The Washington Bee Newspaper, December 20, 1902, Page 1

—, 4 A FIRESIDE COMPAmun. t Is true if you see itin THE BEE. pon? BORROW TE “x PAPER FOR THE Rae | TS PAPER | | TON ea HAS BRIGHT FUTUR George B. Cortelyou, Private Secre- tary to the President. fils Success Should Be an Inspiration to Ambitious Young Americana —May Become a Cabinet Member. ntimation has come from Wash- on that George B, Cortelyou may ne @ member of the president's Those who know the man lieve that he is worthy of such , honor, and capable of filling such ition. In the United States to- here are few more interesting than George B. Cortelyou, the etary to the president. Intellec- energetic, dignified, and court- , this man seemed endowed by na- and fitted by training to perform - duties and meet the emergencies bis particular work, position of s of the United States is an arduous In the rendering of its multi- tudinous services, it calls for the busi- s qualifications of a methodical and matic clerk, in the performance > daily routine of official work, ne of e ne fine of a practical diplomat in ting and satisfactorily adjust- ing ations between the president ac ssorted public, each individual of which believes himself entitled to @ portion of the time and interest of the chief executive. Mr, Cortelyou worked his way ‘to his present high position through sheer ability and determination. He is still oung man, 40 years of age, and hia success may be regarded as an indica- tion of a still more progressive and brilliant career in the future. He be- as a stenographer, and, as a court reporter, was considered one of the most rapid and accurate in the coun- try tar) In 1891 he became private secre- to the fourth assistant post- ter general. Toward the close of the Cleveland administration he was trensferred to the white house. He GEORGE B, CORTELYOU. {President's Choice for Proposed Portfolio ot Commerce.) everal months a stenographer president, and was then ap- ‘poix executive clerk, which posi- t held until the beginning of Mr. M y's second term, when he was wi ivate secretary. V in Washington Mr. Cortelyou in 1 spare time in the study of w id, in 1895, was gra Z xe setown University Law “ The following year he took a P uluate course in the Columbian u ty M lyou was born in New York ec y 26, 1862. He was educated & ¢ and private schools, and isa g of the Hempstead (L. 1.) ine! sti ind of the state normal school at ‘ Mass. He holds the de- gree LL. B. from Georgetown uni- ver and the degree of LL. M. from ce university. He was for a reporter in New York, and vas principal of preparatory nh the same city from 1885 to in the latter part of 1889 he be- S career as a private secretary, erved in this capacity with the fice inspector at New York, the yor of the port of New York, and arth tant postmaster gen- a November, 1895, he was ap tenographer to the presi- 1896, executive in July, 1898, assistant secretary, April, 1900, upon the resigna- f Jc Addison Porter, on ac- f ealth, Mr. Cortelyou was ull secretary. a modest and thoroughly r. Having had not n average preparation for work, Mr. Cortelyou has ine ne the small things that he bruary, a? oe ee oD is to greater things. he four and a half years that the late President t as assistant private later as private secre- eloped a remarkable trait ved on’s duty when the presi- raveling to see the reporters arious newspapers and to 4 them the particulars of the ©cutive's plans and movements, is of reporters throughout the thus became persqnally ac- cretary to the pres- | {VASHINGTON, Db. C. WEEK OF DECEMBER 20 TO 23, 1902. per PAA POW NO. 28 qnainted with Mr. ) only remembered their faces in con- nection with the newspapers which they represented, but in the great ma- jority of cases remembered the per- sonal names of the interviewers them- selves. Berlin Haw No Filthy Slams. The very poor of Serlin are better housed than those of any other large city in the world. In fact, there are no filthy slums in the German capi- Aisposed La tr tidy. Crippled by a Sneeze. The champion sneezer of Pennsylva- nia is John ilton, a druggist, of New Castle. While at work on apre- scription he felt a sneeze coming on, and to steady himself clutehed a rai)- ing. ‘The force of the sneeze was 80 great that it threw his shoulder out of joint. His Pension Came Too Late. Many years ago, Henry Wensler, of Warsaw, Ind., a war ~eteran, applied for a pension. It has just been grant ed, and the government has sent him a check for $25,000. The poor pension- er is not likely to appreciate this for tune, as he is demented. lavery as a Punishment, Fisher Million, a negro who was in- dicted in 1901 for vagrancy and has been at large since then, was captured at Lawrenceburg and tried the other day before Judge Davis in the county }court at Shelbyville, Ky. The judge | returned a verdict of guilty and fixed | punishment at being sold into servi- jtude