The broad ax., 1918-02-09
Charles E. Stump, Who Has Been Stranded or
Snowbound Here in Chicago for the Past
Month, Visited Ebenezer Baptist Church Last
Sunday and Was Heartily Greeted by Its En-
ergetic and Far-famed Pastor, Rev. John F.
Thomas
That Church Has Almost Fourteen thousand Dollars on
Hand At Present and 1t Is Rapidly Increas-
ing in Membership

to you in Chicago, for before you can
read this letter will be away, headed
for another part of the world. I will
have looked at the Chicago snow for
the last time, and will then be going
to see some other snow, and am of the
opinion that when I return to Chicago
the snow will all be gone, and the people
will have been swimming over things
and ready to take up their bed and
walk.
You have ere this heard of the visit
of Supreme Chancellor S. W. Green,
from New Orleans. He was in town
last week and it was an important visit,
because it meant to put the order in
better financial condition than it had
ever been before in this world. At one
stroke $4,000 went into dirt for the
Supreme Lodge, and this means that
they are going to erect a national Py-
THAN temple right here in Chicago.
You will recall that a long time ago
there was a purchase made of some
property in Chicago, and this property
had buildings on it, and so they just
went right into it, and rented the build
ings, and now they have put back into
the exchequer the purchase price and a
little revenue on the side, and this has
proven to be a good business invest
ment.
Now then a new bargain was on the
market, and Supreme Chancellor Green,
Supreme Attorney s. A. T. Watkins and
Major r. r. Jackson and E. D. Green
put their heads together and soon they
had this place on the hands of the order.
1 must mentio nthat DR.. A. A. Wesley,
the Grand Chancellor of Illinois, had
something to do with this purchase.
S. W. Green is a business man, and he
is doing a great big service to the order.
If it will follow his lead for few years
it will soon be the wealthiest fraternal
order in the country among our people,
and well it should be. OF course he
has been misunderstood by those who
did not want to understand, but he has
not paid any attention to them, but has
gone right on attending to business and
putting of of the track anyone who got
in the way of the wheel of progress.
Have you met s. W. Greeni If not I
hope you will do so when he is in town
the next time. If you will just see DR..
Wesley or Attorney Watkins you will
be introduced to him, and you will GER
tainly meet a man. OF course, you
know Brother E. D. Green. tell you
that he is so full of business that he
really forgets his promises, and I am
not going to pay my respects to him for
this, because believe it was just nice
way of turning a fellow down without
hurting his tender feelings.
Getting around in Chicago is an in
teresting thing, and this is what have
been doing myself, and I have touched
just few people, and perhaps it will be
of interest for me to tell you a few
things about some of them. For in
stance, I called at Hotel Brown, 34oO
Wabash avenue. I did not know that
we had such a fine hotel. I have been
knocking around Chicago for a month,
and just discovered the hotels, or some
of them. F. C. Brown is the head man
of the hotel, and his wife, Mrs. Mary
Brown, is some pumpkins herself. She
is Just one of the refined, cultured
women who is strictly business. I re,
call when they had one fine hotel in
Charleston, W. Va, and I stopped with
them, and they are doing even finer
things here in Chicago. I had the pleas
ure Of meeting Lawyer Woodson from
Buxton, Iowa, and one Of the leading
lawyers in this country. He is man
of worth and ability, and it was indeed
q pleasure to see him.
Then I dropped into the Idlewld
Hotel, ssrd street and wabash avenue
I there had the pleasure Of meeting Mrs
8. J. Carter, who is in charge OF the
feeding department. I am sure you
win remember her, because she Is one