Extension Secretary, Mrs. Harriett Shadd Butcher. Industrial Secretary, T. Arnold Hill, New York. Southern Field Secretary, Jesse O. Thomas, 200 Auburn Ave., Atlanta. SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS FOR NEGROES. For improving social conditions among Negroes, social settlements have been established in various cities, and a few rural districts. A list of these settlements follows: Alabama: Names of Social Settlements for Negroes and their Locations. Calhoun Colored School and Settlement, Calhoun, Lowndes County. California: Sojourner Truth Industrial Home for Young Women, 1119 Adams St., Los Angeles. Delaware: Delmar Thomas Garrett Settlement House, Wilmington. Florida: The Colored Institutional Church, Jacksonville. Georgia: Neighborhood Union, Morehouse College, Atlanta. The Institutional Church for the Colored people of Atlanta, Cor. Courtland and Houston Sts., Atlanta: Herndon Community Center and Day Nursery 44 1-2 Dover Street., Atlanta. Illinois: Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society, 440 S. Dearborn St., Chicago. Louise Training School for Boys, 6130 Ada St., Chicago. Phillis Wheatley Home, 3256 Rhodes Ave., Chicago. Frederick Douglass Center, 3032 Wabash Ave., Chicago. Community House of Trinity M. E. Church, Chicago. Working Girls' Home, 3015 Prairie Ave., Chicago. Wendell Phillips Settlement, 2009 Walnut St., Chicago. Indiana: Flanner, 802-814 Northwest St., Indianapolis. Phyllis Wheatley Home, 458 S. 16th St., Terre Haute. J. M. Townsend Recreation Community Service, 18 N. 5th St., Richmond. Young Women's Christian Industrial Mission, 1324 Main St., Keokuk. Kentucky: Booker T. Washington Community Center, 834 Magazine St., Louisville. The Presbyterian Colored Mission, 644 Preston St., Louisville. Louisiana: Colored Working Girls' Home, 223 Liberty St., New Orleans. Maryland: Colored Children's Day Nursery (with settlement activities), 923 Druid Hill Ave., Baltimore. Community House of Asbury M. E. Church, Annapolis. Community House Sharp Street M. E. Church, Baltimore. Massachusetts: St. Augustine and St. Martin's Mission, Lenox St., Boston. Park Memorial (Social Work with Colored People under a Special Committee), Berkley and Appleton Sts., Boston. Robert Gould Shaw House, 6 Hammond St., Boston. Harriet Tubman House, 25 Holyoke St., Boston. St. John's Congregational Church, (Institutional), Springfield. Michigan: Community Center and Day Nursety, 553 Columbia St., Detroit. Missouri: Mound City Social Settlement, 2343 Randolph St., St. Louis. Garrison Square Field House, 4th St., and Forest Ave., Kansas City. New Jersey: East Orange Social Settlement, 374 Main St., East Orange New York: Dunbar Community Center, Jamaica. Katie Ferguson House, 162 W. 130th St., New York. Lincoln Settlement 105 Fleet Place, Brooklyn. Sojourner Truth House, 170 W. 130th St., New York. Mission House for Colored People, 449 Hudson Ave., Brooklyn. St. Phillip's Parish House, 218 133rd St., New York. St. Cyprian's 175-177 W. 63rd St., New York. Model Tenements for Colored People, 231 W. 63rd St., New York. The New York Colored Missions, 225-227 W. 30th St., New York. Lincoln House, Colored People's Branch of Henry Street Settlement, New York. Ohio: Christian Community Center, 2712 Scovil Ave., Cleveland. Phyllis Wheatley Association, East 40th and Central Ave., Cleveland. Washington Terrace Model Community, Chapel St., and Central Ave., Cincinnati. Colored Women's Industrial Union, Dayton. Working Girls' Home, 533-535 Dorr St., Toledo. Pennsylvania: Eighth Ward Settlement House, 922 Locust St., Philadelphia. Phillis Wheatley Social Center, 1024 Lombard St., Philadelphia. St. Gabriel's P. E. Misson, 3629 Market St., Philadelphia. St. Mary's P. E. Misson, Bainbridge, below 19th St., Philadelphia. Chapel of St. Simon, the Cyrenian, 22nd and Reed Sts., Philadelphia. St. Martin's Guild, P. E. Chapel of St. Michael and All Angels, Wallace below 43rd St. Philadelphia. The Whittier Center, 1623 Christian Street, Philadelphia. South Carolina: The Phillis Wheatley Center, Broad and Gas Sts., Greenville. Tennessee: Bethlehem House, Cor. 10th Ave., N., and Cedar St., Nashville. Industrial Settlement House, 366 So. Division St., Memphis. Plymouth Community House, 762 Walker Ave., Memphis. Texas: Bethlehem Neighborhood House, Houston. Mt. Gilead Baptist Church (Institutional), Forth Worth. Social Service Center, 411 1-2 Milam St., Houstin. Community Center of Boynton M. E. Church, Dallas. Victory Community Center, 714 1-2 Prairie Ave., Houston. Virginia: Locust St., Social Settlement, 320 Locust St., Hampton. Richmond Negro Welfare League, 100 East Leigh St., Richmond. Industrial Home for Colored Girls, 1007 Quarrier St., Charleston. COMMUNITY SERVICE WORK FOR NEGROES IN VARIOUS CITIES. The Latest available information is that there are some 90 communities in which public recreational activities are conducted and which include opportunities for colored people. There are 42 cities reporting a total of 52 communities centers for colored adults. 