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The Washington bee., 1909-05-22
A LOAF OF BREAD PUT IN TWO
COFFTNS.
Half Buried with Wife, Husbands
Grave Now Contains Other Part.

Half Buried with Wife, Husbands
Grave Now Contains Other Part.
Brooklyn.-Adolph Raad, who
formerly lived at No. 10 Luquer
street, was buried in Greenwood
Cemetery, the coffin containing one
half of loaf of rye bread, the other
half of which had been buried with
Mrs Raad four years ago. The aged
couple were born In Ludenbach, Ger
many. They purchased a farm in
what is now Flatbush, and as the
city gradually encrOached upon their
farm land they cut it up and sold it
until they we're soon able to retire
comfortably.
There is an old German custom
Of making a wish whenever q fresh
loaf of bread is cut. On Septem-
Der z, 1904, Mrs. Raad had Just
made the customary wish, and was
about to cut loaf when she dropped
dead. The husband cut the loaf and
put half in his wife's CONN. The
other half was preserved in a tin
box, the neighbors having been In
structed to put it in his coffin.
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22
FIRST SEA VOYAGE.

Discovery Shows 1t to Have Been O.
600 Years Before Solomon.
Chicago.-Prof. James S, Breasted
of the University Of Chicago, an
nounced his discovery in Sicily Of =
portion Of a tablet covered with In
scriptions, Showing that Solomon did
not make the first sea voyages. He
says that the translation shows that
the builder of the. first pyramid
made a journey with forty ships
for cedar. This, he says, was two
thousand years before Solomon's
time
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22
Lasso Saved Man From ABYSS.

san Francisco, Cal.-Lassoed at
the brink of steep precipice, A. L.
Banks OF Philadelphia owes his life
to William Rogers of New York city.
With Robert Shea OF New York, and
James Archer of London. Banks and
Rogers were riding in the mountains,
when Bankss horse slipped. To
save himself Banks grasped = bush.
Rogers swung his FoDs and e&sghs
saHks around the waist.
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22
Ma. old English Oak Burned

One OF the seven fine old oaks In
eaIeey forest, BuckinEhamshire. Eng
land, has been burned to the ground.
ft is surmised that visitors to the
EOrsst made = picnic fire In the hol-
low trunk, and the result was the
complete destruction Of the tree,
which Is said to be 500 years old.
saicey is the second great royal for
est and has belonged to the crown
since the conquest.
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22
MR.. ROSS, FOREMAN.

For the first time in the history
of Erie County, a Negro has
been chosen foreman of a Su-
preme Court jury. James A.
Ross, we'll known in the city and
especially to the leaders of the
Democratic party, is the man
who has the honor. He IS also
publisher of the Gazetteer, a
monthly magazine devoted to
the colored people throughout
the United States.
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22
ALLEY DENTZENS

The annual census, taken by
the police, for Washington, has
just been completed, and in it
may be found one potent reason
for the prevalence of crime and
disease among the colored peo-
pie. According to this census,
the number of white people
living in alleys is but 1908 in the
entire city of Washington, while
the number of colored people
living in the alleys reaches the
stupendous figure of I3,4Io. In
the case of the white dwellers in
the alleys, they are either there
from choice, or because, possibly,
they are unable to. pay street
rents. In the case of the colored
dwellerS in the alleys, however,
they are forced to dwell in filthy,
disease-infected, crime-breeding
alleys, just because their skin
is dark.
We hear much, in the white
press, and from the business and
professional white men in this
community about criminal col
ored people and about their
spreading the germs of the white
plague, and yet if they would but
investigate they would find that,
if this be true, and we are not
saying it is not, the white men
of this city are to blame.
These people, because of the
refusal of white landlords to rent
them decent dwellings, are forced
back into the alleys, forced into
houses that are so unsanitary
that they are but novels, and
back in these alleys, the good
: and bad, the moral and the Grim
inal element of the race, are
forced to reside together; the
moral mothers and fathers wit
Messing daily the corruption OF
their children by those old in
crime. 1t is an awful picture
this picture of the black dwellers
in the germ-infested, crime-breed-
ing alleys of the Capitol City Of
the Nation, the "city of magni-
ffcent distances the city that
should be the example in clean,
illness and morality for Other
cities to follow.
Just stop and consider, in q
city like Washington, Thirteen
! Thousand, Four Hundred anC
| Ten colored people compelled
by unjust, ungodly discrimina-
ton to live in alleys, in unsani-
tary dwellings!
| Is it to be wondered at that
| the colored man becomes a Grim
final, when he is forced to live as
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22
"THANKS"

