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VOL. XXX Nq. 14. 463 GET XMAS DINNER & HELP Pastor Sims and Miss Jonas Bring Cheer to the Poor of Columbus Heights. 125 Baskets, with Chickens and Food Stuffs, and Shoes, Clothing and Toys Handed Out to Old and Young. Third St. Church, Its Pastor and Officers Have Made the Xmas Celebration a Factor in Changing Character of Neighborhood- Church Has Made Great Record During Its 18 Years of Existence. Christmas on Columbus Hill, formerly known to New Yorkers and the country as well, as San Juan Hill, would not be Christ- THE REV. GEORGE H. SIMS. mas to the poor children ar 1 their parents unless the ywere afforded the privilege of going to Union Baptist Church, 204-6 West 63rd street, the Rev. George H. Sims, pastor, and being loaded down with good things to eat, comfortable clothes to wear, and in specially needy cases, with money to secure other necessities. For a dozen years or more this charity has been expressed at this church by this big-hearted pastor and his good people, and all Columbus Hill, with applicants even from the far East Side, look forward with anticipations of having their suffering relieved at Christmas time. The pastor has been assisted in this charitable enterprise by Miss Rosalie M. Jonas of 53 East 56th street, a well-to-do white woman, a writer, an artist and a warm-hearted philanthropist, who, in seeking to find what she might do to relieve the necessities of the poor children of San Juan Hill, came in personal contact with the Rev. Mr. Sims. With her assistance, this movement was instituted, and each year since then Miss Jonas has brought to this community a helping hand. And not only has she put her own personality into the work, but she has enlisted from time to time, the help of her strong and influential friends. The result is that not only are the poor helped, but this movement has been one of the strong factors in changing the character of the community from bad to good. Growth of Union Church. For this year's gifts there had been provided 125 baskets containing a Christmas dinner, a chicken and all the things needed. being in each basket; there were 35 pairs of shoes, 15 pairs of rubbers, innumerable dresses, skirts, stockings, sport caps, pants, sweaters, caps, hats, infants' outfits, blouses, toys and $356 in cash. The beating of a big base drum called the people together and when they had assembled it was found that not only was the old "San Juan" section fully represented but there was also a group of needy Italians from the East Side. Four hundred and sixty-three persons were provided for. Miss Jones was assisted this year by her friend, Miss Huested, and there was present; also, among others, (Continued on page two) The image provided is too blurry and low-resolution to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a blank or heavily distorted image with no discernible content. Therefore, no text can be extracted from this image. RICHARD GREEN, W. H. JOHNSON J. E. YATES G. D. DICKERSON W. H. TOWNS E. D. HARRIS Washington Bureau, The New York Age, 609 F Street N. W. T. Thomas Fortune, Manager WASHINGTON, D. C. — Washington outdid itself during the holidays in the magnificent displays of notions and fancies in the stores, in the crowds of sightseers and buyers, and in the entertainments of all kinds given in the homes and all sort of public places. There has not appeared to be any scarcity of money among the people, although the city has plenty of poor, who "are always with us," and for whom the charitable people make some provision. But the poor of every city, and in all times and places, are much like Mother Earth, the more you give them, the more you feed to them, the more they need, the more they absorb. In going over the city and noticing the vast number of stores, little and big, owned by native and foreign white people, and the great number of colored people among the crowds of sightseers and shoppers, it is saddening to notice the utter absence of large stores and the limited number of small ones operated by colored people, those they have being patronized in a niggardly fashion, while those in the same neighborhood conducted by white persons are being crowded with buyers. The race will always be poor and dependent as long as it patronizes white business concerns and refuses to patronize its own. It is the same with the newspapers. Time out of date Washington has been looked upon as "the graveyard of colored newspapers," and nobody has seemed to hit upon the real reason for it. There are some one hundred thousand colored people in the District of Columbia, and it should be easy for them to support handsomely a daily newspaper; they certainly need one, but, far from doing so, the two weekly newspapers they have subsist and have their weekly being upon the husks left after the white newspapers have been purchased and religiously read. It is a fair conclusion that some fifty thousand colored people must read the white afternoon newspapers every day. This is all the more remarkable because these newspapers do not carry the news colored people want and seldom publish an editorial about them that benefit or pleases them. Another humiliating feature about it is that the white newspapers of Washington do not employ colored reporters, and seldom send a reporter after any colored news, however important it may be. The colored people interested have to write what they wish published, take it to the office and depend upon the generosity of the city editor not to "blue pencil" the life out of it. But Washington is not the only city where that sort of thing prevails and is tolerated. Perhaps we shall outgrow the disease, but it has been a very long time with us, and will kill us in the end if we do not outgrow it. In the neighborhood of Fourteenth and U. streets, northwest, there are two eating places of the cheaper sort, run by Greeks, that are crowded by colored people all of the time; workmen they are, but the same persons could patronize from one to six eating places run by colored people between Seventh and Fourteenth streets. But they do WILLIAM STANLEY DAVID MILES TEMPLE GRYMES ISIAH PATRICK PETER JONES M. E. SIMS nothing of the sort, and the places are closing and reopening all of the time, the failure of one seeming not to discourage another in the same business. I noticed the same thing in Norfolk, Va. when a nice restaurant in the colored district, on Queen street, has to close, while three Greek places across the street were doing a land office business in colored trade. It should be worth while to those most concerned to reflect upon the conditions indicated in the preceding paragraphs, with the pasing of 1916. The reflection might lead them to determine (Continued on page two) TO HOLD CONFERENCE ON NEGRO MIGRATION On Friday, January 26, a conference on Negro migration will be held at the Russell, Sage Foundation Building, 22d street and Lexington avenue, under the auspices of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes. This conference is to be national in character and will consist of two sessions, one in the afternoon and one in the evening. At the conference will be representatives of national organizations throughout the country, including churches, welfare movements and schools. The purpose of the conference is to bring before the leaders of the various communities into which the Negroes are migrating the importance of aiding them to adjust themselves to their new environment so that when the war ceases and immigration increases, the Negroes may be well entrenched in their positions and may be worthy citizens of their adopted homes. Some of those who are expected to be present and contribute to the success of the meeting are Dr. R. R. Morton, John Hope, president of Morehouse College; J. E. Moreland, national secretary Y. M. C. A.; John Mitchell, of the State Federation of Women's Clubs; Dr. George E. Haynes, of the National League on Urban Conditions, and Mrs. S. W. Layten, secretary of the Philadelphia Association for the Protection of Colored Women. L. Hollingsworth Wood, president of the National Urban League will preside. The sessions will be open to the public and all persons who are interested in this question are invited to attend. $42,000 VERDICT FOR ATTACK ON MAN'S HOME (Special to THE NEW YORK, ACR.) MEMPHIS, TENN.—Upholding the doctrine. that "a man's home is his castle and he has a right to defend it," which Judge John E. McCall emphasized in his charge, a jury in Federal Court here has awarded to Matthew Harris, a Negro, $22,500 compensatory and $20,000 punitive damages in his suit against John A: Reichman, former sheriff of Shelby County, and members of a sheriff's posse. Harris, who sued for $100,000, was seriously hurt when his home was dynamited in an attempt to dislodge him after he had fired on the posse which was searching for one of his relatives. Harris testified that he didn't know the identity of the possemen. HAMPTON INSTITUTE GETS $10,000 FOR XMAS As a memorial to the late Robert G. Ogden an auditorium is being erected at Hampton Institute, and Simon Guggenheim and his brothers have made a special Christmas gift of $10,000, to be applied toward its completion. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1916. THE REV. GEORGE L. SHELF, PASTOR. J. M. HAYWOOD HARRY WEBB S. W. MCHOLS W. T. MCHOLS CHAR MALLS PAGE MONROE CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUBS PAY LARGE SUMS Harlem Depository Pays Out in Four Days to Members of Club Nearly $130,000. Ninety Per Cent of the Depositors were Negroes—Many Southern Banks Paid Out Large Sums to Christmas Club Members—Negro Banker Invents Machine to Wait On 30 People a Minute. An unusual sight was witnessed on Tuesday, December 19, at the corner of One Hunred and Thirty-fifth street and Seventh avenue. More than a thousand persons formed a line which began at that corner and ran back through One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street to Lenox avenue; the line being handled and controlled by three uniformed policemen, detectives and a special officer employed by the Chelsea Exchange Bank, which began at 5 o'clock on that day to cash the checks which had previously been mailed to 7,500 depositors in the Christmas Savings Club conducted by the bank. Manager, Charles G. Rapp and his staff of assistants were overwhelmed. It was necessary to admit the holders of checks in squads of about fifteen at a time, but as everybody wanted to be sure and get their money at the earliest possible moment, the officers had their hands full to hold them in check. This was the second year of the Christmas Savings Club as conducted by the Harlem Branch of the Chelsea Exchange Bank, and the number of depositors had increased from 4,200 the first year, with a total on deposit of about $60,000, to a list of 7,500 accounts, totalling practically $130,000. 90 Per Cent of Depositors Were Negroes. According to figures furnished THE Age by Manager Rapp, fully 90 per cent of the people depositing in the savings' club were colored, and they included all classes, from the tot in the kindergarten to the business and professional man. Individual deposits ranged from a few cents, where depositors had begun an account, but failed to continue the deposits, to figures aggregating two good sized units. This is accounted for, of course, by the fact that Harlem's population is practically all colored in the section from Seventh to Madison avenue between One Hundred and Thirtieth and One Hundred and Fortieth streets. Many of those who received checks from the Christmas Savings Club are expected to become depositors in the regular savings department of the bank, which pays 3½ per cent interest on accounts over $25. Manager Rapp enclosed a card with each check which informed the receivers that owing to the inadequate size of the bank's present quarters, the Christmas Club would have to be abandoned after this year. Members were advised that membership A. MORRIS BROWN I. DEBROSS L. HUDSON I. HARISTON I. JOSEPH S. H. GUNN could be obtained, however, in a club which will be conducted by a department store banking department on the east side. The distance will probably prevent many colored Hattemites from joining. Christmas Cities in the South From a number of the cities in various southern states, there have come reports of Christmas Savings Clubs which were of extraordinary value in inducing the people to save money in small amounts throughout the year. Anderson & Co., bankers, 402 Broad street, Jacksonville, Fla., of which Charles H. Anderson, treasurer of the National Negro Business League, is cashier, issues an annual statement which shows that the 1916 club had more than 3,200 members, with deposits aggregating more than $27,000. Mr. Anderson has invented a machine to be used in caring for the business of the 1917 club which will automatically wait on thirty customers per minute, and which is calculated to revolutionize the handling of savings clubs accounts. It will prevent shortages of all kinds. The machine is patented and is now in operation in Mr. Anderson's bank. He expects to have a general demand for it and to have it used generally by banks throughout the country. He has named it "The Washington." in honor of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington. From Richmond, Va., comes the report that two Negro banks there paid out $69,000. The Mechanics' Savings Bank, John Mitchell, president, paid out to 7,200 accounts a total of $60,000 while the Luke Penny Savings Bank, conducted by a fraternal organization, paid to 750 depositors $9,000. A year ago Mr. Mitchell who is also the editor of the Richmond Planet, paid out $23,000. Reports that make as good showing have been made from several other of the Negro banking institutions through the south. ANITA BUSH AWARDED ALIMONY AND FEES The New York Law Journal of December 22 published the following item: By Mr. JUSTICE GREENBAUM: Givens vs. Givens—Granted as follows: $8 weekly alimony and $75 counsel fee, alimony to commence December 20, 1916, and counsel fee to be paid in weekly installments of $10, commencing December 29, 1916. Interest in the above item centers in the fact that the parties concerned are Mrs. Anita Bush Givens known to the theatrical profession as Anita Bush, and Jack Givens, a well-known young man about town. Miss Bush is suing her husband for a divorce, and the awarding of alimony and counsel fees came only after a hard fight of several months conducted by her attorney, Counselor J. Douglass Wetmore, S Beekman street. During the spring of 1916 Miss Bush was a plaintiff in a case in which Counselor Wetmore represented the defendant, who was successful in withstanding Miss Bush's claims. She was one of the first to congratulate the attorney and expressed the intention to employ him to represent her interests in any future litigation in which she might be involved. The awarding of substantial alimony and counsel fees by Judge Greenbaum is the cause of congratulations being extended both Miss Bush and Counselor Wetmore. CHAS. GROVELL G. W. BAPTIST C. H. HINTON H. A. GREEN W. M. EASLEY ALFRED JONES TANNER MAY REMAIN AS STATE CHAIRMAN Strong pressure is being brought to bear upon State Chairman Frederick C. Tanner to reconsider his determination to resign as head of the Republican State Committee, according to the latest report, and the opinion, probably in many quarters that the popular chairman should be prevailed upon to heed the requests of political leaders. The term for which Mr. Tanner was elected does not expire until a year from next October. Although it is his intention to present his formal resignation at the meeting of the committee to be held next week, as he wants to devote all his time to business, an effort will be made by prominent Republicans to get him to undergo a change of mind. It is said that the suggestion of a paid manager with the nominal title of Republican State Chairman has not been received with good grace by many of the State leaders, and that this idea will be abandoned. LOVINGGOOD DEAD AT (Special to THE NEW YORK ACA) AUSTIN, TEXAS—After a week's illness, Dr. H. S. Lovinggood, president of Samuel Huston College, died Sunday night, December 17, at his home in this city. He has suffered from Bright's disease for the past two years, having a breakdown at that time while lecturing in Iowa. However, he stuck to his post of duty and was in actual direction of the work of the college until compelled to take to his bed a week ago. He was born in Walhalla, S. C., in 1864, and graduated from Clark University, Atlanta, Ga. After completing the college course he took a course in carpentry. For two years he edited the Atlanta Times, but sold it to become principal of a city school in Birmingham. After teaching at Wiley University, Marshall, Texas, for five years, he was selected in 1900 as president of Samuel Huston College. He was its first president and the school developed under his administration into one of the strongest in the country. He was married twice, being survived by the second wife and her five children, and one child, issue of the first marriage. The funeral services were conducted at Wesley Chapel M. E. Church, interment in Oakwood cemetery, the funeral arrangements being in the hands of two undertaking firms, Rhambo & Woodard and Wm. Tears. J. W. Frazier will serve as acting president of the college until the Freedmen's Aid Bureau at Cincinnati names a successor. PROMINENT RALEIGH (Special to The New York Ace.) RALPHIN, N. C.-Dr. J. O. Plummer is gradually recovering from an illness that has kept him in doors for eight weeks. In addition to his work as physician for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute, the St. Augustine School, the trained nurse department at St. Agner Hospital, and teacher of anatomy at Shaw University, he has a large city practice which keeps him on the go all the time. Dr. Plummer is the retiring president of the State Medical Association. H: has been the recipient of many letters and tokens of friendship from his wide circle of friends during this Christmas tide. The women who reside in the block on West 143rd street between Seventh and Eighth avenues, have made a strong and consistent campaign against the exorbitant and unnecessary rentals charged by Harlem real estate agents, not only on that particular block, but throughout the whole neighborhood. Mrs. Daniel J. Rice and Mrs. C. R. Leonard from West 143rd street, and Mrs. C. DeSilva from West 187th street, all of whom are sufferers from the intolerable high rents, were prime movers in the campaign. As a result of their efforts the third of a series of public meetings was held at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church. pastor for the county of Newcastle. Mr Hyder, has been appointed in his condemnation of high rents. The meeting was held, at 8.30 o'clock on the evening of December 19, and was presided over by J. M. Greene after it has been opened by Pastor Hyder. Mrs. C. R. Leonard served as secretary. A large audience, all of whom are directly interested in the rental question, were assembled, and the question of high rents was taken up by the entire body. Dr. Hyder, Mr. Green and A. M. Robinson joined in the opening discussion, endeavoring to consider the question in a manner that would be beneficial to all parties concerned, the owners, the agents and the tenants. John M. Royal's Attitude. It remained for John M. Royall, head of the real estate firm of John M. Royall, to declare that he had no solution for the matter under consideration and that he did not believe there was any. For twenty years, he said, he had never heard of such a thing as bettering the condition of the renting class by providing lower rents for them. Characterizing the whole thing as a foolish idea, he demanded to know why a movement was not started to lower the high cost of living instead of rents, saying that when the cost of living is reduced the real problem would be solved. When it was suggested that high rents was one of the main causes of the high cost of living, Mr. Royall passed the suggestion over. In an aggressive and almost boisterous manner, the speaker declared that "I want to know the object of these meetings. Who suggested the movement? I have never heard of one before. Why are they held in St. James Church, and why should the Session allow the meeting to be called here when the congregation wasn't asked about it?" An attempt was made by the chairman and others to explain to Mr. Royall that a series of meetings were being held, and that he himself had been present at the first one at P. S. 89 and had spoken, and that a second one had been held at Salem M. R. Church, when Dr. Hyder delivered the principal address, and that St. James' pastor had acted upon a motion made by the Salem pastor in inviting the ladies to hold the next meeting at St. James. But Mr. Royall is secured, would pay no attention to these explanations. He charged that the movement was not for the betterment of the community, but that the instigator was detained by anterior motives. He attributed a political purpose to the movement, declaring it was nothing but a socialistic idea or grafting scheme. Dr. Hyder and Women Defended. W. A. McNichols, who has been an active aid in securing data for the women's committee relative to the low- If your hair is short, thin, falling out or breaking off; you should not delay but write at once for MME. C. J. WALKER'S Centennary of the birth of Fred- NEWARK, N. J. Newark, N. 