The Washington times., 1912-05-22
WHAT WAS SAID
ON COLOR LINE
:. :. AND SALOONS
Colored Sections of the City
Oyerrun With Poorest
iE4 Class of Places.
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why the name and number should not
be given?
DR.. Childs--I know no reason.
The Chairman-Give the stenog-
rapher the number so that It will be in
the record.
Protests In Vain.
DR.. Childs- No 40 G street southwest,
] think. And when that license was
granted in the first instance, over and
above the protest, the man failed, be-
cause It was not needed there-because
the community could not support any
more than It had been supporting. The
business went into the hands of re-
ceivers. We fought II again. and yet
that other man has been granted a
license to the very same place, despite
the fact that the first mans business
went into the hands of receivers.
The color line is almost, II not ex-
actly, drawn in this liquor question.
The saloon is largely prevalent in the
colored sections, giving us practically
no protection. Take L street north
west, from Seventh street to Connecti-
cut avenue, where the white citizens
live, and 1 do not believe you will find
q single saloon Now, continue on l.
street, beginning at Connecticut avenue.
and going out to New Hampshire ave-
nue., a place where large number Of
colored people live, and scarcely any
white people at all, and, gentlemen. you
will see a saloon on every corner and in
the middle of the block.
Now, another instance where 1 feel
that the color line is drawn This very
place at 40 G street was under trans
fer, and certain white citizen had a
License for .s saloon at sixth and
is a white neighborhood, and a man
usually failed on Sixth and X, but usu-
allv- II they. fail in a white neighbor-
hSod, becagsse the white people know
what to doSzyou have got more MIND
than we, yoI have more sense than we
nave. you fAve all Of you the advan-
tageIthat 7ssloonkeeper failed in that
e 40 .. street. He sold and transferred
70 ancther man, who opened on G
!. street" and there was a saloon within
haIf a block of that very place"
DR.. c; II. Butler, pastor Of the Luth-
eran church, followed DR.. Childs and
corroborated DR.. Childs' testimony
Ninety In Couth Washington.
Following DR.. Butler the Rev. Walter
Brooks, Of the Nineteenth Street Baptist
Mhurch. followed, and he said:
am interested in my own people.
! have been in this community for
thirty years and I know where the
SALOONS are and how they affect people.
?, was In the midst Of a religious serv-
ice down on street, near. Four-and-
gospel arose in the audience and said !:
'hsre ss n this nnetx saGGR'
ninety mark you. just in that one little
end of Washington; just down there
N south Washington. There are only
all this District, and yet ninety saloons
where the people are poorest, and
where they are most dis posed to do
J1dse ivory soey C. &C. Ki%bs KGnbs al for nineteen
years Police Court Judge. said upon
this subject:
that can be issued in the District Of
Columbia at least. Licenses ought not
to be issued for the residence districts,
I parts of the city. it is more true of
those poorer classes who live in the
/ southwest. There ought not to be a
! license issued anywhere in the residence
{ tation of the number in those poorer
| sections. I have counted, think in one
block, seven at one time right down
! here"
; Senator Works-No: they have as
many as ten in one block.
+. Judge Kimball-Yes; they ought not to
be permitted. These men that I speak
! Of came to me and said that they did
not want to drink, that they were fight
Ing against 1t as no one else knew,
! They told their story to me. They knew
! that I sympathized with them, and they
/ told me that every time they passed an
| ering and overcame that desire to stoI
! drinking. The more saloons you have
! on a block the more temptations you
have for these poor men, who are
that terrible temptation to overcome
Georgetown Conditions.
! Georgetown is apparently the victim
I{afr tOt
of the witnesses, Frank Lyon. spoke
J Of the conditions in that vicinity as
follows:
''Mr. Chairman and gentlemen If the
committee please, the reason I appear
here is that I am a resident of Alexan-
dria county. Probably you gentlemen
know what county that is. That is the
lumbia Immediately west. 1t Is that
portion of the District of Columbia that
was retroceded in 1916. and 1t is now
known as Alexandria county, Va.
'I do not speak about that. I do
not speak from the Washington point
OF view. except that NJ street Is the
artery that leads into Alexandria
county, over the bridge at Thirty
saloons there, and probably these
gentlemen who seem to be interested
In this matter can give me some in
formation on that think there are at
and NJ streets"
The chairman-I will say that I have
a letter here this morning that is un-
signed which makes this statement:
"Georgetown Is a disgrace in point OF
saloons. On M street from Rock Creek
to the .Aqueduct bridge there are
Mr.. Lyon-I simply come here as a
citizen of the county to protest agains
that condition. think 1t is most dis
graceful condition-the most disfracefu
condition ever saw on NJ street or
Saturday nights. Some of these gentle
men here may think it is. all right:
do not know; suppose 1t depends upor
the point of view.
Senator Works-I wish you would tel
us, from your observations, what the
conditions are on Saturday nights or OF
other nights.
Mr.. Lyon-On Saturday night it Il
packed and jammed there. The GROVE
Is made up from those coming owe
from the county and people from sec
tions of the city adjoining NJ street
suppose half the saloons around Their
Keep the Completion Beautiful.
NadIne Face Pogvde,
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