Quaint New Orleans
Is Interesting
Monitor Representative Continues His
Perigrination Through the South
land, Finding Much to Please and
Inspire One in Land of the Creoles.
MY last letter was from Crowley,
La., a beautiful city in the heart
of the rich country rice belt. 1 spent
a pleasant yet busy day at this point,
soliciting business and late Sunday
evening delivered a lecture to over
500 people. "Imagine your Uncle
t Dudley lecturing on patriotism and
Needs of the Race.” Leaving Crowley
tor Lafayette I was met at the station
by Dr. Charles R. Pickett, formerly of
Chicago, but now enjoying a large
practice among the Creoles of this sec
tion. A half day spent at this point
and that afternoon I wound up my
business at New Iberia, La., with a
lecture in the evening before the Civic
League of that section. Iberia parisn
contains one of the largest salt mines
in the world. It is operated by the
Mcllkenny Bros., manufiHurers of
the famous tabasco sauce. Franklin
was the place of my next visit. Sim
ilar to the other places I passed. Noi
much business here. The same can
be said of Patterson my last stop be
fore crossing the Mississippi into New
Orleans. A word here about the peo
pie in the section through which 1
just passed. The members of the
race are usually called Creoles because
of the language they speak, more than
anything else.
The Patois of the Creoles.
The soft patois and admixture of
French, Spanish and Cajon, the last
language of a race of people who
came from Eastern Canada. They
were known as Acadians and were de
scendants of the early French set
tlers of that section. They followed
the Mississippi river and finally set
tled in the parish of Acadia. They
brought their language and their cus
toms with them and readily assimil
ated with the race in this section. The
result is that you find many beauti
ful women in our race who lay claim
to French heritage of the Cajon blood.
Founder of New Orleans.
Now about New Orleans. Much
Hks been written about this old city
which celebrated the second century of
its existence this 1918, having been
founded in 1018 by Bienville, brother
of the then governor of Louisiana,
/, whose name was Iberville, and was
located at Mobile, Ala.
Many Historic Buildings.
It boasts of many' old building.
which still remain intact, and is al
ways worth a visit from the tourist
or sightseer, the most prominent be
ing the St. Louis cathedral, and the
Cabillo, the latter being the building
where the transfer of Louisiana to
the United States was affected in
1803. New Orleans is sometimes called
the Paris of America. Well, that it
might be known as the same, for New
Orleans is always gay, seemingly hap
py and contented. It has grown nat
urally, seemingly through no effort
of its own—that has been the condi
tion of the past. But there has been
brought about a new condition. It
has awakened the people of the city to
the knowledge that it occupies a mor<
advantageous position from a commer
cial stand point. So they have de
cided to improve the conditions by
building a canal connecting Lakp
I’ontchartrain, on which the south
eastern wing of the ci’„ rests, which
the father of the waters the Missis
sippi, wash the western shores of thr
city and sweeps past on its way te
the Gulf of Mexico. This will make
New Orleans, the port of natural dis
tribution for the rich middle section of
the United States and that basin
formed by Lake Pontchartrain with
its naturally protected entrance to
the gulf, gives New Orleans a hat-hot
that could house the shipping of the
world.
Now on the other side of the pic
ture, you will naturally say, whal
about the people of my race?
A Word About the Siege.
Well, in 1815, during the siege o.'
- New Orleans by the British, two
troops of black men under General
Jackson led the charge at Chalmetts
headed by a 14-year-old black drum
mer hoy by the name of Jourdan. H<
was a freeman, and with the rest oi
his comrades on that day covered him
self with glory. Jourdan made this
city his home. He was born in 1801
and died in 1870 and for many years
was the familiar figure in the street
of this old town. The Creole popula
tion was greatly added to at one time
by the migration of French Negroes
from Hayti and they greatly added
to the wealth of the state and when
the wealth statistics were taken and
published according to Color in 1850,
it showed that the Negro, both French
and native, possessed wealth to the
value of $20,000,000. They have ever
been progressive in the state and as
early as 1828 established benevolent
and protective societies. The Artisan,
I the first of its kind being in exist
ence today-, as well as the Orders of
Hope, Perseverance and Economy,
which were established later and are
still in existence. The Economy, the
i last of these has grown in wealth
and membership untd it controls the
j majority of people in the city. New
Orleans is the home of both the Peo
ple’s and Unity Industrial Insurance,
; which are doing great good among its
people and raising the standard of the
race* in financial circles. The race ha.
no cafes like Antoine’s to boast of,
which was made famous by its cusine
and culinary, for the people of th's
Creole city are a home-loving people
and the stranger is always welcome
and never leaves the portals without
l.eing invited to sit at the table and he
goes away with the memory of many
inviting and savory dishes, which is
washed down by the best coffee in the
world; no meal is complete in the
Creole household without the famoti
dripped coffee.
