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(Page 30) THE CRISIS
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FROM BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.
Above: The Square recently named after Frederick Douglass.
Below: The new Agassiz School, Cambridge, of which Miss Maria L. Baldwin, a colored woman, is master.

Men of the Month
(column 1)A SERVANT OF THE GOVERNMENT. 
THE late Dr. Arthur S. Gray was born in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1869. He was trained in the public schools and for a while studied at the University of Kansas. Entering the civil service at Washington, D. C., he became private secretary eventually to O. P. Austin, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics. This position he held fifteen years, afterward being promoted to the position of expert in foreign languages and statistics and finally becoming the statistical correspondent for the Department. Trade bulletins and many business matters were entrusted entirely to his care and the Chief of the Bureau writes that "his official record has been one of unusual efficiency, fidelity, loyalty and unselfish devotion to duty." Mr. Gray married Miss Amanda V. Brown in 1893 and together they conducted the well-known Gray and Gray pharmacy at the corner of Twelfth and You Streets, Washington, D. C.  Mr. Gray was active in civic and social movements and widely known and liked. 

A PHOTOGRAPHER. 
MR. C. M. BATTEY is one of the few colored photographers who have gained real artistic success. He began his career in an architect's office in Indianapolis. In 1888 he entered the studio of Ondeon in Cleveland, Ohio, and afterward was for six years superintendent of the Bradley studio on Fifth Avenue, New York, where he photographed men like Sir Thomas Lipton and Prince Henry of Prussia. Afterward Mr. Battey was with the firm of Lippincott in the Singer building and often appeared as technical expert before the courts. He made the composite picture of the "King of Finance" which blended portraits of fifty-one national bank presidents and was published in Everybody's Magazine in November, 1910. Borglum, the sculptor, wrote the commentary. At present Mr. Battey is instructor in photography at Tuskegee Institute. Many of his racial studies have appeared in the CRISIS magazine. 

(column 2) TWO SUPERVISING ARCHITECTS. 
IT is not widely known that two of the supervising architects under the United States Superintendent of Construction are colored men. The first to be appointed was Lowell W. Baker who was born in Ohio in 1868 and became a builder and contractor. For eight years he was instructor in wood-work in the State Department of Wilberforce University. He took up work in a correspondence school and pass the civil service examination for the position of superintendent of construction, being appointed in 1904. He has supervised buildings for six cities in Ohio, two in Indiana, and is now in charged of two post office buildings at Albion and Charlotte, Michigan. He is married and has two living children. 
Mr. William W. Cook was born at Greenville, S. C., in 1871. He graduated from the college department of Claflin University and taught the mechanic arts there and at Georgia State College. After a post-graduate course in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he passed the examination for senior art draughtsman. In 1908 he was assigned to supervise the erection and completion of the post office at Lancaster, Pa., and since he has supervised work in four different states. At present he is supervising the new post office at Ashland, Ohio, which will cost with site $115,000. He has spent over $650,000 satisfactorily for the government. Mr. Cook is a son-in-law of Ex-Congressman Thomas E. Miller and has two children. 

A MINISTER. 
THE late Matthew W. Gilbert was born in South Carolina in 1862. He was educated at Benedict College, South Carolina, and at Colgate University, Hamilton, N. Y., where he received his bachelor's degree. He afterward received the honorary degree of Bachelor of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary. Entering the active ministry of the Baptist church he held charges at Nashville, Tenn., and Jacksonville, Fla. He was the founder of the Florida Baptist College at Jacksonville. 

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