89 cities report a total of 178 play-grounds maintained for the use of colored children. There are in addition, many municipal and city-wide recreational units which do not make any divisino along racial lines in their program of activities. Community Centers. Field Director, Ernest T. Attwell, 501 South 16th St., Philadelphia. Secret societies among Negroes may be roughly divided into two classes: the old line societies, such as Masons, the Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias and the benevolent secret societies, such as the True. Reformers, the Grand United Order of Galilean Fisherman and the National Order of Mosaic Templars. There are over sixty secret and fraternal organizations among Negroes in the United States of a more or less National scope. It is estimated that they have a total membership of about 2,500,000. Large sums of money have come into the treasuries of the various secret organizations. The Knights of Pythias have collected over $1,500,000 for endowment. There is over $100,000 in the Grand Lodge treasury. A considerable part of the money collected by the orders has been permanently invested. It is estimated that the Masons have about $1,300,000 worth of property; the Odd Fellows, $2,000,000; and the Pythians, $2,800,000. It is probable that altogether the Negro secret societies in the United States own over $20,000,000 worth of property. The Odd Fellows have in New Orleans, a building that cost $36,000, and in Atlanta and Philadelphia, buildings that have cost $100,000 each. In Indianapolis, New Orleans and Chicago, Knights of Pythias own buildings each worth from $30,000 to $100,000. The Negro secret societies are paying attention to the improving of the health of their members. The Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias has erected a sanitarium at Hot Springs, Arkansas; the Mosaic Templars and other societies have established health bureaus. There was a general movement throughout the Southern States to estrange Negro secret societies from using the names and emblems of white orders. The white Phthians of Georgia entered a restraining order against the Negro Pythians of that State. The case was carried to the Supreme Court of the United States. Chief Justice White, in an important and farreaching decision, handed down, June 10, 1912, declared that the Negro Knights of Pythias of Georgia had the right to use the name and emblems of the order. All the members of the court except Justice Holmes and Lurton concurred with the Chief Justice. Suits are now pending to restrict Negro Mystic Shriners from using the emblem of that order. The Supreme council of Masons (White) in regular session in Boston, Mass., in September, 1925 passed a resolution to the effect that the United Supreme Council (Negro) of Prince Hall Masons should be recognized as the legitimate body of Masonry among Negroes, and that informal recognition without official relation be accorded them. In view of the antagonism that has at times prevailed in different parts of the country oftimes the results of the conflicting claims of many alleged Masonic bodies, this is a great step forward. The principal Secret Orders, the Officers of the Grand Lodges, etc., follow: MASONS Number of State Grand Lodges in the United States, thirty-five. The oldest one is the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, organized in 1808. The first colored lodge was the African Lodge, No. 459. Its Warrant was granted from England, September 12, 1784, to Prince Hall, of Boston, a man of exceptional ability, and fourteen other colored Masons. The number of colored Masons in the United States is about 150,000; Royal Arch, 14,000; Knights Templars, 12,000; Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, 2,000; Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Masons, 5,712. The Deacons' Club. Officers: President, William King, 330, 3219 South Park, Ave., Chicago, Ill. This is an organization of Prince Hall Masons devised to meet the difficulties that beset actors and other travellers who were members of the craft. Their duties kept them from their home lodges, and the fear of clandestine connections ofttimes prevented visitation. Either they or the Masons of the community in which they happened to be might be fearful of the legitimacy of the other. In 1922, James A. Jackson of the Billboard after assembling fifty letters authorizing the use of their names from as many Masons, some travelling; and others whose interests or business gave them occasion to meet the travellers, approached the different Masonic bodies convening in Washington, and with the assistance of Grand Master David B. Parker launched the Deacons with Billy King, 330 as President. Since then the organization has grown to more than 600 members and has proven to be a valuable instrument of contact between the profession and their lay public. It has also become a valuable adjunct in the fight against clandestine Masonry. Imperial Council Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of Nobles of The Mystic Shrine. (Only York Rite Masons who have reached the Knights Templars degree or Scottish Masons who have reached the degree of Sublime Princess of the Royal Secret of the 32nd degree, are eligible for membership in the Mystic Shrine). Officers: Imperial Potentate, C. R. Blake, 406 E. 1st St., Charlotte, N. C. Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons Officers of Northern Jurisdiction: Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander, S. A. Furniss Indianapolis, Ind. Officers of Southern Jurisdiction: Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander, R. L. Pendleton, 1216 U St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Secretary General, James T. Beason, 1633 11th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. International Conference, Knights Templar. Officers: President, Albert R. Lee, Champaign, Ill. Secretary, William H. Perry, 2230 W. Chestnut St., Louisville, Ky. President, W. T. Butler, New York. Secretary, James O. Bampfield, Washington. Ancient York Rite Masons Officiers of National Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted York Rite Masons: Grand Masters Association, A. F. A. Masons. Officers: President, W. T. Wood, Birmingham, Ala. Secretary, T. B. Hardiman, Nashville, Tenn. ODD FELLOWS. Peter Ogden was the founder of the Order of Odd Fellows among Negroes in the United States. He had joined the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of England, and secured a charter for the first Negro Lodge, Philo methean No. 646, of New York, which was set up March 1, 1843., Negro Odd Fellows in America are under the jurisdiction of England and are regularly represented in the general meetings of the Order. Membership is over 300,000. Grand Master, E. H. Morris, 219 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. Grand Secretary, James F. Needham, N. W. cor, 12th and Spruce Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS OF NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, Colored Order was organized in Washington, D. C., February 19, 1864. The Uniform Rank has over 400 companies, and over 25,000 members. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS (EASTERN AND WESTERN HEMISPHERE.) Supreme Chancellor, W. Ashbie Hawkins, Baltimore. Supreme Keeper of Records and Seals, G. E. Gordon, Boston. SUPREME CIRCLE OF BENEVOLENCE. Supreme Ruler, J. H. Watson, Albany, Ga. Secretary-Treasurer, Rev. W. F. Sattewhite, Albany, Ga. IMPROVED BENEVOLENCE AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE WORLD. Organized by B. F. Howard at Cincinnati, June 10, 1899. Has 400 lodges and over 100,000 members. Assets, $1,500,000. Grand Exalted Ruler, J. Finley Wilson, Washington, D. C. AMERICAN WOODMEN. Supreme Commander, E. W. D. Abner, Denver, Col. UNITED ORDER OF TRUE REFORMERS. Organized 1881. Headquarters at Richmond, Va. Grand Worthy Secretary, Maurice Rouselle, Richmond, Va. Organized 1915, 20,000 members. Supreme President, E. A. Kendall, Hot Springs, Ark. Supreme Custodian, J. L. Webb, Box 672, Hot Springs, Ark. GRAND UNITED ORDER OF GALILEAN FISHERMAN. Organized at Baltimore, Maryland, 1865. Supreme Ruler, Robert Briscoe, Washington, D. C. Secretary, Mrs. Hattie Troy. UNITED BROTHERS OF FRIENDSHIP AND SISTERS OF THE MYSTERIOUS TEN. Organized 1854. Charted by Legislature of Kentucky, 1861. First Charted regularly constituted Negro Society South of the Ohio River. National Grand Secretary, H. C. Russell, Frankfort, Ky. THE ST. JOSEPH'S AID SOCIETY. Organized 1896. Members 100,000. Supreme Chief, T. H. B. Walker, 1150 Darwin St., Jacksonville, Fla. Supreme Secretary, Scott Bartlett. ANCIENT ORDER OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OF NORTH AMERICA. Right Worthy Father of Israel, A. A. Miller, Norfolk, Va. UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF AMERICA. S. G. A., W. D. Kennedy, Savannah, Ga. Vice-S G. A., W. T. Davis, Savannah, Ga. Organized 1906. UNITED ORDER OF GOOD SHEPHERDS. Supreme Grand President, G. W. Chandler, Montgomery, Ala. Supreme Grand Secretary, Mrs. S. L. Duncan, Montgomery, Ala. GRAND UNITED ORDER OF TENTS OF THE J. R. GIDDINGS AND JOLLIFEE UNION. President and Secretary, Mrs. Adaline M. Ward, Norfolk. INDEPENDENT ORDER OF J. R. GIDDINGS AND JOLLIFEE UNION. Senior Matron, Mrs. Mary Holden, Boston, Mass. Worthy Grand Secretary and Organizer, Mrs. Bessie Waddell, 681 Shawmut Ave., Boston, Mass. ROYAL KNIGHTS OF KING DAVID. Organized, 1884, at Durham, N. C., 26,000 members. Supreme Grand Scribe, W. G. Pearson, Durham, N. C. IMPROVED BENEVOLENT ORDER OF REINDEER. Organized 1922. Grand Dictator, C. G. Cummings, Baltimore, Md. Grand Secretary, John M. Stout, Newark, N. J. GOOD SAMARITANS AND DAUGHTERS OF SAMARIA. R. W. N. G. Chief, W. H. Brown, Bristol, Tenn. National Secretary, Mrs. E. P. Diggs, Leesburg, Va. BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE HERD OF BUFFALOES OF THE WORLD. Grand Exalted Ruler, James Chapman, New York, N. Y. Grand Accountant, Ruth Choate, Portsmouth, Va. ANCIENT INDEPENDENT ORDER OF MOSES. Grand Master, James A. Munnerlyn. |