An Interesting Character.
Among the most nteresting charac
ters that I met and talked with was
cne Mark Robe, who cited many inter
esting facts about the reconstruction
days, in which he was a participant.
He told of the mob attacking and
slaying the members of the first pro
visional legislature, composed of men
of both races, which was holding ses
sion under adverse conditions in a
building which stood on the site now
marked by’ that modern skyscraper,
the Grunewald hotel. He also told of
the establishment of the Southern
university that would guarantee the
Colored people a form of education
higher than the fifth grade; also of
the incident that forever closed the
doors of the state university to Ho
race student when the class of 1875
was divided by the white students re
fusing to finish with the Negroes; of
the impeachment of Governor hV ar~
I moth, automatically raising to the
position of chief executive his lieu
tenant governor, Oscar J. Itunn, a race
man, and by his sudden death brought
to the chair for one week P. B. S.
Pinchbaek, who was senior senator
and president of the senate, who by
law became the governor and hit;
short term of office is marked by re
cording upon the statute books of this
state eleven laws, which bear his sig
nature as the governor of Louisiana.
Outlook Bright.
But the stormy days are over and
1 New Orleans has taken on a new air,
j and in my race the question of color's
‘ fast loosing cast, and men are plung
ing into the commercial world. The
race in this city is supporting fifty
positions of dentists, thirty di*ug
stores, numerous other business en
- terprises; there are over 100 benevo
lent societies, two industrial insur
ance companies, ten fraternal organi
1 nations, chief among which is the
Knights of Pythias, who own a larg
' pressed brick and concrete building
costing over $200,000, which is paid
for. It is complete in every detail,
providing lodge rooms,meeting rooms,
banquet halls and offices, with eleva
tor service, surrounded by a pleasant
and commodious roof garden, provid
ing motion pictures and music from a
well trained orchestra and light re
freshments -served by polite attendants.
It has a seating capacity of 2,000.
with a dancing space for 500 couples;
I a pleasant place to spend the hot even
ings.
I tell you, the Southland Is doing
! things. They are beginning to wake
up. The dream of the immortal Booker
Washington is about to be realized.
Long live the Southland!
Watch for and read my next letter.
It will interest you.
FRED C. WILLIAMS.
Watch for the date for the third de
gree.—Adv.
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DON’T DELAY.
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| GEORGE WELLS PARKER, Agent |
I' 933 North 27th Street. Phone Harney 5737. |
Two Delightful
Social Functions
Beautiful Home of Mr. and Mrs. Al
fred Jones the Scene of Two of
Most Brilliant Social Events
of the Season.
The beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs.
Alfred Jones, Twenty-eighth and Cald-1
well streets, was the scene of two of ]
the most brilliant social events Omaha
has ever witnessed, when on Wedncs
day night of last week the genial host
and gracious hostess entertained at a
garden putty in honor of their older
children, Alfred, Jr., and the Misses |
Ethel anil Irene, and in the early j
evening of Thursday, July 4, compli
mentary to their two younger chil - 1
dren, Donald and Florence.
Wednesday night the younger set,
with their parents and friends, to the
number of nearly 150, responded to
Mr. and Mrs. Jones’ invitation, and on
the afternoon of the Glorious Fourth
thirty children, accompanied by their j
mothers, or, in some cases, older sis
ters, were present.
The Jones residence, with its spa
cious and beautiful grounds, is pre
eminently the finest and largest
owned by our people in this city of
beautiful homes. The grounds were
brilliantly illuminated with red, white
and blue electric lights, with settees
and garden swings placed in con
venient nooks and comers. These
were largely pre-empted by the older
folk, for the younger set gravitated
toward the wide and spacious lower
veranda, where they danced to their
hearts’ content to the bewitching sole
—yes, this is the right spelling—sole
tickling strains of Willis’ jazz band.
