The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-07-26
CHICAGO Get
TING READY
EXTENSIVE PREPARA-
TION FOR MEETING.
National Negro Bust
ness League
Local Committee Working Out De-
tails-Many Pleasure Jaunts Con-
templated&-Large Attendance
Anticipated-Many Specials
viii be Run to Meeting
Local League Wide
Awake-Meeting viii
Break All Records.

The citizens of Chicago are greatly
aroused over the coming of the thir-
teenth annual session of the National
Negro Business League to the city,
August 81, %, 49, 1t promises to be
the greatest session ever held in the
history of the League.
Dr. C, G.. Hall, chairman of the local
committee, and Mr. Neighbors, the
secretary, have been kept busy dur
ing the past few months arranging for
the comfort and entertainment of the
delegates and visitors, as many viii
take advantage of the League to spend
a short vacation in Chicago. DIR.
Hall announces that they are now
ready for the meeting and assures all
that the entertainment, the recep-
lions, pleasure outings during the re-
cess of the League each day will be
the greatest in the history of the or
ganization.
The League will bring to the city
some of the most prominent men and
women of the race from all parts of
the country, and an opportunity will
be given to note the progress made
by the race during the past half cen
fury. Most of the Chicago people
have arranged their vacations so as
to assist in giving the delegates and
visitors good time" during the
week of the League, and to hear the
stories told of the struggles and hard
ships experienced by many Of the
men and women who have started
from where slavery left the race, and
worked to the top, putting inc their
efforts industry, honesty and relia-
bility. :
While the National Negro Business
League will be the center of attrac--
ton, yet there are several important
features connected with the League
which will share in interest, the Ma
tional Negro Press Association; the
National Negro Bar Association, and
The National Negro Bankers Associa-
ton These are part Of the League,
and will report the result of their
meeting to the League during its ses-
sion.
The officers of the League who will
NC plSoCuI are III. DOOheT i. WdSl-
ington, Tuskegee Institute, president;
Charles Banks, Mound Bayou, first
vice president; j. E. Bush, Little
Rock, Ark, second vice president; S.
G. Ebert, Wilmington, Del, third vice
president Harry It. Pratt, Baltimore,
fourth vice PRESENT; d. J. Turner,
Oklahoma, fifth vice PRESENT; EN-
NETT ]. Scott, Tuskegee Institute, Ala.
corresponding secretary; Gilbert c.
Harris, Boston, Mass, treasurer; F.
H. Gilbert, Brooklyn, registrar; R. C.
Houston, Fort Worth. Assistant regis
trar; Cyrus Field Adams, Washington,
D. c., transportation agent; William
f. Davis, Washington, D. c., official
stenographer; s. Laipg Williams, Chi
cago compiler
Executive Committee J. c Napier,
Washington, d. c.. chairman; S. f.
Courtney NJ D.. Boston; w. r. An
drews, Sumter, S. c.; S. A. Furniss,
NJ d., Indianapolis, Ind; ] A. Bell,
Houston, Texas; ]. c. Jackson, Lex
ington, Ky; NJ M. Lewey, Pensacola,
Fla. r. E. Jones, New Orleans, La;
H. c. Thomas, New York Scipio A.
Jones, Little Rock, Ark; T. H. Hayes,
Memphis, Tenn. G. c. Hall, NJ. D.,
Chicago; T, ], Elliott Muskogee,
Okla; W. c. Gordon, St Louis, Mo-