The Lincoln Sentinel

Vol. I.. No. I.

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Five Cents the. Copy

^resident Wilson

to Visit IChicago

W. C. Nililack. Vice-President ol
lite Chicago Title A Trust Company,
headed a delestntinn ivliiclt failed M

INVITATION

HON. WOODROW WILSON,
President
of the United States.

ILLINOIS COMMISSION NA-
TIONAL HALF-CENTURY
ANNIVERSARY OF
NEGRO FREEDOM.

siik'iit

t Hit

-Hon. Edward

P-eside"t — Ripht Reverend Samuel
Fallows. D. D., LL. D.
Treasurer— .Major George W. Ford.

Rev. A. 1. Carey, Ph. D., D. D.;

Hon, John Dailey, Hon. W. Duff
Piercy, Hon. R. R. Jackson, Hon,
Medill MeCormick.

Secretary — Thomas Wallace Swann.

General Finance Committee — W. C.
NiMack, Chairman.

Local Finance Committee — Leon
l loriistein. Chairman.

W. R. Dawes. Genera! Treasurer,

James Hale Porter, Chief Field

The Invitation.

Appreciative of the fact that you
were the first official to sisn a bill
authorizing the celebration of the
Emancipation Proclamation, this

Commission takes pleasure in inviting
you and your Cabinet to be present
ami to open the Illinois National
Half-Century Anniversary of Negro
Freedom to be held in the city of

We shall be ready to bepin our cel-

COiitinuc for :2ti days. We shall have
a half-million visitors in Chicago on
Virginia Day. The management re-
spectfully leaves the tlafe of your offi-

Will Chicago Help?

Governor Dunne end the Legislature of Illinois have made possible an Exposition giving ac-
curate proof of the progress achieved by Freedr^ert in the nation since Abraham Lincoln signed
his immortal Emancipation Proclamation. The legislature gave fifty thousand ($50,000} dol-
lars ^or this purpose, twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars unconditional and twenty-five
thousand ($25,000) provided that an addition. 1 twenty-five thousand be raised by the Exposi-
tion Management.

Already eighty-five thousand dollars ($85,* 300 has been spent in collecting and securing
exhibits which tell the plain truth of Negro prog' ^s? Of this amount the State of Wisconsin
gave ($2,500) two thousand five hundred doll rs for its own State exhibit; Michigan five
thousand ($5,000) dollars; Ohio five thousand '§'>- 000) dollars and New York ceven thousand
five hundred ($7,500) dollars. The National G' ve lment appropriated fifty thousand ($50 -
000) dollars for the Virginia Historical and In lus-rial Association. The Chicago Board of
Education appropriated one thousand ($1,000 t dollars for its exhibit of the work done by the
Negro pupils in the Chicago schools. All of the 3 exhibits collected together with exhibits from
32 other Si.ates and the two Negro Government Hayti and Liberia will be shown in connec-
tion with the Lincoln Jubilee and the Illinois Ha Century Anniversary Exposition to be held at
the Coliseum, Chicago, opening August 22nd and closing September 16th, 1915.

Over four hundred schools and colleges and industrial institutes devoted to the education
of this people have prepared interesting exhibits ; nd specimens of their handiwork.

The Beard of Freedmen of the General PresWterian Church sends an exhibit of the work
done by its sixty-five Negro schools. The Freed lers's Bureau of the Methodist Episcopal Church
will send an exhibit of their Negro schools* T 2 National Negro Baptist Association will
show, in addition to the great work done by its s pools and colleges, exhibits from its fifty-one
stations situated in foreign fields. The three gr it branches of African Methodism will display
the different phases of their religious, education ! and civic activities showing what the Negro
has accomplished for himself and by himself imdss* the spur and impetus of American civiliza-
tion. Every uplifting and outreaching agency actively engaged in the redemption and the
adaptation of the Negro to civilizing influences Will be represented in this Half Century Demon-
s&raticn to be held here in the Middle West.

The crowning feature of this whole display will be a collection of Lincolniana which ex-
perts variously estimate at a value exceeding IWQ million dollars. Many pleasing features
have been programmed for the enjoyment of the visitors to this unique assembly.

