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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24
QUINN CHAPEL
cHlcAGo's OLDEST AFRo-AMERl.
CAN CHURCH.
History Of the Church From its lncep-
ton in 1874, ali Through its Varied
Triumphs and vicissitudes to the
Occupancy Of the Beautiful New
Church Of 1894.

In A. D. 1914 there lived in a small
nut IN the alley near State ST., be-
tween Lake and Randolph streets, a
plain but devout Afro-American named
John Day. A few Afro-Americans used
TO congregate at Days house to hold
prayer meetings. This house becom-
ing too small, the meetings were re-
moved to the house of Maria Parker
who lived adjoining Days. Maria
Parker had daughter, Mrs. Anna Full
ton, the Oldest member of Quinn chap
Ell now living. In 1845, the prayer
meeting assembly having grown to the
proportions of religious society, they
moved from the house Of Mother Park
er as she was called, into the school
house on Madison street a few doors
from State street. In 1916 Madison
PATTERSON, an exhorter, took the lead
ership OF the society having as his
assistant A. T. Hall, barber, then a
Journeyman in the shop of the well
known Oliver Henderson of Chicago.
Madison Patterson took the society to
his house on State street, near Van
Buren, street, where class and prayer
meetings wele held till they purchased
one-halt OF the white Baptist church
3Ox5O feet located on the corner of
LaSalle and Washington Sts., which
they hauled on to a lot on the east side
of Wells street, now Fifth avenue be-
tween Jackson and Van Buren, streets.
In 1S47 William Paul Quinn then
bishop of the African Methodist Epis-
copal church sent the Rev. George
Johnson a missionary from the New
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24
WHAT is A DEMOCRAT?

It is possible that the puzzling
question: What is a Democrat? may,
after all, be solved in decade or
two. Mr.. Watterson, of the Louis
vile Courier-Journal, has somewhat
simplified the problem by specifying
certain kinds of people who are not
Democrats. He says:
mo man can be either a. prohibi-
zionist or a protectionist and remain
a Democrat. He who is either and
claims to be a Democrat is a prevari-
cationist."
This at once disposes Of the ridicu-
lous pretensions of many false pre-
tenders who have been strutting
around in the robes of Democracy. 1t
also diminishes the size of the Demo-
cratic party by an indefinite number
of cubic inches. Judging by the num-
Der of states which have gone dry,
there is an alarming scracity of Dem
ocrats down in the land of cotton.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24
Rev. J. T. Jenifer

er lourishing societies, Lyceum, etc.
This society has had sixty years of
eventful history. 1t has purchased
four lots, erected four buildings for
worship, suffering the destruction of
two church buildings by fire, removed
eight times, and under the Methodist
itinerant custom had twenty-four
changes of pastors, some of them
being scholarly men and able preach
ers and divines. Yet, through all these
vicissitudes they have kept in advance
with a fast hold on the confidence of
the Afro-American people and the es-
TEEN of the best citizens of Chicago.
Rev. A. J. Carey, now pastor of
Bethel church, was pastor of Quinn
Chapel for five years.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24

William Sparrow, John Collins, Isaiah
Baker, A. T. Hall. The Rev. Bird Park
er, an able preacher, was employed
to travel and collect funds to pay for
the church property. The sixth pas
tor 1854-1855 was the Rev. William
Davis, the seventh pastor 1855-1857
was the Rev. Elisha Weber, the
eighth pastor 1S57-1858 was the Rev.
M. M. Clark; the ninth pastor, 1860
1861, was the Rev Willis R. Revels;
the tenth pastor, 1S61-1862 was the
Rev. VIM. A. Dove; the eleventh pas
tor, 1862-1864 was the Rev. Chas.
Birch; the twelfth pastor 1864-1866 was
the Rev. A. T. Hall; the thirteenth
pastor; 1S66-1868, was Rev. VIM. c.
Trevan; the fourteenth pastor, 1863
1869, was the Rev. Amos Mcintosh;
the fifteenth pastor, 1S69-1870 was the
Rev. VIM. S. Langford; the sixteenth
pastor, 1S70-1871 was the Rev. VIM. G
Trevan.
On Oct. 9th the noted Chicago fire
destroyed the Quinn Chapel building
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24

upon having such a fair-minded man
on their judicial bench. In a. recent
address in New York he said:
II believe in the fatherhood of
God and the brotherhood of man.
Not the brotherhood of white men,
but the brotherhood of all men. be-
lieve in the Golden Rule and the Dec
laration of Independence and I stand
by the Constitution of the United
States, including the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments. That is my
creed and my platform.
If that were the creed and platform
of all men in this country, then
might it be justly claimed for this
country that it is ''the land Of the
free and the home of the brave"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24