6—A committee composed of Negro pastors of Newark and vicinity, of the Christian Union League of Newark, which met at Mt. Olivet; Baptist Church, visited Secretary James M. Reilly, of the Board of Trade, and made application for endorsement of that body. The Negro Welfare League, a tem- Buy Your Holiday Goods Now THE HOUSE In the face of this strong wave of sentiment, the charge is made by the judge that Mr. Royall, assisted by a companion, attempted to ridicule and interrupt the meeting by loud laughter and talk, which resulted in a demand upon him by the chairman that he should act with decorum and show respect for the meeting and the church, it is reported that upon this rather routine, calling down the real estate event subsided and apologized. Subsequently, when persons present Attempts to get some idea from Mr. Royall as the cost of buying houses, restrictions, and other phases of the matter, his replies, they so vague and unsatisfactory that they soon desisted A committee of nine men and five women was appointed to formulate suggestions to be presented at a future meeting. The committee: Men—A. M. Robinson; chairman; W. A. McNichols, J. C. Hawkins, J. M. Royall, Dr. C. H. Roberts, Dr. B. T. Withers, L. C. Truce, E. S. Jones and J. M. Greene; Women—Mrs. Sargood, chairman; Mrs. Daniel J. Rice, Mrs. C. R. Leonard—two others to be selected by the women of the committee. Real Estate Agents with Letters. In THE Age of December 21 it was announced that landlords and real estate agents who desired to place before the public their side of the high rentals question would be allowed the use of our columns of the paper. None have taken advantage of this offer. But on November 18, John T. Clark, secretary of the Housing Bureau of the National Urban League, addressed a letter touching on these matters to a list of ten or twelve real estate agents and owners. He has received replies from five as follows: Bing & Bing, 119 West; 40th street; Nail & Parker, 145 West; 135th street; Shaw & Co., 1 West; 125th street, St. Phillips P. E. Church, 215 West 133rd street, through the Rev. H. C. Bishop, rector, and the Philip A. Payton, Jr., Company, 67 West 134th Alexander M. Bing, of Bing & Bing, wrote that present conditions for the landlords are bad; that all the materials that go to the upkeep of a house have increased in price; that while he would be glad to build a few houses of the kind under consideration, at the present prices of building materials it would be unwise; a house today would cost 50 per cent. more than it would have; cost a year ago; is afraid improved houses will have to wait until prices return to normal. John E. Nail of Nail & Parker, said he could not adequately, or justly ex- plain the various for increased rents in a letter, but declined to give any ex- pression on the subject. Building New Bone Too Much. Frank A. Shaw of Shaw & Co., said in his personal opinion the question of the amount of rent to be asked for an apartment is up to the individual owner to decide for himself; he may be disagreed with but not controlled; it is possible, however, to force him to change his methods by refusing to rent his apartments at the higher rents; if the owners can obtain the same rents from colored tenants as were received from whites when buildings were first erected, they should be satisfied as the buildings will pay on that basis as a general proposition, and they should be willing to properly maintain them. The Rev. Hutchins C. Bishop, for St. Philip's Church, said that the church received a fair return on its investment on normal times and did not want to take advantage of the rise in prices to add the additional burden of raised rents. He enclosed a circular letter which the Church Property Committee sent to the tenants asking their cooperation in reducing the cost of repairs and in taking care of the property and so help to avoid the necessity of raised rents. Philip A. Payton, Jr., of the Philip A. Payton, Jr., Co., writes that "if misery likes company," the colored people get plenty of it, because rents are being raised all over the city; cause, increased taxes, increased cost of materials and increased cost of coal; the tenants being the party who must pay the cost of upkeep, naturally these increases mean more money from the tenants; remedy is in electing to office men who will give an economical government of the city; self-preservation gives owner and agent no alternative but to raise rents when cost of upkeep increases so largely. do what they can to produce better conditions in 1917. The committee having in charge the Booker T. Washington memorial fund are not discouraged in their efforts to create public opinion in favor of the ```markdown ``` fund, but they are disappointed that a cause so meritorious should not appeal to the Washington people more generally. A public meeting will be held after the holidays, when the Washington people will be given an opportunity to show how much interest they have in the matter. Centennary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, orator and reformer, was celebrated at the twentieth annual meeting of the American Negro Academy, Tuesday and Wednesday in the Twelfth Street branch of the Y. M. C. A. Judge Terrell was the principal speaker. He spoke on "Frederick Douglass as an orator." / Tuesday morning, after a business meeting, A. I. Grinke, president, spoke on "Douglass as an Anti-Slavery Agitator" "The Anti-Slavery Movement Prior, to the Advent of Douglass," was the subject of an address by Carter G. Woodson on Tuesday evening, followed by an address by John E. Bruce on "Douglass as Editor and Newspaper Contributor." The Wednesday morning session was given over to unfinished business, and in the evening Kelly Miller spoke on "Douglass from 1865 to 1895." The session closed Wednesday evening. T. Thomas Fortune and Thomas B. Patterson were among the visitors. Dr. John Van Schaik, president of the Board Education, called an important conference of leading white and colored men and women, for the purpose of considering the advisability of organizing a local branch of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes. SOCIAL ANND PERSONAL Professor Thomas B. Patterson, of the agricultural department of Livingston College, Salisbury, N. C., and commandant of cadets, spent the week here, and stopped at the Y. M. C. A. rooms. Hon. James Weldon Johnson of New York, contributing editor of The New York Age, was in the city last week, and was present at the Charity Ball on Friday night. Miss Lillian Evans, a very popular teacher, left a few days ago for a visit to her brother in St. Louis, Mo. While away, Miss Evans plans to visit the kindergartens of the West. Dr. Perezavia O'Connell delivered an address at the Y. M. C. A. Sunday afternoon, taking for his subject "God's Christmas Gift." The occasion was ladies' day. Mrs Lula Robinson Jones of New York gave a recital, assisted by local talent, at the Florida Avenue Baptist Church on December 27. Johh E.'Bruce of New York attended the sessions of the Negro Academy. 463 GET CHRISTMAS DINNER AND HELP (Continued from page one) Miss Mary White Owington or Brooklyn and H. G. Haddonfield. The Fortissimo Girls, an organization of musical young folks who belong to Union Church, furnished a musical program and then went down among the people carrying the gifts. Nearly 500 Persons Helped. It is interesting to note the development of the Union Baptist Church under the pastorate of the Rev. Dr. Sims. Organized in 1898 with 7 members, the enrollment now totals 2,883. Of this number 1,448 were baptized by Pastor Sims, and 1,435 were received by letter. The church was incorporated July 1899, since which time all the business auxiliaries of the church meet in joint session, and all the finances pass into one treasury. The official board includes the pastor, deacons and trustees. The books of the church show that in the eighteen years of its life, there has been contributed to its work the princely su of $159,842.08. During the same period there has been received for the poor of the church, through outside friends, the sum of $2,525.81. The official board and pastor are shown in the large group printed in this issue. The roster is as follows: The Rev. George H. Sims, pastor; Richard Green, W. H. Johnson, J. E. Yates, G. D. Dickerson, W. H. Towns, E. D. Harris, William Stanley, David Miles, Temple Grymes, Isaiah Patrick, Peter Jones, M. E. Sims J. M. Haywood, Harry Web, S. W. Nichols, Morris Brown, J. DeBraass, L. Hudson, J. Hariston, J. Joseph, Charles Crowell, G. W. Baptist, C. H. Hinton, H. A. Green, W. M. Easley, W. T. Nichols, Charles Smalls, Page Monroe, Alfred Jones, S. H. Gunn. The financial report of the church for the year ending November 30, 1916, shows that the year's financial receipts amounted to $12,600.97. The disbursements amounted to $11,996.00, leaving a cash balance in the church's treasury on December 1, 1916, of, $664.96. The smallest month's collection was in August, 1916, the amount being $533.86. The highest amount was reached in June, 1916, when the collections totalled $2,525.94. On the total amount raised, the contribution from the Sunday school amounted to $1,500. During the year there were received 56 new members by baptism and 231 by experience. Of the large membership only ten are reported as having died during the year. DR. SIMS AND MISS JONAS EN- DORSED. 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In the name of Columbus Hill Civile League a name partly stolen from a movement just then being organized by Dr. Sims and myself, W. Clinton Holloway attempts to assail the means by which Miss Jonas and Dr Sims make so many glad hearts and hands on Christmasastide. But in justice to the public, let me say that there is now and never was a Columbus Civile League in this community from my point of view. The movement now being misrepresented came forth, under the name of The Amalgamated League of the 13th Assembly District. Ostensibly its chief aim was to defeat undesirable candidates for office in the community regardless of panny lines; but its real purpose was to kill off a better movement already started by Dr. Sims and myself, which was awaiting my recovery from a protracted illness of more than six months. But the so-called league is deader than a door nail, and W. Clinton Holloway is no more its secretary than is Miss Rosalie Jonas. Its so-called secretary is or should be a Mr. Walker, who never lived a day in the assembly district since the thing was organized. This organization has never represented the people whose name it takes. It has always been a Harlem affair. We invite these envious soreheads to come only one Christmas day and behold for themselves the homes and hearts made happy by the efforts and Christian endeavors of Miss Jonas and Dr. Geo. H. Sims. But Mr. Holloway tries to quote scripture in support of his position, saying, "What does it profit to gain the whole world and thereby lose one's soul?" This passage is partly misquoted and partly misspelled. Now, I remind you: A certain man had two sons and taking leave from home, he called them and said "While I am gone you do this." The first said, "Yes, father." To the second he said, "You do that." The second said, "Father, I will not." 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Judge Terrell is one of the big men of the race and the only colored man holding such a position in any of the United States courts. HEMPSTEAD. N. Y. HEMPSTEAD, N. Y. The emancipation celebration points to a great success from every point of view. A large number of friends out of town as well as those in town remembered Rev. Harvey and family on Christmas day. Mrs. Hennetta Shude, b. December 11, 1893, Mrs. Lizzie Cackalle as the parsonage and left many useful things. The pastor of Zion Church preached Sunday evening to a full house, having as his subject, "God's good will for man." Mrs. M. L. Harvey has been confined to her bed for several days. Mrs. Virginia Mayha, 22 Hasting place, spent Sunday last in Brooklyn, visiting her husband, Lucy Carter, Mrs. Etta Tred-well, Mrs. Ijsbella Jackson, and others decorated the Christmas tree this week. Miss Sophronia Spikes will have charge of a chorus of twenty-five on January 1 at the emancipation celebration. Dr. Harvey has been selected to deliver the oration, subject, "Fifty years of our history." Mrs. Amia Crawford, of Newburgh, N. Y., spent Christmas in Hempstead, as the guest of Mrs. Harvey. Mrs. M. C. Bradley has returned from Port Chester, N. Y. Watch meeting night will be observed at Zion Church on December 31. Rev. Harvey will preach, subject, "Ruth, the Noble Character of Womanhood.". POUGHKEPSIEI, M. Y. Powell Street, M. E. Church Sunday morning. Van Buren preached from the subject, "Christmas Messages to the Church." Edward. Johnson confessed Christ and was received in the church. In the evening an original Christmas exercise was rendered by the Sabbath school before a large attendance. Sunrise praise service was held Christmas morning at 5:45 o'clock, led by William Sutton and Blake Maynell. Rev. William will begin next Sunday, which the pastor will be assemble by the Rev. Mrs. Sonora Hall, one of the leading evangelists of Zion, and the Revs. W. H. Abbot and Mrs. Josephine May. A large number of Zionites attended the mass meeting at the Ebenezer Baptist Church last Thursday evening in honor of Mrs. Herbert Payne, who will soon leave with her husband for missionary work in Africa. Rev. Van Buren was one of the speakers. The Neighborhood Club has its regular monthly meeting last Tuesday morning at the residence of Mrs. Nathan Wye, 17 Allen place, and packed a box of canned food, sugar, clothing, etc., for the Empire Friendly Shelter of New York City, after which a sumptuous repast was served the ladies by Mrs. Henley. A great deal of chairtable work is done by this splendid organization. Mrs. J. H. Harden, president; Mrs. D. Lawrence, secretary; Mrs. M. J. Colden, treasurer, and Mrs. J. Wye, financial secretary. At a meeting the trustees of Zion last Monday evening another, $100 was paid in indebtedness on the parsonage. Homer Francis was elected chairwoman of the board. Mrs. Garrett Rose and the Rev. Mrs. J. May of Zion addressed the B. Y. P. U. at the Ebenezer Baptist Church Sunday afternoon. Charlene Milden is a skilled player of the clarinet and rendered valued assistance at the Sabbath evening Christmas exercises. A splendid gift has been awarded a celebration of the fifty-fourth anniversary of emancipation on Monday evening at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Rev. C. Van Buren, pastor of Zion Church, will be the orator of the evening and his chair will sing. After the exercises a permanent organization will be effected, the celebration hereafter to alternate annually between the two churches. Mayfield the president and secretary. Mrs. Emerline Grant, a former resident of this city, died at New Brunswick, N. J., last Thursday, and was brought here: Saturday for interment. Her son accompanied the body. Rev. C. Van Buren, pastor of Zion Church, of which she was formerly a member, conducted the service and Mrs. Lulu Haff, Miss Anna, and Mrs. Lulu Haff the guests of Mrs. Lillian Trott of the City, for the holidays. Miss Hortense Haff is spending the holidays in New Haven, Conn., as the guest of her aunts, Mrs. Rose Treadwell and Mrs. Libbie Maynard, 65 Carmel street. The marriage of Joseph Gatewood Wappinger Palls, N. Y., took place at 8 p.m. on December 23, at the parsonage of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, 11 Winniford avenue. The Rev. Charles S. OUT OF TOWN CORRESPONDENCE Farires performed the ceremony in the presence of a few friends. The couple were unattended. They will reside in Wappings Falls. Sunday services were as usual at the Ebenezee Baptist Church. The pastor preached both services to appreciative audiences. At 10:45 the text was, "The Spirit and the Bride Say Come," The Spirit and the Bride Say Come, Child Is Born and Unto Us, Child Is Given adn the Government Should Be Upon His Shoulders." The choir sang appropriate music, with J. W. Ellis, music 'director', and Miss Alice Lawrence, accompanist. Mrs. Fariess, the organist, is still confined to her bed. Sunday school at 3 p.m. B. Y. P. at 4 p.m. Mrs. E. F. Francis read the lessons; W. J. Ellis explained the lesson; Rev. Josephine May made some interesting memoirs; J. W. Harden, lover; Mrs. Charles Lawrence played a piano曲. Prayer meeting Christmas morning was well attended at 6 a.m. NEWBURGH. N. Y. Newburg, N. Y.—Mrs. May Howard of Kingston and Joseph Ready of Newburgh were married last Sunday and they are now well known caterer and his bride is popular in social circles at Kingston. Mr. and Mrs. George Bowman are the parents of a son, born last Monday. James Pinkney, who has been spending several months at Bridgeport, was in town Christmas. Randolph Ragsdale, who is a student at Howard, is spending the holidays with his parents. Lisa spent the weekend with her parents. Edward Harper of Catskill and M. G. DeWitt of Kingston were guests at the home of the Misses Ford during the week. Christmas services were observed at the A. M. E. Zion Church on Sunday. Solos were rendered by Mrs. Doty, Mrs. Monroe and Miss Emma Hall. DOUGLASTON. N. Y. Douglaston, N. Y.—Services were well attended Sunday at St Peter's A. M. E. Church. The pastor preached at 8 p.m. The choir, under the leadership of Miss Ethea Collins, rendered excellent music. Miss Cora Bowles of New York City and Miss Waters of Washington, D. C., and other visitors offered an audience. The pastor preached in the Mt Zion A. M. E. Church, in Westbury, L. I., at 3 p.m. It was men's day. It was a fair success. Owing to the organist, Miss Alice Riggins, being indisposed, Miss Theodora Weeks of Brooklyn, N. Y., officiated at the organ. The Rev. L. Walter De Shields, of Wilmington, Del. He returned home Tuesday. The doctor is still treating his father. Miss Etha Collins is training the children musically for their New Year exercises, and Mrs. Bowles has charge of the literary part. The program will be rendered at St. Peter's A. M. E. Church Sunday, at 8 p.m., at which time presents will be distributed to friends and pupils. The pastor will preach a special message at 10 p.m., where there will be a watch-meeting service until after 12 o'clock. Miss Cora Bowles is spending her holidays in Great Neck. Mrs. Bell is still confined to the Flushing Hospital. BINGHAMTON. N. Y. Binghamton, N. Y.—The Eureka Lodge N. 33, K. of P, held its semi-annual election Thursday night, Dec. 19. The election was closely contested and much interest in the following officers were elected for the ensuing six months: Chancellor Commander, Sir George Williams; Vive-Chancellor, Sir Samuel E. Walker; Prelate, Sir J. A. Jones; Master of Finance, Sir Wm. Rucker; Keeper of Records and General Secretary of Equesther, Sir James Lenard; Trustee, Sir James Washington. The lodge is in a healthy condition. Robert J. Coleman, of the Department of Public Works of the City of Binghamton, wants eighteen colored men of good reputation to take charge of the new garbage plant that opens on April 14th. The pay for drivers, $2.75 per day, eight hours; helpers, $2.50. R. J. Coleman, 157 Susquehanna st., or at the city hall on or before March 1. Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Coleman entertained at their residence Monday (Christmas) the Rev. and Mrs. Alonzo, Miss Anna Delwis of Chester, Miss Jane Delwis of Chester, Miss Cord Brown, James Ghee Charles Morrison and Chas. Wormby. Mrs. Daisy Anthony entertained Friday night for Horace Worrell, who left for New York City Saturday. Mr. Worrell made many friends while here. Mrs. James D. Sledge wishes to thank all who took part on her program December 24, and also Miss Melville and Miss Gedert. A musical and literary program was given by the Frederick Douglas-Lyceum at St. Paul's A. M. E. Churcus Susquehanna December 4. The program was in attendance of Mrs. J. D. Sledge. The program; Part I - Hymn. "Joy of the World"; Scripture reading; hymn by Junior Choir; prayer, by the Chapain; piano, Christmas Eve (Stille Nacht), Master Worship (Stille Nantana) reading, Miss Wren contralto solo, Mrs. L. Rowe; introduction of speaker, Miss L. Geder; address, Hon. Jas. T. Rogers; "Hark the Herald Angels Sing," the Junior Choir. Part II - Tableaus, while shepards watch their flocks by night, sextet of musicians duet, Mrs. Stuckhouse and Mrs. Douglas; reading, Miss Marie Hazel; soprano solo, Mrs. Annie Douglas; remarks by the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Lonzo; soprano solo, Mrs J. H. Washington. The Parlor City Lodge No. 5388, G U.O. of O. F. elected the following incisors: F. N. Farts, N. G. Wet, W. N. Farts, N. G. Wet, Towndrift, V. G.; O. Lipschomb, advocate, F. Dorsey, E. S.; Geo. Gayton, P. S.; Wm. Liscomb, W. T.; M. C. Davis, W. C.; Wm. Mercer, warden; W. Rollin, guardian; F. C. Hazel, P. N. G. Mrs. Lena Firum is spending Christmas with her father at Owgeo. Mrs. James Palmer and daughter are spending the holidays in Albany. Miss Florence Price is the guest of Mrs. Anne Stewart of Towanda. Pa. John Terrell is spending the holidays with his parents in Williams-on-Oak. On Friday, Dec. 22, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Barker died. Funeral services were held at the residence, 63 Sherman place, Sunday, Dec. 24. On Thursday, Dec. 21, Mrs. Sadie of city and Mr. John Hart of Florida were married at the bride's residence. Miss Bessie Cannon of this city and Mr. Jones of Ithica, N. Y., were married Saturday, Dec. 23. After the ceremony the bridal couple left for their home in Ithica, N. Y. The Christmas exercises of the A M E. Zion Sunday-school were held on Christmas night in the auditorium John Wavier of Hammondnort, sport of Mr. Len Wallace for Christmas. NORWICH, N. Y. Rev. G. W. Ollley was called to Fall River, Mass., on account of the death of his brother. Mrs. Bettina Van Camp of Schenectad, was relative, in Norwich stopping with Mrs. A. P. Van Camp. The Buds of Promise held a pie social at Mrs. Samuel Pertilla's home on last Thursday evening. The Christmas exercises of the A.M. Zion Church of Norwich were held Sunday December 24. Robert Toussaint sang at the opening of the new church at Utica Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Randall of Syracuse (formerly of Norwich) are the proud parents of a daughter. Norwich, N. Y. — The Christmas exercises of A. M. E. Lion Sunday here are very special for the children under the direction of the superintendent and Samuel Pertilla. