The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-06
NEGROES BARRED
 BY WHITE CITIZENS Fourth Warders of Atlanta Put
 Up the Bars NEGROES MUST MOVE
MOVE
Rsssident- Do Not Like Enero"chmens of Negro Property Owners and They Must Keep Out of Ger
 tain District


 teresting situation and one with not all together pleasant prospects, has devel- oped in Atlanta's Fourth ward, which contains the city's swell negro residence | section.
 For several years past the negro resi- dence section has been encroaching on that of the whites; negroes have bought property and moved into the same block with them and next door to them.
 Then there is the Morris Brown col lege, negro institution. sitting side by side with the Fourth ward public school a white school-and that has been a thorn in the side of the Fourth warders fer the longest.
 Finally they reached the point where they decided they would tolerate it no I longer and they formed the Fourth Ward Progressive club. which now numbers between 25o and 300 property owners liv- ing in the immediate vicinity of the negro encroachments, for no other purpose than that of restricting negro residences ip that part of the city
 Almost immediately upon Its organiza- ton the club drew line around the ter ritory which it proposes to conserve for white residents. Morris Brown college Is within these limits; so are the residences of a hundred or more negro property owners.
 But the club declares that no more shall come within the prescribed territory and that 1t will devote itself to the ultimate removal of those now located there. Its announced policy is to buy their property from them at what it cost them, but ul- timately go they must, is the edict
 HaIsey Buys House
 A negro named Halsey, few days ago, bought a house just over the line and was preparing to move into 1t. He was sent a warning not to do so, that lis presence in the house would not be tolerated He has not yet moved into it: whether he will make the attempt seems undecided.
 Bishop C. c. Smith, a northern negro, who presides over Morris Brown college, and whose ideas and teachings grate upon the southern whites, is charged with having told Haisey that he should have manhood enough to assert his rights. But Halsey seems to be in no hurry to try 1t.
 The report has angered the Fourth warders against Smith, and he is said to be on their blacklist"
 Cooperating with the Fourth Ward club. some 50 real estate agents have signed an agreement that they will neither sell nor rent property to negroes within the prescribed limits.
 The action of the Fourth warders Is said to have stirred up no little antagon- ism among a certain element of the ne- groes, though there are some of them who are willing to cooperate with the club and do all in their power to see that peaceable and amicable relations are maintained between the races.
 Crisis Is Expected
 That there is a possible crisis in the situation is indicated by the fact that the mayor and. city officials have held conference relative to it, and other con- ferences are said to be In prospect.
 The Fourth warders assert that they mean business; that they propose to carry their point. peaceably, if they can. but to carry their point
 If there should be clash, it would no doubt come through some negro attempt ing to move into house within the pre- seribed limits after he had been warned by sthe executive committee of the club not to do so.
 The encroachments of the negroes have had the result of lowering and keeping down the price of property in that sec tion of the city, and the Fourth warders
  of it.
 Crematory Question
 Atlanta thinks she has settled the prob lem of where to put the new crematory that is to be built with the proceeds of some of the bond money, but the latest indications are that council has "another think coming to it.
 There is no spot In the city which could De reasonably used for the estab- hot no mn been discussed. It has been finally To- cated in several of these spots, and then just as finally chased away from each of them.
 It has run the gauntlet of every ward in Atlanta, and each of them has taken a whack at 1t and driven 1t on. And as 1t has been chased from ward to ward, finding lodgment in none, until
 bright idea finally struck member of the council, and he suggested as solution of the long-vexed problem that the new crematory be put up right along side the old crematory, in the midst of triangle surrounded by railroad yards. and over "forinst' the gas tanks.
 What better place for two crematories than that where one has long fiourished unmolesting and unmolested?
 Protest Is Aroused
 So 1t was decided to put 1t there, but no sooner was the decision ahnouhceu than the First ward rose up in arms and declared 1t would not have the new ere matory anywhere within its limits.
 It made no difference that one was ale ready there, it made no difference that the present one Is, so far as can be seen, unobjectionable in that no offensive odors are spread from it. The First ward considered it had enough of the city's sanitary institutions, and said NIX" on the new crematory.
 Thus stands the crematory question to- day, and after council, too had found such a happy solution of the problem that had so long worried 1t.
 Perhaps council will stand doggedly to it's determination to put two crematories where one now stands.
 Perhaps. also. 1t will have hot fight in the courts before 1t succeeds tn carrying ont that determination.