The colored American., 1902-03-29


arranged that it can at times be cleared
for dancing. A building of this char
acter could be erected at a moderate
cost, and a small company of colored
capitalists could easily furnish the
money. The location need not be in the
districts where real estate is high. Get
the place and the attractions, and the
people will do the rest
There isn't the slightest doubt in our
mind that an auditorium, of the nature
described, would pay big money on the
nvestment-especially in a city like
this, where the color line is drawn with
an iron hand Travelling companies
would play many dates, and past expert
ence shows that they would be profitable
On odd weeks a vaudeville program
of high-class specially people, like John
son and Deane, Goggin and Davis, Tom
Brown, Hogan and McClain and other
''tOp-liners.' could be put on to ad-
Washington talent could be organized,
to produce standard plays at intervals
An accomplished artistic to head that
class of work would be Miss Henrietta
Vinton Davis, lady of energy and rare
dramatic genius. This city is full of
young ladies and gentlemen who would
so love to shine behind the footlights,"
that the task would be a mere matter of
detail, Considering the annual blow
outs" and ''Singfests" of the AmpI1ions,
| AeOlian Mandolin, Orpheus, the pro-
ductions of the High School ingenues,
to say nothing of the Coachmen's ball,
the Bannekers, the Young Mems Pro-
teCtive League, etc, when could such
hall ever be idle-save in the heat of
summer-if then? Wake up, gentlemen
of the District Are there no Robert
Churches, no Pat Chappelles among
you? They are turning 'em away" in
Memphis and Tampa.
If there is on Gods green earth one
pest that is worse than the ANONYMOUS
letter-writer or the fool friend with the
hair-trigger tongue, it is the whispering
crank who is forever bringing you news
but is dissent to tell the source
from which it came. Some one told
me this about you" and "a certain per-
son said so and so"-but Ssh, don't
let on that l limited it''-these are things
we hear every day. People who deal in
such trash are not worthy of confidence
or belief They frequently manufacture
their wares from whole cloth and say
behind the wall of an unknown nobody
hearts. If you think it worth while to
warn a friend of impending danger, do
sO-yOu wouldn't be worth two cents in
Chinese money if you were cowardly
enough to see a comrade stabbed in the
back without a note of warning-but,
remember the weight of a rumor de-
pendS upon the reputed veracity of its
CIrCulatOr and to properly draw deduc-
tiOnS the source should be exposed. If
YOU are not prepared to tell all-Shut up
Going around the hotels, restaurants
and clubs we run into great many ex-
officehOlders. They are fat and healthy,
wear good clothes, have ready money,
and a CHEEKY smile invariably lightens
their cOuntenanCe We are moved to
wonder how it IS that a Government
clerk who heretofore has always been
broke" when in receipt of $Ioo per
month, IS so much more flush when
out of a public Office than when in. Can
any one tell
Those who frequent what is called
the West Side-or First ward-seldom
get away without dropping in at ISL
Twenty street, to have a handshake
and quiet chat with DR.. Samuel Madden
Pierre. He is a young man of excellent
address, and his companionship is
priced by host of acquaintance. He
is sOciable to the last degree, but, never
theless, attends to business first and
never neglectSs patient for the whirl
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