for 12 months, the highest pen- jalty. The negro will be put on the | block and sold into servitude by Sher- ff Briggs if a purchaser can be found The officials hardly know what to do in the event of no sale. | Sure of a Protecting Hand. Before a wedding could proceed down in Kentucky the groom had to . throw two brothers of the bride out of the church window. Here is one | woman at least who may be sure ofa protecting hand. A LEADER? From the Chicago Conservator. The Washington Bre, with which we have had a triendly interchange of words on “‘ Negre-Leadership,” calls on the Conservator for an expression of its position on the possibilty and practicability of the Negro haying leaders. It is due the Bes to state here that | that paper is not only one of the oldest and ablest Ne-ro journals of the coun- try, buvit is intensely interested in the jadvancement uf the race, and wears ne mans’s brass collar, and does not teach the young Negro that being ap- pointed to an office makes a chronic office-ceeker great when there is ‘‘noth- ing else to nim.” The Conservator has never seen the need of the Negroes of this country having leaders of any sort except as other people in this: ountry havethem; and we cannot see the wisdom of such ble papers as the Bex, Southwestern | Christian Advocate and other *\ lendid |Negro journass contenaing that the | s©aro should bave ur need a national | race leaver. There is nothing for such smantodo, the present intellectual dvancement of the Negro, with his growing knowledge of the different phases of men at.dthines and his con- sequent diversity of Ovinion touching he things he is most interested in, pre- lude the ide» of a national org niza- on of i} or any con iderabe number of the Negroes of this country forany rpose Yeu can no mere unite the Negro into one party or organizati .n | sow than you can the whites, and the one is no more needed or desired than the other. | James L. Pugh, Esq., A Successful | Pr. secutor. | The prosecuting at orney, M .James “.. Puga, of the t ric bianch of the Po ice Court is be of (he most successfu prosecuiung oth- cers that has ever had cha.ge of that branch of the ourt. He is popuiar wih the members of the bar and asa pro-ecu ing officer he is conscieniiou: as well as ; osi.ive in the conduc. of his prosecu.ions. He knows no man, | be Bee can say, by the co or of his skin. tte isa iawyer of abia y and ts thor- ough y iuformed on «he Jaws of the : isirict. There is no man who has the respect and confidence of his superior oticers more than Mr. tugh. He is an easv prosecutor, thats, lic conducis his cases wich care and apparen ly without trouble. He has many friends sud aduure.s WhO woud ve pieased io} }sce vim ou the vench. He is indeed eserving of promotion the Com- «i-ssiovers Could not select a man bel- i suted for the positon of prosecut ing attorney of the lower branch o/ ihe Poitce Court than Mr. Pugh. Admiral Schley, Capt. Hobson, a d Mr. Crumpacker Declare It. » do so well that he has been — hey Speak for The Disfranc ised | and Show them Friendship. md ali doubt one} tal, and the poorest people there are} | | He said that the ballot was a means, and not anend, with the race. ‘‘There are colored men in this country,” he declared. *‘ who would honor any race. } Let the great colored race beome hcme- owners and home-builde:s. The white man is apt to consider himself very im- portant, but remember that it took two thousand vears to bring him to his | present condition of civilization. You | have not yet had your chance. The colored race must ge up or down, for there is no middle ground.” Representative Crumpacker was fol- lowed ty Capt. Hwbson, who arouseu gre.tenthusiasm. ‘I was brought up with your peonle,’”’ sad he, “‘ and in my Southland I was nursed by one of you, who was as tender to me as my own mother was. Diving the civil war tke Negro nobly fulfilled his du y to those of the South lefr defenseless at heme. Your race may Cail upon me as long as I live, to be the truest friend I know how to be. **T have a fecling for you also of sin- cere esteem, respect, and affection. The colored race is one of fighters, At San iago, when I was released, the first American troops I saw were colored regulars. You have aright to be proud of the blood you have spilled for your country. Do not complain of your so cial position to-day. What was your brief servitude compared to the lung ages of serfdom in Europe in the Dark Ages. Your condition to-day has no comparison to that of the Europ-an peasan . Governor Taft, andin other says urg ed his project on the officials. It isthe Alabama Senator's purpose i» the future to start 'egislation in Con- gress for the movement to colonize he nh groes in the Philippines. He has not pushed this art of the work, because he believes the time is n-t ripe vet for legisiation. The farmers of the south, he s:ys, think they