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The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
THE BEE WWOULD LIKE TO


Thomas L. Jones appointed to a
position in line of his profession.
Judge f. NJ. Hewlett in his old
place.
Home rule strictly observed by
Judge Taft.
Auditor Ralph W.,Tyler given cred
it for honesty and successful work in
the last campaign.
Napoleon Marshall have an opin-
ion of his own.
Home girls appointed in the pub
lie schools
Male principals in the public schools
supplanted by female principals.
Less talk and more work among
,olored politicians.
The Inaugural Welcome Club NOR
liberal in managing the next inau-
gural ball
WHAT THE BEE KNOWS.
That Register w. T. Vernon will
be reappOinted.
Major Sylvester has in mind the
appointment of a colored detective.
He is now on the force, and a man
who has made a record.
Congress will ask certain questions
concerning District matters
The Bee led all other papers ed
tied by colored Americans in the last
campaign.
Sidney Bieber is in line for a big
job.
Lieutenant Fathers is in line to
be appointed captain.
There will be some changes in the
Police Court.
Those who have held Office eight
years, or two terms, will have to re-
tire and make room for others.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
GREAT WORK.

DR.. James E. Sheppard, OF
Durham, N. c., is about to put
into practical operation his great
Bible and Industrial School,
which he introduced to the
country about two years ago. He
is the first educator to advocate
this new propaganda.
In another column of The Bee
this week, will be seen two ex-
cerpts from the Charlotte, n. C.,
Observer, which will be found to
be interesting reading.
The South is producing some
great colored men, notwithstand-
ing the alleged racial feeling
against them and their many
schools and colleges and other
enterprises will far surpass many
in the Northern and Eastern
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
LATE JAMES WORMLEY.

A WORTHY TRIBUTE TO THE
The New York Sun, in a recent
article on the subject of eating-houses
in Washington, thus closes its article
with a complimentary reference to
the late James Wormley, as follws:
Meanwhile the real shortcoming
of the eating places, against which
travellers and sojourners have such
abundant cause of complaint - we
refer to their conventional menu and
their shameless cooking - have been
overlooked entirely Since the death,
in the order named, of Wormley,
Welcker and John Chamberlin, and
the retirement of Harvey, Washing
ton has been a barren and a sterile
waste for the lovers of good and
wholesome food skiIfully prepared.
There is much to load the stomach and
perchance arrest the eye with honor
able legends on the bill of fare, but
of things to eat with JOY and digest
with rapture Washington is thrice
shorn pasture dead to all delights.
1t will be observed that the Worm
ley Hotel is the first referred to in
the list, a significant reference and
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21

OF the Negro Business League to
meet next Tuesday vening in the Y.
NJ. I. A. rooms, True Reformers'
Hall This is an important meeting,
as arrangements will be made for
the coming annual banquet of the
League.
Mr.. ]. B. Anderson will deliver
an address, after which special busi-
ness will be attended to.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21

Justice Wright, in the Supreme
Court last week, decided against the
Nineteenth Street Masons and or
dered them not to operate as the
legitimate colored MasonS.
They took an appeal to the Court
OF Appeals, and if they will take the
advice of The Bee, as it gave them
similar advice before, they would
make peace with each other, as Judge
Wright IS seldom reversed.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
DIR. CORROTHERS

