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The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-18

TREASURERS REPORT.
August 9TH, 1911
To Mayor and Council of the City
OF Marietta,
Gentlemen:
l herewith submit the following re-
port for the month OF July, 1911;
RECEIPTS
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-18
CITY MARsHAL's REPORT.
SEXTON'S REPORT.

c. H. GooDsON, c. NJ.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-22

age, but he worked with all the
skill and the rapidity of an exper-
fenced piece worker driven at the
top of his speed. I was SO filed
with pity and at the same time
with admiration for this boy that,
as 1 was unable to speak to him l
ventnred to offer him small coin
in token of my appreciation of the
skill with which he worked. So
intent was he on his task, however
that he would not stop his work
even to pick up the money [
proffered him, but simply thanked
me and nodded his head for me to
place it on the bench beside him.
-Outlook.
(To BE CONTINUED
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-22
MARYL AND NEGROES
SCORE ANOTHER POINT

Baltimore, Md, July 12.-Race
disfranchisemest got another hard
blow in Maryland the other day,
when Judge John G. Rose of the
United States District Court,
handed down a decision in which
Judge Thomas J. Morris concurred
overruling the demurrers to the
indictments filed against two
Democratic election officials of
Charles County and John M. Du-
lany, printer of this city, who
are charged with being responsible
for the trick ballots used in the
congressional election in Charles
county in November.
The ballots were gotten up in
manner to confuse the illiterate
colored voters of that county,
while practically. making it easy
for Democratic illiterates to vote.
The indictments were brought un-
der the Federal statutes. In his
decision Judge Morris goes at
length in defining the various in
juries citizen may be subjected
to, and says:
The right to vote at Congress
ional electian is right which is
not depended upon the race or
color of the voter. The motive of
the defendants might have been,
as was charged in the inditments,
to disfranchise Negro voters. If
they knowingly conspired to pre-
vent legal and qualified Negro
voters from voting they offered
against the statute. 1t would
make no difference if in trying to
what they wanted to do they also
injured other voters.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-22
COLORED WOMEN TAKEN
OFF SLEEPERS in
LOUISIANA

Shreveport, La, July 12.-That
Negro woman cannot occupy a
birth in sleeping car where
there are white passengers, even
as a maid, in this state, was ruled
by Judge Blanchard in police
court.
The Negro women were taken
from the berth of an incoming
train at the local union depot here
Monday night on appeal to the
police officers by several white
passengers. A vigorous protest
was made to the election of the
women by white passenger who
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-22
Negroes Get
Bathing Place
BEACH COMMISSIONERS besides TO
PROVIDE NEGROES WITH SUIT
ABLE ACCOMMODATION.

Asbury Park, N. j., July IL
Announcement has been made by
the Beach Commission that all
differences with reference to pro-
viding colored bathers with suit
able bathing place will be settled
this week, as the members OF the
commission have gotten busy and,
have seen that the colored pleas
ure.seekers are to be given the
same consideration as in recent
years. The news that this week
will clarity conditions at Asbury
Park has been received with un-
conceded joy by both white and
colored. So long have the colored
people been used to bathing to-
gether that they do not seem at
all anxious about mingling in the
ocean with the whites, who, on the
other hand, do not seem to be par
ticular about mixing either. 1t
is said that the Beach Commiss-
ioner has selected a spot for color
ed bathers which will not be OBJ
iectionable to them from any
stand point. The action OF the
Beach Commission in promptly
seeing that Negro visitors were
oiyen Accommodations on the beach
front has been due TO the threat
of the colored voters here that they
will show their displeasure at the
polls in the next municipal elec-
tion because the Beach Commiss-
ioner took the Negro bathers
"choice spot from them. Hear
ing of the intentions of the colored
voters, the Beach Commission
hastily assembled and made ar
rangements to provide the colored
people with an acceptable bathing
place. The new bathing site for
colored people will in all probable
ity be located at the end OF the
board walk at Eighth avenue
Fifty houses will be erected and
reg alar grounds established with
life guards in attendance.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-22

