Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-08-09
AN ANGRY ,WOMANS WORK
ONE OF SF. LOUIS SUB URBS IN
YOLYkD IN A SENSATION.
MRS. CAIRNs's VALUABLE PROPERTY IN
AN ARlsTocRATIC NEIGHBoRHoOD
SOLD TO A BODY OF NEGROES.


AN ARlsToCRATIC NEIGHBoRHOOD |
SOLD no A BODY OF NEGROES.
r ST.. LOUIS, July 20.-Kirkwood, |
just thirteen miles from TINS clJy, is
.ne ultra ssrist0crsstlc suburb where
a large nunfDer OF the weaithlest
merchants, bankers, and business
men Oh Of. Louis reside Mrs. Anna.
Oneeu CAIRNS 1is TOR nineteen years
conducted There a female seminary
That draws patronage from all over
the UnlUeu states sone Is a strong
luInoeu woman, well known IN tue
ranks of advanced drinkers, AMI well
10 tile front ia all movements Tor the
advancement Of her sex. her nus
Dtnu Is one OF tile Desu-knOWn sarcnl-
JecUs IN 81. LUup.
Two years ago Mrs. Cairns got in
to "a quarrel With the Town BOARD
oi kirkwoou over trivial complaint
about u Dram pipe that was ueclar
ed a nuisance, anu which SHE refused
10 remove. The matter was ttake1
into a justice court, and was car
rleu up through ali the courts until
1t reacneu the state Court OF Appeals,
where II now Is. In The mesAnJlme
the Town Board prosecuted her IN
many small ways ana she fought
back. FINALLY she determined TO
take her seminary away from kirk-
wood.
When she announced this the peO-
pie laughed, tor they thought she
would not DO NJ, as she owned the
property. She bought property else
where and began Ine erection OF a
new seminary, which will be ready
Tor occupancy IN October. Then she
sOughta purchaser for her kirkwoOd
property. IL was reported that she
was gong TO sell TO Negroes and a
Negro scnOol was TO be established.
10 stop this Kirkwood people offer
ed her $2O,OUU and advanced the
price to ~ ,OOU. She refused to sell
10 them. but has sold for $32, 600 to
a syndicate OF wealth. Negroes.
}. Milton Turner, ex-Aamister to
Liberia, engineered the DEAL lie in
duced Henry Bridgewater, a Negro
worth $2UU, 600, TO give $4,000,
and tins check was given to Mrs.
Cairns yesterday. Milton Turner is
now in Boston, where he went to
raise money. he telegraphed to-day
that the Peabody fund would give
$1,000. This $4,000 is the Trst
payment, and the property passes
into the hands of the Negroes. Work
will be atonce commenced to convert
the beautiful seminary into a manu-
al training school, and it will be call
ed the Bridgewater Manual Training
Srhn<.l for IxassAA klrayo
The people OF kirkwood would not
believe the sale was really made unit
informed to-day by your eorrespon
dent that Briugewater's check has
been given, and nor they are simpl.
sn"achless with Lilo natson. ~
property is right in the heart of TN
Deautiful little town. T}ridgewatei
the man who thus becomes tn
founder OF the first and only manu-
al training school for Negroes in tn
world, is the proprietor of two bi
Negro saloons and drives crap.
He has grown very rich selhn
whiskey to his race and keepin
gambling houses for them. 1T is a
almost nightly occurrence for til
police to raid his place and haul O
from five 10 twenty-five inmates an
frequenters. He has been figure
politics for the last ten years.
Mrs. Cairns smiles serenely whe
questioned, and says she only sol
her property for the best price and
very lendabie purpose. She deni,
that there is any spite work in i
She SAYS:
''rhIs trade has been going on fC
some time past. The Peabody fun
sent committe to st. Louis son
months ago TO look into the matte
having for four years been trying
decide upon a location for the esta
lishment of a manual training scho
for colored boys. The commit
was, l believe, under charge of Pre-
Il. III. Murray, and on returning
Boston strongly recommended 6
seminary purchase. / have mys
been on to Boston and have confer
ed with those interested in the NOV
ment. There is great surprise felt
the East that the KirkwOOd peoL
should object to having such schU
in their midst. IL is for a nObleipl
pose, that of enabling colored DO
TO become skilled artisans in place
forever condemning them TO perfol
mental labofs-and j am glad a
proud TO sell my seminary to
used as the home for such a gre
work. The colored people all ON
the country are stirred into gre
enthusiasm over the matter, an,
am myself IN receipt of letters ask
for terms of scholarship in
school, and am told that Mr.. Turf
has been assured of support in
enterprise by many well-to-do color
families in St. Louis alone who
anxious to give their children I
benefit of such training" q
Kirkwood people to-day, when G
WINGED that the sale had been ma
sent a formal communication to
Commissioners OF the Peabody fl
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