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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-07-12
AN ABSURD DISPATCH FROM
BETHLEHEM.

In the Norfolk Landmark and va
rious other newspapers Sunday morn
ing there appeared a dispatch from
Bethlehem. pa, containing rumOr 20
the eject that Charles NJ. schwa6'
the steel magnate. intends to estab-
lish the largest Shipyard in America
at Newport News, on Hampton
Reads. The repoit was denied TO the
Associated Press yesterday by Mr..
Schwab and also by President c. B.
circuit. of the Old Dominion Land
Company This rumor was so absurd
upon its face that denials from the
parties hardly WIS necessary 20 con
vince the people of Newport News
that Il was without foundation. Yet
the very fact that such a report was
sent out from Bethlehem seems to in
dictate that Mr.. Schwab probably has
his eye in this direction. No doubt a
garbled reference 10 something the
steel magnate said about this city and
its natural advantages fired the fancy
OF the imaginative correspondent.
According to the report, the dis
patch sent cut from Newport News
two months ago that Mr.. Schwab IN
tended 10 move the Bethlehem plant
from Bethlehem" was incorrect. but
there is much evidence to support the
belief that he intends to erect a ship
yard 10 supplement the Bethlehem
plant" No such dispatch ever was
sent out from Newport News as Tar
as we have been able to ascertain.
There was Il report that Schwsb con
templated establishing a steel plant
here, but it id not come from New
port News.
Continuing. the writer of this latest
special tells us that the site OF the
Schwab shipyard viii De located di
rectly beside the monster shipyard OF
the Newport News Shipbuild.ng Com
psny: that II will have a frontage OF
a little more than two miles on
Hampton Reads and will extend from
the Newport News cumpanys yard 10
Phocbus. adjoining the sites OF the
Soldiers Home and The Indian school
II Is rather larger than the site OF
the Newport News company. the
writer comments. Indeed the site de-
scribed IS rather larger than that OF
the Newport News company. which
has a frontsg &c on the river 81 less
than half a mile and lies between
Washington avenue and the river
Overlooking the impoSsib.iity Of iccat-
ing a plant BESIDE the shipysrd and on
Hampton Roads. Ne find that M
ScA~ab's new shipya-d IS 20 have a
site two miles IN width by something
like seven or eight niles IN depth.
and that the city - Hampton and the
settlements between that city and
Newport Ness ulU have 10 b. rsTca
on order 20 make room Ter the indus
Try.
We learn. zoo. from this writer. thst
q NJ krchef has succeeded President
Circuit. q the Old Dominica Land
Company. and tina; he tract described
ssovc. d ~orth ~sze9 an sore even
fer trucking purpcses-
Finally. &c are told that isrEe coo.
ceczions have been offered Mr.
schvab and bis associztet 70 take fhs
ssct - ste Cor . sbPysrd
laesuget A. ne president o. th'
So Dcmiuion Land COMPANY and q
the newport News shpbondias sns
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-07-12

CT CN;O. lis. Juiy Winter
wheat bcesn moving 10 market TO-DAY
m a large scaic Simultaucocs
rain "a drcrca.n the sprinx crup.
which 81 vet &C. b. harvested aud
which has ionr been a. the mercy
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-07-12
Hampton, Phoebus and Old Point
VI. c. NJ CARTAY ARRIVES
New Y. M. L. A. Secretary and
Bride in Hampton.
W. {, FLANDERS

Young Man Comes from Tennessee 20
Take Up Association work in This
City-Mr. and Mrs. Flanders Leave
for Reinbock m. Y.
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Closing List.

Aliis p halmcrs pfd &c.. .... 5et
Amalgamated Copper 800. $500. 57is
American Agricultural e.. o.. 80
Amer can Beet Susar oil. 90. 3Ii4
American Can ~ >i2
American Gar * Foundry 800. -
American Cotton Cl o.. .. .... 59is
American Hide 4 Leather pfd sors
American Ice Securities . 90. ~
American J. usccd o.. . .. 1874
American Locomotive b.. 49,. - y
American Smelling & Rein 90. ~
American Smelling 4 Rein pfd TAI
American steel FoUncrics .. -
American Sugar Refining ......ilN
An. ricau Tel x Tel .. ......lyzE
American Tobacco pfd o.. ..... -
Americsu Wooden e.. .. o.. .... ssiz
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1910-02-15
Canara
Continuation de la la. plana)

