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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-25
ROCKVILLE AND VICINITY.
Verdict of Coroner's Jury in Railway
Wreck Case.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md. February -, 1908.
The coroner's jury late yesterday after
noon concluded its investig alton in con-
nection with the death of Mrs. Mary
Smith of this town. who died last Thurs
day afternoon at Georgetown University
Hospital. Washington, as result OF in
iurics received IN a wreck on the Wash
ington and Rockville electric railway near
Offutts station. four miles east of Rock
vile. The verdict holds Randolph Little
and Harvey Trotter, motorman and con-
ductor. respectively. of the northbound
car. responsible for the collision because.
it is charged, they erred in passing the
electric signal al the transformer station,
about mile south of the scene of the ac-
cident. and failed to properly operate the
signal at that point Motorman ThOma
w. Bladen and Conductor Robert Paxton
of the southbound car were eXonerated
from blame. II lTaving been stated that
they ope Grated the signals properly at the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-25

Three children of Ar. and Mrs w 4.
Davis of FL Paso. Tex. eldest four
years old. We're burned To death Sun
dav afternoon i'm a fire that destroyed
their home in Santa Rosa. n. VI. II is
supposed the fire was started by the ex-
plosion of a gasoline stove
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-25
No need of days when you are mot
at your best. No need of head
aches, dizziness, irritability. A
Cascaret, taken i'm time, avoids
them.

All need Cascarets
Simply because they don't exercise enough. They don't
eat food. enough and green vegetables.
Those Natures ways for keeping the bowels active.
But very few employ them.
The best way is Cascarets
Nearly all the minor ills of be avoided by
CaSCaretS alone.
There is need to have headaches. DEPRESSION bad
breath. bad complexion.
The remedy is Cascarets
Not in large doses-unless YOU wait too long The best
is Cascaret time when YOU need it.
One every day, perhaps.
1t is simply a of keeping clean inside YOU do
the outside.
don't soap large quantities. and rarely. You
it frequently, regularly. just YOU need it.
Do the with Cascarcts.
Then always we'll always your best.
candy tablets They sold by all drug
oists bulk BE get the genuine, with
CCC on every tablet. The price is SOC. &c and
Ten Cents per Box.
The Colorado statesman., 1908-09-05
VERNON ON THE STUMP.

W. T. Vernon, register of the
treasury, will take a prominent
part in the oratorical end of the
presidential campaign. 1t was
through his work that prominent
Negroes were held in line for Taft
before the nomination, and since
then the national committee has
had a number of requests to send
him to various points for speeches.
He has been asked by Senator du
Pont, who is chairman of the
speakers bureau of the national
committee, to give considerable
time to speeches, and he has prom
ised to do SO.
The bureau will make assign
ments for him. after September
15. Prior to that time he will fill
The Colorado statesman., 1908-09-05

various engagements. He left
here today to speak tomorrow be
fore the National Association of
Negro Physicians in New York.
Friday he will speak to colored
voters in the congressional district
of Representative Olcott of New
York. Monday night he will
speak to Negroes in Boston, and
September 3 he will lecture in
Newport, r. L. He also has an
engagement at Philadelphia Sept
10, and will address the colored
Odd Fellows of the country at At
lantic City the 10Th of that month.
He will also attend conferences of
the A. M. E. church in Kansas
and Missouri in October.
1t is understood that Vernon's
assignments by the national com.
mittee will be largely in Ohio, In
diana, Kansas, Nebraska and
Iowa, and that he will make only a
few speeches in the East.-Star.
The Colorado statesman., 1908-09-05

store, and a number of office and
lodge rooms. The building has
proved paying investment.
Among the professional men Of
color are many lawyers, some of
whom do well, a goodly number of
dentists with all they can do, and
physicians with large and in some
instances lucrative practices. OF
the 1859 registered physicians in
the city seventy-six are colored,
about fifty being regular practi-
tioners; a number of the others are
government clerks, "Sun Down
ers, practicing after office hours.
Some of these physicians do ex-
ceedingly well, one in particular
having sanatorium and dwelling
in the residential portion of Penn
sylvania Avenue, about six blocks
from the White House, and valu-
able properties located in other
parts of the city.
There are number of colored
architects, at least two being very
successful with excellent work to
their credit, an automobile estab-
lishment, ten drug stores, two of
which contain sub-postoffice sta
tions, and two first-class photo
graphic studios. A colored woman
conducts an establishment of con-
siderable size with schools of in
struction in dressmaking, millinery
and cooking, and in addition an
employment bureau. There is also
flourishing Conservatory of
Music and School of Expression in
its fifth year, with an enrolment of
17S pupils and eight instructors.
A Young Mems Christian Asso-
ciation and like organization for
young women are struggling TO get
well established, and in the south-
west portion of the city a colored
woman is conducting a social set
tlement, which is doing most excel
lent work among the poorer classes
of colored people in that section.
There are ia colored churches
in Washington, of all denomina-
tions, majority Baptist with a
goodly number of Methodists; also
Episcopal, Presbyterian, Seventh
Day, Holiness, Catholic and Luth-
eran, which would seem to assure a
happy future for the colored peo-
pie now here, however the present
may seem.
The Colorado statesman., 1908-09-05

