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1 FIRESIDE COMPAmrun. €x PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. WASHING “ON Ti J rELcevr & advertise in THE BEE! J itis true if you see it in | A GRERY ADVERTISING Movium. THE BEE. ha (teal Yer: pon’? BORROW THIS PAPER eo FE ES a a Jootleserace f"Do you wont colored WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1902. thracite Combine. Bellev Guards Misses Church and yhat Deity Specially Capital—Reose from the Case to Millionaire Class, y earne t commancing position It is he MAN OF WIDE FORCE, |® , keen, persevering holds at this who can stay ma Givieult shoats at last elevated to the | that of Reading, is beautiful. He also has a large town house in Spruce street, Philadelphia, which he occupies dur- es | ing p 1s of the winter. He is a deep student and has a com- | prehensive library. The family con- sists of himself, his wife and five daugh- ters, two of whom are married. MR. HENRY L. WEST, in Secretary Cortelyou announced at ) stay the coal war and de- | the White House Monday the appoint- ch or bow little anthracite ment of Henry Litchfield West as Com- of the United States may | missioner of the District of Columbia winter. lent of the Re knewledged leac ia operators, » his power to settle the which for nearly six up the compar ne of the yuntry, and a man, te esire to be known, photegrapher rk, a re¢ ent B and occupying the position least known dressed a let- pealing to him | to fillthe vacancy caused by the death of John W. Ross. The appointment ot Mr.West, who iswell known in news- paper work in Washington, was forsha- dowed in THe Bre six weeks ago. Be- of | 20, of reception and entertainment to the grand officers, delegates and_ visiting friends under the auspices of Gleaners’ morning and evening, will be devoted to business discnssion and Thursday will be called the New En3land dem- onstration day and the principal feat- ure of theday will be the grand pa- rade. All lodges, P. G. Masters’ council are invited to participate. The parade will form on Goffe street at 12 o’clock and move at one p. m., over the fol- lowing route: From Goffee to Orchard; to Henry, to Dixwe!! avenue, to Broad- to City Hall, to be reviewed by his j honor, the mayor, and city officials. out to Church, to Whitney avenue, to Trumbull, to Orange, to Edward aad countermarch down Oraage to Crown, to Church. to Meadow, to the Second Xegiment armory, where the parade will be dismissed. At the Armory there will be oration exercises and Rev. William A. Creditt, .D P.V F., of Philadelphia, Pa., will deliver one of the orations, and} George Wilde, the grand secretary of | the order in Engiand, who is the fra- ternal delegate to the convention. | Music will be by the Second Regiment | Band, ‘the evening event Thursday will be the grand reception and prome- | way, to York, to Chapel, to Church, | tions to Washington, D.C., and lay the same before their late comrades in arms. ingly enter into the armed servic: of the Colonies which eventually became the United States of America, and as }such did heroically fight in all the wars of this country since it’s estab- lishment, and whereas, since their emancipatior, January 1, 1863 they did vo.unteer by tens of thousands and were received and fought valiently the wer of secession, and whereas, surviv- ing negro soldiers of the war ot 1861- |65 have been denied registration as voters, «ven on the grounds of being honorably discharged Univn soldiers, they and their decendants, the ex- | soldiers of the was of 1865 5 and our sons, and the ex-soldier of the Span- | ish- American war, b-cause of the in- |justice done to their compatriots’ in arms, do tiererore petition the Grand | Army of the Republic, in their sessions | of October the 6th, 1992, of their en- |campment at Washington, D. C., to jtake aggressive steps to right the wrong, unjustly practiced against the defenders of the Union, law abiding, and industrious citizens. _ Weare urged tothis course by the un- jusr methods agaiist us, due largely to color. Ex Confederate soldiers and their decendants enjoy all priveleges er, on Washington street. By-laws were adopted, and the directors pro- clined on account of pressure of private business, and on his motion Dr. E. A. Williams was elected vice-president; Taylor G. Ewing, Jr., was elected sec- retary, and