were quite awe-inspiring, and un-
doubtebly contributed something
to the effectiveness of the medi-
cine.
1t is very busy street in which
the apothecary, the macaroni man.
ufacturer, and the others are loca-
ted. In fact, it seems as if work
never stopped there, for it is full
of little shops where men sit in
their doorways or at the open win
dows until late at night, working
steadily at their various trades,
making the things they sell, and
stopping only now and then to sell
the things they make. The whole
region is a hive of industry, for it
is the neighborhood where arti-
sans live, those skilled workmen
who make everything by hand that
in our part of the world, we. have
long since learned to make by ma
chine. In fact, in this street it is
possible to get very good pic
ture, | suspect, of the way in
which trade and industry were
carried on in other parts of Europe
before the age of steam.
About nine o'clock Saturday
night-the night upon which l ar
rived in Catania-I was walking
down one of the side streets in this
part of the city, when my atten-
tion was attracted to a man, sit
ting i'll his doorway, working by
the light of little smoky lamp.
He was engaged in some delicate
sort of iron work, and, as near as
l could make out, he seemed to be
a tool-maker.
What particularly attracted my
attention was little girl, certainly
not more than seven years of age,
who was busily engaged in pol
ishing and sharpening the stamps
he used. l stopped for a moment
and watched this man and child,
working steadily, silently, at this
late hour of the night. | could
but marval at the patience and the
skill the child showed at her work.
1t was the first time in my life
that had seen such ii very little
child at work, although l saw
many others in the days that fol-
lowed.
have often heark it said that
people who are born under the soft
southern skies are habitually in
delent, and never learn to work
there, as they do in more northern
latitudes. This is certainly not
true of Sicily, for, SO far as my ex-
perience goes, there is no other
country in Europe where incessant
labor is so largely the lot of the
masses of the people. Certainly
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-22

The next annual meeting of the
National Independent Political
League will be held in Boston for
three days beginning on Monday,
August 2S. Much interests be-
ing manifested in the coming ses-
sion, as it is possibly the last an
nual gathering before the next
national convention of the two
great political parties. From
present indications the meeting
will be largely attended.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-22
THE MANFAR
THESI DOWN
CHILD LABOR AND SULPHUR MINES. FIFTH ARTICLE
BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.

There is one street in Catania,
Sicily, which seems to be given ov-
er to the trade and industry OF the
poorer people of the city. 1t is
not mentioned in the guide-books,
and there is perhaps no reason
wbv it shoald be. Nevertheless,
there are great many interesting
things to be seen in that street
strange, quaint, homely things
that give a stranger intimate
glimpses into the life OF the people.
For example, on street corner
tucked away in one of those snug
spaces in which one sometimes
finds a crowded fruit-stand, L dis
covered, one day, macaronl FAC
tory. Within a space perhaps
three feet wide and ten or twelve
feet in length one man and boy
conducted the whole business OF
the sale as we'll as the manufacture
Of macaroni from the raw grain to
the completed article OF trade.
The process, as it was carried on In
this narrow space, was necessarily
a simple one. There was bag OF
fIour. a box in which to mix paste,
and press by which this paste
was forced through holes that con-
verted it into little hollow tubes.
Afterwards these hollow tubes were
laid ont on a cloth frame which,
because there was no room inside
had been set up in the street. Al
ter leaving this cloth frame the
macaroni was hung up on little
wooden forms for inspection and
for sale.
One of the most curious and in
teresting places on the street was
an apothecary's shop in which the
apothecary manufactured all his
own drugs, and acted at the same
time as the poor mans physician
or medical adviser. This man had
never studied pharmacy in col
leee. His knowledge of drugs
consisted entirely of the traditions
and trade secrets which had come
down to him from his predecessor
in the business. His shop was
filed with sweet smelling herbs
gathering for him by the peasants
and from these he brewed his med
icines. The skeleton OF fish
hung over the counter from which
medicines were dispensed, and the
shelves behind were filled with
MANY curious and musty bottles.
The apothecary himself was a
very serious person, with a high
male forehead and the absorbed
air of a man who feels the weight
of the knowledge he carries around
with him. All these things, es-
pecially the smell of the herbs,
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-22

