General Race News
OHIO LEGISLATURE HAS
COLORED MEMBER
The Hon. A. Lee Beatty, First of the
Race to Sit in Assembly for
Over Decade.
Columbus, O., Jan. 18.—After an
interval of ten years, the Colored race
again has a representative in the gen
eral assembly of Ohio. He is A. Lee
Beatty, of Cincinnati, republican mem
ber of the house delegation from
Hamilton county. He is an attorney.
The last Colored man to sit in the
legislature was Henry T. Eubanks,
who was a member of the house from
Cuyahoga county in 1904 and 1905.
Other Colored Solons.
George W. Hays was a representa
tive from Hamilton county from 1902
to 1905. Cincinnati was his home.
He has also served for a number
of years as a trustee of one of the
state institutions located in Colum
bus.
Harry C. Smith, of Cleveland, edi
tor of a Colored newspaper, served
three terms in the house from Cuya
hoga county. He served from 1894 to
1897 and again from 1900 to 1901.
He was defeated for a fourth term in
1902.
The first Colored man to be elected
to the general assembly was John P.
Green of Cleveland. He served in the
house from Cuyahoga county in 1881
and 1883 and again from 1890 to 1891.
He was a member of the senate in
1892 and 1893. He is the only Colored
man ever chosen to sit in the senate.
But Three Counties.
Mahoning county is the only county
outside of Hamilton and Cuyahoga to
send a Colored representative to the
assembly. Mahoning did this back in
1896, when W. R. Stewart of Youngs
town, Colored, was elected to repre
sent that county in the house. He
served two terms. Stewart is a law
yer and a man of unusual ability.
ACQUIRE FINE SITE
FOR ST. LOUIS Y. M. C. A.
St. Louis, Mo.—The old McNeary
residence, comer of Ewing avenue and
Fine streets, has been purchased as a
site for the new $150,000 Y. M. C. A.
building to be erected for the Colored
branch association in this city. The
site is one of the best in the city and
is advantageously located as regards
the race population.
A five-story building, of brick and
stone, will be erected. Besides 150
sleeping rooms, there will be a gym
nasium, assembly room, baths, swim
ming pool, lockers and cafe. It will
be the second largest Colored Y. M.
C. A. building in the country, the one
at Chicago being the only one to sur
pass it.
A VICTIM OF HYDROPHOBIA
New Castle, Pa., Jan. 18.—Robert
Ellis, aged 40, who has been city dog
catcher for the past year, died Thurs
day afternoon in the padded cell of
the county jail of hydrophobia.
Last spring Ellis was attacked and
bitten by a mad dag, which had previ
ously attacked and bitten a police of
ficer and several children. All took
the Pasteur treatment in Pittsburg.
Ellis had been bitten by other dogs
since, but none was known to have
suffered with hydrophobia.
TWO COLORED SCHOOLS
HIT BY ECONOMY PLAN
—
Topeka, Kan., Jan. 18.—The econ- j
omy commission appointed by Gover
ner Capper intends to cut off appro
priation will seriously cripple Western
in this city and the Western Univer
sity at Quindaro, in the effort to cut
down state expenses, and will make
this recommendation in its bill to be
introduced into the 1917 legislature.
The withdrawal of the state appro
priation will serious cripple Western
University, an A. M. E. school. Dr. H. j
T. Kealing, former editor of the A. M.
E. Review, is its present president, he I
having succeeded the Rev. W. T. Ver- ;
non, formerly recorder of deeds at
Washington. Appropriations total
ling thousands of dollars have been
made in past years by the state.
Advanced students attending these
institutions may attend the state uni
versity.
WILL URGE PLAYGROUNDS
FOR COLORED CITIZENS
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 18.—M. B. Young,
member of the park board, plans to
get the city to establish parks and
p'aygronds for the Colored people.
He is of the opinion that the idea
would be of benefit to the whole
community.
“It seems to me that the Colored
people of Atlanta are entitled to a
few playgrounds where they can go
without encroaching on the rights of
the white people. Many of them pay
their fair share of the tax money re
ceived by the city, and some pay a
great deal more than the average
white citizen. I am going to make
an effort to have the city furnish
parks and playgrounds during the
coming year.”
NEGRO BOY IS SKETCH ARTIST
Reproduces Newspaper Cartoons,
Though He Never Studied Drawing.
For several weeks officials at the
Wyandotte County court house have
found reproductions of newspaper car
toons sketched on blank paper with a
lead pencil lying on their desks when
they came to work in the mornings.
The mystery was discovered yesterday
when David Kepler, probation officer,
found William Bryant, a Negro boy,
sketching at his de6k. The boy’s car
toons were almost as good as the
originals.
Young Bryant is 16 years old and
attends the Douglass School. He has
made no study of drawing. He works
as assistant janitor at the courthouse.
—Kansas City Star.
PAY TRIBUTE TO
NEGRO VIRTUOSO
Richmond, Va.—The people of this
city, the wealthy, the social leaders
and the poor, joined recently in pay
ing tribute to a young Negro, Wesley
Howard, a violinist, who recently
graduated with exceptional honors
from the Boston conservatory. He
will play at a testimonial concert.
Young Howard was reared in Rich
mond. For years ago the people of
the city, realizing his exceptional tal
ent, raised money to enable him to
'tudy under the best masters of
America.
Colored People
Intending to
Come North or r ?MERS, farm laborers,
Hf . -1 skilled and unskilled
if CSX workmen, who intend leav
Talrp IJnfipp ing south should pro
IdnC nUllbC tect themselves against
swindlers and chance con
ditions. The Monitor has taken up this
problem and is able to be of service to you.
Write at once for information and en
close stamp for reply. Address,
George Wells Parker,
Business Manager of The Monitor,
Omaha, Nebraska.
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