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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-11-05
PEDRICKToWN.

Do not forget the pot-pie supper given by
the ladies Of the NJ E. Church on Satur-
day evening, supper 25c.
Misses Lou and Ethel Dubois. Of CLAW
ton, are the guests of the Misses Mary and
Arete Justice.
Mrs James Sweeten attended the funeral
of Andrew Weatherby at Redwood on
Monday
Mr.. and Mrs James Workman spent
Saturday and Sunday with Frank Baxter
and wife, Of Phila.
Our quiet town was aroused on Monday
evening about seven o'clock by the cry Of
ssFiren' when it was found to be the millin-
cry store Of Miss Edythe Pedriek. She was
filling an oil stove which exploded, DESTROY
ing all Of the interior of the store Assist
ance came in time to save the building
from burning to the ground Miss Ped
rick s loss is said to be about $780, For
tunately she escaped with but few burns.
Mrs. Mary Gates, Mrs Frank Gates and
children have returned from a visit with
relatives at Vinelaud
Isaac Ridgway and wife, Of Greenwich.
spent part Of last week with p p Sweeten
and wife
Miss Bessie Davis, Of Auburn, spent sun
day with Miss Carrie Strimple.
Election Day was very quiet one in
this section.
Miss Verna Cheeseman, Of Pennsgrove,
visited Mrs. Frank Gates on Tuesday.
Clarence Jordan and Miss Lottie Earring
ing were married ON Wednesday, Nov. i al
the home Of James harrington
Mrs. Fannie Skipnel Of phila snant
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-11-05

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists REFUND She money II It fails I'd cure.
- W Groves aienature Is on each boy. 2sc
The colored American., 1903-11-14

som nlethtng-how much, it is still inn
possible to tell-to advance the invent
i've thought of his country. A study
of it will show that. like other invent
ors, he has first sought to minimize
the labor difficulties Immediately be
fore him. His agricultural employ
ment suggested agricultural inven-
tions, while his domestic environments
suggested the next step in his advance
into the broader field of inventive eff
fort. In his Investigations he has
touched albeit but lightly, at times.
upon nearly every subject of mechan-
ical and chemical skill.
WHAT THE NEGRO HAS DONE.
The list shows that considerable
number of the colored inventors have
appeared to set no limit either to the
number or the variety of their inven-
tions. At the head of the list stands
the name of Elijah Mccoy, of Detroit,
Mich, who is credited with having
taken out 81 patents on his inventions,
relating particularly to Iubricating
appliances for engines both stationary
and locomotive, but covering also a
variety of other subjects. He has sue
.ceeded in placing his Iubricators on
many of the steam-car and steamboat
engines in the Northwest, and also on
some of the Transatlantic steamers.
And these are said to net him hand
some royalty. The next name in point
The colored American., 1903-11-14

none of these devices could be protect
ed by a patent. 1t is worthy of note,
however, as showing how completely a
single family, even though slaves, can
survive radical changes in the senti-
ments, customs and laws of a country,
that these Montgomerys lived to see
their later inventions duly patented
by the Government, and their name
given an honorable place in the long
list of American inventors
Although in the march of events
the barriers to granting patents to Ne
gro inventors have been swept away,
the situation is still not materially
changed so far as concerns its general
effect upon the reputation of the Ne
gro's mechanical genius. If he was
refused a patent in ante-belium days.
he now misses the credit that should
be his in the public records of inven-
tions; for the official records of the
Patent Office, as above stated, do not
show whether an inventor is colored
or white And on account of this
The colored American., 1903-11-14
INVENTIONS OF THE NEGRO.
Continued from page 2.)

