The Washington bee., 1911-01-21
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
(By Miss G. B. MaxheId.)

Mr.. Charles Ward ChappelIe is the
only colO-ed aviator to participate in
the first Industrial Aero Show. which
was held from December RI to Ian
uary !. He has invented an aeroplane
which has attracted much attention
because OF its unusual features.
MIR. Edward Raymond Turner. Pb
u, associate in history at Brvn Nawr
| College, won the Justin Winsor prize
tor his book, entitled The Negro in
| Pennsylvania - Slavery, Seryitude
Freedom The prize is given everv
| two years IN recognition of the most
valuable and original work done in
American history whose reputation is
not yet established.
1t IS said separate saloons are now
being championed in Baltimore bv
States Attorney A S. J. Owens. The
segregation idea is rapidly growing.
The colored people of Chicago have
been offered $4,000 by an Anglo
Saxon and $4,000 by a Jew for Y NJ.
L A, building, providing they raise a
similar amount, $4,000, among them
selves
According to Rev r. w. Andrews.
a missionary IN Toxic, who has re-
turned to this country after a twelve
year stay IN Japan, there are more
scholars than the limited number of
teachers are able to manage. Knowl-
I edge is on the increase.
Last Tuesday, the 18TH, was the
birthday of d philanthrOpist, printer
and patriot whose name all Americans
will ever hold dear to them, "Benia-
min Franklin"
1t has been proposed that all of the
old library space in the center of the
Capitol be devoted to the use of the
court, where more commodious cham
berS for the Chief Justice and Asso-
clate Justices OF the Supreme Court
OF the United States can be had.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, the we'll known
temperance advocate and saloon
smasher, IS suffering a nervous col
lapse. Her condition is such that it
is feared her usefulness as an enemy
OF lntoxlCantS is ended.
Spontaneous combustion is believed
to have started the fire in the United
States Pension Office, which resulted
III 10000 damage
George Lewis Grant, the colored
personal body guard OF Gen. u. ).
GraN during the civil war, having
made twenty-four trips abroad, and
although he could neither read nor
write English, he could speak French
and German fluently, died in Boston,
Mass, at the age of seventy-hve years.
Over $4,000 was raised for the ben
eft of survivors of the twenty-three
firemen killed in the Chicago stock
yards. This makes the total fund
nearly $I6o,ooo.
DR.. Booker T Washington is get
ting up a testimonial for Editor T.
Thomas Fortune. A large sum IS ex-
pected. DIR. Washington hopes the
plan will meet with hearty co-opera-
ton.
Rev. w. H. Brooks, who has been
for fourteen years pastor of St Mark
NJ. L. Church, New York, will tender
his resignation to take effect about
April 1t is said it was a shock not
only to his church, but all the church
going people of New York City.
Color prejudice has at last reached
Buffalo, n. Y. G. II. Thompson, col
ored, who sued the Academy Theater
for $500 damages, being refused ad-
mission to the lower floor, lost his
suit. The Supreme Court there sus-
tanned the action of the theater.
DR.. White, superintendent of the
Government Hospital for the Insane,
seems to have an elephant on his
hands trying to satisfy the George
Washington University students also
the Howard University students at
the same time. Watch for the out
come.
The will of Mrs Emile H. Moir,
who died the 23d of December, leaves
large part of her estate, worth more
than 100000 to educational, relig-
ious and charitable organizations.
Tuskegee Institute and Howard Uni
yersity will share about $4,000 each.
1t IS said Absolom Jones was the
first colored man ordained in the Epis-
copal Church. The one hundred and
sixty-fOurth anniversary of his birth
was celebrated recently
A marble bust Of Thomas Moore is
to be placed in the Corcoran Art Gal
lery May z8 next, the I23d anniversary
of his birth.
John Quincy Adams, a descendant
of the signer of the Declaration Of In
dependence, died at his home in New
York at the age of sixty-three years.
1t is SaIu he was one OF the founders
of the American Flag House and
Betsy Ross Memorial
Secretary MacVeagh favors the
adjustment Of the auditors for the
different Government departments
and concentrating the work under one
head, thus saving about 100000.
About thirty positions will be abol-
ished if the change is made.
1t is said New York has consumed
.8, 500, 900 barrels of beer during the
year 1910, and about 6O,oOO,OOO has
been consumed throughout the United
States during 1910.
Gen. Stonewall Jackson's birthday
was celebrated January 2Ist by the
Southern societies in this city, at
which time tributes were paid to the
memory Of Robert E. Lee.
Capt Peary, in his testimony before
the Congressional committee, said:
"The reason he took Henson with him
was that he was the more effective
for the extended work necessary than
any white man / ever saw"
A piece of Confederate flag four
by two feet, which was displayed from
the Marshall House, Alexandra, Va,
and piece of oil cloth and rope, was