The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-01-24
in MEMORY OF
DR.. HADLEY
W TRIBUTE PAID A
LIFE OF USEFULNESS.
UNWILLING OF PICTURE AT
KNOWLES SCHOOL WEDNEs-
DAY-BIsHoP TYREE PRIN.
clPAL SPEAKER.

For the first time in the history of
the Negro schools of Nashville an ed
ucator OF u race was honored by
the teachers and pupils among whom
that n had worked. 1t is a delight
to the public to know that DR.. R. S.
White and his corps of efficient teach
ers have set a precedent in honoring
the members of their race and hold
ing up to the youth of the Negro
race those men and women who are
doing some material good for the
race. 1t is too true that our youth
has such a limited opportunity to
know of the lives and deeds of our
distinguished heroes, while lives of
vice and degradation surround our
your people on every hand. A lack
OF knowledge of the beautiful in
others lives is due sometimes to the
'narrowness Of our souls in not being
willing to speak of the many nice
things accomplished by our fellow
man; the kind deeds done and the
beautiful traits of character possessed
by that me-.
DR.. w. A. Hadley was the first prin.
cipal of Knowles School after it be-
came a city school. Being the princi-
pal OF the school when that part OF
the city became incorporated, and n
OF the prime movers in having the cor
porate limits extended to that part of
Nashville. He has truly built for
NIT is now the most beautiful Negro
residential section of u beloved
Nashville. He has truly built for
himself and his loved ones a monu-
ment, which time can only enhance
in beauty and value.
The beautiful granitoid walks, grad
ed streets, lovely houses, shaded and
grassy yards, electric lights, sewer
systems and police protection which
the people of the third ward are now
enjoying, to say nothing of the larg-
est and one OF the best Negro schools
In the State, were all made possible
by the energy and foresight of DR..
w. A. Hadley, and truly did DR.. R. s.
White and his teachers honor them
selves in paying this high tribute of
respect to the memory of DR.. HadIey.
AS early as $40 a. m. the visitors
and speakers began to assemble in
the large hall on the first floor of
Knowles School to do honor to the
occasion. Nature smiled upon the eff
fort in the ideal day which was CIV
en- for this unwilling, and by 10
o'clock the hall was entirely filed
with visitors and pupils. At 1890,
the exercises began, Bishop Evans Ty.
rec, of the First Episcopal District Of
the A. NJ. E. Church, delivered the
principal address, and everyone
knows that enough has been said
when his name is merely mentioned.
for the Negro race has no man who
can be considered his superior on
the rostrum. The fire of enthusiasm
caught every heart in the building
and the pupils poured forth their ap-
probation in the sweet songs rem
dered, and that educator of years in
the person of DR.. S. w. Crosthwait.
with dear Father Coombs helped to
pour more oil on the fire already
burning to a white heat by their elo-
quent words.
Knowles School leads, all others
This has been her motto for
years, and well was it demonstrated
Wednesday, January %, in the
shown to the memory of DR..
Hadley's work and department
among his people while he lived. The
good which men do is not always
buried with them, and the pupils of
Knowles School have had set before
them a lesson in material value which
they will not soon forget and one
which will encourage them to strive
for nobler and higher things, believ-
ing that our men and women will be
esteemed and appreciated for what
they accomplish for others good and
not for the hours spent in idleness
and vanity. They will realize that
lives of selfishness amid dishonor are
not cherished by the best of our @
pie, and that deeds of kindness. lives
Of virtue and truth, however obscure.
will be sought out and found by some
one and made to shine out like a dia,.
mond of the first magnitude spark
ling in all of its beauty and purity as
Tyree made that Of DR.. Had.
ley sparkle to-day. Like a diamond
Of the first class ne polished