Work of the Colored law and order league, Baltimore, Md . were within 300 feet of fromtwo to eight of them. It was such conditions as these thatlaid the foundation for the trouble in Atlanta, and surely theexistence of similar conditions in Baltimore justified theapprehensions felt by many of Baltimores best coloredcitizens. Finally, after some casual conferences and informaldiscussions at promiscuous meetings and gatherings, Hurst, one of the most useful of Baltimores coloredmen, took the initiative and called together at his house anumber of representative colored men to discuss the
Work of the Colored law and order league, Baltimore, Md . were within 300 feet of fromtwo to eight of them. It was such conditions as these thatlaid the foundation for the trouble in Atlanta, and surely theexistence of similar conditions in Baltimore justified theapprehensions felt by many of Baltimores best coloredcitizens. Finally, after some casual conferences and informaldiscussions at promiscuous meetings and gatherings, Hurst, one of the most useful of Baltimores coloredmen, took the initiative and called together at his house anumber of representative colored men to discuss the situa-tion more formally. At this meeting there were present:W. Ashbie Hawkins, one of the leading lawyers of the city;Dr. Howard E. Young, one of the leading druggists; Winsey, a physician who has practised among thecolored people for about thirty years; Dr. Thomas S. Haw-kins, one of the younger physicians, and a man who hasalways been prominent in every movement looking towardthe betterment of the condition of the colored people; Heber. THE DISTRICT SURROUNDING PUBLIC SCHOOL No. 105 This district is infested with dives and disorderly houses. The small dots indicate the disorderly houses; the large dotsliquor saloons; the crosses around them are liquor saloons whichhave disorderly houses connected with them; the small triangles arehouses that are suspected. In this district some of the women who keep these houses havetheir names printed over the doors. E. Wharton, a vice-principal of one of the public schools;Harry T. Pratt, a grade supervisor in the public schools;Rev. J. Albert Johnson, who has recently been made abishop in the A. M. E. Church; Rev. E. F. Eggleston, pas-tor of Grace Presbyterian Church; and Dr. J. H. N. Waring, 4 principal of the Colored High and Training School. Thisgroup of men, after an informal discussion of the situation,decided to organize into a committee of ten, and electedRev. Mr. Hurst as chairman of this committee, a positionin whic
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