Chief of Police J. T. Thomas, of Jes-
sup, Ca, took Miss Arabelle Harper,
aged IL, out riding one day last week.
During the ride Thomas drew a re-
vover and threatened the young lady
with instant death unless she submit
ted to his amorous embrace. The pa
pers say: Threats of lynching have
been made" What would the papers
have said if instead of Thomas some
black man had made the same sort Of
threat?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24

The writer we'll remembers his visit
to so-called Southern university"
in which the first object which at
tracted his attention was a set of
charts for teaching the alphabet. And
the Southern universities are almost
universally of the same type-seven-
eighths of the students are not really
fitted for respectable grammar
school.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24
SATURDAY, JULY "a, 1909.
A UNIVERSITY FOR THE SOUTH.

Ex-President Eliot recently said in
an address at New Orleans: 1.-THE
greatest educational desideratum of
the South and the greatest education
al need of the nation is a university
in the South of the first rank, which
should give poise and balance to the
intellectual forces of the republic-a
university strong enough to compete
in generous rivalry with Columbia
with Chicago, and even with Har-
vard."
In the opinion of THE APPEAL
the very fact that the South has no
such university is conclusive proof
that it has no need of such. It is
doubtful if the whole South could fur
nish enough students of proper cali
Der for one such university, because
her institutions of lower rank are Of
such poor quality and her ideas re-
specting education are so absurd.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24

on Jackson street and Fourth avenue
(Custom House Place. when, under
the leadership of Elder VIM. G. Trevanr
they mortgaged the. lot for 81 900 and
purchased the old Taylor Building on
Fourth avenue QCustom House Place.
between Taylor and Twelfth streets,
where they worshiped until the fire.
of July Is, 1873, when they were again
burned out. Then they occupied
Union Hall corner Clark and Monroe
streets, remaining there till they NOV.
ed into an old store on the east side
of Third avenue south of Van Buren,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24
TURKS SUPERIOR TO CHRIS.
TlANC7

The general impression of the Turks
is that they are a semi-barbarous
race, and their country blot upon
the map of Europe.
But we notice that Turkey has in
vited the Jews of Russia to settle in
her borders and has assured them of
protection.
1t certainly seems strange that the
ancient people of God should be COM
PEELED to leave Christian Russia in or
der to accept the protection of Mo-
hammedan Turkey.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24
SHOULD BE NO RACE, CREED OR
COLOR LINE,

Prominent Jews are becoming dis
satisfied with the policy of the gov
eminent in classifying them as a dis
tinct race, in the census and other Of
fetal publications. They claim to be
Americans as any other class of peo-
pie, and so they are.
Their case is the same as that of
the Afro-Americans of the country,
except that their status has not been
legally declared by specific enactment
as has been done in the case of the
Afro-American.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24
CANNON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
ATLANTA. GEORGIA


AIMS AND METHODS.
The aim Of this school is to do prac-
teal work in helping men towards sue
cess in the ministry. Its course of study
IS broad and practical; its, ideas are high;
fresh' systematics Clear and m ain}e arc
COURSE OF STUDY.
y, The regular course of study occupies
three years, and covers the lines of Worl,
IN the several departments of theological
instruction usually pursued in the lead
ing theological seminaries of the country.
EXPENSES AND AID.
Iultlon and room rent are free. The
a saisi for students are plainly fur
1 9ld. Good board can be had for seven
d afa.I per month. Buildings heated by
Aid from loans, without interest and
g1tts OF friends, are granted to deserV-
lug lug stu9en1s VINO do their utmost in the
grace. gifts. and energy, need be derived
O.! OF me advantages now opened to him
address, - 'A '>" poi calats
REV. j. w. e. BOWEN, ID. u.
Tres. Cannon Theological Seminary.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24
U. 3. F. AND S. M. T. LARGEST Sc
CRET SOCIETY,".

