. Crisis. ated by the police. That is, the segregationof the Negro quarter is only a segregationfrom respectable white people. The dis-reputable white element is forced upon him. In no part of Chicago was there found awhole neighborhood so conspicuously dilapi-dated as the black belt on the south side. ^ The Arkansas legislature has made it amisdemeanor to accept a tip and subjects theemployer who permits the employee to receivea gratuity to a fine. This act is aimed atNegro waiters. ^ Fifty per cent, of the 10,000 Negroes inMeridian, Miss., are said to own their ownhomes. ^ In Uniontown, Ala.
. Crisis. ated by the police. That is, the segregationof the Negro quarter is only a segregationfrom respectable white people. The dis-reputable white element is forced upon him. In no part of Chicago was there found awhole neighborhood so conspicuously dilapi-dated as the black belt on the south side. ^ The Arkansas legislature has made it amisdemeanor to accept a tip and subjects theemployer who permits the employee to receivea gratuity to a fine. This act is aimed atNegro waiters. ^ Fifty per cent, of the 10,000 Negroes inMeridian, Miss., are said to own their ownhomes. ^ In Uniontown, Ala., with a total popula-tion of 2,000, it is reported that Negroescontrol about half of the business have $70,000 on deposit in the localbanks. Eldridge Brothers, a grocery firm, doan annual business of $40,000 a year. ^ At Pine Bluff, Ark., an insurance com-pany with a capital stock of $250,000 hasbeen organized. At the initial meeting of thesociety $5,200 in cash and securities waspaid ONE OF MR. DUPRES MILK WAGONS. Not only does the Negro suffer from thisextreme dilapidation, but he pays a heavycost in the form of high rent. In crowdedemigrant neighborhoods in different parts ofthe city the medium rental for the prevailingfour-room apartment was between $8 and$; in South Chicago, near the steel mills,it was between $9 and $, and in theJewish quarter between $10 and $ wascharged. But in the great black belt of thesouth side the sum exacted was between $12and $ ^ Six years ago Oscar Dupre, a coloredman with a family of six children living inNew Orleans, could scarcely make a livingdoing odd jobs. He decided to try dairyfarming. He rented a plantation in Jeffer-son Parish on the outskirts of the city andbought a few cows on time. To-day he owns98 milch cows, 6 fine horses and mules, 4milk wagons, a feed wagon, carriage and abuggy. He sells between 125 and 140 gal-lons of milk a day, at 30 cents a gallon,supplying the wealthiest families an
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