The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-01
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At the close of our Emancipation
celebration address, a number of citi-
ems of Portland shook our hand and
told us that 1t was one of the most en-
joyable and enthusiastic gatherings
that had ever been held in that city
by the Colored people, and after par
taking of al elegant little spread that
had been arranged by the ladies of
the Church, we returned to our hotel
tired but happy and satisfied that we
had kept the faith of ourselves and
to the immortal heroes of the other
race who made our freedom a reality.
Off to Seattle.
With a positive reluctance we arose
the next day to start on our journey
%northward to Tacoma and Seattle, and
early as it was Brother Green, one
of the loyal members of Euclid Lodge,
was on hand to see us off and that our
comfort was looked after. He brought
us a box of cigars each, ordered an
elegant taxi to carry us to the station
and saw that we got one of the most
elegant breakfasts we have ever eat
en-, all before 1880 a. m. After an un-
eventful trip we arrived at Tacoma
about 1 o'clock and found it a very
pretty and busy city of about 100000.
Rev. H. NJ. Collins, whom we expect
ed to meet, was back in Kansas City,
and knowing no one else we made our
stay quite short. Rev. Collins is high
lv racnoatnI hN- xt-hita orI hIoa1, ,1;l-o
here and is a living proof of the posi-
bilities of the young minister out in
the West. We took a car and rode
over the city for several hours view
ing its many points of interest, and
late that evening left for Seattle, the
hustler of the West" 1t is only 40
miles from Tacoma to Seattle and we
were theme in a very short time and
found a great city full of life and ex-
element. We called a taxi and were
taken to the Dunbar hotel, where we
were royalty entertained during our
stay by Brother Burr Williams, B. F.
Tut, Walter Bates, Oscar Collins,
Shack Harris and others. Most of
these are old Kansas City boys and
they are all doing nicely out there,
Mr.. 3. f. Tut has one of the most
beautiful barber shops at 306 Main
street we saw in the entire North.
west; elegant white enamel chairs
with the new extra headrest, special
chairs for children, manicurist; han.
dies the leading Negro papers and is
an up-to-date place of the first water
Oscar Collins has possibly the best sa.
loon and club in the Northwest and
has made thousands of dollars since
being in Seattle. Burr Williams is
president of the exclusive Dumas So.
cial and Athletic Club and has recent,
ly bought some elegant property in
that city. We also met Mrs. Miller,
who was formerly Lulu Ward of Kan,
sas City and a relative of NJ. II. Bass,
We visited the office of the Search,
light and had a pleasant chat with
Editor DeBoe, and also met Rev. Nc
Mikens of the A. NJ. E. Church, a beau
tiful edifce which was built by Rev,
w. T. Osborn, now pastor at Omaha
..eb. We never met as many Japs in
our lives as we saw in Seattle; they
are there literally by the thousands
and they ramify every avenue of bus,
mess life. All the vessels sailing tc
the Orient from Seattle harbor are
manned by Japanese and Chinese sail
ors and the Japanese hotels receive
the bulk of Negro patronage in that
city. They are deploring very much
the passage of the prohibition law
which will make the entire state OF
Washington dry after January l and
in Seattle alone they say there are
$500 saloons which will go out of bus
mess on that date and will throw
many people out of employment. Seat
tie is destined to be one of the great
cities of this country and now boasts
the population of more than 400, 900
The tallest building in America out
side of New York City is here, the
L. C. Smith building, AZ stories high