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 Captain George W. Prioleau, Chaplin, Twenty- fifth Infantry.

Captain Theophilus G. Steward (retired) Chap lain, Twenty-fifth Infantry.

First Lieutenant Benjamin O. Davis, Tenth Cav alry.

First Lieutenant John E. Green, Twenty-fifth In fantry.

First Lieutenant W. W. E. Gladden, Chaplain, Twenty-fourth Infantry.

First Lieutenant Oscar J. W. Scott, Chaplain, Tenth Cavalry.

First Lieutenant Louis A. Carter, Chaplain, Ninth Cavalry.

NEGROES AT WEST POINT.

Three Negroes have graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Henry O. Flipper, 1877; John Alexander, 1887; Charles Young, 1889.

NEGROES TO WHOM THE CARNEGIE HERO FUND HAS MADE AWARDS.

John B. Hill, 1905; George A. Grant, 1906; Theo dore H. Homer, 1908; Albert K. Sweet, 1909; Geo. E. McCune, 1908; Martha Generals, 1906; Harley Tomlinson, 1909; Frank Forest, James L. Smith. 1909; Boyce Lindsay, 1910; John G. Walker, 1909;

Charles A. Smith, 1910; Mack Stallworth, 1910; James Pruitt, 1911; James Hunter, 1911; Nathan Duncan, 1907; Nathan Record, 1908; Lucy G. Ed wards, 1912; Elbert Gray, Nolden Townsell, 1912; Arthur Lockett, 1912; Beecher Roberts, 1912; Rob ert Kenney, 1913 ; Henry West, 1913 ; Lumis Little, 1913; James Williams, 1912; William R. Dyke, 1913; Woodson Graham, 1913; James W. Brice, Sr., 1914; Abner Sullivan, 1914; Walter Roberson, 1914; John E. Rufus, 1913; Henry H. Rogers, 1914; Wil liam Pratt, 1914.

There are twenty-eight white persons to whom the Carnegie Hero Fund has made awards for sav ing Negroes.

HAITI.

The area of the Republic, which embraces the western portion of the Island of Haiti is estimated at 10,204 square miles. The population estimated to be 2,029,700 is mainly Negroes. There are also, large numbers of mulatto Haitians, the descend ants of the former French settlers. There are some 5,000 foreigners, of whom about 10 per cent are white. The population of the principal cities are Port-au- Prince, the capital, 100,000; Cape Haiti, 30,0000; Les Cayes, 12,000; Gonaives, 13,000; Port de Paix, 10,000. The language of the country is French. Most of the common people speak a. dia lect known as Creole French.

FIFTY YEARS ECONOMIC PROGRESS.

1866

Homes Owned 12,000

Farms Operated 20,000

Businesses Conducted 2,100

Wealth Accumulated $20,000,000

Educational Progress

Per Cent Literate

Colleges and Normal Schools- Students in Public Schools

Teachers in all Schools

Property for Higher Education.

10

15

100,000

600

$60,000

Expenditures for Education 700,000

Raised by Negroes-

Religious Progress

Number of Churches

Number of Communicants

Number of Sunday Schools

Sunday School Pupils

Value of Church Property

Reference Negro Year Book.

1860 1910

Number of college graduates 30 8,000

Number of professional men 450 75,000

Number of practicing physicians

and pharmacists 3,500

Number of Lawyers 1,500

Number of Banks 72

Number of Negro Towns 50

Number of Newspapers and Pe

riodicals 1 398

Number of business men, esti mated 600 50,000

80,000

700

600,000

1,000

50,000

$1.500,000

1916

600,000

981,000

45,000

$1,000,000,000

75 500

1,736,000

36,900

$21,500,000

14,600,000

1,600,000

42,000 4,570,000

43,000

2,400,000

$76,000,000

Gain in

Fifty Years

588,000

961,000

42,900

$980,000,000

65

485

1,636,000

36,300

$21,440,000

13,900,000

1,520,000

41,300 3,970,000

42,000

2,350,000

$74,500,000

1860 1910

Drug Stores 300

General stores and other industrial

enterprises 20,000

Hospitals and nurse training

schools 61

Insurance companies 100

Property owned by secret societies __ $8,000.000

Capital "stock Negro banks $2,000.000

Number of Negroes in U. S. Gov ernment employment, civil 22,087

Census 1910.

619