assistance of any sort, excellent
lawyers of color are ready to aid
him, or if unfortunate enough to
afoul of the law he may be arrest
ed by a policemen of his own
race and have his case, if minor,
tried before a colored magistrate.
When he has lived a long and use
full, and all hope of local suffrage
to help lessen the discrimination
against him has departed, he gives
up the ghost, and after a colored
minister of the gospel has eulogiz-
ed him in colored church, a colored
undertaken buries him in colored
cemetery. From beginning to end
he has crossed the color line.
AS matter of fact, in Washing
ton, as in many other southern
cities, the better classes of white
and colored people know absolute
ly nothing of each other. They
pass on the streets, sometime, but
that is as near as they ever get.
In the schools, in the churches, in
the various pursuits of gaining
livelihood, and-speak it gently
socially, the two races are entirely
separate and apart.
According to the police census
of last year the district has pop
ulation of 329, ,591, of which num-
Der 96,lSS are colored people. OF
approximately 450 clerks in the
District (muncipaD Building nine
are colored men, majority of the
messengers and laborers being of
the same race. The police force
of 731 has thirty eight colored Of
ficers on its roll, while nine of the
39S members of the fire. fighting
, force are colored. The chief of
the fire department says that he
contemplates establishing fire
company composed entirely of
company composed entirely of col
ored men some time in the future
/ In the city postoffice there are
$50 white and seventy colored
clerks, including substitutes, and
1926 white. and fifty-five colored
mail carriers ON the list. OF the six
city magistrates one is colorel
man drawing salary of $4,000.
The colored Recorder of Deeds gets
$4, 900 as his annual compensation,
and the president recently appoint
ed young colored lawyer as As
sistant United States Attorney at
salary of $4,000.
The local school system is dual
one, the superintendent being white
with white assistant superintend-
ent in charge of the white schools
and colored assistant in charge of
the colored schools. For the Ill
white and sixty-five colored school
buildings there was an enrolment
at the close of the last school year
of 1,05s white teachers with 1886
The Colorado statesman., 1908-09-05
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

Brookhaven, Miss, August %.
Strong feeling exists in this city
over the anticipated removal of
white clerks from the postoffice
and placing Negroes in their plac-
es. 1t was reported today that
Negro clerks would arrive next
week to relieve the present white
employees. Several meetings have
been held and the matter thor
oughly discussed, with the COLI
clusion that Negroes will not be
tolerated in the postoffice here.
kilograms have been sent the Ne
groes that they had better not re-
port for duty.
The Colorado statesman., 1908-09-05
WashingtonD.C.
And its Color Phase Told by Osceoa Madden in Recent
Issue OF" "The World Today" A Distinct Seper-
alton of the two Races at the National Capital.

In Washington, the great Capt.
tai City of the greatest country on
earth, the separation of the races
is more nearly complete than in
any other city of the union. This
does not even except the South,
for here, where there is the largest
colored population of any of our
cities, the largest point of contrast
that of personal service, is grow
ing smaller each year and white
help in private homes, boarding
houses and hotels is taking the
place of colored, while white bar
ber's" shops, until recently un-
known in the South, are getting
very common. Shoe shining par
lors in the downtown districts,
well appointed, with upholstered
seats, electric lights and fans, per-
iodicals and newspapers, have
monopolized the trade of the one
familiar black bootblack with box
and chair.
In Washington the colored in
FAINT is introduced to his existence
by a colored physician, often in a
colored hospital with colored staff
and nurses (the Freedmen's is the
largest in the District.) When
old enough he goes to a colored
school to study and play with col
ored children only. He sees white
children and grown-ups in the
streets, but nowhere else, and
there is never contact unless a
childrens trace row" should hap
pen. A colored dentist helps him
get rid of his milk teeth,' and
next day in happy frame of mind
he goes to Sunday-school and a
colored church.
After course IN tie colored
graded schools, should profess
ion be desired he can make limi-
ted selection and get an excellent
training at the one colored univer
sity, Howard. With the excep-
ton of the Catholic University all
the others are closed tight-for
him.
Should he not have desired or
have been unable to obtain, pro-
fessional education, when ready to
look for life vocation or COMPEL g.
ed by circumstances to hustle for
living, he is certainly up against
a hard proposition if he is intelli-
gent and ambitious. The number
of trades Offering him opportunity
to become a skilled mechanic is
small, and industries in which he
can secure profitable employment,
regardless of his preparation and
ability, are few. Without capital
and experience, it is practically
impossible for him to make sue
cessful business beginning. What
he shall do is not easy to decide.
Later, should he require legal
The Colorado statesman., 1908-09-05

