Editor Takes a Trip;
Omaha to Denver
Meets Pleasant People on Train.
Children are always attractive to
me—especially if they have good man
ners. This will account for the fact
that two bright-faced little girls, one
fourteen and the other eleven, as 1
subsequently learned, attracted my at
tention on Chair car No. 6020, Union
Pacific train No. 15, westbound on
which I took my trip to Denver.
An old gentleman who sat right in
front of me dropped his glasses. The
older of the two girls, Helen, never
mind her last name, who sat opposite
him across the aisle, came quickly to
his assistance and picked them up for
him. It was only a simple, courte
ous act, but it caught my eye. She
sat beside him and helped him consult
his time table.
They fell into a conversation and
he asked her her age. She told him
she had just passed fourteen, and that
she was bom in New York. He told
her that he was bom in New York
state, near Binghampton, in 1823. He
was 93 years old. Those of us, within j
ear shot of this conversation were of j
course much interested. Helen ex-1
pects to be a trained nurse and her
sister, Catherine, wants to be a
teacher.
The old gentleman was en route to
Grand Island and seemed a little bit
nervous lest he should be carried be
yond that point. Nearly an hour be
fore we reached Grand Island he
started to put on his overcoat. I
told him it would be some time before
we reached Grand Island and that I
would help him get into his overcoat
in ample time to get off at his sta
tion.
He thanked me and said: “Little
Helen, here, and I have become pretty
good friends. She and I were bora
in the same state, although several
years apart, and we find that we be
long to the same Church—the good
old Church which has come down to
us through England, and given us
the English Bible and Prayer Book.”
“I'm glad to hear that,” I replied.
“I belong to the same Church.”
Helen and Catherine’s mother, a
pleasant faced woman and of marked
refinement, looked very much pleased
and said:
“I thought you were a clergyman of |
our Church, and I was tempted to ask
you, when you told my Catherine that
you had a little girl whose name is
Catherine, too.”
Subsequently she told me about the
parish to which she belonged in New
\ ork end wondered if I knew her rec
tor, of whom she spoke in the kindest
way.
But to return to our aged friend.
When he learned that I was what the
uninformed call an “Episcolopian,” he
asked:
“Do you know Bishop Beecher?”
“I do, sir, very well. We were fel
low priests for a number of years in
Omaha when he was Dean of Trin
ity Cathedral. I expect to see him
Monday in Denver, at the consecra
tion of Bishop Johnson.”
“Well, you just tell him that you
met Dr. Hungerford, Dr. David Hun
gerford, and that I sent him my love.
He’ll know who I am. Bishop Beech
er’s a fine man. I’ve known him for
years,” said the aged doctor with en
thusiasm.
I promised to deliver his message
to Bishop Beecher, which I did.
“Dear old Dr. Hungerford?” said
the bishop. “Yes, indeed, I know him.
I’m glad you met him. He is a rare
character.”
How nice it is to have people say
pleasant things like this about one
aro! her.
The Problem of
Colored Migration
The Monitor Plan of Assisting Race
Meeting With Much Encourage
ment and Success.
NEWCOMERS’ PROSPECTS FINE
The northward trend of Colored
people from the south has created
much comment and interest not only
among the Colored people themselves,
but throughout the nation. The only
pity of the exodus is that great num
bers of the race have poured into the
larger cities of the north and found
only want and hardship there to meet
them. The trouble has been that there
is no organization to care for or dir
ect those of the race leaving the
south.
Several weeks ago The Monitor, un
der the direction of G. W. Parker,
took up the situation and has found
both encouragement and success. Not
only are many of the larger industries
ready and willing to cooperate, but
great interests of the west are eager
to welcome industrious Colored people.
Heretofore foreigners, mainly Rus
sians, Japanese, Germans and Mex
icans, have had the advantages of
well paid labor and the opportunities
or rapid independence, but the short
age of labor has made possible the
consideration of southern labor. Ar
rangements are now under way to
bring hundreds of Colored families to
the west and none will face any such
conditions as are being met by many
of their brethem in the north. Good
schools, excellent housing conditions
and fresh out door work are factors
which will make the coming of Col
ored workers worth while.
Meanwhile the northern demand is
steadily increasing and for such as
wish to labor in mills, factories and
mines, the opportunities are many.
Colored labor is easily adjustable and
the matter of higher wages and bet
ter opportunities is not a myth. The
wage scale of the south has always
been low and is still low in the face
of the great increase in the cost of
living. The high wage scale of the
north in part compensates for the
cost of living and Colored people make
no mistake in coming north provided
they have jobs waiting them before
they leave.
All persons interested may secure
' full information by writing to The
Monitor, Omaha, Nebraska, and en
closing a stamp for reply. The at
tempt is in no wise for personal ag
i giandizement, but for the sincere pur
pose of assisting those of the race
who want to leave the south. No al
luring and false prospects are held
out. The matter is simply one of
racial betterment and economic help
fulness. Whatever southern race
leaders and speakers may say, the
fact remains that in the north there is
a chance for a better home, a better
job, a better chance for the educa
tion of children, and above all the
sanctioned right to exercise the free
and untrammelled rights granted to
American citizens. These are the op
portunities of which the race in the
south should make well of while pos
sible and have come for the first time
in America.
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