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Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

-Governor Flower has granted pardon
to james Burns of Rochester, N. Y, who
was sentenced in 1888 to Auburn prison
for IL years for robbery.
Senator Turpie's will be the only name
presented to the joint caucus of Demo.
Gratis of the Indiana Legislature tonight
for United States Senator
The Most Rev. Herbert Vaughan, Cath.
Ollie Archbishop of Westminster, Is visit
ing at Rome.
Edward l. Mortimer, Of New York,
has filed suit in Columbus, O., asking for
receiver for the Cleveland, Akron s:
Columbus railroad.
Paul Scruggs and Henry Allen, who
murdered and robbed Ruke Atkinson, his
housekeeper, and her little daughter,
were taken from Jail at Cotton Plant,
Ark, by mob and hanged.
Six convicts attacked Warden Briggs
in the Wyoming penitentiary at Laramie,
Jail guards thereupon mortally wounded
Tom Madden, one Of the prisoners, and
shot second convict.
Thomas @. Stearnes has been appointed
instructor in Greek in the Yale academic
department. Mr.. Stearnes was gradu
ated from Yale in the class of $50 and is
now at Yale in the post graduate school.
Albert N. Hoxie, late Prohibition can.
didate in the Seventh Suffolk, Mass, dis
trict, has presented petition to the Sen
ate, asking that his charges of bribery
against A. c. Ratchesky, the Republican
candidate in his district, be investigat ed
-Kennie Hayner, murderer of his wife
and Capt. Michael Adams, was sentenced
to Is years imprisonment by Judge Werts
i'll Jersey City.
julie Edmunds, postmaster of Gr1zzley.
Tex, was killed in duel with Heck
Wheeler. They fought with knives
james G. Reed, agent of the American
Manufacturing company, of Albion,
Mich, was found frozen to death near
that town.
Secretary Foster has denied redress to a
laborer in the sub-treasury at Boston,
who complained that he had to work nine
hous instead of eight, as prescribed by the
law.
-Young's bakery in Utica, N. Y, was
destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss, $75,-
600; insured.
Cornell University celebrated ''Found-
ers' Day" yesterday. Albert D. Shaw, of
Watertown, N. Y, delivered an address
Fire, supposed to have resulted from
spontaneous combustion, yesterday de-
stroyed Hall & Lyons pharmacy at
Providence, R. l. Loss on building and
stock, $4,000; insurance, SIP, 900.
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examiner In the patent Office, was seen
by me and furnished the following in
teresting and instructive statement OF
the beginning AND progress Of one OF
the most successful business enter
prises conducted by Afro-Americans.
THE history of the organization and
development of this business enterprise
is not entirely free from some of the es-
sential features Of q romance. Born
into an almost abject poverty, and grow
ing into vigorous manhood amid the
most unfavorable surroundings, is a
feat that neither individuals nor enter
prises perform with frequency. Banks
are a commercial necessity in all bust
ness centers. They are the medium
through which the money property OF
individuals changes ownership. They
touch the money pulse Of community.
AS rule, therefore, tho men who or
ganize banks are men Of wide business
experience, with ample resources at
their command and enjoying a large
share of public confidence. Under or
binary circumstances, when these con-
ditions are lacking, men either haven't
the courage to organize bank or they
haven't the luck to succeed at It. It
would appear from this. therefore, that
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SALLY BOWS.
An After War Romance of the South.
BY BRET p ARTE.

