The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-22
AGAINST RACE SUICIDE.
And He Points to twenty-five Descend
ants as Proof.

Glen Tuck, of Bryn Mawr, is, like
President Roosevelt, against race sui
eide, says the Philadelphia Record.
He has proof in the form of twenty
five children, which he can produce
in a bunch at a moments notice. Tuck,
pere, who was born a slave in "Ole
Varginny," is the senior member and
treasurer of the Glen Tuck e. Com
pany's Employment Office" as his card
reads, at PA Cooperstown road, Bryn
Mawr.
Tuck. who furnishes all the help from
members of his own family, was born
at V~irginalia, Halifax County, Va, on
the Tuck plantation. flfty-seven years
ago. At the age of II years he was
taken to the war as body servant and
cook by his master. Colonel Dick Tur-
pin, and served in the Confederate
army for four years. At the end of the
rebellion he returned to Virginalia
dressed in a suit of blue presented by
q Union patriot. The bright suit took
the fancy of a dusky little girl, Octavia
Tuck, Of the same plantation, and his
homecoming safe and sound from the
tight" as he claims, was celebrated
by a wedding to ''Tavy." They started
in as free citizens TO make a fortune;
instead nothing but babies were added
to their joint account, Octavia having
given birth TO six p~ickaninnies in as
many years.
Then she died" stated Glen, land
left me disconsolate and my hands
full of babies, so l looked around and
picked out Hendy Witt to be Mrs.
Glen Tuck No. 2. Hendy was willing
and she took charge of the 'chilllns'
right smart and began to add to the
number, seven moro having been added
to the f~amily-two girls and five boys
In ten years, making dis yere ole man
Tuck hustle to find pone and 'possums
for the thirteen mouths"
Hendy either began to boss the Tuck
mansion or became too portly to take
in and do the washing. While Glen
will not state the trouble, he got a
divorce and married a younger damsel
in Hattie Belts, also from down in
"Varginny," as Glen states. In as
many years seven more young Tucks
were scrambling for chicken at the
Sunday dinners, that Is, when Glen
could get the fowls.
Hattie, with all her good qualities,
was a disappointment to Tuck. and she
was finally set aside by his divorce
methods, and Sally Allen was en-
sconced as the head Of the family. Up
to date Sally has added five Tucks 10
the offspring.
Tuck now has % children, the latest
just arrived, under his roof, or living
close by, in addition to Henry and
Hattie, who, although divorced, are
too useful in the business of washing
and ironing to be allowed to stray
away from the family fold.
Glen claims he has a letter from
the President. congratulating him on
his big family, and he wishes to live
long enough to see all of his ten boys
reach the age of Fl years, so ne can
lead them up to the election polls and
vote the publican ticket.
On Thanksgiving day the annual re-
union Of the Tucks was observed,
as usual, by a family dinner, and Glenn,
in Boosting about the event, says:
ITS trying times like when 1 was
in the 'bellion,' with Captain Dick Tur-
pin, to provide for those Tuckses. In
the ''bellion' them Union fellows stole
all the chickens and we had to eat cone
bread. Up around Bryn Mawr chick
ems and turkeys are scarce and it takes
about ten pair of fowls and five turks
for our dinner, but times are prosper
Gus and we had our dinner 'shuah.'"