From the Philadelphia Courant
The many friends in this city
of Mr.. w. Calvin Chase, Editor
of the Washington Bee" will
be pleased to know that he is in
a rapid way to recovery from his
recent illness.
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22
ESTABLISHED 1880.
SCHOOLS ARE 1NTRODUC-
ING FORESTRY

lNG FOXES | KY
Forestry is attracting wide at
tention among the schools of The
United States. Not only have
many colleges and universities
introduced courses and ever
professional schools of forestry
but elementary phases of the
subject have been introduced in
to hundreds OF the graded and
high schools, and teachers give
enthusiastic reports of the sue
cess which is attending the new
study. Public school teachers say
that they have found in it sub
ject interesting to children, ana
one which furnishes much at
tractive, tangible material II
work upon, developing the child S
observation, and being at once
acceptable to the young mind
and most practical.
The public schools Of Wash
ington, District OF C-iuTlhia, anC
of parts of Iowa are in the var
guard of this movement. Every
graded school in Washington
and a large number of the ruta
schools of Pottawattamie County
Iowa, are now teaching the ele
ments of forestry.
In Iowa the subject is being
taught as a commercial course il
connection with home geOgra
ply and agriculture, while in the
Washington schools il is used il
the nature study courses. The
four upper grades of the Wash
ington schools are studying the
forest and this year all are fol
.owin~ practically the same Oh,
line: next year this outline viii
be confined to the fifth grade
while the other grades will fol
low an outline one step advanc'
ed, and so on until by the fourth
year a four-year course will have
been introduced. AS a prepara-
ton for this work, forestry has
been taught in the Norma
School of the District of COlum,
bia for several years past, and
when the young student teacher,
take up the actual work of teach
ing they are already familiar
with the details of elementary
forest study, Prominent among
the other normal schools of tn,
country to take up work of thi'
kind are those of Cleveland, Ohio
Rochester, New York; and 10
liet, Illinois.
There is a section in the Fores
Service of the United States De
partment OF Agriculture which
works in cooperation with tn
schools in teaching forestry an,
its related subjects. This CO
operI Dn is not limited to tech
nical schools of forestry; it /
equally open to primary and kin
dergarten grades; it is as willin
to help teach tree study in
first year nature-study class a
to ASST in the establishment c
a professional forest school.
This section of education, as
is called is now working ou
model courses of study for grad
ed and high schools. in coopera
ton with The public schools c
Washington, District of Colun-
bia, and Philadelphia, Pennsy
vania. The work in Philadelphi
is being conducted by w. n
Clifford, head of the Commerc
Department of the Southern Higl
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22
SCHOOL NOTES

Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey,
and Mr.. William D. Hover,
members of the Board of Educa-
ton, were reappointed to sue
ceed themselves.
|, Mr. w. V. Tunnel, a profes-
sor of Howard University, was
selected by the Supreme Court,
District of Columbia, to succeed
Mr.. John T. Cook, whose term
expires July I.
Mr. Tunnel was graduated
from Howard University, class
of 1885, and from the General
Theological Seminary in New
York, class of 1880. He was
called to the pastorate of a
Brooklyn church. In 1893 he
was appointed Professor of Belle
Lettres, at Howard University
where he had studied. He was a
trustee of Howard, and was ap-
pointed Supervising Principal oi
the 18th division of our schools
which he gave up to return to
the University in 1905 to take
the chair of history.
He is identified with every
thing pertaining to the better
ment of the schools and educa-
ton, and ranks deservedly high
as an orator.
The members of the Board ol
Education, under the leadership
of Captain James F. Oyster, are
working nobly in the shaping
and uplifting of our educational
system. In the course of a few
years, after Congress shall have
passed the bill to pension the
teachers who have made tho
schools what they are, thC
schools of Washington will take
their places in the foremost rank:
of an ideal system.
The many knotty problems
which were piled as obstacles
montain high, in the path of this
board, are being reduced to mer,
foot hills by their wisdom anC
sound judgment.
1t is regretted that Congress
did not pass the bill this year, bu
it is hoped that it will be one o
the first items placed on the cal
endar for next years considera
ton.
The faithful teacher is doing
her best to increase the annuity
fund. In all parts of the city
entertainments have been giver
to increase the annuity fund.
Mrs. Anna Geary Waddleton
is one of the strongest substi
tutes in the service.
Miss Essie Gray is giving en-
tire satisfaction as a substitute
Recently she ha& been employed
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22

The Colored Business Mems
League of this city, should in
augurate a movement to increase
the number of colored business
men in Washington. A city with
a hundred thousand colored pop
ulation, and city whose colored
population receives annually, in
salaries, over Ten Millions OF
Dollars, ought to have more in
dustries and enterprises. Get
busy.
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22
CORRECTOR CORRECTED

mum.
CORRECTOR CORRECTED
DR.. Washington, in his Young
Mems Christian Association ad-
dress two weeks ago, made the
statement that Negroes in Wash
ington were drawing S5,ooo,oOC
annually, in salaries, from the
federal government. This state
ment had been made by many
speakers, and had been recorded
in public print on divers occa-
sions, in fact so frequent that It
had become accepted as fact. But
when DIR. Washington made the
statement, and he only said zap
prOximately," Mr.. Hershaw
rushed into print to deny it, and
gave the aggregate salaries paid
Negroes in Washington at about
half of five million. The facts
are that more than a year ago, to
be accurate, the aggregate salar-
les of the Negroes employed bv
the government in this CITY
amounted to $4,o50,224. Since
that time there have been quite
a number of Negro clerks, mes
Sengers, and laborers AIDED to the
pay roll of Uncle Sam in this
city, bringing the total much
nearer that stated by DR.. Wash
lngton than that stated by Mr..
HershaW. Mr.. Hershaw, evil
IDENTIFY was using figures ten
years old. However, old figures
perhaps served his real purpose.
DR.. TUNNELS ELECTED
The selection of DR.. Tunnel.
of Howard University, to sue
ceed Mr.. John F. Cook, as lnem-
Der of the Board of Education, is
a wise one. and The Bee con-
graduates the new men. Yer. and
bespeaks for MIN success. There
are some who question the pro-
priety of member of the faculty
OF Howard University being
chosen as a member of the Board
of Education in charge of the
Washington schools. This, how
ever, is not new precedent,
though it may be for Washing
ton, for there have been many
instances where school board
have been taken from
the faculty of some college. Let
all assist DIR. Tunnel to make
splendid record, as a consCien-
tious worker for the betterment
of our schools.
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22
HOTEL MACEO.

