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June 28, 1908

NEGROES FEAR 'JIM CROW' LAW.

They're Going to Prepare to Fight

Any Such Proposal.

To prepare for the protection of the negroes' civil rights in Missouri the Negro Constitutional League has issued a general call to all the negroes in Kansas City to meet in the Allen chapel, Tenth and Charlotte streets, Monday evening. The call says that the activity in Kansas City of certain enemies to the negro race has been so great that the next session of the legislature will have to consider bills proposing Jim Crow laws, and the disfranchisement of the negroes.

The meeting will be for the purpose of selecting the strongest men locally to work for the defeat of such laws, and to arrange for the reception of the state league, which meets here July 9 and 10.

Labels: Charlotte street, organizations, race, Tenth street

June 26, 1908

ROCK PILE FOR GUN TOTERS.

Independence Police Judge Orders

Marshal to Bring 'Em All In.

Independence has started a rock pile and the city marshal and Police Judge Peacock say they expect to pick up every "gun toter" in town to break rock for the county road connections with city streets. When Edward Howard, a negro, said in police court yesterday that he had been guilty of carrying a pistol Judge Peacock turned on the full current. The negro whineed under the fine of $150 imposed by the court.

"There will be nothing less in this court for pistol carrying offenders," said Judge Peacock. He instructed Marshal Combs to round up the pistol "toters."

The crusade against carrying concealed weapons was started by the Independence Commercial Club. The club sent a recommendation to the mayor regarding the practice and asked him to have the ordinance against concealed weapons enforced.

Labels: courtroom, crime, Independence, Judge Peacock, organizations

June 16, 1908

FLOOD VIEWS DAMAGE TRADE.

Justin A. Runyan Appeals to Post

Card and Film Dealers.

Souvenir post cards and moving pictures showing the damage wrought by the flood are likely to do Kansas City a great deal of harm, in the opinion of Justin A. Runyan, secretary to the Manufacturers and Merchants' Association. Speaking about people sending out post cards having some scene representing the flooded district, Mr. Runyan said the harm could not be estimated.

"Many of these cards," Mr. Runyan said, "reached the hands of business men of other cities, and those men are likely to form wrong impressions of the city. Many people will believe the high water did more damage than is really the case.

"Merchants or manufacturers preparing to secure new locations might see one of these post cards and get the impression from the view shown that Kansas City is submerged each year. The cards," according to Mr. Runyan, "at the best, only give a faint idea of the flood and in most cases leave a false impression. Not only will the post cards be harmful, but moving picture scenes that are being made for purpose of sending out broadcast to be shown in different cities will cause great loss of trade and damage to the city generally."

One dealer located at Twelfth street and Grand avenue, who is having films for moving pictures made will be induced by Mr. Runyan, if possible, to give up the plan. Whether the dealers in moving picture films and the sellers of post cards can be made to see the harm their goods may accomplish is the question that is troubling the secretary of the association.

Labels: flood, organizations

June 16, 1908

YOUNG WOMEN IN BLACK FACE.

Minstrel Show to Raise Funds for a

Delegate's Trip.

There was a large audience in the gymnasium of the Y. W. C. A. last night to witness the "De Creole Ladies," a production arranged by the You Will Come Again Club of the association for the purpose of accumulating money to send a representative to the Lake Geneva conference next August.

The entertainment opened with a minstrel show, in which thirty participated, the interlocutor character being in the keeping of Miss Georgia Thurman, who had her hands full because of the antics and questions of the four end "men," who were impersonated by Miss Ada Ackerman, Miss Hazel Gross, Miss Grace Curtis and Mrs. Elizabeth Harlow. All other participants were thoroughly drilled in their respective parts and there was not a dull moment from the upgoing of the initial curtain until the end.

Other features of the entertainment were negro songs, jigs and sayings, and a sketch, "Miss Pepper's Ghost." Because of the pronounced success of the event it is probable that within a short time there will be another, the proceeds of which will be used for some other of the many needs of the association.

Although it will now be possible for the Kansas City association to be represented at the Lake Geneva conference, it at this time is not known to whom the errand will fall.

Labels: organizations, race, theater

June 10, 1908

FLOWERS MADE DAY BRIGHTER.

Were Distributed in Hospital and

Prisons by W. C. T. U. Members.

Several thousand men, women and children, inmates of hospitals, prisons and homes of different sorts, had a happier day yesterday because of bouquets of bright carnations and roses distributed by forty-five members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. It was the annual flower mission day of the union. The date marks the birthday of Miss Jennie Cassidy, a prominent W. C. T. U. worker, who died at her home in Louisville, Ky., several years ago. Miss Cassidy originated the flower mission idea.

