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Vol. 1. No. 18.
“The Twin-Gity American” and “The Colored Citizen” Consolidated
~ The Afro-American Advance
~* _With a Circulation of over 15,000.
ker T. Washington's
fnial School at Tuskegee,
Alabama.
sands Attend the Com
ncement Exercises—A
ost Prosperous Finan
cial Year—Prominent
Race Men Speak.
e 17th annual session of the
cgee Normal and Industrial
ute closed May 25th. The
m to the graduating class was
hed Sunday, May 21st by
R. C. Bedford, Secretary of
Board of Trustees, Sunday
, the auniversary of the re
s societies were held. Exeel
reports were given of re
&, temperance and missionary
. Nearly two hundred stud
were converted during the
Monday night was given to
*helps Hall Bible Training
l. Two young men and one
¢ woman graduated, making
ty in all, in tne six years of
Lm-k. It has given instruction
er 300, 73. have been in-at
ance this year.
e contest for the Trinity
'ch Boston prize, established
ir- E. Winchester Donald sue
r to Phillip Brooks, was the
r feature of Tuesday evening,
3. This was the fourth an
content. BSix young men,
from the gradnating class and
from the in-coming senior
took part. The prize was
Great enthusiasm was shown
he speakers and the whole
ent body. The prize was
ded to Riehard Hill 00 from
ndian Territorv.
ednesday night was given to
Industrial Departments. Mr,
» H. Washington, Sr., director
Industries, presided. The
cises were very unpressive and
of promise. Thirty-two com
d the course of study in the
rent trades, seventeen young
and fifteen young women.
nty of these are also graduates
e Normal Department. They
sent the following trades:
ting, painting, shoemaking,
nilling, tinsmithing, tailoring
dry work, farming, dairying,
entry, steam engineering,
s making, millinery, launder
nursing and cooking.
¢ trustees held a very im
int meeting will be made pub
ter. Mr. G. W. Campell the
-an president presided. Most
fui views were expressed with
ence to the future of the
ol -
1 of Tuskegee's years huvej
remarkable, but none more so
the one that closed May 25th.
enrolimeént of students outside
e Training Sehool has reached
1 boys, 363 girls, 1164 The
idance has been wonderfully
lar during the year, the aver
having reached a fraction over
0. Morve than a 1,000 worthy
icants were turned awoy for
. of shelter. Twenty-four
*s have been represented with
8, Porto Rico, Africa, England
~ Georgia follows with 222
Cobans and Porto Ricans are
learning the English
; are doing well and secem
4t bome. All of them
| reeeived promotion in the
$3.796.
To the Public :—
The Twin-City American and The Colored Citizen have consolidated, forming THE AFRO-AMERICAN ADVANCE. aweekly news
paper devoted to the local and national interests of the colored race, especially those of the race who live in the northwest, particularly of
t)xe Twin Cities. THE ADVANCE is owned and operated by a company of Mfineapolis citizens, who will spare no pains nor money in making
this the leading Negro journal of America. J. C. Reid, formerly president of the Colored Citizen Publishing Company, is president of the company;
J. M. Griffin, formerly editor and proprietor of The Twin-City American, is manager; and McCants Stewart, formerly business manager of
the Twin-City American, is business manager. _
: We especially desire to call the attention of business men to the fact of our consolidation, because it enables’ us to control an extra
ordinary large trade. THE ADVANCE reaches the homes of more than twice as many people as either of the other papers, of which it is the
outgrowth; and we solicit your patronage in our advertizing columns. To adnr§nze in THE ADVANCE means a profitable investment for the
advancement of your business; your returns will more than double the price of space. Give us a trial, and note the results.
A.sample of usefulness in the
work of the students is seen in
their having laid about 700,000
bricks during the vear. The re
ceipts and disbursements this year
reached over $160,000, Of this
$4,500 ecame from the State of
Alabanta, $B,OOO from the John F.
Slater Fund. $5,000, a first pay
ment on the Huntington Hall; the
balance in different sums from
different sources.
" The corner-stoné of Huntington
Hall was laid Tuursday morning,
May 25. It is a gift of Mrs. C, P.
Huntington of New York, a new
dormitory for girls. Rev. W. C.
Banton, D, D., of Eufaula, Ala.,
A. M. E: Church, delivered the ad
dress. It was inspiring, scholarly
and intelligent,
Thursday afternoon, commence
meht exercises took place in the
chapel. The annual address was
delivered by Mr, H. T. Kealing
editor, A. M. E. Church Review,
Philadelphia. This eclass is the
largest in the history of the school,
and the fourteenth to graduate.
The Normal graduates are forty
four; industrial graduates, thir
teen, These still remain in the
Normal department. The Bible
training school gradnates three;
musie, one—making a total of 61.
