New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-26
Il COLORED MANS Rise.
Charles ". anderson, the Ne10 Col
lectOr of Internal ReUenue.


annals of the colored residents of this city that
one of them has been chosen for such an i'm
portant- office There a considerable num-
Der of negroes in various federal and municipal
departments herein the postoffice, for example,
and in the office of the Corporation Counsel-but
none of them are vested with even a small part
of the executive and administrative power that
will belong to Charles W. Anderson the new
Collector of Internal Revenue. In this Office he
will have a big force Of deputies and clerks
under him and the handling of large sums of
money His salary will be s., 800 a year.
In the rise of this coored man from doctors
servant to a federal officer the chief factor, &C
cording to his own belief has been tact Though
he is on the most friendly terms with the Re
publican leaders of State and city. he never
forgets, he says that he belongs to dlHereht
race An instance of his discretion and modesty
in such matters shown not long ago.
prominent colored man in this city received an
invitation to the Governors reception at AL
bany and delighted with the honor. he an
nounced the news on every side
But you're not going, are your asked white
Republican leader who happened to have met
him and who thus learned Of the invitation.
Sure I'm going I've already hired my ola-
monds and they'll be the very biggest at the
reception Do you think I'd permit such an
opportunity to escape my participation
1t wasn't long before the negro's talk of at
tending the reception had stirred up the most
uncomfortable kind of controversy. Some or
the other intending guests said that the negro
ought never to have been invited, and that II ne
went they might stay away, while many OF MS
brethren took opposite sides and threatened to
leave the Republican party for all time if the
colored guest was not made welcome. AT last
Mr. Anderson called on the man who mad origl-
patad the whole trouble and said:
you're in the wrong. You should not have
said a word. Yon don't want to go. You won't
be happy there. A reception is the most uncom-
Portable sort of proceeding in this world"
But I'm invtedr' interrupted the other.
.'That makes no difference" said Anderson.
I've been invited. too. I've been invited to
every Governors reception since Levi F. Nor
tons time, but I've always sent my regrets GU
need tact, my boy! Tact!
The regrets sent
At the present time Charley Anderson, as
he is known among his neutenants. is regarded
as the leader of the negro Republicans Of the
city He is president of the Colored Republican
Club of the City Of New-York- and is the only
negro member of the Republican State Commit
tee He is also stockholder in the Afro-Amer-
lean Realty Company, which has purchased nine
fathouses in West 59th-st and West bath and
135th sts which it rents to colored tenants
For the last seven years Charley" Anderson
has been State Supervisor of Racing Accounts
This State office created in the time OF
Governor Black, who appointed him to it. 1t
has been his duty, therefore, to attend the vari-
Gus race meetings and that the State re-
ceives it's nghtful share of the receipts to be
turned over to the State agricultural societies.
The first year he took hold the State obtained
only $4,000. Last year it received $2OO,070.
His administration Of the office has been in
dorsed by two agricultural societies In conven-
ton Before he was Racing Supervisor Mr..
the State Treasurers office, and before that he
was the Treasures private secretary. He came
to New-York in 1885 from Ohio where he was
born in the town of Oxford in 1866. When only
half grown he left home to attend school at
Middetown, working for his board and room at
the home of physician At Cleveland he at
tended business college, and he obtained funds
for his support and that Of his widowed mother
as well by working at night Waterman In
the StillTnan apartment house, In Euclid-ave.
Later he studied law in the Office Of Judge A
H Weed
Books amount almost to a passion with the
"Colored Demosthenes" He now possesses a
larger library than any other negro in this city.
1t consists of between two and three thousand
volumes. He began its accumulation when
boy. and story is still told at the StillInan