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142          THE CRISIS

Worker, South Central Field; Adele F. Ruffin, Special Worker, South Atlantic Field. The local workers are Mrs. A. W. Hunton, Girls' Work, New York and Brooklyn; Miss Alice Shores, Petersburg; Mrs. Hannah C. Smith, Camp Upton, and Miss Genevieve Lee, Camp Upton. 

[[image]] Mayor James M. Curley of Boston, Mass., who is a candidate for re-election, and who offended the colored people by allowing "The Birth of a Nation" to be shown, has given a dinner at the Parker House to fifty colored men. 

[[image]] Thirty colored soldiers of the First Separate Company of Maryland have been in prison for refusing to act as hostlers at Camp McClellan, Ala. 

INDUSTRY.

MANDEL BROTHERS, one of the largest department stores in Chicago, Ill., announces the employment of colored elevator operators. 

[[image]] Colored men are being employed to run electric trucks in the Armour Company's yards in Chicago, Ill.

[[image]] Custodians, janitors, and engineers of colored schools in Washington, D.C., have organized and been admitted as a branch of the American Federation of Labor. 

[[image]] Miss Jennie Collins, formerly an usher, is now telephone operator at the Palace Theatre, Chicago, Ill., a position formerly held by white labor.

[[image]] A force of fifty colored carpenters were employed on the Government cantonments at San Antonio, Tex., at $6.70 a day.

[[image]] Negro women have replaced male baggage truckmen of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Ridley Park Station, Philadelphia, Pa.

[[image]] The American Federation of Labor at its Buffalo meeting recognized certain colored helpers' and laborers' unions in the South and authorized for the first time colored organizers. White Southern delegates acquiesced in the plan. 

[[image]] The Avalon Hosiery Mill of Elizabeth City, N.C., is employing forty-five colored girls as knitters and will have one hundred girls by February 1. The girls start at $3.50 a week and may eventually earn from seven to eleven dollars, a wage far below union standards. 

[[image]] The Dare Lumber Company of Elizabeth City, N.C., is using colored women instead of men in its shingle department. 

[[image]] The colored Mechanics Savings Bank of Richmond, Va., reports deposits of $277,524. Its total resources are $330,560.

MEETINGS. 

THE State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs of Kentucky met at Paris with one hundred and fifty delegates

[[image]] The fifth conference of the Association of Colleges for Negro Youth met in Atlanta, Ga. Eleven presidents and deans of colored colleges were in attendance. 

[[image]] The fiftieth annual session of the Maryland State Teachers Association has convened in Baltimore, with over two thousand teachers in attendance. Unless the Legislature increases the salary of poorly-paid teachers there is fear of many vacancies in the school system. A petition will be sent to the Governor. 

[[image]] The sixth annual meeting of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes was held in New York City. 

[[image]] The Albemarle Conference of the A. M. E. Church has sixty churches and raised thirty thousand dollars in the past year. 

EDUCATION. 

THE Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa., has opened a night school for its hundreds of colored employees. They are taught shop arithmetic, English, manufacturing methods and materials, blue-print reading, and hygiene.

[[image]] Because of the increase of fifteen hundred Negro pupils, the Lincoln Graded School in St. Louis, Mo.,  for white children, has been changed to a school for Negro children. 

[[image]] The Missouri Baptist Association raised at its recent convention twelve hundred dollars for Macon College, and one thousand dollars to assist needy Negro students from Missouri attending the Baptist Theological Seminary. 

[[image]] In Baltimore, Md., the tax levy for 1918 contains an appropriation for a new twenty-four room school building for Negroes in northwest Baltimore. 

[[image]] Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes have been bequeathed five thousand dollars each by the late Mr. Richard Black Sewall of Boston, Mass.

[[image]] The late Mr. Robely D. Evans, of Boston. Mass., willed $100,000 to Tuskegee Institute and $25,000 to Hampton. 

THE HORIZON          143

[[image]] Plans are under consideration for the establishment of schools at all cantonments for illiterate Negro drafted men. 

