The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-06-05

The financial panic left in most bust |
ness circles and in nearly every large
business concern some trace of its
heayy footprints or some trace of its
havoc wrought. This city suffered as
most OF the large manufacturing cen
ters. Some large firms closed their
doors, suspended operation and left
out OF work long list of employees
Some have resumed their operations;
others have not.
| The panic came upon most of the
business men and concerns without
warning. Others had talked of it,
counselled about it, and prepared for
its coming. A representative of The
Globe, in taking a review of the stu
alton as it affected Nashville, finds
that some Of the Negro business CON
Germs had prepared for such emer-
gencies-not by accommodating a large
bank account, as some would suppose
but by the economical and wise man.
agement of their business during pros
porous and undisturbed seasons. Some
of them had contemplated and actual
ly planned large and extensive i'm.
proyements. This is particularly true
OF the Baptist Publishing Board, which
owns that mammoth printing, book
binding and publishing concern 10.
Gated in this city, under the manage
ment of DR.. r. H. Boyd, and operated
under the auspices of the Publishing
Board of the National Baptist Conven,
tlon. 1t has long list of employees
and all of the work. with but few ex.
captions, is that of skilled labor. In
a conversation with DR.. Boyd, the
Globe reporter learned that in this
past quarter, which closed the 31st day
OF May, they have had an unprece
denied record. Dr. Boyd stated thai
his orders for Sunday-school litera
ture, church-helps and supplies mum
bered at the close of business Nav 81
+ twenty-five thousand, five hundred anC
= fifty-five (22,555)-a record-breaker il
\ itself, representing a majority of al
. the Negro Baptist Sunday-schools ant
churches in the United States. 81 d,
not know, said DR.. Boyd in answer tt
= a query from the Globe reporter, "jus
g how many Sunday-schools we hav
supplied, but | estimate we have sen
. orders to eighteen or twenty thousan,
y Negro Baptist Sunday-schools. Thes
. school are scattered throughout tn
! United States, Canada, Mexico. SoutI
u and Central America, West Indies
y. Philippine Islands and Africa"
- 1t would be interesting for any inst
=, tuition to note the vast number of lei
=, ters being delivered every day, som
"a OF them coming from such places a
q Saba, small island in the group G
= the Danish West Indies. One coul
g hardly find it on the map. Yet. a,
= cording to DR.. Boyd's statemen
" wherever there are loyal Negro Bal
~ lists who have heard about and kno,
~ the WORKINGS of the National Bapti.
- publishing Board, he has either bee
~ able to control or will soon be in
position to control their patronage
The incoming quarter, which
known as the July quarter" said D
~ Boyd us usually the largest quart,
VI in the year From June Is to July
y. there will be an average of over OF
~ thousand letters per dav. It will
~ particularly heavy this year on 2
AZ count of the extensive nrenarations f
W. Children's Dav, as about one hundr
thousand corics Of the Childrens' d
Ell programs will he distributed. and
en- account Of the ovor-increasing int,
vi C't in the National Rontist Sund
Iss school Congress. which is to conve
ely in Jacksonville, Fla" Aside from II
the business shows othar noorlyod I