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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-06
IN AND OUT or TOWN.

Mr. and Mrs. a. Reirnc Blair and
their daughter, Miss Alice Blair. of
West Franklin Street, left town last
week for Eaglesmerc. Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Miller and their
sons will spend tho summer months In
Ginter Park.
Miss Catherine Miller, who has been
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-06

May statements of the country's two
biS trunk line systems--the New York
Central and the Pennsylvania lines
are satisfactory and encouraging. The
New York Central's gain of SLATE.
Voo, or more than per cent in gross
means that general merchandise traf-
tc is on the mend In the eastern hall
of the country. The Pennsylvania
systems gain is much smaller. in fact
only nominal; but it is the first gain
for these lines since October, 1913
and, together with other evidences
strongly suggests that conditions In
the pig iron, steel and coal districts
have definitely turned the corner
There is no indication OF an old fash
Toned BOOM" the railroad experts
say.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-06

w. NJ. Bosworth, mechanical engin-,
eer of the Louisville and Nashville, at
Louisville. Ky, has accepted an APP
pointment as mechanical engineer of
the Norfolk Southern, with offices at
Rrrkley Va
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-06
vyOMEN'S MEETINGS.

The James River Garden Club will
meet this afternoon at o'clock with
Mrs. s. II. lIawes at her residence on
Chnmberlayne Avenue. Ginter Park.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-06

j. Lowell White has been appointed
assistant to the general superinten.
dent of transportation of the Atlantic
Coast Line. with headquarters at Will
mington, y. G.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-06

III. c. Ansley. treasurer Of the South
ern Railway, with headquarters at
Washington. has been elected treas
urer of the Danville and Western. suo-
ceeding c. /. Booth. resigned.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-06

General Weather Conditions

Temperature, %; humidity, "A; wind,
weather, cloudy -
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-06

Kaintai! last twelve hours. ...... Non
itt.nnta!i iaSt twenty-iour hours. OIL
Dehclency in rainfall since March
......... 55
Accumulated deficiency in rainfall
since January l........... 2.3
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-06
.HECIRA TO PACIFIC COAST
REACHES HIGH WATER MARK
Traffic Men Say Western Movemen.
Will Shrink After 18th of
This Month.
SUES CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO
United States Attorney Brings Action
i'm Federal Court at Charleston, w.
VA, Charging Violations OF Fed
crnl Service Regulations.

Passenger traffic from the East to
the Panama Pacific Exposition. at san
Francisco. is nearing its high water
mark. and after July 49, westward
travel Is expected to begin falling on
From tho first OF June. the Increase
In the exposition traffic has been
steady from all sections of the East,
ana reports for the first half Of this
month are expected TO show Il further
gain, especially in the cases of sew
eral roads having a longer haul than
others.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-06

Alexander Grant has boon appointed
general superintendent Of mail trans
portation on the Southern Railway,
the Virginia and Southern and the
Northern Alabama. with headquarters
in Washington, D. G.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-06

w. 6. Bnrnhart. United states At
iHTney for the Southern District of
West Virginia, has fled suit in the
Federal Court at Charleston. w. Va,
against the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
way. charging twenty-one violations
of the Federal hours of service act
in train operation on the Coal River
branch of the road In that State. The
Xiinum penalty for each onense is
$500
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-06
LocuI Temperature Yesterday.

y noon temperature. ... rs
+. VI. temperature. ............. 10
+. NJ. temperature. ......... 10
pc AiHiuHl temperature 10 3 4. NJ. "a
MINIMUM temperature TO II. M. 20
Mean temperature ... "a
Normal temperature ~ IS
Deficiency in temperature ycster-
Nss q.
Dehclency in temperature since
-hhi Gil go
Accumulated deficiency in temper
azure since January l....... Ill
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-06
The w Gather

Forecnst; Virginia
-Fnir Tuesday md
Wednesday,.
North and South
Cnrolinu-I'air Tues
day, except showers
ON the coast; We'd
ncSday rair.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-06

Reduced in time to be Of
service to YOU all summer.
Latest style Sport Suits, in
white and old rose corduroy.
Four-gore skirt-sport pockets
in coat-some in Norfolk eff
feet.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-09

