The Washington Bee Newspaper, May 7, 1892, Page 2

oo OP a, Pgpatamasnememecr. meme er THE Washington, D. C, lat the Post Offiee at Washington lass mail watter. W. CALVIN CHASE Eprror. ‘Tere is no trath the reduction of Reeorder Bruces salary. negro. From the way things appear just now, in Virginia, the return of Mr, Langatou to Congress, aud the state fa ling into line and re- elvetors, is turning republican among the possibilities. Gen’ Mahone and Mr. Langston are a . if] see that has come out of the cru- unit on general principles, they remain 80, there is a repub~ disposal. We beg to congratulate the re~ ican of the 6th Maryland dis- t on their choice for delegate to Minneapolis, Gen’l Allan Rutherford. He represents the most st republicanism, edu- ¢ oolof Grant, Mor- a, Conkling, Stevens, and Lo gn, loyal, firm, reliable, staunch aud true, honest and pure in he friendship, and a believer in the great ends accomplished by the war, The colored rice vever had a truer friend, nor the repablican party a braver lecder than Gen’i Rutherford, he belonged to the “meu of the old guard” and in the ! we have full confidence. Cated in the 10 THEY MUST TEACH. The recent order issued by trus tee Lewis A Cornish of the 8th 1 division to the effect that persons employed im the public schools of bis division must devote set their time to teeching and not to ou'side business which tends to divert them trem their school duties The Bre is not prepared to state whether the action of Trus- tee cornish is right or wrong, but, it does appear that one has a right to lbercase Lis revenue if an oppor tunity permits it, but on the other id if the businees iu which one is eng ged, aside fry duties, prevents the sinning is nul Work some other meth- od must be inaugurated. In this instance, the persons to wiom Trustee Cornish’s order re ferred, recalls ‘o the mind of the Bee the | ve in their nb enterpr eral lady teachers connected with the pub- he colored people he Se lic schools opened an ice cream saloon in the rorthwestern section of the city a few weeks ago and the first cifense that was commit- tod, which pu's a qnietus cn their b ssertion of rac de, was to put out Fwesells eign. A man who some time ago issued an ors ut no colored citizen would c permitted to eat ice cream in his ssloon. On the other band, Mr. E, Murray who saw fit to open a dining-roon fer white p*o- ple was condemned in a public meetitg ct his colored fellow citi+ zens, it was not the object of Mr, lurray to discriminate aint own people, but, mereiy to show to the more fortunate of bis ae sted fellow citizens what a negro could a Tbe Bee has no criticism to make against Trustee Cornish, be is One of the few colored trustees in connection with others, who does everything to place the cul- red echoc ecucalion, tist system id whatever he does benefit the public schocl THE WAR ON THE SALOON. Last fall a crusade was begun on the part of certain ministers of the gospel and others, against the I in that section of the city own in other day classic lore ag bottom” Assisted by the rch and some outside influ ences weight enough was brought to bear upon the commissioners to cauee a rejection for license to any one of the eight saloon keep ers in the bottom. What has re~ sulted from this? tbat for each saloon disqualified, | there can be found three “speak | ” and there are now in the} bottom six wholesale dealers ae easies, ed every Saturday at 1109 1 Street in the report that Hon, John Sherman favored Senator Sherman 18 avd has always been a friend to the lican majority in the State at their k of iuterest some of s upon a high basis of | bad | . 1 : - ‘ 4 We have es City or State can always find the formation from reliable authority | all those turned down (in the bot- tom,) are retailing undering a saloon license in some other sec- tion of the city. Now what we want to ascertuin is what bas been accomplished, what good has come to the cause of temperauce or the morals of the bottom, by the uncalled for conduct of cer- tain moral leaders that led the fight last fall? Drunkenvess and hanging on the corners in the bot- tom is now on the increase, es- | pecially on Sunday, and why? | Becauee men now buy a fuit or a quart of whisky whereas before | they were cut off from the saloon they simply “took @ vip” Satur- day night and went home, but now he has no saloon, 8° he gets a pint or quart and home he goes, | and it is a fact, any drinking man will tell you, that so long as there isa drop in the bottle it has got to be drark. A man who drinks liquor canu t sleep gocd while i! is in the house until he gets “too full for utterance.” All