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General Race News COLORED PYTHIANS DEDICATE BUILDING AT LOUISVILLE, KY. Members of Order Gather for Special Exercises at Temple. Louisville, Ky., Oct. 8.—With mem bers of the order from all sections of the state in attendance, the Colored Knights of Pythias of Kentucky dedi cated their new temple at Tenth and Chestnut streets Sunday afternoon, Sept. 26. The building is a seven story structure of reinforced concrete and cost $115,000. The dedicatory speech was deliv ered by Roscoe C. Simmons of New York, a nephew of Booker T. Wash ington, editor of the organ of the or der, who declared that “the building marks a new chapter in the unpreju diced history of Kentucky." “We dedicate our temple as a house of freedom,” he declared. Hon. R. R. Jackson, major general of the Pythians, member of the Illi nois Legislature, a major in the Na tional Guard of that state, and a mem ber of the commission on the celebra tion of a half century of Negro free dom, delivered the other speech of the day. Major Jackson declared that the Pythian order is a “West Point for Negroes,” and said that recently he had offered to the adjutant general of the United States army 10,000 Negro troops of the lodge, with 1,000 officers, and that he had received assurance that the offer would be accepted if they were ever needed. The dedication followed a parade of the Pythians of the state, reviewed by Major Jackson. CONCESSIONS TO COLORED DANES Further details have come to us con cerning the concessions made to col ored people in the Danish West In dies. Mr. Abraham Smith is not a member of the Danish legislation, but Crown member of the legislation of St. Thomas. There are three such members of the Colonial Council ot St. Croix today, Messrs. Pretto, Levy and McFarlane. There have been for merly colored members of the Coun cil elected by popular vote, but never before have colored men been ap pointed by the Crown. Hitherto, the white political bosses of St. Croix have held all the financial, industrial, commercial and political power. They have even controlled the governor. The colored people finally awoke from their stupor and sent M. B. H. Jack son, a young man of 32, direct to Den mark and demanded of the king the removal of certain officials whose con duct in office had long been a scan dal. The result was that three white Crown members were replac ed by col ored men. Mr. Pretto is a merchant; Mr. Levy, a farmer ,and Mr. McFar lane one of the bef.v carpenters and builders on the island.—The Crisis. COLORED GIRL SECOND AMONG 1,500 APPLICANTS Miss Gladys Caution, a colored girl, stood second in a group of 1,500 appli cants at a recent municipal civil service examination for playground work in New York City. Because of her rating, her name was placed on both the New York and Brooklyn eligible lists and she has been ap pointed to the playground at the Brooklyn end of Brooklyn bridge. CINCINNATI INDUCTRIAL SCHOOL HAS ONE MILLION DOLLARS ENDOWMENT The Colored Industrial School of Cincinnati is probably the best equip ped industrial school anywhere in the North for colored youth. It has a million dollar endowment, the gift of the late Mrs. McCall of Cincinnati, who wished to found an institution for the industrial education of Negro youth in Cincinnati. This school car ries all the industries, and a chauf feurs’ and automobile repair course. Mr. Ricks, the principal, is using some of his boys, along with such colored mechanics as he can get, in construct ing the new $40,000 Carmel Presby terian church. This will probably be the only building in Cincinnati put up entirely by colored mechanics. “The Douglass school is a most modern elementary school for colored pupils. Besides a corps of college trained teachers who get results, and a wide-awake principal, the school it self offers ample provision for all types of pupils. There are special classes for backward, delinquent and defective pupils. These classes are held in rooms especially equipped for the special needs of these pupils. There are also open-air classes for anaemic pupils, an up-to-date library, gymnasium, shower baths, penny lunch, school nurse in attendance and school and community gardens. Doug lass school is a real community cen ter. Besides being officered from the principal down with colored teachers, he whole colored community life of Walnut Hills passes through Doug lass school. The Stowe school in the eighteenth ward is a new colored elementary school developing along the same lines as Douglass. The new Y. M. C. A. building on Ninth street will be ready .'or occupancy before Christmas. It will cost $150,000. Secretary H. S. Dunbar and a staff of thirty assistants ire making a survey of social, educa tional and health conditions among .■olored people. NEGROES ORGANIZING CIVIC LEAGUES THROUGHOUT MASSACHUSETTS A movement is on foot among the Negroes of Massachusetts to organize civic 1< agues through the state that will have for its purpose the solving jf many civic problems that confront he Negro. Already this movement is gaining ground and bids fair to be one of the most potent movements in ihe uplift of the race. Edward L. Shepherd of Springfield is prime mover in the plan, which is being en dorsed by other prominent men, among them ex-Assistant Attorney General W. H. Lewis. Mr. Shepherd is one of the leading men of affairs in the city of Spring field and is one of the city’s most substantial citizens. He is an insur ance broker as well as being engaged | in real estate. He is the only colored agent of the Mutual Housing company, a real estate company which is seek ing to improve the living conditions under which Negroes are forced to live, by providing better houses for them. Mr. Shepherd has done much for the race as a real estate man. He was born in Springfield, and educated in the public schools of that city. He is a member of the St. John’s Congre gational church. The year book of the Standard Life Insurance company, a Negro organiza tion of Washington, D. C., shows gross assets of $135,068; a reserve fund of $22,545; capital stock fully paid in of $1,000; cash income during 1914, $69, 025 and $1,205,000 worth of insurance in force December 31st, 1914. It pays to advertise in The Monitor. J Tel. Red 1414 I ; Will L. Hetherington ; Violinist j Instructor «t Bellevue College f Asst of Henry Cox J Studio Patterson Blk. H. GROSS LUMBER AND WRECKING 21 st and Paul Streets Rf member and Don’t Forget to patronize the fellow who ap preciates the business of the colored people. H. ALPERSON Wholesale dealer In Cigars, Tobacco and Chewing Gum Prompt Phone Service Web. 376!) .............. 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