The speakers did well and greatly
interested in the audience. During
the exercises a cablegram was read
by Treasurer Logan from Principal
Washington, who was thea at
Brussels on his way to Paris. This
message was received wite tremen
dous applause. The address by
Mr. Kealing was heartily received,
It was indeed eloguent. The diplo
mas were presented by Dr. Banton
of Eufaula. The singing was
fully up to the Tuskegee standard.
An inspiring annosincement of
commencement week was the
promise by a New York city lady
of a building for domestic seience,
to eost $15,000. ‘
The receipts and disbursements
of the school last year were #150,-
000. Of this sum #4,500 came
from the State of Alabama, $8 000
ffom the John F. Slater fund,
$5,000, a first payment on Hunt
ington Hall, a new dormitory for
girls. given by Mrs. C. P. Hunt
tington of New York. The re
mainder came in various amounts
from many different sources. ‘
~ The students brick masonry
division laid 600,000 bricks daring
now being perfected to make 2,-
000,000 bricks next year. At
present, the sehool is undergoing a
Btind Woedsawryeps,
The wondsawyers of Atlanta, Ga., 200
in number, have formed s trost and
have ruised the price of sawing stove
wood from 75 cents to one doliar per
b}-bfiwy mewmber of the arganiza
tion is & blind men or s cripple.~Chi
engo Jouraal.
MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL. SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1899,
A Few Suggestions in Refer
ence to the Work of the
Amcerican Law En
forcement League
of Minnesota.
Mg. Eprror:—l do not by any
means arrogate to myself the
ability to teach the gentlemen and
ladies who ecompose the above
named organization, yet, because
deeply - interested . in - the, cause
which called the League into being,
it may not perhaps seem a thing
amiss for me to offer a thought or
two upon the way in which it
seems tome the body eould be emin
ently useful. The tides of fortune
seems to say that the league can
not hope to be a very glittering;
success as a money maker, but this
need not estop its usefiulness alto
gether. Money is a “‘handy thing
to have in the house’’ and yet,
there are a great many houses in
which this commodity is not very‘
plentiful.
So since the League ecan not
seeure, in an easy manner as many
shining dollars as it would like to
see adorning its freasury, it may
wisely east about to devise whether
or not there are other lines along
which its mission lies. T think
there are. One among theseis the
obtaining of correct and reliable
information as to the real cause at
the bottom of all our so-called
“racial troubles,” and they
may very properly inquire as to the
Negro’s part in removing the
the cause- For with the cause re
moved, the effect may be counted
upon to disdppear. But how shall
this intelligent information be ob
tained? "
I do not think it ean be while
the organization perigmiates
around from this place to that in
order to hold its meeting, There
ought to be, it seems to me, one
fixed place, in one or the other of
the cities, for the regular, stated
meetings, that at this place, at
regular times, there should be lee~
tures upon all the phases of this
question which so much interests
us all, and which is beeoming more
a source of annoying eoncern to
our friends in the other race. For
instance, a lecture for meuion!
upon ‘ln what way is the Negmf
a helpful factor in American de
velopment,”” and then a second
which would grow out of the first,
“How ean Ameriea be made to
realize her need of our presence!’’
and then there might be momerl
on ‘"How ean the Negro become
Master, rather than~a servast in
the field of indnstry!” and so 1
might continge the series, but T
think I have given enough to illus
trate my meaning. e
t I notice that some reccntly pub
i“thlqn in cities is dying
more rapidly than he is bm';u horn.
If true, sueh a state of things is
very serious, and behoo:es all
lovers of the race to be alurmed;
for deaths never outnumber births
except where life, physical and
moral, is counted a light thing. In
short, it means, if true, tiat the
Negro spends too much of life in
dissipation, It wonld be well for
bodies like the League 1o look
closely into the truth of sx-h mat
‘ters, and in case the alepiition was
deiscovered to be well founded, a
deligent search after the remedy
might be institnted; and it not
true, I think of no better thing
than the eollection of data, which
should serve to effectunally refute
such publication, |
But my notes are already too ‘-x~?
tended. This is a case where one
can be satisfied with hinting, feel- |
ing sure that the good womeh and
men of the American Law Buforce
ment League are wise enough tn‘
take a hint, though it may m»lj
come from a very wise soaree, |
D. H. Harßris. ‘
J. C. Reid not an Officer of the
Law, »
It is essential that some | colored
democrat should apply for the
position of City police officer,
made vreant by the honorablé dis
charge of Mr. J. C, Reid because
of his republican convietions.
Mr. Reid’s record as an officer
of the law, during his flve years
service was brilliant and above re
proech. Not a complaint was en
tered against him during |8 earcer
as an officer. He was highly
respected by his brother officers,
and by the people on his beat
who was ecomposed of the best
element of our white citizens. The
partisan feeling evineed by our
democratic mayor in releasing Mr.