CITY COUNCIL HEARS PLAIN
TALK FROM TEACHERS
Members of the Chicago Teachers
Federation surrounded aldermen
after the city council meeting last
night and explained through Mar
garet Haley and Ida Fufsman:
Why don't you aldermen look into
the school revenue question for your
selves? Why do you take the figures
given you by the newspapers?
School operation is crippled for lack
of money. Newspapers getting cheap
rent on school land leases tell you we
want to add S17,OOOOOO taxes
through excluding taxes for theh ed
ucational fund of the school board
from the JUL scaling process Of the
JUL law. The figure SIT, 100000 is
wild. The bill we ask you to recon-
mend for passage nj the state legis-
latUre would not increase taxes over
100000, probably much less"
Aldf Otto Kerner moved recon-
mendatiOn by the council of the bill
the teachers want passed at Spring
field. AID Captain moved it go to
the finance committee to be discussed
as a financial question. His motion
carried.
Aid. Merriam told the teachers he
favored the bill and will work for
rapid endorsement of it in the finance
committee.
A Socialist committee on Unem-
DIOVment attended the meeting Chief
Gleason had posted extra uniformed
and plain clothes men ready for an
outbreak Nothing doing.
AID Blocks ordinance to compel
street car companies to furnish seats
to all passengers during nOn-rush
hours passed.
Issuance of $4,000 in bonds for
electric light plant at proposed in
Generator at Stony Island and 95th
St, referred to finance committee.
City hall ordered closed st. Pat
= . i
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-09
MRS. YOUNG AND SoNSTEBY IN
SCHOOL BOARD CLASH

The threatened budget storm
which has been lowering over the
board of education for weeks broke
yesterday when Mrs. Young. sup't Of
schools, and Trustee John Sonsteby
clashed over her estimates for this
year. The board faces a $1,273, 900
deficit.
Trouble started when Sonsteby
complained that Mrs. Young's esti-
mate was not fully itemized and
that her reports should show just
for what each departmental apprOpri-
alton was to be used. Mrs. Young
became angered and asked him if he
was attacking her honesty. He then
replied with charges of playing to
the gallery"
The problem Of the missing 81 Pa
900 is stil intact. A topper cent re-
duction of salaries and shortening the
school year by four weeks were sug-
gested, but neither motion was Sec
Onded.
-O-O
WE A TILED EOnEHA CIR
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-09

THE man who originated tn jitney
bus Wuz benefactoF. TIL man, how
ever, who invented tn jitney coin is
entitled ter most of tn credit"
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
GRADUATE
SUCCEEDS IN FLORIDA

The following editorial from the
Tampa, Florida Morning Tribune
tells Of the success of one of Tus-
kegee's graduates who is putting
into every day practice some Of the
things which he learned in school
"The Tribune has had occasion
several times to refer 10 the work
that is being done by the Negroes
of Marion County, which is a GEN.
ter of movement on the part of
members of that race to set higher
standards of usefulness for their
people, At a recent meeting held
in this city, under the auspices of
the Afro American Civic League,
George Ell. Mays, Jr., one of the
men who is leading in this work in
Marion County, was the speaker
of the occasion and told the Ne
groes of Tampa how they might
join in the movement and do some
thing for themselves.
"Mays is himself an example of
what hafdworking, intelligent
and respectable Negro can do with
his opportunities. He isa gradu-
ate OF Tuskegee, taught in schools
in the North and is now the head
of a banking investment institution
at Ocala, organized and managed
by Negroes. He believes that the
South is the best place for the Ne
groes and that their future lies in
this section of the country. Mays
so enjoys the confidence of the
white citizens of Ocala that many
of them have deposits in his bank.
He is always urging the Negroes
to strive for industrial indepen-
dence and it is due to him that the
Negroes of Marion County have
taken account of their opportuni-
ties and have begun to work to-
ward better ends"
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
THE TANGO is OF
NEGRO ORIGIN

