The Washington Bee Newspaper, August 17, 1895, Page 1

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. | J. FIRESIDE COMPANION. It is true if you see it in | THE BEE. powT BORROW THIS PAPER The Bee 8 4— GREAT ADVERTISING MEDIUM. TRY IT: Do you want reliable news? Do you want a fearless race advocate? Do you want colored trade? Read and advertise in THE BEE! NOYES. He is a journalist, thoroughly 1 in every branch of his profes- In his youth, while employed in n mill, in Maine, he wrote a dia- sketch, relating with rich humor happy experiences of “‘A Yankee Cotton Factory,” which was print- € the Yankee Blade of Boston, and widely copied. Other sketches in a ar vein were equally successful, outhful productions made | ay into such books as ‘The | Harp of a Thousand Strings,” which lected the best work of the recog- ed humorists of the day. Ill health ve him from Maine to a milder cli- He entered Washington on foot and became a Washington cor- espondent of some Lewiston, Boston, id Philadelphia papers. His letters | vere keen, witty and picturesque. of them gave admirable descrip- of exciting scenes in Congress, 1 of the peculiarities of the great hat figured inthem. In 1855, he his information and broad- views by a foot-tramp in Eu- , after the Bayard Taylor fashion, i described his experiences in an in- teresting series of letters to the Port- Transcript. At the close of the ne year, he became a reporter on vening Star; his connection with hat paper still continues. After a suc- ssful career as an enterprising news- catherer, he was made assistant editor, by S. Noyes was born in Maine | Charles Brown. Misses Tinney and Carter, and Messrs. |Lewis Rowser, Edward Rowser, and Addresses were made by Revs. J. A. Taylor and Geriah Lamkins and Mr. J.W. Cromwell. The next meeting will be held next Wednesday night at Vermont ave. Baptist Church. JOHN R. LYNCH. There is no man in the country to-day who stands higher in the es- timatiom of the people than the Hon. John R. Lynch. His career as a public man and statesman is brilliant and without a blemish. As temporary chairman of the Na- tional Republican Convention in Chicago in 1880, an honor never before or since conferred upon a colored man. As representative in Congress from the State of Missis- sippi, and as Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, he showed himself equal to the arduous duties which he was called upon to perform, and dis- played ability of the highest order. It too often happens that men who have honors thrust upon them, becoming intoxicated with success, forget the people with whom they are identified, but not so with Mr. Lynch. He has never betrayed the interests of his race, but has always stood by ita true, firm, and fearless advocate of its rights. Of all the colored men who have stood out prominently before the world Mr. Lynch has displayed a comprehensive grasp of measures EX-SENATOR B. K. BRUCE. There is no man in the American body politic who is a more conspic- uous figure than Hon. Blanche K. Bruce, a Senator, Register of the Treasury, and lastly recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia. He is the most polished and most astute politician'in the colored race and equal to any among the Anglo- Saxons. Those who don’t know ex-Senator Bruce would think him selfish. It isnot so. He is kind, and above all things he is reliable and safe. Whatever he says you can depend on it, unlike many politicians who, after they have satisfied their own greedy apyetite, tell you to see the wind and look through the vapor and you will find the ministership to ‘‘Dahomey.”” Many jealous minds have caused their pens to write him down; many selfish men have received favors from him and played the ‘‘ Judas Iscariot;’? many honors has he be- stowed upon the selfish and narrow minded against the wishes of his friends, only to betray him. Not- withstanding, he has proven him- self to be a man. His gifts, honors, and emolu- ments have been returned with un- kindness and ingratitude. As an CINCINNATI AND COLUM- BUS HAPPENINGS. Special to the BEE. CINCINNATI, O., Aug. 1, 1895. Edward Carter, the young man who met with the unaccountable fatality at the Grand Hotel on last Saturday night, was buried from the Zion Bap- tist Church on the 30th of July by the Polar Star K. P. The services were conducted by Rev. Thomas Webb in a very appropriate manner. Mr. Carter was a nephew of Mrs. Eliza P. Carter and a cousin of Miss Gertrude F. Carter. Both ladies hold prominent positions in the Q. E.C., No. 2, A; P. A. Undertaker William M. Porter offici- ated. The floral emblems were very beautiful. The funeral was the largest of the order ever held in this city. I clip from the Cincinnati Tribune the following items relative to our peo- ple: Miss Adina White, 201 Barr street, a graduate of the Cincinnati Art School, Eden Park, was honored with a_posi- tion in the public schools of St. Louis as teacher of art. Her wood carving and special work in the schoolroom gained for her a reputation unequaled by any colored lady in America. Solomon White is at present engaged on a painting for the Grand Opera House. It is said that he ranks among the best scenic artists in the city. The fifth annua: outing