The Washington Bee Newspaper, April 12, 1902, Page 1

A FIRESIDE !. 25. It Is true if you seo = PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. Cfeee pont boned GRERY ADVERTISING MEDIUM, Do you want fearless race trade: whe Bee = Be se 7 to you wont colere ‘ ? Read and advertise in THE BEBE yo. 2 REAL LIFE ROMANCE, | on the Stage, Would Be Classed as Melodrama. » Shows, However, T hat Truth Al- On! ways Is Stranger Than Fiction of Poor Hans *s Wooing. the lovemaking and ro- | life, there is no such ma on the stage. Few real water, in the with id be sta chronicled almost every reports of the country. protest iiry story” element that even, would ve affair of Hans Kess- Dora Hanson put upon example of the legit- essner was a farm- hbors of and Dora Han- ghter, was the belle \ dozen young ere neig ought to marr ised them all. Cer- Kessner chanced to with the d no hope of Perh ss of himself At any ra upon any man egan to smile upon Hans without neighborhood announce- a Han- ounce miliation to th been refused. No began, but in a ed against v »ond in the drawn into it, e $100 in case he | dding he agreed to When the ived this tool sted himself near the which 1 as the bride- ee ago. Kes$ner » the man stepped out, | of owing him $200, ed to expose him to the was not paid on the ithe charge strenuous- me more and accuser bee: t, until finally, angered Kessner seized an old truck the fellow over man dropped in his I er him, and, seeing no sign the man, he turned and fled hering dusk. an instant Kess- s of the man were near, | body, | up the senseless the house, where the ited and brutal, had aving him for The iousne man ndina n. He was con himself was everywhere, and finally rotten him, ined true. ans Kessner, hand- d and prosperous, ap- n homestead. In Hanson was in his he could take nted. These so much stronger hat he had killed He went rmany. engaged in business, bent the ist of Jan- ed a letter from suri, he was worth 0. Th it Kessner had writ- t the supposed vic- nned, that he had re- ind that the whole story ot was out to sail for America, and the Hanson homestead The erformed in the Hanson same minister who had two years before, and ole already are settled 1ome in Hamburg, Ger- x of the romance. land's Big Geyser. New Zealand, geyser, which acre in extent, throws columns of t heights, some of them 0 feet, with clouds of 1 go much higher. ona, n immense mn area an istantly ict nts Himself Red. ey is owned Monkey Pa by Dr. in the doc- drank little while he felt consid ous that he re- town red. In of the house = e pon a box of carmine x ‘ with this he painted get out te “i, from his nose to his|tirement from the restaurant entered | the boys to learn anything else. ged with the | ttsmouth, Neb. | They told | > scandalous stories that | their truth was on the | letter, in | Kessner pre- | WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY APRIL 12, 1902. NO. 45 HON, M. A. HANNA. The Greatest Living American—He Has Th : Confidenc-tof the Country. | Whatever may be said of senator Marcus A. Hanna, it must be admit- tedthat he is the greatest man in America today, Tae people have confidence in him because he is hon- est and patriotic. His recent defense of Rathbone, his friend, indicates the | characterofthe man. It was indeed | commendable in him when | to the rescue and defense of a fallen friend and there are thousands of Americans who believe in the inno cenceof Mr. Rathbone, He is a friend in deed and infact when one comes to your defense when you have fallen. Such a man can be trusted, a man who also protects the interest of the | laboring classes is a benefactor. Senator Hanna is today the greatest American living and whether he is a candidate for the presidency or not the people will no ninate him by ac- clamation. He w:ll be compelled to accept. He could not afford to decline. Long live Marcus A. Hanna! ROOSTER KILLS HAWKS. Red Game Bird, Famed for Endur- ance and Pluck, Makes Short Work of His Enemies, | The novelty of a game rooster pit- ted successively against two monster chicken hawks witnessed other night in the front show window of a Main street oon, at Zanesville, 0. Ata cocking main at Newark ared game rooster belonging to Jake Hart- meyer killed all the crack birds put up by Newark and carried off many hundreds of dollars for the Zanesville spor The other night Hartmeyer wagered 30 that his rooster could kill the two g chicken