need the negro la borer now, and until condit ons are more favorable he will wi.hold his pro posed legislation. He believes, howev “r, that the move now under way will result eventually in millions of negroes emigrating to the Philippine Islands and wor ing out their own salvation there. This, he says, ig the solution of the negro question which now confronts the American people. Senator Morgan’- plan is to incorpor ate for he negroes steamship transpor talon companies, to give them home steics of abont twenty acres each in the islands, and to give them the best possible commercial advantages. The | plan, he says. would not deprive them of ther protection udder the flag of the U. ire! States; it would not deprive | them of citizenship, of which they are proud, an -itwould enable them to be come seif-sustaining and a prosperous \ race G: people becau e the land in the Phitippine Islands is extremely rich a dtertilr. Uhe climate is exactly suit ed to the n-gro. Senaior jorgan Talks of His Plan. Discussing the subject Monday, Sen ator Morgan said: MO GAN H. BEACH E-Q., Che brilliant young United States Attorney, the successor of Judge A. M, Goo “Your destiny lies in work, hard, persis ent werk. In’ let anybody try to convince you tnat the wetory of the American navy ov-r the Sounish fleets in the war of 1898, was due io the wferiority of the vesseis of the latter. We won our battle of Sintiago, and even Manila, before the war began If the Spanish cvews had been trained by hard work as ours were, the ~panish fleet at Santiago woul! have escaped , trom our blockade and would have then returned to destroy our ships, | one by one. Work hard yourselves, | asa race, and in America legis ation cannot prevent you from taking your proper places according to meiit”’ Admiral Schicy a'so bad praise for the colored man, but was net so out- spoken as the other speakers and refrained from discus-ing the Negro} from the point of view of p slitics, tle praised the colored sailors and said | they had alwavs been fai hfula sd oval * In courage tne colored seamen has proved himself. and has shed lo» i | and faced fire tor his country,” said | the admiral, and seatim-nt was! cheered by the audience forsome tine. | * T shall be the colored man’s triend ” he concluded, ‘and shill be glad to ee the day when he shall be inal! re pects what his friends would ike to see hin te.” S-:nator Mason was i+ the andience, but did not speak. On the p atform with the speckers were Jidsor W Lyons, the eecorder of Deeds, J C Dan y, and Tnomas Lasser. PULLIPPIN FUR NEGRO SENATOK MORGAN Al)VO ATES COLONIZATION PROJEC?, T. THOMAS FORTUNE'S MISSION Gone to Investig :te aud Report on Con eition in che IMands—A abama Sen- ator Confers with Secretary Rot and Go . Taft on His Pian t lish the Negro in Our Eastern Pos- sessions stab- | Rear Admiral Schley, Capt Rich-| ment, Senator Morgan, of Alabama jS seeking to interest the uw epart and, ineidenta ly; Presitent | moud Pearson Hotson, «nd Repreren-| ooseve't in a plan ts ut'l z+ the Phi - | tative Crumpacker Monday night de-| ippine Isiinds tor coonizns the ne ivered addresses to a large audience | groes of the U ites! States. It is believed Church, on M street, between Fif teenth and Sixteewth streets northwest, i heir expressions of friendship for the colored man and hopefulness about bis duture were received with demonstra uons of intense approval. Several white persons were present. 3 Representative Crumpacker presided and spoke advuut tue Negro in politics. secretary it was part of |«f citizens at Metropolitan A. M_E | that it is largely as a result of Sena- tor Morgan’s agitation of the subject that the Presideut has sent a special envoy. T Tiomas Fortune, to the Philippine Islands tomake an inven gation and report on the there In nis effort to have the plin put irto execution Senator Morgan has hed frequent consul ations with wecretary of .ar Root, has consulted “*\ he principal reason for my attitude in the Senate toward retaining the Philippine Islands was my be ief that those islands would afforda some for the negroes. | ‘* hen I first came to Congress I in- troduced a resolution to recognize the Congo Free State as an independent nation. merely to afford the negroes of this country a placeto which they mi,ht immigrate when their numbers increased to an exte.t that they would make immigration neccessary. The resolution passed the Senate and House, and colonization of the negro in the Congo was well under way when the United states acquired the Philip pines. “Che acqui ition of that territory opeus up a new and vast s'perior coun try for tren. The land is richer, the climate better suited to them, and there they would stull be under the flag. “| took the matter up with Secretcry Roo’, and wrote to Goy infor nation and ideas on the plan of col onlzing negroes there. Both were favor abiyi pre-sed, and I am glad toknow that ithas at last been started- Allihe mevem nt needs isa starter.