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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-04-27
INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH
NOTES.
3S25 Dearborn Street.

Special services all day tomor-
row. The choir of boys and girls
will sing at the morning service.
Rev. H. E. Stewart will preach
from the subject: Our Priest
hood. Io45 a. m. The evening
service will be OF an interesting
character music by the orches-
ira singing bv the large volun-
tary choir. The solo and chorus
work promises to be quite a fea-
ture of the evening service. Twenr
ty minutes sermon by the pas
tor. The evening service held
not later than 9:I5 p. m. Come
early if you desire to enjoy the
entire service.
Meet Me at the Institutional
church May 9th. Song Recital
for benefit of the kindergarten
Mrs. Martha Anderson. soprano.
Orchestra and Voluntary Choir
us Sunday night at Institutional
Church. Come early and enionv
a splendid service.
Our Priesthood. subject of a
discourse at the Institutional
Church Sunday. as"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-04-27
Entered Vt the Post Ofiee a. Chicago,
n a. Seeoad-das Mattes.
PERSONAL MENTION.

Walter NJ. Farmer, for 16 years an
honored member Of the bar In St
Louis, No, is now engaged in the
general practice Of law. Suite 70s,
III Washington street. Phone Main
416s. Residence 1856 Langley avenue
Phone Drexel $500.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-04-27

ioritvl Will Senator B. R. Till
man deign to explain this anom-
alv-The Herald, Chattanooga,
Tenn.
DR. Mason's lecture at Quinn
Chapel Monday evening for the
benefit of the Amanda Smith In
dustrial Home, was not well at
tended and this is laid to the dis
credit of the Chicago folks who
will not turn out in support OF
their worthy charity institutions.
After attending the Thomas re-
cital at Orchestra Hall, Saturday
evening. Mr.. VIM. Morse, the well
to do bachelor. entertained at sup
per at Johnson's New England
Restaurant. Mines. Mary Will
liams. Rosa Lively, Misses Lucy
Lindsay, Virginia Lively, GLADYS
Williams and Mr.. Noah ID.
thompson.
The Guide. Baltimore. Md.
the Leader, Springfield, ILL.,, and
the Advocate Portland Oregon,
quoted our article in full on
Booker +. Washington, and the
attack he made on the Negro
Press. in his lecture delivered at
the Olivet Baptist Church. Fri
dav evening. April 5. which
proves that we struck the bulls
eve.
Mr.. Felix Weir, Chicago's IA
vorite violinist, after an absence
OF nearly two years, will return
and give a recital at Bethel
church Monday evening, April
Goth. Mr.. Geo. w. cambridge,
one of Chicago's leading tenors,
will assist. Miss Gertrude Jack
son. will be at the piano. Admis-
sion IS cents. Julius n. Aven-
dorph. Manager, S:45 sharp.
Editor John Temple Graves, of
Atlanta. Ga, whose paper helped
to kindle the flames of hatred and
prejudice that resulted in thu
race riot in that city some time
ago. in which innocent men and
women of both races were killed
and thousands of dollars worth
of property destroyed, is reported
as having expressed a desire or
wish that the Afro-American jour
nails OF Chicago and other North
ern cities, in which their editors
condemn in bitter terms the
wholesale outrages perpetrated
upon their race, be excluded from
the United Stats mails. How is
that for cheek and gall, from an
arch conspirator and an enemy to
good governmenteThe Advo-
cate, Portland, Oregon.
1t can also truthfully be said
that Booker T. Washington is
working hand in hand with
Graves and Tillman in their eff
fort to kill newspapers published
in the interest of the Afro-Amer-
lean race.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-04-27
WILL TELL OF NEGRO PRO-
iGRESS.

John G. Jones will deliver an
address at the Ebenezer Baptist
church, Thirty-hfth and Dear
born streets, Sunday afternoon at
4 o'clock on The Progress and,
Achievements of the Colored
People in Chicago in the Past
Fifty Years"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-04-27
Quite q BARGAIN.

