The Monitor
A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Eight Thousand Colored People
in Omaha and Vicinity, and to the Good of the Community
The Rev. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor
[ $1.00 a Year. 5c a Copy. Omaha, Nebraska, October 9, 1915 Volume I. Number
Important Meeting of
Colored Episcopalians
Thirty-first Annual Conference Brings
Together Notable Gathering of
Prominent Churchmen.
HELD AT ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL
Place of Impressive Opening Service.
Bishop Lawrence Gives the
Address of Welcome.
Boston, Mass., Oct. 8.—The thirty
first annual conference of church
workers among colored Episcopalians
was opened in St. Paul’s cathedral,
this city, on the evening of September
21, by an imposing service, with a
festal evening prayer and procession
of some thirty or more colored priests.
The annual sermon was delivered by i
the Rev. Dr. H. L. Phillips, archdea
con of the colored work of Pennsyl
vania. Bishop Lawrence of Massa
chusetts delivered an unusually
strong and sympathetic address of
welcome, which was responded to by
* the Rev. Dr. H. B. Delaney, president.
All of the subsequent services were
r held in St. Bartholomew’s church,
Cambridge, the Rev. W. D. McClane,
rector.
At the Wednesday evening service
Bishop Babcock spoke.
Possibly the most important mat
ters considered were the "Racial Epis
copate,” and the holding of the pro
vincial conference of church workers.
The conference went into a thorough
discussion of the subject of the “Ra
cial Episcopate.” The Rev. Henry I!.
Delaney was re-elected president, and
the Rev. Dr. George F. Bragg, Jr., sec
retary.
The Woman’s Auxiliary held a most
interesting session on Friday. Mrs.
Lowell, president of the Massachu
setts branch, and Miss McIntosh, of
the diocesan branch, delivered help
ful addresses. Mrs. Mary S. Dorsey
of Long Island was elected president;
Mrs. Bosworth of Conecticut and Mrs.
A. W. Harris of Southern Virginia,
vice presidents; Mrs. W. E. Hendricks
of Philadelphia, corresponding secre
ts, y, and Miss Evelyn Varick of New
York, treasurer.
There were twenty-eight clerical
► d< legates present, and quite a num
ber of lay delegates, and members of
the Woman’s Auxiliary, coming as
far south as Vicksburg, Mississipi,
and west as Denver, Colorado. At the
closing service on Friday evening mis
.sionary addresses were delivered by
Archdeacon Henderson of Harrisburg,
the Rev. Dr. Bishop of New York, and
the Rev. Professor Grice of the Bishop
Payne Divinity school. Following the
service a banquet was held a Cyprus
Hall, at which addresses were made
by Bishop Babcock, Mayor Good of
Cambridge, and others. Governor
Walsh sent a letter regretting his in
ability to be present.
Hoboken, N. J., Oct. 8.—Joe Jean
ette, famous pugilist, has retired from
the ring and established a jitney bus
line in Hoboken, N. .1.
Think On These Things
"How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what
his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only to what he does him
self, that it may be just and pure.”
MISS MARY G. EVANS, Lecturer and Evangelist, who speaks at St. John’s
church Wednesday and Thursday nights.
Colored Roman Catholic
Schools Win Prizes
Chicago, Oct. 8.—At the Lincoln
Jubilee and Half-Century Anniversary
of Negro Freedom, celebrated recent
ly in Chicago, Roman Catholic mis
sion work among the colored people
of America was represented by ex
hibits from forty-two convents,
schools and churches. The Roman
Catholic exhibition was one of the
largest in the hall. Pupils of Mother
Katherine Drexel’s school were award
ed first prize for magnificent embroid
ery work; the second prize went to
the colored Sisters in Haltimore and
the third prize to the Illinois Tech
nical School for Girls in Chicago.
AID GIVEN TO TEXAS
FLOOD SUFFERERS
Helena, Ark., Oct. 8.—The Royal
Circle of Friends, a fraternal organiza
tion, has donated $500 to the sufferers
from the Texas flood. Dr. R. A. Wil
liams of Helena, Ark., is the supreme
ruler.
Receives Gold Medal
For Corn Growing
Jefferson City, Mo., Sept. 24.—Gov
ernor Major received official notice
from the Panama exposition today
that N. C. Bruce, of Dalton, Chariton
county, had been awarded the expo
sition gold medal as the champion
corn grower of Missouri.
Mr. Bruce grew 114 bushels of corn
to the acre on his Chariton county
farm, which was the best yield for
Missouri. The medal will be sent to
the governor to be presented. The
corn exhibited by Mr. Bruce also won
him the distinction of second place
among all corn exhibitors at the
Frisco fair. An Illinois man took first
prize with a yield of 127 bushels to
the acre.
BEQUEST FOR EDUCATION.
C M. Baxter, a resident of Red
lands, Cai., has left a third of his es
tate, valued at $53,000, to the Ameri
can Missionary society of New York
for educating "the colored people who
have been so wickedly oppressed.” 1
The Mayor of Chicago
Entertained in Omaha
Meets Business Men at Commercial
Club, Makes Speech, Views Floral
Parade and Visits Stock Yards.
ALDERMAN OCCAR DEPRIEST
Member of Party En Route to Coast
Shown Marked Attention by Lo
cal Admirers. Visits Sister.
Omaha has had the honor of enter
taining for a few hours this week
William Hale Thompson, mayor of
Chicago, and his party of prominent
officials and citizens, who were on the
way to San Francisco to attend the
special Chicago day festivities at the
Exposition. The Chicagoans arrived
over the Rock Island about noon Wed
nesday, were met by a committee and
escorted to the Commercial club,
where dinner was served and speech
es were made.
The Hon. John L. Kennedy intro
duced Mayor Thompson and in doing
so stated that Nebraska claimed con
siderable credit for her part in his
growth and development, inasmuch as
he had spent five years in this state.
In his speech Mayor Thompson
spoke of business conditions in this
country as affected by the European
war, urged organization of a peaceful,
business government, thereby usher
ing in an era of peace and prosperity,
and paid a tribute to Nebraska and
her citizens for the wonderful develop
ment noted. He admitted that Chi
cagoans regard Omaha as a competi
tor of no mean distinction.
“Mayor Bill,” as he is known by fa
miliars, and "Mayor Jim,” our own
popular mayor, viewed the auto floral
parade from the official reviewing
stand in front of the city hall. Here
he was handed this note:
“Mayor Thompson: The colored
people of Omaha are watching with
pride and interest your career as may
or of Chicago and desire to thank yon
for your manly and fair stand in giv
'ng the members of their race merit
ed recognition in the city govern
ment.”
Later, Mayor Thompson and some
of his party were taken to the South
Omaha stock yards, which they in
spected with interest. Others of the
party looked up local friends and rela
tives or visited points of interest.
The Chicagoans left at (5 o’clock for
the west, admitting that for streii
uoslty in a six hours’ stretch Omaha
could give even Chicago pointers.
Among the visiting officials was Os
car DePriest, Chicago’s first colored
alderman, who was elected by a hand
some majority at the last election. He
is one of the most popular men in the
delegation. He lunched with the del
egation at the Commercial club, view
ed the parade and was then taken in
hand by a number of local admirers,
among whom were John Grant Pegg,
lohn H. Broomfield, Bob Robinson,
lohn E. Jeltz, Bruce Kinley, Charles
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