The music was entrancing, and just
between us, if you will promise not to
tell, the scribe saw some of the older
set,, “staid brothers and sisters in
Israel,” suspiciously shuffling their
feet. From the wide porticoes were
suspended four beautiful American
flags, while flowers, not in profusion,
hut just enough not to be in poor taste ,
or, what is worse, extravagance, added !
their beauty and fragrance. The I
pretty summer gowns, in elegant |
taste, worn by the beautiful youne j
dancers made a charming scene.
Promptly at 11 o’clock luncheon was j
served. Suffice it to say that "Ai”
Jones, the well known caterer, who
was the host of the evening, provided
this luncheon for his guests, and you
can imagine the rest, even though he
did not transgress the code of Hoover.
Among the guests present Wednes
day evening were the following: The
Misses Aline Bentley, Edna Boyd.
Merriam Gordon, Green,Dolores John
son, Irene Jones, Ethel Jones, Gladys
Jordan, Cordelia Johnson, Auline Jef
ferson, Beatrice Majors, Ray Middle
ton of Dallas, Tex., McDaniels, Birdie
McRoy, Teressa Jones, Ruth Jones,
Florence Jones, Teressa Mitchell,
Blanche Nance, Irene Newman, Mary
Pegg, Althea Turner, Olethea Russell
| Corrine Thomas, Camille Simpson,
Ruby Thomas, Otis Watson, Cuma
Watson, Willie Watson, Hazel Wash
ington and Ruth Washington; Messrs
Richard Allen, William Bell, Harold
Bentley, Frank Blackwell, Clarence
Brooks, William G. Haynes, W. Ham
! ilton, Hubert Glover, Randolph
! Hughes, Alfred Jones, Joseph Lacour
I Percy McCaw, Roscoe Miller, Craig
' Morris, Clarence Palmer, Ray Parker,
j L. Perry, T. Robertson, Guy B. Rob- I
j bins, Leroy Richardson, Thomas Rou
I lette, Russell Reese, Henry Smith, j
1 Sherman Jefferson, Fred Daniels, j
j Maceo Williams and Robert Williams.
Mesdames U. G. Bell, Blanche Blair,
! Henry Buford, J. A. Cropp, M. J.
! Dodd, William Gordon, Nate Hunter,
James G. Jewell, Adolphus Lewis,
j Joseph D. Lewis, William Lawson,
William Newman, Lawrence Parker
i H. J. Pinkett, Robert Sandford of Car
j roll, la., Charles Solomon, Martino
i Turner, H. Washington and Burrell
I Watson.
Dr. and Mrs. L. PI. Britt, Mr. and
Mrs. H. Crounch, Mr. and Mrs. P. W
Jefferson, Mr. and Mrs. Silas John
son, Mr. and Mrs. Gene McCoy, Mr.
and Mrs. L. N. Peoples,, Dr. and Mrs
P. W. Sawyer, Mr. and Mrs. James E !
Turner, the Rev. and Mrs. John Albert
Williams, and Messrs. A. Clark, Dan !
Desdunes, and S. H. Dorsey and Mis
! E. M. L. Webb of Beloxi, Miss,
i On the afternoon and early evening
of Thursday the children had their
1 innings. The national colors predomi
nated. Games dear to children’s hearts ^
evoked merry peals of laughter, and
when dark luine on there was a fln<
display of fireworks. Nor must it b
forgotten that those boys and girls
bad all the ice cream, cake and nop
that thev could eat and drink.
The children present were: Beatrice.
Carmelita and Pauline Black. Dorm
and Marie Bush, Marjorie Edwards.
Adelle Jackson, Florence and Ruth
Jones, Charlene and Laureno Lewis.
Estelle Pegg, Ruth Pegg, Bernice
Phannix, Celestine Smith, Robbie Tur
ner, Catherine Williams, Dorothy
Williams, Martha Williams, T.eonaid
Britt, James Jewell, Warren Jackson
Donald Jones. Alonzo Jackson. Street
er Turner and Worthington Williams
The adults were: Dr. and Mrs. L. E.
Britt, Mrs. H. W. Black, Mm. S. S.
Bush, Mrs. M. J. Dodd. Mrs. A. G. Ed
wards, Mrs. Joseph Lewis, Mrs.
Alonzo Jackson, Mrs. James Turher,
Mrs. Martha Turner, Mrs. M. E. Over
all, Mrs. S. T. Phannix, Mrs. John Al
bert Williams and Mrs. Vanie S.