few moments later the train glided
beside the Redlands platform. AS the
two travellers descended hand was
laid on COurtlaud's shoulder, and a
stout figure in the blacklist and shiniest
of alpaca jackets and the whitest and
broadcast of Panama hats welcomed
him. "GIdd to see GO, con'ne,. l reck-
oned I'd waltz over and bring along the
boy" pointing to a grizzled negro scrv-
ant of sixty who was bowling before
them, "to tote yo'r things over instead
of using hack. I haven't run much
on horse flesh since the wah-ha! ha!
what | didn't use for remounts reckon
yo'r commissary gobbcd up with the
other live stock. eh?" He laughed
purely humorous, and again clappcd
CORTLAND on the back.
Let me introduce my friend, Mr..
Drummond, Maj. Reed" said Court
land, smiling.
"Yo' were in the wah, sir?"
"No-I-" returned Drummond hest
tating, he know not why. and angry at
his own embarrassment.
"Mr Drummond, the vice president
of the company" interposed CORTLAND,
cheerfully, was engaged in furnishing
to us the sinews OF war;"
Maj Reed bowed little more for
mally. Most of us heah. sir, were in
the wah some time or other, and if you
gentlemen will honah me by joining in
social glass at the hotel across the
way, I'll introduce you to Capt. Prem
dergast, who left a leg at Fair Oaks"
Drummond would have declined, but
significant pressure ut his arm from
CORTLAND changed his determination.
He followed them to the hotel and int
the presence of the onc-lcggcd warrior
(who turned out to be the landlord and
barkeepcr), to whom Courtland was
hilariously introduced by Maj. Reed as
"the man, sir, who had pounded my
division for three hours at Stony Crccll!'
Maj. Reeds house was but a few min
utcs walk down the dusty lane. and was
prescntlyhCraldcd by the baying of three
or four fox hounds, and foreshadowed
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until the time came, as it invariably did,
when he found Washington a good place
to leave ION the dead quiet" The broth
er in black here seemed to live for
pleasure and the 10 per centers alone.
When Mr.. Cleveland was elected in
1883 there was q very rude awakening in
the Fools Paradise. Men who had
heretofore spent every penny of the
salary they received from the govern
ment suddenly became thrifty in the
penurious sense. The craze for saving
money and buying property spread rap
Idly. AL sorts OF business enterprises
spraug up as If by magic; banking, In
surance real estate and mercantile ven.
lures were projected on all sides.
Among the ventures projected in 1855
which attracted general attention and
has been watched with interest Is the
Capital savings bank. which numbers
among Its managers some Of the most
competent Afro-Americans in the CITY.
Its officers are ex-Congressman John R.
Lynch (the present fourth auditor OF
the treasury, president; J. R. Wilder,
vice president; II. E. Baker, secretary;
L. G. Bailey, treasurer; D. B. McCary,
cashier; directors, John R. Lynch, j. A.
Pierre, II. E. Baker, Whitefield McKin.
lay, Jerome A. johnson, w. E.
Mathews, DR.. w. s. Lotion, NJ. Cole, J.
Archie Lewis, J. T. Bradford, DR.. A. w.
Tancil, DR.. J. R. Wilder, Prof. James
Storum, L. c. Bailey, Prof. w. s. Mont
gomery.
The company first purchased a build.
ing at the corner Of New York avenue
and Ninth street, northwest, for the
sum Of $21 900, and intended to occupy
1t some day in carrying on their bust
ness. The location was not exactly
suited to the present needs of their
business, and so when they were noti-
fed last May that they would be re-
quired to give up the rented quarters
they were then occupying they set
about at once to purchase building in
more suitable locality. Their efforts
resulted in the purchase Of their pres
ent elegant building on one of the most
prominent business streets In the city
of Washington, situated just in the heart
OF Washington's commercial and flnan-
cial activity, convenient to the depart
mentS and midway between the CAPT
toll and the white house-F street, be.
tween Sixth and Seventh streets, north
west
Secretary Henry E. Baker, a gradu-
ate Of the law department OF Howard
university and for many years a special
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by dilapdatrd condition of picket
fence and succeed gate front. Beyond
it stretched the wooden doric columns
If the usual southern mansion, dimly
seen through the broad leaves of the
horse chestnut trees that shaded it.
There was the usual listlrss, black shad-
ows haunting the veranda and outer
of1icCs-formrr slaves and still attached
house servants arrested like lizards in
brcathlCSs attitudes mt the approach of
strange footsteps and still holding the
brush broom. duStrr or homo implements
they had been lazily using. in their fixed
hands. From the doorway of the de-
tachcd kitchen connected 10y Il gallery
to the wing of the mansion, AUNT
MARTHA" the cook, gaHcd also with Il
saucepan claSprd to her bosom and her
revolving hand with the scrubbing
cloth in it apparently stopped ON
dead crntrr"
Drumm"nd, whose gorge had risen at
these evidences of hopeless incaparity
and utter shftlr>NnnSN. WAS not relieved
10y the presence of Mrs. Rrrd-a sourrd,
disappointed woman of forty, who still
carried in her small dark eyes and thin
handsome lips something of the bitter
ness and autaGnniSm of the typical
southern rights wOman-nOr of her two
daughters, Ortavia and Augusta-whose
languid atrabiliousncss seemed a part
Of the mourning they still wore. The
optimistic gallantry and good fellow
ship of the ma or appeared the more re-
marlable by contrast with his cypress
shadowcd family, and their vCnomous
possibilities. Perhaps there might have
been a vein of southern insincerity in
his good humor.
Paw" said Miss Octavia with gloomy
confidence to CORTLAND but with a
pretty curl of the hereditary lip, lis about
the only reconstructed one of the en-
tire family. We don't make EN- much
about yer. But I'd advise yo' friend,
Mr. Drummond-if he's coming here
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ed 'em to work over time and get mo-
pay. And the result was that she and
her niece and a lot of poor whites,
Irish and Scotch, that she had to pick
up long the river, do all the work. And
her niece Sally was mo- than half union
woman during the wah and up to all
no'then tricks and lodges and swearin'
by them, and yet for all that the thing
won't work"
But isn't that partly the reason?
Isn't her failure a great deal due to ais
lack of sympathy from her neighbors?
Discomfort is easily sown and the negro
is still weighted down by superstition
The Fifteenth amendment did not
quite knock off all his chains"
'4es, but that is nothing to her. For
If there ever was person in this world
who reckOncd she was just born to
manage everything and everybody it is
Sally Dows!"
Sally Dows!" repeated CORTLAND,
with a slight start.
YES, Sally Bows, of Pineville."
"You say she was half union, but did
she have any relations or-or-friends
In the war-on your side? Any who
were killed in battleP"
'They were all killed, reckon" re-
turned Miss Reed. darkly. There was
her cousin, Jules Jeffcourt, shot in the
cemetery with her beau-who they say
