Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-07-01
SIGHTS IN CHICAGO.
A Grtat Cosmopolitan city--Many
Colored People Doing Well and
Many Merely Existing,

To the person who visits Chicago
occasionally it furnishes many great
attractions of interest and to persons
who have never been there the sights
are beyond description. A little more
than half a century ago the magic
city was but village of few thou
sand inhabitants. Now more than
two millions Of people are quartered
there, with her thousands of miles
of street car track. thousands of miles
of paved streets, and with beautiful
parks and boulevards her massive
mansions and colossal sky-scraping
buildings, and her thousands of
churches of every denomination, sect
or creed, with their church spires
pointing heavenward, with her ele-
waited cars sailing through the air
loaded with human traffic. and her
cars under the ground filled with pas
sengers, and the cars on the ground
crowded, you might grasp the enor-
nous crowds of people. Here one.
can see all the civilized nations and
races of the world. The greatest in
numbers to the Caucasian in Chicago
is the colored race Here dwells
abouts 10000 colored people, enough
of them alone to make city the size
of our own Des Moines. Perhaps you
will be surprised when I can give you
five streets. either on of which has
more colored people than the whole
state of Iowa There are about thir-
ty-fve colored churches, one hospital,
two homes for the aged, two hotels
and hundreds Of schools. restaurants,
chop houses and barber shops and
boarding houses. There are many
drug stores and grocery stores oper-
ated by colored men. Rev. Clark's son
Beverly. who graduated from Des
Moines high school, Is conducting a
grocery store there and doing well.
Mr.. Joseph Jones and father own a
first class barber shop near Twenty
seventh and State streets Robert
Motifs, an old Iowa man, formerly
from Washington, Iowa, where he
now has brother, is conducting one
of the swellest saloons and garden
for our people. He is worth about
$4,000.
In the professional world we find
there In the legal profession there
is Hon. Ed H. Morris. Hon. Ed Wright.
Hon. F. L. Barnett, Assistant states at
torney; Ed Wilson, w. o. Mitchell, J.
G. Jones D. H. Roberts, and score
of others. AS physicians. at the head
of the profession stands DR.. Daniel H.
Williams, DR.. Crocker, DR.. William
Williams, DR.. Jones, DR.. Anderson,
and many others that I cannot now
call. Several dentists several under
takers and transfer companies. One
Afro-Americana newsstand, where all
the leading journals and magazines
are kept Mr. E. H. Faulkner Is pro-
prietor. He has twenty-five colored
journals, including the Iowa State By
stander, and five colored magazines
and many other books and pamphlets.
1t is very difficult to make a good re-
port of Chicago with such large
population.
Attending the national convention
there We're about 200 colored dele
gates. alternates and officers While
no one person could give an exact
list of all those will attempt to give
list OF few of the distinguished
leaders of our race and the states
they were from:
Alabama-N. H. Alexander H. V.
Cashin. John w. Jones, A. N. John
son, Sydney M. Murphy. Alternates:
DR.. S. S. H. Washington.
Mississippi-M. A. Blanchard, e. H.
Mckissick, Charles Banks, r. A. Sim
mons. Charles A. Buchanan, DR.. j.
w. Holmes, w. W. Lockhart Thos. H.
Richardson w. E. Mollison, Geo.
Cranberry, Wesley Crayton.
Tennessee-J. c.. Napier, j. T. Set
tie. John w. Grant.
North Carolina-H. P. Cheatham,
S. H. Wick, j. c. Dancy.
Georgia. w. Lyons Henry L.
Johnson. j. H. Deveaux. H. A. Rucker,
A. w .Wimberly, E. R. Belcher, NJ. P.
Morton
South Carolina-Hon Robt. SmalIs,
E. H. Deas. DR.. w. D. Crum.
Florida-Joseph Lee, M. NJ Lewey.
LOuisana--Walter l.. Cohen, j.
Madison Vance.
Texas-Charles M. Ferguson.
Missouri--Nelson C. Crews, Prof.
w. H. Gresham and Tandy.
Ohio--Mr w. Eubanks. member
of the state legislature, and Mr.. Ar
nett. sa
lowa-R. N Hyde, John l.. Thomp-
son, VIM. Coalson, jeff Logan and E.
T. Banks. ...
Mnnesota-John @. Adams. ]. L.
Neal
Maryland-Harry S. Cummins, NJ.
w. Gibbs.
Washington, D. C.-H. P. Cheatham.
New York-Chas. w. Anderson.
Among the prominent twentieth
century Negroes who were present
and took part in the proceedings, we
mention the following:
Judson w. Lyons, register of the
United States treasury; DR.. William
D. Crum. collector of port of Charles
ton; H. V. Cashin. receiver of public
monies at Huntsville, Ala; H. A.
Rucker. collector of internal revenue
for the district of Savannah; H. P.
Cheatham. former recorder of deeds
Of the District of Columbia; j. c..
Napier, one Of the leading Negroes
of Nashville; ]. H. Deveaux, collector
of customs for the district of Georgia.
M. w. Gibbs. former counsel to the
Island Of Madagascar. and Harry S.
Cummings of Baltimore who made an
address seconding the nomination Of
President Roosevelt.
MUTUAL PHONES RooM3s8 800, a93
ONCE 1917 GOOD BLOCK
Residence 95S Des Moines, Ia
CLARA A. CLIFF