The celebration of the ffty-frst an
niversary of the GaIbraith A. NJ. E.
Zion Church is now on. The cele-
bration will embrace one month. The
first service was held Sunday, No
vember 9th. Bishop A. Walters oc-
cupied the pulpit morning and night.
The church was crowded at both ser
vices.
DIR. NJ. F. Blalock, of Harrisburg,
Pa, held the second quarterly con-
ference Friday evening, November
10. The collection for the quarter
was $I,484.56
The presiding elder pronounced It
one of the best conferences that he
had ever held in Galbraith Church.
DR.. S. L. Corrothers, the pastor, Is
more popular today with Galbraith
Church than at any other time of his
seven years pastorate in this city.
The membership admires him for his
honesty and bravery. He has not
only broken all records in the history
of Zion Methodism at the Nations
Capital, by serving one church three
years longer than any other one man
has been able to do in seventy-hve
years, but he has impressed himself
upon the public as a race man ,Jand
as a leader, with whom de "Old
School Leaders" must reckon. Not
only has he the love and support of
his individual church, but the devo-
tion and admiration of the Negro
ministry and churches of the District
of Columbia.
Those windbags around Washing
ton who have been ciiticising DR..
Corrothers for his opposition toPres-
ident Roosevelt and President-elect
Taft, for their treatment of the Ne
gro soldiers at Brownsville, for their
encouragement of the Lily-White
movement in the South, and for their
general mistreatment heaped upon
the colored members of the party,
have only intensified tn admiration
of his friends. Seyenty-hve percent
of the educated Negroes of the Dis
trict of Columbia believe as he does.
Galbraith Church is one of the
most active and best-known churches
at the Nations Capital today, and
ninety-nine out of every hundred
members connected with the church
know that it is due to the labors of
her popular pastor, who for nearly
seven years in this city has defended
the rights of the Negro upon every
occasion. In his opposition to Judge
Taft he, for the first time in the his
tory of America, brought a reply
from the presidential candidate, thus
demonstrating that Negro can strike
hard enough to make big man 'hol-
ler." Every sane Negro on the Am
erican continent knows that Judge
Taft said just what Corrothers ac-
cused him of saying.
Benjamin Williams.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
COLORED MASONS PUT OUT
OF BUSINESS.

For several years the colored ma
sons in this city have been at war
with each other. One faction is
known as the Virginia Avenue, and
the other as the Nineteenth street.
John p. Jones of Chicago, Ill, sew
eral years ago got it into his head
that he would like to be the boss OF
all the colored Masons in the world.
So he caused a split in the Virginia
Masons which was the only legiti-
mate organization in the city at that
time, and published as expelled some
Of the leading and influential colored
MasonS in the United States. The
faction to which Jones allied himself
filed bill in the Equity Court, two
years ago as the legitimate body of
Free and Accepted Masons, and ali
others spurious, and asked the Court
to enjoin those whom they declared
were spurious.
The alleged spurious Masons,
through some of their leading rep
resentatives made overtures to the
so-calIed legitimate Masons to unite
and cease fighting one another. These
overtures were spurned. Many of
the members however, were willing,
but those who held the offices refused
to listen to reason, but proceeded 20
rent a new headquarters and held
themselves out as the legitimate or
ganization. Both sides proved in
capable, and lacked confidence, even
in the professional men connected
with their organizations.
Neither side had confidence enough
in their own colored lawyers to han
die this controversy, but, they hired
white lawyers and paid them well.
The Virginia Avenue faction did, it
is said, retain two colored lawyers
with the two white lawyers to give
a little coloring to their side, but
whether they were paid the same is
a question. One thing is certain
neither of the colored lawyers had
to say in COURT notwith-
the fact that they were re-
tanned
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
DIR. CORROTHERS.

Elsewhere in The Bee will be
seen a statement from Mr.. Ben
jamin Williams, prominent
young man of this city, commend
ing the work at Galbraith Church,
of Rev. S. L. Corrothers.
Aside from the political atti-
tude of DR.. Corrothers, The Bee
will admit and it must be CON
ceded, that DR.. Corrothers is a
thorough race man. While The
Bee didn't agree with his politi-
cal attitude in the recent cam
paign, it will admit that he fol-
lowed his convictions, although
he lost.
Galbraith Church could not
get better man to pull it out of
debt and lead its people.
His work in the recent cam
paign was commented upon by
the press more than any other
colored American who opposed
the Republican ticket. He was
very effective and if the Dem
ocrats had not been such fools
there is no telling what harm DR..
Corrothers would have done.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21