When visiting New York City,
stop at the Hotel Maceo, 2I3 West
s3rd. Street, corner Broadway
Steam heated Telephone, Boa
Columbus.
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22
NO DISCRIMINATION

Grand Master Warheld has in
formed The Bee that there will
be no discrimination at River
View Park
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22

he does in Washington? Is it to
be wondered at that the awful,
devastating white plague finds
hundreds of Negro victims in
these filthy alleys and unsanitary
houses back in the alleys?
1t would appear that the white
citizens of Washington. for self
protection alone, would reduce
'crime among Negroes to a mini
MUM.
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22

Honorable Charles w. Ander-
son, of New York, has been Sc
lected to deliver the commence
ment address for the colored
schools this year. There is no
question but what he will make
good. The selection was wise.
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22

do not shove him down. Only
the envious and narrow-minded
shove down. The real race man
shoves up.
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22

1t never pays to deal in dark
secrets. At some time in your
career they are likely to plague
you.
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22

If you cannot help a man up,
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22

Greatness cannot be forced by
artificial means. 1t IS only the
truly great who are great.
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22

The Negro press is getting
wise to, a certain Washington
press bureau.
The Washington bee., 1909-05-22

There are $3.50 more colored
women in Washington than col
ored men. Amt IT awful Mabel
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-12-24
THE BABY SHoPLIFTERn
AGAIN-IN POLICE HANDS

st. Louis, Mo-. Dec. 30.--An S-year-
old girl, whose cheeks are constantly
dimpled with smiles, whose blue eyes
beam with innocence and candor. is
held at the Carr Street police station
as the baby shoplifter.
She is Annie Pavlinski. daughter of
Frank Pavlinski, 1914 North Ninth
Street. She has been arrested three
times for theft, has spent two weeks
In the Industrial school and escaped,
ran away from home dozens of times.
and makes a practice of slipping out
OF bed after the family is asleep and
differing money from her father and
her big brother Tony.
She was, found asleep in Railways
scanfily clad and blue with cold.
plying policeman took her to the
natron OF the Carr Street district,
swhere 1t was learned she had run away
from home Tuesday after rifiing he
broher's pockets of $3.50.
Annie's first expjloint was robbing a
notion store of so cents worth of toys.
She was arrested. but the proprietor
refused to prosecute.
Two weeks later she entered gro
Gerry store, concealed herself under a
counter and stole s13 from the grocer
TILL Her investments in candy and
toys caused suspicion; she was arrested
again and sentenced to the industrial
school.
Fourteen days later. ragged and
blithe. she reappeared at her home.
having escaped.
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them open. small live snakes sauirm

them open. small i've snakes sauirm.
ed off.
One of the Berks prophets says that
cause t there WI, were ee quite faw coG
DAYS in early autumn, That the Gem.
ing winter will not be a severe one
is the prediction of John Musser. a
Breeknock town ship farmer, Berks
is the successor OF toe late Elias Hart
whose annual winter forecasts from
the goose bone made him famous.
Mr.. Musser says: The goose bono
Is marked very peculiarly this year.
Instead OF having dark marks Joined
together there is dark spot lndicat-
ed here and there. This indicates that
the winter win be an open one. with
severe spell now and then. Jan
nary or the early part of It VIII gee
an occasional snowfall. But there will
be warm spell about the 18th and
another In the latter part of the
month. February will be severe
month. according to the markings,
and there will be several billiards. and
plenty of Ice and snow. March will
be. opened with mild weather. but 1t
will be better cold the latter part Of
the month";
Anthony Rupert. aged eighty-nve.
declares that the woods and fields are
full of young snakes, which indicates
that the winter will not be a hard
one.
Local weather prophets contend that
weeds have grown to an unusual
heighth and that. this indicates a
severe winter and lots Of snow. since
nature caused the weeds to grow tall.
so that birds can feed upon the seeds
when the ground Is covered with
snow. Squirrels began carrying their
supply of winter grain and nuts into
their nests earlier than usual this
year and some farmers declare that
this indicates cold weather and long
winter.
Several other farmers said that
muskrats began building early: that
corn husks are thick, with the stalks
leaning to the West: that geese. ducks
and chickens are growing a thick
down under their feathers and bonv
substance on their feet: that toad
stools on old logs have many wrinkles
month NearIier than usual. which ali
Indicates that the winter will be a
short but a severe one.
Meanwhile the guessing goes nier-
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ct Paul. Mimi, Dec. 2B.--At con-
ference today at the Office of Governor
Eberhart, which was attended by all
the representatives OF The railroad
counsel, the American Federation Of
Labor, representatives Of all the Twin
City lines affected BY the switchmen's
strike, Governor Eberhart, his secre-
tary. members OF the State Railway
Commission and Labor Commissioner
w. e. McEwen, proposals were made
by both the railroads and the switch
men looking towards a settlement Of
the strike. No agreement was reach
ed at the conference which lasted un-
I'll o'clock. and II was agreed to meet
again at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning
TO continue negotiation
The railroads proposition Is to
agree to employ as many Of their
Former employees as they have room
for, under the present agreement. un-
I'll the termination of the conference
now going on between the sEitchmen
and the railroads In the Chicago tSs-
frict. when the Twin City roads will
agree to meet any addition in pay or
working conditions granted the Chi
cago switchmen by Chicago, lines. In
their counter proposition the switch
men agree to arbitrate under the ar
filtration act of 1898. but insist that
separate negotiations be conducted
with the Twin City lines In st. Paul.
The switchmen's proposition asks
that the hearings he conducted by
representatives of the employees and
the companies without the aid OF att
2orneys. as far as possible.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-12-24
TRADEsMAN,s WEEKLY REVIEW.
New Industries and Industrial Devei-
opment im the South.