Canales, cree que aun debe hacerse
mas extensa la manifestation de contain
"a. pues aunque en- la apelaci6n implan-
tada. fuera la sentencia contirmada,
tendria ell senor Diaz Navarro Ia con
fianza de la Camara.
El Presidente de Diego: Respetando
la autoridad del Supreme, la Camara
tiene su derecho y debe pronunclar So
lemnemente el veredjcto de confGn:G.
Asegura que nadie ha cumplido con
los deberes de patricia, mejor que Il.
Diaz. Desde la magma asamblea de Pom
&c. ha sido, sin interruption. defensor
de los intereses del pals, y 81 por des-
oracia hallase somctido un proce-
so. d6bese con mayor motive el rot0
de coufanza. Asi 10 vota la Camara por
2tndninjdad
Ell Persidente designa en- comisi0n a
los senores Soler, Acuna y Llorens To-
rres. para que vayan 4 buscar a Diaz
Navarro al efecto de communicable ell
acuerdo de la Camara
Al POGO tempo, II. Diaz penetra en-
eI salon de sesiones con la comision
El Presidente lie comunica el acuerdo.
II. Diaz Navarro, emocionado Y con
lagrimas en- les ojos contesta:
''Queridos amigos, muchas gracias >.
Ell Presidente dio un receso de cinco
minutes y todos los delegados fueron a
abrazar su compaHero que segula emo
cionado y las laerimas corriaE I0r sus
mejillas.
Reanuda la session ei Pre>idcnte nom
bra a los senorcs Cora y Xireiia Tribe
para la Comisi6n de Obras PljbIcas,
y despues Sc lee IN oficio del Consejo
pidiendo conferencia para eI Bill de lo~
comisionados a Washington, y que aqul
ila Camara ha desienado los senorc~
Ward y Wilson No Sc tom6 acuerdo
Sc suspendi6 la session.
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26
HENRY GASSAWAY DAVIS

Since a Democrat is to succeed
our good friend, Senator Scott
we don't know of a better man to
succeed him than Senator II. G.
Davis, the fatheF-in-law of Sena-
tor Elkins. Ex-senator Davis, it
can be said, is the poor mans
friend, and a friend of colored
people, who love and respect him.
He employees thousands of colored
citizens in his West Virginia
mines, and to-day, if it were pos
sible for these colored men to vote
for him, Mr.. Davis woula come to
the Senate. The Bee has always
had high esteem for this distin-
guished citizen of West Virginia.
He doesn't belong to that vicious
class of Democrats who want all
cOlOred men exterminated. The
Legislature of West Virginia
would do honor to the State if it
elected the ex-senator the sue
cessor Of Senator Scott.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
1t cannot be denied that ex-
President Roosevelt is today the
greatest American upon this con-
-inent. Whatever may be his
faults, the American people re-
;pect him. The defeat of the Re
publican party in the last cam
)aign was attributed to Mr.. |
Roosevelt. If the charge is true.
The Bee is of the opinion that he
will be a political factor in 1912. |
President Taft, if he wants the
olored vote, must do something
It once to bring that vote back
ntO the Republican party. The
olOred voter is no longer the
erf Of any political party. Mr..
roosevelt must do his duty in
eStOring the party to power.
Viii ex-President Roosevelt be
BILE to return in 1912?
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26
HOWARD THEATER.

i Last Sunday evening the How.
ard Theater passed from the con,
troll of cOlored management tC
that of white. Messrs. Benedict
and ROSenthal, the owners, are
of the opinion that a white man
ager can do more and better bus
mess than a cOlOred manager.
Such a move, no doubt, would
succeed IN some other city. except
this one. Mr.. w. II. Smith. who
steps down and out, no doubt de-
voted his entire time and energy
to the theater. If he failed to
bring the crowd, certainly it was
no fault of his. The citizens of
this city had just begun to know
and appreciate him. He had GER
tainly organized frst-class
stock company, of which any city
would be proud. This stock com
pany was under the direction of
Mr.. j. Lubrie Hill, and all who
saw him in "Our Friend From
Dixie" must admit that he was
an actor. Mr.. Smith spared
neither pains nor expense to give
the people of this city what they
have been asking for ever since
the establishment of "Jim Crow
ism" In all the theaters in this
city-a theater of their own.
Messrs. ROsenthal and Benedict
made it possible for the colored
people to realize their fond hopes.
Every officer and every employee
were colored. Every show, with
a few exceptions, was colored.
Now the manager is white who
succeeds Mr.. Smith; the treasurer
IS white, and he succeeds Mr.. NY
ers. All the shows hereafter will
be white. Are the cOlored people
appreciative? We have several |
picture shows-Ford
especially-but the col
Ored people prefer to attend |
Happy Land, where they are
compelled to go into a separated
entrance and occupy separate
seats. Instead of attending the
Howard Theater, where they are
permitted to breathe the air of |
freedom and independence, they'll
prefer to go to the Academy and
pay % cents for the peanut gal
cry, where the white people only
pay Is cents for the same seats.
Is it a fact that the colored peo-
pie prefer to be "Jim CrOwed,"
o enable them to inhale the air
IF the white people? There is
radically wrong with
he cOlOred brother. If the How
lrd management fails under the
new movement The Bee is unable
% say what the next move will be.
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26
GrandfatherS' Clause
Continued from page I.