his enlightened and liberal attitude
towards the slaves.
At this point it should be borne in
mind that the great industrial bur-
den in the South fell almost wholly
upon the Negro slaves, not only in agri-
culture and domestic labor, but in me-
chanical pursuits as well; so that
through his experiences in field and
workshop, the Negro laborer was ena-
bled-indeed forced-to devise many
a new and practical contrivance for
minimizing the exactness of manual
labor.
Throughout the entire South the
large plantations were generally con-
Quoted on such a scale as to make them
complete communities in themselves
equipped with ample facilities for sup
plying all their needs. Each large plan
tation had it's complement of carpen-
ters, cabinet makers, shoe-makers, har-
ness makers, brickmasons, blacksmiths,
wheelwrights, painters, machinists, and
the ike-all of whom were Negro
slaves; and that they were instrument
tai in developing many of the improve
ments that mark the advanced mechan-
ical cOntrivances of a later day can
scarcely be doubted by anyone at all ia
mflliar with the industrial conditions
in the South before the Civil War. In
fact, on the Davis plantation, before
mentioned, the Montgomery family
devised a great variety of mechanical
contrivances for use in connection with
the work on the estate, which cOntriv-
ances were quite generally adopted
by the neighboring planters in the
Mississippi bottoms, though of course,
The colored American., 1903-11-14

of number of patents is that of Gran
vile T. Woods, of New York, who is
called the "Black Edison" because Of
his persistent and intelligent and sue
cessful Investigations into the mys-
teries of electricity He has obtained
nearly 80 patents for his inventions,
which cover wide range of improve
ments in teIegraphy, telephony, and
photography One of his patents is
for a system of telegraphing between
moving trains; another for an cleo
tric railway; another for phono-
graph, and still others for improv=
ments for controlling the electric cur
rents in telephone and telegraphic in
struments. One of his telephone pat
ents was sold to the American Bell
telephone Co.. of Boston, for which he
is said to have received large pay.
Like his co-laborer (Edison) in the
field of Science, he seems to have given
his life to the work, and pursues it
with a pertinacity worthy of the cause.
For more than twenty years his name
has seldom been absent from the an
nuaI publication of American paten-
tees.
Other successful Negro inventors in
the line of electrical appliances are
noted as Nichols and Latimer, who pat
The colored American., 1903-11-14

proper credit for the many important
contributions it has made to the list of
American Inventions
In 1884 the writer, just then admit
ted into the Examining Corps of the
l. ,. Patent Office, had his attention
called to a statement published in
Richmond (Va.) paper to the effect
that no Negro had ever been granted
patent for his invention; and on in
quiry among the Examiners of the
Patent Office, and the attorneys who
practiced before the Office, many of
whom frequently came into personal
contact with the inventors, it was
found that more than hundred we'll
authenticated cases Oh Negro inven
tions constituted part of the records
of the Patent Office. Further inquiry
from time to time added to this list,
which was first published for use in
connection with the Negro Exhibit
at the Cotton Centennial in New Or
leans, in 1885; then at the Worlds
Fair in Chicago in 1898; and again at
! the Southern Exposition at Atlanta,
, in 1895.
During these years the Patent Of
| flee was called upon very frequently
f. by editors of newspapers, and others,
/ to furnish lists of Negro inventions,
+, but no systematic effort was made by
January, 1900; and then only at the
request of the Commissioner in charge
of the Government exhibit at the Paris
Exhibition The object was to make
a showing, at said exposition, of what
the American Negro had done in the
Ifeld of invention. In pursuit of this
object, the then Commissioner of Pat
ents, Hon. Charles H. Duell, addressed
a circular letter to the hundreds of pat
| ent attorneys throughout the country,
to several of the largest manufacturing
establishments and to prominent edi-
| tors, preachers, teachers and profes-
sionaI men of the Negro race, asking
them to furnish any information at
hand concerning well-authenticated
| cases of patents granted Negro invent
:
wide field Of inquiry supplied a most
| astonishing array of facts. They
! showed that the correspondents person
; ally knew of, and could identify by
name, date and number, more than
! five hundred patents that had been
granted by the United States to Negro
inventors. They showed further that
nearly as many more such persons
| had completed inventions of various
kinds and had applied to these attor-
neys and others for assistance in hav-
ing their inventions patented, but lack
ing money to cover the necessary ex-
penses, they had finally abandoned all
efforts to obtain patents for their in
ventions.
Another fact disclosed by the replies
to the Commissioners letter of inquiry,
was that it seemed not always to be
desirable on the part either of the at
torneys Or their clients, to make men
tion of the racial identity of the in
ventor, if he happened to be a Negro.
And the objection-which seemed, in
The colored American., 1903-11-14

Continued ON page 60
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-12-19
TALK OF THE TOWN.
Bag your hoIIday goodg a FIlls.

