The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-13
NEGRO BUSINESS MEN TO MEET
THEIR CONVENTION TO BE HELD
IN NEW YORK THIS WEEK.
Subjects to He Discussed Range From
BarberinE to Danlting-MOre Than
900 Delegates to Attend-B0oker
washington to He Made Life President

washington to He Made Life President.
The annual sessions OF the National
Negro Business League, of which Booker
T. Washington is president, will be held
In the Palm Garden, Fifty-eighth street
and Lexington avenue, beginning Wednes-
day. They will bring to this city the largest
and most representative gathering of
negro men and women that has ever as
sembled here. The programs of the three
day sessions provide for the reading OF
papers on various lines OF business by men
who are engaged In those businesses. The
subjects to be discussed will range from seed
sowing, tobacco planting and cotton grow
ing to banking and insurance. The eco
nomic growth and worth of the race will
be presented In statistical reports, SUBJ
mitted by the national organizer, Fred
r. Moore, the publisher of the Colored
American Mdgarine, and the presidents
Of the State branches Of the league.
The more than four hundred delegates
who win attend the convention will be
welcomed to the city on Wednesday morn
ing in an address by Charles V. Fornes,
the Acting Mayor. The address on behalf
Of the citizens will be by Charles w. Ander-
son, Internal Revenue Collector and Vice
president of the Afro-American Realty
Company.
This will be the sixth annual session OF
the league, the first ha wing been held in
Boston, which was called by DR.. Washing
ton, who has been continued in the presi-
dency ever since, and who, at the conven-
ton to be held here, will be elected presi-
dent for life. At the meeting at Boston
there were It's delegates, representing
twenty-five States and 81 100000 Of in
vested money. At the convention last
year, held at Indianapolis. Ind, there were
400 representatives from forty States,
representing 81 500 600.
At tho time 81 the Boston convention
there were only four banks in the country
owned and operated by negroes. There are
now nineteen, all of which are located in
the South. Since the Boston convention
there have been organized many insurance
companies which arc being conducted
successfully by negroes.
The North Jacksonville Railway Com
pany Of Jacksonville, Fla, the Afro-Ameri-
can Realty Company of this city. and the
Metropolitan Company, all Of which are
operated by negroes for negroes. owe their
start and successful continuation to the
league.
The program Is an interesting one. Eere
ne some samples OF the addresses to be
delivered:
wEDNEsDAY.
Coal and wood business. R. B. Hudson.
Selma. Ala. ,,.
CONTRACTING --Painting, William Alexander.
Little Rock. Ark: stone, masonry and bridge
building, James H. Hargo, Greenfield, Ohio;
woodwork construction. Robert E. Pharrow,
Birmingham, Ala
The hay business. Albert Carter. West
The negro druggist. W. A. Jones. Winston
The negro and the domestic problem,
Oswald Garrison Willard, New York
THURSDAY.
Manufacturing razor strops. H. c. Haynes.
Chicago, Ill.
Manufacturing mechanics tool handles.
Opera house m ana cement. Charles 7. Bass
Dressmaling and millinery. Mrs. Emma l..
Pitts. Macon. Ga
Modern barbering. J. o. Dlnfay. BirminG-
ham. Ala.
The banking idea. c. C. Roach. New Bern.
N. CIV. r. Pettiford. Birmingham. Ala.