was S0lly's> too; there was Chef Brooks
and Joyce Masterton, who were both
gone on her, and both killed, too; and
there was old Capt. Bows himself, who
never lifted his head again after Rich
mond was taken and drank himself to
death. 1t wasn't considered healthy to
be Miss Sally's relation in those times,
or to be even wantin' to be one"
Col. CORTLAND did not reply. The
face of the dead Young officer coming
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toward him out of the blue smoke rose
as wildly as on that memorable day.
The pictures and letters he had taken
from the dead mans breast, which he
had retained ever since; the romantic
and fruitless quest he had made for the
fair original in after days, and the
strange and fateful interest in her
which had grown up in his heart since
then, he now knew had only been
lulled to sleep in the busy preoccupa-
ton of the last six months, for 1t all
came back to him with redoubled force.
His present mission and it's practical
object, his honest zeal in Its pursuit
and the cautious skill and experience
had brought to it, all seemed to
be suddenly displaced by this ro-
mantle and unreal fantasy. Oddly
enough, it appeared now to be the only
reality in his life-the rest was an inco-
herent, purposeless dream.
Isis Miss Sally married?" he
asked, collecting himself with an effort
Married? Yes, to that farm of her
aunt's! reckon that's the only thing
she cares for"
CORTLAND looked up, recovering his
usual cheerful calm. "Well, think
that after luncheon I'll pay my respects
to her husband! From what YOU have
just told me the farm is certainly an
experiment worth seeing. suppose
your father will have no objection to
giving me letter to Miss BOWS"
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possible, and we worked right along
just as if we had n silent partner named
RothSchild. And how well have we
succeeded? Let's consult our books at
this period.
The day we opened our doors for
business our authorized capital stock
was $4,000, though less than one-sixth
of that amount had been paid in in &C.
tual cash. And after having paid some
expenses incident to getting into shape
for business we started out with less
than $500 in cash in the drawer with
which to do general banking bust
ness" Within two and half months
after we started the deposits had run up
to S13,9SS. During the next year. 1889,
our deposits aggregated SILT, 1876; in 1890
they amounted to $40, 400; 1891, s247,-
244; and for the first six months of the
present year the Deposits reached the
aggregate sum Of 15s,21S-more than
500, 900 a month, and total of deposits,
up to the close of the present year, OF
more than 5000, 900. This magnificent
sum represents in some degree the
measure of confidence which the bust.
ness public has given us. The net re-
suits OF our business transactions have
been equally satisfactory and crafty
ing. With no experience to guide us
In the beginning, and having often to
combat the antagonism and meet the
prejudices of unfriendly rivals in the
same line of business, it is not to be
wondered at that we made some mis-
takes and sustained some losses, but
these have been comparatively few.
what we have accomplished in
these brief years has been accomplished
In the face of greater opposition than
we have any reason to expect will con-
front us again. Nothing succeeds like
success, and having shown what is pos
sible of accomplishment in this direc-
ton, we confidently look forward to
greater success in the future"
When a showing such as this can be
made from such unpromising begin
nings in four years, it is safe to con-
clude that these people have capacity
for something higher than they have
yet been given credit for.
Besides the Capital savings bank
there are several private bankers here
who are conducting prosperous bust
ness, and the managers of the True Re-
formers, who have a successful bank at
Richmond, recently purchased a piece
OF property here for $40, 900, upon which
they propoSe to erect bank building
shortly.
T. THOMAS FORTUNE
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when set of men who have had abso-
lntely no experience of the sort required
in successfully conducting a bank, and
who are lacking in the essential re-
sources of means and credit, undertake
to put in operation a business enter
prise under the pretentious name OF a
bank surely the difficulties in the way
of their success would appear well-nigh
insurmountable. But such was just the
unfavorable condition under which this
present enterprise had its birth. One
point alone stood out prominently as a
hopeful indication in organizing this
enterprise, and that was the growing
necessity for it's existence.
Here we were, people strong in
numbers, advancing rapidly in every
educational requirement, entering here
and there into the smaller business
avenues and eager to widen the field of
our business operations, but unalter-
ably handicapped by prejudice which
we could neither modify nor control.
We had an army of salaried men and
women drawing from the government
every month. through the public schools
and the departmental service, hundreds
of thousands of dollars and a still larger
al vi IlOL0Slt CdIucSG "dPc-edrncrS,
who week by week received large
money return for their labor. There
was absolutely no central ral1ying
point at which the monetary interest of
the colored people concentrated and
through which we could prove to the
world that we are capable of that sort
of business development that makes q
people respectable and respected.
1T was under the impulse of senti-
ments such as these that six colored
men met one October evening in 1888 in
the library of II. P. Montgomery's resi-
dence in this city and discussed
the project of opening bank. They
carefully weighed the arguments for
and against it, and, being filled with a
purpose to do something, they decided
then and there to do it. One of the
number present happened to know of a
suitable place that could be secured at
once for our business. We agreed to
rent the place, and we assessed our
selves for money enough on the spot to
pay months rent in advance. We had
place then, but no business We
hadn't single dollar of stock sold or
subscribed for. no deposits, no books,
no tender of cash from any source, no
offices, no clerls-in short, no anything
but one months rent and one years
pluck. A few meetings followed in
quick succession, and on Wednesday
morning, October II, 1883, the door of
the Capital savings bank was swung
open at sO4 + street, and the public at
large were asked to give us share of
their confidence and their business.
In some business circles our courage
took the form of audacity, and our
bank was the quick sensation OF the
hour.
IA bank with colored president, col
orcd cashier, colored clerks and colored
board of directors! 'Impossibler said
some. Foolish said some others. But
we meant to succeed if success wer
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-12
AFRO-AMERICAN BANK.
Two Million Dollars Handled In
-Four Years
Solving the Problem OF the Afro-AmerI-
cans Capacity as Man and Citizen
In the Broader Sense-A Washing
ton ID. CO. Experiment.
TCoPYRIGHr 1897