The largest secret organization
among Afro-Americans., the United
Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of
the Mysterious Ten, which holds it's
Sixteenth Triennial Meeting in St.
Paul July 1851, is also entitled to the
distinction of having been originated
by Afro-Americans and cannot be said
to be copy of any other organiza-
ton.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24
Dogs Must Be in Before DARK

Under new order dogs are arrest
ID in Middlesex if they are found
roaming after dark. The first case
was heard at Highgate, when Mr..
Stanley Smeeton of High street, Whet
stone, was fined rs. Cd. for allowing
bis dog to stray at night.
The object of the rule, which pro-
:9ides for a maximum penalty of EGO,
g to prevent sheep and cattle from
aelng worried.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24

Judge Wendell Phillips Stafford, of
the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia, seems to be what might be
termed an upright judge. He does
honor to the man for whom he was
doubtless named. The people Of
Washington are to be congratulated
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24
Crow as Harbinger Of Sprino.

Two crows were seen to fly north
ward over Ottawa yesterday. This is
generally considered an indication of
approaching spring, for the crow as
rule remains south of the snow belt
until it feels that either the snow has
Or is about to clear away further
aorth.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24
One THING He Could Do.

Green-I'm looking for a plumber
to do some work for me. Do yop
happen to know of one who does sat
lsfactory work?
Brown know of one that can
guarantee to fill the bill; but l don't
know how satisfactory his work VII;
be.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24
Business Proposition.

your honor,' said the convicted
seggar. cant you change my SEN
sence of Imprisonment to f1ne?''
Suppose I uld, said the Judge.
where would you get the money to
pay it?''
"Oh," replied the c. b.. Il could beg
little every day till had enough"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24
TlLL0TSON COLLEGE

AUSTIN. TEXAS.
The Oldest and Best School in Texas
for Colored Students. Faculty mostly
graduates of well known colleges in the
north. Reputation unsurpassed. Manua.
training a part Of the regular course.
Music special feature Of the school.
Special advantages for earnest students
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24

The Republican platform.
adopted Mt Chicago, explicitly de-
mands justice for all men with
out regard to race or color, and
Just as explicitly declares tor the
enforcement, and without reser-
Hation. In letter and spirit of
the thirteenth, fourteenth and
hfteenth amendments to the Con. .
stttuti0n. is needless to state ,
that i! stand with my party ,
s4unrely On that plank In the ,
platform, and believe that equal ,
Justice to all men and the fair ,
and impartial enforcement Of I
these amendments are in keeping
win the real American spirit Of 4
fair play.-HOn. VIM. III. Taft,s
speech accepting Republication
nomination for Presidency. /
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24

College Classical
vii 0a S9sRsr a Medical
for little
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24
TuSKEGEE
Normal and Industrial Institute
TI1SKEGEE AT ApAN6A

TUSKEGEE ALABAMA
(1NcoRPoRArED)
organized Ju1J4, 1881, by the State xepis.
aature as The Tusl<egee State Normal School
&xempt from taxation.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal,
WARREN LoGANs Treasurer.
LOCATION
In the Black Belt of Alabama where thu
o9acks outnumber the whites three to one.
ENROLMENT AND FACULTY
Enrolment last year 1888; males, ss2:
FEMALES, ST.: Average attendance. l,1o5.-
COURSE OF STUDY
English education combined with Industrial
aeaiclng; % industries in constant operation.
VALUE OF .--
Property consisting of 2267 acres of land,
u buildings almost wholly built with student
abor, is valued at $35o,oo0. and no mortgage.
NEEDS
$50 annually for the education of each stu.
gent; ($2O0 enables ore to finish the course;
$1,000 creates permanent scholarship Students
.-oney In any amount for current expenses
11d building.
Besides the work done by graduates as class
Soom and Industrial leaders, thousands sre
reached throughthe Tuskegee Negro Confer.
Suce.
~ Euskegee is 20 miles east of Montgomery and
Ea5 miles west of Atlanta, on the Western Eaa:
',sM 3. Alabama.
feS.skegee is quiet, beautiful Old Sc::assn'
S,and is an ideal place for stpay. nats 81.
is at all times mild an9: f:-tt1o::i.t "a
Etg the place an exccaeus e'.&I.::5$:
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-07-24
THE APPEAL,
4 NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER

ST. PAUL OFFICE
No. 236 Union Block, 4th & Cedar.
j. @. ADAMS. Manager
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-12
DOCTORS UNION.
Chicago Physicians Form an AmaIga-
mated Organization.