"There is much interest in the
growth of the modern dances in
the fact that they Were all danced
and played by us Negroes long be-
fore the whites took them up
writes Jesse Rees Europe in the
New York Tribune. "One of my
own musicians, William Tires,
wrote the first tango in America as
far back as the Spanish-American
war. 1T was known as THE
Trocha," and few years ofter-
ward he wrote The Maori These
two tangos are now most popular,
yet who heard of them at the time
they were written? They were
the essentially Negro dances, play
ed and danced by Negroes alone.
The same may he said of the fox
trot, this season the most popular
of all dances.
"Tbe fox trot was created by a
young Negro of Memphis, Tenn.
w. @. Handy, who five years ago
wrote Tine Memphis Blues. This
dance was often played by me la, t
season during the tour of the Cast
les, but never in public. Mr..
Castle became interested in it, but
did not believe it suitable for dane
ing. He thought the time too
slow, the world of today demand
ing staccato music. Yet after a
while he began to dance it at pri
vate entertainments in New York.
and, to his establishment, discover.
ed that it was Immediately taken
up. 1t was not until then that
Mr. and Mrs. Castle began to dance
it in public, with the result that it
is now danced as much as all the
other dances, as is the one-step.
The one-step is the national dance
of the Negro, the Negro always
walking in his dances. L myself
have written probably more of
these new dances than any other
composer, and one of my compost
tions, The Castle Lame Duck
Waltz, is, perhaps, the most wide
ly know Of any dance now before
the public"
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
RACE NEWS S
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

Cincinnati, O., Jan. 26.-Mayor
Spiegel has issued orders to Safety
Director Holmes that the word
white" be stricken from rules of
qualification for membership in the
fire department. Several days ago
the civil service commission re-
jected six applications of Negroes
which had been filed, and this ac-
tion caused a protest by the Ne
groes which had been filed, and
this action caused a protest by the
Negroes who claimed taat it was
violation of their constitutional
rights. Following the mayors or
der, r. b. Thompson, APT Mill
street, appeared before Surgeon
Hogen, Box and Hall, but was re-
jected because of twenty-one
pounds over weight and deficiency
in height. The mayor has stated
that SO long as he is in Office there
will be no distinction because of
color or race in applications for
public positions. John S. Field
ing, president of the Fraternal
League, composed of the Negro or
CARNATIONS of the city, directed
the appeal to the mayor which
brought about the change in ser
vice requirement.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06

but without result. The entire ev-
idence was circumstantial and the
case was brought before Gov. Jas.
B. Frazier. Executive clemency
was exercised and the sentence
commuted to life Imprisonment
This was in 1904. Ten years
afterwards a young man in Weak
ley county made a confession on
his death bed that exonerated the
Negro. The confession was that
John Wilson, the murdered man,
had been killed by a friend of this
man and that he was present aud
saw the crime committed.
McElrath made a good prisoner,
according to Warden Rimmeri
The oldest guard in the peniten-
tiary said the man never gave
trouble at any time. While in
prison McElrath learned the trade
of mouider, in the smelling works,
and if he can secure a job on the
outside, will make from four to five
dollars day.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
Atavism in DOGS.

Dogs, probably the earliest of do
mesticated animals, when transferred
to tropical country, such as central
Africa, lose in few generations most
of the characteristics they have ac-
quired in Europe, and revert more and
more to the type of the jackal and the
wolf. Then their ears, whatever their
breed, tend to become pointed, their
coats turn sandy or rufous and their
bark becomes a howl. Some attempt
has been made to show that this is the
result of disease and resembles the
effect of malaria on the i,uman consti-
tuition. Yet the Egyptian dog of Phar-
aonic times possessed, as is seen by
the monuments, these very character
istics; and as he was certainly domes-
ticated before the European animal,
it is probable that these are original
features of the race.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
From California Eagle

1t is simply an idea of what
could be done by concentrated eff
fort. Less than four years age
Mr.. and Mrs. Prentice started a
little store on Ninth street with
less than $4,000 worth of stock.
Today they are sole proprietors of
the two largest dry goods stores
owned and operated by Colored
people in Southern California
one on Ninth street, not far from
Central. the other at Third and
Rose. 1t is needless to say any
thing about support, for it you
have any pride, whether race or
otherwise, you will lend your sup
polt.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
Lumlnescenos of NITROGEN.

