The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-07-12


! of our people"
The next speaker introduced was
Rev. Preston Taylor, the proprietor
of Greenwood Park. Mr.. Taylor told
of some of the struggles he had un.
dergone in the early days of Green.
wood. He told of the effort put forth
by some to have Greenwood abol-
ished. Some OF our white friends did
duced in the General Assembly at one
time to have Greenwood Park abol-
ished. ON of our white friends did
not want Greenwood Park and some
of our colored friends were OF the
same opinion. They got together and
had a bill drawn and introduced,
which was passed in both houses.
One morning one of the Street Rail-
way officials cal ed me up and asked
me If | had read the morning paper.
told him no. He said, Get it and
read it," And when / got it l saw
that Greenwood Park was gone and
that the bill had been passed in both
houses and was on the Governors
desk for signature. Mr.. Warner said,
Get to work at once; get your
friends together and go and see the
Governor" Mr.. Taylor said he went
to see the Governor and that when he
arrived at the capitol the first man he
met was Col. Duncan Cooper. That he
laid his case before him, and Col.
Cooper asked him if he knew Ben
Carr. He to d him that he did not,
and he said, "Well, there he comes"
He then went to Mr. Carr and intro
duced himself to him and told him
his troubles and Mr.. Carr told him
that the bill should not pass. Mr..
Carr then took Rev. Taylor before the
Governor and gave him an opportu-
nifty to lay his case before the Chief
Executive Of the tate, and by the aid
| of Mr.. Carr and other influential cit
liens the Governor was induced to
veto the bill, and Greenwood Park
stands to-day as a heritage for the
Negroes of Nashville, Tenn. And"
said Mr.. Taylor, ''it is yours as long
there is one Negro living" He paid
a high tribute to Mr.. Carr for what
he had done for Nashville and COM
p imented the colored people for hav-
ing such a place as Hadley Park for
their own use.
DR.. R. H, Boyd, Secretary of the
National Baptist Publishing Board,
was the next speaker. He dwelt
largely upon the training of the chill
dren. He said he was greatly i'm.
pressed with what he had heard, and
that, as some of the others, he had
travelled a lite HIMSELF. He said
there were just few countries which
he had not visited, and that he knew
something himself of the conditions
among his own people. He told oil
his trip to Panama and to Europe anC
of the conditions he found there. II
is well known to the readers of the
Globe just what DR.. Boyd found il
Panama He compared those condi
tons with Nashville and expressed il
as his opinion that the Negroes Of
this CITY had a greater opportunity tC
do good for the people than the Ne
groes OF any other section
DR.. c ark, pastor of Mt Olive Bap
fist Church, was then called upon anC
joined in the high praise of Mr.. Carr
for the noble work he has done in es
tablishing Hadley Park, a City LII
brary and the State Normal School
DR.. Clark made a strong appeal fol-
the training of the young and urged
the parents to be more soicitous Of
the welfare of their children.
Rev. VIM. Haynes, pastor of Sylvan
Street Baptist Church, said that he
knew Mr. Carr long before he came
to Nashville. When he was up in the
sticks" around Huntsville, and thai
he had always known him to be 6
man interested in his people, and thai
he was not surprised when he saw
him come TO Nashville and begin tC
bring into actual reality the things
that have been dormant for so many
years.
DR., Geo. w. Moore, Secretary of the
Freedmens Aid ociety in the South
ern States, was the next speaker. DR.
Moore was highly elated to be pres
ent and witness the exercises of the
dedication of Hadley Park. He pre-
dicted great future for the park anC
for the Negroes of Nashville.
Mr.. R. l.. Mayfield was the mex
speaker. He spoke of the possibili
ties Of the race and of the glory thai
should come to the man who is viii
ing to sacrifice for the good of his
people. He said: 81 see in Mr.. Carr
just such a man. He is willing t.
work that somebody else may be ben
Gifted; and being that kind of man
all honor and praise be his, and hi!
name will ever i've in Nashville as
the ages go by"
Mr.. S. p. Harris, Councilman from
the Third Ward, spoke on good citi
zenship. He said to his mind, the Ne
groes did not lay enough stress OF
good citizenship, but that he though
he discerned a deeper interest alonl
those lines. Said he; 81 have always
entertained some views along tina
specific line, and which | hope a
some time to express, for l believ,
that those of us who are cd enough
and are inclined to think soberly, owt
it to our fellow-men to give them tn,
benefit of our sober reflections"
Prof. w. H. Fort, Grand Master o
the Odd Fellows of Tennessee, salt
that he had watched the trend o
things during the evening and in fac
the day mad been converted into "Bel
Carr Day" Prof. Fort proved to b.
well acquainted with Mr. Carr's rec