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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-28
TUSKEGEE
Normal and Industrial Institute
TUSKEGEE ALABAMA.

TUSKEGEE ALABAMA.
(1NcoRPoRArED)
Organized July 4, 1881, by the State Legis.
1ature as The Tuskegee State Normal School.
Exempt from taxation.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal.
WARREN LOGAN, Treasurer.
LOCATION
IN the Black Belt of Alabama where the
blacks outnun1ber the whites three to one.
ENROLMENT AND FACULTY
Enrolment last year 1883; males. 8sS.
females, 81. Average attendance. l,l05--
Instructors, SO.
COURSE OF STUDY
English education combined with industrial.
trairing; % industries in constant operation
VALUE OF PROPERTY
Property consisting of 2.267 acres of land.
50 buildings almost wholly built with student
labor, is valued at $35O,000, and no mortgage.
NEEDS
$50 annually for the education of each stu
dent: $500 enables one to finish the course;
81, 900 creates permanent scholarship. Students
pay their own board in cash and labor. J
Money in any amount for current expenses
and building.
Besides the work done by graduates as class
room and industrial leaders, thousands are
reached through the Tuskegee Negro Confer
ence.
Tuskegee is 40 miles east of MONTGOMERY and
l3o miles west of Atlanta on the western Kali
roaN- s. Alabama.
Tuskegee is quiet, beautiful old Southern
town, and is an ideal place for study. The Cit
mate is at all times mild and Uniform, thus
making the place an excellent winte: resort.
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:*PURELY PERSONAL

Nelson: Crews, a. prominent Afro:
American, has been appointed police
clerk at Kansas City; Mo! Ili'IE T.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-28
BISHOP COLLEGE,
MARSHALL, TEXAS,
OFFERS EVERY ADV .lf1TAGE
TO STUDENTS.

For beauty of situation, comrnodious-
ness OF buildings and completeness Of
outfit, this institution ia unsurpassed
the Mississippi. Special courses for
preachers and teachers. LAkGE AND
EXPERIENCED FACULTY. Five
large brick buildings, also steam plant
laundry. A new brick dining hall and
dormitory now building. Chemical,
physical, biological laboratories.
Courses in Carpentry, printing, black
smithing, sewing, dressmakIng, house:
keeping, cooking, nursing. COLLEGE
GRADUATES MAY APPLY FOR
PERMANENT CERTIFICATES.
Students can make part of expenses by
work. For particulars and cata' ogue
address
ARTHUR IS. CHAEFEE, Pre- .. dent.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-28

American, has been appointed. police
clerk at Kansas City Mo.2lotlFE T.
IT,. -. ::;l!i:SYI .-O- 'r=as.t fa:afi.:t
Miss Lena, s: Walden of Nome, Alas
ka, is the richest woman. Of the AFRO
American race. She is called the sec
ond Hetty Green. 49,. w.. .,.,,.!..:. i
>JcTheodore Drury;;-the .Afro1American1l
singer, scored great success in Cay:
alberta Rusticana at New York recent
ly.;:. IT. $685.. .., &'l::' u. as:,: j:s4:
t. Rev. J.. H.. Cyrus of. Port Royal, Va,
f. has brought suit against a. hair
Strengthening concern of Richmond,
Va; for $4,000. FDr!! Cyrus alleges that
the concern paraded two pictures OF
him in an advertisement. Under one
with kinky hair: was the word be
fore,''H and beneath the one. with
straight hair appeared the Legend
err Cyrus, who is one Of the best
known colored ministers in the state,
alleges that the, notoriety given ,ye:rz him
in connection with the hair straight
en5er' has done him great damage. u
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-28
DR.. !. g.. SCOTT,
The Newly Elected Bishop of the NJ.
E.Church.