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Van Camp were royally entertained at Christmas dinner by Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Simpson. Miss Leila Baker of Scranton, Pa., is visiting her parents and sisters during a number of our townpeople attended the dance at Binghamton Christmas night. Mrs. Edward Broad has been sick the past week, but is slightly improved. Ivan Williams is visiting friends in Schenectady. Mrs. H. B. Van Camp of Schenectady, who has been visiting relatives here, returned home Wednesday. AUBURN, N. Y. Auburn, N. Y.—The celebration of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation will be held at A. M. E. Zion Church, January and at Dr. E. Johnston, January and at Auburn Theological Seminary, Dr. James E. Mason and Dr. Edward Jones of Rochester, members of the Grand Army Post, and the Rev. C. A. Smith will be among the speakers Special musical numbers will be reprinted in the Mrs. Johnson, directress, and the Senior Choir, Robt Holland, director. The Rev. P. R. Fonville, the pastor, is sparing no pains to make the celebration a successful one. The Christmas exercises were held at Auburn December 24, before a large and appreciative audience. The Bible School had charge of the program, under the direction of the superintendent, Henry T. Johnson, and the teachers, the Misses Mary and Sarah Richardson and Mrs. Albert Cox, the box of candy was given each of the pupils of the Bible School besides a gift. Mrs. John Hassell of Rochester and Mr. Nelson Ray of Marcellus, spent Christmas here, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Reed, the former's parents. Miss Alice Lucas had a few friends Christmas evening celebrate the holiday. Music was enjoyed and light refreshments served. Those present were the Misses C. Vivien Carter, Isabel and Evelyn Diggs, Phoebe and Amy Freeman, and Messrs. Wm. Newport and George Winslow. Master Ramsey: Fonville and Amy Fonville spent the holidays in Syracuse, the creature of the night. Ella Williams attended the wedding of Miss Ettel Jackson and Mr. Joseph Butler in Geneva, December 25. Miss Edna M. Dorsey spent Christmas in Ithaca, N. Y., the guest of friends. The Young People's Home and Foreign Missionary Society gave a pie soaked with milk and Evelyn Diggs at 48th Avenue. The affair was quite well attended and a neat sum realized. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer P. Cooper entertained at Christmas dinner the following: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Parker, Mrs. Jennie Bell and grandson of Seneca Falls, Mr. and Mrs. George Gough, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Cannon spen Christmas in Rochester, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Simmons. The inmates of the Tubman Home Year's day, will be tendered a reception which in point of splendor and lady managers provided them with a magnificence bids fair to eclipse any pretty Christmas tree, and the delicacy of the season. Miss Pauline Diggs of Syracuse Mr. Terrell, who is judge of the Municipal Court at Washington, D. C., parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. Diggs. She is the only colored judge in the United States expected the Fall's Christmas he gave the guest of her sister, Mrs. Griffin of Master, Howard Washington of Ithaca was the holiday guest of Master-Aaron Bagby. Miss Lea Brown spent the holidays in Geneva9, the guest of Miss A. M. E. Zion Church Sunday, December 24, appreciative audiences Mrs. Philip Gaskin entertained at a greeted the pastor, Dr. John J. Smyer, delightful Christmas dinner at her both morning and evening. The church residence on Cornell Street. Those was beautifully decorated in harmony present were Mr. and Mrs. Nelson of with the Christmas饰. The decorations were done by Mrs. Mabel Skin-Gaskin, Philip and Miss Lydia tions and daughter, Miss Sildenoy Skim-the holiday guest of her father, William Freeman, and family. In the afternoon a large attendance of teachers and scholars greeted Super- UTICA N Y. Utica, N. Y.—Rev. Robt. J. Strother on Sunday December 24 announced to his parishioners and friends that he would have to defer the dedication until Sunday, December 31, on account of the heavy Christmas shipping, which delayed the benches and interior fixtures of the churches. Mr. and Mrs. Burt Gray of Emporiam, Pa., are visiting their mother during the holidays, Mrs Dobie at 333 Catherine street. Mrs. John Buck, 111 Seneca street, is entertaining her two nieces, Mrs. J. and Mrs. Montondo of Watterson N. Y., during the week, Mrs. Ella Jackson, Mrs. Clay Johnson and Mrs. Alice Jackson of Rome, N. Y., were the recent guests of Belli Brown of Seneca street. Mr. Dwian Logan of Oneida, N. Y., in town the 20th, at the Eureka ball, at the evening with Mrs. Frank Brown. Walter Pell, 111 Seneca street, has been confined to his home the past week with the la gripe. The Society Cabaret Entertainers, including James Harrison, pianist, Bert Timmons, Leo Timmons, entertainers, entertained the guests last Thursday evening at the Hotel Martin, the largest hotel in Utica. Mrs. Anna King of Elizabeth street spent with her parents, Mr. and Thomas Walters in Canastota, N. Y. Mrs. Elizabeth Lavender, better known as "Mother Lavender," will give a dinner to the poor on New Year's day. ROCHESTER, N. Y. Rochester, N. F.—special Christmas services, were rendered in Zion Church all day Sunday—the Junior choir in the morning, under the leademan; the Sunday school in the afternoon, the directorship of W. Henry Green; the intermediate C. E. Society, Mrs. John G. Lee, superintendent; Y. P. S. C. E. at 6.30, chorister W. Henry Green; the senior chair at the evening service, Mrs J. G. Lee, directress. All of the gates were inspiring. The pastor gave short talk in the evening on the life of Christ. Collection for the day, $15.40. Miss Gladys Mathews and Miss Ethel Graham left last Saturday for New York to spend the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Mathews and niece of Suea, Pa., spending the holidays with her son, W. H. Stockton, 672 Bay street. Mrs. Blanche Wilson of Buffalo, N. Y., is spending the holidays with Mrs. Susie, 61 Favor street. William Pierce, Thomas Walker, Edward De Holland, Sherly Uttley, Hedges will leave January 8 for Palm Beach, Flia., to spend the winter. They will go by the way of New York. The Fortnightly Sewing Circle met at the residence of Mrs. W. J. Smith last Thursday. After a few stitches were taken and the regular business was transacted, a dinner was served by the hostess. The friends of A. M. E. Zion Church, through Mrs. G. H. Wright, presented the pastor, the Rev. E. D. W. Jones, a purse of $56 last Sunday evening. The pastor and trustees of Zion Church presented the organist, Mrs. G. G. Lee, a solid gold wrist watch for her excellent service during the past year. Handsome present was Mrs. Jamason for service during the fair. A. H. Wright left for Harrisburg, Pa. last Saturday, where he is to wed Miss A. L. Garnett of that city on Monday, January 1, 1917. At the semi-annual business meeting of the Knights of Pythias, Rochester Lodge No. 15, held on Wednesday evening, the following officers were present: Charles Van Buren, Sr.; vice chancellor, W. Henry Green; prelate, D. Edward Jackson; master of works, Edwin Tyler; master of finance, Demp Real, arms, William Cole, bithirty for long terms, George Guy. There will be installation of officers at the next meeting, January 3. Mrs. R. M. Brown and daughter, Miss Lillian, of Bradford, Pa., are spending the holidays with Mrs. D. A. Curtis and Mrs. B. F. Bundy. The meeting last evening the colored citizen's reception committee M. E. Zion Church was largely attended. The preparations that are being made by this committee indicate that Judge Robert Tersell, upon his visit to this city on New Mr. Terrell, who is judge of the Municipal Court at Washington, D. C., is the only colored judge in the only states expected to be many of the city officials well as personal admirers and friends of Judge Terrell will be present. YONKERS. N. Y. Yonkers, N. Y. At the Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion Church Sunday, December 24, appreciative audience greeted the pastor, Dr. John J. Smyer, both morning and evening. The church would decorate with a decoration in harmony with the Christmas mantle. The decorations were done by Mrs. Mabel Skinner and daughter, Miss Sidney Skinner. In the afternoon a large attendance of teachers and scholars greeted Superintendent Evans in the Sunday School Class No. 5, Mrs. Mary Smyer teacher, Mrs. Olive Holtman visited friends in Yonkers, Sunday, December 24. Two large Christmas turkows were presented to the Rev. John J. Smyer and family by friends and members of the church. Christmas morning an overflow congratulation greeted the class leaders and the Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion Church. Mrs. Angle Bush of 18 Calvert street is seriously ill. SARATOGA SPRINGS. N. Y. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. Saratoga Springs, N. Y.-M. Hannah Goins died in Washington, D. C. Tuesday, December 19, at the home of her employer, Daniel Williams, 1212 24th street, N. W. after a short illness of pneumonia. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Lucinda Carter, 34 Oq street, Saratoga Springs, and Mrs. Birdle Brittler, of Baltimore, Md. The funeral was held on Thursday, December 20, at the Church in Georgetown, of which the deceased had been a member for many years. The Rev. E. U. A. Brooks was called to Schenectady, December 20, by the mayor of the A. M. E. Zion Church to attend in the funeral of William H. Davis. The Christmas tree exercises were held at the A. M. E. Zion Church, December 22. Last Sunday evening the Bible school rendered a fine program entitled "Merry Christmas." At the Green Green Green entertained at dinner at 4 o'clock on Christmas day at their home, 123 North street. In addition to many local friends Mr. and Mrs. Bert Williams and daughter Allie, of Schenectady, were present. The Christmas evening parties were given by Mr. and Mrs. James Lane, 34 Avery street, and by Mr. and Mrs. James Brown, 181 Woodlawn avenue. During each evening of the holidays the business section of Broadway is illuminated with thousands of incandescent light of many colors strung over evergreen. A handsome Christmas tree decorated with colored electric bulbs lighted each evening in front of the Adriandoca Power Company's office on Broadway. Mrs. Nellie King attended the funeral of Mr. H Davis at Schenectady last week. Robert and William Cochran of Brooklyn spent Christmas with their parents in this city. The Good Samaritan Society hold a very successful social at Mrs. Carriele Conn's residence recently. JERSEY CITY N J JERSEY CITY, N. J.-Lafayette, Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Charles S. Freeman, pastor. Services for Sunday, December 31—11 a. m., sermon, subject, "A Faithful Servant"; 2:30 p. m. Bible school; 4 p. m. men's meeting; 7 p. m. Senior Christian Endeavor, subject, "Lessons to Learn from the East"; leader, Mrs. L. E. Mabry. The watch meeting service begins. The church's programs has been arranged under the auspices of the Senior Christian Endeavor Society, the Brotherhood and the women's societies of the church participating. At 10:30 the regular evening church services will begin. The robed junior and senior choirs will furnish special music for this closing service of the year. A brief installation service will be held, followed by a concert and a subject, "The Finished Course." The Lafayette Church will observe the World's Week of Prayer, beginning Sunday night, December 31, and closing Sunday evening, January 7. A cordial invitation is extended all members and friends to be present each evening. The session will be present to meet with any who desire to prepare for union with the church. Mme. Johnson and the junior choir will present the excellent rendition of the Christmas service, entitled "The Travele Forlorn," at the church on Christmas Eve. At the 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. services of: St Mark's A. M. E. Zion Church on Sunday December 31, Bishop W. L. Lee is expected to be present and will preach. At 2 p. m., Sunday school, Miss Quinn, supersintentend. At 7 p. m., the Varick Christian Endeavor societies, honor and junior, and the Ewits will hold a joint prayer meeting. Topic: Ephram 5:15-21, "Lessons to Learn from the Past." Watch meeting services will be held at the old church in Monmouth The Negro Agricultural and Technical College Contributed and Maintained by the Government of North Carolina and of the D. E. Open All the Year. Twenty-Third Annual Session. FALL TERM BEGINS SEPTEMBER 1, 1916. Courses leading to Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and Mechanics. For Catalog or other information address JAMES B. DUDLEY, President, Greensboro, N. C. ASHEVILLE SCHOOL OF DESIGNING. New French. System taught where pupils can cut all the latest patterns by tape measure. Employment given to those who desire to remain in Asheville. Correspondence courses completed in three weeks. MRS. AGNES L. KEMP, Principal. 80% Biltmore Avenue, Asheville, N. C. Formerly of Brooklyn, N. Y. street, as well as at the hall, corner of Bergen and Fairmount avenue. The Rev. N. O. Osborne will have charge of the secretes, at the church and the pastor, the guard, will conduct those at the hall. Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Griggs of New Canaan, Conn., came down to visit Mrs. Griggs' mother, 23 Oak street, and to Robert's house, 100 Oak Street. Mr. Griggs, left Mrs. Griggs here, but she returned home for Christmas. BAYONNE. N. 1 Bayonne, N. J. - The Little Misses Ellinor Grace and Marguerite Gortrude Small, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Email, were: christened at St. Peter's A. M. E. Zion Church Sunday, December 3, by the pastor, the Rev. J. M. Branch. Bishop George W. Clinton of Charlotte, N. C., made his episcopal visit to St. Peter's A. M. E. Zion Church Friday, December 15. Because of inclement weather only a few attended the service. Williams and Henry Peterson of Plainfield, N. J., were the dinner guests of C. W. Mullford and family on Saturday, December 16. The Rev. J. M. Branch, pastor, St. Peter's A. M. E. Zion Church, preached an excellent sermon Sunday morning, December 17, from St. Luke 13:20. The Rev. Mr. Virill of Rossville, S. N., filled St. Peter's pulpit at the church, and gave very instructive sermon. At the evening, serve the Helping Hand Auxiliary of the W. C. T. U. of Jersey City had its annual sermon preached to them by the Rev. Florence Randolph, who spoke so earnestly and impressively along temperance lines and against the evils of intemperance that those who heard her appeared enjoyed and really glad to be present. Mrs. Randolph gave the W. C. T. U. of Jersey City also made interesting and helpful remarks in connection with the work: Miss Hattle Glee of Andrews street recently left the city for Kipwitt, Va. where she will teach in the public school there during the present term. Miss Frances Mulford spent the week end visiting Miss Emma Lane, where she also attended a birthday party held in honor of Miss Lane on Friday evening, December 15. Edward John has been indisposed and confined to the house for the past week or more. He is much improved at this writing. St. Peter's M. E. Zion Sunday school will hold its Christmas tree exercises on Wednesday evening, December 27. The congregation of St. Peter's A. M. E. Zion Church enjoyed excellent sermons by its pastor, the Rev. J. M. Branch, at both the morning and evening services; Sunday, December 24. John Taylor of Westfield, N. J., was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Williamson and Andrew street, Sunday, December 24. The Rev. Mr. Taylor and daughter, of Norwalk, Conn., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Randolph, 23 Court place, Sunday, December 24. The Rev. Mr. Taylor is Mrs. Randolph's father. Frank Nesbit, of New York City, visited his cousin, Mrs. J. T. Gregory, on December 14. Mr. and Mrs. Eskridge of Avenue C and 21st street and destructive fire in their house on Tuesday morning, December 26th; which destroyed almost all of their clothing and greatly damaged their furniture. RAHWAY N J Rahway, N. J.-Miss Liza Cook is enjoying her new Victoria, which she received for Christmas. Mr and Mrs. John Mayo of Stockton, N. J., are spending the Christmas with her family, Mr. and Mrs. St. Claire Knuch of Main street. Mrs Sarah McCaskill and Miss Bella Mavo are spending their Christmas at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. visiting Berwain McCaskill, Mrs. Va. visiting Berwain been at Hampton since September. Mrs. Andrew Crowley of Newark, N. J., formerly of this city, has been seriously ill, but is improving. Dr. Joseph Brown and family of Keystone, W. V., formerly of this city, have returned to spend a few days at Hampton. Mr. Ernest I. Brown, 115 East Milton avenue. Last Sunday Dr. Brown delivered a speech to the Second Baptist Sunday-school. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Shell and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. Gail, 199 Maple street. Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Archer and family spent Sunday with Green of New York and William S. Maize of this city last Sunday. Mrs. John Madden and daughter Ruth, of Newark.'N. I. formerly of this city, spent the week-end with Mrs. George Harvey. Mrs. Alfred Wright, 208 Maple ave. nue, underwent a serious operation last week, but is able to sit up Leon Van Dyke will give a ball reception at the hall of Mt. Parnell Lodge No. 7, corner Main and Astra streets. New Year's night. The Helping Hand Club of the South and Bantist Church gave a special treatment in the church Tuesday, the direction of William S. Maize was well rendered, as follows: Invocation by the pastor, the Rev. Wright; recitation, Evelyn Dawson; vocal solo, Miss Josephine Harrison; Woodbridge, N. J.; piano solo, Wade Gibson; recitation, Miss Rena Gibson; instrumental duet, Florence Gibson and William S. Maize; recitation, Miss Elizabeth Morton; vocal solo, Charles Dawson; piano solo, Thomas Shell; recitation, Miss Lara Callands; vocal trio, Miss Helen Callands; instrumental duet, Harold Hoson; lighting area, Harold Hoson, assisted by Ernest L. Brown, Jr. and accompanied by W. S. Maize; Oliver's quaret, consisting of Messrs. Harvey Van Dyke, Harold Hoson, William Tredwell and Solomon Monroe, closing remarks by the committee. After the program, refreshments weer served by the committee in choree. Much credit is due to Ernest L. Brown, Jr., the Mission Luella Collands, Genevieve Henry Annie Indiana and Lorena Boomer. A good amount was realized, which is to go toward the building fund of the church. On Christmas night Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Maize of 282 Manle avenue tertained Mrs. Maria Clark, Miss Iella Callands of this city and the Misses Josephine Pollock and Callands of Westfield, N. J. William S. Maize took his Christmas dinner with the Rev. A. Wrinkle William S. Maize took his Christmas dinner with the Rev. A. Wright and family, 208 Maple avenue. Last Sunday evening an excellent Christmas service was preached by the Rev. W. Wicklund. Second Baptist Church. Christmas music was rendered by the chorus after which each auxiliary of the church gave an offering to the church which is to be added to the building fund. The Union Circle gave a purse to the pastor and one to the church. EAST RUTHERFORD, N. J. East Rutherford, N. J.-Services were held at St. Philips' Chapel Sunday. The Rev. J. B. Turner preached in the afternoon, and Mr. Flagg opened at night. Reynolds took dinner at the mannequin with the Rev. Sterling. The Rev. Mr. Sterling and Mrs. Reynolds spent Christmas in Brooklyn with friends. Mrs. Royd and daughter of Yonkers and Mr. and Mrs. Williams of Paterson were guests of Mrs. Martha Williams, Meadowood street, Dealer Street, and had five children from Brooklyn to dinner Christmas. Sunday, Dec. 31, will be gleaning dav at St. Philip's Chapel. Mrs. Thos. L. Marshall, Jr., is still on or off. Mrs. Edward Townes is back in Rutherford, after spending a month in North Carolina with her mother. SOMERVILLE N. L. Somerville, N. J.-Henry Collins and Miss Collins spent. Christmas with their parents at Salem. Thomas Church of school Friday the pupils of the eighth grade were given a treat by Henry Collins. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johnson announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Cecilia Frances, to Warren W. Moore. Christmas services were held at the Sunday Sunday evening. Addresses were delivered by the Rev. Robertson and Amos Field. Special music by the choir. At the close of services the pastor was presented with a purse. Miss Margaret Carson is conversed. Mr. and Mrs. Ellwood Clark entertained friends from East Banger Christmas. Miss Rose Nevins is home from East Bangor. William Shipley is spending the holidays with Mrs. Henry Campbell. Miss Margaret Potter spent Christmas with her mother. Margaret Potter. Miss Mary Lewis left for Memphis Wednesday, where she will visit relatives. Brought on the First Office at New York as Signed Owner Matter. Published on Thursday at every week by Fred R. 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SOLVING THE PROBLEM. In making an appeal for financial aid on behalf of secondary and higher Negro schools what good is accomplished in decrying the work of Hampton and Tuskegee? Why should it be necessary to give these institutions a kick while championing the cause of schools of higher education? In view of the present "get together" spirit THE AGE deplores the lack of tact displayed by some of our leaders, and we fear that unless they broaden out and maintain a more generous attitude toward the opinions of others very little "getting together" will be done by all elements striving to help solve the race problem along their particular lines. THE AGE wants to see the Negro receive all kinds of education. It is our aim to tell the public of the achievements of Howard, Fisk and Atlanta University, with as much enthusiasm and pride as we do when speaking of Tuskegee and Hampton and their accomplishments. We represent no particular group of educators or schools, but all groups and all institutions of learning. We believe, as did Booker T. Washington, that the masses, whether colored or white, should be given an industrial education. We believe, as did Booker T. Washington, that Negroes, in order to become trained teachers, should attend the best colleges of this or any other country. Had Booker T. Washington believed in industrial education alone he never would have served as a trustee of Howard and Fisk, and graduates of these institutions, as well as Harvard, Obbeille, etc., would not have been given employment in large numbers at Tuskegee Institute as teachers. Higher and industrial education combined are not going to solve the race question without the assistance of other fundamental requisites. So why quibble over any particular method or panacea? We predict that there will be a noticeable change for the better just as soon as all factions reach an agreement that each has an important part to play and each proceeds along his particular line without throwing stones. The sincerity of our leaders in their efforts to make their race virile and potent is not questioned for a moment. All are prompted by the best motives, but they differ as to method. The Negro problem is big and vexatious, and our leaders might as well conclude now than later that none has any guaranteed remedy to bring about its solution. You cannot liken the race problem to any one particular physical ailment. It is a complication of the rheumatism, toothache, pneumonia and many other forms of indisposition. And no one remedy is going to effect a cure. So whatever remedy you may prescribe do so without "knocking" what is recommended by the other fellow. Many people spend much of their time trying to attract attention. They are unable to differentiate between prominence and notoriety. Last week we had something to say about the great opportunity which the migration of Negroes from the South has opened up to colored men in that section to make certain demands for the race. We pointed out that among the demands which should be made, and which we are sure the white people will listen to and be disposed to grant are the demands for justice in the courts, a fair division of the school fund, a larger share in municipal benefits, better protection in the rural districts, and less police persecution in the cities. We now wish to emphasize the fact that while this migration opens up to our people in the South a great opportunity, it, at the same time, places upon our people in the North a great responsibility. The colored men and women who are coming north to work are going to find conditions very different from what they are in the South. Their employers are not going to worry very much about how these people adapt themselves to these new conditions; they will be mainly concerned about getting the full worth of the wage out of them. The responsibility of assisting those who come in properly adjusting themselves to their new social and civic environment falls directly upon the colored people who have for some time lived in the North; and it is a responsibility which they cannot morally shirk. It will not do for the colored people of any northern community to take the attitude that these newcomers are intruders and a menace to the rights and privileges they of the northern community enjoy. If colored people of any northern communities take that attitude of disdain and aloofness, there is graye danger that the newcomers will prove to be such a menace. Those of the race who are seeking these new industrial fields in the north are, for the most-part, honest and hard working people; they would not come so far to find work if they were not. Nevertheless, a great many, bad ones are coming along with them. And there is also a still worse class, a class made up of those who do not come to work, made up of men who are simply camp followers; a class made up of the wolves, the vampires and the parasites that are always found where men work together in large gangs. These men will make those who would otherwise be decent gamble away their wages and spend their money for whisky; they will incite them to fights and to murder. We repeat that the situation is one which places upon the colored people of the North the responsibility of assisting these people to rightly adjust themselves morally, socially and civically. It is a situation that demands a lively and practical interest. This responsibility falls upon each of us as individuals, but it especially falls upon our organizations. It falls upon the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A., and our fraternal and benevolent societies, and, above all, upon our churches. It is a situation that should make us all remember and feel that we are our brothers' keeper. THE BIG MONARCHIAL "I." with Parliament was prorogued last week, the throne. King George was not prorogued was read by the lord high chancellor, the speaker in the House of Commons, by one-half of it being taken up by the liee here: Hands and gentlemen: Throughout the month I last addressed you, my navy and my those of our gallant and faithful allies, vigilance and indomitable valor, justifiid thaum. I am confident that, however long the report by the inflexible determination of a the empire, will finally achieve the victor those aims for which I entered into the war. To live under a democratic form of government what inspiration the people of Czechoslovakia words; they will also be unable tolishmen can listen to such bombastic use at a feeling of disgust. Let us image the United States opening his message banner. In the expressions used by King George accordance with long established usage conviction that where a people still something wrong about the system, se in the mouth of the Czar of Russia not seem at all strange, but addressed the shen they seem to be worse than arch insult to common sense and decency. Be as a prediction that one result of the form of government pronouns, at least The British Parliament was prorogued last week with the usual address from the throne. King George was not present in person, and his address was read by the lord high chancellor in the House of Lords and by the speaker in the House of Commons. The speech was brief, fully one-half of it being taken up by the first paragraph, which we quote here: "My lords and gentlemen: Throughout the months that have lapsed since I last addressed you, my navy and my army, in conjunction with those of our gallant and faithful allies, have by their unceasing vigilance and indomitable valor, justified that high trust I placed in them. I am confident that, however long the struggle, their efforts, supported by the inflexible determination of all my subjects throughout the empire, will finally achieve the victorious consumption of those aims for which I entered into the war. People who live under a democratic form of government will be puzzled to know what inspiration the people of Great Britain can get from these words; they will also be unable to understand how intelligent Englishmen can listen to such bombastic use of the monarchial I without a feeling of disgust. Let us imagine, if we can, a President of the United States opening his message to Congress in any such manner. Of course, the expressions used by King George are a matter of mere form in accordance with long established usage; but we cannot escape the conviction that where a people still tolerates such usage there is something wrong about the system of government. Words like these in the mouth of the Czar of Russia or the Kaiser of Germany do not seem at all strange, but addressed to free and independent Englishmen they seem to be worse than archaic; they strike us as being an insult to common sense and decency. We venture as a prediction that one result of the war will be a change in the form of government pronouns, at least, in England. WORRY. ITS USE AND ABUSE. Health Service at Washington has nervous diseases and kindred ills that l and last week issued a bulletin aga this bulletin reads as follows: The Public Health Service at Washington has been gathering statistics on nervous diseases and kindred ills that have a tendency to shorten life, and last week issued a bulletin against worrying. A paragraph of this bulletin reads as follows: "So far as is known, no bird ever tried to build more nests than its neighbor, no fox ever fretted because he had only one hole in which to hide, no squirrel ever died of anxiety lest he should not lay One of our Harlem contemporaries suffers from this affliction. To it logic and common sense are total strangers, but is on intimate terms with meaningless words. Its editor, despite his forty-odd years, encounters great difficulty in seeing things as they are, as we well know. For this reason we look upon him with pity and commiseration. Because the Evening Post, New York World, Springfield Republican and other influential dailies friendly to the Negro supported Woodrow Wilson for President this 135th street "Socrates" argues that they betrayed the race. It seems difficult for some to understand that the race problem is not the only question demanding the consideration of our white friends. The Evening Post and other publications with Democratic leanings disagreed with Mr. Wilson on his Negro policy before election and do now. As for Oswald Garrison Villard, we are sure it will be news to him and his associates to learn that he is the "Pooh Bah" of the Evening Post. by enough nuts for two winters instead of for one and no dog ever lost any sleep over the fact that he did not have enough bones laid aside for his declining years." So far as we know, each of the above statements is true; but it should be borne in mind that a statement is not important merely because it is true. We are also of the opinion that what is quoted above could be rebutted by such bits of wisdom as "the rat that has but one hole is soon caught," "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider his ways and be wise," "How doth the little-busy bee improve each shining hour," etc., etc. In examining this no-worry philosophy laid down by the Public Health Service, let us skip over the birds and foxes and squirrels, and come down to the animal we are most familiar with, the dog. When it is said that no dog ever lost any sleep over the fact that he did not have enough bones laid aside for his declining years, this truth is overlooked: the dog must have bones for his declining years—that is if he is to have any declining years—and somebody must worry about securing those bones. There must be some degree of worrying done to secure the bones, even though the dog doesn't do it. In this respect, the dog is much luckier than most human beings. At the same time we must remember, if the dog isn't a lucky one he does considerable worrying about his bones, and is always willing to make an effort to get them. Intelligent worry is a conciliant to progress in an individual or a people. It is only those who take serious thought of to-morrow, of next year, of old age and of those who come after them, who really make progress. And yet it is true that worry might be called the great American disease. We are a nation of worries. We worry about unnecessary things. We worry about troubles that do not exist. We worry about our condition even when it is reasonably comfortable and secure. There are women who will worry themselves sick because they are not able to dress as well as some other woman. There are men who will worry themselves gray-haired and wrinkled about money that is not necessary to their comfort or happiness. Worry is a fatal disease, and such people are slowly or rapidly committing suicide. There is a needed warning in the bulletin published by the Public Health Service; however we do not believe that it, as yet, applies very strongly to us as a race. One of the most persistent errors in the South, one that has helped as much as anything else to keep the old bitterness alive, is the idea held to by Southerners that they were impoverished during the Civil War by having their slaves taken away. They imagined, and those who survive keep on imagining, that they lost an enormous amount of wealth through the freeing of the slaves. A writer in the Journal of Commerce in drawing some conclusions as to what will be the financial conditions in Europe as a result of the war, bases his conclusions on what appened to the South. From the Literary Digest we take the following extract from the article: "The writer contends that, as a matter of fact, the South in that way lost almost nothing." The Negroes were worth in the aggregate 'just what their labor was worth,' and that was not taken away as a result of the war. By this the writer means, not that individual owners did not lose something from the freeing of slaves, but that the South as a country lost nothing, since the Negroes were still there, able to work as before. Individual owners lost in the sense that when they had occasion to raise money they could not do so by selling Negroes. To that extent only they had such losses. Any planter who wanted Negroes to work in raising cotton or tobacco could still have them do their work after the war as well as before, 'and free labor cost little if any more than slave-labor.' In fact, it 'proved more efficient, as the increased production in the South has since shown." "The South, however, had great losses, but they came in other ways. The Southern people had lent their money to the Confederate Government, for which they had received bonds, and had given their services and their goods, for which they received Confederate notes in payment. Had the Confederacy won the war, it probably would have been able ultimately to pay the principal of these bonds and redeem the notes, but when the war was over and the South was the loser, it could not redeem its bonds and notes, and its people soon found that what they had invested in them was a total loss; their money "had been destroyed on battlefields." Here is a clear and sound economic statement of the case. Southerners, past and present, have nursed the old sore. They have believed and made others believe that the South was impoverished by the freeing of the slaves; the fact is, the South was made not poorer, but richer by the freeing of the slaves. What brought the South down to the depths of poverty was the money spent in supporting a great army to keep those slaves in slavery. TO DISFRANCHISE PORTO RICANS. Santiago Iglesias is the president of the Porto Rico Federation of Labor and is undoubtedly well informed as to the status of the mass of the laboring people of that island, possession of which was thrust upon the United States as one of the results of the war with Spain. Mr. Iglesias predicts that the passage of the Jones Bill, as amended, will disfranchise three out of every four voters of Porto Rico; that is, it will practically disfranchise 175,000 workingmen, out of a total of 205,000 voters. This disability to vote will be accomplished through the qualification required that a voter shall be able to read and write or else be a bona fide taxpayer. According to Mr. Iglesias, as no means are provided for some 300,000 children of the working class to attend school, they will in time be disqualified from voting. Moreover, only citizens who own taxable property will be eligible under this bill to become representatives in the Island legislature. As the Jones Bill is the latest attempt to confer the long deferred gift of American citizenship upon the inhabitants of Porto Rico, it is unfortunate that it should be made the instrument of depriving the greater part of them of the civil rights and privileges they have bitherto enjoyed. For fourteen years Miss Rosalie M. Jonas, a white woman, born in the South, has played Santa Claus to the needy colored people of Columbus Hill, known to many as the "San Juan Hill" District. This year Miss Jonas, with the assistance of the Rev. George H. Sims, pastor of Union Baptist Church, and social organizations in the neighborhood, made happy 463 colored persons, distributing $356 in cash, 125 baskets laden with good things, thirty-five pairs of shoes and fifteen pairs of rubbers to young and old. The Age commends Miss Jonas, the Rev. Mr. Sims and their co-workers for having performed such excellent service to humanity. H. C. of L. Take Richmond. H. C. of L. Takes Richmond. This high cost of living has got Richmond in its grip and may hold it for a long time yet. Those who once found if a high pleasure to live to eat, will now not find it so easy to get something to eat in order to live.