The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-04-03
RICHARDSON ASKED TO ANNOUNCE AS DELEGATE AT LARGE
Offer Fashionable
Home to Negroes;
Neighbors Object

Brooklyn. N. Y. April 1.-well-
known residents of the Park Slope
on St Johns place between 9TH ave-
nue. and Sth avenues. are up in arms
today over an attempt on the part
Of Mrs. Annie Allen to sell her home
at POI st. Johns place to Negroes
Following police raid at that ad-
dress, the charge being that II was
being run as disorderly house. the
neighbors hoped that Mrs Allen. who
was arrested in the raid, would sell
Mrs. Allen obliged them, but Id a
quite unexpected fashion. This morn
ing, when occupants of the nearby
houses peered from their windows,
they saw card in the front window
OF 2O1. 1t read:
For sale. to Colored Tenants only
The immensity of the offense in the
eyes OF the neighbors can be realized
only in view of the peculiar quality
from the 1905 to the 24Os, are listed
in the society register with almost
catalogue or demonstrating regularity.
On that block lives the Rev. T. Bond
Holland, nn, and, rector of St. Johns Episco-
Is the home of Theophilus Olena.
Across from Mr.. Olena lives DR.. w.
II. Bates. Others within a stones
throw of 2O1 are William Dietz. 204
u
107, Assistant District Attorney Louis
Goldstein, T. w. Pierce. Next door
lives John 7. Tomlinson, late of Tex
as
The neighbors took action immed-
lately. Learning that A. Peace and
Co. at SS5 Flatbush ave, had engi-
neered the sale of the house to Mrs.
Allen last fall and that the firm had
been retained by her as real estate
phone buzzling. Those who did not
buzz the phone went around to see
Mr.. Peace Also, The Eagle tele-
phone buzzed.
Evidently Mrs. Allen placed the
"Colored Tenants Wanted sign in
her window without giving hint or
knowledge to Mr.. Peace. Mr.. Peace
assured his callers that it was ex-
clusively her own idea. He knew
raid last week.
He was told that complaint was
made to the police that men were
visiting the house at irregular hours,
day and night. Neighbors across the
street claimed that they saw through
the windows scenes that should be
in no exclusive neighborhood. Ac-
'lordingly, Detectives Quigley and
the house. arrested Mrs. Allen on a
charge of keeping a disorderly house
and placed her under $500 bail.
Mr.. Peace assured his visitors that
the "Colored Tenants Wanted Sign
could have no significance. No Colored
family, he said. would move into
that neighborhood. The visitors evil
IDENTIFY considered this small comfort.
as his assurance left only one al
ternative-that Mrs. Allen would re-
tain her residence in the st. Johns
place block. However, he assured
them also that he would investigate
the matter and settle 1t amicably for
all concerned
Action being forestalled here, sug-
gestions were being made to help
Mrs. Allen get rid of the house. One
suggestion was that the neighbors
secure a price from Mrs. Allen and
then aid her in finding buyer.
When Mrs. Allen was seen today.
there was a policeman on duty to
scan visitors to the house until Mrs.
Allen has faced her charge in court.
Questioned about the sign on her
window, she replied that she had
put it there and there it would stay.
Why Colored tenants only?" she
,'Tli sell to anybody that's got the
money" she replied.
Then why did you specify Colored
tenants?"
THE neighbors claim you have done
this to spite them because you be-
lieve that they reported you to the
"That is also my own business"
What Is your price?'
Eighteen thousand dollars;
Assurance that New York City has
no law to draw color line in any
section of the city has convinced the
neighbors that the problem must be
left to diplomacy. manipulated py
Mr.. Peace.