Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1897-10-02
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RELIGIOUS JOTTINGS.
INTERES1ING NEWS.
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INTERESTING NEWS.

ming, was as nice anu plcacohe ~oS
as any one wish to fulfil and practice
their early training to remember the
sabbath day and keep it holy.
Rev. ID. W. Wisher, pastor OF Mount
Olivet Baptist Church. who has been
attending the Baptist convent IN at
Boston. Mass, occupied the pulpit ana
nreached a powerful and doctrinal
sermon at IL a. m, to large audi
ence.
At the Young Peoples Progressive
Bihle Association. which conveDes at
AIS pm, the following programme
was rendered: Recitation. me Dylug
Christian" Miss Berry, OF petersburg |
Va; Paper, 1.-The Necessity OF RecelV-
ing the Proper Instruction when we
are Young by Mr.. s. 6. Dabney
miscellaneous remarks by Rev. A. Fox
Address, deacon II l.. Jones. who salo
in part that the backwardness, the dt-
ferent impediments of the race was the
result of non leadership and that wnen
those who represent themselves TO De
such. can feel the need of his brother,
realize his position and put themselves
on the same equality with ms tonoW-
ers, will dawn a new era In the history
of the Negro race. Mr.. Jones esVs
notice that in the near future, he would
read a paper before the Association en-
titled "A Successful Church, Pro-
Oressiye Sunday School ard Well At
tended Association" Deacon Jones is
q gentleman of executive ability and a
| wide experience. in deliberate assocla-
tions and organizations and has the
distiuction of being the only negro on
the military staff of the Baptist Boys
Brigade in Greater New York
At st. Marks M. E. Church West0Sro
street, Friday evening. October ist
service of song will be conducted by
Mr. J. W Alexander.
Rev E.S w. Peck, D. D., who was
the second pastor of st. Marks, but
Is now stationed at Washington Will
All the pulpit on the morning OF the
rallv Sunday October 3. Rev. A. s..
Nonroe. ID. d will preach at Z 40 p.
nm ON and after the first Sunday In
October the services in the morning
will commence in the morning at 1O;40
/, ard at Z :45 in the evening
Policemen Christopher o Brian OF
the East One Hundred ana r0urSn
: Station was held in $l,OOo Dali on
: charge of felonious assault. The po'
} IiceuIau is accused of having brutally
= assaulted Richard Logan colorec
/ how. A number of boys we're amusing
:, themselves by throwing stones at pass
ing cable cars, O'Brian arrested lac
named William Hoffman, and was FOL
y lowed TO the station house by large
= crowd who began to throw stones a.
y him He turned young Holman ovel
: to his brother and started after Logan
Logan fed and took refuge III base
: ment. The policeman followed th'
{ lad through the basement and into th'
hack ward. According to six witnesses
:. five colored and one white, the police
- man caught the boy in the yard ant
: unmerciful dubbed him. O'Brien de
MED the story and had another police
= man TO substantiste his own account
y but the magistrate said the preponder
ance of evidence was against him.
INTERESTING ITEMS.
The following Is an exact extra'
Is from the New York Herald, an issu
of the 2lst inst. entitled vile Trafi
|, in Negro Women" Induced to leav
is their homes in the South TO enter viz
tual slavery here, continuing the Her
aid states that they are oppressed an
placed amid surroundings which spec
lily lead to their downfall and to hope
less bondage
Evidences of systematic traffic j
human being was presented in an art
Gle published in the Evening Telegram
of 20 inst. Ignorant colored girls, in
~ duced by false representation OF tn
opportunities OF New York leave thti
20 homes in the South find themselves
y. soon after their arrival at a pretende
ii employment agency, in the power {
INSCRIPTIONS men, white or black, VIII
30 extort from them whatever they ms
1 earn and keep them in virtual bondage
The young women while on their wa
. to the city are required to sign Ger
I'll a or mr. .ar. cIaf- -
which turns out to be an agreemen
to repay all expenses for travel an
70 board. Incidentally they undertak
D. Co paw fare for first-class passage
u though they have been brought her
, second-class.
). THEIR PAIL IS RAPID.
, When an employer hires servan
10 he also signs an agreement to tur
- over to the bureau the servants wage
- each month until all her indebtedness
= to the agency is discharged. The col
N ored woman sits day after day in
q stuffy office waiting for work. The a
! plicant finally realizes that each i'd
day means so much more indebtedness
# to the company she is finally frette
n into such desperation that she wi
m take the very first opening presente
: regardless of small wages or the char
! acter of her employer. The youn
a woman soon lose all sense of right o
% wrong. 1t is q question OF existenc
Is with her, nature lily it would be unde
II the circumstances. Her master give
her no portion of her spells. What OF
q dinarily would be her wages he turn
= over to the employment agency unit
: his claim is satisfied. After that b
Il pockets everything that she obtains O
n steals. A man who has two or more c
- of these woman under control is sal
= to have a camp" He processes t
- look after the welfare of the slaves h
h owns, but does nothing for them be
y sides finding them lodging, to kee
out of the clutches of the police
=, makes them move often. The entir
= 'camp'iimmigrates the morning fOllo'
= ing q robbery. While many of 9TH
: women are eager to leave this slavis
life, none of them dare to break ava
4 from their master. She IS only fire
- when she becomes totally wrecked an
~ unfit to earn more money for hin
Then she is cast out.
~ The section most infested by thes
\ women borders on Seventh Avenue
i from Twenty-fourth to Forty first ST
- between Sixth and Seventh Avenues
At Thirty fourth the district is agai
~ confined between Seventh and Eight
:. Avenues and so continues up to Forty
~ first street.
- Mrs. Victoria Earle Matthews super
intendent of White Rose Mission said
"rhe White Rose Mission was organ
b lied to break up this traffic IN Soutl
ern colored girls White girls frol
40 the interior are subjected to the sam
=, horror that has befallen the blacks :"
The main Office of the intelligeI
IN agencies, whose business is to sc
Il young girls body and soul are in tn
. city. There are branches at Ricl
mond. Norfolk and Philadelphia wit
agencies all over the Carolinas, Virgl
ia. Maryland Delaware and GeOgia.
The Rev. P. Butler Tompkins, org
Us nicer and pastor of St. James Presb,