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Vol 7 No 36
GRIT DOING BOSTON
WflHim Hoy Curlson Disgusted vlth Fac
tional Strife 0er Baker Family
Explanation as to Monies That Do Not
Eiptaln Bostons Plctureesque
Transcript Square as a Die
on Race Isnes Attorney Wolfl Fcvor
able io a IlivlUert Vote -Lawyer Brevrn
a Talker Loafers lftio live on Wo
mens Labor A Breezy Bad iter Notes
and Comments
Boston Mass Special I left Alba
ny last Wednesday morning for Boston
on the 9 10 flyer and reached the can
ter of culture and the habitat ol the
bean about 3 pm and found myself
reaching for beans In a local hashery a
few moments after I left the new Bos
ton carl seum which la usad aa a
depot and car ahed for Incoming and
outgoing trains It is a small in
significant looking affair built of gran
ite and probably coat nine or ten hun
dred dollars There are twenty eight
tracks within the inclosure and at
night the interior is lighted by elec
tricity I dont believe there isauoth
er building like it in the United States
But Ecston people were always differ
ent from other people especially poo
pie who are unlike them They cook
the r beans more brown eat more cod
fish and frosh mackerel and chew more
brown bread than people in other
states bo one need not be Burprised if
they build their car sheds on different
plan from other peoples car sheds
lhey expect strangers to go into
tfaa mrar it strt fljf nllt tn nnrtnv
kuuui lb Ik UiaV DlUk A DHUUU
come to and swoon again over this
mitchleas pile of granite I say match
le because I have never seen anything
like It in books nor in my travels Its
a crosa between aetata arnnry and a
cjnvention hall At flritBight it looks
like a reproduction in miniature of the
fomnus colllseum at Borne only this is
kind ofunnelshaped and when viewed
from the top of a big building looks
iurean immense wedge
substantial structure and
Bat it is a
promises to
be hero when the next Revolutionary
war is fit
It is flfteon years this month since JI
was in Boston and except the rebuild
ing of the new daypo the subway
the erection of the Attucks and Shaw
monuments of which more anon and
the addition to the State House Bos
ton looks to me just as natural as it
did then The colored brethren and
sisteren congregate on Cambridge street
ia droves and argify and argify on dif
ferent pints just as they did fifteen
years ago Thev are iast tut hard
in and just as noisy with their moutha
LSLYet there at0 some mighty nice
- bu ueonin
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dont DUSloa out tney
cuiniepartofBos
wre
on These
colored opnnio u
Boa with
icrlJa66181 have brieilyde
on the principal business
WASHINGTON D C SATURDAY DECEMBER 2 1899
INTERESTING FAMILY OF POSTMASTER FRAZIER BAKER FOULLY MURDERED AT LAKE CITY S C FEBRUARY 22i898
streets of the city that seems to have Bakers and have succeeded in raising
nothing to do but stand on the corners aimoatsibUO i shall try to run the
talk politic and drink fighting gin figures up to 92000 so as to give them
I called on Mr William Lloyd
hou yeaieruay ana asuea htm to give
me the facts about the Biker family
troubles which had caused several col
ored people of Boatou standing on their
heads and trying to spit backwards
He said Mr Bruce I am worn out
have made an exhibition of themselves f
The several factious hive been exploit1
they were fifteen yeara ago Tbe lne the Baker familv fnr tho nnm
lmblnjAll j fFI
u u umorea auaes ana Denes
draped in loud garments with their
tair done up in Ox Marrow or Quince
jaiceand their faces plastered with
pulverized corn starch psrade Cm-
Wdge street and Washington street
J3it a3 their predecessors did fiftPAn
yeara ago I looked In vain for Borne
Tsible sign of improvement in the
methods of his living habits and ens
tms of the Negroes in the 9h 10th
d llih wards of Boston but they
javenl improved on the patent The
eedom which Boston offers the Negro
toi3nnableto see further than the
ad of his noss will
some day prove a
Jmerang He has got both hands
u of freedom and he is just rolling In
1 and civil rights TThen the
father permits the ladies of the raca
ontn lu eir 8pare momets hanging
of the
windows and gossiping with
eir neighbors aernsa ntrttata m ki
making money out of their misfortunes
Entertainments have been given forthe
benefit of the Baker family My name
has been used by these people to at
tract a crowd and to play upon the
sympathies of a generous public These
people I mean the colored pe3ple of
Boston who do these things care no