Labels: flowers, hospitals, jail, organizations

June 2, 1908

CLAREMORE WANTS CHILDREN.

Oklahoma Town Sends for Kansas

City Boys and Girls.

The Chamber of Commerce of Claremore, Ok., has offered to care for a number of Kansas City children free in order to demonstrate to the people of the West that the noted mineral waters there have curative properties superior to any in the West. The following letter was yesterday received by Mayor Crittenden;

June 1, 1908
Hon. T. T. Crittenden, Mayor, Kansas City, Mo.
Dear Sir; -- The fact has never been extensively advertised, but at the city of Claremore, Ok., there flows from artesian wells the most wonderful curative water yet discovered in the world for the cure of skin diseases of all kinds, eczema, rheumatism and stomach trouble. In ever city in the United States there are hundreds of poor children suffering from skin diseases and afflictions of the eyes, whose lives are torture and misery. The parents of these children cannot afford to send them to this watering place for treatment, consequently, knowing the hundreds of cures that have been performed by this wonderful water, the Chamber of Commerce and the good women of Claremore, Ok., desiring to relieve the suffering of these little ones, make you the following proposition:

Through the Young Woman's Christian Association of Kansas City, the Chamber of Commerce of Claremore, Ok., desires that you select twenty poor children, afflicted by any form of skin disease, eczema, sore eyes, rheumatism or stomach trouble, send them to Claremore, Ok., and the Chamber of Commerce and the good women of Claremore, Ok., will take care of them, see that they are given every are and treatment of this wonderful curative water.

God, in His infinite wisdom, having sent us this wonderful curative, we firmly believe that it is our duty to place it at the disposal of as many of the suffering and afflicted as possible. It is our intention to make this same offer to every large city of the United States, and we respectfully request that you place this matter in the hands of the Young Women's Christian Association of Kansas City and that they at the earliest possible date make known to the Chamber of Commerce at Claremore, Ok., their desires in co-operating with us in this humane work All we ask is that the city sending these poor children pay their railway fare between their home city and Claremore, Ok., and return; the citizens of Claremore will do the rest.

Claremore, Ok., is on the main lines of the Rock Island-Frisco railway system and the Missouri-Pacific Iron Mountain route direct from Kansas City. I am, sir, your obedient servant,

P. C. LAVEY,
Secretary Claremore Chamber of Commerce, Claremore, Ok.

Labels: charity, children, health, Mayor Crittenden, organizations, railroad

May 22, 1908

CLUB WOMEN PLAN OUTING

FOR THE POOR CHILDREN.

Fifteen Organizations to Give Them

a Day in the Woods at

Swope Park.

Mrs. Henry N. Ess, state chairman of the philanthropy committee of the Missouri Federation of Women's Clubs, has received the indorsement of the Second district executive committee to give the children of the poor of Kansas City an outing of one day at Swope park.

Mrs. Ess presented her plans at the recent meeting in this city of the Second District Federation, composed of the counties of Platte, Carroll, Clay, Jackson, Ray, Lafayette, Cass and Johnson. Jackson is represented by the following fifteen federated clubs, all of which are enthusiastic over the plan for a children's club day at Swope: Anthenaeum, Central Study, South Prospect, Every Other Week, Bancroft, Ruskin, Tuesday Morning Study Class, Women's Reading Club, History and Literature, Alternate Tuesday Club, Council of Jewish Women, Magazine, Portia, Clionian and Keramic.

Nor is the movement confined to only federated clubs, but all women's clubs of the city are invited to join in celebrating and making a success of the big picnic for the juvenile poor of this city on Saturday, June 13.

Th membership of these clubs will aggregate 1,000 members and each woman has been asked to pledge herself to take at least two children from the poorer districts of the city, out to Kansas City's open country show place, Swope park, and give them an outing in the green fields. Each woman is to provide the lunch and entertainment for her little charges and is to give them her personal attention all day, and plan for their enjoyment. It will mean that several thousand children will make merry June 13 at their first attendance of a real "open" session of a woman's club.

All children ranging in ages from 6 to 12 years old will be eligible to this treat until the proper number has been reached, the assignment of two children to each club woman.

The event promises to be not only an exceptional treat for unfortunate children of this city, but will demonstrate the practical possibilities of the woman club movement, which reaches out and beyond the mere delving into Isben, Browning or Shakespeare, and shows the real good which can be accomplished by Kansas City's bright women when they take a notion to do a thing.

Labels: charity, children, organizations, Swope park

May 14, 1908

WANT MARK TWAIN TO LECTURE.

Part of Plan to Raise Money to Buy

Animals for the Zoo.