—Richmond, Reformier COMMENDING THE AGE WANT THE AGE IN HOMES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE: You are making a splendid paper—such as all of us delight not only to read, but to have in our homes. It is a good, clean, newsy, up-to-date publication. Go on in your good work. Wishing you many, many good wishes, not only for the Xmas, but for the New Year and all the future, I am, my dear Editor Moore, as always, with esteem. W. S. SCARBOROUGH. Wilberforce, Ohio. I am sorry to have waited so long to renew my subscription, for I am a dear lover of THE AGE. Inclosed find $3, which pays to 1917. Wishing you a merry Xmas and a happy and prosperous New Year. READY TO SUPPORT THE AGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE: I have looked over this great Negro paper with much interest, and the more I read it the better I like it. I stand ready to support it with as many new subscriptions as I can talk up. "Inclosed with thanks are $3 for my continued subscription. HILLIARD ANDERSON. Reidsville, N. C. CAN'T BE WITHOUT IT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE: Find inclosed check for my subscription to THE AGE, as I cannot afford to be without it in my home. S. B. DILLARD. Leaksville, N. C. I shall do whatever I can to increase the number of subscribers to THE AGE because it is a worthy paper. (MRS.) A. W. JOHNSON. Sparta, Ga. AS SOON BE WITHOUT BREAD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE: You will find inclosed money order for THE AGE, as is the time up. So let it come as I would as soon be without bread as without the paper. OWEN WASHINGTON. Memphis; Tenn. MORT RELIABLE RACE PAPER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE: Included you will find check for my subscription to THE AGE. Many thanks for continuing me on your subscription list. THE AGE is the best edited and the most reliable race periodical published. C. FAIRFAX. Troy, N. Y. JUDGE APPROVED ARTICLE. To the Editor of The Age: Your editorial of December 14 on the race question was cordially approved of by the Justice of the Supreme Court of Northern New York. JOHN E. FOUNSON. A.GUIDE TO THE RACE. To the Editor of the Age. Yours to hand, and I am sending you check for subscription for The Age. I want to thank you for past favors. I enjoy reading your paper, and I wish every Negro in the United States would read it, for it is the race's guide. Success to you. RICHARD STOVALL. Rocky Mount, N. C. WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY ANCIENT THE BUSINESS PROBLEM To the Eporor, or Tyr, Age: Since there are two or more sides to every question, permit me to say a few words in behalf of the colored merchant who is trying to establish a business when ever there are enough of his people to pay for the venture; also, if possible, at some future time, to be able to give employment to at least some of them. The article which forced me to write these lines was found in THE AGE of December 14, contributed by T. L. McCoy. It takes some nerve now in these days of big businesses for a man of color to risk his all, after looking back over the difficulties surmounted, to save the money required to set up a small business. Usually we must do more and better work than the other fellow, but get less money. We must pay more for what we get, with the resultant favors always going to the other races. But there are some few members of the race with red blood still coursing through their system, who, when they go to the theatre, pay the full price for their seats, and are very much humiliated when told in an insulting manner, "Here is the place for you colored folks" Or in almost any store in any city you may name you stand around upon first one foot, then the other, until all the other customers have been waited upon. Then the salesman will turn to you and enquire, "Well, what can I do for you?" Some times you are ignored altogether. I am not a frequenter of the saloons, but I am told that these places show that they don't want colored trade by breaking the glass used by customers of this class. Knowing all these disagreeable features, the question arises, how can these conditions be remedied, or must we always be subjected to these insults? In Harlem, according to THE AGE, the race man conducts up-to-date saloons, dispenses the same grog the white man sells. The former barely make a living, while the latter waxes fat from the earnings of our people. In my town a white saloonkeeper has driven the Negroes 'out of his place three times and told them to stay out, while today passersby can see more Negroes than whites in his place. There was a colored saloon just about one block away which was sold out by the sheriff as he could not make his expenses --- The Negro is prone to choose the places where he is not wanted in preference to places where he could find a warm welcome. It never seems to occur to our people that the big department stores had small beginnings, and it was only the fidelity of their friends and customers that brought them up to their present financial standing. Many large businesses among white people were started with paper, knowing their friends could be relied upon in case of disaster. But I defy a colored man to try it; he would find ample time to regret his act. If prejudice is ignorance which cannot be eliminated by the above named institution, then they are of no use, and to say we are in a pitiful, sororowful plight is to state our condition just mildly. Our people will be found in the dingy Italian's store and in the behind-date Polish store. I have seen men and women sitting at the horse-shoe counters of a cheap Greek restaurant, also in the ill-smelling Jewish stores. The storekeepers not only had their hats on and coats off, but were puffing away at cigarettes, and this brings neither censure nor objection. But let these same people enter a colored store to spend perhaps ten cents they expect the merchant to bow and scrape and sing praises. If this is not forthcoming, they soon find some excuse to spend their nickel elsewhere. Let allowances be made on both sides of the counter. PROBLEM OF OUR GIRLS. I have often wondered why it is that the girl graduates of our smaller boarding schools are, as a rule, so very inefficient when they take up their "business of life" after having spent the greater part of their youth, certainly their most impressionable years, within the walls of their school dormitories and class rooms. Of course, such a condition is not present in the girls who finish from our large, well-endowed schools, for, as a rule, the most expensive schools have students who come from our most representative homes and are the children of cultured and intelligent parents. But I have reference to the various small colleges which may be found in nearly every good sized community and which take the crude young people from country homes and districts where culture, and the art of living are unknown. It seems to me to be a poor return for the hard working man or woman to sacrifice year after year in order to send their daughter off to school and then have her finally return as a graduate, very learned in many sciences and languages, but absolutely incompetent as a home-maker, a wife and a mother. They are simply graduates and must yet learn the fundamental essentials which do to make up a woman's Life. I met the matron of one school and she is old and feeble, hard of hearing, having no influence over the many thoroughly alive young girls under her charge. Another matron was rather coarse, barely intelligent, full of petty spites and pretty generally disliked by the girls. The position, so full of responsibility for the proper person, seems to be one which pays a very small salary and is usually given to some dear old lady as an act of charity, or to some one else as a mark of favor. The slight importance given this position does not, seem fair when one considers that a girl's knowledge of her physical self and her powers of self-culture is the lever which raises her in the world. Por, given all technical training possible, there are certain of the 'ways of women,' learned only through contact with the woman who knows, that every woman must know in order to be really educated and acceptable. Would not a "Culture Course" in these schools where the girls are all of one type be worth a great deal in making a graduate really superior to the girl who has not had similar advantages? If the matron is an intelligent, wideawake, sympathetic and strong woman, one who has been reared in a home of refinement, then will it be possible for her to enter closely into the personal life of each girl. How many grave scandals could have been avoided if each girl had the proper daily supervision? Personal daintiness is a great asset to a woman. Students should be told what preparations will aid them in keeping the body sweet and clean. They should be taught daintiness as to each article of wearing apparel. Surely it is only proper to tell a girl that cold cream will take away that scaly look from her skin and a little hair treatment will take away the dusty, unkempt look from her hair. Instructive tours through dry goods and furniture stores, visits to the home of some of the representative people of their race, would all teach the girls to know what to buy and what not to buy when their life begins in earnest. It is a great help to know how to buy household linen, how to make curtains and clothes for one's self. To know how to keep a neat, dainty home, so that it simply radiates comfort, does not require money so much as it requires training by example and ideas from seeing other homes. No matter how rich or poor a girl may be she needs to know how to keep a house and make her own clothes. Girls should be told physiological facts concerning themselves so that they may not ruin their lives because they "did not know." They should be told that secret sins have a way of telling themselves and how this is so. The art of conversation should not be neglected, for many a bright person carries a vacant look when out socially and are unspeakably dull because they have never been entouraged in school to advance their ideas or given any opportunities of helpful social contact with superior minds. When our graduates are turned out of school with better ideas of living than their untutored parents had, then it will seem that the schools are doing their whole duty by the parents who have trusted their girls to them. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a blank or heavily pixelated screen with no discernible content. Prof. W. S. SCARBOROUGH President Wilberforce University. MEMORIAL TO DR. WARD AT WILBERFORCE UNIV. WILBERFORCE, Ohio.—While on a visit to Wilberforce University four years ago, the late Dr. William Hayes Ward, at that time editor of The Independent, New York, noted that the institution was lacking in suitable quarters for the housing of the Department of Science. In the issue of The Independent of December 18, President Scarborough sets forth in an article the purpose of Wilberforce to erect a suitable science building to be known as the "William Hayes Ward Science Hall," as a memorial to the late distinguished friend. In publishing Dr Scarbough's article under the caption "A Memorial to Dr. Ward." Hamilton Holt, the present editor of The Independent, writes an introduction in which he endorses the work being done at Wilberforce and gives a hearty concurrence to the appeal made by President Scarborough. Dr. Holt's foreword was as follows: The Independent is glad to publish the following appeal to its readers from the president of Wilberforce University. I may add that I have visited Wilberforce, know its president well and can vouch for the good work being done there for the elevation of the Negro. While the university maintains a very good industrial department, it has always stressed the higher education of the Negro, believing its greatest service lay in training its students for professional life and for the leadership of the race. I have often heard Dr. Ward speak with enthusiasm of the work Wil- The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale photograph with a dark background and a white mark or symbol in the lower left corner. berforce was doing, and I am sure that any of his friends who feel like responding to President Scarborough's appeal will be aiding a genuinely worthy project. Dr. Scarborough's Appeal. The appeal, as set forth by President Sarahborough, reads as follows: It is the purpose of Wilberforce University to erect a science building as a memorial to the late distinguished editor of The Independent, naming it the "William Hayes Ward Science Hall." We feel that no better tribute could be paid to his memory by the Negro. He virtually devoted his life to the interests of the race. By voice and pen he aided our emancipation, upheld our rights and denounced our wrongs, advocated our education and encouraged our ambitions and inspired us with hope for a future free from prejudice and proscription. Dr. Ward was also a personal friend of Wilberforce University and of Bishop Daniel A. Payne, the chief of its founders. Whatever pertained to its welfare deeply interested him. Therefore he noted with deep regret, on a visit some four years ago, when he addressed us during Commencement Week, that our quarters for science teaching were totally inadequate. Every one who knew Dr. Ward knows what a keen interest he took in all lines of scientific endeavor and research. It seems to us, therefore, very fitting that we strive to build for our great need a monument to him that will not only show our grateful appreciation as a people of his labors in our behalf, but that, will also have a close connection with the things in which he took so great delight. It is equally fit- HAMILTON HOLT. ting that the oldest Negro school in America should be the one to put forth this effort and that its campus should be the spot where such a memorial shall stand. Recognized a Need. Dr. Ward was always quick to recognize a real need, and there is no question that a science building is one of the greatest needs of Wilberforce University today. All its class work along scientific lines is greatly hampered by lack of room for work and for even the proper placing of the laboratory equipment for which friends are making arrangements to provide. Our work planned for advance study demands the new building, as does the constantly increasing work in certain industries and in agriculture. We cannot even make the most profitable use of our small but well selected museum because it cannot be properly arranged in our present crowded quarters. Thus we find very important work suffering at every point because of needed enlargement. Wilberforce University, because of its strategic situation, its environment and many admirable facilities, is one of the strongest centers of Negro higher education in the country. Its work is constantly growing. It provides all-round training in literary courses, teachers' training courses, and vocational courses, of which there are seven. With forty-one instructors and five hundred students it is serving most acceptably in a wide field of Negro education. Oldest School in U. 8. It is the oldest institution of its kind in the United States, as I have just said, dating as far back as 1847—when was founded the Union Seminary, a manual labor institution for the education of colored people, and which was subsequently merged into Wilberforce University. It was named in honor of the great English statesman and benefactor of the colored race—William Wilberforce. It has today an enrollment of five hundred young men and women, from nearly all the states of the Union, from the islands of the sea, and from Africa, and needs still larger quarters for them. We are therefore sending this appeal to The Independent, to the readers of this staunch and fearless paper, to the friends of Negro education generally and to the friends of Dr. William Hayes Ward in particular, asking their aid in accomplishing our purpose. The cost of this proposed building will be $40,000. We beg earnestly that out of their philanthropic love' of humanity, out of their interest in education as the saving and uplifting power of a nation as well as a race, and out of their friendship for and pride in the master mind that has gone to its reward, our friends and Dr. Ward's friends will assist us in accomplishing our purpose. The memory of one who delighted in service will thus be perpetuated in an institution whose aim is service. Wilberforce Ohio. RALBIGH. N. C. Raleigh, N. C.—There is a growing feeling in Raleigh to remember the poor on Christmas and Thanksgiving. For some time, however, there has been in existence a board of associated charities, together with a colored auxiliary board. The two boards co-operate in caring for the colored poor. Col. Jas. H. Young, chairman of the auxiliary board, personally donated $12, the Rev. A. B. Hunter of St. Augustine School, $10, the Rev. Jas. K. Satterwhite, rector of St. Ambrose P. E. Church $3, totaling a fund of $25, which sum was handed to the superintendent of associated charities with a request that he make it go as far as possible in gifts to the very aged colored poor as a Christmas present. More than thirty baskets filled with flour, sugar, eoffee, apples and oranges were loaded into automobiles with the district nurse, who personally distributed them to those who needed and appreciated the gifts. The Revs. G. W. Moore and N. F. Roberts volunteered their services and the use of their automobiles in delivering these gifts to the poor. A goodly number of the ten thousand or more colored citizens in Raleigh entertain the right view of the duty they owe to the poor, as is evidenced by the liberal support they are giving the auxiliary board of charities in its systematic work among the poor of Raleigh On January 1, 1917, fifty-four years ago, President Abraham Lincoln signed and published his proclamation declaring that all negroes within the bounds of these United States, held as slaves are henceforth and forever free. From that date and every recurring January 1, is the Negro's anniversary in the United States. Negroes in some of the Southern States celebrate April 9, while others celebrate May 20, as the date on which Negroes were set free. Fundamentally January 1, 1863, is the epocal date of our freedom, and this date should be recognized by us. W. P O'Kelley has purchased a home in West Raleigh and moved into it. Miss Sadie L. Delany, who is taking a domestic science course at Pratt's Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y., arrived in the city last Wednesday to spend the holidays with her parents, Archdeacon and Mrs. H. B. Delany, at St. Augustine School. Miss Sadie Harris, domestic science teacher in the public schools of Richmond County, and her sister, Miss Ada, teaching in the Episcopal parish school in Warrenton, N. C., are in the city visiting their parents for the holidays. Mrs Maude Y. Carter and son, James, of Winston, N. C., are guests of Col. and Mrs. Jas. H. Young during the holidays. Mr and Mrs. Jack H. Hunter are rejoicing over the advent of a son into their home. The many friends of Mrs. M. T. Pope will be glad to learn that she is convalescing from an attack of illness which kept her in bed several days. Miss Helen Davis and F. M. McCoy, senior class mates in Kittrell College, and M. H. Flemings of Kittrell College, are spending the holidays with their parents in this city. 1930. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale image with no discernible content. Therefore, no text can be extracted from this image. Miss Margaret Turner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Turner, who is teaching in the public schools at Mocksville, N. C., in company with Miss Lula Gray, as her guest, arrived in the city last Friday to spend the holidays with her parents. Dr. John Kay of Wilmington, N. C. is in the city visiting his wife and baby at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Otey. John W. Grant of Charlotte, N. C., who has been working in the Yarbrough Hotel in this city during the past few months, will soon leave for Jacksonville, Fla. H. C. Torrence of Huntsville, Ala., father of the late Dr. W. G. Torrence of Asheville, N. C., and daughter, Mrs. P. R. DeBerry, wife of Rev P. R. DeBerry of this city, is visiting his daughter. Mrs. Matilda Pope and her daughter, Miss Mary, are confined in their home by illness. The many friends of Dr. J. O Plummer will regret to learn that he had a relapse which has kept him in doors during the past eight weeks. He is gradually recovering and hopes to be able to soon resume his practice Mr. and Mrs. Roger J. McCauley announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Mabel Jannet, to N. Haywood Jones, on Tuesday, June the 16, 1914. Your correspondent enjoyed a lovely Christmas dinner at the Yarborough Hotel. He did not partake of it in the kitchen nor in the quarters where the hotel help usually take their meals Sam Rogers, head waiter of this hotel, sent us an invitation to be present and partake of a Christmas dinner given to the help as requested by Mrs B. H. Griffin, wife of the proprietor. Promptly at the hour named, 11 30 a. m., we were there. Mr. Rogers escorted us into the dining room and placed us at his right hand while he sat at the head of the table. The writer was asked to invoke the divine blessing, and then all proceeded to help themselves to some of the many good things set before us. Your correspondent not being fa miliar with, the names given hotel food, will not attempt to refer to each dish on the menu. But when we left the table your correspondent had consumed more good food than he is accustomed to eating. Mr. Spence, the manager of the hotel, cane in when we were half through and said: "r. and Mrs. Griffin, proprietors of this hotel, requested me to have all the colored help served with a good Christmas dinner, which you are now eating. I hope you are enjoying it, as it is a token of their good will for you and their satisfaction of the faithful service you have rendered this hotel during the present year. I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year." The hotel engineer was present and gave a few words of cheer. All joined in singing a few songs which made the wellkin ring, and the melody was sweet, such as only can be produced by colored people. The head waiter and the writer gave short talks which were received with applause that told us that we had said something worth while. Many of the help were moved to give expressions of their high appreciation of the kindness shown them by the manager and proprietors of this hotel. PHILADELPHIA, PA PHILADELPHIA, PA—J. H. Gray, correspondent of The New York Age, has recovered from a five weeks' illness. The Progressive Yorkers of the Hotel Brotherhood distributed presents on Christmas morning to 500 poor children. James H. Robinson, 1247 Cambridge street, is the committeeman of the Twentieth ward, the first colored man in twenty years to hold that position. Maxwell Bishop, a student in the Central High School, was elected captain of the Carnation Athletic Blub last week. B D Miller was elected president of the Hod Carriers' Union last week. Installation of officers will take place on the second Monday night in January, 1917. Mrs Eva L. Johnson was re-elected RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS BARRON'S A INCOR 2275 7th Ave TELEPHONE N ENTERTAINMENT EVERY AFTERNOON AND E CHOICE WINES LIQUORS AND CIGARS BARRON'S ASTORIA GAFE' INCORPORATED 2275 7th Ave. Cor. 134th St. TELEPHONE MONTHSIDE 30 CABARET IN THE REAR ENTERTAINMENT EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING BY THE FINEST ARTISTS IN THE CITY WHEN OUT FOR A NICE EVENING STOP AT ROSALIE HOUSE opposite Marshall's old place Everything good to eat and drink served here. Cabaret in dining room every evening. HORACE SLAUGHTER, Genl Manager. Telephone Circle 2344 THE ELK CAFE 2201 71 AVE., Cor. 133d Street Where you can get what you ask for. Case goods opened on request. Mixer frigidaire appliance CARL MATCHINGTON, Bro superintendent of the Y. W. C. A. last Friday evening. The installation of officers will be held the third Sunday in January, 1917, at Varick A. M. E. Zion Church, Nineteenth and Catharrine streets. Marie Robinson, well known in this city, is in the Cooper Hospital. She says she was held up on Thursday night by two men and robbed of $28. Sallis Bethell, 35 years old, was found dead Friday night, with her head almost severed from her body, at 2635 Arizona street. The body was found on a pile of broken glassware. The police took the body to the Women's Homeopathic Hospital, where physicians said she had been dead at least six hours when she was found. William Bethel, said to be her husband, is missing. Mrs. Sarah Bowers Bel, sister of the late Henrietta Dumire, an old Philadelphia, died at the home of her nephew, Joseph T. Seth, Jr., 517 South Ninth street, on Friday, December 22. She was buried on Tuesday, December 26, at Eden Cemetery. z z z z There were 45 deaths last week among Negroes in this city from different causes. The poor Negroes of this city, of which there were only half as many as last year, were well taken care of by the different charitable institutions and a number of wealthy clubs, who saw that the families had plenty to eat and the children toys of all kinds. The home of William Brown, 1927 Nicholas street, was badly damaged by fire on Sunday night. The family was saved. Special Christmas music featured most of the churches on Sunday in the city and suburbs. Special programs were arraigned and carried out in Sunday schools. George Burley, visiting here from Virginia and staying with friends on Oxford street, while visiting at 2215 Ridge avenue, and explaining to his friends there on Sunday night how he was going to play Santa Claus on Christmas day for the poor children of the neighborhood, collapsed with heart trouble. He was sixty years old. BRUNSWICK, GA. Brunswick, Ga. - Emery I Robinson, attending Meharry Medical College, is expected to arrive in Brunswick, December 23, to spend the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Robinson BANKS WHEN OUT FOR A PLEASANT EVENING, STOP IN M. BANK'S CAFE FORMERLY DOWN TOWN — NOW AT — 3 WEST 133rd ST. PHONE 6079 HARLEM FE' STORIA GAFE' ORATED Cor. 134th St. BRIDGESIDE 30 CABARET IN THE REAR EVENING BY THE FINEST ARTISTS IN THE CITY ROSALIE HOUSE 60 EAST 131B STREET For Respectable People Transit Service Ministers and Missionaries Special Cared For Reasonable Rates Rooms by Day, Week or Month All Improvement Special Cooking, Additions, Cakes, Sponges Pudding a Specialty MADAM R. L. BATSON, Prepistress, Nov. 16-$mo. Telephone 6575 Harlem Morris' Cafe Edmund Johnson, Mgr. 2161 5th Ave. N. E. Cor. New York 11-15 Suns MEET ME AT PERCY BROWN'S CAFE S. W. COR. LERBX AVE. AND 100 RD. WINES, LIQUORS, BREWERS, MENTS AND CIGARS. PRIVATE ROOMS FOR FAMILY TRADES THE LIBYA "The Place To Dine Well." 