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What the Colored Race in Augusta Is Doing in A Business Way - ■ By Silas X. Floyd
In a commercial way Hie negroes of
Augusta are doing splendidly. From
small woodshops and cook-shops all the
way up to large corporations, you will
find the colored people of tills city en
saged in all kinds of business enterprises.
The most successful grocers among the
iolored people are W. M. Kellv, corner
iUh and Calhoun, and Henry C. Young,
corner of Gwinnett and Marbury streets.
Another grocery store well worth men
tioning its that conducted on Broad
street near Marbury by Dennis Wigfall
& Co. J. H. Maxwell and W. M. Car
penter run good stores down on Broad
street. Two corporations—the Augusta
Merchandising Company and the Stand
ard Merchandising Company—are also
undenting successful grocery stores.
1 he former is located on Campbell street
at the corner of Hopkins and the latter
;s located on Campbell street at the
corner of Spruce. The offtcers of the
Augusta Mdse. Co., are A. B. Berrien,
president: Clias. Magahee. manager, and
Gilbert C. Rainey, seeretaiy and treas
urer. The officers of the Standard
Mdse. Co., are Clias. H. Tillman, presi
dent: Samuel B. Harris, minager: Silas
X. Floyd, secretary, and X'. C. Collier,
treasurer.
In the Insurance field, the Augusta
•o'ored people Have' made . their largest
financial success. Two companies—the
Pilgrim and the Georgia Mutual —have
their home offices here, and are man
aged and officered by Augusta men. Of
Hie first mentioned company, the leadi
ng officers are: Walter S. Hornsby,
Phobias J. Walker. Rev. Charles Wil
liams, George 3. Wingfield, and Rev.. C.
T. Walker. Of the Georgia Mutual Com
pany the leading officers are A. M. Sher
i ill, A. B. Berrien, Dr. George N. Sto
ney, A. J. Sartor, :u)d Rev. Silas X.
Floyd. Between them these two com
panies have more than one hundred
ranch offices in GeoVgia and give regu
lar employment to more than 500 col-,
red men and women.
In addition to the home companies, sev
eral colored insurance organizations have
[ranch offices in the city of Augusta.
Among these may he mentioned:
The Atlanta Mutual Insurance Asso
iation. of which Gracie B. Sweet, is
manager.
The Union Mutual Association, of'
which J. H. Kendall is district manager.
The Guaranty A'd Society, of which
1 S. frown is manager.
The North .a oliim Mutual Insurance
Company, of which J. 1,. .Spaulding i"
istrict superintendent.
The Standard Life Insurance CothP tT
o' which Henry C. Dugas is manager of
he Augusta office.
Tile last named company has head
luarters in Atlanta and ts the first an?
mly. "old line leg I reserve” Insuran t
‘•gtnlzatlon estabAshed by the colored
leoq'e In the United States. it lias •
ipittil stock i f *lo .0110. with a surplus
f some $30.001. It l.art some fifteen or
wenty stockholders unions the Augus
■ i negroes, and the Augusta agency litis
atcceeded in piecing vpy.vrds of $51.0‘)
vorth of policies in the hands of Augas
la people within the p st six months.
It is a conservative estimate to state
hat there are today in tit's city more
hart a hundred men and women who are
raking a living wholly or in Part out
■f ilie Insurance l ttsiness.
The GecVebi Mutual Insurance Com
pany owns its own building at the cor
per of Suitin'." ird Gwinnett streets, and
to does the l rlm-ini Insurance Company
it lie coiner of Gwinnett and Marlm’ v
streets. Each does a business in the
no'sijborhood of $200,000 a year.
The colored people have two furniture
stores—one owned and operated by Lew
is IS. Mosely, at 530 Broad street, anil
tlie other, at the corner of Campbell ai d
]ii streets, owned by the Jones Fur
niture (corner Broad and Kollock streets)
alal 'WMrna@ed(l>y.i;BA.J,rJJei)t. 411 • energetic
r 1 red Ilia n m i'drutloTi to'The Mis)-
ness sos buring and setitng furniture,
VoseJy conducts also a sewirg machine
shop and does general repairs of .all
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Augusta boasts of one bank, which is
ilamt four years .old. Among its officers
re Bishop It. S. ’ Williams, president; J.
s. Harper, vice-president; Henry C. Du
nus.i cashier; C. T. Walker, H. C. Young,
A. B. Berrln, Dr. G. S. Burruss, and A.
\\ Gordon.