W. T, fons, treasurer. An executive committea, consisting of Wesley Crayton, RB. F. Lacey, A ee Spencer, L. W.W. Manaway, W. R. Springer, Mrs. W. C. Wallace, Mrs.C. M.Allen and the executive officers,- was elected. The books of subscription were on- encd, and it is calculated that the bank will be ready todo business by the first of December. It is under- stood that the stock, which is fixed at ten thousand dollars, has already been asked for. The Officer Convicted. Kate Acres, colored, who was assult- ed on August 11th last by officer Robt. Morris, who after her arrest, charged her with assulting him and disorderly conduct was tried in the United States branch of the Police Court. The evi dence disclosed the fact that Kate Acres was passing throu,h an alley between | and K streets, northwest, on the rth day of August tgo2, and the officer thought that she was disor- PROF. JACQUES LOEB. Considered One of the Great Biolog« ists of the Day. His Study of the Chemistry of Lite Has Astonished the World—May Leave Chicage and Go to California, Dr. Jacques Loeb, professor of exe perimental physiviogy at tne Univers sity of Chicago, is now at San Frans cisco, where ne has gone to pursue his researches. He is the guest of President Wheeler, of the University of Cahfornia, and there are rumors that great efforts will be made to induce him to accept a chair at Bere keley. President Harper was greatly dis- turbed when his scientist received q eall to the University of California a few months ago, and feared that Dr. Loeb would go to the Pacifie coast to remain. Dr. Loeb was of- fered a magnificent sea aquarium if he would go to California, This sea aquarium has been one of the facilities for his stuay that Dr. in to settle the miners’ derly and pieced her under arrest, in| Loeb has wanted for a long time, and whiter cad if Chix w doing so he choked her, and placed| he wags much impressed by tne Cali« into our business affairs the nippers on her wrist in such a| fornia offer. ‘The scientist has not he tess tecublc. in. the piacere ane use hears violence until] been able to secure as many animal } that if Mr. Baer granted fe resisted arrest, whereupon he took | on which to experiment at the unie slight concession they irn to work, and the [{ hts black jack and struck her a blow upon the top of her head knocking her to the ground, where she remained un- versity as he has wished. President Harper felt that he could Philadelphia & censcious until ci izens came to her re-| Dot lose his studious professor, there- npany would have | | lief. She was sent to the hospital and | fore he has persuaded « nd of the of God and the respect | the next morning was brought to the| university to build and endow a fine n. | oe chaeed og eee eonccs sea aquarium where Dr. Loeb can : ‘ aud assaulling the oficer, who made ys ; > fi chi Baer replied as follows: | , i yrow all the jelly fish, s irchin a aer rep! ns follow Dr. Wituram Tinpatt, gre a ne jelly fi u ins ierpont Morga » interfe w Mr. Baer smile zy be Mr. Mor . “but he : in the strike an’s de- rine ) Before Whom Mr. West Took the Oath | ich | of Office. fyou |sides being a personal friend of the President Mr. West has been strongiy | backed and urged by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts. Several years ago Senator Lodge urged President Mc- Kinley to appoint Mr. West as a Com- missioner of the District. The fight that has just ended in the ppointment of Mr. West has been a | long one lasting from the death of Mr. Ros ; phases to the coniest, bit thronghout Mr. West has been the most promizent | candidate and the one closest at all | times to appointment. In other words he has been the personal choice of the an the other | been devoted almost exclusively to | newspaper work. His father was Robert We-t, editor- in-chief of the New York Commercial | Advertiser, which accounts for the {n't de | birth of Henry Litchfield, at Staten en Mr. Baer presented the | Island, N, Y. August, 20, 1859. During the man. He tion, by bulle y of impress ar to explain the dominated his views the war of the rebellion, probably 1863, Mr. R. A. West cameto Wash ngton to becomean editorial writer on For- ney’s Chroniclethen the leading dai- ly paper of the capital. , InjJuly. There have been varying | a grand march with music by Well’s orchestra The grand committee of arrange- ments