The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-08-23
Meeting In Chicago This
Week.
pver fifteen Hundred Delegates
Attending = President Washing
ton Presiding-Every Part of
Country Representations
ness Men Tell Their
story-Pleasure
Jaunts.
Special to the Globe:


Chicago, y Ill.,, Aug. 21.-The annual
4ssion Of the National Negro Bust
less League opened here this morn
ing at the Institutional Church on
Y Dearborn street. DR.. Booker T.
] Washington is president of the
4 League. The body is a representative
lone, consisting as it does of the lead
Nng Negro business men from every
part of the country. There are more
than thousand delegates present.
Business men of every class are here.
Farmers, merchants. bankers, manu-
facture,s, printers and publishers,
druggists, brokers, undertakers, in
fact it is hard to name a line of
business that is not represented at
this meeting.
The League was organized by
Booker T. Washington, and he has
been its president ever since. There
Is never hint to change in the Of
ficers, so deeply are the members in
t1rested IN the material good they
derive from co-mingling with their
fellowmen. The program is arranged
so as to give men from every branch
IOf business chance to be heard.
There are no flowery speeches made,
but every delegate tells in plain
commonsense way how success has
been attained.
I The Rooms of the Young Mems
Christian Association, 1880 South
State street, have been selected by
the Local Executive Committee as
. Convention headquarters.
On Thursday afternoon, fom to
6 o'clock, an Automobile Sight See
ing Tour in honor of the delegates to
include visit to the monster business
Houses Of Chicago, the Negro Bust
ness Houses, the Board Of Trade,
I. ithrOugh the Parks Of the city, etc.
On Friday afternoon, from to
GAS o'clock, a Steamboat Excursion
along the Lake Shore, Evanston to
South Chicago and Return, has been
arranged in honor of the delegates.
Music will be provided for pleasure
Of delegates.
On Friday evening beginning
at 500 o'clock, Banquet and
\ Reception will be rendered the on
! GERS and Members of the League at
the Seventh Regiment Armory, Thir-
ty-fourth street and Wentworth ave
nue..
Aside from these specified arrange
ments, other entertainments Of one
I kind and another in honor Of the
delegates and their wives have been
a arranged for by various clubs and
other social organizations Of the
city.
PROGRAM.
"Wednesday, August 21st, 10:30 A. M.
At the Institutional Church, 1926
Dearborn Street
THE League Called to Order
br. George C. Hall, President, Ghica-
go Negro Business League and
Member of Executive Committee of
the National Organization.
Prayer
Mattresses Of Welcome:
IN Behalf of the Chicago Negro
Siness League, Hon. J. Gray Lucas.
IN behalf of the citizens Of Chica-
% Association of Commerce, Mr.. E.
q Butler, of Butler Brothers.
Responses
Appointment of Committees:
(a) Credentials.
OBJ Resolutions.
(c) Auditing.
Breeding Thoroughbred Brown Leg
horn Chickens, Paul Scott, Mitchell,
s. D.
4 liking Farming Pay.
3. N. Miller, Rolling Fork, Miss
liver Dickerson, Dickerson, Miss.
"A. L. CASTOR, Shelby, Miss
MY Success as Farmer, Stock-Raiser
and Thresher ....... ......
w V. Smith, Larned, Kansas
Truck Farming ............ ......
washington Reed, Wellston, Mo-
Conducting Thoroughbred Stock
FarmN ........ -. ......:.....
Peter L. Hensley, Mt. Sterling, KY.
rruck Gardening 80. .........
-. Gid Hooper, Fort Worth, Tex
Wheat Growing as Business -.
49,. j. D. Rouse, Hitchcock, Okla
NV Experience as a Cotton Buyer and
Commission Merchant ..........
..... George Giles, Ocala, Fla.
Making Boot Backing Pay ......
J. r. Morrisette, Philadelphia. Pa.
NV Success as Dealer in Railroad
Ties, Telegraph Poles, Pilings, etc.
Warren H. Davis, Great Barring
ton, Mass
i What | Have Accomplished as a Real
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