The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-01-03
DR.. BOYD GIVES
ANNUAL DINNER
EMPLOYEES AND VISITORS ENJOY
GREAT FEAST.
Chapel Converted Into Dining Hail
Spread For over Two Hundred
Publishing House Band Fur
nishes Music-Rah! Rah!
ellis Led BY Prof. cren-
Around the Board.

Leader:
Who are we?
Who are we? Who are we?
We're the National B. p B.
Want to know just what we DO?
Listen, we'll tell you thing or two.
Here we go upon the scale,
Looking over our mail;
Turn to cash book, check book, sales,
Orders, bills big as whales,
Journal, ledger, commerce, law,
Business "folkses s"-Rah! rah! rah!
Leader:
What do we make?
We make church pews, we make
books,
We make furniture, screws and
hooks,
We make everything-can't you see?
We're the National B, P. B.!
By L. u CHAMBERS.
Sumptuous in it's proportions, en-
Itertaining in its every feature and by
far the most largely attended of all,
was the Sixteenth Annual Dinner
given to the Publishing Board en-
ployees by Rev. and Mrs. R.. H. Boyd,
on Wednesday, New Years day. This
is one of the annual occasions looked
forward to by every employees re-
gal dless of what department they be-
long to, it has never grown old.
The dinner was under the super
vision of Mr.. l.. Landers and his
lforce of volunteers who had tastily
decorated the tables for the occasion.
i There were no assigned places. Press
Imam and Office clerk, compositor and
editor, devil and secretary, cabinet
worker and stenographer, all took
places where they could find them,
but there were places for all, just
as there were plates for all.
1t was a day for Staying fowl, eat
ing roast pig and all the decicacies or
the season. For a time all were too
busy to pay attention to the toast
master, and not until their somewhat
fierce appetites were appeased could
the program be carried out. Calls
were made for DR.. William Beckham,
the Field Secretary who is known in
Nashville as the Globe Troter fo5r he
National Baptist Convention, and the
talking machine for the denomination,
What think ye?" was the subject
The next speaker called was the
Rev. j. c. Fields, pastor of Pleasant
Green Baptist Church He spoke or
the far-reaching effect such generos-
ity would have upon the common peo-
pie
Following him came Rev T. o.
Fuller, D. d., President of Howe Col
lege, Memphis, who gave an excellent
talk on the work of the Negro Bap-
lists as seen from a distance and as
viewed by other people He was
given a big ovation by the whole
force
Rev. C. H. Clark, D. D., Chairman
l. of the Publishing Board; Mr.. c. NJ
LangstOn, the Assistant Cashier of
- the One Cent Savings Bank; Rev.
If w. S. Ellington, d. D. Editorial Sec
% retary of the Publishing Board, and
y Prof. J. d. Crenshaw, Editor of the
" Union-Review, were the other speak
y ers of the afternoon For more than
le two and a half hours there was feast
~ ing and talking In fact. New Years
Ie Day will long be remembered at the
e. Publishing Board as a day of good
u cheer
le On behalf of the employees, Prof.
or Crenshaw in a most eloquent address
N presented DR. Boyd whom he eulo-
e gized as founder, genius and Baptist
e Pilot in the business world, and pre-
ID sented two beautiful tokens.
At DR.. Boyd made a happy response
II during which time he made it plain
id that within it all his success or that
ii of the Publishing Board or House
N was due first to the workmen and
n those employed, and second. to the
q members of the Board, who, regard
ia less of where they were, had proven
70 true as well as responsive and deeply
10 sympathetic to the cause at all times
4 He paid a very high compliment to
~ ~ the individual members of the entire
~ personnel of the Publishing Board
:" saying, mo concern, religious - what
n not, had more worthy rHpTesenta
at ton, as there was one me- Iber from
az every State or Territorial Convention
10 in the Union on the Board.
to DR.. Boyd thanked the donors fol
le' the token, but said that to his wife
ly Mrs Harriet Albertine Boyd-"This
N little black woman who has stood By
to by me all these years and who is di
al rectly responsible for whatever sue
in cess I've made, as she washed and
as ironed and helped me raise my chill
m dren, an dthen after the ywere out
De of the way, helped to send me e
ne school after l was over forty years
he old, and was due the thanks for this
a New Year dinner Twas her Nisl
n and 'tis our pleasure.'5
~ The Publishing House yell wa.
~ ~ again made led by j. d. Cranshav
n and j. H. Kelly; the National Bap
~ tist Publishing Board Brass Ban,
~ ~ played Princes, Awake" from til,
80 National Anthem Series, and all be
'sy gan to get their hats and wraps a
TN one more New Year dinner had dis
appeared.