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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-21

passing 1t, far out of the range of
the strongest telescope.
Nobody knows how fast these
big worlds move and nobody
knows whittier they are bound.
They are black and cold--tremen-
dous cold, and dead ~
Some day one of these dead
worlds viii wander into the light
of the sun, and with an ever
increasing speed will hurl itself
into the suns mass. The earth,
like Halley's comet. will soon feel
1.-THE attraction Of this dead planet
hurting through space vita such
terrific speed. Slowly at first,
but surely under the inflexibIe Law
of gravity, our globe will turn
from it's own path in the great
CONTINUED on Page Three.)
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guish of spirit while held by the
soulless and monopolistic corpora
tion in defiance of the ordinances of
the City of Tacoma.
We are pleased to note that the
people attempted no violence, al
though they felt outraged at the in
human treatment that many were
compelled to endure.
fSigned)
Il. w. RAMSBECK,
SAMUEL DUPERTfUS.
ERNEST TAYLOR,
Comnftfaa
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-21
UNIQUE SETTLEMENT
OF FAMILY AFFAIRS

George M. Purinton, former
proprietor of the Bell market,
1904 Sixth avenue, left town On
November 25, leaving alleged
debts to the amount of about
1900, but he settled up his fam
lily affairs in unique manner.
/. According to .nis neighbors he
declared truce with his warning
wife, each taking one child. and
going in opposite directions.
The Bell market. is now in the
hands of a receiver.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-21
FROM
CARS LATEST
MOVE

Forcible election from the cars
and a new "pay-as-you-entef -
scheme were trump cards of tn;
IT. r. & P. company last night in
the five cent fare con ntroversy with
Fern Hill residents.
Many of the passengers again
last night refused to give up moe
than nickel in for a ride hom =.
A dozen in one bunch headed by
Attorney ]. F. Fitch boarded Fern
Hill cars with transfers. When
the car got to Midway the con-
lductor stopped. He demanded
another nickel all around. The
crowd said they had given him
transfers good to the city limits.
He said he had no orders except
not to let passengers ride for FIVE
cents. He then telephoned
to Superintendent Boutelle and
then came back and ordered ev-
|erybody off who would not pay
another nickel. No one paid and
he grabbed each man and march
ed him off the car. No resist
ance was made. The entire party
was out for five cent ride home
|or q lawsuit.
To avoid any further trouble
the company evolved a scheme ID
allow none but Fern Hill people
70 get on another car and to make
them pay 10 cents on entering.
That car had a strenuous time
from the city hall to Twenty
fourth street. The conductor. n
couple of inspectors. hired
bouncer and finally two deputy
sheriffs had to be called on to
keep order and then a free-for-all
fight was narrowly averted. After
wrangifng and lighting all the way
fown Pacific avenue and causing
IA blockade the car finally got
through.
Another car had lot of Fern
Hill people on who refused to nav
but five cents and many were ppt
on. C. E. Judges, weighing ESQ.
was toted off by a conductor auj
then the train officials swore al
him outrageously, he says.
A lot of people, both last night
and this morning, went through
Tor five cents. One conductor
said he would pay the extra fare
himself and he did, ringing up the
rare every time. He said he
would not have any trouble. II
the company gets onto it he will
probably be bounced.
More trouble is expected 20
night. A lot of people insist they
Will ride home for five cents and
1t remains to be seen what the
next dodge of the company will
be.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-21
TRIPS Bluff Fails to Brighten Other Suburbs

If the street car company had
an idea that the present demon
stration against the people of
Fern Hill would discourage people
in the other suburbs from coming
into Tacoma they we're nightly
mistaken in their estimate OF the
spirit ofethe coming citizens of the
Greater Tacoma.
Milton showed the temper of
the people last night when mass
meeting was held by the Milton
Development club and enthusiasm
was rekindled for the annexation
program and resolutions were
adopted and sent to the Fern Hill
people commencing them for
their stand. The Milton peop'e
were unit for annexation aad
for the battle with the street car
company for low fare as citizens
The resolutions adopted fol-
lows:
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Especial Correspondence.)