The soul-stirring music of the Negro, the o 5 plantation melodies, the jubilee, the real folk
song which is indeed the greatest contribution o r American Negro people have yet made to the
world, will entrance the multitudes. Splendid 1: ing, realistic tableaux and pageants will be
given, illustrating the dawn of history to the present period.

^ The whoib-ptrrpese of this movement i^red*. ^ivj» ' From-this st^ndporfil aione) it .-,i«si in-
terest the people of this City and State. From a material standpoint, it will bring dollars to the
City of Chicago. Organizations of different kinds representing upwards of 127,000 delegates
and visitors will hold their conventions in this City during the life and in connection with this
Exposition. Many important educational, industrial and religious congresses will be held
which will be addressed by prominent men and v/omen of the Nation. The President of the
United States is the patron of the Lincoln Jubilee and Half Century Anniversary Exposition,
and will be present, unless prevented by officisl cities. Several State Governors with their
staffs have pledged to attend. Over a half million people will witness this wonderful display.
Mayor Thompson and the City Council have made the opening, Chicago Day, the same to be a
legal holiday.

It is up to the people of Chicago to make this Exposition a success. Every dollar contrib-
uted now will mean a return of five ($5.00) dollars in August and September. The merchants,
manufacturers and people of this city cannot afford to neglect or ignore this commercial oppor-
tunity.

"Every dollar that has been expended in making this Exposition possible," says Mr. William
C. Niblack, Vice-President of the Chicago Title and Trust Company, "has been made to do the
work of three ($3.00) dollars."

Chicago is generous!!!

Chicago knows no color line where humanity is concerned!!

The "I will" spirit of Chicago has made this rjreat city possible!!!

The SO, 000 Negroes of this City are one of its best assets. Onlv once in a half century —
once in fifty years— do they appeal to you to help them glorify in their right to call themselves
Americans ! ! !

Cut out and fill in this coupon and mail it today to Mr. W. R. Dawes, General Treasurer,
Central Trust Company of Illinois. Every dollar contributed and expended will be publicly ac-
knowedged. Every dollar raised up to $25,000 will be duplicated by the State. The time limit
expires August 15th. Will you help???

'The Lincoln Sentinel" Fund

President Wilson

to Visit Chicago

cial appearance at the Exposition to
your pleasure and convenience.

E. F. DUNNE.

Governor.

22, 1014.

behalf of the Illinois
appointed by Governor

President.
Swann, Secretary,
Carter H,

September
Duni

Th.

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s Wal

Ch

"ook. A. A. McCormick,
inty Board.

Education of Chicago,
.1 . >ne.il Sneiety, Otto L

■ Cook- County Real Estate Board.
Richard VV. Wolf, President,
Chirapo Hoard of Trade. Caleb H,

Iroquois Club, James A. Brady,
President.

Press Club of Chicago, E. F. Clip-
sou. Financial Secretary.

Hamilton Club, George S. Ballard,
President.

Chicago Woman's Club, Helen W,
Coolcy, President.

Fellowship Club, George E.

VV.i

See

191 ... .

I hereby subscribe and will pay Dollars on or

before 191 toward the expenses of the

LINCOLN JUBILEE and HALF-CENTURY ANNIVERSARY EXPOSITION to be

in the Coliseum at Chicago August 22nd to September 16th, 191 5. under the
auspices of the Commission appointed by bis Excellency, Governor Edward
F Dunne.

Mail Check or Postal Order to
W R DAWES.

General Treasurer Signature

Central Trust Company Address .

of Illinois
125 W, Monroe StreL't

Standard Club. A B. Newman.
President.

Chicago Automobile Club. Harry
Vissurnig, President.

City Club of Chicago. Allen B.
Pond. President.

Chicago Athletic Association, Win.
H. Baker. President.

Aero Club of Illinois. Charles Dick-
inson, President.

University Club of Chicago.
^ Columbia Yacht Club, H. S. Mills,
Loin modore.

George W. Dixon. Secretary and
Treasurer Dixon Transfer Company.

Wallace Fetzer. President National
Casualty Company of America.

John W. Eckhart, Flour Merchant.