Chicago. March 12.-Chfcago physi-
clans have formed union-an amalga-
mated organization identical to the
Plumbers union.
Dr. Henry F. Lewis of the Chicago
medical society vouched for this state
ment. In a communication to the
Physicians club he declares that many
members of the medical fraternity who
publicly hold up their hands in holy
horror" at the thought of division in
fees, themselves secretly participate in
the practice.
Il do not believe they are cloven
hoofed," he declares. why should we
condemn any man for making such an
arrangement with brother physician
or with a surgeon? One physician tells
us of a $1,000 fee collected by him from
a millionaire patient who had spent
$4,000 on a single nights debauch. Do
you believe it would have been wrong
or unethicaI for that physician to have
consulted with the attending surgeon
on the size Of the fee? I do not think
so. It would have been perfectly prop
er, in my opinion. for them to have
made out one bill and divided after
wards or to have sent in their respec-
tive bills after an accounting between
them had been made.
why should the medical profession
have a standard of ethics so different
from that maintained by lawyers,
architects or preachers
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-12
SCANDALOUS FRAUDS.
Discovered in Connection With Affairs
of French Navy.

Paris, March 12.-France, like the
United States, is confronted with a
Dig deficit in her revenues. The bud
get of 1909 necessitated the issue of
$12,000,000 in treasury bonds, while
the regular estimates for 1910, show
a deficit of $45. 5.600,0 900.
This situation complicates the pro-
posa1 to revise the French tariff and it
already has precipitated a quarrel be-
tween M. Cailloux, minister of finance
and NJ. Picard, minister of marine,
over the insistence of the latter on
large credits to restore the efficiency
of naval material
Scandalous corruption in the matter
of naval contracts revealed lately by
M. Picard has startled the country,
and the minister of marine, has prac-
tically refused to continue in office un-
less he is granted sufficient funds to
put the navy in first class order.
1t has been learned that a regular
monopoly existed among the navy
contractors, who charged exorbitant
prices and made enormous profits. M.
Brousse, a member of the chamber OF
deputies, who investigated the navy
accounts in behalf of the finance cpm-
mission, reports that millions nave
been swallowed up without any ben
eft to the navy. In one case pouers
costing $150,000 were purchased for
ships that were put out of commits
sion before the boilers were furnished.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-12
WILL WORK TOGETHER.
Chicago to Go Into Partnership With
Dock Companies.

Chicago, March IA proposal
that the city go into partnership with
dock companies for the purpose of de-
veloping Chicago's harbor and lake
commerce along the lines recommend
ed by Mayor Buses harbor commits
sion has been made in definite form
to the municipal authorities and now
is under consideration.
The plan is to effect a joint agree
ment between the city and the private
corporations on the principle of the
traction ordinances under which the
company will finance and construct
the harbor and the city will derive a
percentage of the net receipts and
have the right to purchase and oper-
ate the business at any time.
The plan has assumed such shape
that an ordinance embodying these
principles will be drawn and intro
duced into the city council within the
next month
The proposition has taken on addi-
tional importance from the fact that
the war department is about to grant
federal permission for the construc-
tion of three piers which will run
nearly half a mile into the lake.
In addition the Chicago interests
feel that they will have the friendly
aid of the new secretary of war, ia
cob NJ. Dickinson who takes a deep
interest in the development of Chi
cago's harbor facilities.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-12
DELUGE OF BILLS.
One Congressman Has 500 Ready for
Presentation.

Washington, March 12.-The deluge
of bills introduced at the opening of
each session of congress promises to
be as great for the special session
which will begin next Monday as for
the regular sessions despite the pros
pect that little legislation other than
the tariff bill will receive considera-
ton. Five hundred bills were today
presented to the clerk by one repre-
sentative alone. All of them were in
troduced at the last session and many
have been reintroduced year after
year. Their presentation in advance
of introduction gives the file clerks
an opportunity to record them in the
regular way.
It is claimed that the number of
bills introduced at a session has in
creased over fifty per cent in the last
five years Members at the beginning
of each session are accustomed to re-
introduce the unsuccessful bills which
they have offered in the preceding ses-
sion.
Pension bills are often introduced
by a representative year after year
and in a few instances the person for
whose benefit such a measure was IN
tended has been dead for several
years.
Although members with few excep-
tions can rarely procure action by the
pension committee on more than hve
bills during a session, some of them
Introduce several hundred such meas
ures- The members who have been IN
the house for number of years in
troduce fewer bills than the new
members. There were %, 440 bills in
troduced in the house during the last
session and over 5000 in the senate.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-12
GEORGE A. BURT DEAD.
Heart Disease Claims Former Pana-
ma General Manager.

