The Washington Bee Newspaper, February 20, 1892, Page 1

i \ 5 cents per copy. DOES NOT REPRESENT THE COLORED PREss. Mk J. E. Jounson, Dear Sir :— I received your letter of lass werk, | contaiuing a plan ou!lned for a Proposed exhibit to be made by colored people, iu the Government Building, also a request for my | opinion conceraing tus same, I have given this matter a great deal of thought, for lam earnestly interested in the part which col- ored people will take iu the Expo- sition. T am averse toa separate exhibit, and every phase of such an exhibit, and I should be averse to avy plan which could possibly aggregation of colored exhibits. 1 am in favor of Working throagh WASHINGTON, D ©., SATURDAY, FEVRUARY 20, 1892, NO 38 ties will do no call for the recor must abide. Sense duis It isan intense appreciation of this fact that has brought to the Board of Directors,xo many people, who desire te make our exhibit the very best possible under the cir- camstances. We want to make Special eff srt to bring to this Expo sition the best work which has re- sulted from thirty years of freedom. We want to bring exhibits trom school houses, from the field of skilled industry, from the circles of literature and art and let them tell of our progress. I have before me atecord of ten years work by a result in an |YU"S colored man, Booker T. Washington, who ten years ago | opened a school in a frame shanty cclored representatives to increase |'" Al#bama with one teacher and tae quality and quant ty of the ex hibit, to be made by colored peo- ple, bat I do vot want these exhib its placed by themselves to form a colored annex to the Exposition. Woald not this result from the plan you suggest? If colored peo | thirty pupils, To-day bis school owns and occupies thirteen build- | ings and 800 acres of land, worth | $125,000. Records such as this we | Waut the world to see, and we be- heve that colored persons would be | ost effective in bringing our cred | Ple ask fora place iv the Govern. | ''¥le work to the Exposition. ment Building and that place is | But while this is true, we mast granied, colored people will be ex- pected to fill it. It woutd be to our discredit, if it was poorly filled. It all meritorious exbibits went into the Exposition proper, it would leave ouly mediocre ezlubits for the government building, and conse queutly a poor extivit there. If on tue otber band, the meritorious ex- hibits went into the government building - they would chances for awards of merit, aud miss the} do so only in an honorable way. The colored people feel that there is a stalied opposition to the adop tion ot any plau which will give the colored people a positi n for dignified service. They thought 80 Wheu President Harrison failed to appoint a colored man on the Board of Directors, and that con on has been strengthened by the subs quent history of Exposi fon work. If after the recom- our record would be poor there | mendation of the Board of Control The only way to avoid a discredit- able resalt would be to duplicate previously referred to, the Exposi- tion managers r-fase to cali into our exiibits, a matter qurte out of | service capable colored people for the question. The Board of Directors have al ready decided that there shall be | no separate exhibit, and in this de- cision they bave the almost aviver | sal endorsement of the colored peo- | ple of this country. Woald it vow | be wise tor the colored people to | favor a plan which however well | iutended, will result in a separate exhibit? I think not. I would fav or the organization of some depart. | ment, in charge of capable colored people, whose work would be to promote the success of the Exposi- tiougby work among the colored people of this c uutry, bundreds of | thousands of whom will never be| reacbed by the general medium of pudlicity now employed. Such al department would largely increase | the number and excellence of the exhibits made by colored people. but these exhibits would be sent, | regardless of any color line, to the building in which they belong. This seems to me to be the ouly feasible plan. It bas the emphasis of the action of the Board o! Diree tors, which dicided adverse to a separate exhibit. It bas the vffirma- tive influence and force of a resolu thon, unanimously adopted by the | Board of Central, which recom- | mended that two colored represen- tatives be appointed on the Board of Pablicity and Promotion, to work for the Exposition’s success | Both of these acts, by Expositiou | authorities are oppoxed to a gov ernment exhibit. The plan reeom- mended by the Board of Control, would heartily enlist the interest of the colored people of this coun- try, and ifit has no potent influ ence with the Directorate, no plan suggested by colored people would be of any avail. Furt:er tuan that I would say that much asgtbhe culored people