The bee., 1883-08-18

vi or CITY: lJS DGduJleS towering from
the base of its first story to the limits
of completion, are all attractions OF
wonderful impression.
Its sitting capacity is 65x45, and
facing Z street, as it does. with a
handsome pressed-brick front. is an,
other magnificent impression which
so pleasantly presents itself to human
view.
Surely the church is filled with en-
couragement to work with renewed
vlgor, since they have the greatest
efforts of their life, the building of Sc
beautiful an edifce for the service OF
the Lord, in full assurance of compile
tion through the timely, earnest and
interesting labors of their pastor, the
Rev. S. Robinson, who is being won
derfully assisted by his faithful trus-
tees and deacons, whose first thought
is daily to see if their pastor still
holds out from their fears of his
being overworked. Then next to en-
ter instantly into the cooperative
work. He is young, active, willing,
and good, and one with whom the
matchless Ebenezer will not be ashamed
Of as neighbor,
Standing in one place, your repre-
sentative surveyed this portion of the
city, in addition to the beautiful de-
srription as above, and he finds that
we are not wanting in anything but
revenue to live up to the times,
except, however, what is lack on
the part Of the government,
which gives us too little gas
light and not enough of police protec-
tion, for your strollers failed to see bit
one police officer other than at the Sth
Precinct Station House, and he was on
Pennsylvania Avenue between 1st
and I'd Streets, where the reflective
display of business lights add greatly
to that of the gas.
But where there was no Gas. there
was no officers; and your representa-
tive readily accounted for the reason
why that so many wicked reports from
that section, charging colored men
with gross attacks on white women
with intention to outrage can be made
First-If colored men were so wicked,
then are the dark seCtiois beA;itifiillt
shaded by trees, long spaces of vacant
lots for the want of houses, the white
rutlianS, who would make their own
relatives shudder to trust them, there
is the nedrer proximity of the Navy
Yard, where soldiers lnd sailors are,
all white, where men can so easily dis
guiSe themselves in this dark commu-
nifty and appear as though they were
c0lorcd, and, too, where this seems to
he the case with the whole cGmmtinity
as above named, seemingly without
official protection and, yet, because in
the excited, dark community where one
with the calmneSS of mind CoUld
hardly discriminate; the colored must
lie be niisrepresented; charged, con-
victed and punished for the neglect of
the government to guard against these
local cunveniences for crimes. Your
representative would recommend t.; the
Eigilant Committee of one hundred
Of East Washington. whose business
Ii is too GUARD white WOMEN against
colored outragers, to use their vigil
ance more to secure better lights and a
full share of the Metropolitan forccIto
protect them against the outrages of
disguised white men, who are commit
ting these objectionable sins, while
the culored are either asleep, reading,
or off attending to their housh dGnie.i-
tics, or in either case they respect the
law too much or live above these accu-
satiOnS.
The fact that East Wash
ington furnishes more rttmors
of elupements than all other
sections together Gall white), ought of
itself to justify the belief that the
other crimes were committed by them;
that they accomplished only by elope-
ment what they could not accomplish
by local villainy. These are the stp-
posed facts in the charges, which
would have long since been accepted
had they been before resented; be-
cause they are too evident to be
otherwise.
We found that this was all we need
ed, because we find that when we are
sick, the Providence Hospital, ID and
ID streets: L. S. Naval Hospital, be-
tween Pennsylvania avenue and E
street, and G. and 10th streets; when
we need schools, there are the Lincoln
on c and lst, southeast; Lovejoy, 18th
and ID, northeast; when we are moved
to 90 to church, we have the Mt. JeZ-
reel, 5th and c; Ebenezeer, 4th and ID;
Enon, 9th and C; Mt. Zion, 18th and
E; Mt. Uornear, the jail and many
other smaller missions, and are all pro-
Vided for in this section. Not unlike,
west, north and south Washington in
this Respectively have large stable
on 10th street, between 3 and
c streets, known as the Hurdle Cab
stable. Your representative also Wis
tied this beautifully constructed build
ing, where he found ten colOred men
as helps, some of whom were just start
ing from work. Some forty Hurdicks
and twenty cabs were found to he
attached upon inquiries.
The churches of this section were
well filled on Sunday, well entertained
and pleased. The Ebenezer, the Mt.
Jezreel and the Enon are all model
churches in creating reform.
The strangest, and certainly the
perpetration of wrong ever
| witnessed was the refusal by a young
colored man on 9TH street, between ID
and E streets, named Taylor to shave
one of his color, when at the time. in
his own house, the barber shop being