. Crisis. ntedpianist of Washington, D. C, is taking acourse in music at Columbia University,New York City. ^ A mysterious bust, discovered in theBoulevard de la Chappelle, in Paris, andfor a long time unidentified, has beenrecognized by an American tourist as thelate William Smith Garner, who dedicatedhis life and fortune to the defense of thecolored people. PERSONAL. X/fISS CONSTANCE RIDLEY of Bos-?*? ton has been placed upon the steno-graphic staff of the Boston Childrens AidSociety as a preliminary step in her courseof social-service training. ^ Negro blood was represented at theeighth int
. Crisis. ntedpianist of Washington, D. C, is taking acourse in music at Columbia University,New York City. ^ A mysterious bust, discovered in theBoulevard de la Chappelle, in Paris, andfor a long time unidentified, has beenrecognized by an American tourist as thelate William Smith Garner, who dedicatedhis life and fortune to the defense of thecolored people. PERSONAL. X/fISS CONSTANCE RIDLEY of Bos-?*? ton has been placed upon the steno-graphic staff of the Boston Childrens AidSociety as a preliminary step in her courseof social-service training. ^ Negro blood was represented at theeighth international congress of studentsheld at Ithaca, N. Y., August 29 to Sep-tember 3, by the fii^st colored member ofthe Cornell Cosmopolitan Club, who wasalso for three years an associate editor ofthe Cosmopolitan Student. fl David J. Dickerson, a colored waiter, losthis life while attempting to rescue A. Keesing, a guest of the hotel, fromdrowning at Delaware Water Gap, Pa. ALONG THE COLOR LINE 271. THE GHETTO. I WO hundred white citizens of Rich-*? mond have signed a petition objectingto the building of a Negro church in theirneighborhood. fl A resident of Highland Park, in Rich-mond, objects to a colored park to clutterour entrance to Richmond.^ The white women of the Fulton Heightssection of Jamaica, L. I., are fighting hardto keep colored people In spite of the vigorous objections of thepeople in North and Northeast Memphis,the city of Memphis has purchased DouglasPark for the use of the colored people.^ Vardaman again denounced the Negro ina recent speech in Washington. The KuKlux, he says, was the greatest organiza-tion, excepting the church, that ever existedin this country. The speech brought wildcheers from the audience,fl The summer announcements for Colum-bia University stated directly that noaccommodation would be provided for col-ored students in the dormitories,fl The colored people of Camden, N. J.,have waged a successful tight to stop dis-crimination
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