desire to take active part in this great event of our national history they can not afford to sacrifice dig- | nity and self respect in the effort o| compass that desire. They have tried all honorable means to im press upon the Directors bow in tensely earnest they are to make a | creditable showing in the coming | Expositivn. We feel as no one else | cau that sentiment will be influ | enced either for or against us, very largely by the display we shall | make in 1892 Negro citizenship at present, is a misnomer, tor the future it is a problem. Frievds aud foes alike watch every move) the begro makes, and we mast ex- | pect to stand or fall by our record. | With only thirty years of freedom, and so mapy grave problems to/ help solve, our avxiety for the| most favorable opportunities | sbould not be wondered at. The| nations of the world will be at the} Exposition, and ove of the most in teresting subjects ot inqairy will) be the condition, progress and prospects of the American freed- man. Opinions will be formed aud history written. Idle assertions, vain boasts aud glittering generali- this work, we must let the matter rest. If we are to be ignored, in | an event of such great importance, it will not be because of avy fault of our own, We had better snffvr chagrin from being ignored, than invite contempt by sueakiug into questionable prominence through a*‘Jim Crow door’’.—Chicago Cra- sader, ‘The Bee endorses this editorial and hopes others will do likewise. BUREAU NOTES SUPT J HN R. WHITE’S DEATH. Tne funeral of Mr. John R. White, formerly superint ndent of the printing division Buresu Engraving and Prin ing, toek pl:ce from his late residence, No, 42 C street, n. e., Friday morning of last week trom 8. Joseph’s eburch, where requiem mass was suid Rev. Father Donahue : ffic:- ating, who paid a b:gh tribute of the lite and character of the de- | ceased, who was a man of. sterling qnalities, @ painstaking nd zeal« ous euperintendent always at 12 10 setile any matter that came to his notice for attention, as was shown when when the first colored print- | er’s assistant was appointed to the office a little over a year ago, where his fair and impartial treat. ment to our young lades wil never be forgotton. Mr. White leaves 1X little chi dren, orphans, whose mother died ten months ago, the youngest being that age. [uterment was at Congressional Cemetery. Mr. Wm. McKenny has been appoin ed an adduional superin- iendent in the printing division, Bureau Esgraving and Printing This appoin'ment was made on the account of the abolishing the offiee of the late Mr. John R. Witnte. The appointment ot Mr McKenny has uo political sign fi- cavee atiached to it whatever, the mere fitness alone being consid erd by Cwref Meredith, and th tact of Mr. McKenny having learned the tr.de i the Buresu und being employed there over 18 years, makes the appointment au excellent aud deservirg selection by the Chief of tue Bureau. Balsa Brothers, the largest cigar manufacturers in Mexico, will make an extensive exhibit at Chicago, in 1898, and Loring Olmstead, who bas charge of one of the largest to- basco plantations in Mexico, which is tne property of the Bank ot Lon- don, and situated in the State of | Paeblo, will make a very interest- ing exhibit, illustrating “hacienda” | life in Mexico. Se ———— Whatever tends to increase usefulness, by banishing pain and suffering, will cer- tainly secure notice and approval. We allude to Salvation Oil. good, They will | EX-sENATOR BRUCE AND “NIGGARS”, Niggar, “in derision or depreciatio 1.”— Webster's victionary. It would seem that The * * * and divers Mississippi and Tennes- 8ee papers have been losing breath and wasting amun tion in their wild hunt atter Recorder Bruce’s scalp upon the supposition that he had been “repairing his fences” incidental to his going as a delegate at] rge from Mississip- pi to the national convention. We bave the information from a source that is positively reliable that at no time has Mr, Bruce seriously anticipated or considered sub an arrangement, but did not feel called upon to anuounee bis final conclu-ion in the premises until events” made it incumbent for bim to do ao, On the oceasion of the Coving- tou county conveution, the first one held in Missesippi to elect delegates to the state © nvention, a resolu'1on was passed iustruct- ing its delegates to vote for Mr. Bruce for de egate at large to the national conven ion, Upou Mr. Bruce being apprise! of the conventiou’s action he im- mediately announced the fact that he was not acand:date for the tlace, at the same time re qnes ing his friends throughout the state not '0 use his name in that con- nection. Asa matter of course his tin whistle enemies, The * * * vari gated mob of scribblers, thrown in fur good meas: re, will feel quite crestfallen when it finally pene traies their mental