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.
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H. ALPERSON
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