Buy your holiday goods at Fits
For sterling gold and silver for Christ.
mas 60 10 f. o. Holmes.
Consult the eye sight specialist for
glasses at J. W. Holton's
oysters on the half shell, steamed CLAIMS
at Harrlngton's lunch room
The glasses fitted by j w. Holton, op-
tician, are guaranteed in every case.
Visit the store Of B. w. Hooker & Co.
when looking for Christmas purchases.
Or a call at our office this Saturday
evening will secure you our reliable insur-
ance. Ballard 4 Co.
We will make to order that couch, divan
or chair for Christmas Select your Gov
erings now. A. w. Badger & Co.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-12-19
TALK OF THE TOWN.

Ioeai Happenings Terseiy Told For Buay
Readers.
All our garments at cut prices to close.
Veale q knight
Old gold aud silver wanted at refiners'
prices IN exchange for goods at r. E. Burr's
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-12-19
THE BARRE DAILY TINES
MARIE. w. DECEMBER 70. 1908
wsathsr Preaieaoo..

Boston, Dec SO Pair tonight
IL Sunday generally cloudy with
probably occasional snow. Warm
er tonight and Sunday. Fresh east to
south winds Increasing.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-17
REMARKS FROM DIR. MAC ARTHUR
A Pulpit Talk on Fairs. Railroads. Lynchlns
and simplicity In Religion.

The Rev. DR.. R. s. Macarthur returned
Yesterday to Calvary Baptist Church in
West Fifty seventh street from his vacation.
He called his evening sermon "A Summer
Basket of Fruit" For several years il
has been DR.. MacArthur's custom on his
return to review current events in n sermon
under this title. Last evening the basket
contained such topics as "The Great Educa-
tiona and Religious Assemblies" "Increas-
ing Prosperity, "The Larger Manhood and
Nobler Womanhood, "Lynching and
Anarchy" and TN Love of the Simple
Gospel"
DR.. Macarthur said that when COM
pared to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
the Buffalo Fair and the Chicago Worlds
Fair would look like the corner of a nursery
He also said that IA an evangelist the rail-
road liz doing more good than all the tenn
perance societie g, and that the railroad
and telephone teach politeness, A great
railroad in his opinion was a school of
etiquette.
Lynching and anarchy were ripe fruit,
DR. Macarthur declared, and Gov. Durbin
n hero who did not need the Endorsement Of
President Roosevelt to put the hero's crown
on his head He also said that the law
must be maintained even If rioters were
shot and that the man who supnely watched
the mob shared in their guilt and should
suffer with them.
In conclusion DR., Macarthur spoke of
the tendency to return to early simplicity
in religion.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-17
MINERS MAY NOT AGREE.
Intimatlon That They May Not Abide by
Umpire WriEht's Decision.

PoTTsvnLE, Pa, Aug. 18-The reported
intention Of District President Dottrey Of
the United Mine Workers to refuse to abide
by the decision OF Umpire Wright, il the
latter says the companies shall be allowed
to blacklist their employees, may lead to
complication right at the beginning Of
the meeting of the Cancellation board here
on Thursday. The operators will insist
that the miners representatives promise
to abide by Mr. Wright's decision, before
the question is submitted to him.
Supt. Warmer who introduced reso-
luton at the last meeting declaring that
the board will not hear cases Of the dis
charge of men unless it ia alleged they were
discharged because they were members Of
labor unions, will ask that action be taken
on this subject on Thursday He says
the sessions Of the board will be endless
unless this is done. The vote will be a
tie, and it will then devolve upon the UNI
pire to cast the deciding vote.
WILKES BARRE, Pa, Aug l8-Mine
workers officials here are not able to say
who will pay Carroll d. Wright, the umpire
OF the Cancellation board, for the services
he is to perform. They believe, however,
that the operators will pay half and the
mine workers half and that the compensa-
ton will probably be arranged at the meet
ing on next Thursday in Pottsville. 1t will
then also be decided whether the umpire
shall sit with the other six members and
hear the grievances presented and dis
cussed, OF whether the questions which the
him in writing. They anticipate that he will
be present at the sittings of the board
when the most important grievances are
heard
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-17
PANTHER LEAPS ON 4 HORSE.
Jumps From Tree on 81 Truckman's Outfit
on Mount ain Road.