Edyth-Grace seems quite happy
since she married the count. She says
she has the dearest husband in the
world.
Mayme-Dearest fiddlesticks! Why,
he only cost her father half Million
Minneapolis Journal.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-04-27

Mrs. Whitaker, 3240 foreSl
Avenue. is on the sick list.
Mrs. Doctor Carey of Cincin-
natl, Ohio. is the guest of Mr.. ].
Hancock. 65oS Langley Ave.
DR.. w. H. Marshall. 344S
State street, left the city Friday
to spend a week in the southland.
Mrs. Cora Galloway. SIG
Dearborn street. who has been i'll
for the past two weeks, is inn
proving.
The funeral took place from
her late residence Monday at
p. M, Rev. Father NASSAU Of
floating. Interment. OakwOods.
MIR. Young. the popular drug
gist of Baltimore. spent a few
days in the city last week the
guest of his brother. Mr.. Chas.
Young of the keystone Hotel.
Miss Eta Evans of South
Bend Ind. formerly of Rock
ford. ILL.,. left the city Saturday
after a pleasant two weeks visit
to Mrs. Thompson. 3726 Calu-
met Avenue.
Mr.. Albert RAY of Sault Ste
Marie. Mich. who has been look
ing over some land in Indian
Territory. spent a few DAYS in
the CITY last week. stopped at the
keystone Hotel.
L. L. Jones, SS42 State street.
vice president of the Black Dia-
mond Development Company.
leaves for PittSburg. Pa. Sunday
morning. where he will spend ten
DAYS with friends.
Mr.. ]. Harry Harris. of Mil
waukcc. Wis. spent a few DAYS
in the city on business this week.
Harry saws Milwaukee is the
coming CITY. Let us hope so for
Harry's sake.
After an illness of about six
months duration. Mrs. Cornelia
Reynolds, 1854 Dearborn street,
departed this life, Saturday MORN
ing, April Goth. Mrs. Reynolds
was well known bv most of the
old residents of Chicago.
Mr.. Joseph Jenkins has moved
from his old residence. AIS
Dearborn street. to 6648 Evans
avenue. where with his sister,
Mrs. Stuart, he has handsomely
fitted up a coy fiat into which
it is said he is soon to carry a
charming bride.
Col. r. A. Ware. 2232, Dear
born street. who is one of the
best known Afro-Ameriohns in
secret society circles in Chicago,
has been confined to his home
with sickness since last fall, and
his hosts of friends would all be
delighted ito see him restored to
his usual good health.
When Lieut.. Governor Tillman
of South Carolina was tried for
the murder of Editor Gonzales,
of the Columbia State, T. D.
Mitchell was the star witness for
the defence. Since then he has
been onvicted of ballot-box stuff
hng at Brookland, s. c., and
also indicted for gambling with
Negroes. Now comes the infor-
nation that he has been arrested
charged with criminal assault
upon a Negro woman. A fine
specimen of Anglo-Saxon super
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-04-27
HUsTLINe coLoRED MAN WANT,
TED TO SELL SUBURBAN REAL
ESTATE.

Wanted a good representative Co..
ored man to sell choice lots in a North
Shore suburb to Colored people can
make $4,000 to $4,000 per week. No
capital required. must be man of
ability and education. References
required. Address az" care Editor
The Broad AK, 5040 Armour ave.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-04-27
Crowded Out.

Hicks-I dropped around to see the
Fitz Kloses in their fat last night, but
couldn't get in.
Wicks-NOt at home, Ell?
Hicks-Yes, they were all at home.
That was the trouble.-Catholic Stand
ard and Times.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-04-27
Ear Erom II.

GOOdley-Tm surprised to see you
beating that dog. You should have
some pity for dumb animals.
Marrynt-SO | have, but II you had
to listen to this fellow every night, as
do. you'd know he isn't dumb.-Phil-
adelphia Press
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-04-27
FURNISHED ROOM TO RENT.

Nice furnished room to rent to man
and wife that can come we'll recon-
mended, 1913 Dearborn st.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-04-27
Positively Delightful.

"Ahg' exclaimed the irate father.
'How Is 1t 1 catch you kissing my
daughter. sir? Answer me. sir! How
is itT'
Fine. sir! Fine. indeedr' replied the
young man.-New Orleans Times-DsmO-
GRAFT
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-04-27
A Common Error.

Then You haven't what want7"
mo. but we have something that Is
practically just as good
"YOu mean that 1t is theoretically
Just as goOd."-Pittsburg Post.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-04-27
Living Hiqh.

