The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1913-08-08
.ATLAMTA'S MONUMENT
PROGRESS OF THE SOUTHERN
COLORED MbN--THE GREAT
ODD FELLOWS Bull
DING

lew months agO tIe Negro Ddt REL
ipws "f beorgia deitratei in Atlanta
their sIu0.rp brick hnll,ng. Passing
through Atlanta MT long ago. ~as ur-
Sei ID visit ths- structure; for IT'S Fame a.
Landmark in Negro progress had alrea 70
~ come Ia me from many srOurce-- la
every way J found the building repre~rn-
Gel the rapid march of the oOlorSd pep
pie Df Atlanta aud oi Georgia at large.
Negro ambition conceived the VISION.
Negro brains devised the plans, Negro
money paid for tie brick and mortar and
Negro hands and brains placed the bnil-
ding there. Ia Is worth a trip To- Allan
Ia Tor any cDlors-i man t. $50 inside
this building. lie cannot ~ INSIDE with
Out feeling inspired with new and en-
iarged confidence in his race. fifty
years ago hal any man pre'iIctsd that
the Negro OF Atlanta would have erectel
such a building. lac would have been con
-lderei tit subject Tor all insane Asy-
lam
No person Who has not been inside II
tins building can imagine what line APP
Pointnent- IL has. It, tile floors. mar
ble service. It's corridors TIN fest Wide,
laced with Georgia marble tO heighth
OF ten feet, it, marble columns, lts two
big lU|hOrs~power strain engln--. IL
splendid electric lighting system. all CON
splre To oyerw helm one with tile bigness
Of the concet,fi..t, .nt ..~.-.t.flnn -. -
rare among cOi"red people. tlfy yrsr-
AgO II IL doubtful n there war I'll co.
Negroes ma the whole word Who can do
What the contractor, MIR. X. r.. PharIOW
has done in constructing such monu-
ment oi Negro progress
But the building Is not there merely a.
a monument though when Il comes &"
inspiration ! doubt II il does serve a bet
Ter purpose than most structures erected
ca such ends. IL Is there verAing ia "A
most remark able and beneficial capacity.
IL houses nearly all tlse larger Negro bus
ine'sses ln the city, thus giving the Neg
ro<s Oi Atlanta BUSINESS center and th-
the Negro business men direct contract
with men of his calling. Here "n tia
hrst fiDOr are located the Negro banx,
a tailor shop, a barber shop. cafe and
the second and third floors are occupied
by lawyers, real estate and INSURANCE
men while on the fifth and sixth fiuor>
are given over Ia lodge meetings, more
I IA
dated In these rooms on five nights each
week.
In other words the building thus srr-
As IA centre H. not a dead weight but "a
paying Proposition. Therein were thOs.'
VII" planned and agitatssl such "A strnc-
tnre longhea'iei. They sa~ how u-s.iul
such building wOuhl le and what p-"-
ht II would bring Practically every
10 Din Iu the building H. rented and l.
bringing in AN handsome iDconIe. Tn,
81 're~ on uhe first floor Yield a rental oi
80 ~ E--r ySar; tho forty-twO offices a..
do; the lodge rooms s.sss'. making In all
a rent ys.ild oi sl2..5JJ. ~ per cent On
the Siuo,tssD investment
On ON Of the hOOrs oi this building,
1hink II - the third, are locat..i tie
r''oIls Of the Atlanta independent. ths
''e"rgIa, and and u n large degree, tia
nltesi Stats- Spokesman for Negro ODD
Fellows. The editor IT the lnsl~I~n,lent
Mr.. Benjamin J. Davis, j. IN connectiob
with the Old Fellows Building o. H. en-
We'd and congratulated. Long before
the foundation 81 such a structure Wa
land. or a site chosen, Mr.. DAVIS. week
alter week and month after month devo-
tel his columns % the subject Of an Old
Fellows building, and when IL was onc,.
tegun, las enthusiasm. Ingenuity anil
courage kept hope and ASSURANCE in the
breasts 81 all. think Mr.. DaviS and
co-worker- do not realize What a great
service they have done. They point o.
4 with prlde t~cause IL j. in Atlanta bui
such a structure helOngs rather o. the
whole rare. And a. the the real beaut,
aud use Of the building become better
known the whole race will eagerly come
forward and offer Mr. Davi- and hi- c,-
workers a vote Of thanks