The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-28
PLAN TO
SEP ARATE RACES.
Committee Unanimously Recon-
mends ADOPTION Of Wonder
lchr Ordinance.
Way OPEN A NEW SECTION
Proposed to Annex Territory
Around Union University
for Colorcd People.

After an extended hearin. OF both
sides Of the question. tho Council
Committee on Ordinance, Charter and
Retorm last night by II unanimous
vote. recommended to the Council the
Fonderlehr race segrc CATION ordinance
While not restricting the ownership of
property, it provides that no white
person shall reside Oh any block the
majority of the residents OF which are
colored, and that no culorcd people
shall live on IL block where the ma
Jortty Of residents are white. Ser
wants and employees are excepted. The
paper does not affect those ut present
occupying homes in II neShborhood
OF the other color.
an amendment proposed at the in
stance Of Rev. Father lIanniyan cX-
empting charitable Institutions and re-
ltgious societies ana settlement work
crS from the provisions or the act was
rejected after II had been pointed out
that 1t would allow colored churches
| on white streets Father lIannigan
was assured that such exemptions as
We're necessary for the continuation
Of all reputable missions among col
| orcd people would be granted from
time to time.
| Mitchell Leads Opposition.
| John Mitchell Jr., president OF q
colored bank al Third AMI Clay streets.
! led a large delegation Of very respect
able colored citizens in opposition. The
affirmative side was III the main COM
! posed Of property owners on Clay
| Street. which seems to be the bone OF
contention.
Mitchell and his followers pointed
| out very clearly that the races were
already we'll segregated In Richmond.
and that ii had been best for both
| races that 1t had been so. but that the
| present area assigned TO colored pco-
| pic was not large enough, being the
| same AS in former years, despite the
| increase in negro population. while by
annexation and in other ways the
| white sections have been greatly en-
| lprgcd from time to time BY improve
| mcnt Of residential streets. Mitchell
| told of owning houses on Clay Street,
| rented through agents to white peo-
| pie and gave figures TO show the won
derful progress of his race. IT was
shown that there was no vacant prop
crty between Brook Avenue and Eighth
| street north Of Clay Street, that the
| overcrowdlng OF the negro section
was a menace to the health of the en-
tire city white and colorcd; and the
question was raised whether under the
ordinance. colored men now renting
and operating Broad Street stores
could renew their leases.
Clay Street the Fighting Ground.
| Several property owners spoke In
| favor of the ordinance, telling of the
| sudden depreciation In values in GER
tain sections whenever 1t was even.
reported that negro had bought
property Colonel Charles f. WinSo
told Of one instance on Linden Street
were number OF houses had been va
lot
to a negro, and Rev. MI. Burrcll told
Of conditions in Paramount where
there was a condition in the deed as to
making 1t a white settlement from the
time it was laid off,.
Most Of the petitioners. however,
we're residents OF Clay Street. on which
the negroes have recently acquired
church and a bank. and which has
seemed to many the natural develop
ment for the better class Of negroes.
Leigh street west Of Third having
changed from white to coored within
tho past few years. Colonel W'ngo
some section Of the city for the growth
or the negro race. and so prevent sud
den depreciation in property values
and the danger Of race clashes. While
exo.llent Impression on the commit
tee. an editorial he had published In
a negro newspaper was or different
eonr, nna the erect Of his remarks
when it was read By Clay Street
citizen
AS soon as the vote had been taken
Messrs Pollock and Vonderlehr con-
suited the City Attorney and asked
him to draw the preliminary papers
for. the appointment Of committee
ing a section in the vicinity OF the
virginia Union University. n colored
institution oil the Brook Turnpike
through which 1t is proposed that the
city open streets and make other I'M
provements to provide for what seems
clearly nccded-room for growth for
the overcrowded negro quarter: 1t
committee that under the ordinance
recommended Il club OF negroes. with
suffcient capital. miEht buy in the ma
.jorty OF any one block in the city. and
after taking possession vote out their
minority white neighhors. making any
block in any section, colored by vote
of majority Of the residents. The
was not the case: that colored men
might own property anywhere IN the
city. even on Monument Avenue, but
that under the law, even II they owned
the entire block. a colored person
could not move into and occuny house
In section altogether white.
The application OF. the Purity Ice
Cream Company for permission to
erect stable In an alley between Main
and Cary Jefferson and Madison
Streets was recommended for rejec-
tlon. on protest OF several Main street
citizens.
Noble Elected.
The Board Of Health last night elect