one citizen of the United States over
another on account of race, color
or previous condition of servitude.
Before its adoption, this could be
done. It was as much within the DOW
er of State to exclude citizens of
the United States from voting on ac-
count of race, etc, as it was on ac-
count of age, property or education.
Now it is not. If citizens of one race
having certain qualifications are per-
mitted by law to vote, those of an
other having the same qualifications
must be. Previous to this amendment
there was no constitutional guaranty
against the discrimination; now there
is. 1t follows that the amendment has
invested the citizen of the United
States with a new constitutional right
which IS within the protecting power
of Congress. That right is exemption
from discrimination in the exercise o A.
the elective franchise on account O.
race, color or previous condition O.
Servitude- This, under the expires,
provisions of the second section Of
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26

patriot at the head of an army of
patriots; the other is a guerrilla,
who hangs on that army's rear.
One is welded to breadth; the
other is married to narrowness.
One is faithful; the other is the
anthithesis of faithlessness.
When Prof. DuBoise designs
with his own brain and builds
with his own hands a monument
out from which go annually hun
dredS of ambitious, determined,
energetic, prepared negro boys
and girls to better their, our and
condition, and a monu-
ment upon which not only Amer
lea, but the civilized world proud
ly gazes-when Prof. DuBoise
shall have done this, then will
addresses inspired by him be
given respectful consideration.
by their fruits shall We know
them" The fruits of DR.. Wash
lngtOn'S labOrS are the sweet, life
giving fruit of noble effort and
Oeneficent uplift. Prof. DuBoise's.
fruits are the bitter apples of
jealousy and the sour grapes of
envy. We repeat: 'By their fruits
shall ye know them"
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26
The Tuskegee Negro Conference.
Tuskegee Institute, Ala,
NOYember 10. 1910.

November 10, 1910.
The twentieth annual session of the
Tuskegee Negro Conference will con-
vene at Tuskegee Institute on Wednes-
day and Thursday, January I8 and 70.
1911.
On Wednesday, the first day, the
Tuskegee Negro Conference will be
held. Among the topics to be dis
.cussed are: Making Farming Pay.
Successful Truck Farming, Fruit Rais-
ing, Livk Stock and Poultry Raising,
Cotton Raising, How to Successfully
Manage a Large Plantation, How to
Make Living on a Small Farm.
A number of prominent white plant
.ers are expected to be present, and the
question of making tenant farming more
profitable both to the landlord and to
the tenant will be discussed somewhat at
length.
On Thursday, the annual Workers
Conference will be held. On this oc-
casion an unusually large number of
persons directly engaged in Negro edu-
cation from the schools of the South
especially or interested IN the uplift of
the Negro are expected to be present
Among the subjects that will be taken
up at the Workers Conference is the
following: How can ministers, teach
ers and business men assist the farm
ers to make agriculture more profitable,
particularly by assisting in teaching
farmers more efficient methods of farm
ing, and also to develop the business
side of farming
The indications are that the coming
annual Tuskegee Negro Conference will
be the largest and most successful of all
the conferences held at Tuskegee In
stitute.
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26
ONE VS.. TWENTY

DR.. Booker 7. Washington
made a tour of Europe some few
weeks ago, and briefly spoke of
the condition of the colored peo-
pie In this country. What he said
set up a howl throughout Amer
lea. A self-cOnstituted committee
Of cOlOred men met somewhere
IN New York and sent out sign
ed denial of what DR.. Washing
ton had said. The American
cOlOred man is a peculiar genius.
He does nothing himself; and if
one should happen to say or do
something, a cry goes out that
is detriment to the person who
is doing something.
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26
3-EDTTORIAL
WHY NOT REMOVE THEM?