Especial Correspondence.)
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.. Dec. 21.-
Az Halley's comet approaches
the sun 1t means more than the
passing Of a heavenly freak to
Prof Percivai Lowell. director of
the Lowe1l observatory here.
Some day this earth will come
to an end and IL there are people
in other planets they will see its
finish through their telescopes.
And after the end of the world
what?
Prof. Lowell and other astrono-
|mers. on or about May 18 next,
will look through the big refrac
tor here and see Halley's comet de
Just what the world viii do tn,
lday before It comes to an end
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-21
GETS $50 DAMAGES.

Alleging that he was struck on
the head with a sharp stone,
thrown by his neighbor. Joseph
B. Brooks, last April, John Hen
ry Moseback, farmer of Long
Beach, sued Brooks for $4,000 in
the superior court today.
The case was tried by Judge
Chapman, who gave judgment fer
$50.
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(By United Press Leased Wire.

SALEM, Ore, Dec. 21.-The
supreme court today rendered a
decision in the case of the Port
land Railway Light & Power COM
pany against the railroad COM
mission of Oregon.
The appeal was taken from an
order of the railroad commits
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-21
DIDN'T CLIMB THE !.
MOUNTAIN EITHER

NEW YORK, Dec. 2f.E
The Explorers club of this city,
which has been investigating DR..
Cooks Mt. Mckinley claims has
completed Its. report and it will
be made public Friday. The re-
port is believed to be against DR..
Cook.
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To the Editor of the Tacoma Daily Times
Dear Sir: Enclosed find
Milton a by the De-
velopmcnt club the
And here take the opportunity ar
hearty appreciation of the
the matter Of many
terests. s
For Conn mittee.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-21
Danish Experts Find Flat
Verdict Against Explorer

COPENHAGEN Dec 21The beenn
the of Dr. Frederick the Consist
the
wholly insufficient
by ay rejecting Dr. Cooks claims and throwing
vations.
Cooks data according to the report
account.
DR. Cooks private secretary Lona explorer here
disappointed
withhold of
be presented to it.
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ling called by The Milton Develop
Iment Club, held on December 20
1909. send through club, TO the peo-
,dple Of Fern Hin. the following res
lolutions:
residents, commend the
clcitizens OF Fern Hill in their efforts
ITO establish their rights as citizens
i{of Tacoma in the matter OF SC
tlfare within the City OF TACOMA.
women, children Ind aged who ems
dursd auffsrihs 6f body and an
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-21

THE SMILE HAS GONE AND THE FLORAL WREATH HAS FADED

snapshot of DIR. Cook and his
proud wife taken ON the day Of his
triuniphnf arrival I'm New York. Note
the smile ON Cooks face and the
Wreuth of flowers with which ad-
mirerF had decorated him.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-21
NO ERyCE E[Ry T N N 4 ,I[l!CEHlJ, Ut,
FOR } 5-CENT FARE

So far the people of the suburbs concerned there
truce the fight fare Until by
superior people will thing
seriously people in
going
they will get II another -t'
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-12-10
STATE NORMAL.

The Negroes OF the State of Ten
nessee, from the progressive city of
Memphis in the west to our secluded
Mountain City in the east, are right
now absorbed in the location of the
Normal, Agricultural and Mechanical
College for the Negro youth that
was provided for by the last
LEGISLATURE. Several towns and most
of the large cities are bidding for
the school. but thus far the committee
that has the matter in charge have
rot limited as to what section of the
state will be decided upon. The Globe
holds the same position it has ex-
pressed from time to time, and that
is that the institution should be To-
Gated in a section of the state where
il can be of the most benefit to the
most people.
1t is hoped that every one will
work for the peoples interest. We
want our State Normal School to be
an ideal one in every sense of the
word. We believe it can be made so,
and it will be if the Negroes from
every section of our commonwealth
will for once make a united pull.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-12-10
SEVENTEENTH ANNIVERSARY.

