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MANAGER PITTSBURG COURIER
VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 15.—William
Nelson Page, aged 46 years, manager
of the Pittsburgh Courier, died at 3
o’clock on Tuesday morning, January
4, 1916, in Washington, D. C., after
an illness of a few days, being due to
bronchial pneumonia. Mr. Page died
at the home of his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Malissa Taylor, where he and
family had gone to spend the holidays.
For the past twenty-six years Mr.
Page has been employed as private
secretary to one of the officials of the
Carnegie Steel Company. He rose
from clerkship to this position by dint
of hard work and perseverance. It
has been said that during the many
years of his service with this big cor
poration he was never tardy and was
the embodiment of the term “ten
acity.” At the time of his death he
was secretary to W. G. Clyde, gen
eral manager of sales.
The present success of the Courier
is due to the energetic efforts and ef
ficient management of Mr. Page. He
was also instrumental in establishing
the colored men’s branch of the Y. M.
C. A. For a number of years he was
secretary of the Loendi Club and was
one of its founders.
Mr. Page is survived by a widow,
Mrs. Bessie Taylor-Page; a son, Wil
liam Clyde; a daughter, Miss Mabel,
and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James
H. Page.
COLORED MANUFACTURERS
MAKE AUTOMOBILES
Greenfield, Ohio., Jan. 14.—C. R.
Patterson and Sons announce their
1916 model of the Patterson Green
field automobile. Patterson and Sons
have since 1865 manufactured wagons,
carriages and buggies and are the
most reliable firm in the state. Re
cently they decided to go into the au
tomobile industry and now they are
having great success. They are build
ing two styles of cars, both five pas
senger cars, one model “4-25,” cost
ing $685, and the other a model “4-35”
costing $775. They are also turning
out two fine little roadsters at a
smaller price. Those who have bought
the machines claim that they are the
best on the market. One purchaser
drove three thousand miles last year
without a mishap to the motor or the
mechanical workings of the car. Fifty
years of practical experience has
proven this firm second to none.
PRIZE STUDENT MAKES
GOOD RECORD AT PRATT.
New York, Jan. 14.—Miss Eola Chi
chester, who won a scholarship from
the Students' Art League, but was
denied admission to the School of Ap
plied Design because of her color, is
making a splendid record at Pratt
Institute, where she entered three
months ago.
Miss Chichester was a student at
the Washington Irving High School,
and was selected by her instructor as
the second prize winner, which carried
with it a scholarship in the School
of Applied Design. She was refused
admittance by the authorities of that
school and subsequently denied the
prize.
The matter was taken up with the
Art League, and it was decided to give
her the money value of the scholar
ship and allow her to enter any
' school which would receive her. The
: Urban league was active in her be
; half.
NEGRO FINANCIERS AND
MERCHANTS NEEDED.
Baltimore, Md., Jan. 7.—That the
Negroes of this country need a large
class of eminently successful finan
ciers and heads of mercantile estab
lishments in order to support their
educational and other interests, was
asserted by Dr. D.. S. S. Goodloe, pres
ident of the Maryland State Teach
ers’ Association, at the opening of
the annual session of that body, De
cember 28th.
He said the theory was erroneous
that an industrial labor class was the
primary need for the adequate sup
port of colored men and women en
gaged in the professional walks of
life. The late Booker T. Washington,
he said, evidently had in mind the
need of the race being engaged in
the higher lines of business and fi
nance when he organized the Na
tional Negro Business League.
I MME. HACKLEY CELE
BRATES ANNIVERSARY.
Chicago, 111., Jan. 14.—At the Nor
mal Vocal Institute, 3019 Calumet ave
nue, of which she is director, Mme.
E. Azalia Hackley celebrated her fif
teenth anniversary as a singer with a
Christmas tree party for the students
of that institute, on Wednesday night,
December 29.
Mme. Hackley wore her first con
cert gown, a pink brocaded satin,
which has been remodeled three year*
ago by the senior sewing class of the
Manassas (Va.) Industrial School.