of the St. John A.M. E. Zion Church will take place at Bass Island Park, Indian Hill, O., August 15. The tragic death of A. Sansberry Cluff was ashock to the entire commu- nity and a loss which will be felt for many days to come. His funeral, which was largely attended, was held at the Zion Baptist Church with the rites of Odd Fellowship. Revs. Thomas Webb and P. B. Ferguson officiated. : "862 he became editor-t-chict nd part proprietor OF me oven. which time his public history and that the Star have been the same. As istant editor and editor, he gave to e precise character which fitted the situation and tended to make it the pa- per of the people. At the start, when t a place to win for itself, it was made audacious and aggressive, but nce his paper gained its present cir- culation and influence, he has been more conservativ ; befitted the pa- per’s larger responsibilities. Through his paper, Mr. Noyes has been a potent factor in the development of the mod- ern Washington. With Alexander R. Shepherd, he chafed at the spectacle of the Capital held up to the world’s contempt because of local old-fogyism and national neglect, and in the col- umns of his paper fought steadily and effectively to assist Shepherd to put nto practical operation in the national capital those noble projects about which they had dreamed and planned | ZZ, and things, his mind being of a logi- cal and analytic order. He never views matters from the surface or from one side, but surveys the whole field, and reaches his conclusions by a natural and methodical course of while fellow-members in the local com- | to follow. n councils in 1893. Afterward, he | among the foremost in the move- j Lynch that many public men should There is one characteristic of Mr. nt which led to the assumption by imitate, and that is his usefulness. Hon\B K. Bruce. SEE orator, thinker, and stands to-day the peer of any ma within the colored race. He has the happy faculty of @- reasoning. Hence, heisasafe man| tating and writing at the same tim, | which is not readily found amog men. \ Eyery position he has held wa credit to himself and the race wa writer, hi! the national government of one-half of| Brilliancy of talent, large intellect-| which he is identified. As Senar the debt and expenses ot the District | of Columbia, and the reclamation of | the Potomac Flats. And inevery great | work for Washington, from that time | down to and including the establish- played au influential and important, though unostentatious part. Com- mencing in 1863, he served one term as ual endowments, are of little avail| from the State of Mississippi, & if not turned in the right direction. |late James G. Blaine remark, The men who deserve to be called} Bruce is an honor to his race. representatives of their people and| Roscoe Conkling said Bru of Rock Creek Park, he has} 1 | ho will be kept to the front | knows when to talk and what tos are such as serve the people, and| when he talks. | putting aside selfishness and self-| Ex-President Harrison found hi a member of the city council, and then | sgerandizement are ever ready tOjasafe man to advise with ; Ho two success the old Seventh Ward, now South Washington, since which time he has steadily declined public service. In his later years he has traveled much, and has contributed to his paper many | articles containing vivid pictures of} scenes and events in foreign lands. Under a mild, quiet, unassuming exte- rior he conceals a strong will, a steady, unflinching purpose, and the capacity for a vast amount of brain work of the | highest order. There could be no higher tribute to his Journalistic abili- s than the fact that in Washington, | noted, as it is,as the graveyard of newspaper enterprises, he has made a ive terms as alderman, from promote the welfare of their fellow| Robt. T. Lincoln had gre citizens. _ |dence in him. That he loves his race, and isin-| Ags an impromtu speaker, up its material interests is clearly | to discuss almost any question. shown in his accepting the presi- dency of the Capital Savings Bank, | of Indianapolis, Ind., a most a an institution that is managed solely | able and highly cultured lady, w by colored men, and is one of the | has been invited to receive with so greatest monuments in this city | of the most distinguished ladies and in the couutry to-day of the | the land. ability and capacity of the Negroto| He has one son who was nam manage and conduct large business | for Roscoe Conkling, a Senator fr enterprises. Thus it will be seen that whether) Mr, Bruce resides at 2010 R stre conspicuously successful newspaper, one which everybody reads, from the President of the United States down to the casual visitor to the city of Wash- ington. —————_- > A GOOD MOVE. There was a meeting held in the Metropolitan Church on M street n. w- last Tuesday evening, under the auspl- ces of seven graduates of the business department of the high school, for the purpose of establishing a large store. The promoters of the movement were Miss Nannie Burroughs, who was the chairman ; Miss Edith Bond, secretary; a, jas a public man or private citizen | northwest, this city, and he is n |Mr. Lynch has conducted himself | engaged in writing a book on iso as to command