The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-28

drtrnent has been added to do the
Torh which college settlements do in
ne north While the negro must settle
,Jie own internal problems, he has d
isnt 10 demand the use of the expe-
renee or other nations of the 18th cen-
turies."
me audience, which showed itself
very friendly throughout the meeting,
eNIuced great cordiality to Paul Law
eilGe dunbar, who at the conclusion
.. Frof. Dubois address, recited three
y! ms poems Mr.. Dunbar looks pre-
SISeiy Ike the picture of him in Sun
Jay spy. He is tall, with 4 line ply
slque, and the air of style common to
the young men and women Of mis- race.
ms skin is very dark, and his hair,
when he parts in the middle. is tightly
] Kflnkled. While he has decidedly the
negro cast of feature, his expression Is
intelligent, refined and mobile, while
| ms voice is the soft, rich, flexible full
bodied, negro organ. Mr.. Dunbar was
! accompanied by his wife, stylishly
| dressed and exceedingly pretty young
/ colored woman, and they tJgether with
/ Prof. Dubois and President Bustead of
Atlanta University dined with DR..
and Mrs, Daniel Merriman prior to the
| entertainment
| Mr.. Dunbars first selection was The
! poet and his song" which was fol-
| lowed by dialect piece, when Me
| Indy sings" and that in turn by The
warriors prayer" from his latest vol
ume of poems, Lyrics of the hearth
side" Al the close of the evening ne re-
cited The party" He was. naturally,
most characteristic In the dialect num-
| bers, which were humorous and We're
delivered with much pantomimic ses-
ture and that underground chuckle in
the voice which makes negro fun so
irresistible. There was just enough
JUNCTION and abandon and race color
to make them delicious yet never
coarse. 1t was noticeable that the nom
dialect poems were given IN as perfect
ly pure English.
The negro poet was followed by Rev.
Horace Bumstead, D. D., president of
Atlanta University, who illustrated his
talk with a large number of sterOpticon
pictures and diagrams. One of the
charts showed the proportions in re-
spect to growth between the white and
the colored races from 1890 to 1890, from
which it appeared that while the whites
have increased very ~luch faster than
the blacks, the latter equalled at the
time of the last census the whole popu-
lation of the country in 1910. Other
diagrams showed the manner in which
the colored people are scattered over
the country at the rate of one negro
to the square mile up to so negroes
and over to the square mile which is
the percentage in Louisiana, Missis
sippi and South Carolina. The two
races We're compared in point of occu-
pations, the whites being divided for
the sake Of the comparison into natives
and foreign born, and it appeared that
all but small margin of negroes are
either farmers or personal servants,
manufactures, agriculture, the profess
sions, trade and transportation being
in the hands of the others. Then there
were pictures of the cabins in which
the negroes live, often under such ter
rible sanitary conditions that the
death rate of the negro is 62.3 per cent
in excess of that of she white man.
Consumption and pneumonia alone
claim 1877 per cent more colored than
white people, while the number of ne
gro children who either die Of cholera
infantum or commissions, or else are
stillborn. is 149 per cent in excess of
the rate for white children. The pleas
ATTEST pictures with which the exhibit
ton closed were of Atlanta University
itself-the Knowles Industrial School,
the gift of the late Mr.. and Mrs Lucius
j. Knowles of this city, with it's car
pentering, blacksmithing, sewing, cook
ing and laundry classes Of bright, self
respecting young men and women. A
new house, the Kings Daughters
Home, was shown in prospectus. Only
$4,000 are needed to complete 1t. Two
memorial windows in the chapel, which
were designed by Mrs. Helen Merriman,
were shown, while individual portraits
of some of the teachers, clergymen and
principals who have graduated from
the university brought the stereopticon
pictures to a close.
After the program there was an in
formal reception for the speakers. Mr..
and Mrs. Dunbar left for Boston on
the go train, but Prof. Dubois re-
mains in town till today. Tomorrow
the Woman's Club will hold a special
meeting at $50 o'clock, when Mrs.
Sedgwick of Boston and Mrs. George
of Brookline will present the side of the
remonstrants against the farther ex-
tension of suffrage to women. This
meeting will be preceded by confer
ence opening at 2.3O o'clock, between
the club and the waiting fist on the de-
STABILITY of forming an associate club.