ALTOONA, Pa, Aug. 1s,-WhiIe George
Cunningham. a Bedford county truckman,
"aS returning from the Altoona market
eArIv on Sunday morning panther leaped
from tree along the mountain road and
landed o., the back of one Of his horses.
Cunningham WIS DOING ut the time and
10 sudden scream of his horses scared
II" ~ badly that he almost fell off the
wago'
The panther wa evidently frenzied with
munger, for II immediate ly began gnawing
~ then"ck of the hor - upon which IL landed.
birmingham seized his revolver and fired
a. NJ" beast In his excitement he misse
We panther but shot the horse in the head.
me horse fell in his tracks and the panther
escaped IT, th" forest Fortunately the
rS" "as MY wounded and the trucker
wa aoo u get on his feet and go home
hs Il the fourth panther which has
On """n ON the mountains roads this
GUNNER Bears are also plentiful, while
N'!i'hs and catamounts are seen almost
uI.llF ny III" teamsters using the lonely
mountain trails
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-17
FOR THE LONE FISHERMAN,
A ROd-H0ldinx Device Useful--One Angler
in SOLITARY Cont eminent

Men who find themselves good company
and do not care to pay guide 81 n day to
pull boat for them, will find one Of the rod
holding devices n good thing to take to
the woods with them. In this way the
man has both hands free and may row and
troll all alone, stopping and dropping the
oars to fight his fish when he has hooked
one and at other times going fast or slow
as it pieases him.
1t is possible so TO put in long and
profitable day on lake or river, musing,
drifting, rowing, scheining or dreaming,
and to pick up fair string of fish at the
same time. Pike may be taken 80, mus
kallonge and plenty OF bass, which will
often hit at n trolled bait when they refuse
TO have anything to do with one that is
cast or permitted to hang still
There is one Of these solitary fishermen
who passes his summers on Lake St. George
He is more than 10 now has fished steadily
the year around for quarter OF a century,
and is "a sound as newly fallen hickory
nut.
He goes South to the Florida coast when
the Northern weather gets chill, and comes
back in early May and, except the time when
he il on trains, sleeping or eating, he is
fishing. He cannot possibly eat tenth of
the fish he catches, so, after supplying his
friends, he throws the others back alive.
and to keep them alive he has metal
stringer dangling over the side of his boat
upon which he strings them through tho
lower lip az fast az they are caught. They
swim comfortably so all day and at night
time he sorts them out,
He has one of the rod holders and will
cover from ten TO fifteen miles in a dav,
though he will often stop the boat and cast
awhile or stIll-tish when he is tired Of the
oars.
This old gentleman used to be machinist
He invented something which pleased
Andrew Carnegie and made a fortune out
of IL. 1t is not economy that makes him
dispense with guide. He wants solitude
and the free air of the lake all by himself,
saying that he grows fast and gets bigger
when he has TO make talk only for himself
Indeed most OF the fishing resorts hold
one or two specimens of this tribe of r,Imina-
tive anglers. who troll merrily the month
through, getting their own dinners in little
camps by the lake shores, sleeping when
they feel like il, and suffering the DAYS TO
go by them gently. They are genial enough
when rubbing against their fellow humans
at evening but they like to have the sunny
summer hours to themselves.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-17
DIDN'T GET INTO SOCIETY.
And Didm't Win at the TraCk-SO Racing
Partnership liz Dissolved.

