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LIFE'S LITTLE INCIDENTS DEPICTED BY
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BALTIMORE
Whites Object to Living Next Door to Colored Folks, anil Attempt at Segregation l-nuV
in Shooting City Council Passes an Ordinance Prohibiting Bl;ick to Move !
Into Blocks Where White Persons Are in the Majorit !
BALTIMHUi: l. perturbed lif
in use colored folks Insist upon
living ni'Xt to while folks. As
a remit several persons have
been shot, heads have been denied by
dornkks of assorted sizes, and hun
dreds, of windows luie been smashed.
The trouble Is not over yet. To be
sure, the City Councils have passed and
the Mayor has signed an ordinance
which declares that negroes shall not
move Into a block where whites are In
a majority, and that the whites must
refrain from taking up residence In a
block having more than 5U per cent,
eoloied population. Hut the blacks have
been assured thai this ordinance is In
valid and intend to test It in the I'nlted
States Supreme Court.
Then attain, Morgan College wants
to locate out In Mount Washington.
Morgan College In a negro Institute do
ing such good work that Andrew Car
negie agreed to contribute $.i0,000
toward a fund for Its enlargement.
The Motor's
Never has the French urmy made so great a use of motor traction as at the manoeuvres recently concluded,
says the "Graphic," London. It was on this, and not on the aeroplane, that attention was concentrated.
The motor was put to an exhaustive test in many ways, the most remarkable being its use in drawing the
new French heavy Held guns. These guns, which are intended to reply to the 105 mm. and 130 mm.
Krupp guns of the German army, were drawn by specially constructed motor trectors of 35 horse-power,
as seen in the above picture of a heavy artillery weapon on the road. The motors can draw a heavy sun
along a good road at the rate of nearly 10 miles an hour.
UPSET OVER THE INVASION OF WHITE BLOCKS BY NEGRO TENANTS
Mount Washington is a high class su
burban development, net door neighbor
to Holand Park, which Is one of the
most unusual and beautiful residence
tracts in the nation. Mount Washing
ton is doing its best to keep the college
out. ICecently at a macs meeting its
Inhabitants adopted resolutions against
the invasion. This shows the conserva
tism of Mount Washington folks be
cause downtown In Italtlmore when a
negro family moved Into a white block
the Inhabitants there adopted brick
bats. A third element In the trouble was
the killing of (Jeorge Murphy " Sep
tember is. Murphy was a chauffeur of
Charlcci Guth, a candy manufacturer
and he spoke freely about the way his
people were being treated, lie had
somo words with (luth and was shot
dead. Cuth said that .Murphy tried to
hit him with an uxo and tlio Coroner's
Jury quickly gave a Verdict of self-defence.
Hack of the broad question of segre
gation Is the real estate situation In
Part in Modern Warfare
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THE SUN,
l'..i.thiioie An ancient sn,m of ground
tents encouiaged the building of row
alltr low of two story houses. in top
of tills hundred" of acres of gioiind
on t.ic beautiful bills walling I'altimore
u.'ie -tit up Into building lots ami
mil, piiii h.i.-ei s getting Inducements
for putting up cottages. This building
lmslac'is has In en going on for.a number
of . mis, and there nn tho-e who ray
Haltuuore is overbuilt i uie tiling is
certain, the exodus to the suburb - where
the cottages stand and to t.ie iii.tr
suburbs where houses stand In serried
ranks, just as they do In Philadelphia,
has emptied many hundreds of nsl
deuces in the older districts of tlie city
on tile '.lesnpeake.
