Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1917-09-29

business and showed the two-fold advantage
it would be to the colored folks in general
to do so. eff you support those in bust
ness it not only boosts that particular col
ored person up in the commercial world,
but it enables him to give employment to
your sons and daughters, which is the real
milk in the cocoanut." He showed why it
was to his advantage to pay the colored
grocer as much and even more for goods
than to merchants of any other race or
class, in that, IF I trade with the colored
merchant and business man he will in turn
not only patronize me, but will send me all
Of the customers he can. Let us divide
our trade among the colored men and wo-
men in business" He suggested the
following list of business enterprises and
professional men as fit subjects for our
patronage: Alhambra Cash Grocery Co.,
1896 Jackson street, Mrs. Cagwell's Gro
Gerry and Confectionery 2619 East Madi-
son; Princeton Cafe, SIG jackson street;
Chandler Fuel Co.; TUFTS New Barber
Shop, 800 Main street Mrs. G. B. Miller's
Dressmaking and Art Parlor, 1880 Twenty
fourth avenue; Twentieth Century Dye
Works 2210 East Cherry; Golden West
Sanders and Taylor, Twenty-frst and East
Madison; Woodson Apartment Houses, 1920
Twenty-fourth Douglas Apartments, ia
Twenty-fourth North; Chandler Apartments
2416 East Madison; The Hotel Vrooman,
1886 Main street; The Afro-Amercan Hotel,
1861 Main street; S. H. Stone, the caterer
TIA Broadway; Peoples Auto Co., Second
and Marion; Andrew R. Black, c.. R. An
derson, attorneys at law Drs. G.. F. Max
well and Cardwell, physicians and sur
cons; DR.. Cooper, dentist There are
other small business concerns in the city
whose cards the doctor did not have hence
he could not read out their names, but he
was eminently fair and asked those present
to make a united effort to give the bulk of
their trade to some colored concern.
Harry Legg had for his subject, ''The Ne
cessty Of Negroes Patronizing Negro En-
terprises,'' and he handled it in a most
business-like way. "There is little that I
can say on this subject beyond repeating
it to you. The subject is sermon within
itself and the colored man will never sue
coed until he lives up to it's teachings. You
say there are not many colored folk in
Seattle, and yet if every family in the city
would spend just ten cents day with me
| would be able to double and treble my
present force of employees, which, Of course,
are all colored men. The building up Of
one concern leads to the establishing of
another" Mr.. Legg is the proprietor Of
the Alhambra Cash Grocery Co. and it is
reported that the concern handles car
load of groceries each month. It has
large wholesale trade among the Japanese,
Italians and Greeks and sells much of the
tobacco, soft drinks, chewing gums and
confectioneries handled by many Of the col
ored men and women in business in the city,
H. R. Clayton, in discussing the subject of
1.-The Benefits Derived from the Combina-
ton of Labor and Capital,'' said ''Labor
is capital, but capital is not always labor
Labor properly directed leads to capital
and the two combined means commercial
success. The colored man has never been
classed as labor, but just "help." Capital
has been domineerde by organized labor
and the combination has been able to shut
the black man out of lucrative employment
but, owing to the great number Of strikes