The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-06-27
THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS
LEAGUE.

LEAGUE.
The Fourteenth Annual Meeting oil
the National Negro Business League
will be held in Philadelphia, Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday. August
goth, 21st and 22nd, 1913. The Local
Negro Business League ,Of Philadel
phia has secured from the City Coun
Gil of that city an appropriation OF
$1,000 for the entertainment of the
delegates and the appropriation has
been signed by Mayor Rudolph
Blankenburg. The daily sessions OF
the League will be held at. Musical
knnd Hall, sos Locust street; the
first nights session will be held al
the Academy of Music, Broad and
Locust streets, at which time Mayor
Blankenburg will speak and President
Booker t. Washington will deliver
his annual address.
There are now about 900 Local Ne
gro Business Leagues throughout the
country, well organized and actively
at work emphasizing the League idea
in their several centers. In addition
there are at present State Negro
Business Leagues in Alabama, Ark
,ansas, FLORIDA, Mississippi, Texas
Virginia, North Carolina, Louisiana
Oklahoma, Kansas and one in Hi
nois, which was organized May 30
1913, at Springfield. 1t is expected
that delegates from all OF these Lo
cal and State Leagues will attend the
coming meeting and that the reports
TO he made will be as interesting anC
encouraging as those of last year
Mr., S. Laing Williams, compiler o.
the National Organization, in his an
nual report of the proceedings helt
in Chicago last year states that there
was shown an increase in the mum
Der Of banks, an increase in the mum
Der of corporations, an increase il
the ownership of farm lands ant
crops, "a remarkable increase in the
number of men and women who are
branching out into new lines of bust
ness endeavor, an increase in the
number of the combinations of CAPT
tai for the purpose o developing
large business enterprises, real es
tate dealers whose holdings were 81
large that their accuracy was chal
lenged, but which investigation vert
fed. 1t is expected that at the Phila
delphia meeting in this Fiftieth Ami
versary Year of Freedom a showins
of racial progress will be made which
will hearten and encourage every
black man and woman who can posi-
bly, arrange to be present.
Each year reduced rates are Offered
from every section of the country u
New York, Philadelphia, Atlantic Cit!
and other Eastern points. This yea
the national meeting of the ColoreC
Elks of the country will take plac,
the week before the Business League
meeting, and the meeting of the Col
ored Pythian Organization will b.
held in Baltimore the week following
the Business League meeting. Undet
the circumstances very low rates will
be offered, so that delegates who wisl
to attend any two, or all three, o
these meetings, may do so withou
State organizations are urged ever
thus early to take up with the prope
authorities the matter of railroad &C
commodations. Experience has show
that arrangements can be made TO
Special Pullman and Tourist Ca
Parties at very little additional ex
pense, but at considerable addition il
the way of comfort and pleasure, es
pecially when congenial parties ar,
organized.
These annual conventions are, al
the Boston Transcript says, to a yer.
significant extent, barometers of prog
ress. 1t is now thirteen years sine,
the first meeting was held in Boston
at that time the organization was IL
the experimental stage, but
emerged from that a considerable,
while ago; at that time it was NOR,
an occasion for looking hopefully t,
the future, but now it can presen
gratifying personal records of prog
ress, and many reports of actual aC
complishment and growing conf
dence; in this respect the Philadel
phia meeting is sure to surpass an,
previous meeting of the League. TIL
annual sessions of the affiliated OF
CARNATIONS of the League will be hel,
at the same time-The National Ne
gro Bankers Association, The Nation
al Negro Press Association, The Ma
tional Negro Funeral Directors AS
sociation and the National Negro Ba
Association, a group of the stronges
organizations in the country amon
Negro people,
Further information as to details
plans of the coming meeting, etc
may be secured from:
Booker T. Washington, President,
]. C. Napier, Chairman, Executiv
Committee; or from .Ett
Emmett ]. Scott, Corresponding
Secretary, Tuskegee Institute, Ala