A lecture by Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) in Convention hall is among the early possibilities, the receipts from which if given will be devoted to the purchase of a menagerie which has been offered to the Zoological Society to be installed in Swope park zoo. There are many rare and attractive animals in the collection which has been offered for $9,000, and can be had just as soon as the money is available.

The Zoological Society, recently incorporated, has found that an effort to interest citizens in raising a volunteer fund for the purchase of the animals has not been encouraging so it is now proposed to raise funds along different lines. A fruitless effort has been made to get Governor Johnson of Minneapolis to come to the city and deliver a lecture, so it has been decide to appeal to Mark Twain.

At a meeting of the society yesterday Gus Pearson, city comptroller, who is chairman of the board of directors, was instructed to communicate with Mr. Clemens, and in addition to this he will be urged to accept by the Missouri delegation in congress.

The mayor, president of the park board, president of the board of education and the presiding judge of the county court have been added to the board of directors.

Labels: animals, Convention Hall, Mark Twain, organizations, Swope park

May 6, 1908

WILL ORGANIZE

FOR GREAT FAIR.

PERMANENT ASSOCIATION TO BE

ESTABLISHED HERE.

EXPOSITION AT ELM RIDGE.

LIVE STOCK, POULTRY AND

OTHER FEATURES TO COMBINE.

Will Be Known as American Royal

Live Stock and Industrial Ex-

position -- First Fair in

Fall of 1909.

After a meeting of several business men of Kansas City yesterday afternoon at the Savoy hotel, the organization of the American Royal Live Stock and Industrial Exposition was determined upon and active steps were taken looking toward the permanent establishment of the exposition at Elm Ridge park by the fall of 1909. The meeting was held at the call of Secretary J. A. Runyan of the Manufacturers and Merchants' Association, and this organization will be asked to back the exposition.

Secretary Runyan with A. M. Thompson will visit Minneapolis to gather data at the Minnesota State Fair Association. The methods used by the American Royal Live Stock Association will also be followed closely as it is the unanimous opinion of those present that this is an ideal association.

It is the purpose to combine the various exhibits which are being given in this city into one grand show at least one week. The American Royal Live Stock show will be used as a nucleus, and with it will be combined the poultry show, agricultural exhibits, merchants' exhibits, manufactured products, the kennel show, the horse show, racing and a display of farm implements, in fact every line of industry in Kansas City.

THIRTEEN OF THEM THERE.

The meeting yesterday was preceded by a dinner at the Savoy and was attended by the following: E. L. Howe, F. B. Heath, I. W. Bigger, L. P. Rothschild, C. L. Merry, Irwin Baldwin and J. A. Runyan for the Manufacturers' Association; C. R. Thomas, A. M. Thompson, George Stevenson, W. H. Weeks and William McLaughlin for the American Royal Live Stock Association, F. F. Rozzelle and C. C. Peters, for the Elm Ridge Club, and W. M. Beall, Dr. W. H. Stark and P. H. Depree for the poultry show.

The subject of a suitable location was discussed and it was decided that if a lease for a term of years could be obtained at Elm Ridge park this would be the best location for an undertaking of this magnitude. F. F. Rozzelle was selected to make arrangements for the lease of the park grounds for at least fifteen years.

IT TAKES BIG PRIZES.

Mr. Thomas explained something about the customs of the live stock show exhibit. He stated that about 250 carloads of fancy cattle were shipped to this show every year and that it would be necessary to have switch track facilities on the grounds in addition to a number of cattle pens and sheds. Large prizes must also be offered in order to get the best exhibits.

In discussing the question of concessions at the park it was the unanimous opinion that liquor should not be sold on the grounds and that betting on the races should be prohibited. Horse racing, it was stated, is the life of any fair, but races can and are being conducted without the gambling feature.

In order to start the exhibition, build suitable buildings and offer prizes that will tempt the owners of the finest breeds of animals, it will be necessary to raise at least $50,000 and as soon as the necessary details are arranged, the Manufacturers and Merchants' Association will take this in charge.

Labels: animals, Elm Ridge, organizations, Savoy

April 15, 1908

FARMER LOSES DAMAGE SUIT.

Angie Harnish Had Sued Motor Cycle

Club for Scaring Horse.

The horse lost again yesterday in a legal battle with motor vehicles. A jury in Justice Young's court decided there was no cause for action in the case of Angie Harnish against the Kansas City Motor Cycle Club, which the plaintiff alleged on November 3 last caused his driving horse to run away, injuring him and endangering the life of his wife and 2-year-old baby.

