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86     THE CRISIS

show that the Illinois Central transports an average of between sixty-five and seventy a day, and the Chicago & Eastern Illinois between thirty and thirty-five daily; city and state officials say that more than 20,000 have come to Philadelphia, Pa., in the last six months; over 1,000 arrived in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 15, within twenty-four hours; the Colorado and Southern Railroad brought 200 from Texas during the last two weeks; the Erie Railroad imported from Jacksonville, Fla., during the last week in March over 150; 300 left New Orleans, La., March 20, on the Southern Pacific steamer from New York, and 500 more left March 24; over 1,200 have recently migrated from New Orleans to the North, West and East.

Estimates as to the number of Negroes who have migrated from the South to the North, East and West vary. A statement from the railway companies received by the Lexington Conference of the Methodist Church, recently in session in Cincinnati, Ohio, puts the number at 1,000,000 during the past year; William J. Doherty. Deputy Commissioner of Charities, New York, estimates 150,000 since war-time prosperity; J. H. Duckrey of the Pennsylvania Railroad reports over 2,000,000 since January 1 of this year. Joseph E. Mannings, of Birmingham, Ala., estimates 500,000 since December 28, 1917; 150,000 coming to New York alone, about 100,000 to Philadelphia, Pa., and the rest to various communities in the East and North.

Mayor Raymond of Newark, N. J., says that the Negroes have been a most "orderly, fine part of the city of Newark." Ex-Governor Stokes declares that Negroes are "welcome in New Jersey."

James Judson, the colored "Potato King" of Kansas, and James Slocum of Tulsa, Okla., are said to have invested heavily in Chicago real estate for the purpose of furnishing houses for colored immigrants.

As a result of efforts by Dr. George W. Bowles, a colored man who acts as examiner for employers at York, Pa., the factories of that city are now employing many colored girls.

The Remington Arms Company has secured and is seeking more colored labor for its plant at Eddystone, Pa.

The Utah Construction Company, Cheyenne, Wyoming, is calling for 3,000 colored laborers.

The Monitor announces openings for 5,000 colored laborers in and around Omaha, Neb. The wages range from twenty to sixty cents per hour. There is work for farm hands, freight handlers, smelter and packing house laborers.

Colored women are being employed as car washers in the Big Four Railway yards in Cleveland, Ohio.

A number of Negro farmers in the Federal Farm Loan District, composed of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, have applied for membership. One organization has refused them and another has delayed action.

Herman Peebles of Raleigh, N. C., won the first prize, a fifty dollar scholarship in the A. & T. College at Greensboro, in the Negro Boys' Farm Clubs Contest for 1916. He produced 104 bushels of corn at a cost of twenty-two cents per bushel. The second prize, a fort dollar scholarship at the same institution, was won by Braxton Brewing who produced 120 bushels of corn at a cost of thirty-eight cents per bushel. The prizes were offered by the A. & T. Alumni Association.

MEETINGS.

OVER 1,000 colored school teachers are expected to attend the convention of the Muskogee County Normal Institute to be held in Muskogee, Okla., at Manual Training School, June 4 to 29. J. T. Smith has been appointed conductor

A North Carolina Negro Tailors' Convention will be held in Greensboro July 4-6. M. K. Tyson is secretary. 

The Mississippi Centennial Exposition which was to have opened next December will be postponed fifteen months on account of the war.

The thirty-sixth annual session of the Louisiana Grand Lodge of the colored Knights of Pythias took place in New Orleans. There was a large attendance.

The annual health conference was held at Baltimore under a committee headed by Mason A. Hawkins, Principal of the Colored High School. Judge R. H. Terrell was the chief speaker.

Five hundred representative Negroes attended a convention at Wewoka, Okla., and a protective league was formed.


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The State Association of Colored Physicians, Pharmacists, and Dentists met in Savannah, Ga., May 15. The colored physicians, dentists and pharmacists of South Carolina held their annual meeting in Columbia.

At the meeting of the Church Extension Board of the A. M. E. Church Bishop W. H. Heard was elected to succeed Bishop Levi J. Coppin as Chairman of the Board. It was reported that the total receipts March 31, 1917, were $37,308.21; the total disbursements $16,565.25, and the assets $394,647.

The General Board of Foreign Missions of the A. M. E. Church  held its annual session in New York City, April 25. Bishop J. Albert Johnson presided. Many distinguished churchmen were present. The secretary, Dr. Rankin, reported collections for missions for the year, $52,537.51.

The first annual Founder's Day of Tuskegee Institute, Ala., was celebrated April 5. The principal speaker was William G. Wilcox, President of the Board of Education, New York City, and Chairman of the Tuskegee Trustee Board.

Several prominent white educators took part in the recent session of the Negro Teachers' Association held in Little Rock, Ark. Among those who spoke were J. L. Bond, State Superintendent of Public Instruction; P. P. Claton, head of the U. S. Bureau of Education; D. L. Paisley, Superintendent of Schools of Argenta, and Miss Erle Chambers, Chairman of the State Board of Charities and Corrections.

The Kentucky Negro Educational Association held a successful three days' convention in Louisville during April. Mrs. Booker T. Washington was the speaker April 26, and Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois delivered a lecture April 27. An Indian operetta was given by 250 children from the colored schools, under Miss Mildred Bryant.

The National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes held four meetings in New York April 29. William Pickens, Dean of Morgan College, Baltimore, Md., the Hon. William G. Willcox, president of the Board of Education, New York City, the Hon. Marcus M. Marks, Manhattan Borough President, were among the speakers. Dr. E. P. Roberts, the recently elected colored member of the Board of Education, New York City, presided at one of the meetings. Dr. George Foster Peabody presided at a meeting of the League in Brooklyn, April 27. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, the principal speaker, said: "The white man cannot treat the Negro like a hog and expect him to act like a man."

MUSIC AND ART.

"THE Seven Last Words of Christ," by Theodore Du Bois, was effectively rendered Easter afternoon at St. Paul M. E. Church, San Antonio, Texas, by a large city chorus. Miss Cleota J. Collins, a colored singer of Cleveland, Ohio, was the directress.

Members of the Drama League of America attended a special meeting at the Garden Theatre, New York City, where the Colored Players produced Ridgely Torrence's "Rider of Dreams," "Granny Maumee," and "Simon the Cyrenian." Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois spoke on the Negro drama, and Miss Burrill of Washington, D. C., made an appeal for opportunity. The orchestra for The Colored Players, under J. Rosamond Johnson, rendered songs and melodies of the Civil War Period at Carnegie Hall, April 19, in "Wake Up America Day."

"Rachel," a drama by Angelina Grimké, played by colored men and women, was presented April 26 at the Neighborhood Playhouse, New York City, under the auspices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

A "Queen's Pageant" for the benefit of Bethel Literary Association was successfully directed at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, Washington, D. C., April 24, by Mme. E. Azalia Hackley. The pageant included 200 actors.

At the Dunbar High School, April 12, Charles E. Love, Jr., presented Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford's "Tradition," a one-act drama, for the benefit of the public school playgrounds.

The Harry T. Burleigh Choral Society gave a successful rendition of "Stabat Mater" by Rossini at Wesley M. E. Church, Little Rock, Ark., April 1.

In Seattle, Wash., April 5, the Philharmonic Orchestra played the "New World Symphony" by Dvorak, which is built on Negro melodies. "Onaway, Awake, Beloved" by S. Coleridge-Taylor, and "By the Pool," Burleigh, were sung by Theodore Karle. At one of the exclusive functions of the Aloha Country Club a group of Burleigh's