hawks which for several was b aays past had been confined in a cage }in C. W. Morrison’s saloon window. | The wager was accepted and side bets | aggregating $1,000 were m | The novel contest of the ¢ | en against the birds of prey was wit- ed by the mayor and a crowd ag- i 0 people. The hawks were rgest ever captured in this sec- | tion, measuring more than four feet | from tip to tip of their wings, and it | was the general expectation that short | work would be made of the chicken. The first fight was short and vicious. | Both birds rushed at each other. The | hawk caught the rooster by the throat, | but before hé could rend the game chicken the latter prodded him to ' death with the steel gaff with which he | was armed. When the first hawk was | dead the second one was immediately | thrown into the cage. The second fight was a longer and harder one, but it {also ended in the hawk being killed by the gaff being thrust through its | | neck. | | paggestive. “So your husband died while you were abroad,” said the hostess. “Yes,” replied the young widow of old Mr. Skinflint, h an appropriately mourn- ful sigh; “poor Jofin has gone to his final | reward.” | “Beg pardon,” said the host, suddenly, “that reminds me I must go down and look at the furnace fire.”—Philadelphia Press. The Man Who Knows, Mrs. Seribbler—That manuscript of mine is first-class. Mr. Seribbler—Who told you? “The man | bought the stamps from ia the post office.”—Philadelphia Record. OKA WPKEE. COLORED MILLIONAIRE, DEAD. | WAS BORN IN ALEXANDRIA, VA.,| OVER EIGHTY YEARS AGO. 1 Left Three Grandsons Who Live in} Washington—Owned Frem 300 to 400 Houses in Philadetpbia. | Philadelphia, April 8 —Colonel John McKee, who died Sunday night at his residence, 1030 Lombard Street, as the result of a paralytic stroke, was one of the wealthiest colored men in the city, if not in the country. At one time he owned more thaa 1,000,000 acres of land, and his estate is said to be v.lued at between $1 500,000 and $2,000,000. \” Colonel McKee was born in 1821, at Alexandria, Va,, and was indentured as a brickmaker when he was in his lteens. At seventeen he ran away to | Baltmore. and for years was employ- \in a confectioner’s establishment. His | uncle learned that the boy was in Balt- the | self. His office was at his house in Lombard Street, which he built in 1858, and where he resided until his death, In this city Colonel McKee owned, jat the time of his death, from 300 to | 490 houses, each of them unencumb- jered. He wes the founder and owner of McKee City, on the West Jersey Railroad, a tract of 4.500 acres, divid- }ed into twenty-one farms. He also owned about 300,000 acres of coal and j}oilland i: Kentucky and in Logan | county, W. Va.; a tract of twenty-one acres at Fifth Street and Oregon Ave- he came’ nue, this city; over 23,000 acres of land in Bath and Steuben counties, N. Y ; a farm of sixty-six acres at Cr ydon, on the Delaware niver, besides many other properties in Pennsylvania and in other States. In the management of taese and other properties he had been assisted for the last thirty years by his secretary Raymond J. Barr. Colonel McKee, in 1870, organized and was the Colonel of the Thirteenth Regiment, National Guard of Penn- sylvania, in the Fifth Brigade, of which Gen, Louis Wagner was briga- dier general, and continued in the command for two years. Afterward he organized and was Colonel of the Eighth New Jersey, another colored Regiment. There are surviving Colonel McKee | white High School. Well there ts not so much need of tactics now as there is for more common sense and practi- cal education. THE CHARITY RECEPTION Fully 2,500 People Pr2sent--The Greatest Social Event of the Season, The Charity reception at Conven- tion Hall on last Friday evening was bevond all doubt the greatest social eyeut that has been given by the peo- ple of this city. There were fully 2,500 people present. Mr. Aaron Rus seil, president of the Relief Association, | was the manager of the affair aud not withstanding the great number of peo ple, the committee handled everything nicely with the exception of the cloak | room. Some of the guests did not leave till 5 or 6:50 o’clock on account of the tush in the cloak room. fhe toilets ofsome of the ladies were very exquisite. The music was the best that has been executed at any re ception. The city has never witness ed such a socialevent among its peo ple. It