Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1894-08-11
DECEPTION PRAcTIcED.


When asked to recommend the
scheme, It. is called Grant Monument
and Old Folks Home, and when It's
sold and money collected 1t is Porter
and Co.
He then exhibited the paper which
the ministers signed and been print
ed In hand bills and distributed
throughout the city. Here is copy:
The Association work is issued under
copyright. The General u. s. Grant
Monument Association, and Old Folks
Home. Chartered by, the laws Of Vir-
ginia, January 3. 1898. Copyrighted
september, 1898. Re-organized Nav
1894. Land 20 - ----
ton, 1000 aer< HSz1as
and infirm colored people ex-siaveS =
South.
The object Of this Association il 10
perpetuate the memory of General U. s.
| Grant and to provide comfortable
homes for the aged and inflrm colored
| people, who are unable to take care of
| themselves. Our National Old Folks
| Home will be erected at Richmond. Va,
| Read the endorsement of the Baptist
ministers Conference held July 2, 1894
We, the Undersigned, Pastors of the
| Ministers Baptist Conference assembled
| in the study of the First Baptist Church
j. II. Holmes, pastor, do hereby give
our endorsement, and appreciate
| motive, object and merits of The
| al u. s. Grant Monument Assoc
and Old Folks Home, (National),
| promise our moral support and coo
alton in this good work, believing
be q work commencing itself to
white and colored who feel an inter
in the welfare of those for whom
Horne is Designed, We are respectfully,
REV. j. III. HOLMES,
Pastor First Baptist Church.
Rev. VIM. Troy,
Pastor Sharon Bapt. Church.
REV. ARCHER FERGUSON,
Mt. Calvary Baptist Church.
REV. j. Il. CARTER,
Pastor GaIiIee Baptist Church
Rev. w. ID. LOVING,
Richmond City.
REV. q. d. LEWIS,
Pastor Second Bapt. Church
Rev. w. Z. NASH,
Pastor Moore st. Bspt. Church
Rev. ]. p. CLARK.
} Pastor Fifth Baptist, (Sydnev.
Rev. w. 81. WHITE,
Pastor Mt. Carmel Bapt. Church
Rev. EVANS PAYNE,
Pastor Fourth Baptist Church
REV. JOHN JASPER,
{ Pastor Sixth Mt. Zion Bapt. Church,
!. Richmond, Va.
Join the Association Female Men
bership, Soc, (eopyright) Male Men
: bership. $1.0O (copyright.) Member
|. ship good for Life, no dues or fine
Once a member, always a member.
: We have secured Free Medical Servics
and Free Dispensary for the benefit
the INDECENT and Sick Folks who may
: enlisted as members of this Association
= Female membership is so cts
, and male membership 81 o.
Z Claims to bs copyrighted. .0ce
extraordinary feature in the who
. thing Is that no cGe2ment yet foun
bears the name of the president, se
retary or treasurer. Simply the mi
n listers of the city of Richmond.
d The official documents of every o.
le ganization should bear the signs
D. ture OF the president and secretar,
: and If to collect money, the treasul
Q, or also.
q A PECULIAR SITUATION.
i. One significant fact of the who
v. thing, we have not been able TO fil
IT, the signature of any of it's officers
'r. any of the papers or certificates e.
II. hIblted. On some of the pictur
N. sold we find j. T. Quarles AMI Po
N. ter and Co., which should be j.
b. Quarles, secretary, and T. W. Port
treasurer of General u. s. Graz
re Monument Association and c
to Folks Home, but whenever Mr.. Pc
hit ter signs his name, It is Porter o.
nd Co. He did not get q charter o
forPorter and Company, but goto
tt a charter General u. 8. Grant Nor
9re ment Association and Old Foil
1t Home and he is known on the ch,
Ity ter as treasurer OF that Associate
lth and goes before the public to coll
Ike money as Porter and Compar
rue Then the charter should be PORT
at and Company.
he should not get his charter
lad Nork under one name and coll
ker money under another.
1T President Browne exhibited ano