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PHONE HARLEM 3438 11 1-2 and 15 West 135th St. New York THE ARSNAL HOUSE Nearly Furnished Rooms for Transient or Permanent Guests CENTRALLY LOCATED 449 SEVENTH AVENUE, N. Y. Bst. 34th and 35th Sts. Near Pennsylvania Station E. HUNTER. GORDON HOUSE J. GORDON, PROPRIETOR. Furnished Hall Rooms With All Improvements by Day or Week. NEVER CLOSED 287-269 West 134th St. New York City BETWEEN 7TH AND 8TH AVENUE PUGILISM. (BY ALEXANDER WATERS.) HARLEM SPORTING CLUB, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street and Madison avenue.—On last Friday night, before a very large crowd, John Lester Johnson, the light-heavyweight of Harlem, met Sailor Grande of California in the star bout of the evening. This was the third meeting of these men the first bout being a draw and the second Grande received the newspaper decision over his colored opponent. But this time Johnson left no doubt about his superiority over Grande, because he waded in from the first round with wicked left jabs and hard rights to the white man's jaw, which shook him from head to toe. At several times during the bout it looked as if the California fighter could not last, but being such an awkward and hard man, Johnson was unable to put over the sleep punch. Grande was a horrible sight when he left the ring. His left eye was completely closed and his lips were cut from the lightning jabs of Johnson, who showed vast improvements over his other bouts. Lester left the ring without a mark. Weight—Johnson, 175: Grande, 170. In the semi-final of the evening Sandy Taylor of Harlem, who has been mowing down his opponent in every bout that he has taken part in recently, and if he takes, good care of himself and trains faithfully for his bouts, will become one of the foremost colored lightweights in the country, met Battling Rvan of Buffalo and was giving him a grand lacing when Kid McPartland, the referee, stoned the bout in the third round to save Ryan from a sure knockout. Taylor was hitting when and where he pleased. Weight—Taylor, 135: Rvan, 136. Eddie Dorsey, who has been sick for several weeks, is able to be about again and has started in training. His manager, Jesse McMahon, has several important fights sizend up for him, the most important one being with Ad. Wolgast, the former lightweight champion, who he meets at one of the local clubs the latter part of January. Paddy Donnelly, known in the pugilistic world as "Fighting Paddy," because he gives his fighters ironclad protection, has assumed the managership of another good boy, Bob Walcott of New Orleans. This boy is a fighter of the first calibre, being very clever and a terrific puncher with both hands. Walcott weighs 165 pounds and is open to meet any middleweight in the world. And, the public can rest assured that nothing will stop this boy from reaching the top of the ladder as long as Paddy has him under his care. Donnelly also has Leo Johnson, the colored lightweight champion, and George Basden, once foremost featherweight in the country. Walcott's recent victory over George Ashe of Philadelphia alone stamps him as a good man. * * * Sr. Louis, Mo.—Future A. C.—On last Friday night young Joe Gans, of this town met Leo Johnson of New York, the colored lightweight champion of the world, before one of the largest crowds that ever turned out to see a bout in thi stown. But in Gans the New York boy met the hardest hitting lightweight in the country and very clever. Johnson, who did not have much time to train on account of not being able to get there before Wednesday, commenced to weaken long before the end of the bout, which was twelve round. Gans was very aggressive, and seeing Johnson's condition, continued to carry the fight to his opponent and scored many a heavy wallop to Johnson's body and face. It was only the champion's superior ring generalship that saved him from a sure knockout, as the St. Louis boy tried very hard to put over the sleep punch, but Johnson was too crafty and evaded all of his opponent's wild swings. Weights—Johnson, 136; Gans, 134. Vanderbilt A. G. of Brooklyn—On last Monday afternoon K. O. Lon Williams, the colored welterweight champion of the world and foremost colored fighter of the country, met Langford, Brooklyn's premier fighter and also the recognized colored middleweight champion of the world. Williams, who says that middleweight and welterweight all look the same to him, proved to the large crowd present that he was not joshing when he said that, by handing Langford the grandest lacing he has, received in all of his career. Williams flored his opponent with a vicious right to jaw for a count of eight in the fourth round. Langford was bleeding from the mouth and hose, being unable to keep out of the way of Williams' lightning left jabs. The bout was ver yexeiting on account of Langford's admirers urging him to fight the Savannah boy, but the Brooklyn fighter was satisfied to fight on the defense, because Williams assumed the aggressive side and never ceased bringing the fight to his opponent. Langford had both eyes cut when he left the ring and Williams did not have a mark. The Brooklyn fighter was a much battered boy and the bell was welcomed by him in the tenth round. Weights—Williams, 149; Langford, 150. Semi-finals of the afternoon—Charlie Smith of Brooklyn met a hard nut when he faced Kid Walker. At no time during the six rounds was there a dull moment, and this bout kept the fans on their feet all during the six rounds. Walker, who is a very hard hitter, but not very clever, made some swings for Smith, and had he connected the Brooklyn fighter would probably have been sleeping till now. But being the cleverer of the two, Smith had little wild swings and rushes, and countering with hard rights and left to jaw and body. Had a decision been given Smith would have received it on account of his clean work. Weights—Smith, 140; Walker, 142. Battling Hall defeated Smoke Jones in a four-round bout, Hall being too clever for Smoke. BASKETBALL. Paterson Sioux Wants Games. PATTERSON, NeJ.—Nane Benson, manager of the-champion Sioux of Paterson, states that he has open dates that he would like to fill in with some of the champion junior teams in the colored ranks of New York. Teams that would like to book games with the Sioux of Paterson please communicate with Nane Benson, manager, 32 Bergen street, Paterson, N. J. The Sioux would like to meet the junior team of the Carlton Y. M. C. A. of Brooklyn, the Harway Five of Brooklyn and other teams of like calibre. POLLARD ON ALL-AMERICAN Walter Camp, one of the leading authorities of football, who, for a number of years has selected an All-American eleven, in picking this year's star aggregation for Colliers, puts Polhard of Brown on the first team: THE BASEBALL TEAM OF THE YEAR FRED. POLLARD This year's All-American team consists of the following players: Ends—Baston, Minnesota and Moseley, Yale; tackles, West, Colgate and Horning, Colgate; guards, Black, Yale and Dadmun, Harvard; centre, Peck, Pittsburgh; quarterback, Anderson, Colgate; halfbacks, Oliphant, West Point, and Pollard, Brown; fullback, Harley, Ohio State. ROBESON, STAR AT RUTGERS. SOMERVILLE, N. J.-Among the football stars of the season was Robeson of Rutgers. This young Negro student, who is only 18 years of age, stands 6 feet 2 inches, weighs 200 pounds. This is his second year as a varsity player. He was mentioned as of All-American calibre by several writers and it is thought he will have no trouble in making the All-American team next year. Rutgers lost only two games, one to Brown, one to Washington and Jefferson. In the Brown game Captain Fauvaum of Brown was so badly outplayed that he was removed from the game. Robeson played every minute of every game Rutgers played this season except the game with Washington and Lee of Virginia, which team refused to play against him because of his color. Despite his weight; this boy is very fast and a hard, sure tackler. Robeson has two more years to play. He was a member of last year's baseball team and this year is a candidate for the varsity five. He is also a weight thrower. Beside being an all-around athlete, Robeson is a scholar. He was an orator man in his class and won the oratorial prize in a class of 180. Many of the sport writers on New York dailies placed Robeson on the honor roll in football, among them being the New York Sun, George Daley ("Herbert"), sporting editor, and Malcolm Roy of the New York World, and Fred Hawthorne of the New York Tribune. Hawthorne, in his comment on the game which Washington and Jefferson won from Rutgers by the close score of 12 to 9, spoke of Robeson's work as follows: For Rutgers, Robeson was the strongest man on the team, and it seemed to those who watched his work that Scarr should have made more use of the Negro giant. Robeson tore great holes in the oppos- For 1917 The New York Age ANNOUNCES Special Articles on all phases of the Drama, Music, Athletics and Sports by a corps of Experts on Each Subject Subscribe Now $1.50 a Year THE LIFE OF MARY C. BURTON ing line for Witten, Whitehill and Elliott to go through, and when given the ball on the tackles back formation plunged ahead with such power that it often required two or three men to bring him down. Robeson was also down the field fast under punts and his tackling was deadly. BILLIARD NOTES. The success of the interstate 18-2 balk-line billard match between J. W. Simms of Chicago and Minor Haney of New York is an assured fact, according to the advance sale of-reserved seats by W. R. Davis, secretary of the Colored Amateur Billiard Players' Association. The members of the association are giving every support to the success of the exhibition. Mr. Simms has nothing but praise for Manger Willis and the members of the association. Every privilege has been accorded him, even to the extent of a private room for practice. He also says that in Mr. Hancy he is meeting for the first time a worthy opponent, and if defeated will admire and respect his sportsmanship, and will arrange with Manager Willis for further games in Chicago and Detroit, where he has many friends and admirers of the game. The round robin pocket billiard match conducted by Willis and Minor, proprietors of the Lafayette and Franklin billiard rooms, is over and the prizes, to the amount of $35, have been distributed. This being the first time these boys have taken part in such a contest, none of them played-up to their standard. The high run was made by the winner of first prize, $20 in gold, Jim Golden; second prize, $10 in gold, won by Walter Gibbs; third prize went to Luke Smith, $5 in gold. The games were enjoyed by all who attended. The players were well pleased with their Christmas prizes' and the managers and patrons were pleased with the entertainment. W. H. Willis is a manger and promoter of billiards in all its phases. His ambition and ability is to do things to keep billiards the king of indoor sports; clean and interesting to those who play, as well as in creating an interest among those who have never played the game. Since he has made a specialty of promoting the various exhibitions, public opinion has changed in favor of King Billiards. Samuel Tools, an old-time Chicagoan, is doing the practice stunt with Bain, his hold friend, and he is coming back to his old-time form, which many of the western players have cause to remember. Floyd Williams, one of New York's promising players, is performing a similar duty with Mr. Haney. All New York room keepers join in sending' to the editor and readers of this paper their best wishes for success and popularity, and hope the circulation will double in 1917. Monday and Tuesday, January 8 and 9. are the dates of the interstate colored championship, 18-2 balk-line billiard match at St. Marks Hall. One Hundred and Thirty-eight street near Lenox avenue. Referees and other officers who will officiate are members of the Colored Billiard Players' Association and room keepers of New York. XMAS MUSIC AT HAMPTON HAMPTON, VA.—The Hampton Institute Christmas concert included the following members: Shout the Glad Tidings, Avison; Away in a Manger, Luther, God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen, Old English; Child Divine, Normandy; List the Cheer- ubic Host, Gaul; Adeste Fideles, Huss; They That Sow in Tears, Parks; The First Noel; Traditional; Go Tell It on the Mountain, Plantation Song; Rise up; Shepherd, Plantation Song; Spanish Rhythms, Laparra; Hallelujah Chorus, Handel; Star of the Orient, Shelley; Silent Night, Gruber; He is King of Kings, Plantation Song. Music School Settlement Notes. Christmas tree celebration will be held Saturday, December 30, between the hours of 2 and 7 o'clock. Pupils and parents are invited to come and enjoy the afternoon with the children. Presents will be given. An impromptu program will be rendered, with dancing and refreshments. Lessons at the school have been suspended until Friday, December 29. The Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society will not meet again until Saturday, January 6, when they will resume rehearsals of Butterfield's cantata "Belshazzar." Monday, January 1, will be a holiday. Instruction and the usual activities of the school will be resumed on Tuesday, January 2. The Sunday afternoon Music-Lecture Recitals will begin on Sunday, January 7 at 3.30 o'clock, when Miss May Mukle the celebrated English 'cellist will appear. Miss Mukle has just returned from a successful concert tour on the Pacific coast. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale photograph with a blurred background. Who is in New York to Conduct a Mammoth Folk Song Festival Carnegie Hall on January 27, with a chorus of at least 200 vol NEXT BIG GAME WASHINGTON MANHATTAN CASINO, 155th St. & 6th Ave., N. Y. WILL ANTHONY MADDEN, Manager 269 West 4th Street, New York City, Tel. 718 Chloe --- Abyssinian Baptist Church, the Christmas service and offer- ure unusual last Sunday. The took for his subject at 11 a.m. "heem" and at 7.30 p.m. "The Un- able Gift." The choir rendered Christmas anthems and Mrs. Pickenpack and Mrs. Lucy were the soloists. Earrings for the day was $163.09. missionary society, presided over Mrs. Julia O'Hagan sent 90 baskets food to needy families. Many of poor members of the church were generously remembered by other There will be four preaching services the church next Sunday. The pastor speak at 11 a. m. and the Watch service at 11 p. m. and the Rev. Edward Harris at 7.30 p. m. and the fellow meeting at 11 p. m. Union Baptist Church. The Union Baptist Church, 204-06 W. Street, the Rev. G. H. Sims, pastor, day at 11 a. m. the pastor occupiedulpit and preached an acceptableunion. At 2 p. m. Sunday School coned with Superintendent Johnson inrge. The children made a gooding for themselves 4 p. m. the missionary sisters unthe direction of Mrs. R. Brice, held closing session for 1916. They hadendid service. The B. Y. P. U. wasthe direction of the junior deent. At the evening service the pastor reached a sermon to the Grand United Order of St. Luke, Gethsemane Coun-No. 25. Owing to the death of Mrs. Anna Strong, the secretary, who died suddenly, the delegation was not large. Three men were happily diverted. At the close of the services finance committee thanked the arch for $1,513 special offering St. Paul Church. The St. Paul Baptist Church 352 west Thirty-fifth street, the Rev. H. Arthur Booker, pastor. We learned of the death of Dr J C Brown with found sorrow. He was a broad- sided Christian minister, much be- erved by all. The officers of the B Y. P. U. Lit- tary were installed Wednesday night, after a helpful program given by Miss Marion Johnson Friday night at the rayer service all enjoyed the meeting, sunday early, as usual, the sunrise meeting was held. The spirit of the season seemed to have gripped every and evening services were largely at- ended. Next Sunday services will be held as usual, and, in addition, a special service from 10 to 12 p. m. Miss L. F. Booker opened the discussion of the topic, "Helping to Establish the Purpose for Which Christ Came," in the Union Bible Class, on Sunday evening. St. James' Church. St. James' Presbyterian Church was largely attended all day last Sunday. The new members presented themselves as candidates for baptism and were received by the session. The pastor officiated at the wedding at 4 o'clock to the church of George Hunter and Miss Mildred Adrian Barnes. Charles Williams and Miss Lilly Baker were invited in wedlock at the home of the side on Wednesday night. A large audience filled the church on Tuesday night to witness the cantata which Mrs. Hyder presented with the primary department of St. James' Sunday school. there will be a unique watch service at Sunday night, beginning at 10:30 clock. Dr. Hyder will speak at 11 o'clock next Sunday; subject. "The night of Time"; at 8 p. m. the subject will be, "A Pastor's Appreciation." The services last Sunday at Washington Memorial Presbyterian Mission were well attended. Dr. Lawton presided in the morning to an appreciative congregation. At the evening service Mrs. M. C. Lawton, president of the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs and Miss Grace P. Campbell of the Empire Friendly Shelter, discussed interestingly "The Mother" and "The Child," respectively. At the close of the evening service two persons united with the Mission. The Sunday School will give an interesting program Friday evening, December 29. Dr. E. F. Eggleston of Newark, N. J., and the Rev. W. Edwards, of Brooklyn, N. Y., will make short addresses. The Waddell sisters of Brooklyn, N. Y., will give musical selections. Dr. Lawton will preach Sunday at 11 a.m., subject, "The Christ Life." The passing of the old year will be observed by a special service. Dr. Lawton and others will speak on "The Unchangeable Written Record." Inspiring gospel songs will be a feature of the service. Services will begin at 10.30 p. m. sharp. First Emmanuel Church. The various services of the First Emmanuel Church on last Sunday were inspiring and full of enthusiasm. The new window on the rostrum, portraying the "Ascension of our Lord," gave added 2est and encouragement to members and friends. Pastor Bolden's Xmas sermon at 11 a. m. was taken from Psalm 51:10 Theme, "Creative Evolution." The choir rendered the anthems, "I Am Alpha and Omga" and "Behold! Behold! I Bring You Glad Tidings." The Rev. C. Accoe was present and assisted in the services; also Rev. George Hinton. At the close of the service Pastor Bolden presented to each member and friend present as a token of the Xmas season new books and testaments. The Sunday school was opened at 2 p.m. After a short study of the Sunday school lesson, a splendid program was rendered by the children and appropriate Christmas carols sung. The collection amounted to $15.31. One new scholar joined the school. Superintendent Hogans conducted the Sunday school review. Miss Maggie Johnson was mistress of ceremonies. A short but interesting program was presented at the meeting of the Literary Society Miss Pauline Jackson Recitations were rendered by Mrs. Emily Townsend and Miss. Lucile Spencer; solo, Mrs. Wyckenhoff; remarks by the president! Mrs. Prattis, Pastor Bolden and Rev. Accoe. At the 8 o'clock service a splendid crowd was present. Pastor Bolden chose as a text 1st Corinthians 15:20-25. Three dollars and thirty-five cents was presented to the trustees, the proceeds from the dipne reserved during the day. The final report of the State's Fair will be made Sunday night, December 31. Watch meeting will be held Sunday night, and on Monday night following revival services will be conducted by Mrs. Mary White, evangelist, and Rev. Accoe. On the second Sunday night in January the pastor will preach to the Ladies' Aid-Society and to the Coachmen's League. On January 18 the members of the evening school will render a play, entitled "A Mothers' Meeting." Christmas services were held at 11 o'clock Monday at the church. Pastor Bolden preached the sermon, and during the day a splendid dinner was served by members of the Missionary Society. On Tuesday night the Christmas tree exercises were held by the Sunday school. An excellent program and cantata was rendered by the children, under the management of Miss M. Johnson and Mrs. Jackson, after which Santa Claus distributed the gifts from a beautifully electric-lighted tree. The children were also served with refreshments. Harlem Congregational Church. The Harlem Congregational Church, 22 East 131st street, Dr. Holder, pastor The services of Sunday and Christmas morning were inspiring. The offering this year exceeded last year's by $23. Mrs. Maria Burte thanks friends and members of the church who helped to make her entertainment a success. She presented the church last Sunday over $19. Trustees meeting will held Thursday night. Sunday School Christmas tree exercises at 7 p. m. Friday, December 29. Dr. Holder will preach on the fourth commandment next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Regular evening service at 8 o'clock. Watch night service will begin at 10.30 p. m. Short addresses will be delivered by the officers, members visiting friends. Subject: "How I Hope to Spend 1917 from the Standpoint of a Christian." 