1000 a. m. from 1 to 2 p. m. daily and Thursday from 1 to 7 p. m. UNION BAPTIST CHURCH, 204-6 WEST 654th Street, City, Dr. G. H. pastor, Preaching Sunday 11 a. m. Sunday School 2 p. m. Weekly Meetings Sunday and Friday. Pastor's residence 10 West 654th street, City, Phone 111 NORTHERN A. M. R. SION CHURCH, 127 West 90th Street, Burl. R. M. Bolem, Burl. R. M. Bolem, Sunday Services—11 a.m. and 7.45 p.m. Daily Communion every second Sunday at 3 p.m. Morning Class—12.50 p.m. Sunday School at 2 p.m. Variable Christening Schools, 6.90 Worship—Class Meetings every Tuesday and Wednesday evening. Prayer Meeting—Friday evening. BATS FREE, PUBLIC INVITED. Bats from 11.30 to 2.30 JULY-19 ST. GLIVEN BAPTIST CHURCH, 109-110 West 90th Street, between 6th and Bur. W. P. Boynt, D. D., pastor. Preaching Services every Sunday at 11 a.m. at 5.90 p.m. Sunday School at 2.30 p.m. Sunday. B. V. P. U. meets every Sunday at 5.20 p.m. B. V. P. II. Literary meets every Wednesday at 5 p.m. The Weekly Prayer Meeting on Friday meeting at 9 p.m. Clerk of the School, second Monday evoking in every month. Young Men's Social Club, every month or the third Sunday evening. Visitors are made welcome. june-19 ST. DAVID'S CHURCH, 164 East 180th Street, New York, Burl. R. W. George Clement, D. D., Burl. R. W. George, 118 East 187th St. Burl. R. W. George, 111 a.m. Burl. R. W. Library and Sunday School 2.30 p.m. 8 p.m. evening service. A coed welcome to all. ST. CEPHANE'S CHAPEL PROTECTANT INTERNATIONAL, 17 W. 656 C. REV. JNO. W. JOHNSON, Priest in church. Sunday Services—11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday School 2.30 p.m. 157 West 51st street, bet. 8th and 9th avenues, New York City. Rey William R. Lawton. "Stated Supply. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Prayer meeting evening at 8.16. Sunday school at 1 p. m. Y. P. B. C. E. 4 p. m. Sundays. Holy Communion first Sunday in each month at 8 p. m. A CORDIAL WELCOME TO ALL. mar18-19 87. 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