Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-30
wArERL LOO NEGRO WANTS LARGE
SUM II he MOVES FROM
NE,eHsoRHoop.
RESIDENTS PETITION
COUNCIL FOR RELIEF
coIored Man Buys Lot in Fine Resi-
Dental Addition, Moves 6oxea'
Thereon For Home, and Arouses Ire
Of Nsishbors = Black Man Wants
81 .265 q. Inducsment to Move Out.

Waterloo, Aug. SV.--1I Is1neS
70 draw the "color line" successfully IN
Waterloo, if the proposition made yes
terday to people living in Hillside ad'
d,tion by E. /. Fields, colored. is oc'
eepted. Fields leaped into the spot
hight about two months ago when ne
Ipurchased a lot in the addition and
y1ocated an old abandoned boxcar upon
w A few days later he moved MS
! hmily into the car and prepared to pe
teal neighborly. so
White residents in the addition arose
lIr mighty wrath at this invasion OF
Y their addition and petitioned the coun-
ell to GUST the son Of Ham and MS IAN.
i,y. The document was signed oy
4,uen+y-seven residents and set iorth
yarions and sundry reasons why they
wanted the negro barred from that sec
ton of the city. Among the various
excuse. were that the negro's snack
wa. a violation Of the city nre naza, , !.
laws. and that his presence there "ou,u
have a tendency to lower properly va.
ues. The addition became QUITE n.y.
terical and implored the counch 10 e'"o
action.
Council SIoe0SSPPSN'
Members Of the council looked upon
the petition with dubious eyes. lneIo
,,,ara no laws that prohibited any one
e.e,,, living in the city provided he was
low abiding. And besides, the fire COM
,nittee had given Fields permission TO
Move the old box car onto the lot.
! Members of the committee, however
I q ccnsed Fields Of securing their per-
mission by false pretenses, but that
rallied to help the situation to any APP
r,rec,able extent. They had blundered.
90 they said, and rather than blunder
again by trying to GUST Fields, the
council washed their hands of the
uhole affair, and told the clerk to bury
tha document among the musty files IN
his Office.
That was six weeks or more ago and
practically everyone aside from those
residing in the addition, had forgot
ten the matter. True there was a
ripple Of agitation among the council
men later but that did not bring any
results.
Fields Has a Proposition.
Yesterday Fields walked into a news
paper office and presented a document
-nf his own for the consideration OF
the twenty-seven white residents III
hillside addition, and for the reading
public in general.
Fields says he is willing to turn
over all his rights in the property and
remove from the addition for a GER
tain cash consideration, namely that
each one of the twenty-seven signers
contribute $45 or a total of 1926.
mot that am on pins to sell" ex-
plains Fields in his communication,
but Just to see you people satisfied
am s.i11os. willing to say that know
there is not one of you who would
regret the $45"
Show Way Out, He Says.
Fields says no one has approached
him offering money if he would move,
so in order to show the white residents
how to draw the "color line" he is
offering the above mentioned PROPOSE
ton. Failure on the part of the twen-
ty-seven signers to take advantage Of
his offer will convince him that his
presence in the addition Is more ac-
ceptable than out Of it, Fields says.
He is making the offer to give ease
to the hearts Of the people who object
to his presence in the settlement"
In the slang Of the street, tits now
up to the white folks in Hillside