denseness. what consumate usses they have been writing themselves down for the past few weeks, and all out of aspirit of petty spite and pure “niggar meanress”, that had they possessed a ecintalla of the “race pride’ they love so well to prate «bout, they uever would have been guilty of. Furthe sake of the race Zhe} Freeman regres very much the pessivility that Mr. Bruce may bot be a delegate to the vanonal convention, The spirit that urged us to re— gret the defeat of Gov. Pinch- back and the bope that Frederick Dougl.ss might bea del-gate, ani mates us in this instance, and we hope that it will vever depart from us. We bave no patience with that class of negroes, wto, suffering from head expansion, or burning to be nuticed and observed, are entinually turning their pop- guns, charg d tothe muzzie with slander, fith and lies, upon men whose suce-ssfal lives and ex«lied vositi ns, ure a credit and belp to the race. On the heights above are Douz- lass, Bruce. Langston, Lyren and otvera, aud would that the race could point with a trot to thrice and thrice again their number, who lke they, had ran the ganut let of opportunity and individual ffort and came ont victor iu the eud Are thes? men perfec'? No! Have they made mistakes? Yes! M.y they not muke mistakes in the fu'ure? Probably, but why this soi citation ? What manner of man is he who has not made mistakes in this lite, und ‘0 What race does he belong ? Chart'y of judgment, act and thougst, begius at home why then by this universal rufe, shoud we vot be as considerate and gracious in our op.vious and judgments of our oWn great men, us we are of great whive men? The tuct is, unless we desire to be forever sucking the hind teat ef racial importance, we must quit playing ‘“oiggar” and treat each other as fairly ut least as with dis= gusting bumbleness we do white men. Not a race upon the face of the globe but that sets us an example in that direction. The leading men and women of a race are its ou'posts, its avant couriers. It 1s enough for them to be se= lected to contend with the foe in front, to break the way, that their people may fullow on, without rt) anal being subjected to jealously’ treachery, mutiny and the dagge from bebind.—Indisnop lis Free- man. + WORLD FaIR NOTES. Ceylon will conduct a tea-house on Midway Plaisance, The enormous steel trusses to sustain the roof of the Manufac- tarers Building, are about to be erected. Queen Margaret of Italy has promised to loan her famous col~ lection of rare laces for exhibition at the Fair, The Crown Prince of Italy, ac- cording to Diréctor Higginbotham, is greatly interested in the Expo- sition, and says he will visit it. A parade, participated in by 24,- 000 bicyeli-t, may bea sight at the Exposition. Efforts are being made to bring about that result. The Illinois State Exposition Board bas set apart $40,000 asa special fand for the enconrag«ment of live stock exhibits at the Fair. New Hampshire, as a delightful place of summer resort, will be demonstrated by a portion of the exhibit made by that State at the Exposition. Jowa, in its exhibits at the Ex position, will show the various forms in which corn products are useful as food, and also the process of their preparation. The Saltan of Turkey has con- sented to the erection of a mo-que at the Exposition grounds for the religious services of Mobammadans who attend the Fair. The Horticultural Department of the Exposition is planning to have a magnificent rose garden in which will be fully 50,000 plants, besides large groups in special areas. The Pennsylvania coal operators want to construct a building entire ly of anthracite coal at the Expo- sitiov, and to have 50 000 tous of best anthracite on exbibition, Physical Culture and Correct Dress has applied for nineteen hundred square feet of floor space in the Woman’s Building to make an ex- hibit. It is reported from Argentine Repnblic that strong pressure is beir g brought upon that govern- ment to increase its World’s Fair apnrepriation from $100,000 to $500 000. A British woman’s committee has been selected to superintend the representation of the work of Eng- lish women at the Exposition, and to co operate with the Board of Lady Managers. Regn! tions for exhibitors in the several Departments of the Exno- sion have heen issued and can be obtained by all intending exhibi- tors by applying for them in either person or by mail. In the Washington State exhibit will be inclnded a representation of the methods used by the Makah Indians in eatehing salmon and other fish. The exbibit will inelude boats, lines, hooks, seines harpoons, etc. Members of the Farmers’ Alli- ance in Koscinko County, Ind., at arecent meeting in Warsaw. de- cided to assess themselves weekly to provide a fund to defray their expenses for a visit to the World’s Fair. A bill making a World’s Fair appropriation