Edward Osgood Broun,
\ppellate Court.
C. F. Guniher, Capitalist,
'"eill, Pres. Siegel.

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LINCOLN

SENTINEL

WILL CHICAGO HELP

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Will you help them??? c'"""u"t ,r<""

D° 14 "°W!!! THE ILLINOIS COMMISSION.

[Appointed by Governor Edward F. Dunne, July 1st, 1913, to arrange Half Century An-
niversary of Negro Freedom, under Act passed by 48th General Assembly.]

PATRON

The President of the United States.

Soldo

, OM: 1MILI-AW ar;.l We,

SATURDAY. JULY

The Lincoln
Jubilee |

And National Half-Century
Anniversary Exposition

Among the most notable and at*,
tractive features in connection *i™
this Anniversary Celebration will bej
an exhibit of tlata, showing the coii-1
tribotions made by the leaders forj
Negro Freedom. Much of this data is]
already assembled, and only little of
it has been ever published. If includes
not only the Liberators of the Eman-
cipation Period, but covers almost
minutely the work of the early
patriots as far back as the days of the
American Revolution. Among these
are pastorious, Benjamin Rush, Benja-
min Lee, Crispin Attack* Joseph
Blooraheld, Peter Salem. Simon luck,
Alexander Hamilton, lhoinas Paine.
Thomas Jefferson, John YVoolman;
Phyllis Wheatley, lohn Jay. Absolom
Jones, William Durham, Dessahnes,
rouissaut, Sandiford. Benezet, George
Leile. Lemuel Haynes, Harriet and
Joseph Martineau, Harry Hosier,
Henry Evans, Raip Freeman, Abra-
ham "Marshall. Jesse Peters, Richard
Allen. James Varick, John
Benjamin Franklin, Joseph
Dr. James McCune Smith. B
Lundy, William Lloyd Garnso
. dell Phillips. Charles Sumner,
William Curtis. Horace Grceh
ritt Smith, Elijah P. Lovejoy

OFFICERS

President Ex-Officio— Hon. Edward F. Dunne, Governor of Illinois.
Rt Rev. Samuel Fallows, D.D., LL.D., President

Hon John Dailey, Vice-President. Maj. Geo. W. Ford, Treasurer.

Rev. A. J. Carey, Ph. D., D.D. Hon. W. Dufl F Piercy.

Hon. R. R. Jackson. Hon. Med. 1 McCorm.ck.

Dr. Mary Fitzbutler Waring, M. D. Thomas Wallace Swann, Secretary.

THE GENERAL FINANCE COMMITTEE
William C. Niblack, Chairman, Vice-President Chicago Title & Trust Company.
Bertha M. Doyle, Secretary.
William R. Dawes.

Martin B. Madden. Geo. F. Harding, Jr.

Andrew Russel
John P. McGoorty

George W. Dixon
Mrs. Helen W. Cooley

Charles F. Gunther
Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout
Otto L. Schmidt
James A. Pugh

