The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-10-20

Poole and Il. II. Hucless are the big injuns
Of our knight Templar Communicates, and
the grand smuch-a-much' OF the Crane
Blue lodge Free Masons, il James A.. Deyo
Besides these we have Knights OF Pythlss
Odd Follows and other societies OF hlgf
and mighty degrees"
professional men az we'll as moneyec
maRnates, suppose. Mr.. Fortune. are to bt
counted among society people, using tht
term in its general sense was suggested.
Yes. colored society, such as ID led by t!ll
Ten Eycks and the Hopewells in Now York,
is of course solicitous to have the law,
medicine and the church represented at ita
balls and receptions. The best of our pso-
pie, pecuniarly speaking. live in Brooklyn
Speaking of professional colored men in
society, the best known are Lawyers 7. Nc
Giants Stewart, Chas. NJ. Berrian. Jacob II.
Simms, Maurice Randolph and D. Nathan
Webster. Then there are such physicians
az Drs; +. 8. T. Miller. McDonogh and s.
G. Price. Peter H. Clark, ". 8. Scar
borough, BROKER 4. Washington. G.
NJ. Grandson and John r. sampson.
Among the clergy are Bishops b. L.
Tanner, D. D., j. w. Hood, h. NJ. Tnr-
ner, and J: Theodore Holly; also Revs. W.
Y. Tunnell, I. G. Steward. d. D., Alexan-
der Walters, Rufus L. Perry. D: D., =: +.
pin, D. D. 10 these must be added rs
wealthy society leaders the Ten Eycks, who
are worth some $3.50, 900; DR.. T. w. Kay.
whose New York real estate alone is valued
at $4,000, and Mr.. j. w. Mars. who has
considerable New York house property. and
street. Brooklyn. These are only few out
of a great number. rs the entire wealth OF
the African race in the United States is es-
timated at $263, OO0, 900, of which 80 per
cent. has been acquired during the last
twenty years."
"And the intellectual aristocracy should
Rested.
II was coming to them. As literary in
centive We do not forget that the negro
poetess Phillis Wheatley, who was born in
Africa, in 1853 and died in 1884, core
spond before the Declaration of lndepend-
ence with George Washington, to whom she
published in 1873, with her engraved por-
trait. and was dedicated to the Countess of
Descendants of hers from
her marriage with DR.. John Peters, an At
70 American savant. were understood
to be living in New York and
Boston some years ago: The lead
At St. Marks Lyceum, regard her as kind
IF patron saint as they also do Alexander
Dumas. the novelist, who materially came
# African stock in Martinique. Then
here are Messrs. Webican, Woods and Par
ler. who were selected by st. Benedict the
door's Literary society to represent them
It the recent convention in Washington of
olored societies. Among other colored
ociety people in literary circles are Mr..
N. II. A. Moore. a poet and essayist; Mr.. L.
1. Latimer, another poet and reviewer; the
cry popular Jerome b. Peterson, an all
ound newspaper man of the Joe Howard
ype; T. McCants Stewart, to whom re-
erred as u lawyer, but is the author of a
,ook on Liberia, and Victoria Earle, a
charming writer of sonnets. To these can
,e added the following members of the
United States African Syndicate of Special
Newspaper Correspondents, whose head
quarters are at 4 Cedar street: Messrs. b.
I. Bruce, John +. Lynch, John s. Durham.
Il. G. G. Astwood, J. NJ. Townsend, James
N. Trotter, w. A. Pledger, John P. Green,
3. Augustus straker; John c. Danoy, John
Mitchell, Jr., VIM. H. Anderson, John w.
Cromwell, j. Gordon Street, George Il.
Downing and H. G. Smith; also, Mrs. jose
'hine L. Washington. Mrs. Susan McKin-
icy, M. D., Mrs. N F. Mossell, Mrs. +. E.
". Harper, and Miss Ida B. Wells.''