more for me than they do for the dirt
under their feet The Influence of my
fathers name the name which I
bear is what they want to helD
them along and they have been
using it for all it ia worth ever since I
took charge of the Baker fund The
entertainment given for the benefit of
the Baker family by these people have
in several instances proven successful
but when a division of the receipts were
made in each Instance the promoters
or the affairs
paid themselves and all
the talent most liberally and then di
vided with the Baker family some
limes giving them 2 3 and rarelv
ever more than 5 I am ashamed of
the conduct of these people and of some
of the ministers who have been promi
nent In this disgraceful scramble
Istarledontto raise 1200 forthe
a small reserve fund I have already
purchased a houso for them and when
X rai88the last dollar of the amount I
have fixed on I shall turn the fund
oyer to Mrs Baker and gladly step
aside I dont say that any of these
people are dishonest who have been
handling tho Bakers but I do say that
they hiva not rendered an accounting
rrvrZLr
lay -as been made of monies received
from the various benefits and
moniala given for the Bakers The
Bakers havent received these funds -it
appears and its up to the sympathet
ic Boston Negro and Miss Jewett
who is said to have realized over 800
showing the Baker family ofl to ex
plain the explanation they have al
ready given which does not explain
Mr Garrison told me that be would
put a stop to this disgraceful business
by notifying the public through the
press that he only is authorized to re
ceive funds for the relief of the Baker
family Its a nasty mefs and it is due
to the better class of the Negroes of
Boston to say that they have allowed
Miss Jewett and her following to get all
tbe glory and cheap notoriety possible
by exploiting the Baker family and
playing upon the sympathies of the
public The best class of Boston color
ed people be It ssid to their everlast
ing credit havent soiled their finders
with this blood monay nor interfered
with the plana of tbe self seekers and
notoriety hunters who have found the
Baker family almost aa good as a gold
mine Mr Garrison has gocd reason to
be disgusted with the conduct of those
colored people In Boston who have fill
ed the air and the newspapers with the
echoes of their disgraceful carryings
on over the Bakers and the boodle
I had a very pleasant chat today with
Mr Clement the managing editor of
tbe Boston Evening Transcript In the
course of our talft he told me that as a
child he had early learned to sympa
thize with the Negros lot aa a Blave
and that be had blubbered out more
than once at anti slavery meetings over
the terrible recitals by anti slavery ora
tors of the cruelty to the black man
The Transcript is the unflinching
friend of the Negro and is one of tbe
best written and cleanest newspapers
in Massachusetts At Tongas Mr Clem
ent is at the helm tbe Negro will al
ways have an earnest champion and
defender in the editoriarobair
It would be a great mistake on the
part of the pilgrim journeying to Boa
ton or through it to take his pedal ex
tremities ofl its eacred soli without
paying his respects to the courtly and
dignified Ed Ward Everett Brown
lawyer gentleman scholar orator and
hustler1 I paid thedebt yesterday and
i -was right glad I did so as I had tbe
pleasure and opportunity of meeting
and shaking hands with Judge Advo
cate J H Wolff Mr Browns law part
ner a most estimable anl agreeable
gentleman who ia fond of the good
things of this life and who never per
mits himself to become excited He is
cool calm sagacious and a thinker
I found that both he and Mr Brown
were at one on the question of diviaion
of the Negro vote and was informed
by Mr Brown that quite a considera
ble number of Negroes In Boston divid
ed their votes at the recent election
Mr Wolff Is an expansionist and offered
some very cogent reasons for the faith
that is in him He is a splendid con
versationalist and if It were necessary
for the friends of expansion alias crimi
nal aggression to place a regiment of
spellbinders in the field to kill off tbe
anil expansion sentiment Mr Wolfl
would prove to be a dangerously elo
quent and logical spellbinder Ho is a
very fine gentleman and I liked him
much He bears a striking likeness to
W Allison Sweeney and is a handsome
man
Edward Everett Brown Eq Is a
royal host a genial wholesouled good
fellow He is working like a beaver on
hia anti lynching bill and has about 3