Reid without a charge of sny kind,
is much to be censured, hesanse we
cannot get a more manly, honest
and fearless gentleman to represent
us as a member of the paolice de
partment, than Mi, Reid. It is
understood that he will devote his
time exclusively to the interest of
THE APRO-AMERICAN ADVANCE a 8
editor-in-chief. We wish him the
much deserved success that is due
all men who has an honest aim in
life. Mr Reid has asserved his
ambition to tske advaniage of
every opportunity, from the fact
that he, in econnection” with his
laborious duties upon the foree,
attended the evening law elass at
the State University, preferring to
EM nights all the time, that he
mignt aequive o legal edueation,
He is now a junior law. He also
applied bis mind to other literary
work with a good beginning. Why
can’t some of our young men with
grester opportunities thanour sub
jeet, attempt to make such valuable
use of their time, It is to he
hoped that more young Negro men
will take advantage of the oppor
tunities offered by our State Uni
versity and seek a qualified eduea
tion,
A NEGRO PRESIDENT
W. D.Coleman Re-elected
Whigs Sweep tire Country.
National Union Party Put to
Sleep.
Coleman Born in Keotucky,
U.S. A.
P. O, Gray, formerly of Minne
apolis, and editor of The World,
in this eity, is now in Liberia, on
the west coast of Afriea. Mr,
Gray is in the slough of Liberian
polities, aud is wielding a powerful
influence over the future destiny of
the Afriean republie,
He writes the following letter to
the Tribune: ""‘Never since Liberia
has been s republic has politieal
fever been so high as it ran last
Saturday, May 2, when the old
Whig party, led by the plumed
knight, W. D. Coleman, its illus
trious standard bearer, and Col. A,
D. Williams, the Union party's
standard bearer, met under a clear
sky, fanned by cool breezes, to en
gage in a royal battle of ballots for
supremacy,
Ballots fell thick and fast be
tween 6 o'elock a. m. and 3 o'clock
p. m., by whieh hour Coleman was
elected bevond a reasonusble doubt.
Some counties gave him as high as
#to 1, The Union party ran be
hind in every congressional distriet
in the republic, save one in the
county of Maryland,
Senator A, B. King, the Li
berian commissioner commissioner
at the World's Fair, proved to be
a second Mark Hanna in political
manipulation,
President Coleman elect has
many friends in Ameriea, who will
receive heartily and with delight the
news of his sweeping vietory in the
great fight for the presidency of
the young African republie,
The nationsl ecommission will
now go on with the work of ex
pansion—especially as regards the
western boundary line on the
Freneh Soudan, with which | have
worked so successfully sinee my ar
rival in this country. The prinei
ples of republicanism and fertile
woil here.
Coleman s well kuown in
Minneapolis, and the result of the
election is awaited there with
interest . o
Subscribe for the Afro-Amer
wan Advance.
TORTURE ADVERTISED
Southern Railroads Sold Tickets on the
Strength of It,
- UHicaco, June 4. —When the
i?\'vgrn Hose wax burned by a moh
at Newman, Ga., prominent colored
%pmplv of Chicago raised a fund
and sent a local detective, named
Levin, to investigate all the cir
enmstances, Today he reported at
L;::th held at Bethel elinech
the burning of hose was pro
meditated and was openly ad
voented by the community as an
example to the eoloved people. He
said he learned positively that
while Hose killed Cranford, Mrs.
Cranford had admitted that the
Negro did not molest her in any
way,
One of the most astonishing
charges made in his report is that
the railroad officials, who made up
a special train fora lynehing party,
after the eapture of Hose actually
advertised the contemplated hurn
ing and sold tickets to people at
tracted by these advertisements,
Deteetive Levin said that the tor
ture and hanging of the aged
colored preacher, Elijah Strick
land, was without a shadow of
reason .
MAY BE BURNED.
Georgia Mob Eager to Repeat Horrors
of Hose Affair.
ATLANTA, June 4.—~A Negro
named Meunifield, who assanlted
an eight-year-old girl near Powder
Springs yosterday, is sarrounded
in a swamp near Austell. and when
eaptured, as he is likely to be he
fore morning, the leaders of the
posse say he will be burned at the
stake,
There are o hundred men in the
posse and all are determined to ad
minister death to the Negro in
some form. The proposition to
mete out to him the dreadfnl fate
suffered by Sam Hose, near Macon
several weeks ago, is deprecated by
the most conservative of the pur
suers, but reports say the majority
favor it.
