Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-21
LARGE NEGRO COLONY
BEGUN AT SUGGESTION
OF PHYSICIAN HERE
Community of $4,000 Planned in
South Through Efforts of DIR.
John P. Turner, School
Medical Inspector
$1,6OO,OOO ENDOWM ENT
Will Be Situated on Island--North
Carolina Philanthropist
Financial Backer

A colony to be peopled by $4,000 MEM
bers Of the black race and to be supported
financially through a gift Of 81 soc, 900
from North Carolina philanthropist is
being planned by negro of this city. Dr.
John p. Turner Of 1902 South Eighteenth
street, a medical inspector in the public
schools
The colony Doctor Turner says, will be
located on one Of the sea islands off South
Carolina, hut the exact site has not yet
been definitely determined The man
through whose muuIhCence the settlement
has been made possible is John T. Patrick
multinillionaire, who founded Southern
Pines, n. G., aud who for many years has
been devoted to the uplft of the American
Indians.
The town which Doctor Turner plans to
found. with the assistance of board con-
sisttng OF both negroes and white men,
Will be called Cooperation" 1t will be an
Industrial community, with cotton and silk
mills, stores, schools and a sanatorium for
Convaescent negroes
Three sites ARE now under consideration.
Each of them, according to the promoters
of the project is accessible to railroads
and a steamboat line and adapted to cot
ton growing.
Doctor Turner who as medical inspector
visits public schools attended exclusively
by colored children, will not resign his Of
fee here He IS charged with the duty of
organizing the project and when the town
has been founded II will be subject to a
form Of civil government a. G. he Pass
n Charlestown lawyer will apply for a
charter from the State of South Carolina,
according to Doctor Turner's announce
ment.
No stock will be sold in establishing the
colony. The expenses will be betrayed by
Mr. Patrick, after whom Doctor Turner Is
| named 1t was In consequence of Doctor
Turner's solicitation that Mr.. Patrick made
the gift.
George Singleton, owner of five silk mills
in various parts of the country, will start
another mill in the new town, according to
| the negro physician. Negro laborers will
be transported to the colony by sea.
DR.. Agernon B. jackson, superintendent
of the Mercy Hospital, OF this city, an in
stitution for negroes IL also associated with
the movement. An extensive canning in
dustry Is said to be planned, and brother
Of the late Booker r. Washington, now n
member OF the faculty of Tuskegee Insti-
tute, has signiied his intention of supervis-
ing this phase of the community's life.
Doctor Turner believes that the colony
will be n success as a seaside resort for
colored persons A hotel to accommodate
black visitors, as well as n smaller hos
telry to provide for the white men and
women who visit the place as an object of
interest, will be erected.
The entire plan is said to have met with
the approval of the white residents OF the
South. Doctor Turner believes that colo
nization represents the only real solution of
the negro problem. Public schools, he says
will be organized and an attempt made to
obtain a Federal appropriation for the edu-
cational institutions. Children will be in
structed in trades. and inefficient and sloth-
full negroes will be banished from the island.