The Washington bee., 1910-04-30
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By Miss G. B. Maxfeld

the establishment of hospital and
the erection of a trades building.
Rev. John Hurst. financial secre-
tary OF the African Methodist Epis-
copal Church, in his report showed
that $I98, ,54o.25 had been raised in
double money.
The colored school children of
Harrisburg, Pa, received a pang of
discrimination, when they were re
fused school gardens by the associat-
ed charities. and the white children
given gardens.
Just think Christian hypocrisy in
the grand old State of Pennsylvania.
An interesting question of law
arose when Lawyer Everett Waring
brought suit against two Greeks in
Philadelphia who refused to sell
soda water to a colored man. Watch
for the result.
Mrs. l. y. Sessions, the first col
ored woman to graduate from Ober-
lin College. died recently. Ever
since she graduated in 1850, she has
been trying to uplift the race by
teaching and other ways. She was
also connected with the underground
railroad.
During the last fiscal year more
than 100000 specimens have been
added to the National Museum in
this city.
1t is said that in the taking of the
census between 200 and 1900 col
ored enumerators have been engaged
in this work i'll different parts of the
country.
Judge George II. Williams, the au-
thor of the Fifteenth Amendment to
the Constitution, died April 4th. The
good deeds men do, live after them.
The American Negro Monos sraph.
of which John w. Cromwell is ed
itor, sent forth their first publication
this month.
Labor saving office devices and
machines of more than = varieties
will be exhibited at the Treasury
Department, May to 7. Plans OF
the exhibits have already been made
and space allotments practically ex-
hauSted.
Millions of acres of Gotten, be
sides young vegetables and fruit
have been damaged and destroyed in
every Southern State, except Florida
by reason Of the cold weather. This
is the most disastrous financial SET
back to the South since the Civil
War.
President Taft's selection of Gov
Charles E. Hughes, of New York, to
be an associate justice of the United
States Supreme Court is meeting the
hearty approval of every one.
An expedition promoted Jointly by
newspapers of Portland, Ore, and
New York, to scale Mount Mckinley,
Alaska. left last Wednesday. The
purpose OF the expedition is to de
termine whether DR.. F. A. Cook ey-
er scaled the mountain as he claim
ed.
Loss has been reported from the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in n.
Y. a bronze statue Of an ancien;
Egyptian origin valued at 81 500.
Jack Johnson will not lack support
July 4th. Arrangements have been
completed by his his friends to run
special train from Chicago to the
fight. The name of the road which
will run the train has not been given
cut yet
Cardinal Gibbons says he has ten
times more respect for the woman who
earns her living, and becomes a good
housekeeper. than for the idle gos-
siping society woman who passes
awav her precious moments in doing
nothing.
Mr.. PITTMAN RETURNS
w. Sidney Pittman, the architect
has just returned to Washington
from an extended trip South He
spent several days in Frankfort, KY,
closing out the work on two buildings
which he has been constructing there
From there he went to Durham, \.
&, where he is just starting build
ing operations on large church and
two buildings for DIR. James +
Shepards great school in Durham.
CO far the ladies are gaining in the