Wheatley.
Mr. A. Clark had charge of the fire
works. The children had charge of tie
fun and the vote was unanimous that
they had had a glorious time.
WOULD LIKE TO TAKE
HER BROTHER’S PLACE
Private Frank Braswell of the
Ninety-second division supply train
and formerly stationed at Camp Funs
ton, has been honorably discharged
because of physical disability. He is
now at home at 2222 Paul street. He
regrets that he was unable to go over
seas.
His sister, ,Mrs. Emma Simmons,
said to The Monitor: “Frank’s my
oldest brother and I am proud to see
him in uniform. Pm sorry he couldn”
stay and see it through, and I only
wish I could go and take my brotn
pr’s place. I would if they’d take me.”
STEREOPTICON LECTURE
BY MADAME C. J. WALKER
America’s richest Negro woman will
exhibit stereopticon views of her quar
ter million dollar mansion, “Irving
ton-on-the-Hudson,” her factories at
Indianapolis and New York City and
other business and residence proper
ties at St. John's A. M. E. church, un
der auspices of the L. E. W. club.
Monday, July 15, at 8:30 sharp. Pro
ceeds donated to Frederick Douglass
Memorial fund. Admission 25 cents.
—Adv.
I HOLSUM !
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KLEEN MAID
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.[. 220 South 13th St. .j.
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24th and Lake.
| General repairing, storage
* and accessories.
\ All work guaranteed.
Open Day and Night,
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PORO HAIR CULTURIST
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Phone Webster 3003.
2307 North 27th St.
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B. Robinson, Manager
1904 No. 24th St.
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Work called for and delivered
All Work Guaranteed
J. H. HOLMES
We Buy and Sell Second Hand
Clothes.
Cent's Suits to Order
Ladies’ and Gents’ Suits
Remodeled, Cleaned, Pressed
and Repaired.
We loan money on clothing,
hats and shoes.
2022 N. 24th St. Web. 3320
f Shoe Sale Every Day j
1 IF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN TO OUR BARGAIN SHOE STORE j
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•j. Shoes and Pumps in the newest styles;
all sizes: a $5.00 value
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!j! button or lace; all sizes; now $3.45
on salt* at
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THE REAL HONEST BARGAIN SHOE STORE OF OMAHA.
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The Most Sanitary and Up-to-Date Market in the Middle
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HAND LAUNDRY
First Class Work Guaranteed. First Class Colored Laundry.
CLOTHES CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED.
Webster 5322. 25th and Grant Streets.
MARSHALL & LEE
RELIABLE TAILORS
SUITS MADE TO ORDER FOR $18.00 A.ND UP
Experts in the arts of repairing and remaking. Our dyeing and
cleaning is unexcelled. Our assistant manager, Mr. Harold Bentley,
who recently returned from Western University, is rendering his
most efficient service in our shop.
tall Red 7300 103 So. 14th St., Omaha, Neb.
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GROVE METHODIST CHURCH
22nd and Seward Sts., Omaha, Neb.
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A Church Where
All Are Welcome
Services
Sunday School, 10 a. m.
Preaching, 11 a. m., 8 p. m.
League, 6:30 p. m.
Florence P. Leavitt Club, Mon
day afternoon.
Prayer Meeting, Wednesday
Evening.
W. H. M. S. Thursday Afternoon
Ladies’ Aid, Friday Afternoon.
GRIFFIN G. LOGAN,
Res. 1628 N. 22nd. Web. 5003
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WEBSTER 1412 250fi NORTH 24TH ST.
OSBORNE
West Side, 24th and Lake Sts.
Millinery Sale, Trimmed Hats ..$1.75
Women’s Dark Brown Colonial Pumps, $5 value for.$2.85
Women’s White Canvas, high top, Goodyear welt shoes, $s value for.. . .$4.85
Buster Brown Children’s Shoes, size 8 2-12 for $2.65, size 12-2 for.$2.85
Men’s Dark Brown Blucher Shoes, Goodyear welt, $8.50 values for.$5.95
Men’s Silk Shirts, Arrow Brand, regular $6.50 value for. $,.75
Arrow Brand Shirts. $2.50 value for $1.98, Monarch Shirts.98c
Corsets, nil sizes and styles, just arrived. Special Sale. •
\ 25 PER CENT UNDER DOWNTOWN PRICES