, DR.. T. B. Scott, editor of the South
western Christian Advocate OF New
Orleans, La, has been elected Bishop
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-28

The Department of Justice is pre-
pairing to take up again the subject
of peonage in the South. Additional
reports have been received indicating
that Americans are held in seryi-
tude. n -. o. ~. sta
. Chas. e. Hall.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-28

Senator Cullom has returned here
on business connected with the con
struction of the new postofice build
ing for the senate, to be located about
200 yards northeast of the capitol
building. Senator Cullom is chairman
of commission which will make ar
rangements for purchasing site for
the structure.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-28

Common
Medical Schools Ev Dollars Year
a n@nasH s sa a9afa e e
Tenn
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On the summer school faculty :, at
Howard University in July will be the
foremost industrial educator and also
one of the foremost educators of the
United~- States. They are. Booker T.
Washington, of Tuskegee,- Ala, and G..
Stanley Hall, Phi. D., LII. D., president
of Clark University, an institution to
which Il only men Of. high. educational
attachments are admitted.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-28

Mr.. Charles J. Pickett has returned
to the city after a visit to Chicago
Springfield and Quincy.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-28

Mrs. Hattie Graves of Quincy fell re-
Gently and dislocated her shoulder
blade
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EnLLEEEE AMI E.H11La.

Christian Institution devoted especially adva
a. College and Eng ,sh gn sen oo
training Aid given needy deserving students. Teri
President HOB
New-York tribune., 1904-09-19
HELD ON ARSON CHARGE.
Say Nan Three Match into Paint
Shop-M0ny Sleeping AbOUc.

Isaac Finstein d No IA Rvington-st.. In the
Essex Market Cour7 yesterday. held in 5000
bail for examination next Tuesday. charge Of
arson. preferred by Samuel Berenhaum. a painter
Of No. lSs Allen-st- Einsteins arrest was brought
about through the vigilance OF Mrs. Kitty Glass
of No lss Allen-st She lives directly across from
Berenbaum's paint shop. which is IN the basement
of the SIX story brick building No. lSa. While
looking out Of the window at about 1:l0 yesterday
morning. she saws. she man. who the police
declare is Einstetn. enter the basement open the
door and light match. She says this man stayed
in the paint shop for about five minutes and then
hurrledly went olB. leaving the door open. Notic-
ing that he had dropped his lighted match on the
floor. and that light could he seen through the
open door Mrs. Glass screamed Fire" and
stop that man,
TWO of three men who we're passing chased the
fleeing man and another turned In the fire alarm
The fleeing man ran down Anen-st.. turned into
Stanton-st and then on reaching Eldrdge-st.
Yas caught by policeman.
The Fire Department quickly put out the slight
blaze. which rapidly gaining headway. The
damage not great, but. owing to the nearness
Of three partially fun barrels Of turpentne and
six full In another part Of the store. II was
said by the hremen that a bad fire had narrowly
been averted
The building in which this basement IS has six
stories and contains rwenty-fouT families. a
total OF nearly hundred people. The noise of
the engines and the cries Of fire were not heard by
the tenants generally.
New-York tribune., 1904-09-19
KESSLER TAKES TITLE.
Exercises Option on Big Comey
Island Tract.

Ex-senator William H. Reynolds. who is presi-
dent Of the Dreamland Park Company. announced
last night that George a. KessIer had paid S90).-
90 TO the Sea Beach Land Company toward the
purchase price for the large tract Of land lying
between West Eighth-st. and West Twefth-st..
fronting on Surf-ave. and running back 10 Coney
Island Creek. The deal made some time ago
when Mr.. Kessler obtained option on the Sea
Beach Land Company property. degosting $500
with the Title Guarantee and Trust Company Of
Brooklyn
When the option about expire On Thurs
closed the deal by paying the first instalment.
will be turned over 20 the Sea Beach Land Com
pany January l. 1905.
Mr. Kessler is now in Europe. but will return next
month when it is believed he will close several
other important Coney Island deals in which he is
interested The property actually purchased on
Thursday includes the site now occupied by Luna
Park the Sea Beach Palace and several other at
fractions. The sea Beach tracks now used by the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Railroad through the
land.
half-hour steamboat service between Manhat-
tan and Dreamland will be put in operation next
year.
When told il rumored that an amusement
park trust is being planned. Mr.. Reynolds said:
I have been approached by one Of the directors
of a Coney Island amusement park, but I do not
intend TO enter such a deal. What may be done
BY other enterprises | do not know but Dream
land will remain IL is. The Bostock show will
return next season to its present building. which
will be practically rebuilt. We will not include
the new Iron Pier In the park, as was reported
time ago.
New-York tribune., 1904-09-19
WESTERN WIRE NAIL TRADE FIGHT
Warehouses in Kansas City Reported Filled
Prices Extremely Low.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE. ]

