The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-08-29
NEXT MEETING
IN MUSKOGEE
NATIONAL BUSINESS LEAGUE HOLDS
GOOD SESSION.
John Wanamaker Receives Cheers
DR. Washington Grows in Pop
ularity-Men of Business From
Every Section-Representing
Large Business interests
Brilliant Affair.

Philadelphia, Pa, August 23.-Sur-
rounded by the atmosphere that gen.
Grated the spirit of freedom, frater-
nifty and enlightenment, exemplifed
in its highest sense by William Penn,
Benjamin Franklin, Thaddeus Stew
ems and John Wanamaker, and with
in the shadow of independence Hall,
where Liberty Bell proclaimed the
birth of the American Republic, the
fourteenth annual session of the Ma
tional Negro Business League was
held this week. 1t was exceptionally
fitting that the best managed, most
largely attended and most profitable
gathering of the commercial forces
Of the Negro race should be held on
the fiftieth anniversary of our peo-
pies emancipation on the spot where
the anti1slavery movement had its
inception, and where the Declaration
of independence was framed and
finds its most effective interpreta-
ton.
AT the opening session Wednesday
morning at Musical Fund Hall, a
large audience assembled at an ear
ly hour. DR.. Algernon B. Jackson,
president of the local branch of the
National Negro Business League,
called the meeting to order, and de-
livered a felicitous address of well
come, to which DR.. Julia P. H. Cole.
man, president of the National Hair
Vim Chemical Company, of Washing
ton took the chair amid storm oi
applause-and the greatest meeting
of the Leagues life was On.
I The address Of welcome at the
Academy of Music was delivered by
the Hon. Mr.. Porter, Director O
Public Safety of Philadelphia, repre-
senting Mayor Rudolph Blankenburg
who was unavoidably absent.
Without doubt the most thrilling
and dramatic episode of the week.
series was the visit to the grea
store Of the Hon John Wanamake,
on Thursday afternoon, and tn,
touching exercises that took place II
the Egyptian Room.
The next session of the League viii
be held in August, 1914, at Musko
gee, Oklahoma, with side trip Il
the wonderful Negro town OF Boley
in the same State. q1r la
Il Officers of the League.
A number of changes were mad,
in the personnel of the officers. DR.
Booker T. Washington was re-elect
ed president, and has held that posi-
ton continuously since the forma
tion of the League at Boston il
1910. The remaining officers are
First vice president, Charles Banks
Mississippi; second vice president, J
E. Bush, Arkansas; third vice presi
dent, John M. Wright, Kansas
fourth vice president, E. G. Tidring
ton, Indiana; fifth vice president
Charles H. Brooks, Pennsylvania;
corresponding secretary, Emmett ]
Scott, Alabama; treasurer, Charles H
Anderson, Florida; registrar, F. H
Gilbert, New York assistant regis
trar, r. c. Houston, Texas; trans
portation agent, A. c.. Perdue, Arkan
sas; compiler, S. Laing Williams, II
linois; official stenographer, DR.. w
H. Davis, District of Columbia. Mem
bers of the executive committee: J
C. Napier, Tennessee, chairman; J
B. Bell, Texas E. E. Jones, Louisi
ana; S. G. Elbert, Delaware; ], T
Elliott, Oklahoma; H. T. Pratt, Mary
land; T. H. Hayes, Tennessee; Scipic
/ A. Jones, Arkansas; w. T. Andrews
South Carolina ]. G. Jackson, Ken
lucky; Algernon B. Jackson, Penn
sylvania; S. e. Courtney, Massa
chusetts; George c. Hall, Illinois
and w. T. Gordon, Missouri.