The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-03
SEGREG OF NEGROES.
An Ex.Jersey mans Defence Of the lBai
timOre Plan.

To THE EDITOR or THE SrS-SG: kindly
permit native Of New Jersey now a resi-
dent Of and property owner In Baltimore
10 oier some reflections on the West segre-
CATION ordinance now under consider alton
hv 'h. Baltimore, CIV council. having for
its t'l" An ordnance for preserving
order. securing property values and pro
noting hes gr.at interests and insIring tho
good government of Baltimore C,ty
The West ordinance. drawn by Mr. Milton
Dashieli, "A member ~ IN. Maryland bar. Is
an homes SINGER. and non-par'i-an attempt
Ia prevent N" future depreciation Of prop
cry Nail.es ia this ci'v caused by the in
Na-,on ~ whit. residential SECTIONS uy
colOr"d persons and To- restrain and dit
mint-h personal and social CONTACT he
tween Vi" race. aS far as possible by
statutory enactment which does not dis
criminaIr On accom- Of rae. or crlor'
and IN What = believed TO be a legal orderly
aud constitutional manner
Having lived in Baltimore for the last four
teen wears and being Northern in s.n,i-
nl-n' and feeling. think ! may be c"psid-
cred measlrabiv free from What in N. North
- characterized a. southern prejudice
Tow ard the negro race therefore assert
a for fact beyond successful contradiction
that IN no CITY ~ ia. nit-i States having
a large and increasing negro population l.
th-rr less hatred malice or M will toward rhr
more Here IN" great whit. race. proi!d
IT - distinguished ancestry and spirit of
tolaraIton. - nothing II not conservative
and uuliRr cities ~ decided pro- southern
sentiment which restrain personal and
social cpGia"'- b-iNe. the races nv so
allied public opinion. or the unvri'ren
Law which means force and intlmdat on
toward IN" negro. our people u ot course
Tnran the peop" Of Maryland have recourse
~ La
the perfection of reason and deem II IN.
only adequate remedy for the conditions
" hiyh confront them
III. negro invasion IN Bal'imOr. - prin-
Ciplily AZ u north and norrhVr~rsrlv dirar-
zion comprising the most beautiful mos,
exclusive and ros' valuable residential
800 tons About tho year lssS steadily but
InsIdiously the negro began 10 invade
Whre residential sections Pennsylvania
svenG- segnning NJ Franklin stree, in tho
downtown district and running north
about rventy-siS blocks 20 the intersection
81 North avenue and Druid Iiill avenue.
beginning a. Paca street In the dow ntovn
district and running north about twenty
blocks 10 the intersection of North avcnu.
we'll as NJ blocks lying he' Neen Penn-yl-
yAnia and Druid hin avenues and contain
ing substantially huil' three story houses.
ar. nov IN the exclusive possession Of tho
negroes They ar. now beginning to- m
wade NC' ullnh street. Madison avenue.
F'taW plac" and Linden avenue which run
PARALLEL VI'h Pennsylvania and Druid Hill
avenues and North avenue. which runs
east and west. - IN" present barrier against
the further INVASION II the negroes and
the entrances tp Druid Hill Park the most
hcautiful natural park in IN. world are al
'he terminus of PcnnSyvanis. Druid HUI
and Madison avenues. Iutaw place and
Mount Royal avenue. ~ NAV b" readily
seen and appreciated thai m" whit. property
owners and residents 81 baltimore kno~
the evil and demand legal ramedv
II in-teaI ~ having N The borough-
NJ Manhattan and The BronN populn
ton Of T. .si6 'olored people United states
r"n-n- NJ is"' occupying a. residences
: $50 hol~r- and oNninR but hfty-thres
ri them. New YORK could have u ,olorrh
population Of s-.usi police census Bal.
itmore city. 1910 occupying a. residences
IA p7s houses Of which 7os were owned nv
thsn and the aforesaid roior.d population
should ~ IN tho face III whtrr public ssnti-
men, and move INTO and begin to occupy
"a residence" IN. houses upOn Fifth
sixth seventh and Eighth avenues from
about West 1wenfv-fhird street to within a
few blocks Of West Fifty-ninth street or
the entrance tn central Park. then I sub
rnI that knit" and fork. bo'tl" aud cork
-ymholi"aI oi hospitality and conviviality.
would no longer he the great white way"
~ spell New YORK. and Father Knick-
erhock.- instead Of csnsurin0 would sX-
tend tho hand of sympathy and good fsl-
low-hip 10 Lord Baltimore and more in
sorrow than IN anger -av Nv lord me-
thinks Won ar" brYHened with a very high
tnx rate and cannot hut observe that YOU
have fallen behind cleveland in population.
bu, touc hing this matter Of the segregation
~ IN. CoIored race. vrriiy u ~ . condition
witch oonfronts you. not u theory"
WILLIAM q MtN,pfsr
BALTIMORE. December