The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-15
GOING TO CALL ON
ROOSEVELT TO-DAY
Giles Jackson Will Invite Him
to Visit Colored Fair in
Fall.
BIG MEETING TO HELP II
Plans Under Way for General
Display OF Colored Mans
Products.

PRODUCTS.
Meeting last night on the roof OF
the new Mechanics Savings Bank. sew
eral hundred colored citizens were adj
dressed by prominent members OF
their race in the interests of the pro-
posed colored state Fair. Despite the
fears of Giles B. Jackson. of the Vir-
ginia Colored state Fair Association,
that the Indictment weather might in
terfere with the attendance. the meet
ing was big success.
When reporter visited the roof q
few minutes before $40 o'clock and
found but few people there. he stop
ped in at CHESS office, which is in
the bank building, and asked II 1t
was possible that the meeting had
been called off. mo indeed replied
Giles mo sir; you see we Is cullud
folks, and cullud folks is always late
starting. But look a here" he con-
tinued, 'if this meeting turns out
wrong, don't you put 1t In the papers
that way This is the fust meeting,
and we want this fair to get the right
kind of start Once, long ago. was
electioneering over bout Petersburg,
and we was trying hard to win. We
called a big meeting, done lots o. talk
ing beforehand, and spent some mon
ey, but when the time come, want
but three people there. If that meet
ing had got In the papers that way, 1t
sho would have ruined our prospects
So hunted up the newspaper report
err who was there. 1t wasn't much
trouble finding him, and explained the
situation to him. He was nice young
white man, and the next mawning the
papers read:
big meeting in Petersburg. Giles
Jackson addresses 1000 people, That
election come out all right" concluded
Giles. land we want this fair to come
out the same way"
Really n Big One.
However the director of the Vir-
ginia Colored State Fair Association,
politician and lawyer, had no occasion
to throw himself upon the mercies OF
the mice young white man who was
present last night Had the attendance
been any larger the meeting would
have had to be adjourned to a field.
The speaker of the evening was John
c. Dancey, of North Carolina, Register
of Deeds of the District of Columbia
during the Roosevelt administration,
who had for his subject, The Race:
| Past, Present and Future" He was
| introduced by r. T. Hill.
] Danceys address created great inter-
est in the coming fair and at the same
time 1t contained world of good ad :
vice to the members of his race. He
opened his remarks by telling of the
great success met with by the colored
population of North Carolina in the
fairs they have been holding annually
| for thirty-one years. He declared that
| it was great thing, for 1t brought
the colored people Of different parts
of the State together; 1t gave them
| the chance to learn what their neigh
bors were doing; 1t afforded the young
men and women an opportunity to gain
! new ideas, new knowledge and new
| inspiration.
| He referred to what the colored PEG
| pie have done In Richmond. He enum-
Grated the many enterprises the Rich
mond negroes control and stated that
! in the city OF Durham, where the col
ored population has been unusually
successful in all lines. the people got
their ideas and their inspiration from
| Richmond. He dwelt with pride upon
the great advances made by his race
In the days since the war, and declared
with emphasis that what has been
done is not to be compared to what
shall be accomplished in the future.
Helped Build Chesapeake and Ohio.
| He referred humorously to Giles
| Jackson as one of the great influences
that built the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway. yes. Giles assisted with
pick and shovel he added and some
times he made as much as a dollar and
a half day." Dancey stated that he
was not one of those who forever saw
what people We're doing to the coloret
race. s'Wi1at / see is what we are do
fling to and for ourselves" he said. II
conclusion he Impressed upon those
present the necessity Of right living
You can't act right unless you think
right" was one of his most striking
utterances.
Giles Jackson closed the meeting af
| ter explaining the objects of his asso
citation. He stated that he had beer
| requested by the directors Of the white
State Fair Association to organize anc
| hold separate and distinct fair fol
| the colored people. I'VE are separated
on the street cars, we have our sepa.
rate churches and I think" said Giles
that we should have a separate fair
Jackson and Dancey leave this morn
| ing for New York, whore they will SEE
Colonel Roosevelt and extend to hin
an invitation to attend the coming
fair. Giles thinks they will be sue
cessful. If 1t is at all possible. Jacl
Johnson and Booker T. Washington
will also be persuaded to come.
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