Just on the outskirts of Greenwood, this county, he testified, eighteen club members, with their motors exhausting loudly, overtook him and ran around, in front of and behind him. To better hold his frantic horse, Harnish attempted to dismount and was thrown. Then the horse ran half a mile with the woman and baby before crashing into a fence. A party of farmers intercepted the Motor Cycle Club on its return run, and, it is said, threats were made which have prevented the club's returning there on any subsequent runs. The affair had the effect of practically disorganizing the club, but the members were jubilant yesterday that a jury conceded them road rights.

"Now I'm sure we'll get our men together again," the club president, R. D. Martin, said yesterday after the decision.

Harnish's suit was for $300 damages. One of Harnish's ankles was dislocated, a knee bruised and a Sunday suit ruined.

Labels: Lawsuit, motorcycles, organizations

March 29, 1908

TYPHOID GERMS IN SPRINGS.

Dr. Cross Says Al Such Sources of

Water Should Be Filled.

"They City's Drinking Water" was the subject of Dr. Walter M. Cross's talk before the City Club at its luncheon at the Sexton hotel yesterday at noon. "The danger is in springs and wells," Dr. Cross said. "Every well in the city that receives its water from the surface should be filled up. They are dangerous as breeders of typhoid germs. These springs and wells are responsible for most of the typhoid fever that exists in our city. Only two wells in the city have water that is absolutely safe and they are artesian. All others should be condemned."

Labels: City Chemist Cross, health, hotels, organizations

March 20, 1908

FORM GOOD CITIZEN LEAGUE.

It's Purpose Is to Lessen Crime Among

Kansas City Negroes.

With the object of lessening crime among the negroes a Good Citizens' League was formed last night at a meeting held at the home of Mrs. Maria W. Williams, 628 Tracy avenue. The janitors of schools and office buildings, firemen and policemen will especially be solicited to join the league. Effort will be made to prevent negro children going to saloons for liquor for their parents. Wayward boys and girls will be looked after and the juvenile court will be asked to exercise a supervisory control over youthful derelicts. A committee on rules was appointed by Mrs. Williams, who preside, as follows: W. Dawson, Dr. Dibble, O. M. Shackleford, Mrs. M. P. Williams, Professor J. D. Bowser, P. W. H. Williams and Professor Wilson. Another meeting will be held at the same address next Thursday night.

Labels: crime, organizations, race, Tracy avenue

March 20, 1908

MADE LIQUID AIR ON STAGE.

Edisonian Society Has a New Form

of Entertainment.

A departure was taken in the regular assembly day programme at Manual Training high school yesterday afternoon. During the last part of the school year the different literary societies and other organizations of the school take their turn in giving entertainments on assembly day. Heretofore these entertainments have been pleasing, but hardly instructive to the students at large.

Yesterday was the day for the Edisonian Society, an organization composed of those who wish to study things of a scientific nature, to give its programme, and something altogether original was hit upon. The society staged a one-act-play with the scene in a physical laboratory. At the time for the arrival of the instructor he does not materialize, consequently the students take charge of the class and lecture in a most interesting manner upon the subject of air in all of its phases. During the lecture practical experiments are worked out, showing the audience the power and practical value of air.

The way in which this lecture was given was both entertaining and instructive. The process of making liquid air was thoroughly demonstrated and the uses of the air were shown. "Such a programme as the Edisonian Society gave should be encouraged and given the hearty support of the faculty," said Professor Philips, principal of the school. "The Edisonian Society is a new one here, and it is doing a splendid work."

The society was named for Thomas A. Edison, and the great inventor and scientist was notified of the liberty which was taken with his name. To this notification he responded with a gracious letter, which has been framed and is hanging in the physics room of the school.

Labels: organizations, schools, theater

March 12, 1908

THEY WANT A 5-CENT FARE.

Independence People Again Take Up

the Matter -- Bloodhound, Also.

At a meeting of the Independence Commercial Club held last night a committee of five was adopted to co-operate with a committee from the Maywood Improvement Club to go before the Commercial Club of this city at its next meeting and urge that the local organization assist in getting the Metropolitan Street Railway Company to adopt a 5-cent fare between this city and Independence.

James B. Forbis made a motion that the city purchase bloodhounds for the tracking of criminals, and it was unanimously adopted.

Labels: animals, crime, Independence, Maywood, Metropolitan Street Railway Company, organizations

March 10, 1908

HE WANTED TO BE ARRESTED.

Civic League Secretary Thought He

Had Broken the Law.

A. O. Harrison, secretary of the Civic League, called at the county prosecutor's office yesterday afternoon and tried to offer himself as a martyr. The stake wasn't ready, however, and he was told to come back in a day or two.

A state law that was passed in 1907 which compels any organization volunteering to label candidates for office as "good" or "bad" to state its reasons and sources of information. If the league, for instance, wished to send circulars over the county declaring that Judge W. H. Wallace is a "good" man, it would have to print along with the circulars its sources of information.

