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88      THE CRISIS

songs were sung and enthusiastically received. Montgomery Lynch, a well-known white musical conductor, rendered S. Coleridge-Taylor's "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast," March 20. At a musical lecture in Tacoma, John Blackmore, a white pianist mentioned with pride the meeting of R. Nathaniel Dett, while coaching with Percy Grainger. Mrs. Nettie J. Asberry, a colored pianist, is planning a concert to be made up of compositions by S. Coleridge-Taylor, Burleigh, Dett, and Cook. 

Oscar Seagle, at his recital in Brooklyn, N. Y., at the Academy of Music, March 25, sang a group of Negro spirituals arranged by Burleigh. The Brooklyn Life says: "In Oscar Seagle these songs have found their true interpreter."

The National Federation of Musical Clubs at its biennial convention, held in Birmingham, Ala., April 15-22, proposed that the Negro melodies of plantation days be made a national asset. Action will be taken to ask the U.S. Government to preserve the songs, in accordance with resolutions already adopted. 

At the All-American League's conclave held at Exposition Park, Los Angeles, Cal., February 22, J.D. Reynolds was awarded first prize, a gold medal, for free hand crayon drawings and a diploma for plain and ornamental pen and ink lettering. 

An excellent performance of Mendelssohn's "Elijah" was given April 26 at Jordan Hall, Boston, Mass., by a chorus of colored singers conducted by Dr. Walter O. Taylor. The assisting soloists were Rachel Walker, soprano; Marion Anderson, contralto; Roland W. Hayes, tenor, and Harry T. Burleigh, baritone. Frederick P. White, was the organist, with Lillian Ray Beal and William S. Lawrence at the piano, combined with a selected orchestra. It was Miss Anderson's first appearance in Boston. She is a young singer from Philadelphia and is the possessor of an exceptional voice of great beauty. Her singing was the sensation of the evening. 

Among the compositions sung at the Nylic Choral Society concert at Aeolian Hall, New York, on April 26, was Coleridge Taylor's "Viking Song." The assisting soloist, Edith Chapman Gould, soprano, also sang songs by Coleridge-Taylor. 

The last studio recital of the season of Arthur B. Hunt of St. Paul, Minn. was noticeable for the number of pieces by composers of color and those written after the Negro idiom. 

"An Evening With Negro Poets and Musicians" was held at the Union Baptist Church Zanesville, Ohio, on April 19 under the direction of Charles E. Frye. 

The winter tour of Maud Cuney Hare, pianist, and William H. Richardson, baritone, closed at Washington, D. C., with a song recital at Lincoln Temple Congregational Church on April 20. Mr. Richardson sang numbers by Handel, Leoncavallo, Massenet, Cadman, Rosamond Johnson, and Burleigh, with a group of folk-songs drawn from the Creole, Afro-American and English. Mrs. Hare was heard in pieces by Rebikoff, Rachmaninoff, Cyril Scott, and MacDowell. 

Samuel O'Farrill and his son, Juan P. O'Farrill, of Havana, Cuba, are members of the orchestra with the Flame Company, now playing in Boston, Mass. The son has a long contract as song-writer with the Columbia Phonograph Company. 

A troupe of "Fisk Jubilee Singers" is giving successful concerts in Australia. 

The Los Angeles Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. is offering gold and silver medals for efficiency in music. Miss Edna Heard won the gold medal this year, and Miss Hazel Robinson the silver medal. The Mayor of the city conferred the prizes. 

EDUCATION. 

Roger Williams University Nashville, Tenn., has celebrated fiftieth anniversary. Biddle University, Charlotte, N. C., will celebrate her fiftieth anniversary at the coming commencement, the first week in June. 

William Mason, a freshman in the Arts College at the State University, Cincinnati, Ohio, won first prize of twenty dollars in the university oratorical contest held at Northminister Church. His subject was "Americanism and Prohibition."

The Tennessee State Legislature has appropriated $75,000 to the A. & I. State Normal School at Nashville; at St. Louis, Mo., a bill has passed both houses granting authority to St. Louis Country to vote a bond issue for the purpose of erecting a high school for colored children. Governor Gardener signed the bill. 

