The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-02-13
AFRO-AMERICANS,

Who Have Made Our White Brothers Cry
For Civil Rights.
We clip the following from the Dis
p itch of Feb &:
IRON BOUND.
| H AIRY SHEPHERD BOUND FOR THREE YEARS
nut IT, OPERATE A GALLERY.
Oris Hunt, of the Tabor gallery, San
Francisco, through his attorney. Alva
HINT, YES erdav purchased from Harry
Shepherd his latest gallery, the Elite.
| That ia the sixth gallery shepherd has
fitted W. and sold. Shepherds powers
tor holding trade and carrying them
rom psc- to place la the greatest of any
man we know If in the business. He
has carried his trate right along with
him from Jackson to Wabasha-leavirp
nanpht for the purchasers of his old
places He ia to run The Elite until
Ma Oh Is 1T which time Oils Hunt will
arrive End take poss. ssi"n.
Shepherd is bound by an iron clad
"gre em-nt not to operate or manage q
gallery i" S.. Paul for three years. That
being the case. the Shepherd photo will
have a clear field. 1t il >umored Shep-
herd is negotiating Tor car to make
tip through southern California ard
At last the greatest broker, dealer and
constructor Of Photographic galleries,
known in this ag-, has been bought off
for three years With all the war that
was wayed on Shepherd by other photo
g'aphers he has shown himself to be a
ritahle Napoleon. Not only were the
photographers afraid of him, but bis
wife also, was required to sign an agree
ment not to allow her husband to use
her name. or in other words, the agree
ment was 40 sivned that shepherd could
not do business in his wife's name. In
all the different Transfers, he always
p cked out people " no could afford the
loss. When he sold half of the Shep-
herd Photo Co to Cnas. A. Moore. he
took a partner quoted at a million dol
lars, think of m IN taking in million
a're rs partner, then driving ut, fight
ing that million, leaving the established
name OF the bus.nt ss, which made him
fight against his own business name.
u'ing al this for t~ o years he nursed
sex wife, and was the only support of
a paralyz;i muther, but however great
lis inward trouble, no man read it in
his face.
Certain photographers had said: mo
Negro shall do businees in the same
block with me-" rh' se photogra pliers
had been IS years established d. When
Shepherd told his informant s'to tell
them d--n they shant stay in the
same block with me-" people thought
he was angry, 5nt where is the gallery
that was tr years near tie corner of
Robert and 9TH Every move Shepherd
has made has proved to the would that
there as shrewd business men among
Af'o Americans AZ any people now in
habitiug the civilized world.
Another instance, take Eph Williams,
who first came to St. Paul with Shepherd
in 1878 He started little circus with
black bear, and has been playing the
little towns isolated from railroads, this
season his circus consisted of two hun
dred men, great droves of horses, and
cages OF amin ia, and now his show is a
great connection with the best.
Tfere is our own Fred McGhee, a
Young lawyer VIII" landed in St. Paul not
long since, the winning of several 2, eat
criminal cases has made a reputation for
him that other lawyers have fought
years in vain to establish. Eph Williams
and Mc(1hee We're born in Tennessee
and Mississippi respectively. Harry
Shepherd WAS horn in Salem. Virginia
and was simply known as Henry Shep-
herd. All three are now known in their
Professions from one end of the land to
the other. Energy. pluck and sticka-
tiveness coupled with ability will WIN
evey time. There is always room at the
top. AN OBSERVER.