DIR. WIS Scarborough, presi-
dent of Wilberforce University,
has been invited and has accepted
the invitation to make an address
at the Universal Race Congress
to be held in London the latter
part of the month. He and Mrs.
Scarborough sailed Wednesday
morning on the Carmania. Prof
Scarborough has not fixed def
nate subject for his address as yet
but he said that it would have to
do with the race problem, as it af-
fects the colored man today.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-22
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

claimed the women were travelling
as maids to his daughter.
The women were reluctant to
leave their berth and were escorted
to police headquarters in their
night clothes before they could be
persuaded to don more suitable
attire. Judge Blanchard fined
them each S25 for violation of the
"Jim Grow" law.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-22

Jacksonville, Fla, July 1.-The
newspapers throughout the State
are commenting on the recent mu-
nicipal election in this city where
in the Negroes, who greatly out
number the whites in some of the
wards, were beaten, the Negro can
didates receiving a very small vote.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-22
DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY. JULY %

there no other country where so
much of the labor Of all kinds, the
skilled labor of the artisan as well
as the rough labor digging and
carrying on the streets and in the
mines, is performed by children,
especially boys.
There is a law against Sunday
labor in Catania, but the next
morning, as 1 passed through this
same quarter of the city, | found
the majority of the people still
busily at work. stopped to
watch man who was making
mandolins. This man lived in
one room, which was at the same
time a workshop, kitchen, and bed
room. There was a great heap of
mattresses piled high upon the
oed in one corner. A little char
coal brazier, on which the cooking
for the family was performed,
stood upon the work bench. The
ceiling was hung with finished
instruments, and the pavement in
front of the house was piled with
others in various stages OF COM
pletion. This room was occupied
by a family of five, all of whom,
with the exception of the wife and
mother, were engaged, each in diff
ferent ways, in the work of manu-
featuring mandolins. All the
skilled work (the setting of the
decorations and the polishing of
frames) was performed by the
boys, but little girl who was
standing near seemed to be max
ing herself handy as helper in
the work of the others.
In this treeless county, where
there is almost no wood of any
kind to be had, the most useful
building material after stone and
plaster, seems to be tile. Not on
ly the roofs but the floors of most
of the buildings ere made of this
material, and its manufacture is
consequently one of the principal
minor industries of the country.
One day while l was wandering
about in the outskirts of Catania,
1 ran accross a plant where two
men and three little boys were at
work mixing the clay, forming it
into octagonal shapes, and piling
it out in the sun to dry. The
two men were at work in the shade
of a large open shed, but | could
not make out what they were do
ing. AS nearly as 1 could see, al
most all of the actual work was
performed by the children, who
ranged, L should say, from eight to
twelve years of age. The work of
carrying the heavy clay, and pill
ing it up in the sun after it had
been formed into tiles, was done
by the younger children.
| am certain that if | had not
seen them with my own eyes L
would never have believed that
such very little children could car
ry such heavy loads, or that they
could work so Systematically and
steadily as they were compelled to
do in order to keep pace with the
rapid movements of the older boy /;
who was molding the tiles from
the solf clay. The older boy
could not have been, as | have
said, more than twelve years of
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-22

Miss Rella Ritchell, a pronoun-
ced brunette, and teacher of Eng
lish in the Kokomo lind. schools,
is a Jewess of Russian nativity.
Her fight before jury at Paris,
Ky., won her verdict for So, 75O.
July 10, 1910, she was forced from
the coach for white persons and
compelled to ride from Millers-
burg to Paris in car for colored
people, on the assertion of the
conductor that she was a Negress.
The l.. & N. Railroad Company
was defendant in the suit.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-22
Sinainq and Work

A man who sings at his work should
remember that he isn't the only one
on the job who may be entitled to hap
piness.- .Atchison Globe.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-22

@. j. Goff, chairman OF the
Brotherhood of Locomtive Fire
men and Engineers recently gave
out the exact terms upon which
the Southern Railway and its fire.
men came to terms, following their
dispute over labor questions.
Among the terms it was agreed
that the number of Negro fremen
should be limited to certain per-
centage of whites. This means a
reduction of Negro fremen.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-14
PERTH AMBoY
Papu.At1on, 32.1z1.
81 nat3As from New York