comprises H.H, Hicks, chair- man; J. W. Pugh, secretary; N. M. Mayo, treasurer; J. H. Lancaster, S. H. Johnson, J. H. Colden, Frederick Young; C. A. Murray, George H. London, E. B. Howell and William I1. Lynn. POLICE EFFICIENCY. of Constitutional iiberty and republi- can government are required to bear duties incident to citizenship within this State, but are wontonly debare1 from registering as voters as ex-sold- ers of States. Because of these wrongs, malicious discriminations and unjust burdens done to us and our children, wisdom and righteousness dictate, to petition the Congress of the United States of America, to redress the grievances unjustly placed and unjust- ly borne by us and our descendants, the arrest. She was represented by} Lawyer Perri W. Frisby and acquitted | of both charges, whereupon she swore | outa warrant for Officer Kubert Morris, | charging him with a assault upon her. Officer Morris was tried and convicted | bctore Judge Ivory G. Kimball and { | fined, and warned in making arrests, that the black jack and baton should not be used except in defense of the officer's person. Tbe Negro as a Factor. | Attorney Thomas L. Jones delivered a very able address on last Sunday af- | ternoon before the Secular Leacue 516} gth street, northwest. Mr. W. H. | White presided. [he opening address | was made by Dr. Crawford one of the| |A Reception Given by the Registe, | Mr. W.A, Pledger, chairman of the Mr. John H. Deveaux, secretary of the Savannah, were tendered a reception last Tuesday evening by Mr. Judson |W. Lyons, register of the treasury, at | the latter’s home on T strect. The aff- | air might be themed a stag party, there | being no ladies in attendance. Prof. | |he concluded that | possible by of the Treasury. }his native country republican committee of Georgia, and | faculty committee and collector of the port of| been a and other he wishe alt water inhabitants that A little more than a year ago, says the Philadelphia I Dr. Loeb came prominently into public notice, when he demonstrated that it wag artificial processes ta produce life, or living beings Prof. Loeb is 4 tive of Germany. rs ago he left nd went to Bryn Mawr, and eight go joined the »f the University of Chicago, stitution the professor hag ated with the Hull Physi- in which he hag some advances in tific knowledge. He is a physi« a physic About nine or ten ye In this ology laboratory, wonderful cian as well a Early in his resear fore which in this case, it is Mr. West Sworn In. -—— i Veer kaspectieliys CEES eral presiding as a toast- Bee eae ke 4 organ j t oO Your Committee, . oti z as gs 2 the \ the mighty Morgan] Thursday afternoon Mr. West was ———— eo mis ee Crenshaw, The guests included Robert Smalls,|same as those which g n inani~ } st. | sworn in as District Commissioner. 4 — S. H. Turner, South Carolina; J, C. Dancy, North | mate obje With such a belief he issued a circular s as erect as A dig t almost seems to be | incjudiug Dr. L. E. Johnson, Cols. F his be He does | re few gray hairs in man ity which is so » far from being | Randall, Capt. Cutler, Me Atthe e office of the | i. Haer is a Pennsylvanian | There were several distinguished peo- pie present to welcome Mr. West. At three o’clock Mr. West arrived, accom- panied by Major Sylve ter, aud enter- | ed the board room, where were assem- | bled the heads ofthe several dept: H. Carson, L. M. Saunders. A. woodward. w. X. Stevens, W. Calvin | Chaseand G. C. Ker Mahon of Eng- H. W. | communication Major Sylvester has \ 1 to the members of the police thanking them for their good work last week during the G. A.R. encampment. The circular reads: “It affords the major and superintandant much pleasure to be able to publish for the iaformation of the members of the department a from B. H, Warner, chairman of the executive committee for the Grand Army encampment, ex-| A. Clyde Randall. NEGRO'S ADVICE TO HIS RACE, Rev. Peyton Randolph Tells Them to Avoid Politics. RICHMOND, Va., October .14.