Word alsa comes from Cedar
town that a mob is gathering
around the jail in that town
elamoring for the blood of a Negro
secused of assaulting a white
woman sixty-five years old a mem
ber of the leading families in that
part of the state. The dispateh
from Cedartown does not say what
vengeanee the mob comtemplates,
but ax anger over his erime iz at
fever heat, it would not be sur
prising, if a lynching oceurs, if he
also is burned slive |
Wanren—To rent a nicely fur
sished roonl to a gentleman. Ap
ply between Gand 8 p. m., at 704%
sthst S, ; :
Price 5 Cents.
AS FULL AS A GOAT.
The Towa's Mascot Attends a Wake
and Disgrances the Ameris
ean Navy,
The goat of the battleship Towa suo
cumbed to the temptations of shore
feave early one morning recently, and
was locked up at the eity prison on the
harge of “drunk and disorderly,” says
illm San Francisco Chroniels,
- In ecompany with three or four jucks
llon from the lowa the goat had been
Attending & wake at the undertaking
establishment of Carew & Euglish, at
Van Ness avenue and Oak street, In
the course of the evening his conduct
Dbecame too bolsterous even for a wake,
Officer 8. Kain made the M‘?fl. and
one of the lowa jackies who Were the
compunions of the goat's revelry went
part way to the station with his dis
sraced friend, and then st thought of
the fun they were all having back at
the wake he said to the goat: “Bill,
1l man, 1 hope you won't think hard
of me if 1 go back., You're in good
hands, Just go along, and 'l join you
after o bi”
Thus it happened that the econviviai
mascot of the warship, stumbling along
and bleating oceaslonally some very
unmusical notes, deserted by his mess
mates in time of heavy weather, was,
hi the words of the mariner, towed into
port with his propeller shuft damaged,
After he woke up he was turned over
to his friends and faken aboard.
Bill's behavior at the wake ix des
seribed as having been something res
miarkable. The services in memory of
the dead had Insted through the evens
Ing and until two o'elock in the morn.
ing. At that bour it was necessary
to summon the palles fo fneure the
wafety of both the living and the dead.
A ZULU BRIDE.
Eiahorate Halr Drevaning Is the Lead
ing Veature of Her Nuptial
Get-Up,
The daughter of a Zulu in comfort
able clreumstances does not leave her
father's kranl without much pomp and
many queer rites, which doubtless are
hield by her people in high estimation,
It may be noted, too, that the mare
ringe costoms of thess dusky Africans
are subjeet to Innumerable variations,
ciach tribe having its own peculinrities,
Hair-dressing, by the way, is an im
portant feature both to the bride and
bridegroom, and the attention pmd to
the eoiffure of the pair would shame
the performance of & West end hair
dresser who arranges a bride's locks
end fastens the orange blossom chnpe
let. A coneshaped erection, for in
stanee, in the lawful coiffure of a Zulu
wife, and this cannot be legally worn
tll the marriage rites are duly coms
pleted. Bave for the all-important one,
the head of a Zulu bride in closely
shaved, an assegal being used for the
purpose; whilst, as soon as a youth s
of a marringeable age, his head is shorn
to leave a ring around the sealp, and
then liberally besmeared with fat and
ochre, without which unguents no Zulu
would feel fittingly decornted for his
bride. When the bridegroom-elect has
been shorn of all his hair save the wool
an the erown, which in trained In a
circular shape and some four inches
In dinmeter, a ring s sewn to this, of
gum and charcoal; in this the Zula
thrusts long snuff spoons, needles and
smnll utility articles, and is very “ynld
of his ring, which is the badge of man
hood —~CasselP's ‘Magazine.
YALE’'S ANCESTRAL HOME.
The 04 Chapel at Niryn Bglwys,
Wales, Is Named After
8. Blihe.”
~ To one spot in North Wales many an
American pligrim wends his way, This
in Wrexham, in whose beautiful chareh
lie the bones of Elihu Yale, who gnve
both name and benefactions to our hon
ared university. On his tombstone sre
cut these concige lines:
| :hm in Amamz'u;‘ln ’:“pmf.,z”"
In Africa traveled and in India w
Whu‘:;? Hvod and thrived; ot.‘i‘ll.
It is from this region, says the
New York Tribuse, that Elibu Yale's
Pilgrim progenitor went forth to
New Engiand, and Yales still live at
Plasyn-Yale and worship in the tran
wpt known as the Yale chapel in the
ancient little church of Bryn Eglwys,
uear Wrexhbam.
In the body of the ehurch s small con
gregation of hill farmers, as their fa
thers before them bave done for centu
ries, worship in the vernacular, and I
have often thought what amazement
sod what strange emotions would stir
the breast of & Yale graduate if he
could be transported of a sudden seross
the Atlantie and dropped down some
Sunday sfteruoon into this time bat
from Ita green ridge upon the everlast
ing hills 85 the rustio choir were break
ing into the “Magnifieat™; “Fy enatd
’ ) Coeh »ng Ry Ty