we can i sade is more whisky and more drunkenness. The war on the ovcrseer was nothing we had to kill the root of slavery—end with liquor, the fight cu the saloon man is nothivg. Kill the mavufaciure of liquor, that is the only way to stop the sale of it. WANDERINGS OF THE JEWS. Hon. SIMON Woir REVIEWS THE Hi tory OF His RACE. Mr. Wolf, who bas been elected as one of the republican delegates from this district to the vational republican convention, delivered a lecture in the temple on 8th street, last week. Mr. Wolf painted in glowing terms the wanderings of the Jewish people from the earliest days down to the present, passing in review the terrible crimes practiced upon lis brethren by the various gov- ernments of earth, ending in a pictare so pathetic aid harrowing of the present persecations in Rus- sia that the audience involuntarily felt as if they would ye to go to the rescue and clutch from the throne of Russia that uubappy monarch who seems to forget to recognize in the Jew any semblance of the man. Kuowing Mr. Wolf as_ we do, and having lad opportunities to test his friendship for struggling bumanity ever) where, we suggest that he wiil lead in the Minueapolis convenuoy - : | (Continued from first page.) THE BELHEL LITERARY. tenure of office, they appeared to rest | contented with that I activity whe! they drew their salaries with faultless regularity and worked just as inuch as they had to,—and no more. The election of 1884 wroughta change in this condition of affairs. ‘The repub- lican party under whose protectorate these positions had been obtained Jad been defeated, and the probability of a “clean sw of the colored citizen from all participation in the govern- meatal service was the ominous shadow that confronted us. ‘*What todo” was the question of the hour wed alone in the light of a selfish individuality it appeared a inatter of small moment for each individual here and there to get employment for himself, but there were those who took a broader and deeper view of the situation. The spectacle of a few hundred colored citizens ina com- munity occupying positions of trust and sspousibility in the government. ser- i and discharging the duties of se positions with intelligence, indus- try and fidelity, had surely done some- the general standard of the reputation of the race, and to lose this vantage ground all at once wasa step too far kward to be ignored or passed over light] done to counteract this effect? It wi readily seen that nothing more certa ly commands the respectful considera- tion of all classes than does the demon- stration of success in legitimate busi- ness enterprises, and so the men of thought and action among us discussed ject of some large business en- prprise, hoping that its successful man- agement mightserve the double purpo: of revealing both to the white citizens and to our own selves the power and wcity that we had yet unused. his discussion resulted in the organi- zation of the INDUSTRIAL BUILDING AND SAVINGS COMPANY, within less than sixty days after the in- auguration of President Cleveland. The enterprise was indorsed and sup- ported by many of our foremost citi- zens, Who took an active part in its or- ganization, such men as the late Dr. A. T. Augusta, Hon. Jno. F. Cook, Hon. Frederick Douglass, who was the first president of the association. Drs. Jno. R. Francis, C. B. Purvis and F. J. Shadd, Revs. Wm. Waring and J. A. Mr. Lewis H. Douglass, Prof. Cook, Col. M. M. Holland, -_W. Cromwell, J. G. Huteh- Hilyer and many others. s e a number of men e of masterly in- What was to be Among equally unacquainted with the require- se and ments of such a business entery yet, for the most part, equally push forward their personal ¥ Inanagement, it is not s wide diversity of opinions disclosed it- self nor that dissentions arose. The early records of the company show that of the persons who helped to organize it, very many came out almost atthe beginning, and because the ma- jority disagreed with them as to some special feature of its management. Ion. Frederick Douglass was sue- ceeded in the presidency by Rey. Win Waring, the latter in turn by Mr. 1, G Hutchens and then the present incum- . W. 8. Montgomery. Mr. ISS Was the first secre- pr of the com- y Mr. Iol- = Wis EE pany, land. | struggling religious organization in Anae . We accepted their applica- tion for a loan of $1,000 and agreed to make the loan when we actually had to borrow the money with which to keep jour promise to them. We mace the | loan, however, and this demonstration | of our ability to help somebody, proved a telling point in our favor. OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION. The