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