wasa reception in which alj | DOUGHLASS B. licCARY. Cashier of the* Capital Savings Bank—The Bank is Safe and Strong says the Cashier. MISTAKES OF PROF. BOOKER T, WASHINGTON, Mr. Chase Before the Afro-American League. Mr. W. J. Bailor, President of the Afro-American League of Douphin Co., Pennsylvania and Grand Direc= tor of the Odd Fellows of the city of Harrisburg, Pa., and Editor of the Harrisburg Sunday Sentinal Gazette, was appointed a special committeeman by Hon. Peter S. Blackburn, State Organizer, to invite W. Calvin Chase of THE Bee to address the State Lea- gue of Pennsylvania, which will meet at Harmsburg. Pa..im August. Sub- ect: ‘‘The Mistakes of ?rof. Booker |T. Washington,” Mr. Bailor is he guest of Ur. W. J. Daniels, 1137 24th | Street, N. W. : DUG SAVED FAMILY. Roused His Mistress, and She Drageed Out Her Seven Children Just in the Nick of Time. A big shepherd dog, a pet of Mrs. Presspisch, a widow, of Baltimore, saved her and her seven children from being burned to death at her home on Stricker street early the other morn- ing. The dog had been barking furiously and jumping against her bedroom door for a little while before Mrs. Press- pisch was aroused from her sound sleep. As she opened the door a great volume of smoke rushed into the room and the blazing Stairway cut off all ape to the street. Mrs. Presspisch awakened her chil- dren, who were sleeping in adjoining rooms. This was no easy task, as two es oz them were tnen partly suffocated. The second floor was by this time un- tenable, and Mrs. Presspisch ran to the third floor. The firemen had not yet arrived, and the heat and smoke were becoming unbearable. Mrs. Presspisch con- cluded that her only chance of cape was to rush to the rear and de- scend from the window to the adjoin- ing roof. She bundled the youngest child in a blanket, and, with the oth- ers strung behind her, rushed through the smoke to the rear. Then the widow first and the children in turn jumped to the roof below, where the neigh- bors took care of them. es- Handled with Great Care, No document has ever been handled with more caution by the senate ¢ ployes than the petition signed by lepers, presented the other day by Sen- ator Foraker. Some of the clerks asked for tongs, while others demand- ed gloves. The petition came from the leper settlement in Hawaii. The pe- titioners prayed that the settlement be not made a national leper colony. and John, Douglass P., and Marcellus M. McKee, of Washington, D. C. THE CAPITAL SAVINGS BANK All Demands Promptly Met—No Con- nection with the Building Asso- ciation. The malicious falsehood that was circulated this week that the Capital Savings Bank had a suit to defend, failed to accomplish the object of the enemies of the bank. There is no con- nection, whatever, or association be- tween the officers of the bank and the Building Association; and again, the man, Jordan, is not a stock-holder in the bank, hence he could aot ask for the appuintment of a receiver if he had money on deposit. The Capital Savings Bank is composed of men of highest integrity and honesty. There is nota more honorable man in the city than the President, Hon. John R. Lynch, and its Treasurer, Mr. Lem- uel C. Bailey, is one of the most relia- ble men in this city The Cashier, Mr. D. B. McCary, has made this institu- tion a success, and as a man of strict business qualities, he is that man. If there was a run on the bank after the suit had been filed, every demand has been met and every check honored that had been presented. During the finaucial panic several years ago, the Capital Savinys Bank was one among the many hundred that withstood that panic and the conduct of the business ofthe bank commanded the admira- tion and established the confidence of its patrons in it. Every demand has been met and business continues at the same old stand. ——————-e—__—_- OUR SCHOOLS. The Blunder of The Negro--HIS POWER on the Decline. There is a great deal said about the |imore, and senta sheriff after him /there and he was brought back to} | Alexandria to finish his apprenticeship | lin the brick yard. £ | At twenty-one years of age Colonel | McKee came to this city aud got em | ployment in a livery stable. Later, he} | entered the service of James Prosser, | |a well known restaurateur, in M.rket | Street. below Eighth. Then he mar- | | ried his employer’s daughter, and Mr. Prosser retiring from business, cor