The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-12-13
BUSINESS
HAS GROWTH In
VARIOUS CITIES

| LOUISVILLE. KY, Dec. H.
| Especial lin this city Negroes
own and operate the following retail
outlets: drug stores, ~ gro
ceries and markets, music shops,
1 haberdashcry, 30 restaurants, 2
other retail stores.
| Negroes also own and operate: 20
barber shops, 12 beauty parlors, 1
laundry. 2 banks, 2 loan associations.
printing establishments, news
papers. public dance halls, thea
tres, ice factory.
Louisville Is the Home Office Of
two sick and accident insurance
companies, and of two life insur-
ance companies. II also maintains
branch offices for three out-of-town
sick and accident companies, and
likewise for three foreign life insur-
ance companies.
This city boasts 40 physicians, II
dentists, 10 lawyers. III undertakers,
20 real estate operators, and 10 or
| chestral organizations. There are
eight Negroes in the police depart
mcnt of the city, 200 in the school
system, so in the postoffice, 8 In the
city health department and approxi-
mately 20 others holding city paid
positions. The bulk Of the colored
wage carners are employed by the
American Tobacco Company, the
Standard Sanitary Manufacturing
Company and the numerous hotels
of the city.
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NEW YoRK.-At a recent meet
ing of the stockholders Of Victory
Life Insurance Company in this
city, a report was filed showing that
the company has paid $4,000 In
salaries and commissioners its work
ers in the New York. office during,
the past year.
INDIANAPOLIS. = The entire
business assets, etc, of the comtnu-
nifty Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, newly organized in this city.
have been purchased by the Mann
moth Life Insurance of Louisville,
Kentucky. The latter company,
with assets of more than $4,000,
was recently authorized to do busi-
ness in the state of Indiana.
A recent nationwide survey
shows that there are only so Negro
architects, 81 engineers, 145 design
ers, craftsmen and inventors and
207 chemists in the United States.
CHICAGO, Ill.-The United Con-
sumers Company, a coal company
with headquarters IN st. Louis, Mis-
souri,, has opened offices in this
city. The company is headed by
G. G. Williams. formerly employed
by the Famous Barr Company.
SALEM, Oregon months
of litigation, fighting injunctions
and other legal obstruction, Mr.
Charles II. Maxwell has succeeded
in opening and commencing tho
operation of one Of the finest bar
becue emporiums in the Northwest.
KEYSTONE, w. va.-The Poca-
hontas transportation Company, a
Negro owned bus line operating in
Mcdowell and Mercer counties of
West Virginia, has recently added
another 227passenger bus to their
present fleet.
Los ANGELES, Cal.--Negroes
of this city have purchased beau
tiful hotel, located at 41st and Gen.
tral avenue, which is being financed
by stock subscription. DR.. ]. "A.
Somervillc is president of the cor
poration. The hotel will employ 35
people.
DURHAM, N. C.--The merger
here recently Of the two realty con-
Germs, the Merrick- k-McD Dougald-W
son Company with the Michaux-
Pearson Company, win be known ms
the Union Insurance and Realty
Company.
Prof. W. r. Parson win be presi-
dent, and H. M. Michaux, secretary
manager. The new organization
starts with capital of $4,000
100000 Of which Is paid IN.
These two groups have practically
controlled the real estate field in
Durham. Last year the Merrick-Mc-
Dougald-Wilson Company did $780,
900 gross business and the Michaux-
Pearson Company, $4,000.
CHICAG0.--There isa persistent
runior In business circles here that
Jesse Binga, president and founder
of the Binga State Bank, is con-
ducting negotiations for the pur-
chase of the bank property Of the
Kenwood National Bank.a white in-
stitption.
Binga's bank Is located at 35th
and State streets. He has just built
on the corner adjoining his bank
q four-story arcade building ia
house stores and offices. -