SARATOGA, N. Y, Aug. l8,--If IL hadn't
been for great many ifs, maybe the part
ners in well-known racing firm would
not have agreed to disagree and the copart-
nership, which was formed last spring,
might have lasted for more than one season.
For instance: If one of the partners hadn't
been divorced by one wife and then married
another; If the first wife didn't sometimes
visit the same resort az her successor and
her former husband and there. with the
clothes and diamonds bought with the ali
mony she received every quarter. outshine
the clothes and diamonds of her successor,
then, maybe, the second wife wouldn't
have shed bitter tears and vowed big
vow that she'd get into society and make
the first wife think that she wasn't deuce
high, al the sporting men say.
Then again, if the husband had been
born in New York instead Of in the West,
and had inherited his money, instead OF
making it in a company that is now con-
troled by one of the greatest corporations
in the world, maybe it would have been
easy to promote" his second wife into
fashionable New York society. But all
he had was money and brains, a handsome
new house in the Park lane end of Fifth
avenue and beautiful young wife who
only knew by sight and envied the men
and women of the smart set.
The husband knew all about how to run
big company that made things out of
certain kinds of metals but he didn't know
the way to break into society. Some body
finally suggested that he might get in by
way of the turf, as others had done. The
wife was delighted with the suggestion and
horses were purchased.
After the horses were bought the husband
found that he didn't know anything about
the game. Some one suggested that he
form a partnership with somebody who
could not only steer him about racetrack,
but who would be useful in steering his
wife into society The partnership was
formed, but the goods" were not delivered
Madam didn't get invited to things. al
though her husband got on famousy-
at the clubs with the men who had fashion,
able wives. The wife finally got tired OF
waiting and grew petulant.
The husband wasn't feeling very pleasant
himself and so, when some one, at bridge
whist the other night had comments to
make on society, he remarked that that
which was called society was all damned
nonsense.
IF you get touted straight, " he remarked.
you're all right, and If you don't, you're
all wrong"
Not long after that he made proposition
to his partner to dissolve the racing partner
ship, and it was said tonight that the
formal announcement of the dissolution
will be made in few days,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-17
GREENE AFLOAT Sc HOURS.
Visits the Beach Resorts and Sleeps on the
Police Boat Patrol.

Police Commissioner Greene, accom-
panied by State Superintendent OF Elections
George W Morgan and the Commissioners
secretary, Mr.. Hazard, ended 80
hour cruise On the police boat Patrol last
night The party sailed from the Battery
shortly after noon on Saturday and in
spected the various resorts along the Staten
Island shore, going as far as Tottenvile
After dark the boat landed at Stapleton
and a visit was made to the police station
there
Leaving this port the Patrol guided by
Capt. Dean, stole into Gravesend Bay and
anchored Off Bath Beach Then Gen
Greene announced his intention of staying
on boa'd all night and he and his secretary
spent he evening getting rid OF the piled
up mail.
In the morning the Bath Beach station
was visited and the police were cheered
up by the Commissioner when he described
to hem the new station house they were
soon to get Sail was then set for Rocka-
wiv, where the beaches and hotels were
looked over. Then the PROV Of the Patrol
| vas pointed westward and a landing was
! made at Coney Island. Here the party
-
Dooley and general tour Of the place was
made.
A press agent seized upon the oppor-
tunitv to boom the baby incuhators that are
installed in the Park. He sent out a story
to the newspapers saving that Commissioner
Greene had come all the way to Coney Island
to pay an official visit of inspection to the
infant incubators, and that the city was 10
remove them to Bellevue and a Brooklyn
hospital,
In speaking Of the trip last night Gen.
Greene said
This is indeed remarkable city Just
think, we have nearly 200 miles of water
front. never before realized what WON
derful factor in our summer life the beaches
are suppose about half a million people
go to the various resorts on Sundays
Despite all this talk about the rigid en-
forcement of the law lessening the attend
ance, I am informed on good authority
that more people have taken advantage Of
Coney Island this year than ever in the
history of the place. There is no reason
why these places shouldn't be orderly and
am going to my best to make them So"