The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-08
.C0LORED PEOPLE
AFTER BIG ONES
10 Invite Roosevelt, Booker
Washington and Jack John
son to Their Fair.
GOING TO SEE COLONEL
Delegation, With Giles Jackson
as Member, to Call on
Him July II.

If the promoters of the Colored
State Fair Association carry ont the
program mapped out, ex-Presdent
Roosevelt Booker r. Washington and
Jack Johnson will be among the at
fractions at the fair which Will be
held at the state Fair Grounds Octo-
Der "a to 20.
President Roosevelt will be In
vited to deliver an address on condi-
tions as he found them in Africa on
his hunting trip. Washingto will be
expected to discuss the progress the
negro is making ip the South. John
son will not Indulge in a prize fight
or boxing match, but will do vaude-
VILE stunt, and be as much In the
limelight as possible.
For months leading colored men or
Richmond and other cities and States
have been planning for the fair me
necessary capital has been secured.
According to Giles 3, Jackson, direc-
tor general. prominent white people
are among the stockholders
TO See Roosevelt July Il.
A letter received from Mr.. Roose-
Welt yesterday in reply to an invita-
ton to deliver an address at the fair
has encouraged the promoters.
committee composed of w. d. Crum,
minister to Liberia John G. Dancey,
register of deeds of the District OF
Columbia under Presidents Mckinney
and Roosevelt: n. F. Cummings. the
only colored member of the City Couh-
Gil of Baltimore, and Giles B. Jackson
will go to New York on July II to
see Mr.. Roosevelt
While in New York the committee
| will meet Jack Johnson's manager and
make him a proposition to have him
come to Richmond.
Giles Jackson said yesterday tha'
he had written to the clerk of the
court in every county IN the state OF
Virginia, requesting that the names OF
ten leading colored men who have the
confidence and respect of colored and
white people be furnished him. lie
| said that he has received replies from
every clerk. giving the names OF
dozen from each county. These negroes
will be appointed to promote the fan
| in their various sections.
Planned on Zig Lines.
The colored fair will be conducted
on the same lines as the Virginia State
Fair An effort will be made to have
the colored people exhibit products
of their farms, as well as articles o.
. their handiwork and manufacture
! Jackson said the negroes in North Car
| DINA have for several years held a
fair OF their own the week following
the State Fair, and have been yer,
successful He explains that the fair
to be held in Richmond should re
| dound to the credit fthe negroes and
encourage them to do something fol
themselves. He said white people al
over the State are encouraging thu
movement
/ OnneXt Thursday night John C. Dan
cey will deliver an address on thu
roof garden of the Mechanics Saving:
Bank. at Third and Clay Streets. in
the interest of the fair.
II. F. Cummings, the lone coloret
member of the Council of Baltimore
/ is the man who seconded the nomna-
ton of Theodore Roosevelt for Presi-
dent on behalf OF the colored people Of
the United States. W. D. Crum is th'
negro appointed by Mr.. Roosevelt a:
collector of the port at Charleston
The Senate refused to confirm the ap
pointment. President Roosevelt's &C
ton created a storm OF protest anc
bitter denunciation all over the South
Crum was recently appointed niniste
to Liberia by President Taft