11.30 to 12, sermon and silent prayer LAKEWOD, N. J. Lakewood, N. J —The Sunday service at the Macedonia Church, the Rev. Griffin pastor, was well attended. In the afternoon a missionary meeting was held in benefit of the village association and Sundav School. Women's Day will be held at the Macedonia Church. Mrs. Holmes leading, December 31. All ladies are cordially invited. Mrs. Holmes has been doing good work among the churches. Mrs. Seymore, an inmate of Paul Kimball's hospital, is improving and hopes to be home for the New Year. Mr. Bertch, brother-in-law of Mr. Wiley in Lakewood, is visiting at the home of relatives at John street. Miss Bertha Walker, visited relatives in Brooklyn, N. Y., Christmas Day. Miss Laura Felton took a flying trip to Staten Island last week I wish everybody a Happy New Year and may it bring luck, health and prosperity. PERTH AMBOY, N. J. Perth Amboy, N. J.—Children's exercises at the Second Baptist Church were held Christmas night. The attendance was good. Mrs. Horace Wilson, 687 State st., entertained friends from Rutherford Christmas. Miss Madelene Wilson of New York spent Saturday and Sunday here with her parents, in Division street. The youngest son of Mr. and Mrs Robley Lindsay, of Rest Awhile bungalow, has been sick for the alst week, but is now better. Benjamin Field of Mutuchin was a visitor in Perth Ambov Saturday and Monday. STAUNTON, VA Stanton, Va.—Charles Scott has returned from Hot Springs to spend the holidays. Mrs Allen arrived from Richmond Thursday, her sister, Mrs. Wingate, accompanying her. Gomez Allen spent Christmas at home. Miss Nanna Payne and her sister-in-law arrived Friday from Pennsylvania to spend Christmas Mary Jane Carr arrived home Friday to spend the holidays Joseph Crawford and Allen Brown spent Christmas in Winchester with Allen's father John Southall, an old Staunton boy, who has been away from twenty-five years, is home for the holidays visiting his mother. Leon Ellis, ex-chef of the Virginia Hotel, is spending a few days in our city Garfield Dunning and party motored to Waynesboro on Sunday. Miss Peck of Hinton, W. Va., is visiting Miss Placid Parnell. LOS ANGELES, CAL. Los Angeles, Cal.—Sunday, December 17. First A M. E. Zion Church listened to Pastor Robeson finish the series of sermons on Progressive Christianity. The Sunday Forum was up to the usual standard. W. L. Gordon, publicity expert, read several gripping items showing the necessity of mutual uplift and co-operation. The Rev. B. C. Robeson, the speaker of the hour, had as a theme, "Be a Hero!" The funeral of Mrs. Maggie Osborne was held at the First A. M. E. Zion Church. The pastor officiated, assisted by Rev. Driver of the Holiness Church. The Methodist Alliance has arranged for union revival services for six weeks beginning January 2. The Rev. B. C. Robeson received a Christmas gift from Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Gregory of Bayonne, N. J. 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While our constitution, under date of 1864, does not specifically bar any race or creed, it is my impression that an amendment was passed in the early '90s that limited admission to white children of Protestant faith. This is all the information I can give you in re your request. Yours very truly, (signed) Wm. W. Holscombe, secretary." From Supt. of Outdoor Relief: "Replying to yours of the 11th inst., the proportion of colored people that we are called upon to help is very small. At the present time we have sixty-one regular pensioners, of whom three are colored; and I might add that this is the most we have had at one time. We have no means of knowing how or who contributes to colored charities. Yours truly, (signed), A. R. Christie, temporary clerk." From Poor House: "We have the following people: Abraham Titus, age 80 years, born at Boston, Mass.; Margaret Wilson, age 70 years, born in Virginia; Lucy Albertson, age 41 years, born in North Carolina; Emily Jane Jackson, age 80 years, born in Boston, Mass.; Veneble Preston, age 75 years, born in Boston, Mass. Hoping this will give you the information you want and again asking you to excuse my delay. (Signed) John G Donnelly." From Charity Organization Society: "In reply to your letter of Dec. 11th. relative to the Federation of Colored Organizations of New Jersey, we have the following information to give you about charitable aid to the colored in this city: There is a very small percentage of relief work required in our Ccharity Organizations Society work. We have hardy more than two calls a year from colored families. Our tuberculosis nurse and her tuberculosis work has possibly a dozen colored cases a year. Mr Christie, overseer of the poor, reports a very small percentage. I am told that the colored churches here have very little call upon them for relief of mailies Most of their charitable collections are for hospitals, etc. We find very few colored paupers. They probably help one another in a private way or among their own families, and never ask unless the need is very great. Very truly vours. The Charity Organization Society (Signed) L. M. Kuermanid, superintendent." From Passaic County Children's Aid and the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children: "To your inquiry, what the Passaic County Children's Aid and S. P. C. have done to aid the colored people of this city, would state we have had six cases, as follows, during my fifteen years as superintendent: 1—One child deserted by aunt, held for six months at the Shelter, then sent to Norfolk, Va., after one of our board called and saw mother of child, at the society's expense. 2—One child left with parties to board, mother failed to settle, child adopted by caretaken, society given indenture. 3—Two children, mother died and requested that the children be adopted by her friends on her death bed, indenture given by society 4—One child, mother in hospital, held for two months until lmother recovered. 5—One lost child from New York, held for three months until arrangements weer made with the Howard Home in New York to admit him 6—One child, removed from his home to General Hospital, burned foot, parents neglected in caring for same (Signed) Robt B. Gallant, supt. P.S. No aid from colored people; only your own subscription" Geo. Cateltt is on the sick list Mrs. Frank Walker of our city will be one of the speakers at the Federation of Colored Organizations of New Jersey at Montclair off Thursday, Dec 28 YOUNGSTOWN, O.—The Men's Club of St. Augustine Mission elected the following officers at its last meeting: H. G. Emerson, president; C. B. Stewart, vice-president; C. B. Roberson, treasurer; George Jefferson, secretary; Rev. J. T. Ogborn, chaplain; O. C. H. Crumpler, coresponding secretary; R. B. Crumpler, reporter. The next meeting will be held in the mission on the second Monday evening in January. Mecca Cleaning and Presing and Dyeing Parlors, 822 West Federal street, Mrs. M. A. Exion, proprietor. A number of persons are visiting friends and relatives out of the city this week. Logan Lodge, No. 4, K. of P., met Thursday evening in regular session. A number of applications were received and the following officers elected; T. H. Lonesome, C. C.; James Williams, V. C.; Jessie Parker, M. of F.; G. Plarter, K. of R. and S.; G. E. Jones, M. of E. O.; Matthew Logan, prelate; F. Peterson, M. of W.; C. S. Moore, M. at A.; trustees, Parris Hall, C. H. Lincoln, Howard Thompson; delegates, J. F. Peaterson; Gans Williabs, alternate. St. Augustine Mission cleared over $175 at its fair December 6 and 7. They wish to, thank their many friends who helped and patronized the fair. On Sunday, December 17, at 3:30 p.m., the bishop added sixteen new members by confirmation, assisted by four other ministers. Rev. J. T. Ogborn, rector, reported all improvements paid for except a small amount due on lot. The rector is receiving much praise for his work in the past four years. Plans for a new church are on the way. NEW HAVEN, CONN. New Haven, Conn.—Mrs. Sarah B. Morris, wife of the late Rev. B. W. Morris, of New Berne, N. C., New Haven, Conn., and Orange, N. J., died December 20, in this city. She leaves one daughter, Mrs. Chas. R. Christian, of Brooklyn, who attended the funeral. 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Rents $9 to $16. VANITOR, 214-16 East 127th Street, new NEWS OF GREATER NEW YORK Miss. H. Bohlman, 186 West 17th street, to S. E. Arthur Powell of Louisville, Ky., came to New York recently. Miss. Doris L. Smith has returned from a week's stay in Washington, B. 16. Mrs. and Mrs. Phillip Jackson of Norwalk, N. Y., are visiting friends in this city for the holidays. Grace Abasworth, who has been in the city since August, has returned to his home at Hopkinsonville, Ky. Miss Gladys Matthews and Miss Mitch Graham of Rochester, N. Y., are spending the holidays in the city. Louis H. Wilson, 60 East 132d street, is in touch at home and will go to the hospital for an operation this week. Miss. Bollman is connected with the South Smith School, situated at 188 West 190th street, where she will attend. Miss Tina Louis of Hanover County, Ph. mother of Mrs. Anna J. Crowder of this city, died at her home December 7. Miss Gertrude Stevenson and Miss Anna Bordwell of Le Roy, N. Y., are spending the holidays with friends in New York. A dinner party was enjoyed at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. James Bowman, 197, West 184th street, Christmas night. Miss Core Bowles spent Sunday at N. Y. She is spending the holidays with her mother at Great Neck, N. Y. Miss Robert Holmes and Miss Madeleine Purleigh, of 138 Beach street, Red M. N. J. are spending the winter in New York. Miss Lula Robinson Jones sang Wednesday evening, December 27, at the Florida Avenue Baptist Church, Washington, D. C. Miss Anna Haff and Mrs. Lulu Haff of Foughtheepe, N. Y., spent the holidays in New York as the guests of Mrs. Lilian Trott. Lorraine Gouldwell, formerly leader of the New York Orchestra, is now leader for Karie Kinney's band at the restaurant. James Paine visited recently his mother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Glen H. Cabanian, 1533 A street, northwest, Washington, D.C. Mrs. Jay Gaines entertained several of her friends at a Christmas dinner at her residence in West 181st street, on the evening of December 25. Mrs. N. Taylor, 261 West 134th street, has as Christmas dinner guests Mrs P. Lambert, Miss M. Collins, George W. Allen and James McNair. Maria Goebe's original society orchestra of twelve musicians and serenades have been filling successful environments for society people at the Walter Astoria, Vanderbilt and Hotel Alder, New York City. Mrs. Auta Logan or Tuskegee Institute, the city, the guest Victoria and the Rev. Butchins C. Bishop, West 132d street. She came on to attend the marriage of her brother, Warren Logan, to Miss Estelle Bishop. Mrs. Anthony McCarthy, 385 East 180th street, The Bronx is spending the holidays in Washington, D. C., with relatives and friends. McCarthy is off to the office of the corporation counsel of the city of New York, is sick at home with an attack of the grip. Wim Wim Jr. Evans of 10 East Duval street, Richmond, Va., who has been in New York receiving medical treatment, was called by the sudden death of his wife, who was doing some painting at his home, and had been dead four days before the body was discovered. LOEAN, RISHOP MARRIAGE New York University Institute society was greatly interested in the workings in this city of Miss Estelle Annabelle Bishop of New York City and Winston Lagan, Jr., formerly of Tuskegee Institute, Ala., but for several years residing in New York. Miss Lagan is the youngest daughter of the Rev. Mutchins C. Bishop, rector of St. Philip's Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City, the first Negro congregation the country, and Mr. Logan is the son of Warren Lagan, Sr. treasurer of Tuskegee Institute, Ala., who served as acting principal of that institution in the interim between the death of Dr. Washington, the founder and principal, and the successor of Major Moton as his successor. Young Mr. Logan was an abolitionist. Mr. Moyall for some time and is now assistant secretary of the 55d Street P. M. C. A. The ceremony was performed at St. Benedict's Church, West 123rd street, at 9 o'clock Wednesday evening, December 27, the beautiful Christmas decoration making the interior a scene of beauty. Mrs. Benedict, the bride's brother, came on from Pittsburgh, Pa., where he is stationed, to perform the ceremony, and the bride gave away her father. Miss Victoria G. Bishop, eldest sister of the bride, was the maid of honor, and Dr. Emma R. Roberts acted as best man. Mrs. Benedict, the bride's aunt, Ala., a sister of the bridegroom, was a member of the bridal party. The church, admission to which was by card, was thronged with friends of both families. Immediately after the ceremony, the bridal couple left the wedding venue. Lorela will reside at 217 West 123rd street and will be at home after December 1, 1911. DETT-SMITH MARRIAGE Miss Helen Ellis Smith, associate director of the Martin-Smith Music School, New York, was married Wed- day, Afternoon. December 27, to Joseph C. McCarthy, a professor at Kenton Institute. The ceremony was performed at St. Philip's Protestant Hospital Church. West 132d street, Boston, MA. By the Rev. Matthias C. The bride of honor was Miss Alma Manson and Dr. Chas. H. Roberts was the best man. The bride was given away by David I. Martin, her associate in the management of the Martin-Smith School. The wedding march was performed by a choreographer trainee of the music school, with Edward B. Thompson conducting. Mr. Dett and his wife have both attained eminence in musical circles. Miss Smith graduated from the Darnosch Institute of Musical Art as a pianist, and subsequently took a postgraduate course for an artist's degree. She has been associated with school with which she has been associated ever since, and her work on its faculty has done much to bring it to its present prominence. Mr. Dett has done much work along musical lines as a pianist, director and composer. A number of his compositions have been used by some of the largest musical institutions in the country. A prize winner in musical competitions. Mr. and Mrs. Dett will make their home at Hampton Institute, where Mr. Dett will continue as musical director, and it is quite-probable that Mrs. Dett will also find a place on the faculty of that institution. Bashelder Dinner to Logan The Logan, West 131st street, was the scene of a small but happy gathering assembled Saturday, December 23, to wish Warren / Logan bon-voyage on the matrimonial trip he is taking with Miss Estrela Augusta Bishop. Mr. Logan responded to the toasts of those present in a few appropriate words. Those who helped make the occasion a joyous one were Logan, Warren, J. P. Robbins, Reginald Miller, J. T. Clark, Dr. C. H. Roberts, William Hill, Granville Green, Dr. A. Campbell and Dr. Benj. T. Withers. POLLARD HONORED BY NEW YORKERS Fred Douglass Pollard, the football star of Brown University, who achieved fame during the football season just closed, was honored by the citizens of New York Wednesday evening, December 20, who tendered him a testimonial dinner at the Libya, 115 West 131st street. Messrs. Keys and Buckner live up to their promise to man the diners, per excellence, by providing a menu which put all the diners in the best of humor. The affair was made a success principally through the efforts of James Reese Europe. The Hon. Charles W. Anderson acted as toastmaster, and the Hon. Fred R. Moore welcomed the guest of honor. Toasts were responded to by Wilford H. Smith, Philip A. Payton, Glychrist Stewart, Will Anthony Madden, James H. Anderson, William Pollard, Madhya nikk which he thanked the dinners for honoring him. Among those present were William Patterson, Arthur King, Philip A. Payton, J. J. Pruitt, James Reese Europe, Winfried Carr, Frank Armand, A. G. Dill, William George, James H. Anderson, John H. Brooks, Sam Pagkarson, George Jones, Jr, Charles W. Noble, Noble Sisale, Shepard N. Edmonds, Clarence Jackson, Fred R. Moore, George A. Fleming, Will Anthony Madden, Hiram Davis, Dr. J. Emanuel, Gerald Norman, Wilford H. Smith and I. A. McKenzie. "Our Dusky Hero from the West" and dedicated to Pollard, composed by Noble Sisale, was sung by the composer and made quite a hit. OUR DU8KY HERO FROM THE WEAT. First Verse Where the golden sun stakes in the West- And the trail of the bright rainbow end- And the sun that shines in the sky him had A vengeance for all football team. And 'are since he was just three feet tall- And he was the best football; And he vanquished all men- Who chased the pig skin- And he was the best football. Second Verse. When this dusky lad came from the West, In the碲och of new conquest hold, Lived in the town of town, With a record that had not been told. But before he had been there a year- And had the world 'ball-dom' fear, And the world 'ball-dom' tale, How both Harvard and Valle, Were defeated by Pollard, our guest. Third Verso. We cannot use too much pep nor sest; nontoring the lad of great fame. Who told me the old EN And humble fair Harvard proud name. So this toast to him I would drink; "Long may he live such lessons to give, Our dusky hero from the West. NEWS OF THE CHURCHES The Christmas services at Rush Memorial Church were in every way up to date. On Sunday the pastor preached a very excellent sermon and on Christmas Day when special services were held, he also spoke. The music as rendered by the choir under H. G. Marshall, elicited a word of comment. As evidence of the appreciation in which the pastor is held by his people, the trustees presented him with a handsome gift, the result of the day's collection. Two persons joined the church on Christmas Day. The receipts were exceedingly gratifying. Tonight the Sons and Daughters of Rush will present Mme. Gertrude Miller Faide in a big musical recital. Mother Zion Church Christmas services were held at Mother Zion last Sunday; the pastor preached morning and evening, Christmas music by the choir. Six persons joined the church during the day. The fortieth annual Christmas dinner was served the old members of Mother Zion last Monday. A number of the old members who are now inmates at the Lincoln Home, were brought down to the church to spend the day. Services in the afterthought, addresses by HELP WANTED. Webb Draper Agency 133 West 30th Street wishes to announce the reopening at the above address. Good situations for reservation and female. Under direct supervision of MRS. CORNELLA A. CHRISTIANI This agency is not responsible for any outside so-called representatives. Tol. 1147 Mad. Squares visiting ministers and old members. Bishop W. L. Lee was presented and made an inspiring address, in which he spoke of the value of the labors of the old, members of the prayers and sacrifices. Music for the occasion was furnished by the New York Female Quarret. There were 150 dinner served. Thursday evening, December 28, concert and dinner by the Zion Loyalty Coffee House evening, December 29, members' visitation, desires to save every member present. Refreshments will be served as an appreciation for services during the fair. Next S1day the pastor will preach, morning sermon, subject, "The Art of Forgetting", evening, "The Flight of Time." Watch Night services will begin at 6 o'clock, sermon by Bishop W. M. P. McCarthy, 4 