The Seventeenth Anniversary of
the pastorate of Rev. Chas. Henry
Clark, ID. D., with the Mount Olive
Missionary Baptist Church will be
celebrated on Sunday and Monday
nights, December 18th and 18th, re-
spectively.
This celebration is to place before
the public the long, peaceful, pros
porous service of the church and pas
tor, to which all are invited, that they
may give encouragement to a worthy
cause.
Rev. G. B. Taylor, pastor of the
Second Baptist Church and Presi-
dent of the Colored Reform and In
dustrial School for Davidson County,
will preach the Anniversary Sermon
Sunday evening at 3 p. m. with Rev.
T. ]. Lewis as an alternate. All pas
tors and their churches are hereby
invited to be present at this particu-
lar service.
Rev. R. H. Boyd, D. D., Secretary
and Business, Manager of the Ma
tional Baptist Publishing Board, will
deliver an address, Seventeen Years
Work of the Pastor with the Church"
Committee on Arrangements
W. Martin, Chairman; l. Body, G, w.
Porch, A. Watkins, J. S. Gibbs, R,
Hughley John Tate.
Committee on Reception-Sisters
A. Douglass, Chairman; Lula Tillman
Eliza Wilder, Mary Rucker, Josephine
Brown, M. G. Bates, Gertrude Wood
ward, Mamie Rhodes, A. G. Haddox
Ollie Cook, G. H. Binkley, S. p Har-
rison, Mary Womack, T. L. Kemper
Ellen Patterson and Mile Barten.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-12-10
MARTHA COURT ENTERTAIN
MENT,

Martha Court No 80, of Calanthe,
of which Miss jamie Benson is Wor-
thy Counsellor, gave most unique en-
tertainment at the home of DR.. and
Mrs. J. B. Singleton last Friday
night. AS the affair was given to
swell the finances, there were eata-
bles of all kinds for sale. In addition
to these there was a hunting contest
in which those who cared to hunt
were found scurrying to and fro
through the house finding little
packages, all of which contained
something worth looking for, besides
little numbered cardboards, the
lucky number drawing a prize. Miss
Matte B. Scales was winner in this
receiving as a prize a beautiful fern
jardiniere. There was also a bean
contest in which the number of beans
contained in a quart jar were to be
guessed. Miss Nellie E. King re-
ceived for the nearest guess to the
number a box of candy. The most
amusing feature of the entertain
ment was the "Old Curiosity Shop"
into which one at a Ufme all who
cared were allowed to spend one
minute, and afterward write from
memory the number or articles seen,
the one writing the largest num-
Der of articles receiving a Japanese
chocolate pot. This prize was cap
tured by Miss Nellie e. King Be
i all n
told the future, past and present of
all.
The affair, which is said to have
been a financial success, was greeted
by most jolly crowd of people. Miss
Benson was ably assisted by Mes
danes S. P. Harris, VIM. Boyer, ]. B.
Singleton, N. l. Riz, F. ]. Work, R.
H. Boyd, Misses A. R. Dunlap and
Elizabeth Moore.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-12-10
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1909.
STREET CAR HAMMERS.

There are scores Of Negro men in
this city who need to be taken aside
and given few lessons in how to
conduct themselves on street cars
They are faulty in many ways, but
we believe they are guilty of greater
sins Of omission than commission One
sin of omission that so many of them
are so often guilty of is the way they
block the entrance to street cars.
The law provides that colored people
seat from the rear and white people
from the front. OF course the white
people do not observe that portion of
the law; but instead they begin to
take the first seats they come to.
The brother in black steps up in the
door, sees a white man sitting in his
seat and all the seats in the front OF
the car empty he continues to stand
A half dozen others Will come in and
do the same thing; hence, the en-
trance way is blocked while the front
end of the car is empty.
The colored men need to be taught
how to act on street cars. They need to
bc taught the meaning of the law and
how to keep within its bounds on the
street cars. They should be made to
see the folly in budding up like
SCARED sheep in the back, and to know
that as long as there is a vacant seal
in the car, they are entitled to it, un-
der the law.
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An Ovation.

Dir. Booker T. Washington is re-
ceiving an ovation wherever he
speaks in the State of Tennessee. 1t
is quite evident that all classes OF
citizens irrespective of color, condi-
ton, politics or religious creeds are
giving DR.. Washington such an ova-
ton as kings and queens only can
receive.
There is something in the man.
He possesses a faculty that no other
colored American in this country pos
sesses. His advice to his people is
such that will be benefit to them
The Washington Bee.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-12-10
Better Get Busy.