Dixon C. Williams
Mrs. L. Brackett Bishop
Richard W. Wolf
Oscar DePriest

Atwcll,

Ger-

ritt Smith. Elijah P. t-Ovejoy. u»t »
Lovejoy, Sojourned Truth. Frederick
Douglas. Harriet Beechcr Stowe Lu-
cretia Mott. Bishop Payne. William
Wells Brown, the Bustills. Robert
Purvis, William Jay. Thad Stevens.
Henry Wilson, the Grimke Sisters,
Hannibal Hamlin. James and William
Forten, Phillips Brooks, Cassius M.
Clay, Goldwin Smith. IJUeen Victoria
Richard Cobdcn. lohn Bright. Daniel
O'Connell. Victor Hugo, Cardinal Mc-
Closkey, John Boyle O'Reilly, Pro-
fessor Charles H. Reason, the Ripleys.
Carl Schtirz, Phoebe and Annie Carey.
Bishop Hughes. Bishop Turner.
Henry Ward Beecher, Susan Avery
Hook. Harriet Tubman. Henry High-
land Garnett, Parker Piltsbury, Lydia
Maria Child, Passmore Williamson,
the Hallowells, Walt Whitman,
Lowell, Whittier. Holmes, Emerson,
Bryant, Longfellow, Grant, Logan.
Sherman, Bishop Hood, Joseph C.
Price. General Armstrong. Benjamin
Banneker, Edward W. Blyden, Peter
Ogden, Bishop Holly, George W'..
Black, Robert G. Ingersoll, George
Peabotly. Bishop Arnett. George W.
Gale. Sheridan. Howard, Miles, Shaw,
Carney, Burnside, Smalls, Walls, Ben
Butler. John M. Palmer, Bishop
Hughes, Isaiah C. Wears. William
Still. Martin R. Delancy, William
Howard Day. Bishop Campbell, How-
ard Johnson, E. D. Bassett Frances
E. W. Harper. Paul Cuffey, Alexander
Crummell. Edward Everett Hale,
James H. Wolfe. Lewis Haydcn, H. B.
Vashou, Peter H. Clark. Hiram R
Revels, John Mercer Langston. V
Cants Stewart, Ira Aldridge, David
Spencer, Frank Tohnson. Samuel
Ringolcl Ward. Samuel W. Chase.
C-eorge Hoekctt, George M. Arnold,
George Williams, Jacob C. White,
Alexander Clark, Lewis Wood, John
lasper, Henry Brown. Thomas C.
Motts. lohn Wesley Cromwell, Na-
thaniel Tice. Phillip A. Bell. Charles
Lemon Redmond, George T. Down-
ing. T. Morris Chester. Bishop Handy.
Robert Browne Elliot. Bishop Haven,
Dr. A. R Abbott, Bishop Wayman,
Bishop Cain, Emanuel Fortune. Fred-
erick Hinton. Dr. P. W. Ray, Dr.
Tames Augusta. Oliver Morton, Wil-
liam Watkins. lames Le Count, J. M.
Trotter, Dr. Samuel F. T. Cook.
Joseph Cassey, Richard T. Greener,
Amanda Smith, Thomas Earle.
Horace Mann, Elizabeth Cady Stan-
ton. John W. Bttnn, Horace Binney,
Richard P. White. David Paul Brown.
William Qtlincy Atwood. Octavius V. ,
Catto. Dr.. Samuel G. Howe, the
Lawrences. the ^ Lippincotts, the

led Freedom', van These constitute

Chicago Women
Pushing Lincoln
Jubilee

MAYOR WM. HALE THOMPSON
the DePriest Ordinance Making "Chicago Day'
nal Half Century Exposi '

i and Lincoln Jubilee

Half Century of & ^
~± r& Negro Freedom

Nearly 2011 division leaders were pres-
ent last Tuesday afterooon at the meet-
ing of the Illinois Commission of the
National HaH-Cehtury Anniversary Ex-
position -anil Lincoln I Jubilee i'The .
Commission, which met in the romilsof
the Chicago Woman's Club in the Fine
Arts Building, discussec the question of
preparatory organization for the Expo-
sition, which will be held in the Coli-
seum August 23od to September 16th.

Mayor Thompson has set aside Aug,
23rd as ' Chicago Day" and the Com-
mission is busying itself with plans for
entertaining the great host of societies
and clubs which are pledged to be in
Chicago at that time. More than twen-
ty special conventions will be held by
out-of-town organizations during the
time of the Exposition.

Mrs. Katherine Knowles Robbins
presided.

II1S EMINENIF, JAV1S. URDIN4L GIBBOUS

Cardinal's Residence
4 OS N. Charles St.
Baltimore

October 27, 1913
Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows,

Chicago, 111.
Dear Sir :

Cardinal Gibbons accepts your
invitation to be an Honorary Vice-
President of the Negro Freedom
Commission.

Respectfully,

L. O' Donovan

Dim lh of Crispns At tucks, Boston
Commons. March 5, 1770. The first
American to shod his blood in the
Revolutionary War.

CRISPUS ATTUCKS.
-Arouse' ye men." cried Otis,
"Yc patriots rise and light.
Drive out the cursed British
Ere the coming of the night!"

Forth they sprang, strong ami cour.t-

Young men, old men. tearless, brave;
Fighting now for home and country.
Both for freeman and for slave.