—Wash iagton “Star.” | | A favorite trick of Alsatian market woman is to place six or ei it eggs in a small bas! d to declare that those are all : psolutely fresh ones they have. The victim buys them, thinking that if the woman were dis- honest she would have offered more “fresh eggs.” Afterward the market woman takes six more out of a larger | basket which is carefully covered ever Essential Principle Lacking. “So I am the fourteenth man that has proposed to you this year, am m2” the young man said, pale with chagrin and mortification. “I suppose I ought to go and suggest to the others that we get up a loverg trust. There cer- tainly are enough of us.” “I don’t see how you could do that, Harold,” she said, softly. “The ‘com- munity of interests’ idea would be wholly lacking.”—Chicago Tribune. The Fair. About one year ago M:.E. P. Schmitz & Co., conducted onestoreat 1712 141h street norihwest. Whilestruggiing to succeed be never forgot the poor and needy in the hour of distress. He al- conditens ways had a kind word for ‘nose who | were oppressed and liberal toth needy. Kindness and liberality to the poor won their confidence which is evid ac- ed by the establishment of two addi- Gen. Taft for} tional stores at 730 7th street and 818 | 7th street northwest, formerly occupied by-Hudson. Mr. Schmitz & Co, con- ducts the largest stores in the city where you can purchase all kinds of house- hold goods, toys for children, school supplies aad »nything for the pleasure of children and the household. Mr, Schmitz has accommodating clerks who will treat you well when you cull. Say to him that you saw this notice in The Bee Those whoare up town go to 1712 14th street n rthwest, while those who are down ‘own go to 730 and 818 7th street northwest Goeariy and avoid the rush. Mention The Bee. Mr. Newell, Chief Hydrograph«r of Geological Survey. Author of the Great Scheme of Arid Land Reclamation in the West, Recently Indorsed by the Congress, It seems odd that the man who is chiefly responsible for the great scheme of irrigation in the vast arid regions of the west should have learned his earliest lessons in irri- gation in Massachusetts. The man to whom, more than to anyone else, is due the credit for mapping out this great and expen- sive plan of reclamation is Freder- ick H. Newell, chief hydrographer of the United States geological survey, | who, though born in Bradford, Pa., is descended from old New England stock, and was himself brought up on a Bay state farm, after taking a course of engineering instruction at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology. His father before him was a civil engineer, and it is a curious circum- stance that his grandfather, Arte- mus Newell, who once conducted a farm about 12 miles from Boston, was the first man north of Mexico | and California, to introduce a prac- tical system of irrigation. This sturdy New England son of the soil during the early part of President Buehanan’s administration had occasion to make a trip to southern France, and there had his eyes opened to the value of irriga- tion as a means of rendering fruit- ful otherwise unproductive wastes of sandy land. Mr.-Newell's interest in this sys- tem appears to have been transmit- ted to his son and grandson, for the latter, from the time he first set eyes on the original irrigation plant on the old Newell homestead, be- came an enthusiast. By the time he was six, as a re- wult of his boyish studies of the | i { i | tically every detail of irrigation and could run the plant, with its ditches and sluice gates, about as well as his grandfather could. After receiving the rudiments of his education at Needham, Mass. young Newell took a course in the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy, and after graduation went to Colorado in 1882 to engage in min- ing. Subsequently he entered the geo- logical survey, where he proceeded to make a specialty of irrigation, | and no man was more proud and delighted than was he when the last congress indorsed his ideas by mak- ing an appropriation of some $5,000,- 000 or $6,000,000 for the purpose of beginning this great work. A recent statement by Mr. New- ell, in the Boston Globe, concerning his course as a member of the geo- logical survey, contains an impor- | tant lesson for young men. j “When I first entered the service of the geological survey,” said Mr. | Newell, “I saw that there was very little chance for any one to forge ahead unless he originated some- thing altogether new and aside from the general line of work as it was then carried on by the survey “Every department w led by some dvanced years who hz “ft and b own part we determined, knowledge of ir Running my eye west, I saw whole states and sec- tions of tes, arid, unsetiled and | unfit for habitation | “Unless something was done