Libraries have been given to each of the four colored city schools of Raleigh, N. C., at a cost of $500.


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Twenty-six colored persons graduated from the Night High School in Houston, Texas. 

At Medford, Mass., High School, Leon Furr, a colored boy, has been made captain of the hockey team, and Henry Jeffress, another colored lad, first sergeant of the school regiment. 

The Lexington, Ky., city schools, under supervisor W. H. Fouse, received the highest award for the most complete school exhibit at the recent meeting of the colored teachers at Louisville. 

Miss. Marie Mitchell, a colored student in the business training department of the Cambridge, Mass., High School, was awarded second prize in the typewriting contest. 

Miss Beatrice E. Lee, who graduated from the University of Chicago last year, has been appointed teacher of German in the Chicago public schools. 

The Harriet Beecher Stowe School gave a masque on social education at Cincinnati, Ohio. The story, "The Eternal Brotherhood," was written by W. L. Anderson, and was presented by Principal Jennie D. Porter and her pupils in eight scenes at the Emory Auditorium. 

The forty-ninth closing exercises of Hampton Institute have taken place with ninety-eight graduates. 

In place of one new colored school building for Houston Heights, Houston, Tex., to be built out of the proceeds of the recently voted bond issue of $225,000, two smaller brick buildings will be erected. 

A summer school for colored teachers is to be conducted at Straight College under the auspices of the New Orleans School Board, June 11 to July 20. 

SOCIAL PROGRESS 

A license has been issued by the Department of Labor to William Jennings Newson, a student of the Dunbar High School, Washington, D. C., as a wireless operator. 

N. Z. Crawford, a colored man, recently of Brooklyn, N.Y., but a native of Charleston, S. C., has been made a Deputy Sheriff of Noank, Conn. 

When the Boy Scouts in Grand Rapids, Mich., went on a ten mile hike recently. Harry Johnson, a colored Boy Scout, discovered and removed a log burning on a railway track. He will be given a merit badge for his brave and quick action. 

Public Defender for the Negro is a new office created in Pittsburgh, Pa., by Mayor Armstrong. Rev. A. M. Patterson, a colored man, has been designated by the Mayor to fill this office. He will appear regularly in Magistrate Fugassi's court and defend, free of charge, every Negro whose case deserves investigation. 

A six-day spring carnival was held by Negroes at Independence Heights, an exclusive colored town six miles from Houston, Tex. There were horse and automobile races every day and the carnival closed April 21 with a baseball game between the Colored High School and Houston College. Inauguration Day was celebrated when officials elected at the city election were installed to office. 

A Mardi Gras was given in Washington, D. C., recently at Convention Hall for the benefit of the Y. W. C. A. Over 2,000 people attended and $700 was cleared. Mrs. Anita Brown was manager of the affair. 

The Jackson Bill, introduced by Major R. R. Jackson of the Eighth Illinois Regiment, which is intended to prevent exhibition of pictures like "The Birth of a Nation" on the ground that such pictures incite race hatred, passed both Houses, but was vetoed by the Governor. 

A house and lot have been purchased for a Negro hospital in Fayetteville, Tenn., for which $1,100 has been raised. Part of this sum was appropriated by the County Court and the Corporation of Fayetteville, and the balance contributed by both white and colored citizens. 

Colored people of New Orleans, La., are planning a $10,000 hospital on Delachaise street. 

Jesse L. Livermore, a white Wall Street speculator, while a guest at the Seminole Club, Jacksonville, Fla., was so pleased with a sauce made by the colored headwaiter, Oscar C. Carter, that he has given $10,000 to put his product to be known as the Oscar Carter Sauce, on the market.

Isaiah Williams, of Jacksonville, Fla., has invented a machine gun. 

In Knoxville, Tenn., the City Commissioners have appointed John Singleton to the detective force and David Saunders to the police force. There are now five colored men serving on the city police force. 

The Bayshore Hotel at Buckroe Beach,