Company and the American Steel and Wire Com
pany constituent firm Of the United States Steel
Corporation. are contesting for the control Of the
Western business in the wire nail trade Extremely
low prices are being made. nails having sold as low
as 81 20 IN Kansas City The freight from Pittsburg
amounts to S. cents
In the period OF low freight tariffs in the West #
is reported that the American Steel and Wire Com
pany rushed upward OF twenty thousand toms 90
nnlshed material TO its Denver warehouses The
colorado company 1t Is said. is getting the better
Of the controversy as 1t has an ADVANTAGE IN t,s
location. The action of the Colorado company has
prevented the cut nail association from nxing new
prices. Both iron and steel cut nails are selling nm
the basis Of 81 co.
New-York tribune., 1904-09-19
WAS POUNDED IN BREAST
Doctor Bandaged Only Head OF
WouId-be Suicide.

George ". Hasbrouck. the hotel clerk who at
tempted suicide after adrnittance to the nome OF
DR.. j. T. Joseph Bird at No 2S6 west one ohe
hundred and twenty -thrd-st. had been refused
him on Saturday night. is prisoner IN 'he
Hospital where he is suffering from plstol
wound in the left breast. While the hospitaI au-
thorities believe he will recover. they are OF opinion
that once he regans his freedom he Will repeat the
attempt
According to the police. the reason why FatroI-
man Saylors first report slip read scalp wound
caused by fall on the pavement, was because Dr-
Bird who examined Hasbrook diagnosed the
case.
The police declare that Hasbrook was permitted
to remain on DR. Birds doorstep for nearly an hour
after he was wounded. the blood streaming from
his breast. Dr. Bird having bandaged his head
where there was a slight cut over one eye. 1t was
not until Hasbrook arrived at the j. Hood Wright
Hospital. they say. that the nature of his wound
was even guessed at. II appears that HasSrook's
wife owns the house occupied by Dr. Bird living
there with her daughter. Up to two weeks ago, it
is said. Hasbrook was hotel clerk at Lake George
About week ago ne came to town and rented
room in Amsterdam-ave.
At about s p. m on Saturday night according to
the police Hasbrook visited his wife's house. Ad-
mittance was refused. He descended the steps,
and walking yard two west, shot himself
Two boys who saw him took him to the steps OF
DR. Birds home. DR.. Bird then attended the
wounded and called ambulance, hut after
bandaging his left hand left him outside on the
doorstep, without any attempt stanch the breast
wound. although the clothing. the ponce say was
Patrolman Taylor declares that DR.. Bird told him
the wounded man was stranger 10 him ana thdI I
he was merely suffering from a slight scalp wound
Detective sergeants Colby and Dempsey are de-
fessed at the Harlem Hospital that he shot himself
because family differences had made him despon-
DR. Bird declines TO discuss the case.
New-York tribune., 1904-09-19
THE POODLE DIDN'T "YUMP."
Mrs Booth TarkingtOn's Dog Refused to
Battle with Swede.

The vagarics OF a French immigrant OF the genus
Cans occupying the attention of the police
Of the West Sixty-eighth-st. station. The subject
IN question. a French poodle eighteen months old,
has been the guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. Booth Tarking
ton of Indiana at their present address. No. 265
West Eighty-nrst-st. He arrived from Paris about
weeks ago. whence he 20 Mrs.
Harrington by her siSer-in-iaw.
Mrs Harrington. fearing that the poodle would
miss the delights Of Ostend bathing. hired a Swede
;or the sole purpose OF giving the poodle daily
swim in the hudson. The Swede adopted a novel
method for the thorough performance OF his duty.
which was don bathing suit and so In the
river with his charge Yesterday, however the
poodle now that the novelty OF his new home had
worn of began 20 grow homesick The other dogs
that sought 10 make his acquaintance we're so
stupid
They could not talk French, and he had not yet
mastered the perplexing English idioms Conse-
quertly. when the faithful Swede took his charge
10 the usual swimming place at One-h -hundred-and-
tenIh-st and Hudson River Monsieur lie Poodles
thoughts were only Of heurs-de-iis and the idea Of
dampenng his spirits stiIl further was too much
10 bear.
The swede tells the rest of the tragedy fol-
lows:
DE poodle. him no want yump in water when
say yump" l tax him right 70 water, but no
yump. much Him no yump neder
much. Then l tink l yump first und he would
yump. too. dive deep und when / come up
/ call dat poodle, but him no come. He gone.
colds Den dress and all day hunt dat dorg
Thus di. the longing for home drive the poodle
TO seek oblivion elsewhere. Whether he sought 10
whether he resigned his troubles the Hudson. is
only for public conjecture and the detectives.
New-York tribune., 1904-09-19
FINDS FAMILY OF NINE STARVING.
City Marshal Buys PrOvisiOns-They Had
Had Nothing for Three DAYS.