to convert these barren and arid tracts into fruitful and lands many of these territories could never | continue | habitable | gain populations large become states, but would for all time to remain territories. “J, therefore, inaugurated and de- veloped plans for a complete hydro- graphic survey of the west, to ascer- tain the practicability of irrigation |in those parts. This survey is still and has proven a com- ” plete success. ; The areas in which the various re- | gions to be treated on this vast scale | extend from Canada to Mexico and | from the Missouri river to the Paci- | fic, and the work of survey has only | Just begun. The reclaimed lands are to be sold to settlers, not more than 160 acres | being allowed to one person, and in | this way the work will soon be made practically self-supporting, the rev- | enue derived from the first lands re- | claimed being utilized to irfigate another section. TS | Newell plant, he had mastered prac- |- | permanent control of PEACE IS RESTORED) I arring Factions in Colombia Will Fight No Longer. i ‘ermination of Hostilities Is of Pard ticular interest to Us on Ace of Pending Canal Ne- wotiations. ; Colombian’s reported conclusion of peace is full of interest to the Uni- ted States. It is om general princi- ples pleasing to know that our south- ern neighbor has reached the end of @ struggle which was tedious and dis- trous in the extreme. It is a re- “3 to be rid of the necessity of eeping guard over our interests at Panama and occasionally intervening their behalf with force and arms. here have been complaints made against such intervention, by both parties to the conflict on the isthmus, largely, if not entirely, unfounded. The treaty rights of the United States to intervene for the protection of its property and the maintenance of free traffic on the railroads cannot be disputed. It may well be thas such intervention hampered the bel- ligerent activities of one or both of the parties. But if so their quarrel was with the treaty, and not with our enforcement of its provisions. Certainly the government, now that it has won the day, must realize that it is far better to have the railroad and its terminals in good order and in operation than it would have been but for United States intervention, The establishment of peace is thus weicome as a vindication of Ameri- can action. Another highly important consider- ation is that the return of peace will expedite a definite settlement of the canal question. Being rid of the in surrection, the Bogota governmer can apply itself to that questior without distraction. It is high time for it to do so to a practical purpose says the New York Tribune. There has already been too much delay and too much backing and filling. For DR. J. M. MARROQUIN. “(Compromise President of the Repubklis of Colombia, C. A.) years past the Colombian government has professed to be e r for the United States to purchase and com ‘plete the unfinished ditch of the ‘French company. ‘This country has been given to understand that every facility will be offered it for the prompt completion of the canal on the most liberal terms. But now that it is ready and eager to begin ‘tthe work, Colombia seems inclined to temporize and to ask impossible conditions, There does not seem to be the slightest justification for the reported attempt to increase the rental price. It is understood that Colombia was willing to accept a cer tain price a year or two ago, when it was not certain that the Uniied (States would want to build at Pane ma. Nothing has occurred since then to make the concession more valua- bie. As for Colombia’s reluctance to grant to this country complete and the strip of fland containing the canal, her own eonduct and condition demonstrate its unreasonableness. It would be simply intolerable to have the canal exposed to the disturbances which for months past have beset the Pan jama railroad. The terms proposed by the United States are not only reasonable, they lare generous to Colombia. It is for \Colombia to accept them or reject lthem. Whichever she does she should |ido thoughtfully and advisedly, fox | the decision is one fraught with in- | \ealeulable importance to her future, | but she should, and indeed must, d6 it promptly. The United States must not be kept waiting like a party to an ‘old-fashioned New England horse rade. For the Panama route, as ouB olombian friends should remember, not the only one. There is an- ther at Nicaragua, which has some pdvantages over that at Panama, ang which we can have for the asking, Whe president is as fully authorized eyf aoe and adopt it as he is ta jeonclude arrangements with Colom ‘bia, and if he should do so that would mean an ending of the Panama canal: ichever route this country adopta thenceforth be the only one! Colombia cannot afford to run any, mannecessary risk of being left in the furch forever. pi tT a ~—