ducted the restaurant until about 1866. | Colonel McKee had been buying prop | erty from tim: to time, and on his re-) actively in the real estate business conduct of the public schools of this city. The Colorel High School should have a strong male principal at its head and that very soon. The report isthat the school is not being improved as The Bee said sometime ago, the school report said nothing about Mis- Lucy Moten, the principal / of the © ormal €chool. Certainty this lady made her report and the public would hike toknow what it is Gen. Boyton.in his report spoke about the work of the boys and how they should learn to cook beans. pose that Gen. Boyion did not =e en. Harries deserts sometime to military ~ + = eee ee | buying and selling property for him? ' tactics also does the principal of the One would sup- | a daughter, Mrs. A. A. Sypbax. of this | Washington participated. The ladies city, and six grandsons, who are Hav- | committee deserves credit for the excel rv McKee Menton and Ernest F. and|lent manner in which theydisposed of Theophilus M. McKee, of this city, | refreshments. GEORGE F. T. COOK, The Citizens owe him a debt of Gratitude—An Educator and a Scholar. Mr. Geo. F. T. Cook, formerly Sup- erindent of the colored schools of this city is entitled, to the plaudits of the feople For almost a quarter of a century he had the supervision of the education of the colored youth. His long ccnnection with the colored | schools and the benefit he was to them and the people entitled him to a public testimonial on the part of the p2ople. He deservesit and THE BEE suggested | that the citizens show their apprecia- tion by presenting to Mr. Cook the’r| confidence of esteem. OBSERVATIONS FROM LIFE. Statistics sometimes prove that liars ean figure. A budding genius is all right until he begins to blow. Her father’s boot frequently makes an unfavorable impression. Too much of the noise in this world tries to pass itself off as music. It is better to be wrong at the right time than right at the wrong time. The more a woman argues the more she is unable to convince herself. Some dancing, instead of being the poetry of motion, is mere doggerel. The price of liberty is eternal vigi- lance, but the cost of repairsis extra. Young men think themselves wise and drunken men think themselves so- ber. . The man who knows it all is a fit companicn for the woman who knows nothing. Any man can think as he likes, butét isn’t always policy to put his thoughte into words.—Chicago Daily News. Where Quinine Comes From, Eighty-five per cent. of the qvinine precuct of the world comes trom Java. Helping The Race. Friday night March 28, 1902, Lucy Moten, with her class of 1902, gave an entertainment at the Sojourn- er Truth Home and presented the mo *yasan Easter Offering to the! h m2. Th Miss | Boers Still in the Field. Col. Sir Vincent Sheffield, who has just returned from South Africa, stated in a speech at Baton that when he left from 80 to 90 commandoes of about 200 men each were still in the field, or in all 16.000 to 18,000 men. ODD AND CURIOUS. The chance of two finger-prints be- ing alike is not one in 54,000,000,900. Great Britain has 1,951,000 domestic servants earning £68,500,000 per an- num. Bank of England notes are num- bered backwards, that is from one to 10,000, hence the figures 00,001. A farmer who hung himself from a tree near Danbury, Conr., was the fifteenth member of his family to commit suicide. Berlin pays a salary to a profes- sional bird-catcher, who keeps scien- tific and educational institutions sup- plied with birds, birds’ nests and eggs, and he is the only man in the gmpire permitted to do so. ELECTRIC SHOCKS. Several Chinese cities, beginning with Shanghai, are to be equipped with electric lines. The lines of this city will be ten miles long. Electric urrents from lightning, of 10,009 volts intensity, have been measured while passing down the conductors of the Eiffel tower. In the high speed electric cars on the muach-written-of Berlin-Zossen Electric railway, the driver is placed in the middle of the car and is sep- arated by air spaces and iron walls from the passengers. A New York man says he drinks electricity in water and it has made him ten years younger in a twelve- month. It restored his teeth, his tight, his hair, his lost vitality. He declares that a glassful of the water as he prepares it will predute suffi tient electric foree