[[image]] Morgan College has been celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. Among the honorary degrees conferred were Doctor of Science upon W.A. Warfield of Freedman Hospital' Doctor of Pedagogy upon J.H. Lockerman; Doctor of Divinity upon W.H. Brooks, M. W. Clair, W. A. C. Hughes, J. U. King, and M. J. Naylor. The Governor of the State took park in the exercises. 

SOCIAL PROGRESS.

A TROOP of colored Boy Scouts has been registered in Louisville, Ky. Dr. Wilson Ballard is Scout Master. 

[[image]] Utica Institute, Utica, Miss., has recently lost, through fire, its main boys' dormitory. 

[[image]] Out of thirty appointments by the United States Government as special veterinary assistants at the stock yards in Chicago, Ill., fifteen are colored. 

[[image]] The Catholic Hill School, an institution for the education of colored children in Asheville, N.C., has been destroyed by fire. Ten children were burned to death and other injured. Three hundred children were in the three-story building at the time. 

[[image]] Samuel O. Ozborn has built an eighteen thousand dollar apartment house for Negroes in the recently burned colored district in Atlanta, Ga. It contains eight separate apartments of four rooms each with bath. 

[[image]] A playground for colored children has been provided for in Jacksonville, Fla., by the city. 

[[image]] Only six out of twelve hundred men at the officers' training camp at Fort Des Moines had any trace of syphilis. 

[[image]] Football scores are reported as follows: Hampton 26, Petersburg 6; Tuskegee 19, Morehouse 6; Union 3, Hampton 0; West Virginia Institute 7, Howard 6; Union 16, Howard 0; Tuskegee 14, Talladega 0; Atlanta 12, Talladega 6; Hampton 7, Lincoln 0; Lincoln 7, Howard 0; Tuskegee 20, Atlanta 8. 

[[image]] Negro citizens of New Orleans, La., have raised over twenty-three hundred dollars toward a fund for the establishment of The Provident Sanitarium and Training School for colored nurses. The Times-Picayune has received $426 additional. The Colored Trades Council, composed of carpenters, bricklayers, plasterers and painters, has offered to work one or two days free in the construction of the hospital. 

[[image]] Birth statistics issues by the Bureau of United States Census record for 1915, 12,405 births for the registration area containing 600,821 colored people, which is a rate of 20.6 per thousand, as compared with a rate of 25 for the whites. One hundred and eighty-one deaths of infants under one year of age per one thousand births were recorded for colored people, as compared with ninety-nine for whites. The report says: "It is possible, however, that the registration of births is not as complete among colored as among white persons and that, therefore, the rates shown for the former class are too low."

[[image]] Mrs. Annie West and Mrs. N. Howe of Springfield, Mass., have secured damages of twenty-five dollars each against a five and ten cent store which refused to serve them at the soda fountain because they were colored. 

[[image]] A playground for colored children has been opened in San Antonio, Tex.

[[image]] A survey of the colored people of Newark has been made by Mr. W. M. Ashby. Ten families were found with an average income of $21.90 a week out of which an average rental of $11.05 a month had to be paid. The housing conditions have been brought to the attention of the authorities and a movement for improvement is on foot. 

[[image]] The Louisiana Railroad Commission, after granting a hearing to the colored people, has issued an order directing the railroads of the State by May 1, 1918, to provide better service for Negroes who travel. The New Orleans Times-Picayune says that the "Jim-Crow" cars have been "utterly unfit in many cases and growing steadily worse."

[[image]] Over forty thousand cans of fruit and vegetables have been put up by twenty-one community clubs of seventeen hundred people, organized under the M.S. Church of Brookhaven District, Mississippi. 

[[image]] A central figure at the historical pageant given at Fort Smith, Ark., was Judge Robert Fortune with two white and two Indian prisoners. Fortune was one of many powerful black deputy marshals in early Oklahoma days. 

[[image]] Harry S. Keelan, a chemist in the re-