1t has been found that nitrogen, Wig
orously and spectroscopically pure, ac-
quires continuous luminescence,
during the electric discharge. and
therefore this phenomenon can no
longer be attributed to the presence
of traces Of oxygen. In the pres
ence of metallic vapors, such as those
of mercury, sodium or potassium, says
the Scientific American, the phenome-
non is not produced owing TO the nj
trogen's being attacked by the metal
lie vapors, forming a combination of
the metal with nitrogen. The pres
ence of oxygen, which oxides the met
allie vapors, hinders their action on
the active nitrogen and renders it's
formation possible
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
Dying Mans Confession
Gives Freedom

Nashville, Jan. 16 After serv
ing eleven years in the state peni-
tentiary, for crime of which he
has been proved entirely innocent,
John McElrath, colored, Of Weak
ley county, is today a free man,
having been pardoned by Gov
Hooper in one of the official acts
before giving way to the new gov
ernor.
At the trial, McElrath was Sen.
fenced to be hanged. An appeal
to the supreme court was taken,
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06

Vieksburg, Miss, Jan. 23-.
Forty. eight hours after Ed. JOHN
son, colored, had been lynched, in
the suburbs of this city for the
theft of the animal, a COW owned
by farmer near here returned
home today. The COW had merely
strayed off. A coroner's jury
found that johnson had come TO
his death at the hands of "men
unknown" This item. in part, ex-
plains itself and needs but little
comment. What is most urgent
is that it receive the widest prom
inence. In last Sundays issue of
the Washington Post it was found
in small type, on an inside page
and at the bottom of a column,
VIII, re it would be likely to be ov-
erlooked Perhaps, because the
managing iitor was really asham
ed to chronicle the facts. Lynch
ed for a strayed cowl Ye Gods!
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06

Between November, 1912, and
November, 1914, the Republican
party was born again. The official
figures of the November vote in all
the states, for the first time assem-
bled and made public in the Times
today, tell the story. The total
vote cast for Republican candi-
dates last year was almost double
the presidential total for two years
before. In 1912 the vote for Mr..
Taft was 3,484,956. In 1914 the
Republican vote reached total of
6,013,374. This is Republican
gain of 2,526,41S.
Only once before in our political
history has such marvel of party
regeneration and upbuilding been
achieved.
SUBSIDENCE OF PROGRESSIvES.
The subsidence of the Progress.
i've upheaval, of course, accounts
for this enormous gain made by
the Republicans in two years The
Roosevelt vote in 1912 was 4,119,-
5O7 while the vote for the Pro
gressive candidates last November
was 1,906,417. There were only
five states, California, Illinois, In
diana. Kansas and Pennsylvania,
in which the Progressive vote ex-
ceeded 100000. Almost half the
vote of that party was cast in three
states, California, Pennsylvania,
Illinois, where the total Progress
i've vote was 932,679. Nevertheless
in Illinois and Pennsylvania the
Progressives were outvoted..
The Progressives lost 2,2l3 ,O90,
but the Republicans gained $685.
41S. These additional recruits
came evidently from the number
of those Republicans who in 1912
took refuge in the Democratic
camp, or perhaps with the Social
lists, for it is to be noted that the
Socialist loss in the two years is
214,378. The Democrats gained
31,943 votes, which represented
probably the return of the Roose-
velt Democrats to their own party.
The Democrats retain their con
troll of the house in the next con-
g1ess not through the success of
their own appeal to the country,
but by the obliging conduct of the
Progressives in good many dis
tricts, where they insisted on run
ming their own candidates. ThIr-
ty-nine such districts are specified
by the Republican national COM
mittee, where the candidates of the
party were defeated through the
presence in the field of Progress
ives. This is more than sufficient
to account for the small Democrat
ic majority in the house.
The loss by the Prog,essives of
a good deal more than half their
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06

New Orleans, La, Jan. 26.-Fol-
lowing warning sent in Novem-
Der that he should move out of his
handsome home at 1112 Bordeaux
street, and "move across the street
in those small houses suited for
Negroes" which warning was sign
ed COMMITTEE of White Men,"
Professor Bell, teacher in one of
the schools frus trated an attempt
to burn his house when he was
awakened and found paper and
mating a6re in his kitchen. The
floor had been saturated with oil.
Police Sergeant Anderson and
Deputy Fire Marshal Callahan be.
Iieve they have clew to the iden-
tity of the writer of the letter and
the incendiary.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
Notes On Racial Progress
FURNISHED BY THE Ma
TIONAL NEGRO BUSI-
NESS LEAGUE.

