The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-15

PSSPAS AA Wills SiCy CiAnA SnC WHOlc
state Of Iowa and about as many col
ored people as there are white people
in Des Moines. The colored people
come near having an equal chance
here than any other city in America.
Here you can view them at their best
and highest civilization. They have
many doctors, many lawyers, many
teachers, many dentists, many musi-
clans and many ministers and many
skilled mechanics who are reckoned
as good as the best in any race. Dr..
Daniel H. Williams as a surgeon has
no superiors, also DR.. Edward Hall
has national reputation. Lawyer
Edward Morris, S. Long Williams, Ed
ward Wright and A. N. Dennison are
very able and successful lawyers. One
is assistant attorney general for the
state, one is corporation attorney for
the city of Chicago, one is city coun-
sci for the municipal court. We have
two members of the Illinoisl egisla-
ture and four candidates this month
for the republican nomination. A
colored regiment with all colored off,
GERS, with Colonel John r. Marshall,
retired, who was the first real colonel
of our race. He was succeeded by
Colonel Dennison. With one colored
alderman in the present city council,
the first for our race in this city. With
more representative city positions
than ever before held by the colored
people. In fact the Chicago Daily
Tribune recently said that the Chi
cago city hall looked like an Uncle
Toms Cabin with eighty colored po-
licemen and detectives. With a $780,
600 Y. M. C. A. seven stories high,
forty-twoc hurches and missions. With
Masonic, Odd Fellows, Pythian build
ings. With dozens of drug stores and
many restaurants, groceries, dry
goods stores and confectioneries, ith
numerous barber shops and many
other of the diversified industries con-
trolleds by our people we must say
that here lies the hope of the race,
with the thousands of beautiful homes
and flats owned, we are really optimis-
tic for our future. The social side of
our visit was: On Sunday we attend
ed services at four churches and the
Good Fellowship League meeting held
by Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett and spoke
at most of these meetings. We stop
ped just across from the Y. M. C. A.,
at 1904 Wabash avenue. We met
many of our former Des Moines and
Iowa friends. Among them was Rev.
Timothy Reeves and wife, Rev. Brice
W. Taylor and wife. Rev. James P.
Higgins and wife, James r. Weeks
and wife, Mrs. Rev. HALEY, formerly
of Cedar Rapids, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Alex Tllery, who once. lived in our
city, also Omaha, Neb. HIS mother IS
living with him. He and his good
wife served fine 6 o'clock dinner to
ye editor, his wife, children and Mrs.
Mollie Watkins and Gus Watkins. A
very enjoyable evening was spent. Mr..
and Mrs. Tillery are doing nicely.
They belong to St. Thomas Episcopal
SAluASL' 1Alo odlllc Wcch tIldI we
Masons were in Chicago the people
held their annual street car~i~~' 80
proceeds of which went to the Provi-
dent hospital. We unuers..nu ...at
this associat zion cleared $1,SOO on this
carnival. 1t extended from Twenty
eighth to Thirty eight street on State
street. Indeed twas a lively place
at night time. The Misses Virginia
Steele and Garnet Hamilton McGee
are students in the Provident hospital,
who are taking a course in nursing
and are both making a good standing,
high in their grades. Those from Iowa
at this week that we met are about
twenty-five. They areas follows, G.
M. S. Joe Brown and wife, P. G. M.
Austin A. Bland and wife, P. G. M.
John L. Thompson and wife and chill
dren, P. G. M. E. T. Banks, Gus Wat
kins and sister, Mollie Watkins, Mr..
and Mrs. Art Wilson, Mrs. C. H. Mar
shall of Davenport, Morris Mills
Young, Mr.. Bush of Clinton, Mrs. A.
Garrison of Sioux City and Ruth M.
Bright, G. NJ, of Davenport.