Richmond, Va, has contributed
another musical prodigy to the
New York reservoir of race talent
in the person of Mr.. r. Hildred
White. He has achieved success
both as a violinist and pianist, and
is said to render selections from
Beethoven, Rubinstein, Listz,
Chopin, MacDowell and other
great composers, with wonderful
skill and technique. His memoir
ization and Interpretation of class
ic works on short notice are at
trac citing marked attention at the
hands of the best musical critics
of Gotham.
The Colorado statesman., 1908-09-05

white pupils, and SIT colored teach
ers who gave instruction to 1882
colored pupils.
For great many years the gov
ernment departments have drawn
numbers of capable colored men
with their families from all parts
of the country, and there are now
thousands of cultured, well educat-
ed and refined colored people in
the capital, many of them living in
,, handsome and even elegant homes
of their own. In this connection it
may be worth while to state that of
the total value of taxed property in
the District of Columbia, $685., ,9S7,-
252 (this does not include govern
ment property to the value of hun
dreds of millions) nearly $23 ,000,-
600 worth is owned by colored peo-
pie. This estimate is based upon
the latest report of the Assessor of
the District.
In the nine executive depart
ments of the National Government
there are Approximately 1,450 col
ored employees, about three hun
dred Of that number being clerks,
drawing salaries ranging from $240
for the humble charwoman to $4,-
600 for Register of the Treasury.
The total amount paid these ,450
employees is about $017 ,240 each
year. One colored woman clerk en-
joys a salary of $1,000. In addi-
ton to the Register of the Treasury,
the Assistant Register, the Auditor
for the Navy Department and, I be-
lieve, one or two chiefs of divisions
are also colored.
The corps of instructors in the
local schools includes graduates of
Harvard, Yale, Amherst, and 9th
ers of the leading colleges, as well
as few from Oxford and from the
leading universities of France and
Germany, and some who have stud
led in Italy and Spain. Howard
University, the foremost colored in
stitution of learning in the country,
and to which, by the way, Andrew
Carnegie has recently donated $780,
600 for library, offers many ad-
vantages to the student in the high
er branches, and is making an eff
| fort to include technical courses for
those inclined to take more than
the ordinary course in manual
training. This institution is sup
ported by Congressional appropri-
ations and by private contributions.
washington has no large indus
tries or business houses managed by
colored men, and there is no col
ored bank. There are many small
stores and enterprises operated sue
cessfully, and in limited number
OF trades many colored men make
comfortable living.
OF the benevolent and kindred
organizations the 'True Reform
ers )" are very prominent. The local
manager states that the order has
membership of ninety thousand,
spread over thirty-seven states, in
Guiding five thousand in Washing
ton. They have erected in the city
at a cost of 100000 handsome
structure which contains the arm.
ory for the colored militia, a COM
modious entertainment hall. a drug
The Colorado statesman., 1908-09-05

Iowa is setting a pace in the
matter of recognizing the Negro
press which her sister States
would do well to initiate. The
Buxton Gazette, published at Bux-
ton, Ia, is the only official county
paper conducted by colored man.
The editor, Rev. Abraham Lin
coin DeMond, has just signed a
contract with the State officials for
the State Fair advertising. The
colored people of Buxton own more
property in proportion to their
population than is true of any
other city in the North.
The Colorado statesman., 1908-09-05
Her Last Hope.

