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SPEAKS BEFORE UNION
LEAGUE IN NEW YORK
Noted Orator Stirs Distinguished
Audience by His Eloquence.
New York, N. Y.—When Roscoe
Conkling Simmons, noted orator and
patriot, appeared before the famous
Union League f iub Thursday night,
May 10th, that was the first time
any Colored man ever appeared before
that illustrious body. Charles E.
Hughe'- is president of the Union
League Club.
Colonel Simmons spoke on “My
Country and My Flag,” and his elo
ouenec stirred the ancient Republi
cans as no speech has done in recent
years.
Before beginning his remarks, the
orator requested the club officials to
allowed -the Colored employes to listen
to his address.
Although lving elsewhere, New
York claims Roscoe as her own, i3
proud of his r;se to be the interpreter
of his people. His visit here was a
triumph.
GOV. WHITMAN SIGNS
AFRICAN DODGER BILL
Aibany, N. Y.—Coney Island and
other summer resorts in New York
State will lack one of their attrac
tions this year, as Governor Whitman
on Tuesday of last week signed the
bill introduced by Senator Charles F.
Murphy of Brooklyn, prohibiting Ne
groes from acting as “ball dodgers”
or permitting themselves to be cata
pulted from a reclining position to a
body of water or a receptacle.
Any one indulging in what the new
law declares to be “disgraceful prac
tices ofefnding health and decency"
are declared to be committing acts
which holds the Negro race to rid
icule and contempt.
The New York Age led in the agi
tation to put the “African Dodger” out
of business.
TWENTY-FIVE NEGROES
TO BE TRAINED
AT PLATTSBURG
Peekskill, N. Y.—Col. William Hay
ward of the Fifteenth Regiment,
which is camped on the State Rifle
Range here, has at the request of the
War Department, nominated twenty
five members of his regiment to be
come student officers at the training
camp at Plattsburg, N. Y.
Those nominated were instructed
to arrive at Plattsburg Saturday, May
19, and report to the officers in charge.
They will receive $100 monthly from
the Federal Government the same as
the other officer students.
RIGHT RECORD ESSENTIAL
The “southern black” who goes to
the North and “makes good" is as true
i. missionary for Christ as any who
go into the wilds to redeem souls.
The Colored immigrant is setting a
pace that will establish the reputation
of the Negro in the North for the
next two decades. It is essential that
the right record be made now, while
the northern mind is open and impres
sionable.
Miss Dolores Johnson, a new and
decided acquisition to the muiscal cir
cles of our city, will sing at the Audi
torium May 28. Be sure and hear
her.—Adv.
CONSUL WRIGHT QUITS
VENEZUELAN POST
—
Hon. Herbert F. Wright, who has
been the American Consul at Puerto
Cabello, Venezuela, for the past eleven
years, arrived in New York last week
on the steamship Caracas. Mr. Wright
stated that twice he had tendered his
resignation to the State Department,
and the second time it had been ac
cepted, and he had only waited at his
post until a new official arrived to
relieve him. He was accompanied by
Mrs. Wright and, after a few' days
spent with relatives in Brooklyn, he
left for his Home, Marshalltown, la.
Before going to Venezuela, where
he succeeded James W. Johnson as
Consul, Mr. Wright had served sev
eral years in the same capacity at one
of the Central American ports. He
leaves the service with a fine record,
a letter from Secretary of State Lan
sing bearing testimony as to his effi
cient service. His departure from the
Venezuelan post scores another loss
of race representation in the service,
the first appointee of the race at that
place being Jerome B. Peterson of
New' York in 1904.
LINCOLN FILM
STOCK AVAILABLE
$25,000 Lincoln Stock Issue to be
Floated.
Pursuant to the enormous public!
demand for an interest in the only
successful Race Film Producing Com
pany; stock in the Lincoln Motion Pic
ture Co., Inc., of Los Angeles, Calif.,
has been made available to the gen
eral public.
This important announcement com
ing upon the first anniversary of this
well known Race Firm is the result
of their wonderful success with their
Race photoplays, “Realization of a
Negro’s Ambition,” and the “Trooper
of Troop K,” which have been shown
throughout the entire Nation.
Organized May 24, 1916, the Lin
coln Motion Picture Co. Inc., finds the
National demand for their photoplays
so greatly in excess of their ability
to supply as to require an immediate
expansion of their producing facilities.
To this end they have requested and
received permission of the California
State Corporation Commission to dis
pose of a $25,000 stock issue to the
general public. A publicity advertis
ing and personal sales campaign with
the aid of the Race press will soon
be inaugurated.
CONTENDING FOR BETTER
SCHOOL FACILITIES
The progressive Colored citizens of
Galveston, Texas, are contending vig
orously for better school facilities,
both for the grades and the higher
branches. The people of Houston,
Texas, are equally strenuous in their
demands for more adequate housing
of Colored students and for improved
sanitary conditions around their
buildings.
NEW RACE FILM
The Frederick Douglass Fi.'m Com
pany’s latest anu most ambitious pho
toplay, “The Scapegoat,” was shown
in New York last week to theatrical
critics. While spoken of fairly well,
it is condemned because of the ten
dency to put dialect into the mouths
of doctors and ministers who are char
acters of the play.
i SOL BUTLER WILL COMPETE
AT BIG MEET
Dubuque, la.—Sol. Butler, the Ne
gro sprinter of Dubuque German col
lege, will compete in the “Big Nine”
outdoor track and field champion
ships to be held at the University of
Chicago, June 9. He is entered in
the 100 and 220-yard dashes and
I road jump. Butler won the broad
jump at the University of Pennsyl
vania relay carnival.
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A diamond ring will be given to
the one selling the most tickets over
S25.00 for the benefit play at the
Auditorium May 28. This offer is
open to all. For particulars call Mrs.
John Peiry, Harney 3886 or Mrs.
Jewell, Webster 3217.—Adv.
Come out one and all, encourage our
local young people and do your part
for the Old Folks’ Home.—Adv.
LEAVES FORTUNE TO RACE
Frank H. Keys, carriage manu
facturer of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and
secretary of the Waters-Barnhart
Company, the printers of The Mon
itor, dropped dead of heart disease
last Monday. Upon opening his will
it was found that Mr. Keys’ fortune
was a half million, $50,000 of which
is left to Tuskegee Institute, and
about four hundred thousand to im
prove the industrial condition of the
Colored people of the south.
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