That man has all his ideas and
standards on high plane"
Indeed! Who is hep
The inventor OF that new aero
Plana"-Houston Post
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-03-28
Killed by the Railroads.

A striking editorial paragraph in the
current Harper's Weekly calls atten-
ton to the callousness Of Americans re-
garding the enormous annual list of
dead and wounded travellers and en-
ployees on the railroads of the United
States. The disquieting statement is
made that since the LIST Of January
this year 1913 persons have been killed
and more than 800 injured in seven
disasters on five different roads. "The
railroads." comments the writer. shave
the strongest possible motives for
avoiding accidents. Shifts that result
in dead passengers and wrecked ma
chinery save neither time nor money.
How. our railroad mortality is to be re-
duced is question for our railroad ex-
perts to solve. And it must be solved.
Not only.in the case Of the railroads,
but in hundred other fields of our
activities we Americans are disreputa-
bly, waste Of human life.'
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-03-28

So these HelicOn bOarderS took good
care that they should be congenial one
to another. There was much pruning
down and wedding out. This process
hurt now and then, and some of the
unadmitted candidates vented their
opinions through the peoples forums
of the daily newspapers. One gentle
man declared that he had been exclud-
ed because be was Jew, but Mr.. Sin
clair denied this, the inference being
that the candidate was not accepted
because he evinced an overweening de-
sire to rule the roost.
The Cllildren's Dormitory.
At last the colony got down to liv-
ing basis. Helicon hall was acquired,
and late last fall the cooperative
boarding house was opened. 1t was
we'll filed, with plenty of candidates
on the waiting list. An executive COM
mittee served in lieu of the traditional
landlady. There was big dining
room, with family tables, though only
the adults ate therein. The children
had dormitory to themselves, where
they slept, ate and played under the
watchful eyes Of one or more women
belonging to the colony. This chill
dren's dormitory idea, by the way, was
one of Mr.. sinclair's pets. He held
theory as to the bringing up of chill
dren which seems tn be gaining ground
slowly throughout the world, but very
slowly. Most mothers still prefer to
keep their children in their own care,
and even at Helicon Hall some Of them
did this. In several instances the chill
dren slept in the rooms of their par
ents. There were no hidebound rules
as to the children. '.
To each of the colonists rooms were
assigned in the big hall. In these
rooms, of course, there was the same
privacy that one finds in his own home
There was a common drawing room,
with big fireplace, music and
amusement room and in the interior Of
the building glass rooted court where
rubber trees fourished and the colo
nists might wander at will. Most Of
the members Of the community were
commuters going daily to New York
city and back. They paid for their
food at so much per week, Just as in q
boarding house, and for rooms accord
ingly. Only few Of the actual colo
nists did any work about the place.
The experiment Of finding artistic and
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-03-28
By ROBERTUS LOVE.

by kOBENlUS LIVE,
"HAT was most unmannerly and
inconsiderate fire which de.
! stroyed Helicon Hall, the roof
tree Of Upton Sinclairs home
colony on the heights Of Englewood, N.
J. But for that blaze, so sudden and
sweeping, this latest experiment in
limited cooperation might have run
along in it's original groove until the
test Of time should pronounce it prac-
t1cable or impracticable. AS it is, the
colony now must make a new start, If
it determines to keep going at all.
The experiment at Englewood has
been misunderstood by the general
public. There is just possibility that
some Of the experimenters themselves
did not quite comprehend it. The hab-
it has been to speak Of the Helicon
Hall project as a Socialistic or COM
munal community. In some sense this
was true. In broader sense it was
an individualistic community. Perhaps
Mr.. Sinclair himself will dispute this,
but his own descriptions and declara-
lions go toward proving it.
The Helicon Hall people co-operated
in an effort to realize individuality. Is
that paradoxical? Let us see. Most of
them, perhaps all, were residents of
the city Of New York or belonged to
that large class Of city workers who
commute" from the suburbs. They
were-happily all Of them survived the
fire, so we may say they are-persons
Of artistic or intellectual tendencies.
They are not wealthy. Their incomes
are modest, earned by professional or
business labor in the city or connected
with the city, thus requiring that they
reside within shooting distance Of the
metropolis. The millionaire may live
In congenial environment provided he
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-03-28

