Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-11-29

nara TO say, hello Jim. yet | absolutely
failed and instead said, lam exceedingly
glad to see you Mr. Hoge, and he forgot for
minute the millions of simOleans he now
has at his command, and grabbed my hand,
Just as he did, when he directed the des-
TIMES Of the p. I. or when he and l met
to talk over the ACCESSIBILITY of sending Doc
Ames and H. B. Rawson to the legislature,
and l convinced him they were O. X. It
was during the Mckinley campaign that l
met him the most as he was the president
and [ secretary of the Republican State Ed-
tOrial Association, and, believe me, there
was no political gathering, banquets or
party confabs that my seat was not re-
served by the side of President Hoge and
he leaned heavily on Mr.. Secretary for the
detail work. Tt was this same James D.
IIoge who made it possible for the Seattle
Republican all insignificant weekly publica-
ton, whose destinies I directed, to bloom
into a daily paper over night and become
in an hour thereafter one of the official or
CANS Of the city Of Seattle-those were the
good old days. Lucky dog that Jim Hoge.
Fortune has favored him and he now flies so
high that he won't come back It'll the 18th
Of July' using a street slang, but our
lines lead in different directions and SO
much so that he only has time to bow as
he passes On this recent occasion he stop
ped to extend sympathy for my recent be-
reaevment and then talked for minute
Of chow are you getting on" He leaves
for Europe in the near future and it may
be years before I will again say dozen
words to him. A great old world is this.
One of the more or less exclusive white
residential sections Of Seattle was thrown
into mental spinal miningitis the other day
on account of a Japanese family purchas-
ing residence therein, and that too despite
the fact the Japanese family is U. S. college
bred. One or more indignation meetings
have been held, at which the most of the
white resdenters were present, and took
the pledge they would not sell to Japanese.
Now there is some method in this madness,
but not sufficient to justify the Incorporate
language, that was INDUCED in by some Of
the speakers. That the colonizing of any dis
tinct class in any one section or community
in this country depreciates the value of said
property so far as the dominant class is
concerned goes without saying and I sus-
pect the Japanese would oppose that as
much as the white citizens. But so few
Japanese are able or are willing to pay the
price for such homes that the residents are
foolish, IN my OPINION, to take alarm be-
cause one, two or even few Japanese
families move into their immediate neighbour
hoods. If it's the depreciation Of the prop
erty that is causing the alarm then get your
price from some Japanese and move some
where else. I would not want to buy real
estate for speculative purposes in an eX-
elusive community of Japanese, Chinese,
Italian or even colored if you please, but
for a home, my neighbors, so long as they
did not disturb me, and were not public
nuisances, would give me little or no con-
Germ. For home for myself the eXclu-
sive white residential districts do not APP
peal to me and all because the price is pro-
hibitive. Some time ago | thought seriously
of buying home and soon after I reached
that conclusion a lady living in the Mt
Baker district called me up and talked sale
to me. From the description she gave Of
her property it must have been an ideal
place and she admitted she was no longer
able to maintain such sumptious quarters.