p.m. the Christmas concert by the Martin-Smith Music School will be held in the church; admission free. Dinner will be served next Sunday by the Helping Hand Society. Revival will begin at Mother Zion on Sunday, January 7, Mora Nora Taylor, director, will do a double offering of offerings will be taken for the Booker T. Washington Memorial Fund. Salem M. E. Church. Sunday was observed as Christmas. The pastor, the Rev. F. J. A. Cullen, preached special-sermons and special and appropriate music was rendered by the choir. The church was crowded at both services and the offering was good. An unusually large crowd was present at 5 o'clock Monday morning, and listened to an execlent-sermon by the pastor, after which a praise service was held for a half hour. Watch meeting will be held next Sunday night, both in the auditorium and lecture room, beginning at 9:30 o'clock. Next Sunday at 4 o'clock John T. Clark of the Urban League will address the Lyceum. St. Mark's M. E. Church. On Sunday morning, December 24, Dr. W. H. Brooks preached a very able sermon to a large congregation. Text, St. Luke, 1:32.33. Theme—"An Angel clothed in celestial light; the message of love and hope." After Dr. Brooks' sermon, Bishop Lee made an address befitting the occasion, which was replete with phrases of great interest and instruction. In the evening Prof. Fisini Bhutia made an address which was not only instructive but very forceful. Dr. Haley also spoke. The church was beautifully decorated and presented a credit upon the Floral Circle which had charge of said decoration. The choir rendered beautiful and appropriate music at both services. On Thursday, December 21, the newly elected lycum officers for the ensuing year were installed by Dr. Brooks with fitting remarks. After the installation, a substantial collision was served which lycum joey Sunday, December 24, the exercises were under the auspices of Martin-Smith Music School, E. A. Jackson in charge. David I. Martin was conductor and Master Eugene Mars Martin soloist. Several numbers were able remit and enthusiastically received. Very large numbers presided over both occasions. President J. E. Harrison presided over both meetings. Fellowship Chapter, No. 1163, Methodist Brotherhood and Brotherhood Sorosis, will hold a brotherhood meeting on Sunday afternoon, December 31, at Church of the Chas. Marka will preside of the program and Counselor Wilford H. Smith will preside. The speakers will be the Rev Henry Singleton, noted as the first Negro who enlisted in the famous 54th Infantry during the civil war, and Judge B. Lander of New Jersey. St. Mark B. Lander of E. New Jersey will furnish the music and dinner will be served by the Sorosis. Meeting at 3:30 o'clock. BROOKLYN NOTES Mrs. Frank H. Gilbert, 15 Douglas street, has been ill for several days. Mrs. Simeon M. Blanks, 276 Berriman street, has been ill for a week. Mrs. Virginia Mayhew of Hempstead, N. Y., visited her sister on Sunday. Mrs. Josephine Cooke and her mother, Mrs. Sadie Reckling, are spending the winter at Lakewood, N. Frank A. Myers, a medical student at Harvard University, is spending the holidays with his mother, Mme. L. V. Myers, 628 Classon avenue. The New Year's reception and dance of the William H. Banks dancing class will be held at Summer Hall, 1584 Fulton street, Monday night, January 1, 1917. The Lexington Avenue Branch of the Young Women's Christian Association will keep open house for the members of its friends on New Year's day from 7 to 11 o'clock p. m. An old-fashioned meeting will be held at Silom Presbyterian Church, 44 Lafayette avenue, the Rev. J. E. Harpor, pastor, Sunday night, December 31. The regular services will begin at 9 p. m. The Rev. R. I. Gaines, 1588 Pacific street, Brooklyn, was taken with the grief of night of last week after assisting in a last meeting after assisting in a church. glad to see any of his friends, Lewis H. Berry of Governor's Island, one of the oldest citizens of the city, has suffered a relapse from his recent convalescence. He was taken to the Brooklyn Hospital, where he underwent operation on December 28. He was reported as resting easy on Tuesday. *The Sunday School of St. Augustine P. E. Church, 73 St. Edmund's street, the Rev. Goo. F. Miller, rector, will hold its Christmas exercises Thursday evening, December 28, at 7:30 o'clock. The scholars have prepared an interesting program, including the Christmas carols. Madame C. J. Hamlin wishes to announce that she has opened a Studio at 397 Cumberland street. Scalp treatment—a specialty for men's hair and facial Massaging; balm Waltzing; Facial Massaging; bleaching cream on sale; results guaranteed. Phone Prospect 3281 Party W. Nov. 16-1mo. Mosert. Crump and West of Jacksonville, Fla., but who are employed in building at number of houses at Dveon, Conn., spent Christmas eve and day with Mr. Crump's daughter, Miss Florine, at 16 Downing street. Miss Crump is a student in the dressmaking department at Pratt Institute. Jas. H. Hubert, secretary of the Brooklyn office of the National Urban League on Conditions Among Negroes, will address the friends and members of the Negro Temple, Sunday, December 31, 1916. His subject will be "Social Preparedness and the Negro." All are cordially invited. Session from 4 p. m. to 6 p. m. J. H. Smith, president. The Society of the Sons of North Carolina will hold its twenty-second annual concert and reception at Saenggebund Hall, Smith and Schmergernhorn streets, on Thursday evening, December 28. The program will in-Iduce David D. Mills, Mirael Bindu and Wm. C. Eikens, soloists, with Harry-Williams as accompanist. The society is endeavoring to liquidate the indebtedness on the property at 357 Bridge street. W. G. Overton is director of the program. At the annual election of officers of the Society of the Sons of Virginia, held at 417 Carlton avenue, December 11. N. B. Dodson was elected for the consecutive year, defeating Charles J. D. Kemp by the close vote of 26 to 22. The other general officers elected are E. T. Jackson, vice-president; Peter H. Fisher, financial secretary; Graham H. Carter, treasurer; James S. Watkins, sergeant-at-arms; George Kealing, corresponding secretary; and Giles O'Neill, corresponding secretary. The office will be installed on Thursday evening, January 4, 1917. The Ben Hur and basketball game will be presented by the Big Five of the Carlton Branch Y. M. C. A. and the famous quintet of the Montclair (N. J.) Y. M. C. A. at Labor Lyceum, Myrtle and Willoughby avenues, on Tropical Light Railway, Romeo L. Dougherty, sporting editor of The New York News, will present the Ben Hur trophy to the winning team. Those in charge of the affair are A. S. Gibbs, Arthur Comther, Hubert Brown, Wm. H. McFarland, Addison S. Balley, Thos. E. Scott and officers and members of Ben Hur Lodge, No. 25, Knights of Pythias. Mrs. Alice Wey Seal, whose marriage to James Seal, Amella C. H. Va. was about two years ago, will leave Brooklyn, where she has continued her residence, and make her TEL. MORN. 7890. ESTAB. 1900. MRS. G. B. NEEDLES Practical Pursuer Remodeling, Repairing and Blending 18 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Late with a Broadway House 2697 7TH AVE, NEW YORK Bok. 184th and 190th Streets HOME WANTED. Respectable woman having a plain home person at night, Writing, anating age and full particulars. Reference required. Address information required. INFORMATION WANTED Of Mr. MARY LIVINGSTON HAWLEY and CHARLES SUMNER LIVINGSTON, heirs of George T. Livingston, formerly of New Haven, Conn. Anyone knowing their address will confer a 313 Dixwell availance, New Haven Conn. Philadelphia and Washington papers please copy. Deci 24 Quick and lasting curses. Office open day and evening. Sunday secret and private diseases of men secret and private diseases of men GHRONIC DISEASES of the stomach, heart, blood, skin, lungs, urinary organs and private parts. NERVOUS DEBILITY unfitness for marriage. Improved treatment. Old. DR. BRYAN. Specialist. Treats Men Only. Cut out this ad- vertisement and give my address. IF U DON'T C -CONSULZ- DR. KAPLAN THE EYESIGHT SPECIALIST RELIABLE AND REASONABLE VER EXAMINED FREE 331 LENOX AVE. ONLINE HAMBURG CENTRAL permanent home on her husband's farm. The members of the Dorcas Home Missionary Society, of which she was president for twenty-five years, tendered her a farewell reception on Friday, evening, December 22, at Concord Baptist Church, Duffield street, the Rev. W. M. Moe, pastor. Miss Alice Thompson presided and the president, Mrs. Helen Hansome Victoria, the presentation speech being made by Pantor Moss. N. B. Dodson, superintendent of the Sunday school school, as did the presidents of various church organizations. An elaborate supper was served by R. Lincoln Powell, caterer. Fleet Street Church, Brooklyn Fleet Street Church, Brooklyn. Dr. P. A. Wallace prescheduled the morning service at the Fleet Street A. M. E. Zilon Church, subject, "Where He Tha' Is Born King of the Jewel" 17.4.1988. A rally and Christmas celebration was held under the direction of Paul Fulton, the choriater, of the church choir. Among the artists appearing were Mrs. Blanche Wade Wright, reader; Miss Mabel B. Diggs of New York City, soprano solost, and G. H. Bolden of New York, tenor. A sacred cantata, "The Shepherd King," by the choir, Solosts, Mrs. B. Martin, Miss Bessie Waddell, E. W. Williams, Mrs. E. Whittaker, Jon. Jasobs, Bend. Smith. The program was of a very high order. The annual Christmas celebration was a celebration the Sunday school presented a Christmas santa of a high order. The stage setting represented that of a workshop for the boys, with stockings being hung to receive Santa Claus. The costumes RELIGIOUS NOTICES ABYSSINIAN BAPTIST CHURCH, 343-46 West 40th St., between 7th and 8th Ave., Sunday Service—11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. in Holy Communion every first Sunday day at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday School, 1:30 p.m. Sunday Morning Band prayer meeting, 6 a.m. Tuesday, 8 p.m.—Missionary Society, prayer and praise service. Thursday, 8 p.m.—H.Y.P.U. musical and literary program. Friday, 4 p.m.—Highway and Hedges Society, 8 p.m., general prayer meeting. Rev. A. Clayton Powell, D.D., pastor: residence, 360 W. 40th Street, phone, Bryant, 7455. MT. OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, 159-161 West 5th Street, between 8th and 7th Avenue. Rev. Wm. P. Naya, D.D., pastor. Preaching Services every Sunday, 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday School at 2:30 p.m. Sundays. M.T. P. U. meets every Sunday at 5:30 p.m. R.Y. P. U. Literary meets every Wednesday at 5 p.m. The Weekly Prayer Meeting on Friday evening at 8 p.m. Church Aid Society, second Monday evening in every-month. Young Men's Social Club, every month on the third Monday evening. Visitors are made welcome. MOTHER A. M. E. ZION CHURCH 161-183 W. 183th St. Rev. J. W. Brown. Sunday Services—11 a.m. and 7.46 p. m. Holy Communion every second Sunday at 8 p. m. Sunday Morning Class—18-18 m. Sunday Endorsement, 4.80. Weekly. Meetings Class Meetings every Tuesday and Wednesday, 5.40. Friday evening. SEATS FREE. PUBLIC INVITED. RUSH MEMORIAL. A. M. E. ZION CHURCH. 58 West 183th Street. Services every Sunday and 5 P. M. every Saturday, 1:30 P. M. Dr. A. A. Crooke, Pastor, residence 552 Lenox Avenue, T. B. Smith, Street, Clerk, 125 West 185th Street. All are cordially welcome. ST. MARK'S METHODIST EPISCOPAL Avenue, New York City, Pastor, William H. Brooks, D. D. Residence, 816 West 810 Street, New York City, Pastor, evening at 8.30 and Sunday morning at 6 o'clock. Sunday School at 3 p. m. L. Ly- den Avenue, New York City, Pastor, evening at 8.30 o'clock. Epworth League, Sunday, at 8.30 p. m. Junior League, Sunday, at 8.30 p. m. Wednesday evenings at 8.90 and Sunday at 1 p. m. Holy Communion, second Sunday evening in each month. Welcome to aL. SALEM METHODIST EPISCOPAL COLLEGE, New York City, Pastor, President at 11 a. m. and 7.45 p. m. Sunday, Sunday School, New York City, Men's Bible Club, 3.90-4 p. m. D. N. Thompson, instructor, Lyme, 4 p. m. Sundays, 8.90 p. m. Epworth League, 5 p. m. Sunday, L. B. Perry, instructor, Chance, Monday, Tuesday, 8.90 p. m. Sunday, Prayer meeting, 8.90 p. m. Sunday. Brotherhood, every Tuesday night, James Gellan president, Holy Commun- ion, Sunday in each month. All welcome. ST. DAVID'S CHURCH, 264 East 160th Street, New York Rev. Edward George Chison, D.D. Bector, 213 East 167th St. Sunday Services, All Seats Free.—11 a.m. Morning Prayer, Litany and Sermon. Sunday School, 1:30 p.m.; 8 p.m., evening service. A cordial welcome to all. ST. CYPRIAN'S CHAPEL, PROTESTANT EPISOOPAL, 177 W. 264 Street. Rev. Jno. W. Johnson, Priest in charge Sunday Services, 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday School, 2:30 p.m. A cordial welcome to all. ST. JAMME PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 29-61 West 18th Street, New York City, Frank M. Hyder, D.D., minister. Sunday services at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. C.E. at 1 p.m., Sunday School at 1 p.m. Wednesday at 8 p.m., prayer service. The Lord's Supper is celebrated at 8 p.m. on the first Sunday of each month. Girls' Welfare Club, Friday, at 4 p.m. Boys' Brigade, Tuesday at 8 p.m. Junior Girls' Guild, Friday at 2:30 p.m. The Brotherhood meets each Sunday at 4 p.m. Visitors and strangers are invited to worship with us. WASHINGTON MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN MISSION—Lioness avenue, near West Milwaukee. Residence, Reedence, 179. Willowburgh street, Brooklyn. Phone Main 5667. Sunday preschool, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. School, 10 a.m. Endorsement, 7 a.m. Wednesday, 8 p.m. divine lecture and prayer service. The fourth Friday in cash month, 8 p.m., the Young People's Biographical SCHOOL OF WE HAVE CHANGED QUARTERS. HARLEM CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH 23 East 118th Street, New York City, the Rev. Dr. W. S. Holder, minister Burial School—$10.00, $10.00, m. Sunday School—3:30 p. m. Y. P. B. C. E.—8:00 p. m. Holy Communion, brat Sunday each month, $8 p. m. Prayer School—$10.00, $10.00, teacher and students Literary Society, Ladies Church Aid and Mite Society, Confer- ence Hall—$10.00, $10.00, teacher Sunday each month, $8 p. m. Trustees Business Meeting fourth Thursday in every month, $8 p. m. Sunday School each month, $8 p. m. Church Openness, when called. Chef rehearsal, Friday, $8 p. m. Mary, M. M. M. church were attractively made and showed to great advantage under the calcium light. One of the most attractive parts of the program was an anthem, "Sleep, Baby Sleep," led by Miss Ada Waddell, contrato scolol, and Miss Marian Hooks, alto. After the cantaity many were made glad with presents from old friends. In that Wednesday evening the Linen Shower Club with the members and friends showeded Pastor Wallace and his family with linens and groceries. Bishop Lee was present and remarks were in order from the president and blishop with response by pastor and wife. It was a great success. The Busy Bee Club of the Fleet Street Sunday School rendered a splendid program at the Old Folks' Home on last Thursday evening. The proceeds were for the benefit of the house. The annual fair of the church will begin March 13, running through to 29th. Mrs. Wm. F. Trotman, 583 Franklin avenue Brooklyn, entertained the Tuesday afternoon Whist Club and guests at a most delightful Christmas party on Tuesday, December 19. The club prizes were won by Mrs. J. Rosamond Johnson and Mrs. M. Spearman. The guest's prizes were won by Mrs. Kate Smith Dickinson and Mrs. Ewin Horne, Jr. After the game a delicious collation was served. The club members present were Mrs. Horne, Mrs. Angorm, Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Harper, Mrs. Tandy, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Spearman, Mrs. Anderson, Miss Johngon, Mrs. Kingsland, Mrs. Anderson of Plainfield, and Mrs. Trotman, Miss Quentin, Jude L. Louis Baxter, Mrs. Mars, Mrs. Lansing, Mrs. Peterson, Mrs. Hobbrooke, Mrs. Haseley, Mrs. Hubert, Mrs. Chds, Conick, Mrs. Hubert Horne, Jr., Mrs. Errol Horne, Miss Turner, Mrs. Dickerson, Mrs. Boyd, Mrs. Hackley and Mrs. Green. Henry Leigh Burwell, 204 Quincy street, Brooklyn, died Sunday morning, December 24, after a short illness. He was 42 years old and had been in the employ of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company for seventeen years. Mr. Burwell went home from work Tuesday and suffered a congestive chill early Wednesday morning. Another chill attained on Friday, followed by his death Sunday. On August 26, 1915, he was married to Miss Indiana Hicks of Oxford, N.C. and it was only recently that Mr. and Mrs. Burwell bought and moved into the palatial and comfortable home on Quincy street, paying cash in full for the same. Mr. Burwell formerly resided at 146 Lexington avenue, which home he sold before moving. He was a widower, the father of one child, by his marriage, no children having been born to him. Besides the widow and child, he is survived by a mother, two aunts, two uncles and one cousin. The funeral was held Wendesa, December 27, at Concord Baptist Church, the Rev. W. M. Moss, pastor, officiating. Mr. Burwell was an ac- tribute member of this church and an in-fluential member of the Young Men's League. Jackson-Bryant Wedding. A very pretty home wedding was solemnized on last Wednesday evening, when Miss Loisle Bryant, 218 Prince street, Brooklyn, and Garfield Arthur Jackson, 204 Prince street, were united in marriage. The Rev. C. P. Coles officiated. The bride wore a gown of brocade satin, a tulle vellup up with orange blossoms and carried bouquet of flowers, orange blossoms and roses. The bridemaids were Miss Leslie Taylor, Miss Hennetta Harris and Miss Helena Hall. Power girls, Mildred Kennedy, Florence Agnes Laster. Best man, Arthur Lucas. Attendants, William A. Reld and Leon Chapman. Ushers, John Fonveal and Will Williams. Among those present were Mrs. N. To entertain is good, but to educate and consequently to elevate is better. ELLEN FORD' BROOKS PIANO AND VOCAL STUDIO 313 Clifton Place WALTER F. CRAIG 483 Hancock St., Prk UNDERTAKERS Brooklyn Man Dios. Hadley, Miss G. Hadley, Mr. and Mw. Sellers, Mie B. Waddell, D. Oway, Mrs. Groves, Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Pet Fuy, Mrs. Bed Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Wm. Mary, Mary Hansett, Mrs. M. P. Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan, Wm. The son, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Clinton, Mrs. C. Smith, Mrs. S. Spruill, Mrs. Susan Pellis, Mrs. George Seller, Mr. and Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Harris, Laura Jones, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Mr. and Mrs. Staton, Miss A. Hoe Miss Dixson, Mr. and Mrs. Davis, C. Gause, Miss Edna and Carrie vis, Mrs. George A. Dry, Mr. and R. Sellor, Wm. Henry, Jr. Mrs. Miss I, Mrs. George A. Dry, Mr. and M. Miss E. Ippett, Mrs. Miss C. and E. Ballard, Mr. and Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. E. Munford and Mrs. E. King, Mr. and Mrs. Chapman and son Lon, Mrs. and Moore, Mrs. Mary Harris, Miss S. Harris, Mrs. Marthin Henley, Mrs. Walker, Miss Ia Jackson (sister the bridegroom), Mr. and Mrs. Wm. James, Mrs. Lilian Hines, Mrs. Millie James, Mrs. Anne Kennedy, Miss Elin Kninny, Mr. and Mrs. Joalin and John Fonveal, Mrs. Dina B. Annie Kennedy, Miss H. Mr. and Mrs. John Moseley, Mr. Mrs. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. The Mrs. Malinda McDonald (aunt of bridgegroom of Syracuse, N. Y.), Mrs. Marshall, Mrs. Susie J. Johnson, Mrs. Kenneth, Mr. and Sawyer, Mrs. L. Watson, Bell and Gladys Kennedy, Miss Bred Kennedy, Miss Effie Taylor, Mrs Sarah Davis. The bride and bridegroom were as home to their mum, friends or on sunday morning. Askew-Middleton Wedding Askew-Middleton Wedding. A pretty home wedding was that Miss Malina Middleton and Charles Askew, which took place last Wednesday evening at the home of the brides sister, Mrs. L. M. Burton of Ridgeline Park, N. J., in the presence of a representative from Jersey City, Haven;sack. Enjoy New York City and Mt. Vermon, N. T. The bride was handsome gowned in bridal satin, trimmed with silver hair. She wore a tulle veil caught up with orange blossoms and lilies of the valle and carried a huge bouquet of bride roses and maiden-hair ferns. The Rev. W. R. Lawton, of Brooklyn, performed the ceremony. The presen were both numerous and beautiful. Among those present were B. F. Poole, P. J.-Simmons, Mr. and Mrs. Howell, Mrs. E. Wise, Mrs. A. F. Batthe, Hir and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Cockle, Scott H. Finley, Hir and Mrs. Slowe, W. Finley, Hir and Mrs. Mr. J. C. Hicks, Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Mayek, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Mathew Hayes, Mrs. Coreen and son, Mrs. Ferguson and L. N. Burton DR. CHAS. H. ROBERTS DR. BENJ. T. WITHERS DENTIST 347 LENOX AVENUE Phone Morn. 5555 • Near 127th St. LAWYERS Phone: Deckman WILFORD H. SMITH LAWYER 158 NASSAU ST. NEW YORK dio. 30-3m. ROOMS 808-7 E. A. JOHNSON ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW MORTGAGE LOANS 804 NASSAU STREET NEW YORK PHONE 804 JOHN Chas. E. Toney ...LAWYER... 80 Wall St. New York jan 19-3m. Open Day and Night THOMAS AND EMBALMER BRANCH 123 East 18th Street York City Tel. 2652 Gramery and Coaches to Let For All Purposes COACHES TO HIRE CAMP CHAIRS TO LET NOTARY PUBLIC W. 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