The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1914-11-20
Great PROGRESS
IN CALIFORNIA | !.
Plenty Of Business In the
Lite Town Of Waits.
CHANCE FOR YOUNe PEOPLE

Largely Inhabited BY Southern Folk
Makes Remarkable Showing Along,
Many Lines OF industry-Many Own
Their Own Homes.
Los Angeles. The town Of Watts. III,
the vicinity Of Los Angp.es. has an
energetic. industrious rOlOred Iopula !
tiOn numbering Something like taH
The majority Of these people cam.
from the south. purchasing theii hOme>'
by degrees after having Secured EN-
ploy ynent In l.Os Angeles. Th.,ir pref 1
ereime for U suburban home with its
possibility Of truck farming. pUultr.
aud cattle raising wis the underlyins
motive for their choice Of Wutts as a.
place Of resideMe. Consequently ther.
ARE u gOOdly number Of rOl0red farm
ers who own thriving raH'hes that net
them y considerable incOme. says
ElOisp Bibb Thompson In the Los An
g-l-s Tribune.
There are also janitors. carpenters
bricknasOns. furniture dealers. grtR'ery
dealers and one real estate ugpnt The,
latter. R. e.. Patton. In said t. b.. d0inp
u thriving business. having Offices In
Watts. Los Angeles and In Chicago /
There In also foundry owned by John
IMvis. who mOlds hinges for bungalow,
dOOrs Mr. Davis IL alsO an inventor.
haS Ing rrt~ntly got out Q patent Oh
plumbing rings p. & vi
ssl,x, A, rsy.,.,S <.,lc~cA SAnaso- Il, r,,- n,t
secondhand furniture. james Sea'R
b found on Main street. opfw,slte the
city hall. Mr. Sea.s came to CalifOr
mia about ten years ago with little o.
no capital. His energy and persistence
are shown In the fact that be now
owns the building in whih his store
II iOcated and haH increased bis stock
from few hundred dollars t0 severaI
thousand dollars and built up his busl
ness to such an extent that hired AZ
sistance IN needed.
The local banks are also patronized
By the rOIOred people Of Watts. most
Of whom own their own homes. and
few have valuable holdings In Los
Angeles In localities where real estate
In rapidly growing In value These
people support two churhes and are
erecting n third. which promises to d.
credit to their prosperous appearance
The Watts Independent league Ia com
ps,srd Of thirty.ive eOlOred men. who
0rg,l nized for the purpose. of looking
after the municipal. political and %
cial interests Of their neighbOrs These
men. all Of whom are property owners
contribute largely to kn'nI charities
giving to both individuals and institu
tiOiin.
The colOred youth of Watts arp found
In the Compton high MhOoi. where
they remain for the most part mntil
they have completed the required
rOIIrsp Of study
Likewise the people of Boyle
Heights are worthy Of c0nsidprat tiOn
Boyle Heights. n part Ut lADs Angeles.
war laid out By George Hansen almost
century after the founding Ut ebr
city ut l.os Angeles BY the Slmniards
II wns named after an freshman. An
drew Boyle. who owned great pOr
tiOn Ut that iosality. which ne planted
to gr,ls.S. building up ~ time u suc
cessful wine biisintss twenty years
after the fOrma ton Of Boyle Heights
the rOlOrpd people bpgaD to take mp
residence there. very few AT first
gradually increasing as time Irlssed
until the northeast section was almost
wiiolly inhabited BY them. as II In at
present. t..
Many took advantage ON their ar
rival Of the low r0st Ut land and pur
chased much valuable property. IA. for
instance. Moses Stapier. one of the
oldest settlers. who twenty three years
ng0 im,ight considerable property Oh
Hay street. which he sOld recently tn
great advantage flp also bought the
city block extending from Snvnunab
to Evergreen street. which hr still
OWNS The houses ON this land bring
him In comfortable revenue
W Coleman. another cO!Ored resi-
dent Of BOyie Heights. also has se
cured much property. the totn, vaIua
don Of which n estimated at x3I,nh
This property consists of i've houses
OH New Jersey street. one house on
Michigan avenue and q sixteen room
dat In I,roceSs of construction ON IA.
vannah street. Clarence B Coleman.
the son Of J W. Coleman. has an auto
and wagon delivery business known ~
the Boyle Heights express. established
In isH. which makes q Speciality Of
moving. packing. shipping and storing