— Rev. Peyton Randolph, colored, suc- cessor to the late John Jasper, preached Carolina; John P. Green, Ohio; E. E. Cooper and William Henry Smith, T. M. Dent, Georgia; B. M. Shark, O- hio; Dr. W. E. Mark and G. H. Hol- lins, North. Carolina; D. H. Mason, |New York; Justice Terrell, Washing- ton; Robert Harlan, Ohio; Cyrus F. Adams, Illino‘s; James B. Deveaux, Georgia; Thomas H. R. Clarce, Wash- ington; Arthur Brooks, Roscoe Conk- Washington; R. M. Thomson, Iadiana; | felt impelled to take life in his hands jand play with it, to direct it at will, las if a man were master of it At the outset Dr. Loeb inquired, Why does a moth fly to the light? A flower turn toward the sunshine? So much may suffice for an illustras tion, but there innumerable | other questions presented to him ag phenom- were a result of observation of $ Somerset, Pa., | land. | pressive of his appréciation of the po- : | ed | jing Simmons and L. M. Hershaw. a. A rule of action was seen im r ase trade| Dr. William Tindall the secretary of| lice efforts for that occasion, and to|a sermon last night in his church, in ae ec amenable ag ste ee =~ the Board of Commissioners and one of| say that ihe excellent work, during | which he counseled his members not pea be Feces aancgraeg rid jaan — lthe best known men in the United | prolonged hours, the general intelli- | to contribute a penny to the tund that NO COLOR LINE. was led to belie ‘ ‘ ted r George ec s brother Henry it, which was enly | gath of office. Com. Macfarland when the brother | and | him tothose who passed in front of ates, administered to Mr. west the stcod on the left of Mr. west and introduced r by day and studied | him to offer their congratulations. too, dec he wave up the paper | eading four years later. any of vol | EPUBLICANS out their salvation by education, se-| colored. A white man whose child | pearance with tentacles, which toole 7 ane ih | New Haven Exchange. agg nnonnan , curing property and eta demean- | js under Miss Lee writes the following | in food, but rej rted bits of paper. y ofthe Potomacand | The Grand United Order of Odd Fel- ing themselves. | letter of congratulation to her: Experimenting with a lyfish, he neral of the second | lows of America (colored) will hold its he W 1861 46 Wall St., New York. cut away the upper porsge, and the P| vhen his term of ser- | rth biennial conventiou beginning to- The Old Soldiers of the War of 1 - A New Bank Organized. ‘ September 7, 1902. | fish ceased moving. Placing it upon es | he went back to Som. | morrow and will last five days. It will 65.—A Shame. | Miss Lee:—Accept our salen common salt the body resumed its re thestudyoflaw. | De opened in Harmonie hallat so'clock From the Vicksburg, Miss., Herald, | gratulations on your recent tansfer-| characteristic movements as if life cf ed to the bar in 1966 [arts andrei be opened 40 the” pad: Athens, Ala., Sept. 27, 1902. A namber of prominent colored men, | im pene te were returned. A trace of potassium 3 | 3 4 ; to see | COLORED ODD FELLOWS. lic. The visiting delegates will be welcomed by V.P. H.H. Hicks and gent comprehension and carrying out of orders and the uniform good con- | duct on the part of individual members | | of the force, made this and otherwise favorable comment possible.”” : Mr. Warner’s letter was printed in} The Star a few days ago. | The colored soldiers of the war of is being raised to test constitution. He advised the negroes | the new state that their best friends were the whites | among whom they lived, and that the |new suffrage laws would eventially worktothe good cf the negro. He held that no relief could be expected trom Washington, and that negroes had best save their money and work members ofthe Knights of Honor of A Washingtonian’s Success. | Miss Mannie R. Lee, daughter of | Rev. James H. Lee, hus been transfer- | | ed and promoted by the School Board | there are fifty white pupils and two charge. It must be gratifying to you, | ofFlushing, N.Y., toa school in which | plant. forces lie behind the rule in the ans imate and inanimate ord These were mere preliminary ps. They led to experiments with the lower forms of animal! life, which are diffi- of classification as animal or He made an incision in one of them, and a moth made its ape cult stopped the movements. aslamsureitistothe race that at 1861-65, their sons and the soldiers of | the World, a well-known organization | jast the color line seems to be broken Studies on the effects of salts upom a pre nev. ceeded to elect the officers of the bank | Ea his tenten Mr. ace teiGenecie Household of Ruth, No. 53, at Har Preambles: — Whereas, negroes, | @3 follows: W. E. Mollison, president; z seorge F. Baer, Magnate of the An-} 43. nome, Hawthorne. in th “ae ey menie Hall, Wednesday's sessions, | both as laves and freedmen, did will.