primary purpose of this organi- ion is to combine the small savings | of the many, and by an economical and just management of those savings, to help those who need help either in buy- ing homes or starting in business. Those who can afford to sz some- thing of their earnings every month, and it is almost a criminal neglect of our future not to save something, will find in this d tion an opportunity ui to invest their savings with profit. Your attention rnestly called to the ‘h will be handed to you and you a iited to fully the tabulated siatements uuphlets showing the profits rue to the steckholders whether they are mere investors or borrow- ers trom the ciation. This kind of enterprise is commonly acknowledged to be the very best plan by which small savings regularly paid in monthly may be made to produce the best results in interest. This association has happily passed through the discouragements necessari- ly incident to its efforts to gain a foot- hold in the communi It entered the busy world of competition on its meriis, and will live only as long as it deserves to live. The good influence of this association has been felt not alone in the aid it has L but also in the quickened and nong our race. INDUSTRIAL is @ whi it it he eloped in this city EPIDEMIC. Our success here argued the possibil- ity of suc long other lines of busi- ness hitherto unattempted by us. And so the Capital Savings bank was the first child of this enterprise, and its steady growth into solid, substant business manhood has simply astonished its friends and nonplussed its enemies. And likewise the Alpha Insurance Co. which has but reeently came into the business world, seems almost to have been born half grown. The amount of push, pluck and persistency behind that enterprise places it success beyond all last Sunday, to indulge in an old time Poeake and tamble fight on | Washington street, near the old factory. The girl was compelled to pit berself against four of her age and size, and the result was four broken derbys, some fragments of clothing, cuff battons, ete., also one prostrate human lying bleeding on the ground surrounded by bloody brickbats. The case may be @ serious one, but to have re- versed this case allowing negro boys to insult white Sunday school girls, the supposition is in an iden- tical case, shot guns and lamp post executions would have been in or- der. - However, it was a negro, and the result 1s the girl awaits the trial for beating a white boy who 18 unable to attend court. The police- man who bad some difficulty iv making the arrest, first went 10 tle home of the girl and demanded bis prospective prisoner it is said, when the mother of the girl exhibited some relation to Peter Jackson, whereupon the result was a police- man with a dangling clab in one hand tied by a leather string, and a flaming revolver in the other hand, looking for that historic dell that is fairer than this, he said. Well be was right, for he was across the canal and the idea of a negro being shot in the back over there is unknown. Capt. D. W. Chinn, Dan’l E. Selfe, George Butts, James Seals, Hevry Boyd and ovher distin- guished hotel men are home from Old Point Comfort, Va. Alexandria wants a colored po- litical leader and all the leaders of the past will agree, they say, to follow the choice of the majority of the citizens. Weston Gorden has gone to Bowhug Green to atteud the funer- al of bis brother. Mrs. Sarah Magruder of 424 So. St. Asaph street, is dangerously question or doubt. These enterprises, my friends, repre- sent something vastly more important than the merely personal ambition of any man or set of men. They are essen- tially race institutions, and the thous- ands of colored men and women in th community ought by every conside tion that can appeal either to their r pride or to their personal love of gain support these organizations. THE BUILDING ASSOCIATION enters now upon its eighth year with prospect pleasing. The board of di- rectors are imbued with the firm pur- pose to give a careful. honest and intel- it attention to management of its affairs, and they only ask that the citizens do their part in supporting the enterprise. There is not # man con- nected with the management whose support depends upon a single dollar of the con iy’s money. Ev officer of the compa nple income from other employment and the expenses of management are thereby reduced toa minimum. TI are 80,000 colored ci nting 80.00¢ -- 0 avew LOVK repudilcan conven- tion, April 27, 1892, in relation to outrage, murder, lynching, burn- ing and other horrors and crimes perpetrated upon