After mans wife finds that It is
useless to try to convince him that
smoking is an expensive habit she be-
gins to be afraid that IL hurts the
baoy's throat.
The Colorado statesman., 1908-09-05

In appreciation OF what MIR.
Sam Lucas has been to the pro-
fession George Walker called him
into his dressing room on the
night of August 10, at the Grand
Theatre, and presented the grand
old man with beautiful solid gold
ring, with Masonic emblem set in
diamonds. Mr.. Lucas is a pion-
eel. in the business among his race
and is regarded as the dean of the
profession and is called the grand
old man by his host of friends.
Mr.. Lucas was a member of the
"Bode of Education" in Cole and
Johnson's ''Shoo-Fly Regiment"
Chicago.-The Negro Law and
Order League, organized in Chic
age last Monday as result of the
Springfield riot and race war, will
be made national in it's scope. 1t
is proposed to organize a Negro
Law and Order League in every
State in the Union, to stamp out
Lawlessness on the part of the
blacks. The Rev. E. I'll. Stewart,
pastor of the Institutional M. E.
church, of this city, is at the head
of this movement. 1t is proposed
to place men at the head of the
different State Law and Order
Leagues who will establish regu-
lar headquarters and give their en-
tire time to the work.
Paducah, KY, Aug. 23.-Ano-
ther damage suit has been filed in
United States court here as a re-
suit of the night, rider raid on Bir-
mingham, Marshall county, March
10, of this year. The plaintiff is
Nat Frizzell, Negro, who alleges
that his home was shot into and
that he was taken out, after being
snot in the head, and unmerciful-
ly beaten. He states he was Or
dered to leave, and that he is now
a resident of Massac county, Ill.
The amount of damage asked is
S25, 200, and there are II defend
ants. This is the third suit
brought as a result of this raid.
Rev. Matthew Anderson, the Of
fical head of the Berean Indus
trial Institute at Philadelphia, has
moved into a swell neighborhood
of the Quaker City and the "blue-
blooded aristocrats" of that section
do not like it. They threaten to
bring the influence of the wealthy
promoters of the school to bear
to get Brother Anderson out of the
way, but the latter has the support
of coterie of rich white neigh
bors, who are standing by him to
get even with the aforesaid "blue-
bloods" for refusing to admit them
into the charmed inner circle be-
cause of shyness in the length of
pedigrees, 1t is pretty
mess, and while the big folks are
with their social problem
Brother Anderson is serenely hold
ing the fort.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-07-09
WEEKLY WEATHER BULLETIN
FOR THE WEEK ENDED JULY 4, 1908.
GENERAL SUMMARY.
Honolulu, July 9, 1908.

The mean temperatures reported higher than those of the
previous week deg to deg Hawaii excepting the southern
portion of the Kau district deg deg higher Oahu
deg to deg higher Maui B deg higher Mooka and
OIL deg. lower Kauai
The rainfall for the week beow average more
years at all stations having such records the section
reports received The deficiencies in inches Hawaii ranged
from o2I to o8I, SO Oahu, and OIL on Kauai.
All stations report less rainfall than during the previous
excepting change at Paaa Hawaii and Khei Maui The
est deficiencies occurred in the o districts Hawaii
varied from II3 to inches and inches the
OF Maui The deficiencies in the remaining districts Hawaii
Kau and Hamaua 28 nch excepting 80 inch in the
southwestern of the o district; Maui<ua ahana oooto
o. I2 nch Oahuo 90 to So inch Kaua-o o. and Moo
kai o.27
The greatest amounts of rainfall reported Fo dis
tct of Hawaii and ranged from ~ 70 inches The greatest
amount reported from the remainder of the stations "a inch
No rainfall occurred at stations in the district of a
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-07-09
INTELLIGENCE

co, July 14.-Miss Gertrude X. Brown
C. f. White, F. c. Chalmers, Miss V
X. Sarles, J. Dutot, w. E. Chambers
and party (2), Miss Magoon, LAM Ma
goon, d. FORBES and party, Mrs. A. f.
Boyd Miss Helen Lisle, Miss Ruth
Huntington, Ching Wah Chan, Ching
Hung Yau, r. A. Robbins, Miss A. e
Savoy, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. S. Reed, J.
Opfergelt, Mrs. Opfergelt and two chill
dren, e. NJ Watson, Dr. B. McV. Mac
kali, Mrs Tomlnson, Miss L. Kong
Y. T. Low, Miss NJ. E. Brown, Miss M
E. Foltz,M. r. Smith, Miss A. w
Rimick, VIM. B. Watson, Miss E. Nc
Gregor, Miss Claire Uecke, Miss
Stephens.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-07-09
PASSENGERS DEPARTED.


