The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-07-26

the iifth-wneel Of business discre
hon It takes wise man to handle
ana successfully manipulate affairs
with other peoples money. In this
fespeR Mr.. Wilkerson is no expert
nenteIor he has been tried in the cru
slDle and found to be pure gold. He
as one of the pioneer bankers of the
race In the city of Memphis, Tenn.
tiaVlng been one of the promoters and
founders of the first Negro bank in
Memphis, he subsequently helped to
organize and put in operation the Fra
ternal Savings Bank and Trust Com
pany Of the same city, and is now one
Of It's most valued officials. His gen.
eral knowledge of finance and bust
ness has made his services invaluable
70 the success of this wellknown
FINANCIAL enterprise and the success
that the bank has merited is trib-
Ute alike to his genius as we'll
as the genius and fidelity of
his colleagues. The Fraternal Saw
lngs Bank and Trust Company is not
Wildcat banking institution; on the
contrary it is a reputable and relia-
pie business institution, whose ambi-
lion is to get just as c'ose rs posi-
Die to the people in order to supply
and alleviate their wants in a legiti-
mate manner This hank is not an
AFFAIR hedged in by a divinity of ex-
ciusiveness and sed tape but it is the
NDank of the msSses of people; it is
q ; oaAs1 where the humblest citizen
: with proper security is put on parity
With any other man. Mr.. Wilkerson's
financial genius has helped to make
the Fraternal Savings Bank and Trust
company Of Memphis an ornament as
well as a necessity to the business
welfare Of the race.
A Funeral Director and EmbaImer.
Mr., Wilkerson is president of the
Scott-Wilkerson Undertaking Com
pany of Memphis, Tenn, which is
without doubt one of the leading fu-
neral directories of the South. In ey-
cellence of equipment, in sagacity of
management, in punctilious observ-
ance OF all the forms of up-to.date OBJ
sequies, and in all the combined rou-
tine of the undertaking business, this
splendid company has hardly an equal
IN the United States. Less than ten
years OF age, the growth of this com
pany mas been so remarkable that it
Il staggers belief. 1t has come to the
front by lNaps and bounds, until it is
at the van of similar business enter
prises of the race in the city Of Mem
phis. The ambition of the company
mas ever been to excel in every essen
tlal feature, whether that feature be
equipment goods or service. The
company has a corps of the best en-
balmers known to the profession. 1t
has an equipment that cannot be sur
passed in the country. The company
believes in being up-to-date in every
thing and the same degree. of high
class modernity cannot be found in
any other similar establishment in
the city of Memphis, if at all in the
South. This is an electric age. and
this progressive and enterprising com
pany has endeavored to be in har-
mony with this age. 1t has a dual
equipment in every department of it's
delivery system. 1t has auto ambu-
lances, auto decd wagons and auto
touring cars. also it has similar
equipments with horses attached
The company has been liberal nearly
to extravaganza in trying TO provide
for its patrons and the pubic at large
the most satisfactory equipment and
service commensurate with moderate
cost There has always been In
scribed on the company's banners it's
fayorite motto: "a maximum Of serv-
ice for minimum Of cost, and the
company will endeayor to live up to
this motto, both in the letter and in
the spirit.