Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-09-21

virginia raised all their home supplies, 969
opened new bank accounts, 1898 increased
their bank accounts and in one county
graded school buildings at an average cost
OF $1,000 have been erected.
The steel corporation is building 1000
cottages to house Negroes and 400 to house
whites in North Mobile, Ala, where there
is large shipbuilding plant Bathing
beaches for each race and social work of
various kinds are being furnished
In Mobile, Ala. labor union of seventy
five white and colored shoe workers has
been organized.
Forty colored men from the South be-
yond draft age, have been placed as walters
at Murray's Restaurant, Broadway and
Forty Street, New York City.
Music and Art-Roy Wilkins has been
elected president of the Mechanical Arts
High School Literary Society at St. Paul,
Minn over two white candidates.
Nine. E. A. Hackley has held folk-song
festival in Louisville, KY, with a chorus Of
300 voices.
Two thousand people witnessed an Inde-
pendence Day pageant at Hampton Institute
under the direction of Mrs. w. T. B. Will
Jams. The music was under the direction of
R. Nathaniel Dett.
A series of portraits Of "Our Master
Minds" has been issued by G. NJ Battey, Of
the Photographic Division of Tuskegee In
stitute. They include photographs of Dou-
glass, Washington, Dubois, Langston, Bruce
and Dunbar
Joseph H. Douglas, the violinist, has be-
come head of the violin department of the
Music School Settlement for Colored People,
New York City,
The Musical Observer for August pub
fishes the conclusion of "The Drum in Afri-
d. - n
pie in Time of War" by Maud Quincy Hare.
Musical America notes the folk-song cot
erie Of St. Paul, MINI, an association of
nine colored women who are giving pro-
grams Of folk-songs and plays.
An excellent exhibit Of paintings by col
ored artists, manuscripts, music, books, etc.,
was held in the early part of August at the
Carlton Avenue Y M. c. A., Brooklyn, N.
Y, by the Negro Library Association. The
catalog of twenty-four pages was by A. A.
Schomberg and R. T Browne.
On August 2, the Soldiers Comfort Unit
of Boston, Mass, gave an entertainment at
the Houghton Estate, Cambridge, the pro-
gram Of which was given by the New York
Clef Club, with the added feature of
MILITARY Dance" solo number danced by
young dancer of Boston, Miss Imogene
Roundtree. Special comment was made on
C11O P1oy VI CHO ooIAOP11Oll1oC VI C1C OlCl
Club Miss Maize Mullins whose numbers
and pleasing stage department. have caused
favorable notice during her engagement
with the Clef Club. This club has been ap-
pearing at We Wilbur Theatre in Boston.
On Juyl 4, at Passaic, N. j., Melville
Charlton, colored musician Of Brooklyn,
NJ Y, was acompanist for Ernest Davis,
leading tenor Of the Boston Opera Company,
and Richard Parks, bass, Of the Manhattan
Opera Company, under the auspices Of the
National Security League. Colonel Theo-
dore Roosevelt was the speaker.
Theodore Roosevelt Taylor, lad twelve
years DID, who lives in Chase City, Va, has
been found to possess unusual musical gifts.
He has played the reed organ since he was
four years DID,
Education. many Of the students
at Hampton Institute are within the draft
age the admission age has been changed
from seventeen to sixteen years.
Lauretta Holland graduated from the
Mount Holly High School, N j., as valedic-