Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-12-06
THE PASSING THRONG.

The spirit that moved a Mr.. Sullivan to
90 to the police headquarters Thanksgiving
day and cause to be released from prison
all persons by the name of Sullivan, charged
with minor offenses, showed most COM
mendabc spirit and surely one of broth
crly love- | read the account in the morn
ing paper the next day and wondered to my
self how many Eprahams did likewise.
Sullivan at lagre was not necessarily clan
insh in wanting all of the Sulli-
vans locked up to likewise be at large, but
"birds of a feather will flock together"
I'm the United States of North America all
citizens thereof are or should be one and the
same but to me it is God like for kinsmen
to not forget each other in times Of trouble
and Distress 1t would give me much pleas
ure to shake the hand Of the thoughtful
Mr.. Sullivan who made others happy as we'll
as himself.
Last Tuesday morning [ witnessed the
former white owners of a splendid eight
room modern residence on Beacon Hill turn
over the keys to it's new owner, Burr Will
lams, and he then showed me through the
house which he is soon to occupy. Along
with the house he also purchased the most
of the furniture of the same thus ms king
it possible for him to occupy the same almost
Immediately. 1t is sitely with view of
the Sound to the West and Lake Washing
ton and the Cascade mountains to the East
After looking over this house and premises
he took me block further and showed me
another residence even more stely and just
as cOmmodious as the first and that too he
held the papers for and I said to him, you re
alright "Mister Niger" you re alright.
After Williams had dumped me out of
his car | continued to hot foot it on to the
city and came dangerously close to giving
myself credit for much of the real estate
buying that many of the colored citizens
have been doing in recent months, for had
| not preached such a mOdus procedure in
Caytons Weekly, week in and week out,
year in and year out, but then I came to
myself and said, it was doubtless case of
have to, and then I thanked Mr.. Case of
Have to for the work he had done in moving
these black folks to invest their earnings in
things substantial These two properties
cost their purchaser about $4,000 and it
is like having that much money in govern
ment bonds and. believe me, [ would pre-
fer such an investment a hundred times
over to L. s. bonds.
At least one colored person reads Cay
tons Weekly for did not John F. Cragwell
tell me about an article he had read in the
paper last Saturday about G. j. Smith and
how he appreciated the same, and all be-
cause he was well acquainted Mr.. Smith, and
he could verify testify to all the article re-
lated The editor hereof met Mr. Cragwell
in Seattle when he first arrived and he,
Cragwell was employed in a barber shop,
where now stands the Alaska block and |
have reasons to believe that Mr.. Smith fire.
quently went to his place for hirsuitace
accommodations. The old timers of Seattle,
are rapidly going off into innocuous des-
itude by being lost in the thousands Of new
corners that throng the streets of the new
city and they hear of each other with JOY
our remembrances.
Perhaps Bob Dixon was not physically
able to be present at the half century Seat
tie celebration last Tuesday evening. but l
know his heart was with those old pioneers