Now, there being no Influx of popula
tion to till these homes, the owners and
eal i slate men miii-'Iii tenants. Smii"
p.illantlu oplst reasoned that It would
be prolltable and humane to take the
blacks out of the alleys and side streets,
where they were congested, and put
them Into the houses vacated by the
whites. 8o the .tiling began.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER
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It is a ie il estate maxim In P.allimore '
that .oii lo-e no money In renting a
house to a negro so long tis joti collect
in ailvame. With such a simple system
in ue owners of vacant property began
to till those cheap and deserted houses
with negroes. At first the whites
giumbled moderately; as more blacks
iiivadid while territory the piotest in
cieasid In volume and finally when
land speeiilatois paid bonuses to colored
people to move into White blocks so that
the allies of whole rows of houses
ilillld be knocked to sllllt llel cells a
mighty roar went up. That's how .-onie
.-pecul.itnis woikeil It. It is on record
t'.liit Ilegioes were paid to move Into a ,
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fllll u til- Sllblllbs tile clel'k or eell
tbi l.iboii , cmild pur ha.-e a bnii.-e In
an absolutely protected lieu iii.oi iiooii
by pa,lng $10 cash and a mouth. So
many white tenants moved out. Mor
blacks came In. Prices tumbled and
i ;e "poor man who was unfortunate
enough to own the bouse in which lie
liel was practically mined. He couldn't
move and he saw himself surrounded by
negio families, lie Is the man who
during the past year has been helping
to destroy the cobblestone streets, using
the granite as weapons of offence, and
loinpelllng the taxpayers to put down
asphalt streets.
A few years nro Ilaltlmore began to
understand that the negro question was
no Joke, so a segregation law was
passed. Il was weak and lasted only a
brief spell. Tlirti another was tried.
This was better, but when It reached
the Court of Appeals, the highest Ju
dicial body in the State, the Judges re
luctantly declared It worthless.
"Iteluctnntly" Is the right word, for in
handing down their opinion they sug
gested to City Council a plan for a law
that would stop the black Invasion and
at the same timo be watertight. The
Court of Appeals rendered Its decision
early in the summer and when the
Councils mot a few days ago the new
segregation law was passed. Mayor
Preston signed It speedily:
Kor ten days preceding the passage
of the law the colored population, reali
zing what was coming, did some tall
hustling to get I t under the wire. In
this they were aided and ubetUd by
some property owners. The whites met
the onslaught right Joyfully and not a
night passed without Its light.
The moment a dray slowed up In
front of an empty house In a white
nelKhborhod and it became certain that
the incoming family was colored ti com
mittee visited the newcomers. This
delegation explained how iitiplcasunt the
community would he for continued resi
dence and urged that the furniture be
put hack on the wagon. Invariably the
negroes refused to comply. Then the
delegation would retain that it was au
thorized on behalf of the whites to offer
n purse of say 1100 to hasten depar
ture. This was convincing to some hut
wus spurned by many.
If the delegation went away unsuc
cessful the same night saw trouble, At
tucks were made both from Inn front
and leur and even from the roofs.
26, 1913.
JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG
Wheie there wen- two colored familii s
to be dislodged the cloud drew the po
lice to one lesldence ly a feint While
the teal attio l. was made upon the sec
olid lloll-o.
Neatly all of the scrapping took place
in northwest Ualtinioie. and Snicker
and Mosher slice. became the cellttes.
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The feats of the Swiss troops among the snows of the Alps are famous, and the above nhotourapu tnmi
the "Graphic," London, shows how they achieve their marches in the mountains. Recently 5S - MM A
carried out one of the most daring military mountain marches ever undertaken. The men stun J "l" jj
the Jungfrau Joch, which is 11,000 feet above sea level, on a march along the Aletsch Glaciei. Ik1 f"
niteen mucb ionj?. in mis case mere was a snowstorm and a dense mist during part cf the in.
the men, in parties of five roped together and forming a column nearly three mi'es long, stu
reached the.r destination at Eggishorn after a long day's tramp. There are many peri s in such
as this, but not a single man fell out, a proof of the hardihood which has made these troops so much
Twice while the whites were employed
in bombardment the negroes sent battle
gangs against their foes. Two negroes,
one woman and one girl, were hit by
bullets In different rows, a few police
men had their heads cracked and con
siderable money was collected in lines.
It got rather dangerous one day and
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siitiou with a line of his tin
only residents to enter. Out- ! '
turned back. It has lieen in u '
since the new segregation
adopted, but the whites are t
any chances and are wati I
vacant piece of property.
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