New Industries and Industrial Devei-
opment I'm the South.
Chattanooga, Tenn, Dec. 23-(Spe-
cial.)-The more important new indus
tries established in the South during
the week ending today, as reported to
The Tradesman. are indicated by the
following list:
Alabama.
Mobile-$500,000 lumber company.
ainesville--Railroad Company.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and cemest
Birmingham $4,000 candy COM
pany; $4,000 Iron working plant; S4.-
900 brick works.
Brewton-$5O,o0O lumber company.
Little Rock = 100000 insurance
company.
: Pensacola-$5.ooo plantation COM
pany.
Lake ButIer-Cooperage company.
Jack 600 hardware COM
pany; $1,000 Improvement company;
81 s, 900 commission company.
West Palm Beaeh-ssoO.Ooo land
Tampa-$15,000 iron working plant.
Fort Green-$50.000 saw mill.
Ge0rgin.
Atlanta--Sb,0 900 manufacturing COM
Rome $40. 900 fertilizer company
Savannah~-Power company.
MISUNDERSTANDING company
Dublin--Fertilizer plant.
T.ouisvilie-sso.o coo Ice and storage
companyl $4,000 realty company;
500, 600 butter and cheese company:
$4,000 dairy company; $4,000 amuse-
ment company.
waddy-s5. 900 canning company.
(slxswow-Realty company.
Il = - OF op--R 40 000 stone cOmnanV
Pafnfsyiile-$250,0O 900 coal company.
la Center-$5.Ooo publishing COIN
STANDARDIZATION warehouse COM
iiersnurg-Electric light plant.
Baton Rouge-Railroad company.
Monroe-sS. 600 realty company.
New Orleans = 100000 mill supply
company $1,000 T chemical company
$4,000 loan and trust company; 800 :
O0O glass and paint company.
MIsalssippi.
Jackson--S10,O00 construction COM
pany; $4,000 printing company
North Carolina.
Concord-S5O,00 900 hotel company.
Winston. Salem-$125.000 snun man
ufacturing company.
Wilmington - Transportation com.
NJ swan ouarter-s1OO,OOO realty com.
Greensboro-s1O.OOo garage com
pany.
TiIiary-sl5, 900 land company.
Bladenboro-$l35.0o0 cotton mill.
Ansonvine $4,000 woodworking
plant.
Oklah0mn,
Enfd-s1O0,00 Ice company.
Oklahoma City - 5000 publishing
company; two 100000 realty compa
MES; $4,000 loan and trust company
Musk ogee-Furnlture factory 5000
| water company.
company,
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Duncan--$12.00o hardware company;
$4,000 light and Ice company.
okemah-s7,o00 oil and gas COM
sapulpa-sa5,ooo development COM
ri Reno-s1.ooO.OoO gas ana elec-
Frederick oil and gas COM
pany.
Spartanburg-s25,0 land company.
Laurens-$f 100000 building and
loan association.
Greenville-$10O.oO land company.
Tennessee.
Kingstofi-$25,O00 mines.
Knoxviile--S5,0 900 quarries.
Chattanooga-Decora company.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES power plant.
Memphis-s20.0 900 roofing company
$4,000 land company.
Sparta = Woodworking plant; $4,000
woodworking plant.
/ Martindale-ice plant.
