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JANUARY · I 9 I 5 trying to get the railroad authorities to agree to the name, ''Baldwin Farms.3' We are looking forward anxiously to seeing you and Mrs. WiDcox here next month. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington TLpS Con. BTW Papers DLC. From Emmett Jay Scott Birmingham Ala Zany 2~5 Remained in conference last night with officials of both institutions until very late hour following my telephone to you at Atlanta. Our friends here including Mason and Tulane fee! it most important that this situation be saved. I am assured by the white capitalists whom ~ mentioned last night he wiD pass upon collateral and guard any resources provided for this purpose. He Is personally protecting situation until can hear from New York but is under great pressure with conditions here such as ~ Ascribed last night. ~ mentioned what has ham pened to one of the largest in district. It would permanently discourage our people here to have this threatened calamity occur. The effect would be very far reaching. Telegraph Dr Mason what can be done. Emmett,J Scott TWSr Con. 80 BOW Papers DLC. Addressed to BOW ''Care Mr Samuel Woolverton, Hanover Natl Bank, New York.'' ~ On Jan. a5, 19~5, preliminary steps were undertaken to merge the two black financial institutions in Birmingham, Ulysses G. Mason?s Alabama Penny Savings Bank of Birmingham. with branches in Montgomery, Selma, and Anniston, and _ , . . . .. , . . ~ · · . . · . .. . . the Prudential ~avmgs Dank. Scott Fact gone to ~lrmlngnam to ala the nears OI the two banks in completing the merger and saving themselves from bankruptcy. (BTW to Mason, Jan. 25, 19~,, Con. 94~, BTW Papers, DLC.) 2 The black bank received a temporary loan from Tliomas CSctavlus ~mltn (~859-~9~5), vice-president of the Binningh~m Trust and Savings Co. In the promotional leaflet the bank prepared to encourage long-term investment, it also reported that William G. Willcox, the Tuskegee trustee and New York capitalist, ''after looking into the matter quite carefully has agreed to take $~o,ooo. of such a loan, if the remaining $30,000. can be secured.'' (Typescript, undated, Con. 8~, BTW Papers, DLC.) 235