City Marshal Leef, who lives at No. 81 Columbia
St heard yesterday that family Of nine persons.
who lived in one room in the basement Of the
building. had been without food for three days
Their condition became known when one of the
children was scalded slightly by boiling water ana
her screams attracted neighbors
The family consists Of Louis Kreizberg. his wife
Wilhelmina, and seven children six girls and one
boy. the eldest being eleven years Mr. Leef went
10 grocery and bought provisions A collection
was taken up In the tenement house and IS Is wa s
secured. This was turned to the father He
saio that % OF the money would save him from
eviction, and the rest would obtain food until he
could find work. KreiZberg came 10 this country
three months ago with his family. He is a tailor
New-York tribune., 1904-09-19
WHTTTLES DYNAMITE
Boy Is Thro1cn Thirty Feet and
Critically Hurt.

BY whiting stick of dynamite Saturday,
Nundo Arino. Of No. 3isl Arthur-sve.. exploded 1t
among crowd Of other Italians boys He blew
out his right eve injured the other blew of three
of his fingers and cut his face and chest. Four
other boys were hurt. He was taken 70 the Ford
ham Hospital where the surgeons said his wounds
were extremely serious. The explosion blew
hole IN the ground two feet deep Hoffman and
One-hundred- and -eighty-seventh SITS. where the
boys standing.
II thought at first by the police that. some
one had tried 10 kill tho lad. and investigation
begun. The police did not hear of the explosion
until Yesterday. and had no details until they
learned that Coroner Berry had been summoned 10
take the injured boys statement. They believe
a stick Of dynam Carelessly left near the
cavations for sewers which are in progress in One
hundred and -eigh -seveDth and Hoffman SITS.
ATno had found the stick II was several inches
long and wrapped in paper. He began 10 whittle
II with pocketkntfe and II burst. The boy was
blown thirty feet away
New-York tribune., 1904-09-19
HAwLEY MADE A DIRECTOR OF w. p.

It was announced last night that Edwin HawIey
was on Saturday elected in San Francisco a MEM
Ger OF the directorate Of the Western Pacific Rail-
road. the new transcoEtinental system which Is
generally supposed to be controlled by Gould in
terests; Mr.. Hawley is president Of the Nrnneano
rs rs ana St Louis Railroad and also OF the Iowa
Tado and Southern Mr.. Hawley and his friends
Alton. S - ''0 NAA~esO anu
Mt Hawley Is a director In the Colorado Fuel and
iron company. the American Sugar Refining Conn
Pany the Commercial Cable Company, the Guar
aanty trust Company. the American Exchange Ma
lal oolal Bank and many other financial and railway
companies. The so-called "Hawley properties are
tnne iowa Central. the Minneapolis and ST Louis
SShe DeS Moines and Fort Dodge, the Colorado
southern and now the Chicago and Alton.
New-York tribune., 1904-09-19
OVER SIXTY VESSELS HURT BY STORM.
Returns from New-England Coast Still In
complete-Man Lost from the Missouri

Boston. Sept. B-Although the record OF destruc-
ton by Thursdays storm is incomplete. the returns
up 10 tonight show that more than threescore OF
the New England coastwise shipping fleet suffered
or less damage from the gale So far as
known. however. only one life was lost and that
singulaTly enough. was from the battleship Mis-
souri, seaman washed overheard
Four vessels were totally wrecked As the storm
centre passed Vineyard Sound across Cane
Cod and then on to the northeast the vessels
caught offshore between Montauk Point and the
provinces suffered the worst
The storm must also be held accountable in a
great degree for the Seashore property loss IN
Martha,s Vineyard Nantucket and on Cape Cod.
where many houses were unroofed blown down
1t Is feared as the days go on that the list az
missing will become formidable. not only In yes
sells lost but in lives.
New-York tribune., 1904-09-19
STRIKES FEWER IN SECOND QUARTER
Employers Win Twenty Out of Forty.three,
Unions Only Nine.