Ell Paso--s12.00O land company.
Paris-Oil and gas company.
Tenaha--$5,500 cotton gin.
GAINESVILLE $4,000 lupber COM
College POrt-slo.OOO canal com
Aastin--s1O.ooo novelty company.
Rockdale-Loan and Investment
Naples-slOooo hardwood lumber
company
Marble Falis-Iee and cold storage
plant.
Wallis-$10.000 creamery company.
Houston-s50.000 railway company;
100000 construction company.
Texarkana-$200.00 900 water works.
Beaumont-S10,00 motor car COM
pany; $4,000 handle factory.
DalIaa-S00 00n saad QompanV
Fort worth--Two 100000 commits
sion companies; 100000 realty COM
pany.
Yorktown-Teiephone company.
Virginia.
Staunton-$5O,00 900 barge company.
Richmond = $4,000 printing COM
pany; $4,000 cotton mill; $150,000
construction company.
Chatham-$22o,o0 bridge COM
pany.
Roanoke-s25,O0o realty company:
S29,5O0 realty company; $4,000 land
company: $4,000 glove factory; $780,
600 printing company.
, 10000 power plant.
Portsmouth-$75,o00 lumber COM
s1ffolk - $4,000 development COM
salem-s1S,ooO -four mill.
Tazeweli-$1, 100000 fuel company.
Manassas-s2oo.oo0 mining COM
VA Charlottesville $4,000 creamery
Herndon - $4,000 hardware COM
RI Battery Park. - $1,000 water COM
pany.
West Virginia.
Chapmanville - 100000 coal, ioand
and lumber company.
Parkersburg-S10. 900 torpedo eom-
pany; $4,000 oil and gas company.
Martinsburg $4,000 realty com.
pany.
coke company.
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WEATHER PROPHETS DIFFER.
Who /. alEAt wiI ne Known La tn

Who Ia Right VIII he knOWh IA Inc
Spring.
Reading. Pa. Special to New York
World.
Berks county weather prophets are
busy making their predictions for the
coming winter, and while none Of
them agree the general belief is that
there will be severe winter after the
middle of January and that 1t will
continue until late in March.
If observations made Of insects can
be taken as an indication of the
weather conditions this winter. mild
ness will prevail. Some farmers have
observed in ploughing that the worms
and beetles are lying close to the sur
face and that the toad has not gone
deep. Another evidence of a mild
winter is the lateness of some snakes
| IN depositing their eggs. Rece~ thy
farmers In ploughing have dug ~ a
number Of eggs aud. upon breaking
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-12-24

Baton Rouge La. Dec. 23.--Chin
Back On and Chin Ii. residing in ia
ton Rouge. are, It is believed, the Arsf
Cinnamon in the United States to pay
poll tax. The explanation OF the tax
collector. that they were not called
upon for the payment Of the tax, that
they could not become citizens and
could hope for no votes, did not dis
suade each from handing over his dol
lar. PAY anyhow" they Insisted. and
with a patriotic air. they pocketed
their receipts.