miles of petitions signed and stored
away in bis office which are to be fired
at Congresawben his bill la offered
When MrBrown comes to Washington
plea e give the freedom of the city and
take him to tbe Grand If be doesnt
succeed in making a case against the
white livered narrow manager of that
joint no man can He is a hard fighter
and he was born talking He talks to
the point and talks well I believe Mr
Brown would rather talK than eat He
stands very high at the Boston bar and
his proverbial bon homme makes him
popular among all classes I spent a
very pleasant hour or two with him
visiting the State House the show the
Attacks monument and other points of
interest called on MrsRuffln wife of
Judge Buffin who was out at her
pretty home in Charles street met and
was Introduced to Bostons famous tail
or J H Lewis Esq who is said to be
worth 100000 and one or two other
notabilities Edward E Brown is all
right and hes making money and
masing friendj because hes built
that way
Passim along Cambridge street this
Continued on 8th page
Price Eive ents
THE FDNCTION OF LANGUAGE
Pror George H Llghtfoots Testimony as to
tbe Utility and Yalae of Latin and Greet
Iaflnenee of Grecian and Roman
Clvllzatlon Most Potently Felt
TIironRh tbe Iinncnace of those Na
tionsBeauty and Sentiment Preserv
ed inly In Original Tongues Tne
Classics Holding Their Own In Spite
oflconoclasm of The Age Broaden
Ins Force ol Literary Investigation
At the Tuesday night meeting of
Bethel Literary and Historical Associa
tion held at Lincoln Memorial Congre
gational church Proi George M
Lightfoot of Howard University pre
sented an able paper on The Junc
tion of Language It was a moat im
portant contribution to the literature
of the hour and touched daeply a line
of investigation that Is prominent in
the public mind The production was
heartily enjoyed by a large and Intel
lectual gathering Prof Lightfoot said
in part
In these days when all society la so
muejijeiigrq38ed In material pfcigiasjj
when there is such a pronounced
tendency to determine tho value of
every social force by its power to pro
duce dollars and cents when we have
such spoken and visible arguments
showing the far reaching benefits which
the masses receive from industrial edu
cation and when time baa become the
scarcest of human possessions it ia no
great wonder tbatlhoee who advocate
and support the higher culture are
constantly called upon to show the
value not only of the higher edueatlon
as a whole but alao of the various
branches included under this desig
nation
In this paper I propose to discuss the
function of language in tbe secondary
and in the higher education Obviously
there can be no ques ion as to the
function of at least one language viz
ones vernacular in every stage of edu
cation whether it be primary second
ary or higher for as Whitney the
most distinguished of American pbllolo
gists truly remarks Learning to speak
is the first necessary step in every
childs eduoatlon and the necessary
preparation for receiving higher in
struction of every kind So was it with
the human race the acquisition of
language constituted the first stage in
the progressive development of its ca
pacities It is clear then that no
argument ia needed to convince one of
the importance of a thorough famili
arity witn ones own tongue aa an In
dispensable vehicle of all thought The
burden of this paper then is to show
tbe fanction of the foreign languages
In the secondary and the higher edu
cation
In our secondary schools and in colt
leges the foreign languages studied
may be divided into two classes the
ancient and the modern under the
term ancient languages we generally
Include only Greek and Latin though
Hebrew Sanskrit and many others
belong to this class The modern lang
uages for our purposes are made to In
clude tbe German representing the
Teutonic branch of the family of lang
uages and closely akin to the English
and the Bomance languages which are
derived from the Latin The most
widely studied ot tbe latter group is
French though Italian and Spanish
come in for no small amount of at
tention From this custom of study
ing tbe foreign languages it will be
seen that If I can show the value of
Latin and Greek and of French and
German in the secondary and in the
higher education I shall meet all the
requirements of the subject
The speaker then pointed ont Just
bow Greek and Latin became the most
important factors in our modern edu
cational system remarking that only
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