Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-07-12
EpIroR,s OBSERVATION.

dealers.
EDITORS OBSERVATION.
In this great cosmopolitan metrop-
oils in Western North America we be-
lieye without doubt that Chicago
| will soon be the largest city In the
United States of the world at the rap
i'd rate OF graowth she Is now enjoy. |
ing. Certainly she is building some
of the finest and highest business
blocks. She has four or Ave hotels
which tower 20 to 81 stories ana mas
Just commenced two more TO go q
stories high The Chicago NORTH
western railway depot station IS
claimed to be the finest depot station
in America. This great city with her
wonderful street car system mere,
with cars above you, with cars below
you, and with cars on the ground con-
vince YOU that they have many tnou'
sands of people every hour here one
can see colony Of people representing
every nationalities upon the race Oh
the earth every language ana every
! tongue Is spoken here drills the high
and the low the millionaire and the
beggar each struggling to live since
|
alities | will only mention about the
one race OF. nationality that has kept
apace and develope equally as fast as
has the Anglo race and that Is the Ne
gro race, since this race has its men,
Der the worlds champion OF scientinc
pugalism, since its member was one
of the two English speaking members
to cross the foreign Arctic and plant
old Glory at the undiscovered North
Pole, Since it was Negro regiment
whose heroic valor and true patriot
ism saved the Rough Riders with
Theodore Roosevelt and marched up
San Juan hill and planted the stars
and stripes upon Cuban barracks,
since a member of this race has TAX
en- the first prizes in scholarship at
Yale. Harvard and other Universities
since the Apostle of Industrial Educa-
ton is a member of this race since
we have in Fiction Dumas, Turner
in Art, Dunbar in poetry, Du Bots IN
Literature, s. Colridge Taylor In mu-
sic / certainly claim right to speak
about this race the equal competitor
. of the white race here in Chicago lives
about $4,000 colored people represent
ing all walks of life they have ~
churches eight drug stores, five gro
jceries stores four photographers nve
weekly newspapers excluding class
and secular journals, one markets SIX
undertakers, twenty public school
teachers 80 police men 245 men en-
ployed in the U. 8. Post Ofice more
: than As restaurants and lunch rooms
D 10 confectioneries newspaper STANDS
r with more than 40 barber shops .
e dentists 20 physicians 40 lawyers all
r are trying and hoping to succeed
d can only mention a few Lawyer 5
+ Lang Williams, A.. S. Barnett, E. n
e Wright, Ed Morris, w. B. George, &
d Lucas, D. H. Roberts, Mr.. Demmson
Walter NJ. Farmer. Among the lead
8 ing physicians are DR.. Daniel H. VII
:. liams, DR.. Hall, J. w. Wesley, Wilbur
!. Williams, Rev. Moses Jackson, the
}. nestor of ministers is still holdlne
=, forth at Grace Presbyterian churcf
3. with a crowded house and with th'
best graded Sunday school have eve
- visited the Sunday that l was tner.
e they had 225 present 100 in the Pr
% mary dept. Rev. J. F. Thomas tn
n father of great Baptist denomination
10 in Chicago is still active although oil
ID in age he had Ebemeyer Baptist Rev
in J. Fisher has the large Baptist churcl
% and a Rev. Smith has a large Baptis
h. church at Bethesda on 80 and Wabas
IS The old Mother of Methodism Quin
IS. Chapel is pastored by that eloquen
IL DR.. Cook while Bethel with her grea
% history is crowded each sunday I
!. hear that very able Christian devin
IT. Or. D. P. Roberts and the Institution
$. al A. NJ. E. people listen to the ell
quence of Rev. DR.. A. j. Carey an
v our beloved friend Rev. T1moth
te Reeves is the presiding elder over Tn
ne big and little churches he is dom
IT. nicely his children and doing well
10 the schools Father Theorebold Thon
as has charge of the Episcopal churc
en- he is very intelligent and able u
OF Catholic church is taken on new III
Y and they are having large crowds. III
"a Congregational Mission at Dougla'
We Center Mrs. H. J. Clark formerly
m this city lost her husband last W1nt'
on she is doing nicely her is in the Re
ne Estate business on State ST. dolr
an nicely, Fred D. Hooker and moth'
or. formerly of Des Moines are living
Calumet doing nicely MIR. and Mr.
J. H. Weeks and Son Rollen and wi
all of Des Moines are living with MI
Hooker the wish to be remembers
Lby their many Des Moines frien'
om Geo Hudson formally Of Des Moin'
has severed his connection from II
Ry. Co. and is employed in Chical
doing we'll Rev. James Higgins fc
mer Burlington la man and sister hi
he charge of one of the A. M. E. churc
7il es and is doing nicely. w. l.. Harris'
rs IL w 81 St. runs one of the best al
%, most popular up to date restauran
rue in Chicago see his ad elsewhere Re
eg- /. Britt has moved into nice ne
home on Ada St. and is doing W.
mt with his church out in EngleWood N
ifv A. D, HAYES has news stand and W
70. sell the Bystander r NJ Harvey 80
et State has been selling the Bystand
tbe at his news stand for long time al
~. he will continue to keep 1owa's on
paper on his stand Mr.. Chas F
Lho Bastide has first class drug sto
Sn a1 37O2 State st. he is fine busine
a w. man to meet and Is making good
U.s. this great city Hugh Hoskins formal
ny of Keokuk la has saloon and I
zen Iowa club at 1851 State to meet t
'ck Editor of the Bystander and enr
OF his name as one of the dozen NJ
am subscribers Mrs. Lillian Fields Nunl
the formerly of Des' Moines but now mi
the ried Paul Gilstrap formerly an 1o'
Gus boy is working in this city VIM Fra
'm- er former Des Moines man is re
gro sick and has been for the past sever
Na- months.
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