The New-York Labor Bulletin" in the issue for
September says in part:
The number Of trade disputes in April May and
owing to the large number of working people d.
rectly OF indirectly ahecteI by some Of the dis
summers with the exception Of Isis when the
great building trades lockout IN New-York city
tooK place. Inc two overshadowing disputes Of the
period were the strike OF the masters ana pilots.
opening OF navigation TO the middle OF June and
the strike of the New-York clothing trades against
Ihe so.Sa!led open shop from June p to the first
In the latter dispute about 5000 employees we're
period of the disnnte the total nnmber og v0rLine
days lost being estimated at more than one million,
ABOUT one-half million days time was lost by the
woTkmen from a State seeted by the
formers dispute with the Lake Carriers Associa-
cutters begun on December p, 1903 and declared
cerned but @ other WORKERS @eE we're EFg ndrec
affected the cause being again the employers plan
The remaining forty disputes recorded by the Bu
reau OF Mediation and Arbitration were of minor
10000 working days. The total number OF workers
oIreGuy OIL concerned IN disputes begun IN April Nav
work days lost was $4,000. Twenty Of the forty-
three disputes resulted in favor of the employers
and only five in favor of the employees while nine
we're we compromised The compromises were nearly
al MAGE on demands for increased wages which
yia %aS Sun the leading cause Of disputes The
disputes involving trades unionsm.
While strikes have been disturbing factors in in
tion TO considerable degree this summer ii re-
mains true that the adjustment of wages under
changing conditions of business is to an Increasing
extent accomplished without stoppage OF work
under the system of collective barGaIning or Ioint
trade agreements. as II Is frequently called
Recent instances Of this mode Of adjustment arc
numerous In this State. The bricklayers and masons
Of New-York City: for example have renewed their
agreement with the employers association nv the
terms OF which they will next March receive al in
crease of wages from 65 to 70 cents an hour The
teamsters OF New-York City who have recently
perfected their organization have entered into
agreements with the Truck Owners Association
New-York tribune., 1904-09-19
AFTER BROOKLYN AUTOS"
Farrell and T1co Policemen IN Car
of Their O1Cn.

In Winton racing car. driven by an experienced
driver. and with two bicycle policemen III pam
clothes, experts on judging the speed OF VehicIes'
Deputy Police Commissioner Farrell. OF brooklyn
and Queens. rode down the Ocean Parkway yester-
day looking for the automobiles that violate the
speed limit. The reckless drivers who have oeen
''scorching' the road all summer must have been
tipped of for, to the expression of the Deputy
Commissioner they just ''crawled along Not an
arrest was made. The rate at which the autonno-
biles were driven was entirely above reproach
Captain Mcnamara Of the Prospect Park Police.
has been placed in charge of the automobile whlch
has been rented for a week. Carlson the driver
is OF long experience. and guarantees that
machine will he able to get away from him
The captain detailed two Of his best men to ride
in the car 20 Judge Of the speed Of offending auto
mobiles and make arrests if necessary.
They left the Litchheld Mansion at o'clock and
drove slowly down the Parkway TO the Speedway
There the Deputy Commissioner got out and for
the rest Of the afternoon watched the work of his
from the piazza of hotel. Up and down
the read they went looking with eager eyes Tor
violators of the law. Strange to say no one was
in a hurry. and the officers, disguised as civilians
could not get up brush. At O'Clock they gave
Today they will be out in time to catch the
automobiles the way 10 the races that have oeen
burning the ground down the road all summer.
These are the people the Deputy Commissioners IS
looking for particularly. q,
said Deputy Commissioner Farrell 10 a Tribune re-
ers wary. They acted very good to-day l haven I
family vehicles out on the road IN
some time. and there was no trouble Whatever.
card compiled by expert showing JUST What
speed machine makes over q 2So-foot course IN a
given time. A machine going that distance IN tnlr-
ty second is making six miles an hour II II taxes
eght seconds the speed is twenty-five miles an
plan worked out he Will have system Of tele-
phones. with man at each. along the PARKWAY