Mount Vernon, N. Y, March IL
George Albert Burt, who was general
manager OF the Panama railway dur
ing the insurrection of 1885 is dead at
his home near here from heart dis
ease. 1t was Mr.. Burt who cabIed to
President Cleveland from Panama
during the insurrection:: Unless YOU
guarantee sufficient protection 1 shall
withdraw every American citizen and
proceed to the United States on a
chartered vessel" 1t was largely due
to this message that President Cleve-
land called a midnight session of the
cabinet and later sent a squadron to
the isthmus to protect American in
terests.
Mr.. Burt was native of Massa-
chusetts, having been born at Fall
River in 1916. He served throughout
the civil war as an ensign on a United
States frigate. After the war he was
appointed vice consul at Guatemala
and later became identified with the
Panama railroad He made the first
diamond drill boring on the Panama
canal and had always been a strong
advocate of the sea level type. He was
associated with others in the construc-
ton of the first electric railway in the
United States at Richmond, Va. A
widow and two children survive him.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-12
WILSON STANDS FIRM.
In Opposition to Use of Drugs in
Bleaching Flour.

washington, March IA movement
to induce Secretary Wilson to modify
or reverse his recent decision in which
he held that -four bleached by nitrogen
peroxide is an adulterated product un-
der the food and drugs act, is on foot.
Hundreds of letters from millers of
bleached -four in all parts of the coun-
try are being received daily by the sec
retary asking him to refer his ruling
to the referee board of scientific ex-
perts for review. In numerous in
stances the communications are sent to
members of congress and by them re-
ferred to the secretary of agriculture
without any recommendation. That
Secretary Wilson resolutely will stand
by his decision is indicated by his re-
plies to the communications.
IT am utterly hostile to having the
peoples food tampered with" declared
the secretary. I'VE want to know that
what we eat is the pure product"
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-12
TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago March 12.-wHEAT-Wheai
prices were forced up about cent at the
opening of the market today on a general
rush to buy based on a sharp advance al
Liverpool, where the market was bulllsh-
ly affected by Argentine statistics Elk
ports for the week from this country We're
lighter than had been foPecasted and the
visible supply there decreased nearly I'VE
million bushels for the week. Prices here
were I'D &c to 15sc at the start, May being
at S1.15zs to $1161s and July at $lO3S to
$1-04A. Early in the day May touched
81 16Z, while July advanced to 81 .04ss@1. .041z
Sentiment in the pit became extremely
buIlish in the final hour owing to rumors
of an enormous export business being
done at New York. Prices ADVANCED an
other cent, May selling up to 81 lbs, and
July to $1.O51s. The close was strong at
the best marks, final quotations on May
showing net gains of 21sc at $1171s. July
was up 21s@2Ac at $1.051s
CORN-Firm cables and an official pre-
rbe1t had a Strengthening effect on the
corn market, prices at the start being up
14c to 1ac compared with yesterdays close.
May opened at 6Sssc to 6S1zc. After touch
ing 6S1kQ6s5sc, the price dropped back to
The market rallied on the strength of
wheat and closed firm with May up ss41sc
OATSTrade in oats was comparatively
dull but the market displayed moderate
ffrmness because of the strength of wheat
and corn Cash houses were sellers of
May delivery. That option opened 1s@Kc
to 1zc higher at 553sc to 55asd551zc and
later sold at 55Ac-
PROVISIONS-SeI1ing by local packers
caused great weakness in provisions fol-
lowing a firm opening due to light re-
ceipts of hogs. Prices at the start were
215c to nc higher.
RYE-Gash: SO1k@s1c: May. SIC.
BARLLEY-Cash: 6412q69c.
TIMOTHY-March, $3S5.
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