Standing in front of one of the the
aires not long ago, we noticed the
large number of automobiles and the
very few Afro-American chaffeurs.
This set us to thinking and we COM
menced to wonder whether or not the
Negro coachman was preparing for
the change which seems to be on its
way? There was a time when nearly,
if not all the barber shops in this
city we're owned and controlled by
Negro BARRIERS. Now, as a matter OF
fact there are very few Negro bar
Der shops where white people shave,
and the most Of these are out of the
center Of population.
Are the Negro coachmen going to
lose out like the BARRIERS have lost
out? We hope not. But now is the
time to make preparation for the fu
ture. Many of these people who are
still clinging to pair of high step
ping bays, will soon fall into the craze
of owning and operating a "bu7
wagon" and if Mr.. Black Coachma1
is not prepared to step from the box
to a front seat in an auto, there will
be another man in his place and he
will be looking for job.
We are informed that there are
night schools where the art of man
aging these machines is taught ant
we advise our friends, the Blacl
Coachmen, to "get busy" before it Il
time and eternally too late for
] front seat in the Devil wagon
The Afro-American.
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NASHVILLE GLOBE HIGHLY CON-
MENDED.

Time and again the Nashville Globe
has received letters, cards, telephone
messages and personal compliments
on some special article, issue or news
item, but they come so constantly
that it is not every time we can ac-
knowledge them and yet, the Globe
feels that for every sincere compli-
ment paid for its untiring efforts to
give the people an up-to-date news
paper, is a dividend, hence, it renews
its efforts and increases its facilities
to do better the next time.
A great many compliments have
been paid the Globe on it's two edi-
tons concerning the recent Tennes-
see tour by the Washington party and
the tourists. From far and near has
come the appreciation well DONE"
A letter from Mr.. Emmett J. Scott,
private secretary of DR.. Washington,
speaks in the same tone as does one
from Mr.. Chas. H. Moore, Organizer
of the National Negro Business
League, while scores in Nashville
like DR.. c. V. Roman, ]. G. Napier, j,
Thomas Turner, R. H. Boyd, A. N.
Johnson, D. Wellington Berry, J. d.
Crenshaw, Preston Taylor, G. H.
Clark, w. S. Ellington and many 9th
ers, have been unstinted in their
praise for the accuracy with which
the entire trip through Tennessee
was reported and detailed through
the Globe; and how the entire paper
seemed to be bent on one object, and
that was making the tour and the eff
forts of the promoters a signal sue
cess. Such remarks and such atten-
ton to the efforts of any paper can
but gratfully be acknowledged.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-12-10
Auain Elected Director.

News comes from Jacksonville, Fla.
that the Afro-American Realty and
Insurance Company, located there,
held its annual meeting this month
and elected a new Board of Directors
to manage its affairs. 1t is understood
that a Nashville man, in person of
Rev Henry A. Boyd, was again elected
as a director of the company, which
owns some valuable real estate in
Tampa, Mama and Jacksonville They
have declared a per cent dividend
for 1909, and have just completed a
$4,000 building on Bridge street, Jack
sonville. Mr.. William F. Lancaster
is the secretary and manager.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-12-10
DUTCH LUNCHEON.

On Tuesday, November 30, 1909, a
Dutch luncheon was given by Miss
Johnnie Marie Denny at her resi-
dence, 1856 Fourth avenue, South, in
honor of Miss jamie Barksdale, Of
GAINESVILLE, and Miss Bessie Hick-
erson, of McMinnville. Music was
furnished throughout the afternoon
by the famous Blind Buddie and Mr..
Claude CLASSIFY, of Fisk University.
Dancing and card games were the
principal amusements. AT 1870 p. m.
the guests were called to the front
lawn, where a photograph of the
party was taken by DR.. Buckner of
Meharry, after which the guests re-
entered the home, where a tasty
Dutch luncheon was served. Those
composing the party were Misses
JAMIE Barksdale, GAINESVILLE; Bessie
Hickerson, McMinnville; Luella
Matthews, Callje Wiley, Mary Wiley,
Myrtle Bridgewater, Lerlia Page,
Mrs. James Overton, Mrs. Susie Bo-
mar, Knoxville; Messrs. Ford, Car
lyle, Buckner, Subar, Ellison, Bush, of
Meharry, and M. Claude Glasby, Fisk
University.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-12-10

