Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1910 — Tribute to Colored Man. [ARTICLE]

Tribute to Colored Man.

The Richmond papers lately gave an account of a tribute paid by the Westmoreland club of that city to an old negro servant, the Outlook says. Nathan Moore for over thirty-one years was in the employ of this club, and for a number of years was its head doorkeeper. On his left arm he wore six gold service stripes, one for each five years of continuous service, and on each Christmas he received -$5 for each stripe as a mark of esteem from the members. Though for a number of months past unable because of ill health to attend to his duties, he had been retained on the club’s pay roll, and his post kept open for him in the event of his recovery. At the funeral the members of the club, which we believe is the oldest and most aristocratic club in the city, assembled at the clubhouse and marched in a body to the Second Baptist Church (colored) to attend the service—“an honor,” says a Richmond paper, “that has never been paid even to a member of the club.” The incident is Worth recording for the benefit- of northern readers, who are apt to imagine that the onlv attentions paid to negroes in the South are those rendered by lynching parties.