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SPECIAL fiipr^BEß 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 kinds. ' " v ' •■- V “.-.j —u i.s.uj.l. 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. * ... ' ' ' ' i it ■ " T?, '* - •"* f;>, j .**»#>■/ >r ‘-y - JkjapjSfb : ">? * -> ; 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. ArU. . ‘v****®*®^ ' -- -- .■ jj 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. % * , ' . x..y^yj| 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.