The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-22

are negroes. the only instance where the majority employed in an occupa- tion are Of the colored race. It may surprise some to know that Of 2e.6S5 printers. lithographers and pressmen, only fifty-one are negroes. Several of these are employed in the offices of the COlored American Magazine" one of the principal publications Of the col ored race in the country, and ''The New York Age" the chief negro newspaper in the city. Notwithstanding the ne gro's reputation for handiness with razor, there are only PIP colored bar 1 bers in the city. .-
 The opportunity of the colored wo- man for supporting herself is much
 more restricted than that of the male portion of her race. Practically the inegresses are confined to the occupa- tlons of laundress. servant, waitress and -dressmaker. All told, there are only f1fty-two negro women employed In offices in the city. and of these a number are in colored offices.
 Of the 270 negresses in professions, seventy-five are actresses, seven artists and teachers of art, six "clergymen," {" one journalist, seventy-one musicians land eighty-seven teachers. In domes- tic service the total number employed is 1882. Of these 3,09S are laundresses and 9,7S6 are servants and waitressea. Eleven of the women are watehmen, po- Ilicemen and flremen, one is described as a draymen, and 273 are nurses and mid wives. There are 797 colored dressmak- lers and 245 seamstresses. 5s . Among the negro business and finan- cial enterprises in this city are a build ling and loan association, which has
 been in operation for nearly twelve years, and pays six per cent. dividends; a national realty company, eight print Ing offices, a van company, several ca tering companies, manufacturing business said to be patronized by seve- ral of the large retail drygoods dealers of the city, and two large undertaking establishments, one of which is said to
 do a business of fifty thousand dollars
 a year. It is asserted that negroes pay taxes on property in New York city
 valued at three million dollars. A com- pany which the negroes are organizing is steamship line to Liberia. The pro- moters. declare that owing to their color they are in a position to secure rubber land coffee concessions in Liberia on better terms than white men. which will for this reason prove more than Ordinarily remunarative.
 Politically, barring a few democratic ofice-holders and their followers, 1t is said that all the negroes are republi-
 cans. In local elections. according to lone district leader. about ten per ent
 vote for democratic nominees, but in
 the national elections they are almost lsolidly republican. Besides their con-
 nection with the regular republican or
 ganizations of their distrocts, the ne-
 groes of New York and Kings counties have county organizations of their own.
 The leader of the New York County or lganization, Charles w. Anderson, is a member Of the state committee.
 The newspaper published for the ne-
 groes has some characteristics which
 distinguish it from the newspaper usu- lally seen in the city by the white man.
 Like a country weekly, it is made up of Eitens chiefly relating to the movements land social affairs of it's constituents. It is better written, however, than most
 rural weeklies, Some of the advertise