Prior to the special election for sheriff last January the league sent out word that both W. J. Campbell and John Hood were good men. Someone told Harrison that this was in violation of the new law, and he came to the prosecutor's office to be arrested. There wasn't any warrant ready for him, however, and he was told to call again.

Labels: Judge Wallace, organizations, politics

February 8, 1908

TO SAVE BOYS AND GIRLS.

Juvenile Association Determined to

Raise Fund of $10,000.

An active campaign is to be begun by the Juvenile Improvement Club to raise $10,000 for use in caring for neglected children in Kansas City. In this association are gathered all the workers for the juvenile criminal and homeless. The money will be spent to endow the Boys' hotel, a hotel for negro girls, boys clubs in the West, North and East bottoms, and to provide scholarships for boys who now have to stay out of school and work to support smaller children dependent upon them. The idea of the club is to get all varieties of juvenile reform and educational work under one management.

Judge McCune of the juvenile court is president of the club, the Rev. Daniel McGurk is vice president, Arthur L. Jelley is treasurer, and Dr. E. L. Mathias, chief probation officer is secretary. On the executive committee there are in addition to these men the Rev. Charles W. Moore of the Institutional church, Mayor H. M. Beardsley and H. J. Haskell. Subscriptions may be sent to Hughes Bryant, R. A. Long, Charles D. Mill, C. A. Young or C. V. Jones, who comprise the finance committee.

Labels: children, East bottoms, hotels, Institutional church, Judge McCune, North bottoms, organizations, West bottoms

February 29, 1908

MASONS TO BUILD TEMPLE.

York Rite Bodies Have Practically

Raised the Money.

The project to build a $125,000 temple for the York Rite Masons at Ninth and Harrison streets, it is now believed, will be carried out within a year. W. F. Stine, one of those especially interested in the enterprise, said yesterday that building plans are to be taken up by early this spring. The lot is paid for and stock is being subscribed by fifteen or more local Masonic bodies, the two commanderies, the council, the two chapters, a number of the blue lodges, and the three Eastern Star organizations.

The Kansas City Masonic Building Company, the corporation which will erect the building, is composed of one representative of each of these bodies. The undertaking had its start about a year ago. The most that can be said of the plans at present is that there will be four spacious halls or lodge rooms for the various organizations' use, and a grand assembly room or auditorium, adequate for convention use, for balls, banquets and drill hall purposes, and there will be a kitchen and many cloakrooms and ante-rooms. Whether all stone or fancy brick construction will be used has not been decided.

The York Rite Masons feel that their selection of a location at the southeast corner of Ninth and Harrison streets is particularly fortunate in that it is quite removed from noise, though not far out that it is very close to five car lines, without being on any one of them, and it has for neighbors on two opposite corners the Calvary Baptist church and the Central Presbyterian church.

Labels: churches, Harrison street, lodges, Ninth street, organizations

February 27, 1908

CHILDREN ARE ONLY SAVAGES.

And It's in the Blood of Grown-Ups,

Too, Says Brainerd.

"Children are only little savages, and should be treated as such," said Frank G. Brainerd, district superintendent of the Society for the Friendless, in an address at the Linwood Boulevard Presbyterian church last night. "It is not until they have received an education and have absorbed a part of the civilizing ideas of the time that they may be considered as men."

"Because they are savages, most children, if left to themselves, will steal and fight and do other uncivilized things, for which they cannot be blamed, for it is in their nature. And the savage instinct with which we are all born can never be quite outlived."

Labels: churches, Linwood boulevard, organizations

February 26, 1908

THEIR NOISE RUINED

HIS GENTLE HORSE.

SCARED HIS WIFE, HURT HIS

BABY, INJURED HIM.

So Farmer Harnish Sues Members of

the Motorcycle Club for Dam-

ages Done Him Last

Fall.

The Kansas City Motorcycle Club members, nineteen strong, have avoided the road to Greenwood, this county, since November 3. That day eighteen of them were waylaid by a mob of twenty-five farmers armed with stones. Only one escaped. And County Judge George J. Dodd was chief spokesman for the beseiging party.

It all came out yesterday when suit was filed in Justice Young's court by Angie Harnish against the club members for $800 damages.

Harnish, according to the papers filed, was driving in a top buggy with his wife and 2-year-old child to Greenwood, when just at the outskirts of the town the "the defendants in a body known as the Kansas City Motorcycle Club, mounted on motorcycles," bore down on his rear "at high speed," carelessly and negligently running upon and by him, the loud and explosive exhaust noises, frightening until he became unmanagable, the horse, which was "not acquainted with motorcycles."

