Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-07-20

are showing some class. Already DR.. David
L. Cardwell, b. f. Tut and S. H. Stone
have purchased summer homes across the
bay and the former two have already moved
on their properties for the ensuing sum
mer His drawbacks and handicaps to the
contrary Notwithstanding the cOlored man
is rapidly adopting the habits and customs
OF his brother in white. Many Of them in
Seattle are making much money out Of
their respective businesses and professions
and whether eXtravagant or otherwise they
are purchasing such things as will add to
their bodily comfort and that too whether
it takes much or little money with which
to dO So 1t is safe to say that in the city
OF Seattle the colored folk have over $780,
600 invested in automobiles SO common
has the garage become among colored fam
lilies that it no longer excites comment
and now the summer home fad has broken
out among them and it's end can not be
forseen. Recently John Roberts, who is
IN the auto express business, purchased a
thirty acre tract near Cherry Valley and
has already begun to improve the same and
within year hopes to have some live
stock on his country or summer home.
Once upon a time the cOlOred man in
Seattle was compelled to spend a great
deal OF time hunting job, but at present
the jobs have a long and weary chase try
ing to find an idle cOlored man to beg him
to take it, organized labor to the contrary
Notwithstanding. AS has been repeatedly
said in these columns hundreds Of colored
men now employed on the Seattle
waterfront at wages in comparison to what
the same men were compelled to work for
some two years ago, almost fabulous Many
perhaps the most Of them, are investing the
greater part Of their earnings in either pay
ing for property previously acquired or
in new real estate contracts. Think about
it, one day this week. the manager of
public garage offered colored man 800
per month to do the janitor work of the
establishment, to which he laconically re-
marked: EDO you think I am throwing
my time away?' He knew he could 90
to the waterfront and earn anywhere from
$3.50 to 5000 per month and why work
for half that amount? AS has been pre-
viousy pointed out by Cayton's Weekly
it is unfortunate that a great majority of
those who earn these big wages do not live
in the suburbs where they could raise al
most everything they consume on their
tables the year round. There is just as
much in saving money as in making money.
Even the churches are able to raise thOus-
ands of dollars where as many houndred a
couple of years ago would have been looked
upon as phenomenal.
There is disposition in Seattle among
some of the cOlored men and women at
the head Of affairs to completely ignore the
''press" in their public functions, which
seems to be a rather shortsighted policy.
Those who arranged the Kelly Miller lee
ture in Seattle took pains to extensively
advertise the lecture in the two papers
published by colored men, but neither of
the publishers was given an opportunity to
meet the professor, which even he must
have been sadly disappointed over such a
shortsighted policy. Public men know that
the press is the only medium Of reaching
the public pulse. Whether those in charge
of public functions are friendly or I'M
friendly to the publishers of papers and
periodicals if they would fully succeed they
should take the press and the pulpit into