At the sielit of the red coats,
Fell they hack, amazed, apace

With black I. .it hon.'sf face.

fight or lose our lives!
; this world with gladness
U1 not 'cave your home and

Fortli from OUt the British
Belched a living sheet of flame
Attucks fell, for Freedom, dyii
lust .1 slave of "unknown" nam

Through the vista of the ages
Conies the message of his deed,
Dying ■■unknown" for
Which denied him pla

But above in bliss eternal
Where the deed outranks the clan
Attucks' name, is Holy Symbol,
Among the Saints who die for man
— Eulalia ( >sl.

1 <■ 1 1.

"IHinoi
preparin;
century
United Stati

is a commission at work
celebrate the first naif
negro, freedom in the
s. Incidentally, the

takes up the progress of the
negro in foreign countries, such as
Liberia. Hayti, San Domingo, Abys-
sinia, South American countries, the
foreign possessions of Great Britain,
France and Germany and every other
country where representatives of the
negro race are to he found.

"The great object of the commis-
sion is to show the material, moral
and mental progress of the negro race
since the formal day of emancipation
in 18G5, and certainly it is a grand
showing that is to he made, judging
from the census reports, incomplete
as they are, and from the studies of
many commissions and societies de-
voted more or less .to the interests of
the negro.

"America has proved to he one of
'the lands of surprises in modern times,
especially in the matter of rapid
growth. But in no respect has the
advancement of the negro race been
surpassed in the last half century.
When it is considered that the blacks
came out of the Civil YVajr- with free-
dom in their hand and nothing else,
that their ■ffrtc had been in a state of
slavery for hundreds of years, that
teaching had been forbidden them and
property holding and the learnings of
arts and crafts beyond the very sim-
plest for plantation use, the holdings

of that race in property, the success
of many them in trade, the establish-
ment and progress of schools, aca-
demies, colleges ;md seminaries of
learning, is the answer to the idea
that the race is incapable of genuine
progress,

"Very distinguished persons are
■connected with the commission, either
as officers or in an honorary capacity.
Among the vice-presidents, for exj
ample, are Cardinal Gibbons, Mr. Car-
negie, Governor Baldwin, Bishop Burt
of Buffalo, nearly every member of
the United States Senate, ex-Governor
Charles S. Deneen, Clarence S. Dar-
row, Jane Addams, ex-Congressman
Frank O. Lowden, ex-Secretary of
War Charles Nagel. Rt. Rev. D. J.
O'Connell, Ella Flagg Young.

"There is an advisory council also,
which includes a long list of names of
those who are interested in the wel-
fare of the colored race. Meetings to
promote the work of the exposition
have been held nearly one hundred
and fifty times in Illinois, and in near-
ly all of the other States of the Union.

"Behind it all 1 is the fact that no
class of citizens can possibly exceed
those of the colored race in loyalty to
the Union. Many a veteran of the
Civil War is living today in the North
because he never found a colored man
in the South who was not eager to
protect the Northern Soldier and send
him 011 his way, if it were possible to
do so. That wonderful loyalty will
never he forgotten, either by those
who felt the benefit of it during the
struggle, or the historian who writes
the history of the conflict."— Editorial
from the Buffalo (N. Y.) Evening
News.

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Grand Moonlight Boat Ride

^ on Beautiful Lake Michigan — ==

Given by the City and State Federation of Women's Clubs

FRIDAY NIGHT, AUG. 20. 191.1

In honor of visiting Delegates to Vnnua] Meeting of
State Federation

BOAT LEAVES GRAHAM & MORTON DOCK Fool of Wabash Avenue
S ; 30 t=>. IV! . SHARP

Tickets 50 cts. T- l"h"B""

T. G. Maco

THE LINCOLN SENTINEL

To Celebrate
Negro Growth

Emancipation Exposition, Celebrating
Fifty Years of Freedom, to Be
Held Here.