the blaek race iu the South. By the way, while dis- cussing this Southern bratality business, what have our Northern race journal:, where the balance of presidential making power resides, national republican coavention ? Mr. Wolf showed how illiberal and unjust several of the great writers of fiction have been in hold- ing up the Jew as an object of de risiou aud contempt, aud oa the | reverse side of the picture showed the Jew in fact, what be bas done | for mankind in ail the walks of life, showing bim to be in the main a model cit:zan and an excellent father aud busband, conscientious, and imbued with all the lofty ideals which charm, embellish, and ele- vate our species, closing with au enthusiastic eulogiam on the United States and its institutions, exprese- ing the fervent hope that the dawn | ofa better day would soon break over every part of the world, the reflex of our own bappiness and the j Sublime radiauce of American in stitutions and liberty. It will be seen that’ Mr. Wollt’s audience was composed not along of Hebrews, but there were Catho- lies, Presbyterians, Methodists, | Baptists, Irish, German, Fiench and Knglish people present. All who were there and saw for thems selves went away with better opin ions of the Jews than they enter | tained previous. Why is it that the same class of representative white people, who claim to be phil antrophist religious workers, mora! reformers and so on, will not once in a while look in upou tie higher j intellectual and moral side of the |colored race? Once upon a time | our meetings were overcrowded by | white people, then it was we were turning the grindstone, tut now | you never see a face searcely, un- | less it be a political something aud | he wants his chestnuts drawn. NOTICE. Washingtonians in New York Bre at the stand of W. D. Brown, 104 West 27th St. aud R. Grant 413 Gth Aye. Advertisements, janything like a general interest in its support, and still more diflicult to create any widespread confid in the n got to say as to this matter and the} . Pieire pany, From its organization in May, 15 down to the annual election of offic in 1887, the fate of the association seemed to hang tremblingly between success and failure. It was difiicult to secure the regular att re of the Officers at the meetings of the company, dificult to awaken among the people ess of the en- ¢ to criti- agement and ultimate terprise. People were quick than to help. withheld even when ta congidence Was given. 1 y i gles disclosed the real strength of pu pose among some of the men who fath- ered this enterprise from the beginning, and with those inena failure seemed an impossibilit the ele held une ion of officers in 1887 was new circumstances of hope andencouragement. The management of the affairs of the company Was put in the hands of a gentleman whose un- flagging industry and energetic execu tive ability soon placed the association ina position to command suecess. By asort of push and pluck that knew no barrier and adinitted no defeat, he brought the building association before the eye of the public ina manner that seemed to snatch success from the jaws of defeat. From monthly collections amounting to three or four hundred dollars, the receipts were rapidly brought up to twice that amount, and then increased to an average of more than NE THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH. Within the past few ye he asso- ciation has shown steady, substantial growth both in public favor and con- fidence, in its business influence, and in the ties at hand for placing its benefits within the reach of its members. The growth of an enter like this can be ly determined by the ratio of se from time to time in its gross receipts and net hs, and its usefulness may be measured by the op- portunities it affords to others to better their condition in lif During the first year of our organization the receipts averaged about one hundred dollars a month; during the seeond year, the re- ceipts averaged upwards of four hun- dred dollars a month, and since that time the receipts have shown a steady inerease. AVERAGING NOW NEARLY $20,000 A YEAR. For the five months ending of this year. pipts have Leen the receipts fur April alone being 4 This money foaned out to members just as rapidly as it accumulates in sufficient sums, and is loaned on noth- ing but first mortgages on property with a value reasonably in excess of the amount loaned. This rule of course does not preclude members from bor- rowing on their stock when the amount already paid in exceeds the amount to be loaned. pril 30, this district, rep 1 to stand alone in busine gion, in ciety and in