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SOLID SOUTH IS WAVERING New Orleans Opposed as Pan ama Exposition City, TEXAS FAVORS SAN FRANCISCO Decided Falling Off In Enthusiasts In Lone Star State as Evidenced by Articles Appearing In Papers of El Paso and San Antonio —Swing In Line For the California City as the Logical Site. While New Orleans la industrious ly claiming the endorsement of the Mississippi valley region and the middle west it is allowing the "solid south" to waver in its supposed al legiance and slip away. A few days ago word came from San Antonio, Tex., that there was a decided falling off of New Orleans exposition enthusiasts In that rit;. owing to the greed of the Crescent City in attempting to secure the Na tional Bankers* convention for next year, after San Antonio had put in a bid for their entertainment. Such action was not considered neighborly, •specially after the Texas city had been asked to support New Orleans In Its struggle for exposition honors. Now El Paso. Tex., has apparently swung into line for San Francisco #« against New Orleans as the log ical site for the Panama exposition, Judging by the following iu the El Paso Herald of Oct. 12: "El Paso's Interest as to the loca tion of the Panama expos!.ion of If* 1 all lies with San Francisco as against New Orleans. As one commentator says: ‘There never was an exposi ticn ao successful as that at Seattle, and there never waa one so forlorn a failure as that at Jamestown, Va.. notwithstanding the fart that half the population of the country is with in a day's or a night's ride of James town.' An exposition at San Fran cisco will promote the development of the west and Uat U what we are after." Sometime ago New Orleans secured an endorsement In Bt. and that success appears to have Induced the belief among the Crescent City boost ers that the entire middle west was only waltlftg tor an Invitation to climb on the New Orleans band wagon. Next New Orleans announced that Omaha was for it. but the announce ment wan premature. In Its hurry to report result the New Orleam bu reau at Omaha sent broadcast over the country that New Or loan* had been endorsed ae the exposition city by the Commercial club, (he largest and most influential organisation of business men there. Immediately the Commercial club hold a meeting, repudiated the alleg ad endorsement of New OHeans and endorsed San Francisco by an ever wbefalling vote. The city counoM o< Omaha, by unanimous vote, passed a resolution also endorsing San Fran cisco. Still asserting title to the sympathy •nd influe.'ice of the entire middle west section, the New Orleans boost descended upon Chicago and re- THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. Chested an endorsement. The re | qneet was politMy but firmly refused. , but New Orleans, nothing daunted, •ootlnued to “claim” Chicago's sup port. ©omfldent in the belief that the endorsement would come later. But on Oct. 7 Chicago showed unmistak ably where she stood in the exposl tioH fight when the National Business League of America adopted a reeolu tkm. which after setting forth the ad vantages of San Francisco, conclud ed. "That San Francisco be. and hereby is. strongly recommended as the proper site for the proposed ex position." New Orleans eu'fered another re buff when she sought the endorse ment of Washington. D. C. Washing ton refused, whereupon the New Or leans promoters dismissed the sub ject with the remark that Washing ton did not count inyway. New Orleans "hopes'' to raise about JB.OQO.CKK) for her proposed exposi tion. which will be entirely inade quate for so great an unde*aking but Senator Foster of seeks to minimize the iaipnitance of having sufficient funds to injure the success of the enterprise. Admitting that Sam Francisco will have more than twice as much money tor expo sition purposee ae New Orleans, he pleads that “it would be m*an and unfair for congress te take that fact into consideration." Race Prejudice Rampant In Baltimore. The effort of the city council in Bal timore to pass an ordinance which ; will forbid colored jwople from liv ing In the same street or section of the city In which white people reside is born of prejudice of the rankest kind. The charge that property values depreciate in sections where colored people live may be logically dismissed by saying that if the prioerty owners took the same care in keeping their real estate in the same good and snnl tary conditions where colored people live ns they do that occupied by the same class of whites the so called de preciation would not ap[K»ar to be a factor. Inventor and Expert Mechanic. Besides being a first ( lass mechanic. James Leach of I'assaic, N. .1 , has recently won fame by Inventing a de vice for Improving the tone of the phe nograph. Mr. Leach exhibited at the ! Edison company, and so pleased *ver ! the managers of the con’em with '.be fusibilities of the Leach improvement that they offered him a »*uge sum for it. This is another instance in which the colored man lias shown superior skill and mental ability. What Our People Ar* Doing In Dur ham, N. C. The following partial list of the busi ness activities of our people in Dur ham. X. C., is very interesting in view of the many difficulties which confront the race in conducting business enter prises which require skill and experi ence. The list, covers many lines of Indus try and is as followv Three insurance companies, the Me chanics' bank, two drug stores, one shoe store, two dressmaking estab lishments. one iron foundry, the Dur ham textile mills, twenty-five grocer ies and the Durham Elite Mattress factory; two first class tailoring estab lishments, five physicians, two den tists, one lawyer, one under inker, the Durham Reformed Publishing compa ny. several barber shops and one of the largest brick manufacturing establish ments tu 1 be-country. valuer at $25,- 000 | HEADQUARTERS FOR f ! BUILDING LABORERS j I PINN & WALTON | | 1221 19th STREET. PHONE MAIN 5038 • : f S | 2346 LARIMER ST. PHONE CHAMPA 1259 • l DENVER, COLORADO f I | THOMAS CLINGMAN BILLIARDS AND POOL 2634-36 Welton St. Denver, Colo. CLARENCE W. WIGINGTON ARCHITECT 12 UNION BLOCK OMAHA, NEBR. Correspondence on matter* of an Architectural nature promptly attend ed to. Phone Main 7241 TRADES A SPECIALTY Money to Loan on Good Security J. A. WHITTAKER & CO REAL ESTATE CITY PROPERTY AND FARM LANDS CUT PROPERTY TO TRADE FOR LANDS GARDEN TRACTS FOR SALE OR TRADE 918 19th ST., DENVER, COLO. I This offi ;e is prepared to do all kinds of job printing. Estimates fur nianed It is the only race enterprise o? its Kind operating, and if you de sire its service call phone Main 7805. There is a difference between merely soliciting printing and actually doing the work. Get our prices and you will see that difference. g POMADE FOR THE HAIR 3 © JJ We wish to advise our friends and customers that we 3 have a full line of Toilet Preparations, Perfumes, Manl- U cure Supplies, Brushes of every description, Toilet q X Soaps, Cutlery, etc. g The Denver Barbers Supply Co. § 1527 Glenarni Street H w Formerly at 1008 15th St. X Q pj Phone Main 7221 Denver, Colo. 2 2 POMADE FOR THE HAIR » NO NAME Clothing Store 417 Fifteenth Street K-lal>li«.li*v| over a Quarter •»f a Onlvry. Oldeat and Moat Raliahla «»f ita kind in Ilia We»t. Proprietor* atrirtly Amariran and Iriab. WE BUY AND SELL Ladles’ and Gents' Good Clothing Stage Costumes, Evening Dresses and Parlor Gowns a Specialty DRESS SUITS RENTED Phone Main 8252 H. BROWN Will deliver 2 or more Sacks of Coal to any part of the city free. If you have phone I will pay ALL KINDS OF COAL Telephone Champa 2490 1010 19th St., Denver, Colo.