to risg # small bel THE RIVER QUEEN. The River Queen under the Man- | agement of Mr. L. J. Woollen is open for business. Co at once and select your WATE, HOME SEEKERS AND COLO- NIST’S RATrS VIA B, AND O. R.R. | gon points $48 00. Proportionate re- nrecident takes this means of | ductions to intermediate points. For presenting her thanks to Miss Moten, | full information apply at B. and O. R. and her class and wishing them suc-| R, Picket Offices—7o7 “sth St., 619 Pa. cess in their every undertaking. Ave. and Depot N. J. Ave. and C St. To California, Washington and Ore-| POWER IN POLITICS) Born Leader of Men. ' ' Senator Gorman of Maryland Is a i ! To His Followers There Is No Judge ment as Reliable as His—Story of a Dream Coniirms This Broad Statement, During his career in the United States senate, Mr. Athur Pue Gore man, who has recently been reelect« ed to that body, took conspicuous rank among nationai legislators, Among his constituents in Maryland Mr. Gorman was long known as “the Sphinx,” and this title followed him to the senate, where he was both admired and feared. “Day after day,” said one of hie old colleagues, “the grim Maryland« er would sit listening to a heated de« bate over some important measure. Even if the proposed bill were against the interests of his consti-« tuents he would not interrupt sen+« ators, cither to ask questions or to combat their arguments, nor woul& he mingle in the conflict when his fellow-opponents combined to fight the measure. But when the whole subject had been threshed over, an@ the vote was about to be taken, Core man would break his ominous silence, With calm and critical judgment he would review the entire subject, and then would stir the senate with an oratorical effort that would win the admiration of even his enemies. “This habit Gorman had of reserve ing his fire,” continued his former associate, “finaily made him a for- midable figure in the senate. At first his colleagues—some of them, at least—made the qisteke of regard- ing his silence as an indication either of indifference or of inability to |grapple wth the subject. The fact that Gorman had once been a page in the senate induced some of the older members to regard him, early in his senatorial career, with indif~ ference. But none of them made the mistake more than once. I ree member congratulating a famous senator for splendid efforts in behalf of a certain cause and of say~ ARTHUR PUE GORMAN. (Democratic Leader and Senator from the State of Maryland.) ing to him that tricmph for his measure seemed certain. “‘Let us not be oversanguine,’ he replied, ‘for we must remember that Gorman hasn't yet been heard . James Albert Clark, who for sas a republican editor in Maryland strenuously opposed Gor- man, speaks in the highest terms of the senator. “Gorman,” says Maj. Clark, “would have been at home in the Roman senate. We have not had so grim a statesman since Daniel Webster. I have known Gorman for nearly a quarter of a century and during all that time I never knew him to indulge in a laugh in publie. No element of frivolity ever entera into his dealings with affairs of state. It is only in his home life, which is ideal, that he throws off his bur- dens. And no man ever loved home more than Gorman does. Seeing him there, at frolic with children, one would not imagine him to be the Jove of the senate, which he was, and, no doubt, will be again. It is said of Gorman,” added the major, “that in all his ‘public career he has never passed a Sunday away from his family.” Both the friesds and opponents of Gorman acknowledge his masterly qualities as a leader. “Appropos of his strength in this regard to illus- trate how completely his followers rely upon his judgment,” said a Washington official, “one of his old- | time colleagues is fond of telling of a dream he had. He says he dreamed that a Maryland statesman died and : in due time was ushered before the Ultimate Gate, before which all spir- | its stand to await St. Peter's verdiet, | “Finally the gate swung open. | “*You may enter,’ said the vener- | able saint. | “The shade from Maryland hesi- | tated, and St. Peter desired to know | the secret of his indecision. | “Well, replied the hesitating one, ‘I suppose it’s all right for me to go in, but before I take any step along this line I should greatly prefer to be able to confer with Senater Gor« man, of Maryland.” - - * i Pap este ta ca hteti a rss