Per p. NJ S, S, Korea, for San Fran
cisco, July 8, p. MFRS J. II. Tho
mas, Miss NJ. NJ Thomas, Miss Isabel
Thomas, H. Engels, Miss A. c. Rogers,
Miss II. F. Rogers, II. A. Fairweather.
}. S. Silverberg, J. Schweitzer, S. S.
Litchfeld, Miss Emily L. KOra, c. w.
Shearman, r. Schoenheld, j. T. Gil
martin, Mrs. Schoenfeld Leon Honig-
berger and wife, J, Eichwald, Miss
Feldmann, Miss Wredin, Miss G. e.
Constant, A. NJ Lockridge and wife.
Miss Kendall, A. II. Woods, II. A. Doty
and wife, Mrs. Cross, Miss Luttmer, E..
G. Duisenberg, Miss Florence Patton,
Miss Hasforth, Miss Helen Lisle, Miss
Misses Wallace, Miss Mabel Deane
Bruce Huntington, b, L. Marx, Mrs.
Marx, c. f. Eckart, wife and two chill
dren, Mr.. Armstrong, G. D. Bell and
wife, Morris Alexrod I. Rosenberg.
wife and 2 children, Mrs. w. C. Will
der, j. M Fuller, Miss Lily Kong, Mrs.
j. M. Tomlinson, Mrs. Fullbrook, Miss
Kate Kelly, Mrs. Bond, Miss Bond
BOOKED.
Per S. S, HlIonian, for San Francis
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-07-09
THE RUB.

My" exclaimed little Billy, as he
gazed at the lithograph, I'D like to
be a giraffe. Just think how easily
you could rubber over the baseball
fence"
That's all right" replied Tommy,
but there is another time when you
wouldn't want to have a neck like a
giraffe"
when is that?"
why, in the mornings when your
ma begins to scrub your neck with
soap and water"-Chicago News.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-07-09

T. s. ~ repairship Panther and u.
s. ~ tender Yankton, Commander Mel
son and Commander McVay respect
lively, arrived yesterday afternoon from
San Francisco and entered to dock at
the Navy wharves Following is the
Panthers roster: Commander V. s..
Nelson, commanding; Lieut.. Com
Lieut.. Commander 4. Ii. Delaney, eX-
ecutive officer and navigator; Lieut.
Commander W. K. Riddle, watch Off
Ger; Ensigns J p. Hart and H. A.
Stuart, watch officers; p A. Surgeon
J. d. Manchester, p. A. Paymaster
Thomas Williamson, Pay Clerk J. A..
Rebentisch, Warrant Macli1nists W. f..
MulIinix, G. w. Johnson, and c. ca
Nelson.
The Yankton's officers are: Lieut.
Commander Chas b. McVay, Jr., COM
manding; Ensign Halsey Powell, ex-
ecutive officer; Midshlpman Arthur W..
Frank, engineer officer; Midshipman
F. G. Starr, Orunance officer; Midship-
man - 1. o bOlllloOlls MlltltSS OllCCIt .
A. Surgeon, Allan Stuart, medical OF
ficer; Asst. Paymaster Brantz Mayer,
pay officer. The crew consists Of 100
men,
The Yankton was built as a private
yacht by an Englishman and went un-
der the name of Sapphire. Saran
Bernhardt purchased her and named
her Cleopatra. r. c. Converse of New
York bought the yacht and rechristen-
ed her Penelope. He sold her to the
government during the Spanish war
and she was used along the Atlantic
coast and in Cuban waters. She car
ries four three-lnch guns. Her steam
ing radius is $500 miles on a daily con-
sumption of fourteen IONS of coal. On
the run down she averaged about elev-
en- knots an hour, and is capable of
doing fourteen
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-07-09

Per s. S. Hilonian, July s, from San
Francisco: Leland Mckee and wife,
Mr.. Lehigh and wife, Mr. Ebersole,
wife and three children, Geo. w. VIII
bur, wife and three children, Miss EN-
ma A. Vroom, Miss Baker, Mrs. ]. A.
Drew and child, Mrs. C. A. Buchanan,
Miss Kimball, w. L. Rosa, Frank M.
stillman, and the Santa Clara base
ball team.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-07-09
THE LOG-BOOK

It'is reported aboard the auxiliaries
Yankton and Panther that Honolulu is
TO have but eight of the battleships of
the Atlantic fleet, the others going to
Lahaina, or some of them under Mo-
lokai.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-07-09

The collier Ajax, Captain Hutchin-
son, which sailed from San Francisco
five hours afead OF the supplyship
Glacier, arrived off port last evening
and entered the harbor this morning,
docking at the Alakea street wharf.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-07-09
ARRIVING.

Wednesday, July s.
NJ N. S. S. Hilonian, Johnson. from
San Francisco, p. m
U. S. S. Panther, Nelson, from San
Francisco, p. m.
U. S. S. Yankton, McVay, from San
Francisco, p. m.
l. S. S. Ajax, Hutchinson, IRON San
Francisco, p. m.