polities. anding thus alone, we must stand united. of us, I know, have widely- WS upon this point, bit to eit seems y ibborn. tre the negro race country isto have a common destiny—For Like warp and’ woof our destiny is woven fast, Linked in sympathy like the keys of an organ va Pluck one thread and the web ye mar, Break but one of a thousand keys, And the paining jar through ‘all will run. Mr. T. T. Fortune, of the N. Y. Age was present, and was called for. He made a happy speech commending the spirit which prompted these enterprises; but said he, *‘we will not make much headway until we adopt some com- m n term by which we can be de- signated.” He preferred Afio- American to all others that bad been suggested. President Montgomery then called the attention of the audience to the cireular just issued giving the plan and workings of the Asso- ciation. He hoped they. would be carried bome carefully read and studied as they were meaty with information of great value to us as a people. He said, the names of Prof. Storum, Mr. Jerome Johnson, two of the directors, had been inad- vertenly omitted from the list on the pamphlet-The error wou'd be corrected as soon as possible, The meeting then adjourned all feeling that the symposium had been a great success. — us ALEXANDRIA NEWS. If you wish the Bex sent to you, or if you wish to have your mar- riage, funeral or notes inserted ip this column, send your order to W. A. Carter, 313 Wilkes street. Job printing solicited and first class guaranteed. The marriage ceremony of Mr. Geo. William Brown of this city, and Miss Annie G. Scott of Manas- sas, Va., was solemnuized at the First Baptist charch Manassas, Va., Thursday evening in the presence of a large number of friends of the contracting parties. A crowd of white boys by insult~ THEIR FIRST LOAN. subscriptions, ete., will be received at these two stands. Our first effort.to lend the help of the , association was made in the case of a ing remarks induced a colored girl, accompanied by some children on their way home from Sanday school CeSkosuon tee eee: ill. DEATHS. Dr. C. M. Hammett, Health Officer, presents the following report for ending April 30th, 1892. Number of deaths, 90; white, 44; colured, 46. Death rate per 1,000 per annuum: white, 13.4; ec lored, 299. Tctal population, 18 7; 27, were under five years of age, 23 were under one year old aud 20 over 60 years. 21 of the leaths occurred in hospitals and public institutions. ‘The deaths by classes were as follows: Zymotic, 9; constitu- tional, 18; local, 50; develop- men'al, 12 violence, 1. The principal causes of death were: Croup, 0; diphtheria, 2; week angs, 3; brouchitis, 1; whoop- ing cough, 2; kidney diseases, 5; meningitis, 4; cancers, 1. Births reported: 27 white males, 24 white femul:s; 16 color- ed males, 22 colored females. Merriag:s reported: 17 white; 6 colored. Still births reported: 6 white; 6 evlured. The Stavistical Service of the District has reports of only 90 dca hs during the last week, 44 white and 46 coloured, a number 42 less than wus reported within he same peri. d of last year, and ‘qual to a declive of nearly thirty- two per cent, It will b: seen by the tubular ement that coutagious a d epidemic maladies are few as com- pared with former years, since in the last week of April of last year here were sixty-three deaths from these causes alune, No death from typhoid fever nor from malarial fever wus re— p rted during the week. Iuflammaiory diseases of the or gans of respiration present a tens de: cy to decrease, there having beeu twelve deaths from these Causes, +8 compared with thirty- eight in the corresponding week of last year. During the whole month cf April just ended there were 445 deaths reported, as egainst 697 in the s.me month of last year. This is a decrease of 252 deaths In One month, cqual to an im— provement in tle public health of 36 per cent and im the anual death-rate of from 334 to 21.3 Cut of the large number of marriage licenses issued there were but 23 reported to this of — fice for record. This neglect on the part of those + fliciating at these marriages will undoubtedly work great injustice in time to heirs in estates and to children unborn. Many persons in this city ai tue present time are un— able to obtain moveys justly due them, by omission to have former marriages and births duly recor- ded. It should be known that the only official record of mar— riages, births and deaths for the D.strict of Columbia is that of the Health Department, stat —————~_+—___ Subseribe for the Bex. WEST WASHiNGTON NOTES, The reception given by the Weg End Vigilant Ball Committee g U. O. of O. F., at