mas brains enough. 1t is not so with
the artist, the author. the college pro-
lessor or the newspaper editor whose
limited income depends upon his stick
ing close to 4 great city.
Upton Sinclair's Protest.
For such persons city life means the
boarding house, with all it's age worn
horrors, the fiat or apartment, with it's
ills and evils. Or the rooming house.
with the roaming restaurant existence
Mr.. Sinclair something less than a
year. ago conceived the conviction that
people didn't really have to put up
with the annoyances, the irritations
and the downright distresses of the
separate household system of living.
They could get together and do the
thing better. Why not? He consid-
cred his own case. The young author
had been living on a farm in New Jer-
sey, which was very fine in theory.
In practice it was otherwise, as any
city born. college bred, artistically in
clined person will discover by trying
it for awhile. There were no amuse-
ments, no neighbors of cOngenial
tastes, nothing but broad fields, whis-
pering woods and large lonesome
ness. The city was not to be thought
of because there was the small boy
Of the household, and what really
thoughtful parent ever is satisfied with
bringing up a child in a boarding
house or an apartment?
The city boarding house wherein the
diet runs largely to prunes and the
art environment is bounded on the
dining room wall by nightmare
chrome Of bullet slain birds hanging
by their necks after they are dead and
on the bedroom wall by a steel engrav-
Ing Of Washington crossing the Della
ware when it was full of floating ice
well, who wants to live in a boarding
house? Then there is the fiat, which
in New York they call apartment. That
is cliff dwelling with modern i'm
provements. The family occupying
the ledge directly overhead. may, pos
sess a photograph with an all Bowery
repertory, and the family inhabitine
the ledge below you may subsist on
garlic and take the household dog ia
bed with them. Does anybody ever
occupy New York apartment except
from sheer necessity?
AS to living in a whole house t.
yourself-now, that appeals But there
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the servants? All those who have sat-
isfactory servants please raise the
right hand.
The Why of Helicon Hall.
the annoyances of separate housekeep-
ing. He had no notion of surrendering
any of his individuality. On the other
hand, he proposed to develop his indi-
viduality by getting rid of the petty
letters which hindered it's growth.
That, as a mere matter of fact, was
the why and wherefore Of the found
ing of Helicon Hall. Mr.. Sinclair dis
covered many others who thought as
he did concerning the comparative USE
lessness Of the conventional manner of
keeping house, and these persons went
into the cooperative colony.
How far did the cooperation 20? Not
far enough to hurt. The Helicon Hall
people really established for them
selves an improved boarding house,
with the disagreeable features elimi-
mated. The very first thing was to get
congenial fellow boarders. As a mat
ter Of fact, the worst feature about
the average city boarding house Is the
promiscuous aggregation of human
specimens with whom one needs must
be associated. That is even worse
than the prunes and the pictures. The
man across the table may perfume his
person with musk that shrieks to heav-
en-, and he may talk horse when you
prefer homiletics. The bewitching fe-
male creature at your side may enter
tain you through whole dinner with
a dissertation on the virtues Of her
pet poodle pup when you would be
more intimately interested in a dis
sertation on roast pig, la Lamb.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-03-28
For Sale.

Two safes, warranted fre-proof, in
side dimensions 9A inches high, 6
wide, I deep, weight 100 pounds; price
Sl2 each; also household furniture,
feather beds, mattresses, bedsteads,
chamber set, chairs. looking glasses,
center tables, and other miscellaneous
articles. Will sell at half value to
close out. G. Fl. ChadbOurne,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-03-28
Not Like Brook Farm.

