The Washington bee., 1911-03-04
PARAGRAPH NEWS
(By Miss @. B. Maxheld.)

| Loeb & CO., the New York banker
and philanthropist, with a party of
Ifriends, visited Tuskegee for two days
and delivered an address to the stu
dents and teachers.
| DR.. Emmett Densmore, Of New
York City, the author of several
: books on hygiene and food theories,
also an inventor, died at Cassadago,
Fla 1t is said that the entire residue
OF his estate goes to Tuskegee In
+, stitute.
A contest conducted by a branch
of the Y. NJ. c. A. of New York City
to decide the twenty-five most beau
tiful words in the English language
was won by John Shea, lawyer of
New York.
I Ulysses c. Scott, who in all prob
I ability was the most successful col
/ ored man in the mechanical world,
being identified with several large au-
tomobile firms, died in New York last
: week.
L The executor of the estate of Mr..
= Andrew ]. Dotger has recently turn
ed over to the Trustees of the Tus-
y kegee Institute S4o4892. 81, which will
J go toward the endowment fund of
, the Institution.
1t is said the first American Negro
u to take title to land IN MonrOV1a,
i Liberia, was a woman by the name OF
Sarah Draper.
Arrangements are being made to
, purchase three aerOplaneS by the War
g Department as soon as the first in
j. stallment of the appropriation car
ried by the army appropriation bill
becomes available.
le Charles d. Norton, Secretary to
1 TT 70
&c President of the First National Bank
d of New York City. He will become
y protege of ]. P. Morgan for the
le First National Bank, which is in a
ie tremendous struggle for supremacy
Is in financial affairs in the United
i States.
II Union potters of Crooksville, Ohio,
~ are protesting against the acceptance
5 of $4,000 from Andrew Carnegie for
q G library there. They call his money
- tainted.
ne Roland Hartman, the youngest
son of z. II. Hartman, unveiled the
memorial fountain at Goshen, n. Y,
to the memory of his father.
,.u It is said race riot lasted three
J." hours last Monday at Fort Worth,
Tex, resulting IN a half dozen col
- ored people being roughly handled
OF and thousands of dollars damage
Sn done to buildings occupied by col
Il ored people
OF 1t is stated that the Baltimore &
IS Ohio Railroad, which has been run
aI lining lin Crow local cars from Mary
81 81 land to Philadelphia, has agreed to
od discontinue the practice, following the
nt filing of a protest by number OF
80 leading citizens.
The four educational and mission
ary conventions Will be held IN the
following places: Baltimore, from
NAV RI to June 4; Atlanta, June
to II; New Orleans, June II to I6,
i-la St Louis, June 2I TO IS, 1911.
In-I DIR. Eugene F. Porter, Health Com
missioner of the State of New York
saws there are about 100000 sick
people in the country, and I,5oo,oof
,-lare sick of Qreveutable diseases,
A Richmond, Va, seems TO be the era
and die of Negro industry. There IS nov
few operated and owned by Negroes there
his a Capital Shoe and Supply Company
Mr.. R. T Hill is President and w. A
last Saunders Vice President.
thisI According TO reports, two and one
ank half to three times as many white
of soldiers desert from the army as Ne
hio gro soldiers. The rate of desertioI
and among the colored troops compare
five favorably with the low rate of th'
and British army.
ion, Mr.. Joseph L. Jones, colored, wh'
,ere established in 1902 the Central Re
and gala Company, has one of the larg
en- est concerns of its kind IN the coun
los try. They manufacture every sor
bile Of regalia now in use. The eompan.
s to has branch Offices in Columbia, 5. {.
ect- New Orleans, La, and Selma, Ala. -.
see The True Reformers' Building II
sing Newport News, Va, was sold TO
pub $4,000. Fortunately, it was kept i
stu possession of the race, as Mr.. Z:
ser Brown, President of the Crown Saw
! IN ings Bank, purchased the property
ther where the bank will probably be 10
the Gated.
mink Mrs. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
ming A co-worker with Frederick Douglass
i Of Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, an
men noted for her anti-slavery lectures an
: of writings, died at the age of 81 in Phil
eed- adelphia, Pa.
tant According to Dr. A s. J. Hyde
1ent 25 per cent of the students OF LOUIS
tier lana State University are affecte
will with the hookworm. It was believe
ash that this disease was only TO be foun
fac among the poorer classes, but the ex
erv- animation of the students have upse
ell" this theory.
that Mrs. Sinchi Silverman, Of Brook
the lyn, N. Y, who died at the age c
lool. Io4, said she saw Napoleon and hi
par starving soldiers retreat through sno'
call from Moscow. She had twenty great
law grandchildren.
do Another segregation ordinance wa
has introduced IN the nrst Drancn OF IN
= paf+ gErrT
uca- is said. will stand the test IN th
edu- courts. Harry Cummings, the co
ored Councilman, spoke strongl
against the ordinance.
After persistent efforts, Thoma
Dixon's masterpiece, "The Clansman
1self was barred from the theater in Dc
light Moines, Iowa, by colored people.
light. number of white people protests
man against the play.