Among the telegrams of ocngratula
tion was one from Mme. Annie Skil
lern of Denver, who originally de
signed the costume.
A purse of gold pieces was given by
the class. A representative from each
class presented a glod piece with a
speech.
The matron, Mrs. Clara M. Lewis,
was also remembered with a purse of
money. Each student received a pho
tograph calendar from their teacher.
DOCTOR CANNOT FIND
HOME IN TRENTON.
Trenton, N. J., Jan. 14.—>Dr. C. V.
Hinds, a former State senator in Mis
sissippi, has announced that he will
move from the city because real es
tate owners and agents refuse to let
aim occupy a house in keeping with
his station in life solely on account of
his race.
He is an alumnus of Dartmouth Col
ege and has also received degrees
from other institutions. He has trav
eled in Europe and other foreign coun
tries and is a deep student.
ARE INVITED INTO UNION.
Baton Rouge, La., Jan. 14.—The
white mechanics of this place held a
meeting recently in the city hall and
invited all the mechanics of the race
to come. Their object wa* to form
a union for the betterment of work
ing conditions and wages. The race
responded and were treated like broth
ers. The fact is that there are many
race mechanics here and the whites
are afraid to go ahead without them.
BOY CONSTRUCTS
WIRELESS STATION.
Chicago, 111., Jan. 7.—Robert Craw
ford, 3829 Vincennes avenue, a seven
teen year old youth is showing knowl
edge of wireless telegraphy. While a
student at the Wendell Philips high
school he built for himself the entire
wireless station which he has at hi*
home. All the wiring, coil work,
transmitter, receiver, telegraph keys
and all other parts of this wonderful
working apparatus was the work of
his own hands.
He formerly controlled six wires,
but the government restriction, owing
to the war, has reduced them to
three. Young Crawford has talked to
Key West, Fla., and most of the At
lantic coast towns. He is a member
of the Wireless club, which are all
white except himself. He is a student
of the Wendell Phillips High school
and has made a record that every
boy should be proud of.
WAS TEN YEARS OLD
WHEN NAPOLEON DIED.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 14.—Uncle Isham
Griffin, who will be one hundred and
five years old next March, was born
near Augusta, Georgia, of Negro par
ents. He lives now in Chattanooga,
Tenn. He was ten years old when
Napoleon died. He was bom before
the telegraph, the telephone, the
phonograph or the motion picture.
The aeroplane and the fireless cook
er are ninety years younger than
old Isham.
CANDIDATE FOR PLACE
ON REVISION BOARD.
Pittsburgh, Pa,, Jan. 14.—Nathan
el T. Velar is a candidate for a place
on the Board for the Revision of
Taxes, a county position. He has long
been active in politics here, serving
for twenty years as chairman of the
Health Board of East Pittsburgh, and
'or a number of years as school di
rector.
APPOINTED ASSISTANT
DISCTRICT ATTORNEY.
New York, Jan. 14.—Counselor
Frederick Q. Morton, recently selected
by Charles F. Murphy as the leader of
the New York Negro Democracy to
mcceed the late Robert N. Wood, has
been appointed as an assistant district
attorney of New York County by Dis
.rict Attorney Swann, who was sworn
in office January 1, 1916.
MOTHER OF VOLNEY CARTER
DIES AT SAN DIEGO.
Can Diego, Cal., Jan. 14.—Mrs. J.
W. Gordan, an old resident of this
city, who has been ill for two years,
died December 19. The deceased was
well known and loved" by her many
friends. Rev. Mr. Harvey paid a
touching tribute to her memory. In
terment was in Mt. Hope cemetery.
Mrs. Gordon was the mother of Vol
ney Carter of Omaha.
A NEW PUBLICATION.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 14.—The
Journal of Negro History, a quarterly,
has just made its apeparance here.
It is the result of the formation
at the Emancipation Exposition in
Chicago last August of the Associa
tion for the Study of Negro Folk Lore
ind History. Dr. C. G. Woodson, a
teacher in the M street high school, is
ditor-in-chief of the new publication.
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