the respect and | Negro problem. | confidence of the people. Theman | that remains true to his people will ‘always find a warm place in their | affections, and they will be found | will meet next Thursday evening, A REPUBLICAN MEETINGS. ful career. Surely tion with the chairmanship of the ae pa ublican central committee. \further and greater honors await) Ni; “Brooker will map out his lin | him | campaign. Been | ANGE \| The decision was made by a vote of 3 at con} cuit court at Cincinnati on July 23, and Mbonds, the principal and interest of terested in those affairs which build | Bruce is always ready and prepar} declares that whatever power the sink- He vas married to a Miss Wils¢tion 2729a, Revised Statutes of Ohio, | ae issuing of bonds to redeem other oterest payable ingold. Thevery ques- the State of New York. - At preseweeks ago, referring to the authority t, The power to issue gold bonds, not The republicans of the 21st dist old bonds. The circuit court reversed 8 im, | 15) at Brooker’s Park, for the purposgne position taken by the corporation jever ready to trast and honor en organizing the republicans of that cae that no power rested with the | Mr. Lynch is yet a young man, and jtrict. Mr. Brooker is one of the Mirustees to Sasety ee as tered upon his hon-| prominent republicans in that distr’ |has but fairly entered up and he has been mentioned in conn; Rev. Miss Taylor, of Nashville, Tenn., is preaching a series of success- ful sermons at the camp meeting in Covington. George W. Hayes, superintendent of |the Union Baptist Cemetery, has re- turned from an extended visit to Col- umbus. So a bee stung President Cleveland, did it? The third-term talk has some foundation after all. The democratic party doesn’t need new leaders so much as it needs more followers. The Supreme Court of Ohio decided that the city of Cincinnati had no au- thority in law to accept the offer of an Eastern syndicate to refund $3,000,000 of her 4 per cent bonds at 3.65 in con- sideration of making the bonds paya- j ble, interest and principal, in gold. to 2. The Supreme Court in its decision upholds the attitude taken by the cir- declares that the sinking fund trustees of Cincinnati had no power to issue which is payable in gold. The court ‘ing fund trustees have to issue the bonds in question is contained in sec- and that this statute does not authorize onds covering actual debts of the city; hat such debts could only be paid by ax onall the property of the city. But, ven if the power to issue these bonds is granted, the court holds that there is no authority given the sinking fund trustees to make the principal and in- tion raised by the Tribune several} f the Secretary of the Treasury to is- tue bonds payable in gold was dis- cussed. ing expressly granted by statute, ¢annot be implied. | It will be remembered that the com- mon pleas court rendered a pro forma judgment sustaining President Dex- er’s action in advertising for bids for | his judgment, its decision sustaining | gold payments. H J. O. BUTLER. i ——— ee | Mr. Walter Y. Clarke, of the Coast} and Geodetic Survey Office, is quite ill HON. JOHN W. ROSS. Why Mr. Ross is so popular as a Com- no one can explain it better than the BEE. He is a Democrat it is true; but he has a human heart. Asa rule, Demo- crats are heartless when the rights of the Negroes are to be considered. Of course, there areexceptions. All Dem- ocrats are not inhuman. Mr. Ross was city postmaster, having been appointed to that position by Mr. Cleveland when he was first elected President. The BEE will give Mr. Cleveland the credit when he was first elected Presi- dent for appointing a good city post- master, and good judges on the su- preme bench in this city, and a good recorder of deeds in the person of James C. Matthews, of Albany, N. Y. Mr. Ross while postmaster took spe- cial interest in young colored men who graduated from the high school. He knew no man by his color if he was de- serving. He appointed more young colored men and gave them better op- portunities than any postmaster ever appointed to that position. As Com- missioner of the District of Columbia and president of the board, he treats all claims of citizens alike. No matter what your tale of woe is, Colonel Ross will listen with patience and give a kind and respectful answer. If all public men were like Colonel Ross the most humble citizen would be sat- isfied with this present form of govern- ment. ‘ He takes special interest in the schools, and has done and is doing everything in his power to build them up on a high moral basis. He is a man among men, and the only harm the BEE wishes him is hap- piness and prosperity. IN A NAMELESS GRAVE. WHERE TOM MOORE’S FIRST SWEET- HEART LIES BURIED. Only those who are thoroughly cof- versant with the innumerable highways and byways of Greenwood Cemetery, “The Hill of Graves.” The section derives its name from the fact that | nearly 40,000 unfortunates are buried there in rows of fifty. One would nev- er think of looking for a spot of inter- est in that locality. To find any par- ticular grave in this public burying- ground one needs the aid af a ceme- tery guide. And even sucha guide has difficulty, since the graves are known only by