What the negro has done ill ad-
vancing himself since Abraham Lin-
coln signed the emancipation proc-
lamation will be shown in an exposi-
tioil in the Coliseum Aug. 22 to Sept.
16, attended by President Wilson,
members of his cabinet, members of
congress, prominent army and navy
mcn and educators. Coincident with
the exposition will be held the Abra-
ham Lincoln jubilee celebration, at
which hundreds of relics of the mar-
tyred president will be shown and
tribute paid to his memory.

-The exposition will he unique,"
declared Bishop Samuel Fallows, state
commander of the G. A. R. and presi-
dent of the exposition. "Nothing like
it has ever before been done or even
attempted. The exposition will mark
fifty years of freedom for the race.

Assurance that the president will be
present was made to Bishop Fallows
in a message from Washington which
stated that Mr. Wilson will attend if
no unforeseen governmental compli-
cations arise to prevent. Governor
Edward F. Dunne of Illinois is the
president, ex-officio. State Senator
John Dailey of Peoria is vice-presi-
dent. Among the honorary vice-presi-
dents are Jane Addams, Gov. Bald-
wi of Connecticut. Judge Theodore
Brentano. Andrew Carnegie rhomas
1-] Cannon, head of the Catholic Ol-
der of Foresters, Chicago; former
Governor Charles S. Deneen Cardma
James Gibbons. Governor Phillip of
Wisconsin, Governor Ferris of Mich-
igan' Governor Willis of Ohio, and
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young.

Twelve Distinct Departments.
Twelve distinct departments have
been created for the exposition, and
in them will be shown exhibits from
every state in which the negro is a
Dart of the population. These depart-
ments are religion, education, indus-
try social progress, music, sociology,
military, liberal arts, professional, fra-
ternal, athletics and miscellaneous.
-Nineteen state legislatures have either
J passed or have before them bill? |»ro-
V viding appropriations to establish
f state exhibits. ,
Hundreds of letters approving the
purpose of the exposition have been
received, representing every race and
religion every profession and busi-
ness and social activity in America

The exhibits of the progress of the
colored man since his emancipation
from slavery will he many and vari-
ous. Each of the 400 colored schools
and colleges in the United States will
he represented. The best of 2,001) pat-
ents granted to colored men by the
federal government will, by special
arrangement, he brought to Chicago
to show in the Coliseum. The gov-
ernment of Liberia. Africa, made up
originallv of freed slaves from Amer-
ica will send an exhibit, and Prof.
Frederick Starr of the University of
Chicago has been appointed their of-
ficial representative by the Lihenan
government. The Roman Catholic
exhibit will be a feature of the ex-
position, including besides paintings
and sculpture, many holy relics of the
Negro ill his relation to the church.
Statistics Show Progress.
The progress of the negro in fifty
years is shown in a table issued by
the Illinois commission in charge.
This commission, headed bv Bishop
Fallows, was appointed by Gov.
Dunne. The table follows:
Population-
Free sz.

1S63
::,!in:!,Ti;<>
4S7.H70

1D15

'or i.nipi-m- "si.2nn.nou si.mwi.ooii.o5o

and unl

Number of college

KiaOuates

Number ••( pliysi-

aml bankers

Number of news-
Number of

churches

Value of church

property .'—5

Membership of

Chilibeii in t'i-iiools
T.anil owned by ne-

Hospitalti and nurse
trnininfr schools—
Banks owned by

Ron, |ii)0 :
■10.000

Per cent of negroes

in gainful occu- ,„

patlons - -

More recent figures also show the
progress of the negro by comparison.
There are more than 2,000.0011 negroes
engaged in agricultural pursuits, and
78 per cent of them are in the South-
ern states. More than 28 per cent of
the total number of farmers in the
South in liilO were Negroes and 12 per
cent of the total farm acreage was
operated by them. The negro has
produced fi.OOfl books and periodicals,
nearly 7,000 songs and musical com-
positions.

UtPl&mS?™:, ZS£«N^ 'Oil

GATES OPEH DAILY, 8.A.M.

COME PREPARED TO STAY UNTIL THE VERY LAST
EVENT IS OVER FOR THE NIGHT

- AftfUSEMJztfTS, MEN fir ■■/ *--■>- .-■

NEGRO ORATOR OF T] >E W ? "

TAKE NOTICE

This vast Collection of Exhibits will be shipped a
the close of the Richmond Exhibition, direct to th
Coliseum, for Exhibition at The Illinois Lincoln Jubile
Exposition, August '2'Jnd to September 16th.

