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90      THE CRISIS

Va., opened May 15 with considerable improvements in facilities and service.
The colored women's clubs of Oregon have organized a state federation. Mrs. H. M. Gray is president.

W. Stokeley, a colored boy and a runner of the St. Christopher A. C., led 250 harriers to the finish at the annual road race run of the Paulist Athletic Club in New York City.
In Jacksonville, Fla., a playground for colored children has been erected on Stanton avenue, to cost $140,000.

The colored workers for the Nashville, Tenn., Y. M. C. A. building, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Malone contributed $5,000.

Mrs. Mary E. Wilson, Boston, Mass., has held between January 18 and March 18 twelve meetings throughout New England, at which $446.42 was raised for the Anti-Lynching Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Mrs. Wilson's expenses for her services and travel were defrayed by friends and thus were no tax upon the treasury of the N.A.A.C.P.

THE CHURCH.

NEGRO ministers of Newport News, Va., have pledged their aid to the Ministerial Association in the effort of that body to secure a religious census of the city. A. F. Williams, Secretary of the Negro Y. M. C. A., was made Chairman of the Committee, and Rev. Sharp, Secretary.
The New York Conference of Northern Methodists has openly denounced the proposed elimination of Negro delegates to the General Conference. The Rev. Philip M. Waters, President of Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga., declared that the denomination did not seek unity at the cost of humiliation for its loyal Negro members. Such a suggestion, he declared, was proof that "the cause of democracy is not yet fought out in America." A resolution favoring the unification of the Methodist Church in this country, without discrimination against the Negro, was passed at the 77th annual New England Southern Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church held in Providence, R. I., March 31.

The annual spring rally of Mother Zion Church in New York City, resulted in raising $4,188. Rev. J. W. Brown is pastor. 

Colored ministers of New York have refused to co-operate with the Billy Sunday meetings, claiming that they were ignored when the movement was planned.
Dr. John R. Hawkins reports that the A. M. E. Church raised in dollar money during the fiscal year ending March 31, 1917, $226,796. This is $12,000 more than last year.

POLITICS.

Colored voters in Fresno, Cal., have met and organized the Afro-American Civic League. William Bigby, Jr., is secretary.

By a plurality of more than 2,000, Louis B. Anderson, Assistant Corporation Counsel, was elected Alderman from the Second Ward, Chicago, Ill., to succeed Oscar De Priest.

A colored man, Virgil Chambliss, has been elected an Alderman of Mounds, Ill.

PERSONAL.

JAMES SUNDERS, the only colored officer on the police force of Plainfield, N. J., has retired after serving twenty-six years. He will be paid a pension of $600 a year for the balance of his life.

James C. Thomas, the well-known undertaker of New York City, has suffered a stroke of paralysis.

Mrs. Albert Winslow of Auburn, N. Y., has been left a legacy of $200 by a former white employer, Mrs. Sarah Prowd. 

The law firm of McGrew, Laybourne and MacGregor of Springfield, Ohio, is seeking to locate Marie and Mary Duncan, who are heirs to considerable property. The Duncan girls were taken from the Clark County, Ohio, Children's Home about fifteen years ago.

Binga Dismond, who has been a star of the University of Chicago's track team for three years, has given up athletics to study medicine.

Capt. Benjamin O. Davis has been withdrawn as military instructor at Wilberforce University and will be sent to the Philippines.

William J. Mossell, in Baltimore, Md., for many years valet to the Oscar G. Murray, who was president of the B. & O. Railroad for many years, has been willed $10,000 by the deceased.


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The Sarah Ann white Home for Colored People and the Layton Home for Aged Colored People, Wilmington, Del., have each been bequeathed $1,000 through the will of the late Edward Betts.

Louis W. Renn of Norfolk, Va., has celebrated his fiftieth anniversary as an employee of the Sea Board Air Line Railroad.

Mrs. W. A. Hunton has become Northern Secretary of the Fort Valley School of which Mr. H. A. Hunt is principal.

Bishop I. N. Ross has returned from West Africa, where he has been since January 28, 1917.

The necrology for the month includes the Rev. Cassius M. C. Mason, for thirty-seven years rector of All Saints P. E. Church, St. Louis, Mo.; James E. Churchman, a well-known colored man of Orange, N. J.; Mrs. Sarah L. Taylor, the mother of John B. Taylor, the champion sprinter; Mrs. Hannah Walker, a business woman in New York City, said to be worth $150,000; the Hon. J. R. Terrell, prominent in fraternal circles and a widely known business man; Prof. A. H. Colwell, formerly principal of the city school at Bryan, Tex., where he served seventeen consecutive years; Mrs. Sarah Wright, for many years prominent in the work of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Wright had a minister's certificate and was for some time a pastor of the A. M. E. Church at Marshalltown. One of her sons is Herbert R. Wright, American consul to Venezuela, who has been stationed at Puerto Cabello and who has recently resigned and returned to America. 

Spencer R. Smith, the white principal of the Wendell Phillips High School, Chicago, is dead. He was a firm friend of colored folk and prevented discrimination in his school, which has a large number of colored pupils.

FOREIGN.

IN the recent pageant commemorating Washington's birthday, the local papers of Honolulu lauded the 25th U. S. Infantry, stationed at Schofield Barracks, who not only did themselves proud in the line of march, but carried off all honors in the athletic events followed.

One hundred out of 800 colored employees at the Cristobal Dry Docks, Panama, have struck for higher wages.

Recent reports declare that there are now 700,000 colored troops in the French army. They are from Algiers, Morocco, Nigeria, Dahomey, and the French Congo.

So terrific has been the strain of the fever-producing climate and other hardships in German East Africa that the British are now training natives to take the places of whites.

GHETTO.

JOHN RANDOLPH, the famous Virginian statesman, said in his will: "I give and bequeath to all my slaves their freedom, heartily regretting that I have ever been the owner of one." He also willed $15,000 for the purchase of land for them. William Leigh, his executor, bought land in Mercer County, Ohio, but the residents refused to let the Negroes come there. Leigh then sold the land in 1846. Heirs of the slaves in August, 1907, sued for their interest in the land, but the Ohio Supreme Court rendered a decision March 20, 1917, upholding Leigh in disposing of it.

A verdict of $1,200 against Dr. W. M. McCabe, Superintendent of the City Hospital, was awarded by a jury in the Circuit Court at Nashville, Tenn., March 22, in a suit brought by Eva Butler, Alma Posey, and George Lynch, Negroes, who alleged that the hospital superintendent had performed an autopsy on the body of their mother, who had died in the hospital, in violation to their wishes. 

In St. Louis, Mo., the colored members of the Knights of Pythias are in a legal controversy for control of the Order. An attempt is being made to unseat Aaron W. Lloyd, who had been Grand Chancellor of the State Body for sixteen years.

The Supreme Court at Washington, D. C., handed down a decision April 13, reinstating the Virginia Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias in the Supreme Lodge.

Representative Glass, of Philadelphia, has introduced a bill in the Pennsylvania Legislature preventing places of public resort of amusement from discrimination against persons on account of race or religion. A penalty of from $100 to $500 is provided for violations, to go to the aggrieved persons, and a similar one to the counties where the violations occur. The bill, if enacted, will strengthen the Civil Rights Law of 1887.

Negroes in Richmond, Va., have organized to fight segregation, and the Civic Improvement