To the chagrin of the people
of Southeast Washington, the
government of this city has per-
mitted a local real estate firm to
build several sporting houses near
the cOlored schOol-house and re-
spectacle cOlOred citizens in the
vicinity of these houses. Since
it is claimed that these houses are
moral necessities and are permit
ted to exist, why not place the
white houses in white communities
and the cOlOred houses in colored
communities? Or place them all
in one section of the city. It is
the duty of the Commissioners of
the District Of Columbia to order
the closing of these houses in the
vicinity of the cOlOred school. The
Bee feels confident that the white
people IN the cOmmunitywOuld not
permit one OF these houses to re-
main III the vicinity Of one of their
schools. Why should the colored
people be imposed upon? Some
action should be taken at once to
remove these evils. The colOred
children can LOOK out of their
school windows at any time and
see the inmates of these sporting
houses. The Bee feels confident
the Commissioners can break
them up. Here is a case where our
chief OF police can order Captain
Williams in No. 4 to raid thesc
houses. Our chief of police doesnr
have to wait for orders from the
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26
Negro Fairs.

There are an unusual number of
Negro fairs being held this autumn
The Bolivar County Negro Fair has
just closed its first successful meeting
at Mound Bayou, Miss. There was
an unusual display of cotton, corn,
hogs, cattle, mules and sheep. In
the poultry exhibit were shown fowls
bred especially for egg production
and for table use Household pro-
ductiOns were also we'll represented
At Greenville, Miss, the Negroes
have just held successful fair, and
also at Jackson, where they partici-
pated in the State Fair.
The Negro exhibits at the Ala
bama State Fair were exceptionally
good. The corn, cotton, live stock,
women's work, etc, compared favora
bly, with what was exhibited by the
whites.
The Macon County Farmers Insti-
tute Fair, which was held at Tuske-
gee Institute, Alabama, on the 18th
and 10Th of October, showed in many
ways the remarkable progress that
the Negroes in the Black Belt are
making in agriculture. There was
DllCC llillC WITCH LllS NSSlO Cdl liCu
his produce to the fair on his back
OF in a broken-down Ox-wagon, but
at this fair the farmers brought their
products by the two-horse wagonlOad.
The same farmer would bring
large amount of cotton, corn, oats,
wheat, barley, peanuts, potatoes,
canned and preserved fruits from the
home, and fancy and plain sewing be-
longing to his wife
Among the State Fairs that are be-
ing held are those at Macon, Ga, Au
gusta, Ga, and Columbia, S. c.
The Giles County (Tenn.) Negro
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26
NOTES ON RACIAL PROGRESS
AS Reported by National Negro Bus
mess League.
New Negro Bank.

The Peoples Home Savings Bank,
at Shaw, Miss, capitalized at $4,000,
is one of the latest entries in the
domain of financial organizations.
The incorporators are said to be sub
stantial and we'll known business men
of the community whose individual
successes have been so marked as to
inspire the confidence of those who
patronize the institution. The town
of Shaw is one of the most progress
sive in the Delta, and draws on
marvelously rich territory. For this
reason the bank ought to succeed.
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26
Two New Banks.

The Bees genial friend, Mr.. Samuel
G. Stewart, has just purchased for his
two clerks, at II4I Seventh street north
west, two new cash registers in which
his two receivers of cash may place it
after it is handed over the counter 10
them. Sam has an eye to business, and
he has oceans of friends who wish him
success.
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26
DR.. Moore Urged.

DR.. Lewis B. Moore, say his friends,
with his superior professional train
ing in education and philosophy, and
his years Of experience as founder
and dean of the Teachers College of
the University, would make an ideal
superintendent Of our cOlored public
schools in case of a change in the
office.
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26

Commissioners. He will do the
colored citizens of the city favor
IL he will order his Captain to
close up these houses. He can do
it. Now, Major Sylvester, show
your nerve. You have it; now
execute it.
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26

The Bee would advise the
President to change his Southern
policy and unite the Republican
party.
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26

Mr.. Sinclair doesn't believe in
divorces. His reasons are very
poor. Perhaps if he had bump
upon his head several times, he
would change his mind.
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26

If DR.. Shepard and DR.. Wash
ingtOn could consistently pool
their issues, no doubt the eduea-
tiOnal world could be united.
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26

CaperS, of South Carolina, was
always the colOred Americans
great political factor before he
was put out of office.
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26

Business at the Police Court is
getting slow. There are more
lawyers than there are clients
among a few of them.
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26
phiIadelDhia House.