Harnish attempted to alight to seize the horse's bits, and the lunging of the animal threw him into the rock road. The woman, busy with the lines, dropped the baby between her feet and frantically begged the cyclists to stop for the sake of hersef and the baby. Instead of this it is alleged the cyclists only laughed, and trying to outrun the maddened horses, allowing the whirr of the explosive sounds to continue until the horse and buggy smashed into a fence. The baby and Harnish were seriously bruised, the horse, formerly gentle, was ruined, its owner says, and the harness and buggy broken.

A few hours later, when the cycle club members came back that way, they were helf up with a threat of stoning Only one cyclist had the fear or the nerve to run the gauntlet. The others stopped and took their medicine in the form of threats as to what would happen if they ever came back -- and they haven't been back.

The cyclists say that udge Dodd, though an officer of the law, declared to them that he would take the law into his own hands if they did return. Nineteen of them are named, and the amount asked is $800, half of it for actual damages and half for exemplary damages. The case was set for March 3.

Those named as defendants are: R. D. Martin, president of the club; L. J. Vogel, F. J. Hahn, C. Hanson, J. B. Porter, Ned D. Bahr, O. V. Newby, J. N. Glass, Lloyd C. Shielaberger, Fred Berry, Oscar J. Plummer and Dan Patterson.

Bucknew and Houston are attorneys for the plaintiff, and they furnished the court constable with all the addresses of the defendants.

"I know the eighteen of us should have licked those two dozen farmers if the fight had really got started," said R. D. Martin, president of the club, last night, "but we are always considerate of people we meet, and we told them so then, instead of being ugly."

Labels: animals, Judges, Lawsuit, motorcycles, organizations

February 21, 1908

IN HONOR OF NEW POTENTATE.

Ararat Temple Holds Reception for

Judge E. E. Porterfield.

A reception in honor of E. E. Porterfield, the newly elected illustrious potentate, and his divan was given at the Coates house last night by ararat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. There was dancing and music by a male quartette.

Labels: Coates house, dancing, Judges, organizations

February 13, 1908

BOULEVARD TO KANSAS CITY.

Desire of the Independence Commer-

cial Club and Others.

Definite steps have been taken by the Commercial Club of Independence and the Maywood Improvement Club to secure a boulevard from Independence to Kansas City. A committee composed of members of both clubs was appointed to confer with the county court concerning the project. It is desired to have a boulevard starting west from Walnut street in Independence, through Maywood, which will come into this city on Fifteenth street just south of Mount Washington cemetery. This will necessitate the opening of a road three miles long between Maywood and Independence.

Labels: cemetery, Fifteenth street, Independence, Maywood, Mt. Washington, organizations, public works

February 4, 1908

GINGER CLUB MUST WAIT.

Precedent in City Council Cannot Be

Violated to Oblige It.

Because the council did not want to violate a precedent the Ginger Club will have to wait another week before the authority is given to suspend across each end of their block electric signs between Oak and McGee on Twelfth having on them the potent number "300."

Labels: Ginger Club, McGee street, Oak street, organizations, Twelfth street

February 2, 1908

WELSH ORGANIZE A SOCIETY.

For Promotion of Welsh Music, Liter-

ature, and Art.

The Welsh society of the Greater Kansas City, which was organized yesterday, will hold a St. David's day celebration on Monday, March 2, in the Second Presbyterian church, Fifteenth street and Broadway. St. David's day falls upon March 1, but as that is Sunday this year, the celebration was postponed for one day. There will be speeches and singing in both the Welsh and English languages.

There are several thousand Welsh in Kansas City and there is an opportunity, the organizers believe, for a flourishing society here. The officers of the society are Owen J. Owen, President; Theodore S. Jones, secretary; and John Lloyd, treasurer. Those interested in Welsh music and the society are invited to meet in Professor Gwilym Thomas's studio at Eleventh and Oak streets Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock.

Labels: Broadway, churches, Eleventh street, Fifteenth street, Oak street, organizations

January 28, 1908

THEY'LL FIGHT CONSUMPTION.

Negroes Band Together to Battle

With the White Plague.

Six hundred negroes, eager to fight the white plague, met last night at Allen chapel, Tenth and Charlotte streets, and organized a colored people's branch of the Society for the Relief and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Mayor Beardsley and Dr. R. O. Cross addressed them, explaining in part the plans of the city for a tuberculosis sanitarium.

Among the negro speakers who followed, several declared that there will be vigorous work done now to educate their own people who are living in crowded tenements as to how to fight tuberculosis. Also it was said that the negroes will contrubute their part financially to the proposed $10,000 fund to be given to the city by way of destroying the idea that it is a city charity for paupers.