Bethel ball, Fy, day evening of last week, Wag largely attended and a good say was realized towards the hall fand The members of the order paradeg sowe of the principal streets of og; town, Past Grand Master Coungjj No, 44, acted as an escort with the Capital City band at the head of procession. Addresses were dg. livered by Mr. John W. Lee ang Jas. L. Turner who spoke encour. agingly to the members of the com. mittee aod commended them op their good work since their organi. zation. Misses Katie Bennett, Belle Smith, Ella Monday, Emma Bar. rett, Mary Harris, Florence Martiy Maria Morgan and Mamie Jobnson were the reception committee Fri. day evening, doing yeomen seryicg toward the hall fund. Rev. Henry Carroll pastor of Mt, Zion M. E. church left here last week as a delegate tothe general conference of the M. E. Church now in session at Omaha, Neb. Rey. Edgar Marphy has the acting minister daring bis absence, Mr. N. G. Mitchell, superintend- ent of Ebenezer A. M. E. church Sunday school, who bas been quite ill, is mueb better. a Rooms and Board:—First class accomodations can be had at 951 Q 8'., D. We 3-t SE ee TO OUR FRIENDS AND Pa- TRONS. Having connected ourselves with the Y. M. ©. A. Shaving Parlor, (1609 11th St, no. w.,) we will be pleased to have you call. First class work. Prof. Epwarp GRICE, Prof. Cus. Rica, Tonsorial Artists. McCary and Douglass, proprie- tors. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. London continues to draw gold from the United States. The Prince of Wales’ jewel case was stolen from him in France. eat alirm is felt in England concern- ing the Prince of Wales’ health. e collieries of the Reading Company at Shenandoah, Pa., are nearly all being started up. A Massachusetts company has been formed to dredge for sunken treasure at Hell Gate, N. ¥. Robert L. Patterson, harbor master of the port of Philadelphia, and a promi- nent Democratic politician, is dead. - Ab insepentosdinty ‘tine resin is con- templating the purchase of the old Har- rison homestead on the James River, ir Virginia. Ata meeting of the stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad Company at Boston to elect directors, the Gould ticket was victorious. The trial of Matthew Trumpbour, one of the wreckers of the Ulster County Savings Institution, is now in progress at Kingston, N. Y. A story that Senator Sherman is to re sign and become a Presidential candi- cate is circulated in Washington, but finds little credence, While workmen were repairing a Penn- sylvania Railroad car at Altoona, Pa., fif- teen railroad bonds of $500 each were discovered in the closet. Judge Braley, of the superior court, of Lowell, has decided that women suing for divorce may not resume their maiden names, as it complicates the records. The Russian relief ship Tynehead sailed from Brooklyn for Russia. The vessel carried 116,357 bushels of corp and hundreds of sacks of flour and meal. Commander-in-Chief Palmer, of theG. A. R., has issued an order in which he asks all the veterans to subscribe to the fund of the Grant Monument Associa tion. Lightning struck the Forestry Build- ing at the World’s Fair grounds, Chicago, Monday, stunning two men, who were in the building, and splitting several timbers, The bricklayers, capenters, masons, and other workmen in Scranton, Pa., have demanded the nine-hour day with no reduction of pay. The employers have refused the demand and a strike re- sulted. The trial of Frederick B, Deeming fos the murder of his wife, Emily M. Deem ing, at Windsor, Australia, was con: cluded and a verdict of guilty returned by the jury. Sentence of death was ai once passed. A delegation of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, of Bridgeton, N. J.. visited every licensed hotel and saloon ix that city asking permission of the pro prietors to hold prayer meetings in the bar-rooms, but in each instance they were refused, Proceedings in the United States Cir cuit Court at Philadelphia have been in stituted against the Sugar Trust, te break the recent combination of the re finers, The action was in the shape of s voluminous bill in equity filed against the different companies and stockholders, Reports fram London state that the Bank of England rates are very low, and the prospects are favorable for the return of the money market to a nor mal condition, The leading advocates of freesilver are very much discouraged over the failure of the Democratic conventions of In diana and Nebraska to insert a free sil ver plank into the platforms, J o~ wet sation, pe ini enol expr a am sendl 5 oak all puBl 10 Prof, No Areet, Phil Norto 8A tlec $2! Ed the Soat| Sts.,