The colored American., 1901-03-23

special course in either dreSSmaking,
millinery, piano and voice culture,
music, as well as Il knowledge of the
culinary art. | do not know when [
have been so impressed with a work
of this kind. | have never been at
Prof Booker L. Washington's great
school at TuSkeegee, but l feel that
Avery must be just such a school on a
small scale.
NOTES
The cOlored population of Pittsburg
and Allegheny City combined is about
%, coo, and in the main is keeping
pace with the other peoples of the
other races. The cOIOred people
own a great deal of wealth here
and are represented in the various
branches of business. About five
colOred lawyers have large and Iucra-
tive practices and stand well at the
bar Churches, lodges and barber
shops are too numerous to mention.
Lawyer j. Wexford Holmes is per
haps one of the best known cOlOred
lawyers practicing in Pittsburg and
counts his clients by the thousands.
He is a graduate Of Howard UniVeIsi-
ty Law School, and has one of the
best equipped offices of any cOlOred
lawyer it has been my pleasure to
visit
Mr. w. NJ. Randolph is another one
of Pittsburg's leading lights. He is a
PhiladeIphian and a most gifted and
suave young man. He is said TO have
all the business he can do and was too
busy TO give me the information l
wanted concerning him.
Jennings & Browns drug store, on
Wylie ave-, is a complete and an up
tO-date pharmacy. DR.. Jennings is a
graduate of Lincoln University, and
was associated with me in my early
career as a newspaper man. l did not
| see his partner, DR.. Brown.
[ saw any number of barber shops,
news stands and cigar stores, owned
and Operatedby cOlOred men, and in one
particular, that of Mr.. W. I'll. Smith,
| $50 Wylie ave-, every cOlOred publi-
cation was to be had, while the store
was stocked with all brands of cigars
and Il laundry department, which in
dicated by the we'll filled shelves, that
a large laundry business was being
done, while in the rear of the building
was q barber shop with five chairs;
hot, cold and Turkish baths, made this
place a most inviting and encouraging
one to me.
Mr.. JnO. Brown, a Washington boy,
owns one of the three cOlOred saloons
in PittSburg. 1t is firSt-class in all of
it's departments, is located in a three
story building, and the cafe depart
ment, when | saw it, impressed me as
doing a big business.
The little towns of Homestead. Mum
hall and others show thrift and enter
prise on the part of the colored peO-
pie They have organizations, build
ing and loan associations, stock COM
panies, and are buying up property
and accommodating money. [ am told
that a cOlored bank is to be started in
Pittsburg at an early date.
At six o'clock l was invited to the
IpaIatial home of Prof j. d. MahOney,
on one of the hills which overlook
Pittsburg, where l met his charming
lwife and daughter, and where a
sumptuOuS dinner had been prepared
and a large number of friends had
been invited, including Lawyer
Holmes, Lawyer Randolph, Rev. II. Q.
Robinson, formerly of Washington, ID.
IC.: Prof Thos y. Swan, of the Manual
Training Department of Avery Col
ilege, and others. To quote from Paul
Lawrence Dunbar, Prof. MahOney
Lives at hOme," and [ felt indeed that
was in tall grass"
| took the ten o'clock New York
Special for Washington and in the st
hours l had been away had ridden
nearly 700 miles, and had had a good