The negro society's officers are Dr. J. E. Dipple, president; W. C. Houston, secretary; Professor R. W. Foster, treasurer; Rev. F. Jesse Peck, chairman of the executive committee.

Others who spoke were: Dr. E. B. Ramsey, Dr. W. L Tompkins, Dr. A. E. Walker, Dr. J. E. Perry, Nelson, Crews, and Mrs. Cora Calloway, a trained nurse.

Labels: Charlotte street, churches, City Chemist Cross, health, Mayor Beardsley, organizations, race, Tenth street

January 19, 1908

PLAN TO "GINGER UP"

ALL TWELFTH STREET.

Improvement Spreads West; Baseball

Club Formed.

Not satisfied with its work in gingering up the 300 block of East Twelfth street, from McGee to Oak streets, the Ginger Club has now decided to begin a campaign to improve all of Twelfth street in the downtown district, hang flaming arc lights on artistic brackets from each trolley pole, and call it "The Great White Way.

The merchants on Eleventh street, from Main to Walnut have an advantage in that they are located on Petticoat Lane, a name that everybody recognizes," said E. J. Richards, president of the Ginger Club yesterday. "We want the women to know that ours is the cleanest block on the city, and the brightest at night."

"Even the negro porters in the block are getting interested. Several of them have been to me today to know what they can do to help. 'We want to do our best,' they said."

ORGANIZE BALL CLUB.

Last night the Ginger Club organized a baseball club at the office of the secretary, L. J. Galbert, 309 East Twelfth street, and has issued a challenge to the Kansas City Athletic Club to play a game of indoor baseball on Washington's birthday. The Ginger Club has secured some of the best semi-professional baseball talent in the city, including men from Iowa and Kansas state leagues.

Labels: Eleventh street, Ginger Club, organizations, Petticoat Lane, retailers, sports, Twelfth street

October 3, 1907

REPUBLICAN LEAGUE QUITS.

Negro Organization, After a Stormy

Session, Is Disabled.

The Negro-Republican League of Missouri went "bust" last night, so far as the Kansas City chapter is concerned. It assembled at Allen's chapel on Woodland avenue in response to a call from the president, W. C. Hueston, and the secretary, J. Silas Harris, to organize for the next political campaign and to see what could be done in the way of securing negro representatives from Missouri at the next national Republican convention. About twenty-five influential negro politicians and business men were present.

As soon as the meeting was called to order hostilities began. Many speakers refused upon the floor to admit they were in sympathy with the league, two or three denying they were met as members of that organization at all. When Chairman Heuston refused to entertain a motion to dissolve the league meeting into a general mass meeting a motion to adjourn was made and passed. A mass meeting was then declared on the boards instead of the league meeting assembly. Lewis Woods was elected chairman to succeed Heuston, who with forceful words declared Woods a political renegade and left the hall.

A committee of seven was appointed to draft plans for a general organization to succeed the league. This committee, headed by J. Silas Harris, was instructed to formulate articles of agreement for a new association and outline a plan of campaign to secure the coveted representation in the "big four," or delegates from the state to the national convention.

A number of those who were present last night were armed with resolutions indorsing different party favorites for offices at the next election. These were headed off by the disruption of the league.

Labels: organizations, politics, race, Woodland avenue

September 27, 1907

WIPE OUT TUBERCULOSIS

OBJECTS OF A SOCIETY FORMED

LAST NIGHT.

Building and Endowing of a Tent

Colony and a Sanitarium

Among the Purposes

of Promoters.

Fresh Air, Fresh Milk and Fresh Eggs.

That's the motto of the Jackson County Society for the Relief and Prevention of Tuberculosis, organized last night. The leading men of the city -- doctors, ministers, priests, lawyers and officeholders -- attended the meeting and promised their assistance in putting the society in shape to do real work.

The programme of intentions outlined for the next few months is:

The building and endowing of a tent colony and a sanitarium near the city for the treatment of tuberculosis patients.

The employment of nurses to visit in the homes of consumptives and teach the people how to live properly when afflicted with the disease.

The enactment of laws by the city council to compel the reporting of all cases of tuberculosis, and to clean and disinfect all houses in which consumptives had lived or died.

The distribution of literature and the holding of public meetings to educate the people in healthy living -- fresh air, baths and wholesome food.

"Kansas City is twenty years behind Eastern cities in dealing with tuberculosis," said Dr. C. B. Irwin, one of the organizers of the society, last night. There is no fumigation, no reports of deaths from the disease, and practically no effort to check the spread of the plague. I know one house in this city from which there men have been carried out dead from consumption in the past five years. It's easy to know how the last two got it. As fast as one family moved out another moved in.