GILES B. JACKSON, President.

; fv O • J & T ft J A ■■„ A 'S-S-OC^ti O M

House Bill No. 910

A BILL.

For an Act providing for an exhibition and celebration tt

fiftieth anniversary of the emancipation of the Negro, crtati
"ion to conduct same and making an appropriation therefor.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented
in the General Assembly: That there is hereby created a cc iiliuission to con-
sist of the Governor and eight other persons, residents of the State ot Illinois,
two of whom shall be members of the Senate and two of the House of Rep-
resentatives in the State of Illinois, all of whom shall be appointed by the
Governor, to arrange for and conduct during the year 1015 a( a, place to be
selected by said commission, an exhibition and celebration 10 . ■ .miilemorate the
fiftieth anniversary of the freen.g 01 the Negro from s am .-, Such ,
tion and celebration shall be SO conducted as o show he ram r a ltd J
tional and religious progress of the Negro inhabitants of this ■ on lionvvcaltl .
The commission shall serve without compensation, but shall fie allowed such
expenses for trawling, clerical help, stenographers and necessary employees
as shall be ictuallv and necessarily incurred in the performance of its duty:
Provided however "that the secretary of said commission, who shall be elected
bv said commission Old who may or may not be a member of said commis-
sion shall receive such reasonable compensation as shall be determined upon
and' fixed by said commission. Said commission shall have full power and
authority to collect, maintain and properly house said exhibit, and pay the
expenses thereof.

Sec " To carry out the purposes of this Act the sum of twenty-live
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may he necessary, is hereby appropri-
ated That the said commission shall be allowed the use of the- twenty-five
thousand dollars thus appropriated, a sum not to exceed three thousand dol-
lars for the collection and printing for free distribution a suitable compilation
showing the progress thus far achieved by the Negroes of Illinois during the
past fifty rears. All payments shall be made on warrants of the Auditor of
Public Accounts on vouchers of the commission approved by him.

Sec 1 As soon after the organization of the commission, notice shall
be filed' with the State Treasurer and State Auditor of Public Accounts ot
the election of the officers of said commission who from tune tc time, shall be
authorised through the president and secretary of said commission, to draw
warrants on the State Auditor of Public Accounts for such salaries or expenses
incurred by the State commission, such warrants, however, to be subject to ap-
proval of the Governor of the State of Illinois, and the Treasurer of the State
of Illinois is hereby directed anil empowered to pay the same.

Sec 4 The Commission shall annually make a report to the Governor,
and within B0 days after the close of its exhibition, the commission shall make
a complete report and statement of all its doings, winch shall include all ex-
hibits and representations made, and the awards made on such exhibits I
any and such other matters as the commission may deem ot calue to the

Si ne of Illinois ether with a list of all receipts and disbursements, with

complete vouchers therefor. The commission shall keep a strict account of
its receipts and disbursements.

Sec 5 The commission shall in no manner create or incur any indebted-
ness or 'obligation in behalf of the State of Illinois in excess oi any appropri-
ation herein made.

Approved June II. WIS. Edward F. Dunne. Governor.

Letters to the Patron

House Bill Mo. 132

Rt.Jfccv. C. P, ANDERSON, D. D:,
Bishop,
1612 Prairie Ave.
THE DIOCESE OE CHICAGO,
1705 Heyworth Building.
Telephone Main 1403.
Chicago. October 8, 1914.
Mr. WoodrOW Wilson.

President of the United States:
Your Excellency: — T wish to sec-
ond the invitation which Mr. N'ihhuk
and others will present to you to open
next year in Chicago the Half-Cen-
tury Anniversary of Negro Freedom.

Your presence in Chicago for this
purpose will be in accordance with
that world-wide service which your
Excellency is rendering in the cause
of humanity, especially ill these try-
Negro Freedom is but part of the
world struggle for freedom, justice
and peace with which your name will
always be honorably associated.