| Wesley Crayton, vice-presicent,whode- President, whose effort throughout has jablest writers and thinkers in this| i been to find a way to appoint his favor-| }country. After which Mr. Jones was] ite. introduced and for twenty-five minutes | ] A large number of candidates have had kept his hearers interested. He t been orged more or less vigorously at spoke of the valor, the wealth and the 2 4 different times and the fight has been | ; power of the negro, Thesubject of his | lively, although conducted throughout | address was: *‘The Colored american with little or no personal bitterness. asa Factor in Our National Life.” At The New Commissioner the conclusion of Mr. Jones’ aderess - 2 ‘ Dr.Crawfurd whose name has frequent | Henry Litchfield West is knownas a} |ly appeared in the daily papers as a| magazine writer of reputation, a stu- writer and thinker, called the attention | dent of national politics, a newspaper | of the President to the presence of Mr. i | man of pronounced ability and a_pub-| W. Calvin Chase, who. was asked to 4 | lie-spirited citizen. As a contributor make a few remarks to Mr. Jones’ pa to the magazines he has become aac per and after lie concluded he was in- | j of the editorial staff of the Forum. As| vited to read a paper Sunday January ja writer ou politics he has reported | 16, 1903 The subject of his paper will | fourteen national politicai conyentions | HON HARRY L. WEST. be ‘the New Citizenship. Addresses | PROF. JACQUES LOEB any ane | VTEe Semeeons connyt Oe verNeS |were also delivered by Gea. Birney, | (international y on Experimental |phases of political controyersy and | == = =) br. Crawford and many others. a) ref pata? anne acdc onde nghe Meadow Se Army |andimmeniin eonend bye ee spe 5 re ~ | where there will be a prize drill by thy | New Constitution of Alabama, why no’ as led he stucy of biology, ely that aus ini) procesdiResot oe Bee ie Jats visiting patriarchs for the handsome | we and our descendants? We love the TO GEORGIA REPUBLICANS. in Strassburg and Wura- a ee Pe pcctatinns. “His ees eres United States flag, to be followed by | union of States. Now we, the defenders —---— Loeb work zealously, y days that he won | pj ayor Studley, will deliv- 4 c E | ‘ e coe : ve ie na ai ae! nls Sg mg le ole repre-| the Spanish-American War, assembled | recently in supreme session at Mont- | in the public schools of Flushing. | life phenomena followed, and unfer- een Panch Oe eves of the various lodges of this | in a mass meeting at the Courthouse | gomery, Ala., werein the city yester- Yours, | tilized eggs treated with a solution tl 10Ts - e posse in this place and transacted the follow- | day for the purpose of organizing a | ing business, by electing R. B. Barbee, | savings “bank, in accordance with a | Chairman. The following committee | resolution adopted at Montgomery. | of three appointed on resolutions and | Th-re wasa full atrendance of those | address: P. J. Crenshaw, S. H. Tur-/ who had been appointed on the board | ner and Rev. A. Clyde nandall, who | of directors. The meeting was called | reported the following address and | to order by Dr. E, A. Williams, of i Cincinnati, the supreme dictator of Thomas T. Smith. | of chloride of magnesium developed | life. It is well known that unfertil} } We desire toinsert an advertisement | They are, therefore, simply organic n control of the is man is too dan my. We must have city. The committee of local branches which has been preparing for the con- | venticn have invited bis excellency Governor George P. McLean, to ad- dress the assemblage on behalf of the State of Connecticut. The response will be by Grand Master E. H. Morris. counsel for the which, be ame i a d i ee 7 ns which were unanimously ; imi ire! : Pa ; isa one Lag hg ee npe gna ee M.V. pe se “after which comrade P. J. | the Knigits of Honor of the World. [oome 1tee Le Se Ge developed into living orgeme { paneagseid, (yg ste: ; ; leeted special messen- | The meeting was convened at the of- | , Piciey c as Besides the opening exercises of | Crenshaw, was é! ee sur. (don, England. j partie tie bobs Tuesday Soariine there will be given a ger to bear this address and resolu-' ficeof J.T. Spencer, supreme treasur ny i

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