Among our successful tailors aind
I'.esßlng clubs may he mentioned Wal
ter S. Harris. 527 Broad street; J. H.
Bulle, .416 Washington street, Hardwick
tV Germany, 302 Center street. Thomas
S. Greene. Ellis street, Anderson Fen-
Ball. Greene street. S. D. Spend. Broad
street. T. B. Newsome. Telfair street,
and James 1,. Hudson. Jackson street.
Harper & Bros, on Broad street, just
below Mclntosh street, conduct the only
art store and picture-frame establish
ment run liy the colored race in this
city. Nearly all. if not all, their pat
rons are white.
Several Augusta colored men own
wagons and two-horse teams and are
regularly and successful engaged in the
hauling and transfer business. Among
these may l:e mentioned: W. 11. IVana
maker, Moses S. Ryans, Jesse Daven
port, John May. James Ellison, Noah
Palmer, John Thompson. Ben Harris,
Ren Jackson, and Frank El is. The col
ored men who own and operate their
own hacks are too numerous to mention.
Augustus Wilkersun. James H. Williams,
and William Walton own automobiles
which they keep fuv Hire.
We have three job printing establish
mentsi—The T. 1. Morris Printing Co.,
mi Barnes street; the Simmons Printing
fliop bn Campbell street, and the Geor
gia Baptist Printing Company on Camp
bell street. This company publishes the
only colored newspaper in the city—the
Georgia Baptist.
Augusta has two veal estate companies
among the colored people, one called the
Riclimbnd Realty Company and the other
'riled the Augusta Realty Company. A.
R. Berrien is president of the first
rumed company, with Prof. A. G. Cut
right as secretary aniT treasurer, and
Edward Rankin as manager. The Au
gusta Realty Company is made up large
ly of the officers uud ‘'oviner officers of
the Pilgrim Insurance Company. It is
directed by H. C. Yeung, G. J. Wing
field and Paul Davis.
Augusta can also boast of a number
of first-class shoemakers and repairers.
Among the leading ones may be men
tioned William Golden, N. B. Wright,
Solomon Nash, G. W. Winfrey, Alex
Simpkins, and Peter Harris.
The leading barber shop for colored
People Is run by Kalgler & Goodwin, on
Campbell street near the postoffice, and
the next is run by Augustus Avery on
Campbell street near the colored Y. M.
C A. building.
Our town can pride itself on three
first-class undertaking gestabjishments
—P. M. Dugas & Son, Julia T. Dent and
williams & Johnson.
Solomon King on Fenwick street and
M. A. Jones and 1,. K. Robinson on Wal
ton street are among our wood and coal
dealer?.
Robert H. Slieften, corner of Cum
bihig and WalkeV, and Jas. F Pitglte. on
Efnwick Just below Campbell, and EH
hli Ingram out in territory are among
out' successful lilacksinitlis and wheel
wrights.
It. G. S. Burruss,' Dr. A. N. Gordon,
hr J. C. Collier, and Dr. I-. H. Stinson
“ft conducting drug stores in different
harts of the city.
Among our colored contractors may
mentioned H. P. Bailey, John Jack
,f". Solomon Brown, Edgar Brown, Da-
v >d White, and Mtlledge Bonham In
Wtw.d, William McNatt, S. W. T-T. Mur
!y. Moses Brown. Joseph Jackson, and
William Mitchell in brick: William
"alters. Gabriel Little. William E. Dor-
Jeff Wiliams. Harry Tolbert. Keu
l,(n Tolbert, and George Holliday in
Mntifig.
Our lone colored watch-maker and
Jeweler, James H. Williams, on Campbell
"beet neur Fenwick, deserves especial
JWct lon. He has made a success at ills
"ttsiness and has accumulated some good
iW'perty.
