General Race News
MADE 15 CENTS A DAY,
GAVE “PETER’S PENCE” $2.
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 9, 1916—Those
who attended the Old Cathedral regu
larly have missed, in the last month, a
humble Negro woman, Annie Mc
Clean, who received communion daily.
This woman, past 80 years of age,
probably was the most generous con
tributor, proportionate to her means, |
of any parishioner of the Old Cathe
dral. Prior to her recent death in
the City Hospital, where she was sick
only a few days, she had worked for i
15 cents a day. Out of that meager
wage she managed to give $2 annually
to “Peter’s pence.”
The wage of 15 cents a day, which
would amount to $46.95 for the 313
working days in the year, seems in
credible to the average working man
or woman, but it is vouched for by
several persons who know Annie Mc
Clean. It was given to her for shell
ing peanuts long hours each day. Her
fingers, stiff with age and infirmity,
could earn no more than this lender
sum. It was not sufficient for her
living, but material needs were re
lieved for her by her pastor, through
the aid of the Vincent de Paul Society.
Annie McClean was small, black and
timid. She never failed to present
herself at the mass at break of day,
and her last act was to have a friend
write a “thanksgiving” for her, that
she might send it to the Messenger of
the Sacred Heart, because her needs
had been relieved.
TO STAGE M \SSIVE
RACE PICTURE.
Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 25.—A mo
tion picture depicting the American
Colored man from the earliest days
when he was a barbarian in Africa,
down through American history and
a great dream of the future, is the
idea of A. A. Anderson, a Colored
man, who has written a scenario for
such a production and now is organ
izing a company to produce it.
In the film all of the actors will be
Colored people and Anderson said he
could secure all he needed in Kansas
City. His idea is to have a picture
on the order of the “Birth of a Na
tion” in its massiveness. He said
several hundred persons would be
used in the cast. By means of the
picture he hopes to show the advance
ment and development of the race and
at the same time arouse in him an
ambition for the future.
Anderson is getting the company
together and will start rehearsals at
once. The Heart of American Film
Corporation will begin taking the pic
tures next month.
DREW EQUALS WORLD’S RECORD
New' York, Feb. 18, 1916.—Howard
P. Drew’, representing the University
of Southern California, gave another
exhibition of his great speed at the
Fordham University games in the
Twenty-second Regiment Armory, last
Friday night. Drew' won the 90-yard
special race defeating for the third
time in recent games, Roy Morse the
Salem Crescent A. C. flyer and the
Joe Loomis of Chicago.
Drew equalled his own mark of 9 1-5
seconds for 90 yards which is the
world’s record. After running the
90-yards Drew continued on fifteen
yards where he finished in 10 2-5
equalling the world’s record time
made by W. H. Hargrave of Yale.
COLORED GIRL CLERK
EIGHTS PREJUDICE.
Boston, Mass, Feb. 26.—Miss Jane
R. Bosfield, 5 Sorento street, Allston,
was discharged from her position at
Medfield State Hospital, where she
was a stenographer. She retained
counsel and appealed to the trustees
of the hospital, alleging that Dr. Ed
ward French, superintendent, dis
charged her because she was colored.
Dr. French has alleged incompe
tency as a reason for his action, but
Miss Bosfield declares that in making
requisition on the civil service com
mission for another stenographer the
superintendent asked specifically for
a white appointee.
The trustees met to hear Miss Bos
field’s case, but her attorneys, Will
iams and Williams, decided to take it
direct to the Supreme Court with an
appeal for her reinstatement.
She alleges that the hospital offi
cials refused at first to allow her to
have a room, but finally gave her one
over the morgue, and that she was not
allowed to eat in the dining room, but
had meals served in the office. She
went to the dining room on one occa
sion, but was told not to do so again
and her discharge soon followed.
NEW ORLEANS WANTS NO
G RANDI’ATHER LITIGATION.
New Orleans, La., Feb. 16.—Suits
have been filed in the District Court
at Greata demanding that twenty-four
voters who have been voting under the
‘grandfather clause” be stricken from
the polling lists. This is done because
of the belief in some quarters that a
recent abrogation of “grandfather
clauses” by the United States Su
preme Court affects the status of
voters who registered thereunder. An
Increase in the Negro vote in the
State is expected, provided the col
ored eligibles pay their poll taxes.
“We must get rid of these ‘grand
father’ voters sooner or later,” says
he New Orleans Picayune, so that
they will not involve the state in what
nay be serious differences with the
federal authorities.”
WEALTHY MAN DIES;
WIDOW DIES ALSO.
Ahoskie, N. C.—W. D. Newsome, 1)4
years old, the wealthiest colored man
in Hertford county, died here recently,
and the death of his widow, Mrs. Alice
Reynolds Newsome, 60 years old, fol
lowed in twenty-four hours.
Mr. Newsome paid taxes on more
acres of land than any man in the
county, white or colored, owning most
of the land lying between the towns
of Winton and Ahoskie. Nearly all
of his storehouses in Ahoskie were
occupied by white tenants, the build
ings being among the best in the
town. He was easily worth $100,000.
HOME FOR COLORED GIRLS.
Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 25.—Colored
women interested in philanthropy for
their race met Wednesday afternoon,
Feb. 16, at 245 North Twenty-first St.,
to plan arrangements for the new
home which is to be established at
that address. The home is to be sipi
ilar to that of the Big Sisters and will
be for Colored girls who are homeless,
and those dependent, as well as those
who have been delinquent.
CARNEGIE LIBRARY FOR
NASHVILLE NEGROES.
Nashville, Tenn.—The new $25,000
branch library for colored citizens was
formally opened with appropriate ex
ercises under the auspices of the Nash
ville Negro Board of Trade. A. N.
Johnson, president, was the principal
speaker.
Andrew Carnegie gave $25,000 for
the building. The city of Nashville
gave $5,000 to purchase the site. Lo
cal colored citizens contributed $1,000
that a more desirable lot could be
bought.
Miss Mariam Hadley, a Fisk grad
uate, is the librarian, and Miss Hattie
Watkins is her assistant.
MEDAL OF HONOR FOR
SPANISH WAR OFFICER.
Duluth, Minn.—Thaddeus W. Stopp,
023 Fifth avertue, who served as a
lieutenant with the 8th Illinois under
Col. John R. Marshall during the
Spanish-American war, has been given
a medal of honor by the government
for distinguished services during the
military occupation of Cuba, 1808
1002.
Lieut. Stopp is a native Chicagoan,
but has resided in Duluth for the past
seven years. He is a photographer.
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“Won’t you take my seat?” said the
man in the street car, as he lifted his
hat to the pretty girl.
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been skating all the afternoon and I’m
tired out sitting down.”—Puck.