The sun., 1895-05-19
hFRo-.1MERIcAN NOTES.

Or. Daniel H. Williams had made success of the
Provident Hospital at Chicago before Secretary Hoko
Smith made him chief surgeon of the Freedmans Hos
pital at Washington. He has introduced many new
features In this latter Institution. among them q
training school for nurses. which promises to be q
great success Tho managers of the Atlanta Exposi.
ton have extended to DR.. Williams an invitation to
establish fully appointed hospital on the grounds OF
the exposition, In connection with other features OF
the Mro-American department
Although he has shown unvaryng disposition to
discourage Afro American ONCE seekers from con.
suming his time and attention. because he has nothing
he feels that he give them Mayor Strong will soon
be surprised to receive numcrousy signed petition
backed up by good.iooking delegation. requesting
him to appoint Mr. Jacob H. Simms Police Justice
Those who are managing tho affair feel that they have
aleadpip cnch for their candidate in spite OF tho
fact that Mayor Strong has already list OF candi
dates long enough to MI all the Police Judgcships In
New York state. Mr.. Smms IL a police court lawyer
OF many years standing and should he well grounded
In police court practice at cast Hs presence on the
bench would be an innovation with n vengeance. Mr.
Simms is prominent politician In the Eleventh As
senbly district, and publishes newspaper called the
Echo He Is about 90 years OF age very dark and has
good opinion of himself and his political influence
Mr.. William H. Ellis OF Texas is having end OF
trouble keeping up with the newspaper reports that
his Durango colony OF AfroAmercans, in Mexico, Ia
In the nature of penal colony. Members OF the col
ony who wen: to Mexico few months ago have
Chattahoochce River that they were overworked.
unierfed. and badly housed and were In every way
disappointed In Mr.. Ellis and in Mexico They say
that the 800 colonists have been reduced to n cond
tion no better than slavery by the Mexican corpora
ton for whom Mr.. Ellis acts recruiting agent. Mr.
Ellis stoutly maintains that all persons who have
returned are wells. that they maliciousiy fa
sify the facts and that he Is glad that they have
turned to the United States they were demora
izing element among the colonlsts Is hard to de-
eide which side is telling the truth.
George f. Smith, the janitor OF the Senate at Albany
whose death was announced during the week. was one
OF those queer characters who appear be born to
fill the position into which they drop. which they oc.
cupy until they die. For years he acted chief mes
scngcr to the Republican State Committee. He knew
every Republican politician In the State. and all tho
prominent ones In the country sight and by name
He was the doorkecper whenever an executive meet
ing was held; and although his head was crammed
full OF political secrets no could get OF them
out OF him. He carried remarkably still tongue In his
head. During the closing days OF the last ho
had q lively scrap In the Fifth Avenue Hotel head.
quarters with BENJAMIN Franklin Palmer. sturdy
Afro.American statesman, who insisted that he held
unsettled claim for extraordinary services against
the committee. MIR. Palmer made Mr.. Smith tired,
and the latter undertook to bounce the former, and
they both got into the police court. where Democratic
justice allowed them to In peace condition that
they would sin no more Mr.. Smith made great
many enemies among the snallfry politicians OF his
race because he constantly blocked their aspirations
to get on Secretary Kenyons spellbinders' list.
AfroAmcrican daily newspaper ventures do not
prosper because their promoters have the capital
ana experience TO compete with white Journals
Weekly publications OF tho class suffer in the
same way The Petersburg Va Daily Herald and
the Washington Daily Globe have gone under after a
ftful existence. and the New orleans Daily Crusader
which has held the field longer than any OF Its
temporaries except the Cairo DaiD Gazette OF other
days, now shows signs of distress. 1t is announced all
the same that Jacksonville. Fla, is to have a daily
paper Of this stripe. Glass journalism is the hardest
sort of journalism of which to make a success. The
average newspaper reader is a general reader and
seldom finds In class journal all that he needs In
way Of news and opinion.
The Seguin Ne,r Test, small but very intellectual
newspaper has been absorbed by the TeIds Blade OF
San Antonio. and the Ttras Iutminator has been
snuffed out Of existence. Henry Clay Gray. the old
editor of the Neic Test Will the service OF the
American Missionary Association. graduate of ono
OF whose many colleges he IS as a travelling agent.
Mr. H. Laing Williams OF Chicago, prosperous law
will deliver the annual address the graduates
OF the Tuskegee Ala Norma! and Institute.
May 80. and T. Thomas Fortune Of New York will
speak to the students OF the Temperance Industrial
and Collegiate Institute, at Claremont, Va. June 4,
On The Bases Of Good Citizenship"
Benjamin Singleton IS now SO years old and in
destitute circumstances at Kansas City, NO. He has
had eventful and useful life In ls48 he ran awny
from Tennessee and reached Canada. He became In.
terested in the good work of the underground rail-
road became an ageut OF the company. and
tinued such from lS48 1862. In returned
to his old home in Tennessee. and while there
ceived the idea OF securing better homes for the
bers OF his race in the West. He successful in
securing grants OF land for his purpose in Kansas
Missouri upon which he located about 1900 OF his
people. The State OF Kansas. through Gov. St. John
appropriated 500 0Oo toward his scheme which he
faithfully distributed among the needy Immigrants
1t Is too bad that man who worked so hard to make
others prosperous and happy should be destitute
when he no longer help himself.
The Rev. George W Bryant, n past Junior viceCom.
mander Of the Grand Army OF the Republic. Depart
ment of Missouri has been invited by Nevins Post No.
l, OF Rockford H. TO deliver the Memorial Day ad
dress May SO. He Is said to be the first Afro American
to have such an honor conferred upon him In that
part OF the country.
Mayor Strong's veiied invitation to Afro-Americans
to step up and be examined for the police force may
be accepted by some who take the Mayor seriously.