The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27

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Special Correspondence THE APPEAL
Washington, Oct. 23-At a meeting
of the board Of management at Rich
mond, Va, in which plans were sub
mitted by five Afro-American archi-
tects for their building at the James
town Exposition, the plans of w Sid
ney Pittman, of Washington, were
selected as ranking first.
The Howard Law School Alumni
Association held meeting Friday
evening, and elected the following
officers: Fountain Peyton, 90 presi-
dent; Louis G. Gregory, 'O2. first vice
president; George H. De Reef, 'O5,
second vice president; Edmund a.
Patten, 90, third vice PRESIDENT:
Thomas Walker, 'S5, treasurer; Char
les S. Hill, '06, recording secretary:
George F. Collins, O1, financial sec
rotary; Thomas j. Price, correspond
ing secretary.
The persistent report that Superin-
tendent Chancellor has under consid-
GRAFTON the probable recommendation
OF William B. B. Dubois, the Atlanta
educator, for the assistant superinten-
dency in charge of the AfrO-Ameri-
can schools of this city, is declared
to be without the slightest foundation.
j. Max Barbour, the editor who was
driven out Of Atlanta for telling the
truth about the Atlanta mob murders.
told the story of the massacre to an
immense audience at Metropolitan
church.
AT Vermont Avenue Baptist Church
Sunday afternoon the anniversary OF
William Washington Brown, founder
OF the United Order Of True Reform
ers Of the United States was observ-
ed. Preaching of the twenty-fourth
annual sermon to the Washington or
der was, the feature Of the occasion.
large party assembled at True Re-
formers Hall at 1870 O'Clock and
marched in body to the church.
Vermont avenue between @ and R
streets. On the platform were w. r.
Griffin, w. P. Burrell of Richmond.
Va, Maurice Rouselle, Rev. W. D
Jarvis, Rev. D. D. johnson and Rev.
George w. Lee. The program inoIud-
ed scripture reading, by Rev. w. D.
Jarvis; invocation, by Rev. Frank P.
Lewis; musical selection by the
choir; introduction Of w. r. Griffin
as master Of ceremonies, by M. M.
Peace; sermon by Rev George w.
Lee; musical selection by the choir;
a collection for monument to w. w.
Brown, and an address by MI. w. P.
Burrell Of Richmond, Va.
Rev. Harry Howard, the missionary
who blew out the gas in his room
while a guest at. the Philadelphia
House last Thursday night and was
rendered unconscious, died at the
Emergency Hospital Tuesday after
noon about s. o'clock. When he was
taken to the hospital the physicians
realized that his condition was seri-
Gus, but it was thought that he might
possibly recover A change for the
worse occurred later in the day. how
ever, and death followed The elder
ly minister, who resided at Muskogee.
|. T., came here to attend to some
personal business. He had anticipat-
ed pleasant stay in the city and had
arranged to meet some of the local
Baptist minister's.
One Colonel Thompson of Chatta-
nOOga, has submitted to President
Roosevelt proposition that the idle.
shiftless Afro-Americans of the south
be set to work digging the Panama
canal. ''The great industrial progress
of the SOUTH" said Mr.. Thompson.
"has left us without labor, and we
need fresh blood badly, both in our
factories and on our farms. We must
have immigration of a better class.
but the trouble now is that the best
class of immigrants are deferred from
coming south by the crimes commit
ted by idle and shiftless Negroes 1t
is the idle Negro who makes the race
issue in the south. The working
Negro is respected and encouraged,
and we want him to remain, but we
are going to get rid of the other class.
no matter how it is done / think they
could be sent to Panama and made to
work there. How could it Sbe done?
| have told the President and Secre-
tary Taft that believe the coming
immigration conference of southern
men could work out plan by which
LIZ V1Sol ait CLASS VI 1SSSiOGS- dETSSLSu
in southern cities could be induced to
go to Panama. When these Negroes
are arrested now they are passed
along from one place to another by
police judges fining them or giving
them the alternative of leaving town.
Thus they are shifted from one place
to another. Couldn't some sort of a
plan be devised by which Negro
sentenced for vagrancy could be sent
along to Panama, largely by his own
consent? Couldn't the judges trying
these cases cooperate with the fed
eral government and the contractors
building the canal in some way so as
to rid the south Of the curse it is now
afflicted with? The Negro would be
perfectly willing to go. He would be
delighted, as he would be paid wages
in Panama
The President and Secretary Taft
could not understand how a plan of
this kind could be worked out and in
no way committed themselves to it,
4 D. II. w.
A YOUNG Mother Story.