The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-01-12

up the magnificent audience that COM
pletely filled to overlooking the sp.
cious auditorium in the new Y. NJ. c. !
A. Building on Monday night. Many
of the Oldest citizens of Nashville |
state that they have never seen so !
enthusiastic a gathering where all
seemed to be of one mind and in ac-
cord with the same idea as was
demonstrated on that occasion. Every
church, every fraternity organization,
every society, in fact, practically
every family in Nashville in so far
as Negroes are concerned, was about
represented at the meeting. From
the time the meeting was called to
order by the chairman, and prayer
was offered by Rev, DR.. Mitchell, big
things were doing. The opening re-
marks by the chairman, who took the
subject, ''Now You Have 1t, What are
You Going to do With IT," in which he
gave graphic description of the
size of the building giving its dimen-
sions off-handedly, giving its height,
telling the number of roows and then
producing from the inventory a total
of the amount of furniturs and fix.
lures icontained therein, after which
he called upon his hearers to join in
one solid phalanx of workers and help
| redeem their pledges, was the key
J note of the evening, and the nom.
moth assemblage was not slow in
keeping up the enthusiasm that had
been injected into the meeting. The
first speaker, DR.. ]. c. Caldwell, start
ed the ball to rolling when he put
| down a check for $1,000 redeeming his
pledge made during the recent cam.
paign when thirty-three thousand dol
! lars were subscribed for Y. NJ. c..
A. building. They came after this
! with their nickles, dimes, quarters
dollars, fives. tens, fifties and hund,
reds. They final reached the thous.
and dollar mark. Throughout the
evening the Davis Military Band that
had volunteered their services, kept
up inspiring music. "My Country IT'S
| of Thee" America" and many other
patriotic airs were played throughout
the evening to add more ginger to the
occasion. There were present Mr.
Arch Trawick, the chairman of the
Committee on Colored Work, from
the Central Association, DR.. w. J.
o. Callahan, a member of the Cam.
mittee and Mr.. S. w. McGill the sec
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were called upon and gave much en-
enlargement. All three made telling
speeches, declaring in substance that
they did not come to assure the Ne
groes or to encourage them on wha'
they should do, but that they were
rather there to assure them that the
| good white people of Nashville were
going to do the right thing.
| The Committee of MANAGEMENT, the
Advisory Board and the Y. NJ. C. A
sympathizers were or hand and work
ed as never before. During the course
of the evening more than five thous
and six hundred dollars were turned
in in cash and subscriptions. There
were no lengthy speeches, the mer
usually allowed their talk to be made
by putting down the money on the
table. 1t kept Secretary Sanders
Prof. Hardeman, DR.. Phillips and Mr.
S. H. Johnson busy writing receipts
while the Stocked Brothers and {
number of the other enthusiastic
younger set of workers busted them
selves in passing the receipts out AM
in bringing in the checks.
The photographer made a fash
light picture, but it was after clever
o'clock before the picture was made
and the cram and jam that was evi
dent in the first part of the eveninI
had subsidized. 1t was announced tina
plans were being made for a man
moth demonstration meeting, at which
ladies would be invited, to be he'll
at Ryman Auditorium on the secont
Sunday in February. A cash cam
paign is to be under way early mex
week. The committee is to hold
meeting after the religious services
at their headquarters on Sunday after
noon.
AlJlJl llOVNAuJ OUDOCINlI llOA>o AANl
CASH WHICH MAKES A TOTAL
OF $4,000, NOW PLEDGED TC
THE Y. NJ. c. A. BUILDING FUND
Rev. Preston Taylor subscribed
81, 100000 additional, paid $4,000 cash
Rev. Henry Allen Boyd subscribed
100000, paid $4,000 cash.
Dr.. R. H. Boyd subscribed 100000
These subscribed $4,000 more:
Henry Black, Albert Black, H
Brown, Horace Anderson, A. and |
State Normal, by Pres. w. ]. Hale, L
H. Perkins, Hon. A. N. Johnson, casl
$1,000, Dr.. w. B. Reed, T. G. Marshall
DR.. e. A. Maryland, Jos. H. Lenox
Andrew Evans, l. A. Ross. Henry
Colbert, $500 cash, DIR. F. A, McKen
zie, Sam Crockett, ]. j. Smith, Ira
It. Bryant, Fisk University, by, Pres
+. A. Mckenzie.
These are the $500 subscriptions,