The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07

The visit of DR.. Booker T. Washing
ton, the Wizard of Tuskegee" and
the worlds famous educator, to Kan
Sas City last Wednesday marked dis
tinct epoch in the history of this city
aud brought the noted educator in
touch with the business and educa-
tional interests of the Negroes of this
community such as he had never had
an opportunity to enjoy before. The
Negro Business League, under the
able and aggressive leadership of
President Fortune j. Weaver and Mr..
Il. A. Robinson, the hustling fiscal
agent, deserve much credit for the
excellence of the arrangements for
the, distinguished guest and for the
successful and on the minute manner
in which.t the schedule was carried out.
DR. Washington Arrived in the city at
1900 a. m. from Chicago accompa-
MED by his secretary, Mr.. Nathan
Hunt, and was met by delegation
of the league, wearing handsome
silk badges, composed of the follow
ing gentlemen: F. ]. Weaver, ].
Dallas Bowser, Nelson G. Crews, A.
Il. Estes, DR.. T. G.. Unthank, DIR. j. E.
Dibble, S. NJ. Steele, DR.. H. M. Smith,
II. D. Simmons, VIM. Hopkins, Chas.
II. Galloway, W. Dallas Foster, DR..
S. II. Thompson, Rev. w. H. Thomas,
D. D., Rev. j. r. Ransom, e. Eugene
Vaughan and Rev. ]. G. C. Owens.
Immediately after the exchange of
greetings and introductions the party
was hurried into three waiting auto
mobiles and started over the Inter
City Viaduct for Sumner High School,
Kansas City, Kans., where the first
address of the day was delivered at
1880. The entire faculty and student
body Of the High School and Douglass
Ward School had gathered on the ter
race along with several hundred citi-
zens, white and colored and were re-
paid for their waiting by splendid
address by DR.. Washington who spoke
for twenty minutes from his automo-
bile At the conclusion of his address
here, amid the shrill applause of a
thousand students and their elders the
party dashed away for Douglass Hos
pital where brief stop was made to
greet the Board of Directors and the
nurses who had assembled in a body
upon the the Veranda (and by the
way Douglass Hospital was made a
possibility through the wisdom of the
late Bishop Grant and the kindness
of DIR. Washington, who donated his
services in a lecture at Convention
Hall in 1906 which netted nearly
$4,000 for the purchase of that Insti-
tution). After brief stop the party
Christian Association where they were
met by the efficient secretary, Mrs.
Lydia C. Smith, who knew Mr. Wash
tngton quite well in New York, and
then on to Western University, pre-
sided over by the Doctors personal
friend and associate, President II. T.
Healing. AS the cars drove up to the
University it was an inspiring scene
to witness the reception on the part
of the student body and the citizens
of Quindaro and the Inter-City Metho-
dist Ministerial Alliance which was
present in body. AS the band played
Hail to the Chief" and the students
stood at salute, Dr. Washington was
escorted into the Administration Build-l
and after a brief introduction to the
h faculty and others was escorted
through the different buildings and
expressed much pleasure at the work
being done by Dr.. Healing. At 1880
the students and visitors assembled
In the. Chapel and after a couple of
inimitable selections by the famous
Western University Choral Club, Mr..
Washington was introduced and de-
Mvered an impressive and lasting ad-
dress to the tarong that packed the
chapel. At its conclusion the guests
were served luncheon in the dining
haIl under the direction of Miss Davis,
domestic science teacher, formerly OF
Tuskegee Institute, and DR.. Washing
ton was loud in his praise of both