Mrs. Carroll, the proprietor of the
Philadelphia House, is running one Of
the iinest Palm Gardens in the city.
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26

The Lincoln Amusement Com
pany will attempt to build a
theater. The Bee has every reason
to believe that it will succeed.
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26

The Democratic party will re-
ward the cOlored Independents by
introducing a "Jim Crow" bill in
the House of Representatives.
The Washington bee., 1910-11-26

Why do colored Odd Fellows
and Masons fail to keep their OBJ
legations with one another?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-31

husband, you knows the most popular Congressman
that ever came from the State, she ended proudly.
"But aren't you suffragette?" probed.
"Me? Dear sakes, no. But, you see, women in poll
tics and being politicians wife sound something alike,
and just wanted to see whether they had any Of the
troubles have and had anything to suggest"
Irefraned from noting that this hardly mothers
meeting and merely uttered encouraging, "Such
as?"
ooh, such as-such as-we such naturally
from being a Congressmans wife" She hesitated;
then her eye sought the clock the PLATFORM and
though the organ voiced speaker was then proclaim
ing, THAT woman must become end in herself and
be any longer tool for the health and
fort of another, the world is realizing at last the little
bundle of gathered up her cloak decisively My
baby has awful cold, and I've got to get
back give him oil rub before he goes to sleep for
the night. But any Congressman wife tell you what
troubles are-f you promise not to let it get back
home that they said it, She trailed off smiling, and
could almost imagine that her skirt angled where little
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A Distracting Vision

THEN, too, about vision to distract very
young women their boyishly flat bosoms broadly
crossed with Votes for Women sashes, their cheeks
flushed becomingy; but the restless glitter of
analysed discomfort of hysterca ervor in their eyes,
Would their look change tender yearnng, would the
fullness of woman's life and love blossom normally,
under that badge? Undoubtedly this question would be
judged final symptom of senty felt; so banished
the bogy then and there; but only conure tyran
man had beheld him personihed in all the patient
husbands waiting about the lobby until the wives would
exhaust themselves denouncing his tribe and seek his
Individual escort homeward.
Some of these patient James Henrys had even pene-
trated the hail. standing that the who strove to
wrest suffrage from them might sit. The somnolent
badness of one noddng in a caught my eye.
He would no doubt have liked to be at vaudeville
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workers had been brought thither to give atmosphere
After the speeches, which ranged from aegory of
chattels of his prowess to hour of unreleved Stats
tics, a splendid Lady Bountiful and offered sub
stantial endowment for working woman's hotel. 1t
seemed fitting climax, and the audience responded fit
tngly until shrill cry of 1--WE don't want no hotel!
We want fair play" from the back of the
She who cried out looked if she had had
enough of anything in this life of food rainent of
love- but her life behind her words and we listened:
eve don't want hotel, she repeated, nor charity
neither! And our votes would be slugged away from
if we had EN-. We want better pay, and if people
would pay for what make and what
make, you wouldn't have to spend so much money
meetings to get votes that won't do good,-any
how, not right away-and we need help now. We amt
making shirtwaists for posterty"
Painfully illogical this after all the carefully
shaded facts in the previous speeches; ungratefu too
for afraid the insurgent had been brought the
meeting in the brougham of of the Ladies Bountful
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POLITICIANS

"HE speaker handsome woman, weighing,
should venture, two hundred and twenty-five
pounds without her coruscation of diamonds.
Her voice, in timbre between Janauschek play
ing Lady Macbeth and campmeetng exhorter calling
to the mourners' bench, flowed to the back
most with voluminous distinctness.
Democracy. without the entire enfranchise-
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performance, better STILL to have been at home doz
Pankhurst the of suburban subdivision if you
had brought the matter up; but, because mothers
interested, he had to this meeting after hard
days work, to hear that Democracy, without the
tire enfranchsement of woman, would be angel with
wing and the face of vampire!" Perhaps he