81 ms3es from New York.
Tax rata t-7S.
mouth o. tho RaritAn river and al
the head OF Earttsn Bay.
OCEAN steamers q dock In -roH
E4i 10 40 fest Of water.
Channel al feet deep at low VS.
|ser leading up tho bay from Sandy
Daily steamer service 20 New
York.
Four ~railroads, the r~ennsyIvanis-
EIeh{xh Valley and the Staten lsiand
Rapla Transit Branches runnlns IA
all directions, efYordinR almost 81
|suniilntted number Of excellent sae-
Has two telegraph and two teie-
pHGEs Companies mx
Electric tight and gas companies.
Two daily newspapernsia ,nu
Nine rrsmmar schools and one
high school, which II. on the az
proved list OF 6s the ieaolns sro-
Sversttias In the country, four paoi-
sghiai schools and q busihSss
Churches Of all denominations.
City hospital
Municipal water works. IN
Prominent center for troileys -
nil partr of the state, .,,,n-
Eichest clay deposits IN .he 800"
ttrv In the Immediate ~vicinity.
Some Of the leading Tie
are. American Smelling y Renannass
sCompany.s smeiter; Rarltan SyRpgIt
Works smelter; Barber Aspnaaa
Works. United Lead works. oniraIi
states Cartridge Co.. rcnisecssffe ei
Tile 4 Faience Co, g. Pardee 2Soy- ,
and Tile Works; Atlantic Terra Se !
IA Co, + edsral Terra Gotta Co., sofs I
Jersey Terra Gotta Co; three passan,s /
al the National F~treproonnS s4Ties !
and other similar tnduslras ,
witl1in the Immediate vicinity; GER
annie Works; Cherebrough vaset,no
Works; Marcy Stove Works; IWSS
SdTydock companiee together WIZ
shipyards ard marine raiiways'
Standard Underground Cable yonr-
pauy; Rosssier q Hassiacher Chem
heal Works: emery mills; coke anu
cigar factories: cement stone worsss
coal shipping piers: handkerSnla
factory; cement works; machine
sf,ops and iron foundriss.
For further particulars address.
Albert Leon, secretary OF the
Board Of Trade I
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-14

M-Madsxon Are. n Paterson ~
f9-Aarket and First Hss-
ft-6mifza and High SITS
@&~~Nsw Brunswick ava and N@w IT.
t-Etate and Smith SITS.
4s-anckfnshsn Ave. and Hartford a.
l%s-stats and Wilmington SIS.
es-HfRh and washington Sta
f4-9tAte ST ana buckingham Ava
kt-Han Ave- and Charles g.
kI--StAts and Wayne Sta
e8-Near United Lead Works.
ke-Maursr.
s2-washington and First SITS
e3-Mew Brunswick Ave. and Elm 81
ex-Smith ST and Watson Ave.
es-Eonmerce and state Sta.
7z-Front and Smith StM.
1S-Water and Gordon Sta.
94-Kearnsy ave knd Gordon st.
e2-Smith and Herpert Sta
E3-Amboy Ave. and Washington 81
e6--Near City Hospital
es-Gleyeland and Br,;ce Ayss H.
S7-Amboy and Hall Aves.
92-HaIi ave. and Inslee 81
s4-Nevfile and Johnstone Stn-
To send In an alarm open the aQ0x 4
the box. and pull down the lever oNSm
ONLY n let go Stay at box uhth
Special Calls.
tap-Break in circuit taps
Fire under control. q en-
taps-Police cali. snCaii Tor 49,
Ian Engine Co. I5-can for Prote1,
zion Hook and Ladder Co, la-tGan
for Eagle Hosa CO. 22-,csn ~ dsad
Hoe CO issr cs.s d FOR . Isnsihs 70
aiarm from a bog teisphone 20
feadquarters. SIS taps-oenoe
Ope session of scho0I
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-14
NIGHT SCHOOLS ASSURED.

