The Seattle Republican., 1900-09-07
AFRO
AMERICANISM
AS Observed by the Colored-
American Journal.
ENERGY, PROSPERITY
Quite General Among Them AL
Over the State.
POINTED AND PITHY
Told In Short Stories Of the DoInrs
of the Negroes In and About
Their Many Homes.

The following paragraphs con-
cerning the Afro-Americans of this
country have been taken from the
Colored American:
Louis V. Harrison is conducting
an art school for the race at 610
kobln street, Houston, Tex.
Frank Gadsen is the proprietor of
one OF the best stocked dry goods
stores in Ocala, Fla.
Chicago is soon to have a penny
bank, owned and controlled by Ne
grOes;$1O, 900 has been raised.
ID. u. Mills, formerly of San An
tonic, but now u. D. soldier, has
been sent to Cuba as a regimentaI
printer.
Causie Oscar Arts conducts BIZ
cycle repair shop at Columbus, o.,
and is patronlzeu by both white and
colored.
There are two Negro drug stores
IN st. Louis. E. Il. Taylor, 26Ol
Morgan street, and Ernest L.. Harris,
1890 Market street.
Maryland Afro-Americans are
again attempting an organized
movement against the law prohibit
ing the lntermarriage of whites and
blacks.
The 500 Pullman car porters,
with headquarters at Pittsburg, have
decided to form union and affiliate
with the National Colored Mems
Railroad Association
The Aurora Publishing Company,
Of Morris Brown College, have pur-
chased a press and printing outfit.
they will issue the college paper
monthly, and do all kinds OF job
work.
The house at Guinea's Station,
Va, where Stonewall Jackson died,
IS now the property Of Negro. The
Stonewau jackson Memorial Associ-
alton has offered to buy the property
for IS, 900.
The Free Mission Baptist people
of Texas have purchased fifteen
acres of land near Eagle Lake, Tex,
and Will erect a brick school build
ing, where industrial education will
be taught the Negro youth.
At Macon, Ga, the other week, a
new discovery was made from an un-
expected quarter, which speaks well
for the race The fact is this, that
more white people were paying rent
than colored people.
M. w. Thurston is superintendent
Of a silk factory in North Carolina
IN which 400 hands are employed,
only two of whom are white, and
they are specially engaged to in
struct the colored employees how to
do the work.
At the recent graduation exercises
of the Catholic University Of Amer
lea, Washington, d. c., colored
graduate, on receiving his diploma,
comforting the degree of Master of
Science, from the hands Of Cardinal
Gibbons, the entire assemblage
broke into enthusiastic applause.
S. w. Trice and F.. w. Williams
have formed a partnership and
opened up a gents furnishing goods
establishment in Chicago under the
firm name of Tree & Williams
These are two Of Chicago's most in
dustrious young men who have
worked hard and saved their money
and are now doing good business
as merchants.
Out in Highland park, Pittsburg,
Pa, near the zoo is a plot of ground
owned by a colored family named
Bullitt, which Director Bigelow has
; been anxious to add to the park
grounds for a number of years. The
matter was taken into court, under
T condemnation proceedings, and the
, price fixed is $11, 1000, which the city
will have to pay.
Prof. Frederick Dinslow Height,
: NJ. A., after having passed through
: difficult ordeal Of sickness and sur
: gical operation, is himself once more
e He announces to his many friends
S that he will be on the road again at
e an early date and will deliver lee
). lures on the following subjects:
n 'SThe Evolution of the Negro" ''Hhe
It Moral Dangers Besetting Our New
S Responsibilities" and "The Negro
' in Holy Writ"
is The Iron Moulders' Union of New
is York, by their just and equitable ac-
t ton IN the annual meeting recently
7 held, have put in motion force that
e is calculated to revolutionize senti-
q ment in favor of the colored man,
/ which means better support for his
r wife and children. AT this meeting
d rule was almost unanimously
adopted, that hereafter colored men