ness during the past year amounted
to little over $4,000. During the
year the company did a business of
SO, 1888, declaring a dividend Of
II per cent. for its stockholders. The
interest on deposits is greater than
that given by any other bank in the
city. The success of the company is
due mainly to the efforts of its presi-
dent. L. E. Williams. and its secre-
tary and treasurer, w. s. Scott, in
whom the patrons OF the company
have the greatest confidence. Mr..
Scott is Tuskegee graduate.
Mr.. Thomas J. Hilliard of the city
of Baltimore Md. conducts a sue
cessful house-furnishing business
that is over one hundred years old.
It was established by his grandfather
Mr. Hilliard began as a boy, nearly
half a century ago when he helped
his mother to sell her wares. He is
prominent member of the loc&l
Negro Business League.
Mr. Henry l. Saunders, OF Indian
apo'is, Ind. merchant and manufac-
turer, is the proprietor of a ladies
and gents furnishing establishment
which did business of S24.OO4.44 for
1907. His stock was invoiced at
$4,000
Messrs. Goode. Dunson' Henry &
Company. conduct one of the finest
cafes in Boston, Mass. In connection
with it is also a grocery and provis-
ion department, all of which repre-
sent a capital of $4,000.
In Greenville, Miss. the leading
city of the Delta Country. the only
book store and stationery business is
owned and conducted by Granville
Carter d cOIored man. His stock IS
as large as any OF its kind anywhere
in the state. and his customers are OF
the finest families OF both races III
city and country.
French Gray, a colored man of La
than, Alabama. who IS said 20 he
Io3 years old. donated to the Dooley
Normal and Industrial Institute at
Daphne. Ala, 100 acres of land vaIu-
ed at more than $4,000 and said tha,
he wanted it understood that in this
he is helping his race. This institu-
ton seems to making a great sue
cess under the direction of Prof.
James Dooley, the founder, and now
has fifty-One students. The trustees OF
this institution have been made ad-
ministrators of Mr.. Gray's remaining
property, which consists of about $40
acres.
The display of the various kinds
of handicrafts and numerous pro-
ducts of the farm and fine live stock
in the Negro Building by members
of the race at the Alabama Agricul-
tural State Fair in Montgomery, Oc-
tober I9th-24th, was highly creditable
and the subject of much favorable
comment by the whites no less than
by the colored
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
IS IT FAIR?

IS IT FAIR?
In behalf of the many teachers
in the public schools of this city
who have been in a struggle for
a number of years, The Bee is
constrained to ask the question 4:
rs it fair to import outsiders
from other schools and appoint
them over the heads of we'll de-
serving teachers who are entitled
to the appointments and promo
tions? The Bee has in view the
appointment of the teacher from
the South, to the school just made
vacant by the resignation OF DIR.
Beckley. Is this appointment
fair to teachers who have given
the best portion of their lives to
school work, and who, today,
stand high in the educational
world? Would it not have been
a just act on the part of the
school authorities to have pro-
NOTED Prof. F. l.. Cardoza to
this school, if not to the super
vising principalship from which
position he was unjustly remov-
ed?
The Board of Education, which
was imposed upon by false rep
resentation in the Cardoza case,
has a good opportunity to right
the wrong. What encourage
ment is there for our teachers
who are entitled to promotion
after having made a good record,
if outsiders are to be appointed
to vacancies which occur in the
higher grades? The Bee again
asks the question, Is it fair? Is
it just? Is this favoritism in the
colored schools never going to
cease? The Board of Education
has said by the reappointment
OF Prof. F. /. Cardoza, that he
was innocent of the charges pre-
ferred against him by VIM. E.
Chancellor. That being a fact,
would not the Board be justified
in not only appointing him to
his former position, but to adopt
a resolution and say that he was
wrongfully accused and dismis
sed from the public schools.
Mr.. Cardoza may not thank
The Bee for this comment, but,
whether he does or does not, it
is immaterial: this is the opinion
of every decent citizen of Wash
ington.
There are two supervising
principals whose services could
readily be dispensed with, by
the appointment of Prof, Cardo-
"a to one of the places and some
other good man to the other.
The Board of Education is no
doubt aware of two men whose
services could be dispensed with
by the appointment of others.
4 special committee should be
appointed by the Board to look
into the condition of the colored
schools.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
WHY SHOULDN'T HE2

Some busy bodies have asked
the question, How will DR.. Book
er T. Washington stand with the
next administration?
He should stand above all other
colored men in this country be-
cause he was the first and only
colored American who defended
Mr.. Taft against the assaults of
the Brownsville affair, and assur-
ed the Colored voters of the coun-
try that Mr.. Taft was their friend.
1t was Mr.. Washington who de
clared openly and above every
body else that Mr.. Taft would be
elected and that the colored
voters would stand by him.
Why shouldn't DR.. Washing
ton be close to the next president
the same as he is to Mr.. Roose-
welt?
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
THE NEGRO NO FOOL

The Democratic party hasn't
sense enough to exercise good
sense. The recent presidential
contest demonstrated the philos-
ophy of the assertion. In one
section of the country, Democrat
ic conventions were adopting
platforms disfranchising the col
ored Americans, and in another
section the Democratic orators
and paid Negro speakers, were
extolling in the virtues of their
enemies and urging the colored
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
HUikL MACEO.

