The colored American., 1903-03-21

in gtOn nearly forty years ago, put MS
head is still the same size and his
heart is as big as ever.
Board William L.-ThiS young man
is a Buckeye by birth, Marylander
by adoption, and a Washingtonian be-
cause he has a good place in the Post
Office Department, which he obtained
in a Civil Service examination, where
there were ninety contestants, and he
came out ahead of the other eighty
nine. When Mr.. Board came to Wash
ington he was not accompanied by
brass band nor by the proverbial
sounding brass and tinkling cymbClS.
Somebody was unkind enough to say
that he actually walked into the city,
and that he wore sandals instead of
shoes Several Washington acquain-
tances of ours have threatened to ask
him just how he came into the city,
but he Sc much resembles ThOS. l..
Jones that our acquaintance nave
been afraid to ask the question, for
fear of being hauled into the courts.
Mr.. Board had a record in the POST
Office Department long before he was
known among the Washington elite,
and it was not until a banquet was
given somewhere nearly a year or two
ago. when by accident he was put
down as one of the "also ran orators.
The banquet mentioned was
recherche affair and the picked ora
tors made the hall and welkln ring
with elOQuence. The real orator, now
ever, did not speak until Mr.. Boards
name was called and in almost fren-
Zied eloquence he charmed and sway
ed the audience with the witchery or
his personality and the mellifuous-
ness of his diction. He is one of the
original members of The Pen and
Tl,Ih
good money, and who saves 1T, and
who will be heard from in a larger
measure before many years.
Cooper, E. E.-was born on the first
anniversary of his birth somewhere
down South his mother being present
on the occasion. His father was away
fishing. 1t is said that he was born
with a cau1 and therefore can see
things but he is near sighted, being
obliged to wear glasses, and [ have
my doubts about his ability to see
more than the average man. When he
first began to squawk he was called
the black Squall by the neighbGrS,
who complained to the Health authori-
ties about him, on the ground that his
infantiie vociferations constituted a
public nuisance under the statute. He
commenced to grow soon after he
started and he kept on growing until
lie dII1N0u 10 the age VI I1dlIhOOu
when he stopped and commenced to
expand in the region of the comma
sariat, so that now he resembles a
London Alderman or g. Tammany
State Senator. He has a penchant
for publishing newspapers; and
founded the Indianapolis Freeman,
Joined the church, and the republican
party when he was tWenty-one; is an
officer Of the Sons OF Temperance, and
an honorary member of the good Tenn
plars of the world; belongs to the
True RefOrmerS, Sons and Daughters
of Moses, and has his washing done
at a Chinese laundry to show that he
has no feeling against the mooneyed
Mongolians. He is Inside Sentinel of
the Sons of Rest, and some kind Of
high muck-a-muck in the Pen and
Pencil Club. Our artist has f1attered
the old rascal IN the portrait here
given of him. He is not half so good
looking as that, and doesn't wear such
expensive clothes. He is not as bad
as he looks, and when you know him
we'll you like him better. Being only
human he is, of course not perfect
His coffee pot nose can scent more
news than a half dozen gossiping wo-
men.
Lyons, Judson W.-This is the