The Washington bee., 1910-08-27
Aftermath of the 10Th Street Meetin,

HAltSAiAIdtil VI lllC 49ti OlICSl Meeting.
Mrs. Rosetta Z. Lawson was par
ticularly in evidence Tuesday evening
with her son and daughter.
Mrs Ella Y. Chase Williams, of
Abbeville, S. C., was among the Wis
itOrs.
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell was
among the distinguished visitors. She
was handsomely dressed
Register w. 7. Vernon, the black
Rassius, was noticed with the doctors.
Mrs. Cabaniss wore a very becOm-
ing dress.
Mrs. Anna Robinson, of North Caro-
lima, accompanied by Miss G. B. Max
held, were among the visitors.
Mrs. Dumas, wife Of DR.. Dumas,
was beautifully dressed in white
DIR. Amanda Gray is always an at
traCtive figure wherever she goes. Dr.
Gray is one of the most popular mem
bers of the association
share of the work as skilled and I'M
skilled labOrerS on the public thor
Oughfares. You will find them more
largely employed in domestic service
than any other people. They perform
all classes of work, from the highest
to the humblest, in the great executive
departments Of the national govern
ment, as we'll as under our municipal
government. In the learned profess
sIOns they have made a COmmendable
success, because the COlOred people
here, as elsewhere, are beginning to
realize more and more that their lives
and their souls and their business at
fairs are as safe in the hands of the
colOred physician, the colored preach
er and the colored lawyer as in the
hands of white men in the same pro-
fessiOns.
In the business world, too, we have
made a beginning full of promise, full
of hope and full of encouragement.
But the one thing above all others in
which the cOlOred people of this COM
nunlty take the greatest pride, and
Justly so, because it has been the
source of the greatest good to them,
is the part they play II the public
school system. Last year 1905 col
ored children were taught by $40 col
Ored teachers; and for their services
these teachers received an aggregate
salary of S556,Io6. In addition to this
we have Howard University, with its
800 students and a faculty in which
Address by Judge Terrell.
DR. NJ. O. Dumas, for the local COM
mittee, made an address of welcome
Judge Robert H. Terrell made the
principal address of the evening. He
said, in part:
"You could have selected no place
more appropriate for your meeting
than this federal reservation-a place
that belongs to you as we'll as to those
of us who dwell within its limits, and
place whose tide of interest is ma
tional in its character rather than To-
cal. Every day in the year the States
from which you come are represented
here by men and women who have
| found employment in the service OF
I the Government of our common COun-
| try And when Congress is with us
the great things done by that august
| body mean as much to you as they do
to us who know no other home but
| this. In a sense, therefore, when you
are in the District of Columbia you
are on your own territory and under
your own vine and fig tree.
There are many interesting thing:
about the city of Washington, but
none more so than the fact that il
proportion to its size there dwell here
more people with Negro blood in theil
lveins than in any other single COmmu
nity in the world You will find these
people engaged in every field of com
mendable endeavOr.