Another error in relation to Helicon
Hall is to call it Brook Farm expert
ment. There is scarcely anything
about the Helicon proposition to sug-
gest the celebrated experiment in CO.
operation which was tried for two or
three years by a small band of enthu-
siasts near West Roxbury, Mass, early
In the forties. Brook Farm was alto
gether different proposition. Profess
sor George Ripley had theory that
men and women could dig living out
Of the dust Of the earth by working a
few hours a day and could live on a
higher and more rational plane by SO
doing. He gathered about him band
Of plain livers and high thinkers They
founded Brook Farm. Mrs. Ripley, a
highly accomplished woman, did the
community washing Nathaniel Haw-
thorne is said to have fed the pigs. AS
the members were vegetarians this i'm
putation is exploded. However, sever
al Of these afterward eminent persons
did farm labor and household drudgery.
Among them were Margaret Fuller,
Thoreau, George William Curtis,
Charles A. Dana and A. Bronson AL
colt. Mr.. Emerson also used to run
out from Concord and transcendental-
ize the enthusiasts, but he was not a
member Of the community.
After time Brook Farm got under
the influence Of Albert Brisbane, de-
vout Fourierite, who Fourierized it
and incidentally killed it off. The
farmers built a phalanstery after the
teaching Of Charles Fourier, who held
that all mankind should divide into
"phalanxes" Of 1000 persons each
One large building, or phalanstery.
was to house all the 1000. In this
building and on the land around it
they were to produce all things neces-
sary for their subsistence. They were
to provide their own music and amuse-
ments. The Brook Farm phalanstery
burned down one day. and the farmers
separated to become noted poets, phi
losophers. journalists and other things
just as good.
Helicon Hall was something in the
order Of phalanstery. to be sure. but
it was not Fourieristic. Mr.. Sinclair
and his associates surely must be ac-
credited with a scheme much more
practicable than that which was tried
and found wanting at Brook Farm.
That Upton Sinclair is not over
swhelmed with fine haired theories was
proved by his athletic and corporal
swatting of the beef trust with his
club, called '"The Jungle last year.
The fire came too soon for him and his
associates to have fair trial of their
experiment. It is well known that the
original idea embraced the separate
cottage system, with the community
dining hall. Mr.. Sinclair and many
other members declare that the colony
must go on. and in the event of it's
continuation it is not unlikely that the
cottage system will be tried.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-03-28
Found At Last.

J. A. Harmon of Lizemore, West
Va, says: cat last have found the
perfect pill that never disappoints
me; and for the benefit of others
afflicted with torpid liver and chronic
constipation, will say: take DR.. Kings
New Life Pills." Guaranteed satis-
factory, Is cents at G. A. Jacks.
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the WashlnS, the cleaning and other
necessary duties about the big house
was tried at first, but when found i'm
practicable it was. given up in the
main, outsiders being hired.
Character of the Colonists.
Most Of the colonists were authors.
editors, artists or devotees of intel
lectual pursuits of some other sort.
This is significant. People like to talk
shop. Birds Of a feather, you know.
The bod carrier prefers the society Of
another bod carrier to that Of the
bricklayer or the construction fore
man. So it is with those higher up. It
is quite conceivable that Mr.. Sinclair's
associates, could they have happened
to get together in large boarding
house in the city, would have enjoyed
life just as well as they did at Helicon
Hall, but without cooperation thew
could not get together so they must be
Heliconized.
A somewhat widespread misconcep-
ton as to the Helicon Hall status led to
many annoyances. Mr.. Sinclair was
obsessed with cranks and nuisances of
all sorts. Some there were who seemed
to imagine that the Hall was a sort Of
free for all, that the Heliconians were
living in a state of free and easy hos
pitality such as only the very rich can
afford and not even the very rich ever
dispense. j
On one occasion Mr.. Sinclair received
telegram from a man of whom he
had never heard to the effect that this
individual, with friends would ar
rive that evening. An hour later the
self announcer arrived, accompanied
by another man and a woman. All car
ried suit cases and announced that they
had come for a weeks visit. AS it
happened that every room in the Hall
was occupied and some colonists were
sleeping on hunks, the visitors were
delicately directed to the Englewood
hostelry. They made what is described
as scene, and the ringleader filled
columns of newspapers with his denun-
Citations Of the colonists. 1t was ascer-
tanned that at an anarchist meeting on
the east side in New York this man
had casually met a member of the COL
ony, who had casually said:
"COme up and see us some time"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-03-28
Colony May Continue.

is the servant question Where are
the servants? All those who have sat
isfactory servants please raise the
right hand.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-03-28

intellectual persons TODD the cooking.
the washing, the cleaning and other
necessary duties about the big house
was tried at first, but when found i'm
practicable it was. given up in the
main, outsiders being hired.