The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-11-05

From what could be picked up here
and there this week and from what lit.
tie information could be given out by
men interested in working up the spe
cial party that is going on the grand
tour scheduled to be pulled off
real soon in which prominent educa-
tors, ministers, business and profess
sional men in Tennessee from East
to West will take part, things look
bright and the whole trip seems a
success. Already the personnel of the
special party that will go over the
mountainous section of the East the
manufacturing and industrious Sec
ton Of Middle, and the agricultural
and delta section of the West, is COM
plete. There seems now no doubt but
that the various cities throughout the
Volunteer State will contribute a
great deal to the trip and that small
parties will join the special going
from place to place making it one
round Of pleasure. The intention Of
this movement as stated by one of the
speakers at special meeting held in
the directors rooms at the One-Cent
Savings Bank was to stir up an edu-
cational, commercial and professional
interest in the race; second to intro
duce the Negro TO himself; third, to
put some facts before the white men
of the state that would help along a
good cause, and other important things
that would be brought out and that
would certainly be accomplished by
this trip. The idea of making this
general swing through the state be-
longs to Mr.. ]. G. Napier, Cashier of
the One-Cen Savings Ban, for it
was he that succeeded in securing
Prof Booker T. Washington, of Tus-
kegee fame, to make special addresses
at the various stopping places. The
party is planning to have a special
train equipped with tourist sleeping
cars in which to make the journey The
tentative program shows that the
Nashville delegation is to leave here
Wednesday night November II, for
Bristol Tenn, on a special train,
making the first stop at Johnson City,
thence to Greenville, from Green
vile to Morristown and Knoxville,
from Knoxville to Hartman, from
Hartman to Chattanooga, from Chat
tanooga to South Pittsburg, from
South Pittsburg to Decherd, from
Decherd to Fayetteville, from Fayette-
vile to Columbia, from Columbia to
Pulaski from Pulaski to Nashville,
from Nashville to Hopkinsville, which
is the only instance in which the
party will go out of the state and
this exception was made, states one
Of the promoters, because of the fact
that Southern Kentucky is so wide
awake and so generally in sympathy
with all that tends to make Tennes-
see great. From Hopkinsvill the spe-
cial train will proceed to GAINESVILLE,
from GAINESVILLE they stop at Hum
boldt and Brownsville and make a
grand display at Memphis, where the
people of the Bluff City have planned to
royalty entertain them. From Memphis
they come up to Jackson which ends
the tour. Here Mr.. Washington will
leave the party and proceed East while
the others will begin their journey
homeward The following is partial
list of those who have already con.
sented to make the trip: Prof. Booker
7. Washington, principal Of Tuskegee
Institute; Mr.. Warren Logan, Treas
urer Of Tuskegee; DR.. ]. A. Kenny
Resident Physician. Tuskegee; Mr.. N
B. Dodson, New York City; Mr.. John