"Since in 1880 New York city began fumigating houses in which tuberculosis patient had died, began educating the people and commenced a systematic fight upon the disease, the death rate from it had fallen 50 per cent. The same is true of Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

"In the Western cities one death in every seven is from the white plague."

The directors of the society, chosen last night, are: Rev. Father W. J. Dalton, Dr. E. W. Schauffler, Judge H. L McCune, Mayor H. M. Beardsley, Frank P. Walsh, R. A. Long, Rev. Matt S. Hughes, Hugo Brecklein, Dr. St. Elmo Sauders, Congressman F. C. Ellis, Mrs. Robert Gillam, Ralph Swofford, Albert Bushnell, F. A. Faxon, George F. Damon and J. W. Frost.

The others are: Dr. R. O. Cross, president; Dr. C. B. Irwin, secretary, Albert Marty, treasurer; John T. Smith, Rev. Wallace M. Short, J. W. Frost and E. A. Krauthoff, vice presidents; chairman finance committee, Mrs. Kate E. Pierson; chairman soliciting committee, Mrs. E. T. Brigham; chairman legislative committee, J. V. C. Karnes, and publication committee, Dr. E. L. Stewart, chairman; Dr. E. L. Mathias and Clarance Dillon.

Labels: City Chemist Cross, Congressman Ellis, doctors, Frank Faxon, health, ministers, organizations

July 23, 1907

WOMEN, SHE SAYS.

SECRETARY'S REASON FOR THE

CHAUTAQUA CLOSING.

SNAKE SHOW SCARED SOME.

BUT THE WYANDOT ASSOCIATION

IS NOT DAUNTED.

Will Try to Bring the National Con-

vention to Kansas City -- To

Apply for Membership

in the Big Organ-

ization.

"We would have finished our assembly if it had not been for the interference of certain women's organizations which boycotted us and stirred up sentiment against us," said Miss Chloe Matteson, secretary of the Wyandot Chautauqua, last night, while President H. G. Pert nodded assent, at Fairmount park last night.

"We have had a most pleasant ten days here. We knew before we came they sold beer and had a snake show and an opium smokers' show here. Our gratitude to the management of the park is not one whit less because things did not turn out well for us. We could not foresee that certain women who were supposed to be our friends would 'act up' the way they have.

"Fairmount park, with its lake, its theater, its sound shell, its cool tenting ground and all, is an ideal place for a Chautauqua. We will not break up our camp of tents until the regular closing time, July 30."

"Although we were forced to close the assembly this summer with the programme only half completed," Miss Matteson continued, "we accomplished a great deal by running it for ten days. By its continuance for that length of time we are eligible, on account of the high class of talent which we engaged, to membership in the National Chautauqua Alliance. This organization is the highest of its kind in the world. Out of the 400 and more Chautauquas in the United States only thirty are eligible for membership in the alliance. We have applied for membership and will receive it.

"Not only that, but we will make a strong bid to bring the the annual meeting of the International Lyceum Association to Kansas City in 1908. Kansas City is practically the center of the Chautauqua movement, there being very few Chautauquas with a high-class programme in the East, and most of the talent favor this city for the annual meeting. We could have had it here this fall if there had been a Chautauqua association in Kansas City last summer of a grade high enough to enter the alliance.

"The annual meeting will bring 10,000 people to this city. It is always held indoors. At it all of the candidates for jobs under the various lyceum bureaus throughout the country rehearse their 'stunts' before the bureau managers and an audience of other 'talent' waiting its turn to try out or having just been put through its paces. It brings as high a grade of people to a city as a national teachers' convention, and it brings as high a grade of people to the city as a national teachers' convention., and it brings more of them. If the annual meeting comes to Kansas City it will be held in Convention hall."

"The Wyandot Chautauqua Association has nothing but kind words for the Fairmount park management," President Pert put in, "despite the fact that we were forced to discontinue this summer's programme on account of being boycotted by certain of our friends because beer is sold and a snake show is given in the park. We are the park's guests and we will never regret that we came here nor forget that our stay has been a pleasant one."

"And you can say for me," interrupted Miss Matteson, "that I am just as strong a 'white ribboner' as any of my friends in the certain temperance organizations who found fault for bringing the Chautauqua to Fairmount. I don't have to drink beer just because I am in the park. This is an ideal location for a Chautauqua."

It is possible that the performance of the local talent part of the assembly programme may be given shortly. The performers in the Telephone Girls' chorus and other numbers have rehearsed faithfully and are entitled, President Pert thinks, to give a public exhibition.

The Wyandot Chautauqua will hold an assembly next summer. The location has not yet been decided upon.

Labels: alcohol, Convention Hall, fairmount park, organizations