I can assure your ' Excellency that
the hearts of the people of Chicago
will be open to you.

Yours very sincerely,
C. P. ANDERSON.
Chicago. Oct. 0, 1014

Re. Rev. Samuel Fallows, D. D.,
LL. D.. President Illinois Commis-
sion of Negro Freedom, Chicago.
My Dear Bishop Fallows: I hope
that you will succeed in having the
President of ouf country, Woodrow
Wilson, present to open the Half-
Century Exposition, celebrating Ne-
gro Freedom.

No living man has done so much
fur human fredom as President Wil-
son. 1 am intimately familiar with
the marvelous progress that he has
made in eighteen months toward giv-
ing a dependent people, the Filipinos
the freedom that they desire.

President Wilson has during the
past refused in the face of powerful
persuasion to depr
people of their freed

the Me

| I sincerely hope that this great
man, who believes in Freedom, who
believes with the great Lincoln, "gov-
ernment should only be with the con-
sent of the governed." will come to
Chicago for the great Half-Century
Anniversary.

Sincerely yours,
Past Commander m-Chief Army cf
Trustees Chicago Medical Society and
the Philippines.

P. J. H. FARRELL.

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE.
Publishers' Office.

Oct. 12, 1014.
To the Honorable Woodrow Wdso.i,

President of the United States,

Washington, D. C.

Your Excellency: I take great
pleasure in joining the gentlemen
wdio are requesting you to open the
Half-Century Exposition of Negro
Freedom.

Unless it be the adoption of the
Constitution, the freeing of Negro
slaves is the greatest accomplishment
of the American people, and should
be properly celebrated.

The opening of the Exposition by
a Democratic President, furthermore,
would act as a further demonstration
that the controversy between the
North and the South is settled for-
ever. Yours respectfully,

ROBERT R. McCORMICK.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH.
Bishop's Residence, 1936 Sheridan
Road, Evanoton. III.

Oct. 13, 19H.

To the President:

May I unite with many others in
the invitation to you to open the
Half-Century Exposition celebrating
the lubilee of Negro Freedom. Your
presense anywhere is a blessing and
an inspiration.

It will be an especial joy to the
people of Chicago and the state of
Illinois if you can honor us in this
important way.

Very sincerely yours,
WM. FRASER MeDOWELL.

raised by House, June 10, 1915 Passed by Senate June 18, 1915
■That the sum of twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars be and hereby
is appropriated under the terms of this Act to be expended as herein pro-
vided by the commission authorized and appointed under the Act entitled,
"An Act providing for an exhibition and celebration to commemorate the
fiftieth anniversary of the emancipation of the negro, creating a commission to

conduct same, and making an appropriation therefor," approved June 87 1913. _

Sec 2 "Only so much of the said appropriation of ¥25,000 to the Negro 7pr,r;r; f\ 4 V S & & th©

Em-incinilion'Ceehratiou Commission shall be paid from the State treasury -| (jSkfcllh-L- DA 1 I B DCPTY RF I I
is Vh 11 i u il Hi' -um raised bv subseriptim.s. leases, concessions and from * L I D C K ■ ■ L> C L L

o he a ouC?ces tl >.„,1 in ...h- H,, Measurer ..f H,e ;on=,; ;n by said
eommission mi to \ui!usl 13, 1915. mid llie question as to tile amount so raiseo

s.nte°.Tfiiseoroi^ '.?*«■ *«. * *»» .» »

Pr°V$pdro«d "A« 30, 1013. Edward F. Dunne. Gove

r THE

LINCOLN JUBILEE
EXPOSITION

Friday, Sept. 10, 1915

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OFFICE OF THE MAYOR

CHICAGO, MAY 12: 1915

it has been deemed fitting by the City Council, to
set apart a day at the Lincoln Jubilee and National Half-Century Anni-
versary Exposition, for observance as Chicago Day, and the same to be a
legal holiday.

I, William Hale Thompson, by virtue of authority
vested in me, proclaim Monday, August 23rd, as Chicago Day, and I ask
that every citizen may lend encouragement and assistance to make this
day notable in the history of this laudable celebration.

WM. HALt THOMPSON,

MAYOR