Few people familiar with the habits
of the AfroAmericans living in Wash
ington prior to 1883 can realize the
change that has taken place in their
habits. At that time most of the peo-
pie employed in the departments not
only spent all that they made but were
habitual borrowers of brokers who be.
came widely known as 80 per centers,"
because for every $40 they advanced
they got 81 rental for the thirty days,
or interest at the rate Of 100 per cent.
per annum.
The 40 per centers" grew in num-
bers and waxed exceedingly fat, while
the department employee appeared to
grow 1eaner and hungrier every year
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business with hin-if Maj. Reed, .
so'th'n gentleman, is going to keep
shop he hain't such a fool as to believe
niggers will work when they amt
obliged to. That's been tried over ut
Mirandy Bows, not five miles from here.
and the niggers are half the time runnin'
round here talSin' holiday. She put up
new quarters for 'em and tried to make
'em eat together at a long table like
those low-down folks up north, and did
away with their cabins and their melon
patches, and allowed it would get 'ern
out of lying round too much and want
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-12
NO RELIEF AT CINCINNATI,
Coal Dealers Now Rafuse to Sell to Sinai
Consumers at Any Price.

Coal Dealers Now Rafuse to Sell to Small
Consumers at Any Price.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 10. No relief appears
in sight for those affected by the action OF
the coal dealers combine. Coal mer-
chants refuse to sell to small consumers
at any price. They are outstanding what
they have in their yards and elevators
for the unavoidable fulfilment of con-
tracts with large consumers.
The abnormal condition of things Just
now-the river gorged with ice, naviga-
ton absolutely closed and the thermome-
ter down to zero-is causing intense suf-
tering among the poorer elements of the
people.
Unless coal can be brought in by rail
consigned to dealers outside the combine,
it is hard to foretell the limit to which
the suffering may extend.
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The Trial Postponed,