TO our Little Friends:
Christmas is most here again and
we know you want to write Santa
Claus a letter. The Globe will re-
serve space for you in the issue Of
the 18th of this month, which will be
our next issue, and we will see that
Santa Claus gets your letter if you will
comply with the following request:
write your letter on a clean sheet Of
white paper, lay two-cent stamp on
the sheet of paper, fold it carefully,
put in an envelope and mail it to
us and we will send your letter to
Old Santa with special request that
he bring you something nice. Write
your letter and mail it Monday, sure.
Address your letter to
THE NASHVILLE GLOBE,
447 Fourth avenue, North, Nash
vile, Tenn.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-12-10
COMMUNICATION.

The Presidents Recommendations.
The recommendations of the Pres
ident in his message to Congress, ask
ing that favorable consideration be
taken concerning the Freedman's
Saving and Trust Company and the
proposed 1913 National Exposition
for the Negro people of the United
States, accord with their wishes and
approval.
The Freedman's Savings and Trust
Company, that ill-starred financial
concern that wrought such havoc with
the financial savings of the soldiers
who had confided them to the keeping
of that institution, was inaugurated
under the authority of the Govern
ment, and, in view of that fact, the
Government should have long since
made just restitution That institu-
ton was the agent of the Government
which had granted to it the power
and authority of operation, and that,
according to the accepted theory,
spirit and precedent of law which
places the responsibility of the acts
of the agent upon the principal,
should hold good in this case where
the Government is responsible for
the populations of the Freedman's
Savings and Trust Company, its agent
by grant of legal power of operation.
Many of the men who had fought the
battles of their country lost practi-
cally all of their savings from what the
Government had paid them for their
services in the collapse and suspen-
sion of that institution. Although
many have passed beyond the need
of any action of Congress in the mat
ter, yet there remains a thin blue
line of those who once staked their
lives in the hell of battle for the sal
walton and preservation of the life of
a free and united government who
would justly come into their own by
favorable consideration and action on
this long deferred matter.
The Presidents favorable recon-
mendation of the movement which
has been inaugurated to hold Ma
tional Exposition in 1913, for the pur-
pose of showing what the Negro peo-
pie have achieved in fifty years of
freedom, is commendable and timely
While the period of time which shall
have elapsed between 1863 to 1918
will only be nominally so years in
which the Negro people have made
such wonderful progress in what con-
stitutes American civilization, yet
that number of years is the actual
life of the issuance of the Emancipa-
ton Proclamation. This movement
should find favor with all the people,
and they should put forth every effort
to make this exposition, which shall
mark their fifty years march from
slavery, a glorious affair commensur-
ate with their achievements.
JADECFE.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-12-10
TO THE PUBLIC.

Any erroneous reflection upon the charac-
ter, standing or reputation OF any person,
firm or corporation, which may appear in
the columns ofTHE NASHVILLE GLOBE
will be gladly corrected upon being brought
to the attention OF the management.
Send correspondence for publication SO as
to reach the office Monday. No matter in
tended for current issue which arrives as late
as thursday can appear in that number, as
Thursday is press day.
AN news matter sent us for publication
m, be written only on one side of the pa
per nd should be accompanied by the name
OF the contributor, not necessarily fer publ
cation, but as an evidence OF good faith.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-12-10
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

President Taft's message to the six
ty-first Congress is an able document.
1t shows him to be careful student
of the affairs Of this nation. The
people have been longing for this mes
sage in order that Taft, the man that
he is, might be seen.
The ten millions of Negroes in the
United States will be highly elated
to learn that he endorses the proposI-
ton to hold a celebration in 1918 in
commemoration of the fiftieth ami
yersary of the Emancipation ProcIama-
ton. They will also take favorably his
recommendation that congress pay the
balance due the Freedman's Savings &
Trust Company depositors. These are
plain business propositions and if the
recommendation and endorsement are
carried out all the Negroes Of the
country will be benefited in one way
or another. There will, of course be
those who will find fault with the
message, that is always true; but
We fail to see how any severe criticism
can be made. He, no doubt, failed tC
say some things that some people