of $50,000 and au thorizing municipal and county authorities to make additional ap- propriations for the same purpose has been introduced in the Virginia legislature. A despatch states that a silver- smith in Monterey, Mexico, is en- gaged on a work in silver which when completed will be an exact | reproduction of the Agricultural Building now being built on the Ex»osition grounds, Chicago. The Rhode Island World’s Fair Board contemplates having its Ex- position building at Chicago com- bine the best architectural featcres of its State capitol at Providence, together with those of the old eapi- tol building formerly occupied at Newport. The Connecticut members of the Board of Lady Managers bave un- “ertaken to raise by contribution a fund with which to pay for a fine bust of Harriet Beecher Stowe. saphepyl wntiegenpesrbackih ¢ f The Society for the Promotion ui “sony suspende: Hi This will be their contribution to- wards the adornment of the walls of the Woman’s Building. The Bureau of Music has issued letters of invitation to all the im- portant choral societies in the larg- er cities asking them to co-operate in forming the grand chorus of 2, 000 voices, which will render stand- ard oratorios at the the ceremonies deditatory of the Exposition build- lugs, = OS oe WEST WASHINGTON NOTES ‘The grand rally aud reception by the West End Vigilant Hal! Committee, G. U. 0. of O. F, at Ebenezer A. M. E church, O street, n. w., Febrnary 22, 1892, will be more than interesting for the reason that the several lodges interested ure competing for hou= ors, and it is expected by the com- mittee in charge to realize a hand- some sum for their new hall Dietrict Master Webster aud exe- cutive officers of the order have been invited and are expected to be present. An interesting pro gramme has been arranged. ll are invited to attend, The funeral of Mrs, Katie Rob- inson, nee Davenport, took place Sunday afternoon from Ebenezer church, a large number of the friends of the decea-ed attended the funeral Revs. J. D. Hill and T. O, Carroll «fficiated. Inter- ment in vault Mt. Zon cemetery. New Danger of the Grip. Patrick McCarty living at Hamburg, Clark county, Ind., had a narrow es- sape from being buried alive. He had been ill with the grip for several days and to all appearances died. The remains were prepared for burial and a coffin was ordered. While wait- ing for the undertaker to arrive, Mrs. | McCarty was startled by seeing the sup- posed dead man slightly move. The other members of the family were sume THIS WREL'S. NBNS, Doings for the Past Six Days Gathered and Condensed for Our Readers. General. The Minneapolis Republican Conven- tion hall will seat nearly 11,000 persons. The attempt to reorganize the Wrap- ping Paper Trust, at Chicago, failed. The Massachusetts House has voted 124 to 50 against free railroad passes for members, Furniture dealers of the nation will | have a puw-wow at Grand Rapids, Mich., on July 12 The leaders of the Lumbermen’s Trust have been arrested at St. Paul, Minn., for | violating the anti-trust law. Senator Hill’s privatesecretary, Colonel William G. Rice, was wedded to Miss Harriet Loudon Pruyn, at Albany, N. Y, Mistaking a bucket of lye for rain water, Michael Lintner, of Brazil, Ind., washed in it and both eyes may be blinded. Thousands of members of the Salva tion Army met-General Booth on his ar | rival at Southampton from Australis and India. Colored Republicans will hold a con- vention on March 18, to consider ways of securing their share of National Republi- can Delegates. The widow of his former partne: Joseph T. Glover, became the bride of | ex-United States Senator Booth, Sacra mento, Cal. Blinded by a fog, the Morgan Line steamship Hutchinson, tan her nose in the sand at Havana, Cuba, and her carge of flour was damaged. James Couch, the aged millionaire and pioneer of Chicago, and proprietor of the ‘Tremont House was run over by a wagon and can not re6 ser. On account of a . pute about wages between the coal porters and their em- ployers, a strike was ordered in London and 8,000 men went out, A resolution indorsing President Har- rison was adopted by the Texas Republi can State Committee. Their State con. vention will meet March 8. «@ lynching of William Lavender, moned and by the use of restorati: ed, at Roanoke, Va., has caused supposed dead husband angio Pa olga —_ a 5B showed the most po aE si aye nae! ursiie” CORNET-atone a yy"t:_ had been gres* i é Li Be : us of < ene grip andge acta eo | He wili get well. WAR CLOUDS IN EUROPE. Great Gathering of War Fleets in the Medeterranean. Owing to the French and Russian squadrons in the Medeterranean having been ordered to Alexandria, orders have | been sent to the Austrian Admiral Rohr- scheidt, now at Smyrna, to sail with his five warships for the Pirzeus, where his |sqnadron will be joined by two Italian | ronclads and a division of the German squadron. Within a fortnight the united squadrons of the Driebund will be within | co-operating distance of the English fleet at Alexandria. If France's design is to impress the Ihedive by a naval demonstration, Eng- | land and her allies are ready to make a more important demonstration. United Mine Workers Meet. At the convention of the United Mine | Workers of America at Columbus, Ohio, | it was decided to abolish the defense |fund and assess a per capita tax of 10 | cents a month for the support of the or- ganization. All the money now in the | defense fund is to be used for organiz- ing purposes. The General Executive | Board was authorized to levy a tax at ‘ any time for the support of a strike. A resolution urging the National House of Representatives to investigate | ‘the Pinkerton detective agency was passed. The convention declared for the restriction of Chinese immigration, the |election of United States Senators by popular vote, and the passage of National laws for the protection of miners, Japan’s Gift to Chicago. | S. Tegima, the representative of the | Japanese government, now in Chicago, has made a remarkable offer to the Park Board. He states that his government | wants to put up a stone building in Jack- |con Park, lay out Japanese gardens all jaround it, fill the building with rare works of art, and then give everything to the city of Chicago. Tegima also said that the government of Japan would | vote an annual appropriation to keep up she building and gardens, | The whole thing will bea part of the |Japanese display at the World’s Fair. | The building is to be a reproduction of |one of the historical structures of the Japanese Empire, and will be filled with | works of art representing three notable | periods in Japanese history. It is thought | the park board will accept the gift. Abandoning the Vine. In several districts of the wine produc- Ing provinces of the Rhine the cultiva- | |tion of the vine has been arenes | on account of the difficulty of coping with phylloxera, and the owners of the lland are raising tobacco and grain in- | stead, at dshorz, in which thré_ _, the former were killed and ten wounk © There were 17 victims ¢ the Hotel | Royal fire in New York O,% Five of ' the unidentified bodies of vic [ms of the fire were buried in Potter’s Fretd. A committee of 50 was appointed at a mass meeting of Democrats in New York to take action in regard to an anti-Hill movement throughout the State. | The trial of the Delamaters on charges of embezzlement is now in progress at Meadville, Pa. The court overruled a motion to dismiss the indictment. John E. Redmond’s motion in the House of Commons to release Egan and Daly, two Irish treason-felony prisoners, was defeated by a vote of 168 to 97. The cargo of the stranded steamer Eider is being rapidly removed. It is thought that efforts to float the vessel will be successful and that her hull is but | slightly damaged. | The executive committee of the Rus- sian Relief Fund in New York, resolved to cable a further installment of $2,500 ta the United States Minister at St. Peters- burg for famine sufferers. The receiver of the Bay State League, an endowment order, made a report in Boston, stating that startling evidence of fraud and dishonesty on the part of the supreme officers had been found. The four Anarchist leaders of an at- tack upon Veres were executed in that town, There were several scrimmages between the police and mobs in the streets, but the executions passed off quietly. Mrs. Nancy Chard, of Bridgeton, N. J., who is 103 years old, walked from her home to the Baptist Church, a distance of one mile, last Sunday and took an ac- tive part in the services, walking home again afterward. The Parnellites have decided to pursue an aggressive policy in the House of Commons. Mr. Redmond declined ta consider any proposal for union of the two Irish factions while Timothy Healy remained a member of the McCarthyite party. Ludwig Fullgraff, the last of the fam- ous “boodle” board of New York alder. men of 1885, has been released from in- dictment. He turned States’ evidence, and convicted several of his associates, He is now a prosperous business man at 5t. Paul, Minn. Eighty-two cases of typhoid fever have developed in New York city among Rus- sian emigrants recently landed. The fever patients are all being placed in tenta on North Brothers Island. The health authorities are taking the most extreme measures to stamp out the disease. In the Russian provinces of Penza, Samara, Saratov, and Nyni-Novgorod, hundreds are dying of starvation and dis- ease. Typhus fever, smallpox, and diph- theria are raging. In many districts it is There have been no deaths as yet in | ‘mpossible to distribute relief owing ta New York from typhus fever. 1 all the horses having been killed or sold,