The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-02-24
WASH lNGTON
I'll e CITY OF MAGNIFICENT DIS.
TANcES.
= Collection Of Events Occurring
Among Afro-Amerieans OF the Cap
ltaI Of this Great and Glorious Ma
ton Tor our Many Readers.

among Afro-America of the Cap
ltai Of this Great and Glorious Ma
ton for our Many Readers.
Special Correspondence THE APPEAL.
Washington. Feb. 21st-Last week
was Booker Washington week in this
city and the distinguished educator
was the recipient of much attention
ied'1srlng his stay in Washington. We'd
nesday night he delivered an excellent
ADDRESS full Of good advice, at the meet
Ing held in the interest of the Manass-
as Industrial School. at the First Con
gregatlonal Church which was crowded
with the people OF both races. who
We're anxious to hear the Sage OF Tus
kegee. =
thursday afternoon Dr. Washington
was the guest OF honor at a swell
luncheon given ~ Mr.. and Mrs. r. r.
Hornef at their palatial residence on
18TH street, and attended by twenty of
the leading Afro-American citizens.
Wednesday night Mr.. Washington was
| one OF the, guests of the Pen and Pen
Gil Club at their celebration OF the
! elghty-ninth anniversary of the birth
! OF Frederick Douglass.
| Wednesday afternoon DIR. WASHINGTON
accompanied the pupils Of the Manass-
as school when they visited the Presi-
4 dent. ,s as
Thursday evening NO more than 200
members OF the Washington Business
League welcomed DR.. Washington at
/ a banquet given in his honor at True
j Reformer's Hall.
The president of the local league
MI. J. A., Landlord, introduced mem.
bers who responded to the following
toasts: Photography as Business. "
4 Mr.. Daniel Freeman; Insurance A.
mong Afro-Americans," George S. Col
Inns; DRY Goods and Notions" Mrs.
! NJ. /. Mossell; Contracting and build.
); ing, Mr.. Joseph Manning, Drug
Stores, DR.. Amanda V. Gray. proprie
tor OF the Fountain Pharmacy. Eleven
OF the 100 drug stores in the city are
owned By Afro-Americans.
| James A. Cobb OF the District bar in
troduced DR.. Washington. who compli-
Mented the organization on its prog
ress and urged the development and
| support OF the smaller business opera.
tions here.
Hon. w. D. Crum collector of the
Port OF Charleston and Lawyer A. B.
Cosey OF Newark, N. J. were in Wash
ington this week
The President said to the delegation
from Manassas school:
The white man needs lust as mich
as the cOlOred man to learn that for
mo + 1,n l.
| fits him to do work in life is industrial
Other things shall be added to it or
ought to be added to it. but that must
! remain as the basis
It has been decided that the next
meeting of the National Afro-American
Council will be held in Charlotte. N. C.
| in August
1T is a long way said Mr.. Wash
ington, from the battle of Manassas
to the establishment of an Afro-Ameri-
can industrial school on that famous
! battlefield, yet.sthe distance has been
Travelled, and we are assembled here
! tonight to do what we can to promote
further the usefulness of that institll-
I ton. There areasonle very vital and
! practical reasons Why the citizens Of
I washington should be deeply interest
eel in this school. It is near this city
and is doing good practical work 1t
has the advantage of being located in
the midst OF agricultural surroundings .
and | repeat here what | have said on
other occasions that any influence that
Will take. the youths Of our race from
the Sums and crowded alleys of our
large cities to such localities and teach
| them how to live in the midst of whole
some surroundings in an agricultural
atmosphere will prove a benediction.
This is what the Manassas school is
! aiming to do, and will, in proportion
as you will furnish the means, do it, on
a larger scale. In too many cases the
Afro-American is at his worst in the
crowded life of a large city, and in
most cases he is at his best in the
rural districts where he owns and cul-
tivates the SOIL
This city, the speaker said. has the
largest AfroAmerican population of
any municipality in the Union and has
an imperative duty to lifting the race to
the most useful citizenship :.
| investigation he continued "shows
that Tuskegee students command an
average wage that is three times as
large as that which they earned before
receiving any training at the Tuskegee
Institute. That is, expressed in dollars
and cents, the southern white people
i'place three times as much value upon
! the services of an educated Afro Amer
lean as they place upon the services
of an uneducated one
There are 1S,718.57S horses in the
United States. valued at $1,51O, $780,
906 according to statement Of the
numbers and values of farm animals by