The Negroes in the American Capital.

Lake County Press, Issue 906, 12 April 1900, Page 7

The Negroes in the American Capital.

Of the 7.3,000 negroes in Washington, 3000 tire in Government Mil ploy. Negroes own eight millions mf dollars' worth of real estate in the district of Columbia. They have their editors, teachers, professors, doctors, dentists, druggist's, dancing-masters, their clubs, their saloons, Hieir news-papers, churches, schools, and halls. Whites and blacks work together as mechanics and labourers, and the Typographical Union contains black printers, just as the Barbers' Ihvion includes while barbers. To estimate Ihe apparent progress of the negroes in Washington one must go to their fashionable churches. They have scores of churches, but the three leading ones are on Fifteenth-street, just back of tiie Monument and in line with it. The nearest to the heart of the city is tiie linest—the Fiftieth sitreet Presbyterian Church—-but all three are among the notable " sights" of the capital. The Presbyterian Church is known as the religious rendezvous of the educated set, and is necessariiy small. The Kev. F. .1. Grhuko, a negro and a Princeton graduate, is the pastor. His flock is composed of school teachers, doctors, lawyers, dentists, and those coloured folk from all over America who come to Washington when they have money to p.'. the worth of it.—" Harper's Maga*in," "