HOIkL MACkO.
When Wishing New York City,
stop at the Hotel Maceo, 2I3 West
53rd. Street, corner Broadway.
Steam heated. Telephone, soS
Columbus.
B. F. Thomas, Prop
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21

cities.
DR.. Sheppard IS now engaged
in a great work. He has started
an institution that will be a ben
eft TO the entire race.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21

NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE.
President w. Sidney Pittman has
issued a call for the regular meeting
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
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Mr.. Frank T. Browne has recently
opened a barber shop in this city.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
NOTES ON RACIAL PROGRESS.
AS Reported By The National Negro
Business League.

buSlneSS League.
The Negro farmers in the South
own in their own right, and accord
ing to statistics, over $4,000 farms,
and are in charge of $4,000 farms,
including those which they control
as tenants.
The Wage Farmers Loan and In
vestment Company, of Savannah Ga.
held its eighth annual meeting No
vember end. Notwithstanding the
money panic, their increase of bust
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
PUBLISHu 4

uoq Eye ST.. N W. washington, D. c.
The Washington bee., 1908-11-21

". Cal YIN CHASE, EDITOR.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-25
FREE PRESS FOR CHINESE.
Government Takes Another Step 4
Combat Revolutionary Factions.

Peking.-The government paper es
tablished by Yuan Shi Kai, the new
grand councillor, to supersede the
old Peking Gazette, announced the
other day that the government hac
planned, on account of the insufflcien
cy of the Peking Gazette and inaccur
acy of the provincial papers, to es
tablish government press organ in
each province.
The native press OF JPeking. for the
last month, has been In fear OF
stringent regulations Following Yuan
Shi Kai's arrival here, and has pc.
tltioned the government to grant II
the same status as that which is en-.
joyed by newspapers in western coun.
tries, asking for special press, tele
graph and postal rates, free access 10
government information, access to
trials, ard the right of fair trial for
offending newspapers.
Chang Chi-Tung, the ether new
grand councillor, favors grantns
press privileges, immunities and
protection to that portion of the
press operating from the extra ter,
ritorial districts under foreign
ownership, by which the govern
ment loses all control of the papers
The establishment Of the new gov
ernment press means another step in
Combating the revolutionary tenden
cies. and propaganda in the Chinese
empire.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-25
CLOTHES AND THE THEATER.
British Drama Not Dead from Over.
Dressing" Says caine.

Hall Caine rises in his place to say
that the British drama is not dead.
Modestly, he does not place the blame
1t Is in quite another connection that
mention Is made of a revised stage
version OF The Christian"
Mr.. Gaines assurance should be vel.
come after the recent plant OF a no
less distinguished British critic that
drama in London is perishing of too
many evening clothes; that it is
bound holelessly to society plots, prob.
lens and parlors because of the aver
age seat-buylng Englishman's incur
able habit of sitting to his theatrical
portions in full dress. Really, however,
despite the graceful optimism that
crowns the author of "The Christian" :"
there is an embarrassing difference
of authoritative opinion as to how and
why the British drama may survive.
Henry Arthur Jones sees hope by
way of America over here, as he an.
nounced not lone ago. he will here
after hold his first presentations. He
esteems US "a heathful people" And
The critic of evening clothes bondage
declares that only in America can the
odor of new-mown hay be brought to
lie stage. Both these prtpositions are
unsettled by last season success in
New York of such plays as "The Hypo.
critics" and ".iiis House in Order"
which are neither wholesome nor
swcetsocnted
By inference Georce bernard Shaw
agrees with the fulldress complain.
ant but only TO 80 much further. His
current pirliippic against supergentil-
ity while directed at quality of so.
cialsm, may be understood to sweep
'yor broad field.
cut Mr.. Shaw ought to know that
t is question whether the British
censor would stand for bad manners
IA place OF bad morals on the stage.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-25
TO TEACH FARMERS
INSTITUTES TO BE CONDUCTED
IN MISSOURI TOWNS.
Will Be Held In Connection with State
Normals-Two Weeks to Be De.
voted to Discussions with State y
Aiding to Fullest Extent.