Inc late Mrs. Ellen SrdQStOrd,
of Little Rock, Arkansas, better
known as "Aunt Ellen left $4,000
to the Negro Lutheran Church of
that city. She had been working
as a domestic since the Civil War
and invested wisely in real estate.
Solomon Harper, a colored man,
has invented an automatic signal
aud safety device for trains. Re-
preventative colored men of New
York City have organized COM
pany called the National Grand
Control Signal Company which
will take charge aud promote the
sales. John E. Nail is the presi-
deIlt
Mr.. E. e. Charleston. colored
undertaken of Charleston, South
Carolina, has erected a $4,000 Of
flee building in that city.
The Philadelphia (Pa.) Courant
has a published "black list" of adj
vertisements which they refuse.
The list includes liquor, ure.all
medicines, clairvcyants, fake land
sales and all advertisements which
hold the race up to ridicule.
The Railway Employees Protec-
tive Association was organized in
Nashville, Tennessee, recently
This is an organization of colored
men from all sections of the coun-
try.
The National Negro Business
League has issued a call for the
of National Negro
Health Week, March Is to 9th.
The Provident Association of
ST. Louis has been organized to
relieve the poor and destitute of
that city. The colored people have
contributed more than
$500.
AT the First Baptist Church,
Newport News, Virginia, u special
Business Mems Service was held |
last Sunday Negro business:
how to build it up aud how to tear
it down" was the subject selected
by Rev. G. d. Henderson, the pas.
tor.
The Standard Amer ican Mutual
Fire Insurance Company, of Hous-
ton, Texas, made very creditable
for its first six months of
operation. DR.. NJ. w. Dogan is
The Farmers Co operative Mer-
camille Company, of Mound Bayou
Miss, has just closed the most sue
cessful year in its history. The !
books showed total business for
the year of S32,210 81.
Colored business men of Des |
Moines, Iowa have organized the
Iowa Realty Investment Company |
with S Joe Brown as the secretary.
Mr. Brown is also secretary of the
Local Negro Business League.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06

Henry E. Burris, for twenty five
years carrier in the postoffice at
Rock Island, Illinois, was recently
rendered banquet by other car
ries in his city. Speeches of ap-
probation were delivered by y)the
Postmaster and Assistant Post
mater.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
Africa's Potential Wealth.

For its future Industrial develop
ment Africa is remarkably fortunate.
Already coal deposits to the value of
more than three hundred million dol
lars have been discovered along the
Cape to Cairo route, while more than
five thousand waterfalls offer wonder
full possibilities for the establishment
of waterpower certers.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
Republican
Regenerat

vote, which went bodily to swell
the Republican vote, is the great
significant fact disclosed.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-11-19
COUNTY NEWS.
WEST VERNON.

Otis Dewitt went to Cresco, Monday,
and will spend some time with his
friend, James Barnes.
Mrs. Keithly returned to her home in
Cresco, Tuesday.
Mrs. Peter Hanson spent Tuesday
with the Henry Hanson family.
Mrs. Julius Shrader called on Mrs.
Henry Wilson, Sunday. 49,. Z,
A number Of our people attended the
Herold- Bickford wedding dance at
Cresco, Tuesday night
Hazel and Leonard Burnikel spent
Sunday with their cousins in Cresco.
Hazel and Madge Eldridge called at
the Henry Hanson home, Monday.
Honey Epps went to Austin. Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Fish and son
Charles, and Ed Booth and family spent
Sunday at the Elton Eldridge home.
A number of our people attended the
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-11-19

dance at Frank Miller's, Friday night.
All report good time.
August DeGroote and family spent
Sunday in Cresco.
Sorry to say Ed Grove is on the sick
list.
Mrs. Jefferes entertained a number
of friends, Tuesday.
Otis Dewitt spent Tuesday evening
with James Miller.
Louis Hanson spent Monday night
with his parents.
Hazel and Madge Eldridge called on
Mrs. Coughlin, Tuesday.
Frank Miller and Amandus Schneider
called on VIM. Cummings, Tuesday.
A number of our people attended the
dance at Schley, Tuesday night.
Genevieve Gender spent q few days
with her chum, Helen Bouska.
VIM. Fish and the Misses Brown and
White called at the F. Miller home,
Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. julius Doolittle and son
Ralph and Sammie Hanson attended
church at Cresco, Sunday.
VIM. Slifka and family spent Sunday
with Cresco relatives.
Adolph Peters called on Frank Bouska,
Sunday.