_We Clean and Renovate for Particular People—from a Rug to a House—by_
=the Vacuum System=.
Let us give you a Clean House for
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
’Phone 3253 Harlem. =12 West 135th Street=
=Educational Directory=
Howard University
WILBUR P. THIRKIELD, President
Washington, D. C.
The College of Arts and Sciences—Kelly Miller, A.M., Dean.
The Teachers’ College—Lewis B. Moore, A.M., Ph.D., Dean.
The Academy—George J. Cummings, A.M., Dean.
The Commercial College—George W. Cook, A.M., Dean.
School of Manual Arts and Applied Sciences—
PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS
The School of Theology—Isaac Clark, D.D., Dean.
The School of Medicine: Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical
Colleges—Edward O. Balloch, M.D., Dean.
The School of Law—Benjamin F. Leighton, LL.D., Dean.
For catalogue and special information address Dean of Department.
Atlanta University
Is beautifully located in the City of Atlanta, Ga. The courses of study
include High School, Normal School and College, with manual training and
domestic science. Among the teachers are graduates of Yale, Harvard,
Dartmouth, Smith and Wellesley. Forty one years of successful work have
been completed. Students come from all parts of the South. Graduates are
almost universally successful.
For further information address
=President EDWARD T. WARE=
ATLANTA, GA.
=Wilberforce University=
WILBERFORCE, OHIO
_Opens first Tuesday in September_
Located in Greene County, 3¼ miles from Xenia, Ohio. Healthful
surroundings. Refined community. Faculty of 32 members. Expenses low.
Classical and Scientific, Theological, Preparatory, Music, Military,
Normal and Business Departments. Ten industries taught. Great
opportunities for High School graduates entering College or Professional
Courses. Two new buildings for girls to be erected this year—one now in
process of erection, and the other to be begun in the spring.
_Catalogue and Special Information Furnished._
Address
W. S. SCARBOROUGH, President.
=Shaw University=
This institution of learning, established in 1865, has industrial
departments for both young men and young women, as well as college,
normal and preparatory departments. There are also Schools of Law,
Medicine, Pharmacy and Theology.
The facilities have recently been increased. Other improvements are
being planned that will be completed within the next two years.
Applications should be made several months or a year in advance, for it
has become impossible during the last few years to receive all who
apply. The present enrollment is over 500.
The academic year begins on the Thursday nearest the first day of
October and continues for thirty-two consecutive weeks. The charges are
moderate. Catalogues furnished upon application.
Address THE PRESIDENT
Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C.
=Atlanta Baptist College=
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
A High School and College for men, conducted under the auspices of the
American Baptist Home Mission Society, founded in 1867. Has a campus of
thirteen acres on one of the highest points of land in the city. Five
buildings, one just completed at a cost of $40,000. Societies, debating
clubs and athletics.
For further information address
=JOHN HOPE, A.M.=
President
The Georgia State Industrial College
Good for a Trade, Normal, Industrial and Collegiate Education.
Write for Catalogue to
R. R. WRIGHT, A.B., L.L.D., President.
=Legal Directory=
_Real Estate and Probate Matters a Specialty_
ROBERT B. BARCUS
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR-AT-LAW
NOTARY PUBLIC
Office: Room 502, Eberly Block Columbus, O.
B. S. SMITH
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offices: Suite 610, Sykes Block
Minneapolis, Minn.
GEORGE W. MITCHELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
908 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, Pa.
J. DOUGLAS WETMORE
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR-AT-LAW
5 Beekman Street (Temple Court)
New York City
Tel. 6222 Cortlandt Cable Address, Judowet
FREDERICK L. McGHEE
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR-AT-LAW
Union Block, Fourth and Cedar Streets
St. Paul, Minn.
_General Practice_ _Notary Public_
WILLIAM R. MORRIS
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR-AT-LAW
1020 Metropolitan Life Building
Minneapolis, Minn.
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The Curse of Race Prejudice
JAMES F. MORTON, JR., A.M., _Author and Publisher_
Forceful, rational, comprehensive. An arsenal of facts and unanswerable
arguments. Invaluable for propaganda. Read the chapter on “The Bugbear
of Social Equality,” which is a veritable eye-opener. Thousands already
sold. Agents wanted everywhere.
PRICE 25 CENTS
Address the Author at 244 West 143d Street,
New York, N. Y.
Mme. BECK’S School of Dressmaking
_Designing, Cutting, Fitting, Embroidering and Ladies’ Tailoring Taught
by the Improved French System_
_Separate Courses in Any of the Branches, and Diplomas Awarded the
Successful Graduates_
_Day and Evening Classes_
238 WEST 53d STREET NEW YORK CITY
The Firm for the Negro Farmers and Shippers to Deal With
_Try Us Before Shipping Elsewhere._
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES OYSTERS AND GAME POULTRY AND EGGS
COTTMAN & COTTMAN
WHOLESALE COMMISSION MERCHANTS. 107 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Reference: The People’s Savings Bank Bell ’Phone Connection: Lombard
4035
NYANZA DRUG CO.
(Incorporated.)
35 W. 135th ST., NEW YORK CITY
=CAPITAL STOCK, $15,000=
Shares $5.00
Write for information. The best paying investment ever offered our
people.
NYANZA PHARMACY
is the only colored Drug Store in New York City, and the purpose of the
Corporation is to establish chains of stores, carrying Drugs and
everything incidental to the Drug business. It is really the
indisputable duty of every self-respecting member of the race to give it
his support.
AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE
$100,000 STOCK ISSUE
TO BUILD AN
Auditorium in Greater New York
CONTAINING
Reception, Concert and Banquet Halls, Modern Offices and Lodge Rooms
This proposition is bound to succeed, because it is giving the people
what they want.
We are offering
=10,000 Shares at $10 Each, Par Value=
Stock sold in blocks to suit the investor on easy terms.
The capital already in hand and the rapid increase of business means the
realisation of the Auditorium. This enterprise assures each investor
Safety of Capital and Growth of Income. Call or write for further
particulars.
I. L. MOORMAN, Mgr., 83 W. 134th St.
[Illustration: Man]
SOLOMON GARRETT
Tonsorial Artist
782 Fulton Street, near Adelphi Street
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
_All Kinds of Workmanship_
_Cigars and Tobacco for Sale_
_Daily and Weekly Papers and Magazines_
_Brooklyn Agents for THE CRISIS_
How to Elevate the Moral and Civic Tone of the Negro Community
Negroes—good, bad and indifferent—as long as they have lived in
tenements, have had to live shamefully intermingled. Formerly they were
forced to live in ramshackle tenements that had been abandoned by the
whites, at exorbitant rents for wretched accommodations. But now, thanks
to the thrift and enterprise of certain progressive Negro real estate
agents, they may live in houses having the same conveniences and
accommodations as the whites. While, happily, the physical surroundings
of the Negro tenant have been radically altered, unhappily his moral
surroundings remain unchanged. How, then, can we improve his moral
surroundings? Co-operation is a _sine qua non_ in the solution of this
problem. Tenants MUST co-operate with their agents and agents MUST
co-operate with one another in ameliorating the moral and civic
condition of Negro communities. We can’t lean on the landlord. He is an
indifferent third party. He cares not, so to speak, whether his house is
tenanted with respectable or disrespectable tenants, so long as it is
full and he gets his rents. If he’s at all concerned about the
disrespectable or respectable tenants in his house, it’s only to the
extent that he’s afraid the former may be the cause of some or all of
the latter moving, thus leaving him with some vacancies.
The present moral conditions of Negro tenantry are indeed bad. The
individual efforts of certain Negro agents toward bettering the
conditions have been praiseworthy, to say the least, but as far as
making any progress toward the desired goal is concerned, such efforts
must needs be and practically have been of little or no avail. What is
the desirable goal is too obvious to command explanation. But how to
reach that goal is the matter under consideration. In the first place,
we repeat that the united efforts of tenants and agents are the
desideratum.
Let the agent compel a prospective tenant to furnish references
satisfying fair and reasonable requirements as imposed by, agreed upon
and accepted _in toto_ by all agents. The respectable tenant will be
glad to do it. Any tenant not furnishing such references should be
“jim-crowed,” as it were, from decent neighborhoods.
This matter of bettering the moral and civic condition of Negro
communities is a case of a wheel within a wheel. As has been emphasized
before, the agent can do absolutely nothing without co-operation.
Ministers wielding great influence over large congregations can lend a
powerfully helping hand, if they will. We must all pull together. We
cannot work resultfully in factions. It is unquestionably within our
power to do it, if all others do their respective parts and the colored
real estate agent does his.
Desirable Apartments for Desirable Tenants Also Homes for Sale on Easy
Terms
Philip A. Payton, Jr., Company
New York’s Pioneer Negro Real Estate Agents
BROKERS====APPRAISERS
TELEPHONES
917–918 HARLEM 67 West 134th St., New York City
[Illustration: HENRY PHIPPS’ MODEL TENEMENTS FOR COLORED FAMILIES]
Do You Want a Position?
Best Places
Best Families
The New York and New Jersey Industrial Exchange, through its Employment
Agency Department, furnishes more Colored Help to the leading families
in the city and in the suburban towns than any other medium in New York.
It is located in the acknowledged best section of the city, being in the
Henry Phipps’ Model Tenements for Colored Families. No other Exchange is
so well patronized by the foremost families, many of whom have never
employed Colored Help before.
Our demand for competent Southern Help exceeds the supply many times
over. Call and register. No charge. Bring your references. We can place
you in a good position. If inconvenient to pay our required office fee,
you are at liberty to take advantage of our Credit System. This new
feature has proven extremely beneficial to many worthy persons seeking
employment.
N. Y. & N. J. Industrial Exchange
237–239 West 63d Street
Telephones 5016–4546 Columbus
Cosmopolitan Automobile School
[Illustration: Automobile School]
The aim of the School will be to give its students a sufficient
knowledge of the theory and practice of Automobile and Automobiling to
enable them to meet the emergencies that constantly arise to make those
who complete the course competent to run machines, take them apart and
assemble them properly, and to make such repairs as may be necessary and
possible on the road.
TUITION—Six weeks’ course, including Shop and Road Work, $25:
installments if you wish, payable $5 on enrollment and $20 by the
completion of the fourth week.
SHOP WORK—Consists of naming all the parts of the automobile, taking the
engine and the rest of the automobile apart and putting them together
again properly, and making such repairs as may be necessary and
possible.
ROAD WORK—When the shop work is complete the student takes up the
operating and handling of cars on the road until he is competent.
If there is any special information which you desire respecting the
course or opportunities in the automobile business we shall be glad to
bear from you.
COSMOPOLITAN AUTO CO. of New York
Telephone 803 Columbus School: Hotel Maceo, 213 West 53d St. LEE A.
POLLARD, Mgr.
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