Columbia, Mo.--Missouri university
Is trying to bring instruction in agyi.
culture direct to the farmers, OF the
state. With this end in view, the agri.
cultural college has sent its profes.
sors on lecture tours over the state,
visiting the various organizations Of
farmers and delivering lectures. The
college this year is working in con-
junction with the state board OF
in the agricultural guiding on the
campus here. With this end in view,
that of greater benefits to the present
farmers, S. M. Jordan, OF Stanberry,
has been selected and made the di.
rector of farmers institutes.
The plan heretofore has been to
hold days or two days session in
some town or schoolhouse, and then
do nothing to follow up after the peo-
pie became well aroused and en-.
thusiastic.
This year arrangements will be
made to hold two weeks institute
in conjunction with the various state
normals. The arrangements have not
been definitely concluded at all, but
at the new normal at Maryville the
plans are practically perfected.
The normal towns were selected In
order to insure an audience even II
the farmers fail to show the inte- est
expected. The students crepa ing in
the various normals to teach will be
called upon to give instruction In
scientific agriculture more and more
as the study of 1t spreads through the
public schools of the state. The Zee
ture will be given in the courthouse
or in the school buildings as may be
thought most practicable In attracting
the men interested In tilling the soil
and the raising of stock.
Five of the leading professors, all
heads of departments In the Missouri
school of agriculture, will give 'the
lectures at Maryville, which is type
of what others will be. The course
there will begin on December o. One
man will leave Columbia for that
place and give three lectures day
for two or three days. Then he will
be superseded by another one, who
will lecture on different field ol
work. This will continue until the
close of the two weeks, when 80 or AZ
lectures will have been given.
I Mr., Jordan. the director of the
work, is an authority on seed corn ant
will discuss corn breeding. He viii
show how corn may be SO cared fol
and cultivated and crossed as to pro
duce grain OF very fine quality a,
well as quantity. 4
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-25
new AMERICAN INDUSTRY.

Invention Makes Possible Establish
mont Of Linen Mills Here That Will
Save Large Part Of the $4,000, 900
Now Spent Abroad Every Year For
This Fabric.
Since Eli Whitney invented the cot
ton gin there has been no development
in the textile industry more important
thpn the discovery of process of linen
making commercially practicable un-
der American labor conditions. The
earlier Massachusetts, inventors prob
lem was the separation of the cotton
seed from the fiber. The problem that
has now been solved by another Mas
sachusetts genius. b. G. Nudge, was
much more complicated.
He had to find way to wrest the
linen fiber from the fax straw, clean
1t Of its woody envelope. remove the
natural gums of the plant. bleach the
fiber, clean and make 1t ready for spin
ming. AS this work is done in the Eu-
ropean countries by methods that have
changed little in the past 1000 years.
1t takes from sixteen to thirty weeks
TO transform fax into linen. The
operation does the same work in twelve
hours
Americans have been paying Europe
over $o0000,000 q year for linen be-
cause the expense of old world meth
DDS OF making this fabric Is prohlbitive
with the higher priced labor of the
United States. The oxford linen mills
Of Boston, that now have absolute con-
troll OF the Nudge process, will change
all this. They can not only save from
sixteen to thirty weeks of time. but get
more fiber from n given amount OF
straw after the seed crop has been
harvested. The "scutching" Of the
straw is done by machines and the re-
naming treatment of the fax by chem
icals.
From the date of Whitney's inven-
tion the cotton industry has grown un-
til Its product is now valued at $780,
100000 year The Oxford linen mills
are now founding another colossal tex
tile industry. Using raw material
that costs less than one-third as much
as cotton and with the economies OF
production brought about by the new
process. these mills are only the pio-
neers Of many that will soon be turn
ing out linens of every grade with
which the foreign product cannot COM
pete.
Work is being rapidly pushed on the
equipment of mills at several points,
and orders are being taken for early
delivery of their product. The great
EaW York house of II b. Cladin 6
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-25
MODES OF THE MOMENT.

The killed skirt with its fold trim
ming is going out slowly, but its end
is inevitable.
The most effective house frocks are
nodded upon original lines largely de-
pendent for their distinction upon the
individuality of the wearer.
Even more than at present is a
vogue for the one piece tailored suit
or dress promised for spring. so that,
whatever one has in that line now, Is
sure to be quite as good style later on.
At the opening of the season it was
announced that fur would be largely
utilized as trimming. but the fur
cloths turned out to be so handsome
and so very much more adaptable for
the purpose that they easily took the
place reserved for the fur.-New York
Post