numbers. Upon looking at the records of the cemetery it was found that the special grave desired in this instance was in Public Lot No. 8999, and that the number of the mound was 805. When the grave was found it was not unlike the thousands around it. The mound was sunken and neglected ; the grass, once green upon it, is long since dead. A small white marble stone stands at the head on which is ‘inscribed : MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER. Nothing is there to indicate the fact that underneath that sunken mound lies all that is mortal of beautiful Mary Duff, to whom the poet Thomas Moore offered his hand and heart, whose beauty he immortalized in his verse, and who, in the maturity of her career, won the applause of thousands and thousands of people, whom her name attracted to all the great theatres of America and England as one of the most gifted of actresses.—EpwarpD Bok in August Ladies’ Home Journal. re One of the most interesting games of base-ball of the season was played last Wednesday afternoon on the National grounds between the Market House and Young Nationals. The Market House should have won the game, as this club played a much superior game to the Nationals. The score is as fol- lows: Market House...oo rroo01oOTr at his residence on L street. i Young Nationals..10 0 30001 x missioner of the District of Columbia | in Brooklyn, know of a section called | vited. DR. WILLIAM TYNDALL. | This gentleman is, no doubt, the best known among public men than any ;man in this country. The reason of | that is, the position he now holds and jhas held for a number of years under | the Distzict government as secretary to the Commissioners throws him in con- tact with all classes of people. Dr. Tyndall is affable, and one of the most accommodating men in public service. Under the Bowen administration his services were invaluable. He was held in high esteem under Cooke’s and Shepherd’s administrations, and to this day the District Commissioners under the present form of government regard him a valuable acquisition. If there is any one thing Dr. Tyndall ought to feel proud of is the confidence the people have in him for his honesty and integrity. There was a time when he could have earned millions, but having more con- sideration for others than he had for himself he allowed the best opportunity of life to become rich slip by. Dr. Tyndall was born in Wilmington, Del., and at the age of majority he en- listed in the 1st regiment Delaware Vol- unteers, and remained in the service for three years and two months, and was mustered out in Fort Morton, in front of Petersburg, Va., 1865. Hepar- ticipated in the organization of the Re- publican party of the District of Colum- bia; was clerk to ex-Mayor Sayles J. Bowen, and resigned when he was de- the successful candidate; ted QY Emory, to remain; was secretary te Governors Cooke and Shepherd, and at the urgent request of the temporary Commissioners who succeeded the Board of Public Works accepted posi- tion of secretary to the Commissioner, in 1874, and has held a corresponding positionjever since. He is very diplomatic in his utter ances, and he is a man who never loses his head. ALBANY CANOEISTS AT BLUFF POINT. Men of the Paddle Having Good Times on Lake Champlain. Hotel Champlain, Clinton County, N, ¥.. Aug, 14—Among arrt camp of the Tome) ct ion erday were Morton V. Wy, Brookiye Canoe Club, and w. Fark lohican Club of Albapy. yacht Vajcour to atvend the camp this on —_ rete s eS ag gee ed and a iT was ‘-: ing at the yp 2 1a pers ertend a Hotel plain, to which have in- the hotel Deen al the Americans Will Be Asked to Compete for Them With Other Builders. Victoria, B. C., Aug. 14—Adviges from Japan say the Japanese now to invite estimates from Am a8 well as Buropean ship builders the new veedels required. The atten’ of the Navy department has been directed to the remarkable tmprovements jn the American man-of-war and Oa Badger, the naval attache to the United Btate Legation, is prepared to show that ships above 3,000 tons can be pytduced at ae cheaply in the Unit: tes ase in other countries, completely armed and armored. e aot ee ene Three Men Killed by an Explosion. Morgantown, W. Va., Aug. 14—John Black and sons were threshing yester- day, when the boiler of the machine ex- ploded, killing three men and injuring four othrs. John Spotsnage, in Ammottsand and John Black were kill- ed. Ross Black, John Spotsnage, Jr., Jay Wade and William Ammons were injured. a Two More of the Prince Oscar’s Men. few York, . 14.—The steamer Cay which eccteede tf morning from Caitien Ports, has among crew two Bp from the ship Prince Oscar, which w: a coliision with an unknown four- ship off the Brasilian coast. To Measure Defender on Saturday. New York, Aug. 14.—Measurer Hys- lop, of the New York Yacht Club, said to-day that he will officially take the theasures of the Defender and Vigilant on Saturday, either just before they en- ter the dry-dock or immedately after they had been floated again. prviieas este tenon Death of Doctor William Dean. Ban Diego, Cal, Aug. 14—The Rev. Dr. William Dean, who is 4! as the first Baptist missionary and Siam, where he labo! in cause of missions for fifty years, here to-day. a +