BRIDGEToN, N. j., Jan. 12-The trial
OF President Arlington and Vice .Presi.
dent Troth, of the United Green Glas.
Workers of the United States and Can
ada, and George Marshall, secretary OF
the Bridgeton local branch, for conspir
acy in connection with the present strike
at the Cumberland Glass works, has beer
postponed until the May term of tn,
Cumberland county court. sAaORa
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KILLED THREE IN SUCCESSION.
A Series of Fatalities by the Royal Blue
Line Express.


PLAINFIELD, N. j., Jan. 12.-The Royal
Blue line train of the Baltimore s. Ohio
railroad, eastbound, over the Central
Railroad of New Jersey tracks, due here
ut noon, had three fatal accidents within
a few miles.
The first was at Summerville, where a
man was struck and killed.
AT Bound Brook q farmer named John
Blakely was killed.
At Dunnellen John Cunningham was
walking along the tracks. He failed to
hear the warning whistle, and before the
engineer could stop his train the engine
struck Cunningham and threw him into
the ditch beside the track. When picked
up he was dead.
He was employed at Elizabethport.
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carpet bagging, not to trust too much
to paws reconstruction 1t won't
wash" But when CORTLAND FASTENED
to assure her that Drummond was not
q carpet bagger,"-was not only free
from any of the political intrigue i'm
piled under that baleful title. but was a
wealthy northern capitalist simply
seeking investment, the young lady
was scarcely more hopeful. 81 suppose
he reckons to pay paw for those mig
gers yo' stole?" she suggested, with
gloomy sarcasm.
mo" said CORTLAND, smiling, but
what II he reckoned to pay those mig
gers for working for your father and
him?"
"If paw Il going into the trading
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A Train Frozen Fast to tho Track.

CHICAGO, Jan. 12.-The Diamond special
from St. Louis, met with Il strange ex
perience which delayed the train four
hours. While taking water at Gibson
this State, the overflow from the tank con
gealed on the tracks under the tender and
froze the wheels fast to the track The
trainmen cut the ice away, but to no
purpose and the train was stuck fast I'M
til another engine came to its relief.
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On Trinl for HaZing.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Jan. 12.-The trial of
Naval Cadet Leland F. James of Sout b
Carolina for hazing has begun here.
Naval cadets Hutch J. Cone, Richard J.
Fellows, J. j. Bryant and G. S. Jones tes-
titled for the prosecution. No direct
testimony was developed against Cadet
.TaDas
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Mrs. Marshall Will Recover.

New YORK, Jan 12-Mrs. Walter Mar
shall, who was shot by her husband on
Tuesday night after he had killed Robert
Dinsfelder, her suspected lover, and be-
fore he killed himself, is in Bellevue hos
ptal and will in all probability recover
Her three bullet wounds are all in the
flesh and ought to heal rapidly.
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DID NOT RIDIcULET 1.-THE POPE.
The Rev. DIR. Funk Denies the Statements
Attributed TO DIR. McGIynn.

Inc Rev. DR.. Funk Denies the Statemente
Attributed TO DIR. NIcGlynn.
NEW York, Jan. 12.-Rev. DR.. Funk
was seen by reporter last evening in re-
gard to the published account of the re-
ception given Rev. DR.. McGlynn at the
former's house, during which it was
stated that the latter had delivered an
address ridiculing the Pope.
DR.. Funk said that not word had been
uttered which could be considered i'm
proper, and that every allusion made by
DR.. McGlynn to the Pope and Monsignor
Satolli was most respectful.
Or. Funk accused the reporter present
unknown to the assemblage) of caves
dropping, and with disappearing facts.