Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-22
COLONIZATION OF NEGROES.
Newly incorporated Concern Plans for
UpIift Movement.

COIOnlZallOn OF the negro, not 10
degree of segregation or in a special
locality, but wherever there is the OPP
portunity of purchasing the required
land and buildings anywhere within
the limits of the greater city, is the
object of a newly incorporated con-
Germ, which has for it's principal aim
the providing of homes, theatres, clubs,
bathing establishments, hotels, seaside
resorts, etc, such as whites enjoy.
Already the company, which is
styled the Hannibal Realty and I'm.
provement Company of America, Inc,
with offices at No. s75 Fulton street,
Brooklyn, has acquired under a con-
tract of purchase a five story build
ing. Notwithstanding on a plot BOOK
10, in choice section of Brooklyn to
begin the new movement.
This property it is proposed to con-
vert into a hotel for negroes. When
this is gotten under Roadway similar
enterprises will be set up at eConey
Island and at Arverne.
The realty company, of which Rufus
Lewis Perry Is president; Albert A.
Friedlander, secretary; Henry Hyams,
Jr., treasurer; D. Macon Webster,
chairman of the Board of Directors.
with the above, and Frank K. Nudel-
man and Louis Kimmell forming the
Board of Directors, has under advise
ment nine other properties, which 1t
is proposed to buy as soon as the
necessary details are arranged. The
company is out to buy while condi-
lions are favorable. Property. Presi-
rDar se OF hn
but it will not stay there after the
new tariff begins to work. There will
then surely be an advance in the price
of real estate.
Such properties as cannot be re-
modelled will be rebuilt, principally in
apartment houses providing suites of
three rooms and bath to rent for $50
per month. Besides providing homes
and amusements, the company also in
tends to finance enterprises of COM
mercial nature in which the negro will
be the principal actor.
Plans of the Company.
The scope of the concern is outlined
by the president, Rufus Lewis Perry.
in a prospectus printed in English and
Yiddish, of which the following is an
extract:
TT is the desire of this corporation
to establish the position for the col
ored people which their numerical
strength entities them to. and in de-
manding and seeking to secure such
position, the colored population should
feel confident that no effort will be
spared to make our endeavors COM
plete and lasting, for we are not only
going to cure the present conditions,
but we will reach the cause 80 as to
prevent future recurrence. Our first
step has been to establish sound
business enterprise where the capital
of the investors and stockholders may
be so placed as to yield fair dividend.
This has been our primary desire and
intention, and thanks to the strict
laws of New York state and our lib
eral charter under these laws. we
have succeeded in accomplishing our
main purpose. Today we stand
ready to withstand any and every sort
of opposition which may be directed
toward the corporation, and we know
that there will be some, for the pres
ent status of race prejudice Is a suf-
ficient foreboding.
1t is the intention 10 SATISFY the eS-
sential demands Of the large popula-
ton of the race in this city. In so do
ing part of it's program for the first
few months will be to erect theatre;
provide an amusement hall. build an
office building start seaside resort,
and provide lodge rooms for colored
societies.
In furtherance Of this plan to give
the colored population the position
they should be allotted, the corpora
ton will invite industrial business
enterprises in the city by advancing
| money to worthy persons in order
| that they may engage in their various
| interests Herewith. We hope by such
course to soon establish them upon
plane where nothing will be able to
reduce them from the position they
are justly entitled to.
"The corporation intends to operate
in every state in the United States,
and the amount Of money 1t can
handle is unlimited. It's charter pro-
yides that 4 can deal in all property,