There is every eason to believe
that night schools are an assured
thing for Perth Amboy. The Board
of Education has gone into the sub
iect thoroughly and recommends
lions have been made which viii
doubtless be carried out. This Is a
matter of congratulation for the
whole city. 1t shows that we have
a school board capable of getting at
the facts and It is to be hoped the
present board will be reappointed to
q mar that they may be able to see
the work through.
In no better way can the city in
vest $1,000 than to give the hun
dreds of young men and women who
are forced to work during the day,
an opportunity to increase their
hhoWleu5O. AA5 YUsVVus ~ Is SldtCus
will provide for TOO pupils. This
will make an excellent beginning.
There is reason to believe, however,
that many more than that number
will eventually seek admission. Stu
dents who attend night schools are
numbered among the ambitious boys
and girls of the, community. They
have a desire to better themselves.
They attend school not because they
have to, but because they appreciate
what education means.
1t would be practically impossible
to start night schools this year even
it there were sufficient funds for the
purpose. The term usually runs
from November until the first of
March. The holidays are now upon
us and it would be January before a
start could even be made in the pre-
parations. Then there are the teach
ers to be secured, the alterations in
some of the buildings to be made so
that light could be furnished, and
the many ~incidentals. SO that the
two remaining months would be
over before any teaching was started.
BY planning now for 1912, however,
ample time is provided for all these
details. SO that Perth Amboy can
look forward to one of the greatest
steps forward next yea that has
been taken in a long time.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-14
THE OLD .BLUE w

1t has always been the general
understanding that what is common
ly known as the old blue laws"
were the statutes passed In the early
days of our history when the nation
was much more pious than 1t Is
now. These laws prohibit any kind
OF work on Sunday. They even for
bid travel on Sunday. even walking
on the street ia prohibited except
ing In going to and from q place of
worship. Once In a while these old
laws, which have neve been repeal
ed, are resurrected and an attempt
made by some extremists to enforce
them, but such attempts have al
ways met with failure.
But some idea of how fast we are
going can be had by the action OF
Recorder Kehoe Tuesday night who,
although agreeing that a man was
guilty OF technically" violating the
s~o-called Bishops law, refused to
convict him because he did not care
to resort to the old "blue laws
Thus we find an act of the legisla-
ture passed al late as 1905 already
relegated to obscurity by being
classed as one or the autiquated
pieces of legislation that the nation
has outgrown. Truly, we are NOV
ing fast these days.
The Bishops law which has thus
been declared a back number. among
other things, provides that In sa-
looms the .sbar or business room
shall be in no way DISTRACTED by a
screen. non-transparent glass" etc.
In the case in question the nan has
an ordinary saloon license, but part
OF the room where liquor Is sold Is
partitioned of with screens back of
which o restaurant is conducted. It
was to do away with these so-cailed
back rooms and restaurants whore
women could ~congregate that this
clause was inserted In the Bishops
law. Now the local recorder calls
this n OF the blue laws.n Ac-
cordingly, the clause providing that
bars shall be exposed to the street
on Sunday Is alao not to be enforc-
ed because that, too, IL out Of date.
Incidentally. how q Q blame
the policeman for not enforcing the
law when his efforts ri met BY such
decisions on the part Of the presid-
Ing magistrate7
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-14
COMING EvEwsra

Dec. a7--cosiilion dance. Raritaa
kachs Club.
Dec 2S-BaptiBt Sunday school
achool Christmas exercises.
lfa19
Jan. dance. Goodwill Associa-
ton. Auditorium.
January l7-Leap year dance,
aaritan Yacht Club.
Jan. 19-Bal1, Danish Ladies' Socie-
ty Fremad, Kroeger Auditorium.
Jan. 22-Masquerade ball Of La
dies Society Bragas Washington
hall.
Jan. 24-sixtL annual ball OF Star
of Grace Lodge, No. II, Shepherds
OF Bethlehem, Washington hall.
Jan. 2e-Barn dance, Jefferson
Maccabees. Washington hall.
Feb. Ball, Puritan Athletic Club,
Auditorium.
FEB. zl-Coionian dance, Raritan
facht Clu
Feb. 22-Supper. Ladies' Aid So
ciety Of Simpson M. u. church.
Feb. 22-Dance, Washington
Hose and Chemical Company.
March 1S-Dance OF the Brother
hood Trainmen, Auditorium.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-14

There ought not to be any difd-
Guilty in getting e bill s~bolishing
grade crossings through the legis-
~lature. One that If fair to all sides
will be the most acceptable.