The broad ax., 1922-08-26
EIARLES E. STUMP, THE REGULAR
TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENT
FOR THE BROAD AK, ATTENDED
THE MEETING OF THE NATIONAL
NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE AT
NORFOLK, VA, WHERE HE HAD
THE ROYAL TIME OF HIS LIFE.

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world Is not standing still. and II you
viii watch me for few days you will
be Inclined to say "old Nan Stump
is not standing STILL but is the most
movingest man in this country"
have been telling and telling you
about the meeting of the National
Negro Business League, and I told
you that was going to be there and
II is now in history, and it Is up to
me to tell you just as much as want
to tell you about II and you can't make
me tell you any more, and you just
put that in your pipe and smoke IL
In my last letter / told you about
Mrs. Carrie A. TuggIe and the great
work she is doing. and how ! had a
big time although sick in Mobile, Ala
bama. She is indeed one more great
woman and the world knows II. Well
l got through with that meeting and
made my way to another part of this
busy world Of ours.
/ spent few hours in Montgomery,
and then a night in Atlanta, and then
night in Washington, d. c, and a
night in Richmond. Va. so on Tues
day morning reached Norfolk. or at
least left Richmond, and got to Nor
folk in the afternoon. When / got
of of that Chesapeake & Ohio boat in
Norfolk, found DR.. Robert J. Brown,
the dentist, with a smile on his face
that would do credit to the Gold
Dust Twins" and he shook my lily
black hand and looked into my pretty
blue eyes and informed me that he
was there to tote me TO his home
where l was to be the guest of him
self and wife during my stay in the
city.
DIR. Brown has some king of an
automobile car carriage. and soon had
me seated in it headed for his home.
II was 4 few minutes past 5 o'clock
that afternoon that got to town
when all this happened. and ! met his
wife, who is one of the finest women
i have had the pleasure of meeting
IN long time. She shook my fly
black hand just like her husband and
told me that I was welcome to her
home and to ali that there was Ia It.
I was ready to ride of in the carriage
again, hut she told Us to wait and
dinner would soon be served.
Believe me when II came to the din
ner end of it. sent chicken and
chicken into my eternity, and there
were rolls which would melt In your
mouth. Mrs. Brown Is from Clark
university, Atlanta, Ga; in fact, she
w born down in the neck of the
woods, and you may put II down that
I told you that she Is wei trained
woman, and she knows the cooking
business from A to z and can even
put on the soforth Il you want 1t.
She IS courteous. eongeniaI and seems
to enjoy entertaining the friends Of
her husband.
After dinner we went out to see the
town. I went to Mt. Vernon hotel
where Perry w. Howard and others
were stopping. II was in fine shape,
and I enjoyed being with L. w.
Bright and Others. In company with
Banker Williams, of the Wage Earn
ers Bank. and he is president. Editor
Sol Johnson, of the Savannah Tribune.
and L w. Bright. we went down to
Little Bay, the place owned by Bright,
and there took in some sea breeze.
and returned to Norfolk about To-
o'clock and then to the headquarters
Of the local arrangements.
I was not there long before Prof.
N. W. Collier came in and / got In
touch with DR.. Brown, who came to
carry me home and he stepped to the
hello box" and Il was then arranged
hat Prof. N. w. Collier should be
he guest also. and we were to be bed !
fellows. enjoyed this so very much.
Going in at night, Mrs. Brown had
Ione fine chicken said. but I do not
at at night. hence had to say good I
light to ali that 6ne salad which Prof.
-cIIier sent to his eternity. was
eady for the next morning. Dr.
Brown Is one Of the leading tooth
Ientisf doctors In this country, and
ie IS doing business. believe me,
'oney. and is going to take his vaes-i
ion By going to the National Bap-
let convention in Los Angeles. He
) = graduate from Normal, Alabama.
IndeE Prof w. H. couneiri. and I
sei that you win know what this
Now comes the meeting Of the Ns-l
ionai Negro Business League. When
was time for Il to open. was there. (
ut before going. went to tire home
{ DR. R. H. Bowl;ng. pastor Of the
Iirst Baptist church. where Dr.l,
'eorse Cleveland Hal. Of Chicago.
re stopping, and his eminent cutter.
&c he cut my head and got 4 whole
y o. that Death sfuG out OF Il. which
las giving ne tronbie. / think the
ell must hare pnt Il u thers. bat Dr..
an declares thar Il matters not where