, Among our largo fish dealers we have
tit Florida Fisfli Market, conducted by
“Jhvard Heard, on Hopkins street, and
jwbinson’s Fish .Market, conducted Jty O.
I Robinson, oil Mange sfrcel.
h * have*Vn«'"tßtlteT swop " antr oAHfty
making gestablishment, of which John L.
j Mitchell is proprietor, at the corner of
I Campbell and Hopkins streets.
A big business has been built up
within the past fifteen years amongg the
Augusta colored people In the field of
trained nursing—so that today we have,
1 suppose, as fine a lot of women fol
lowing that business as you will find
anywhere. We may mention among the
leading ones the following: Pamela
Jefferon, Mary Cauley, Mittle White, El
ia Wray. Mabel Wilborn, Eliza Batev.
etc.
We have in the neighborhood of fif
teen or sitxeen colored physicians here
and two dentists; but as they come un
der the head of a profession they might
take exception to being mentioned in an
article dealing with the business life of
the colored people. For that reason, X
will not mention them at this time.
On the whole we have done well—deni
onstrably well—ln the business world:
and the outlook is that we are going to
do better. We have made the progress
that we have because the white peo
ple he"re have been in sympathy with
us in our upwards strivings. But for
thir aid and co-operation, the record
would be different. While the colored
People have done much for themselves
and tfcv their town, it must be remem
bered that the white people of Augusta
have done much for the negroes also.
Walker Baptist Institute,
Corner of Mill Street and Anderson Avenue
Tills school is the only institution of
its kind in the city owned and operated
by negroes, being incorpared by Walker
Baptist Association in 1893. It is not
as rich in buildings and equipments as
some of the other schools of the town
MRS. JOHN H. DENT
UNDERTAKER
ANH
EMBALMER
OPEN DAY and NIGHT
Service the Best, Equipment the
Latest. The Largest Colored
Undertaking Parlors in
Augusta.
930 D’Antignac St. Phone 965
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
The Macedonia Baptist Church
REV. W. W. JONES, Pastor
Organized October 10th 1869.
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This church is located on the east side of the city and is noted
for the good it is doing for the unfortunate. It is a struggling
church doing lots of good in the educational line, foreign and home
missions. The present church seats 600 people.
During the 45 years the, church has had but 4 pastors, Rev. A.
Green, Kev. I. A McNeal, Rev. G. W. Harrison, Rev. W. W. Jones.
Under the leadership of the Rev W. W. Jones many improve
ments have been made, having bought the large lot on the N. E. cor
ner of Gwinnett and Jackson Streets, where they expect to erect a
new church in the near future.
The Women Missionary Society and the Baptist Young People's
Union are both flourishing.
Sacred concerts are given Sunday afternoons and are doing
much good in attracting the young people from the streets into the
church of God.
Rev. W. W. Jones has increased the membership Trom a hand
ful to many hundreds, and installed a handsome pipe organ, and a
fine choir.
SILAS X. FLOYD.
but unequaled by any of them in poiut
of self-help and thorough training
It’s promoters Including a very strong
faculty Insist on a round education
head, heart and hand, are firm believ
ers in the over ruling providence of
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
! God and thereupon advocate the Chrlst-
I ian religion which is love as the only
solution to all problems.
It Is interesting to know that this lit
tle hunch of negroes give out of their
scanty earnings from $5,000 to $6,000 an
nually for current expenses and hive
purchased school property valued at $35 -
000. Rev. C. T. Walker. D.D.,L1,.D„
moderator of the association, the parent
Colored Methodist Episcopal Church
Trinity C. M. E. Church is the oldest Methodist. Church in Au
gusta. During the days of slavery the colored people worshipped at
the same church with the whites, some kind of provision was made
for them to be served by the same pastors that served the white
church. Trinity was a part of Saint John’s Church and for a num
ber of years was really a mission work to this church.
