The broad ax., 1916-05-13
,harles E. Stump Con-
tinues His Travels
Through the South and
East. He Visited Phila-
delphia and Attended
the General A. M. E.
Conference Where He
Met Many Of the Lead
ing Candidates for
Bishops and Other High
Dignitaries Of the A. M.
E. Church

Herbert Holoman, Misses M. NJ. Brooks,
Bertha Fits, Julia E. Bunny, Lillian
G. Dancy, Mesdames, s. B. Curtis, and
Ophelia Griffin.
From High Point, found me headed
for Danville, where spent few hours
eating some of the good things in Vir-
ginia, and returned by Lynchburg,
where I spent another time there, and
then went out to Norfolk, and from
Norfolk, took a trip over to Hamp-
ton and had the pleasure of seeing that
great institution there founded by
General Armstrong. had the pleasure
of meeting the man who is to sue
coed Major R. R. Motion. Captain Al
len W. Washington will not be cap
tain any more after this month, but
he will be the Major and Major Motion
will take charge of Tuskegee Institute,
one of the greatest schools in the coun-
try for the training of our young peo-
pie.
1t is a great big plant in Hampton.
From there I found my way up the
Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore, where
1 was the guest of Editor John n.
Murphy at the Smith Hotel. I just
had to shout right out there on the
street and created some excitement.
You see, I have been reading about
the papers and their Offices, but I did
not realize what this was until I went
into the office of the Afro-American
Ledger. There L found on the first
floor, the counting room, the business
manager and his clerks; then upstairs,
1 found the editorial rooms, editor in
chief, managing editor, city editor and
reporters. The machines were going,
and there was some business being
done there.
In the composing room I found the
foreman, Daniel H. Murphy, and he
was sitting down to a machine just
like a typewriter, and there his fingers
were just flying across that thing,
making the paper. They had just pur-
chased the machine, costing somewhere
near $4,000. 1t is the latest of its
kind, and can set. up three kinds of
type, set up books, headlines and al
most everything else to be set up on
machine.
I spent a few hours in the city, and
then started off for Philadelphia, the
city of Brotherly-love. I have been
hearing people talk about Philadelphia,
and I thought that I would see it for
myself, because men were there hold
ing general conference of the African
Methodist Episcopal church, and it was
at this place where the African Metho-
dist church started, and some of the
people broke into the place where Rich
ard Allen was buried, and stole look
at his bones. Richard Allen was made
the first bishop 100 years ago, and they
are now there celebrating it. Some good
men want to be made bishop on this
anniversary, and it looks like they viii
be.
got off in that great big stable
where the Pennsylvania iron horses
tote you, and was all but lost there
But I found one who showed me the
way to Bethel church. I had been SO
used to see the signs "For Colored
Patrons" so when I got on the cal
I naturally looked for it, but did not
see it. I went in, took my seat until
I reached the church, and got off and
went to see the preachers. They are
there in large numbers, and am proud
that had the pleasure of seeing them
Bishops and bishops, and then those
who wanted to be bishops trying tt
puzzle those who are already bishops
The first man I shook hands witt
was DR.. W. A. Fountain, president OF
Morris Brown University. He wa
there, as busy as could be trying II