Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-07

portions ofsnortheast, city and county
are in the second, sixth. eighth and tenth
precincts, including all Brookland Ecking-
ton, etc, where there have been large
gains in population.
Population in 1907.
I'm 1907 the total population was 800, sol
and 233, 403 were white. 96, 1873 colored. The
colored weer distributed as follows: Our
teen thousand six hundred and ffty-six In
the city. northeast and southeast; 7.217 In
the county. east, and 1884 in southwest
leaving 60.4s1 for the northwest. city and
county, to be included in your gentle
folk" Your residence. 174S N street. is
located in the third police precinct. which
contains population in 1907 Of 81. 225 per-
sons, only 1906 being white; 14,119 are
colored.
please compare this with the residents
of East Washington. northeast and south
east-63. 2T1 white and 1886 colored; total
East Washington, 1925 How can you
reconcile these census returns with your
claim that 1t Is inhabited mostly by
negroes? After a residence of three years
in Washington you certainly ought to real
iZe that in proportion to the number OF in
habitants there are more owners and fewer
tenants in East Washington than in any
other part of the District. Its colored resi-
dents form q conservative, law-abiding ele-
ment, as the records Of the police depart
ment clearly indicate. In Southeast Wash.
ington there are eight churches for colored
people. compared with fifty-seven similar
churches in the northwest. There are three
public schools-Giddings. Lincoln and Payne
in the southeast. against twenty-five ex-
clusfvely for colored pupils in the north
west and as we have q compulsory school
law in the District of Columbia, the school
accommodations furnish conclusive proof
as to the respective colored population In
the different sections. We advise you to
above population
Death Rate Statement Erroneous.
Your comments on the prevailing death
rate in the District of Columbia are equal
ly unjustifable, and we refer you to the
latest report on this subject, just issued
by the health officer of the District OF Co
lumbia, showing the total deaths for the
calendar year 1905 to be G.205. being at
the rate of 1920 per thousand 3,44s white.
at the rate of 1916 per thousand and 2, 75l
colored. at the rate of 2S.S1 per thousand
and not IA per thousand for the white and
81 per thousand for the colored. as you are
reported to have stated in your speech at
Boston.
report you will find table Ia, showing popu-
lation, deaths and death rates in the Dis
trict of Columbia, divided into hfty-three
local districts; and in the same book, after
Columbia showing in detail the various sub
districts and death rates. divided accord
ing to race. By elimination Of the deaths
in the public institutions YOU. too, will be-
come convinced that the death rate of the
white population is certainly as favorable
in East Washington it is in the north
west. it being less than 10 per thousand.
your inexcusable attack upon our Sec
ton. accompanied by such misrepresenta-
tons, unintentional though they may have
BEEN are calculated to infiict a grievous in
jury upon an attractive part of the city
that contains within it's boundary the
Congressional Library. the Capitol, con-
gressional office buildings. United States
navy yard United States Marine Corps
barracks, Providence Hospital and schools
and churches of every denomination. OF
which we are justly proud: and. therefore
You. as clergyman. should not have placed
yourself in the attitude of bearing false
witness against your neighbor. A man OF
your prominent character and literary abil-
ity after making a public speech that has
been telegraphed all over the country and
published in all the leading newspapers OF
the land, owes it to the preservation of his
own reputation to make amends to the resi-
dents Of this section whom you have in
jured."