General Race News
OMAHA PARTY ARRIVES, BUT
NOT IN AUTOMOBILE
Harry Buford and Charles Joiner Get
as Far as Clinton, la., But Have
Accident on Way to Chicago.
Mr. Harry Buford, Omaha, Neb., is
at the Chateau with Charles Joiner
for a week’s vacation. They started
from their home in a touring car.
They motored through the impassable
state, Iowa, and upon reaching Clin
ton met with an accident by the
breaking of a hand-made bridge. There
had been a flood and the main bridge
was down. The farmers made a
bridge, but it could not hold the 4,500
pound machine. In removing it, the
crank shaft was broken and the ma
chine was shipped to their home. Not
to be outdone, they came on to Chi
cago with credentials from the mayor
of the city of Omaha, and presented
to Dr. H. H. Boger and the editor of
the Chicago Defender. Mr. Buford has
charge of the police machines of Oma
ha, and has been with the city govern
ment for seven years. He has a va
cation of twenty-one days and will re
main a week in Chicago. He says he
is greatly pleased with the big city
and proud to know the race has such
a splendid place of amusement as the
Chateau.—Chicago Defender, Aug. 7.
MORE DISORDERS OCCUR
IN HAITIEN REPUBLIC
One Quelled by American Forces and
the Leader Imprisoned on
Cfuiser.
Port Au Prince, Aug. 8.—Today’s
presidential election to fill the place
of General Vilburn Guillaume, who
was removed from the French lega
tion by a mob of Haitiens July 28 and
shot to death, has been postponed in
definitely.
The American naval forces today
at Croix-Des Bouquets, near Port Au
Prince, repressed some disorder on
the part of a band of brigands. The
chief of the band was taken prisoner
and placed on board the United States
cruiser Washington.
Other disorders are reported to
have occurred at St. March and Aux
Capes. Details are lacking.
DEATH OF PROMINENT
BAPTIST MINISTER
Itev. Elijah J. Fisher, pastor of
Olivet Baptist church, Chicago, died
at his late residence, 2940 S. Park
avenue, Saturday, July 31, at 3:30
p. m. The noted divine died as a
result of a complication of diseases
which resulted in an affection of the
brain. For the last four or six weeks
he was ill at his residence. Previous
to that time he was a patient at
Provident hospital.
Rev. Mr. Fisher was one of the
most noted divines in Chicago. He
came to the city about twelve years
ago from La Grange, Ga., and took
charge of the church, and his friends
claim that during that period he ac
complished a most wonderful work.
The deceased was born in La Grange,
Ga., 58 years ago and is survived by
a wife, three sons, two daughters and
a daughter-in-law.
A granddaughter of the late Bishop
Holly of Haiti was graduated this
year from St. Paul’s School, Law
renceville, Va.
HOWARD DREW WILL LEAVE THE
RACING GAME.
Springfield, Mass., Aug. 12.—How
ard P. Drew of this city, the track ath
lete, announced his intention to retire
from racing in a signed statement
published here.
Telegraphing from the Panama-Pa
cific exposition field, where last week
he was beaten in the 100-yard dash
event of the Amateur Athletic union
track and field meet, Drew said:
“I was bothered with my legs a
great deal today in the race, so that
I pulled up lame at the finish. 1 have
been in poor physical condition, for
I now weigh only 150 pounds, and that
is much below my normal. I want
to say right here that I am through
with open competition after this
year.”
UNION GIANTS WIN AT CARNIVAL
Luverne, Minn., Aug. 8.—The Union
Giants won first money at the Sibley,
Iowa, carnival by defeating the All
Nations and Luverne. Score:
R. H. E.
Giants .1 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 0—6 10 1
A Nations 00100000 0—1 3 1
Batteries: Burch and Coleman;
Smith and Durham.
R. H. E.
Giants .0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1—3 8 1
Luverne ... 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0—1 4 2
Batteries: Simpson and Coleman;
Weidel and Toullfson.
WILL BUILD COSTLY TEMPLE.
Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 12.—The
grand lodge of the Knights and Daugh
ters of Tabor will erect a $60,000 tem
ple in Little Rock, according to an
nouncement made. A committee will
be appointed to have plans made to
to select a site in Little Rock. The
members have been paying an assess
ment for the temple, and there is a
large fund in the treasury.
Reports of the grand officers show
the total collection from all sources
during the lodge year just closed is
$125,000.
On the twenty-fifth anniversary of
their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Julius
Rosenwald, of Chicago, sent $5,000 to
Tuskegee to be distributed among the
teachers there. Mr. Rosenwald is
president of the Sears- Roebuck Com
pany, and an influential member of
the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People. He has
given $25,000 to several cities on con
dition that the city so benefited will
raise $75,000 for a Young Men’s Chris
tian Association building for colored
men. Chicago and Kansas City are
among the cities which have accepted
this offer and now have well-equipped
buildings of this character.
One of the most prominent speak
ers of the Women’s Political Union,
New York City, the organization of
prominent women working to secure
the right of franchise for women, is
Miss Sarah Mays, a talented young
colored woman who is preparing to
study law at the New York university
this fall. Miss Mays addresses large
crowds on the East Side and nearly
every night she is a speaker at the
suffrage van stationed at One Hun
dred and Tenth street and Fifth ave
nue.
In the Devonshire town of Exeter,
the Exeter Oratorio Society gave a
concert for the war fund of England,
at which the first two parts of the
Hiawatha Trilogy were the cantatas
presented. During the same month,
at Bournemouth, England, the pro
gram of the Pop Concert, illustrating
nationalistic tendencies, gave S. Cole
ridge-Taylor’s tone-poem for orches
tra, ‘'Ilamboula,” as an example of
British music.
In Denver, Colo., Valaurez B. Sprat
lin, a 17-year-old student, was among
the honor men in a class of 264 grad
uates of the Denver East Sidte High
School. Spratlin pursued his whole
course with his body encased in plas
ter of paris on account of an attack
of spinal meningitis. Spratlin is also
a brilliant pianist.
A Negro Folk Song Festival with
500 voices under the direction of
Mme. Lincolnia Haynes-Morgan was
given at the Texas Normal Industrial
Institute at Dallas, Texas. Over fif
teen hundred persons attended.
In the Museum of Fine Arts School,
Boston, Mass., Miss Susan P. V. Gos
sin, of St. Louis, Mo„ a great grand
daughter of John B. Vashon and
great-great granddaughter of the Rev.
Thomas Paul, has been awarded a
special scholarship for excellence in
the department of design.
Miss Sarah M. Talbert of Buffalo,
N. Y., daughter of Mrs. Mary B. Tal
bert, president of the New York State
Federation of Clubs, was a graduat
ing member of the piano class of
1915, of the New England Conserva
tory, Boston, Mass.
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 7th, 1915.
Rev. John Albert Williams,
1119 North 21st Street, City.
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