When the membership had grown in sufficient numbers to war
rant the establishment of a church Tor the colored membership oi
St. John’s Church the Trustees of that church petitioned the city
council of Augusta for a, site upon which to build a house of wor
ship for the colored people.. The present site was granted, then
considered out on the road of little value. This property now with
its improvements is worth not less than $20,000, is controlled by a
Board of Trustees elected by Us own Quarterly Conference.
This has always had some of the best colored families repre
sented in her membership. Her ministry has been the best that
the Conference could send. Two of her Pastors, while serving this
charge were elevated to the Bishopric,
Five Bishops have been consecrated at her Altar.
Three General Conferences have been held in this church
Her influence in this community and at the Conferences is for
good.
Her membership averages about six hundred.
Her prospects for future usefulness is bright.
The present building was put up instead of the old one by Dr.
R. S. Williams, who is now Bishop of Georgia, having been elect
ed while pastoring this church May, 1894.
TRINITY COLORED METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH—
Under the present pastor—the Rev. Walter M. Gladden—The
church is in a prosperous condition, spiritually and tlnancially
This is his second year. Old boards have been re-organized and
new life injected, new boards organized, new leaders appointed and
classes properly arranged, the Epworth League for the young peo
ple organized and the Sunday school re-adjusted. More than fifty
members have been added to the church within the last five months
On the Bth of May was held a iPubliC mortgage burning of thirteen
hundred dollars ($1,300). Old notes that were made some yeaxs ago
bearing interest at more than one hundred dollars yearly, have been
paid off in full by the pastor and congregation within one year's
time. The work of the church principally is done by boards of which
boards following are the names: Steward, Trustees, Usher, and
W. M. KELLY, GROCER
CORNER FIFTH AND CALHOUN STS.
F ~:y and Staple Groceries of the Highest Quality.
Phone
Your
Order
And
Give
Us
A
Trial
All my goods, both canned and bulk, conform strictly to the national
and local pure food law;, aid the garden products I keep in
stock are only the freshest and best in the market.
Phone 3228-J
body, and Rev. S. C. Walker, 8.D.. pres
ident of the school, are both self-made
men, having- educated themselves with
out father or mother, the story of whose
trials sounds like a romance. The spirit
of Self-help is therefor-e kept alive in
teh institution by precepts and example;
and those trained in the school are
bringing things to pass.
They have added domestic science, ag-
Men’s Auxiliary Boards (male),
Stewardess Boards, Nos. 1 and
2, Auxiliary Board composed of
the leading women of the
church.
Services of the church are
instructive, interesting and
highly spiritual. The church
has a fine pi,pe organ and most
excellent choir, a polite set ot
ushers and a pastor who never
fails to interest his hearers.
A careful reading of the Pas
tor’s and Ushers’ cards will
show the up-to-date methods in
church work being used by the
present pastor.
REV W M. GLADDEN
Pastor of Trinity Methodist Church
Corner Bth and Taylor Streets.
Parsonage 731 Taylor Street. Phone 108-J
Inform him when you change your address.
Call him in case of sickness or trouble.
Enquire c'fnim concerning the church.
At Home till 10:30 a. m., and from 2 to 4 p. m.
daily.
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W. M. KELLY
riculture and other industrial features
which places them in great need of
funds for buildings and equipments. Help
given them will be wisely invested *md
a much needed encouragement for a
struggling people. The General Educa
tion Board of New Yoik donated sd/K>o
on the new building and the American
Baptist Home Mission Society pays them
annually on teachers’ salaries.
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PASTOR S CARD:
USHER’S CARD. Reverse fide same as pastor's card.
THE USHER BOARD ON BEHALF OF PAS
TOR, OFFICIALS AND CONGREGATION
WELCOME YOU
AT TRINITY. WORSHIP WITH US OFTEN
OI lie Lee. Chairman. Chas. Luke, Secretary
Clifford Boggs, Treasurer,
Corner Fifth and Calhoun St.
“AUGUSTA m ’914"
GEORGIA’S RECORD.
Georgia was first to rule rum from
the colony.
First to rule slavery from the col
ony.
First in the United States to estab
lish an orphan's asylum—Ebenezer.
First in America to trail the Span
ish tlag in the dust.