The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-05-18
~ TlskEGEE BAND, ORCHES.
IRA AND GLEE CLUB BIG
EVENT ATINASHVILLE
Needs of Workers
Placed Before Immense Audience
by Rev. Gaines Who Advocates an
institutional Church Where Re-
creation May Be Had BY Negroes.
Regular Correspondence J

! PUBIC ideas and the talent OF q Dro-
moter. Th,, Tennessee Assembly has
adjourned without getting together
! again after the break that car?ied
some OF the fusionists to Alabama to
prevent legislation on the whiskey
lGuestlon and the election ~laws.--The
"A. M. T.. Conference will be called to
order next week at Murfreesboro to
pass on the character and success
Lot the ministers and to line up things
Tor the General Conference Of 1912.
me schools and colleges are all clos
ing their doors in rapid succession
and everything generally ls In a fur
ry of excitement
Nashville has had some big talnRn
pulled off in the past but nothing
before has equalled the musical
concert given last Friday night at
the Ryman Auditorium by the Tusk-
egee Band, Orchestra and GIee Club
tunder the direction of Captain N. G.
smith Mayor House said that he
believed the Captain was the hardest
working man he ever saw and was
not surprised that the Captain got
SO much music out Of "Booker's
Boys -.
The concert was given under the
| auspices Of the Nashville Colored
Musical Festival Association OF which
EDr. l.. A. Fisher is the president and
Rev. w. Gaines Is the MANAGER,
various other citizens Of good char
acter and reputation are associated
with the. manager and president who
thape succeeded in >'*the" best public
enterprise ever thought of and car
ried out in Nashville.
Rev. w. Gaines is the man referr-
ed to in the Introductory. is
enterprising and public spirited. He
Is large in body and notions. He
mas grit and plrck in plenty. He
believes in himself and the people.
tie thinks that a good thing will al
ways succeed and has the right Of
way over anything else fGe is the
Kind Of man who fights his hardest
when things look darkest and most
dlscouraging. These traits Of char
acter were the assets brought into
play in the magnificent undertaking
with which he announced his inten-
tlon to build an institutional church
In Nashville that shall have all the
conveniences and advantages of a
modern Institutional church
In his address to the audience Of
5000 or more Of both races the
! minister talked most Of the needs of
the working people. He thought
they needed reading room, con-
Ven1ent bathing places, a library, q
suitable eating place and that work
Ing girls who came from the country
should have good place to go i'm
mediately and secure a room and
that there should be lecture and
entertainment hall where the work
Ing people might find suitable recre-
alton ut times: He meant to sttppty
them, for as he said: "The white
people will get along better with the
colored people if these things are
supplied and the colored people will
do the work they plan and are en-
iployed to do In a more efficient
manner. His talk was cheered to
the echo. The audience was in per-
feet sympathy with him. This was
true of both white and black people.
Dr.. G. V. Roman made q short
talk in harmony with the occasion
land then Mayor House was intro
duced. He IS evorybody's mayor and
to use the language Of Minister
tGancs, "if you want to have o fight
with the colored people, proceed to
criticise Mayor House and you will
get what you are looking for in quick
:, time" Mayor House, in truth, Is n
, mighty fine fellow and one Of the
purest types Of a Democrat running
loose In the south. He is not q
southern democrat but an American
. dem ocrat. He believes in fairness
and the rule Of the people--not the
, bosses, He IS the peoples mayor and
= no man in Nashville has the good
= will Of all the Negroes more secure
; ly buttoned IN his inside pocket thar
this same Mayor. He is the ma
" 1polean' Of all the Nashville politi
. clans and also has few things tt
. say about state legislation. Ash
, Governor Ben Hooper. He may tel
= you how the House influence has
= pushed things through the Assembly,
J., over the Governors veto
Mayor House made q patriotic ad
dress. He threw some flowers a.