Brooklyn Eagle

And newspapers noted that usually you would just resolve this by talking to other members of the committee and you'd come to a consensus.

But the Brooklyn Daily Eagle said, like, no, they ganged up and forced Ward McAllister to resign.

And Ward McAllister was pretty upset about this.

Right, because people didn't typically kick Ward McAllister off of anything.

it seems from this picture that they must be getting rich rapidly they are obtaining possession of fine residential property they want to live in fine houses the same as white folks with money doubtless too the same as white folks they want to have good things which money will buy judged by any test other than color they seem to be very desirable citizens other papers like the bridgeport telegram sent danger if they are deprived of the right to build homes where they please which is accorded to the most degraded white man who lands upon these shores provided people will sell land to him and robbed of the right to become skilled workmen their situation will be a much graver one than that from which the civil war delivered them dr henry moskowitz in the new york evening post points to the russian analogy and the boston globe also insists on the failure of the ghetto idea segregation has never been a very successful solution of the race problem as may be seen in the experience of european cities with ghettos and in russia's attempt to keep jews confined with certain pales the baltimore city council however by a piece of special pleading in its report tries to justify the ordinance by saying that its underlying purpose is the maintenance of peace and good order and the avoidance of friction and irritation between the two races the ordinance aims to prevent the whites from becoming a disturbing element to the blacks and likewise to prevent the negroes from becoming a disturbing element to the whites ahem the new york journal calls the experiment dangerous it is true that the establishment of homes of colored people in neighborhoods hitherto unfrequented by them causes antagonism and may produce trouble and disturb real estate values but it is also true that it is dangerous unjust and unworthy of this century to revive the obsolete ghetto system denying to certain human beings the right to live where they please and where they can we suppose that a white man who owns a house has a legal right to sell it to a negro if he pleases and we suppose that the highest court in the country will sustain the right of a colored man to live in his own home subject to the tax laws and regulations of his neighborhood probably the plan to compel a hundred thousand colored people in baltimore to live all together in one neighborhood could not legally be enforced on the legal side of the matter charles j bonaparte formerly united states attorney general says to a baltimore sun reporter i have always understood however that it was a lawful use of private property to sell or rent one's house for a proper purpose to an orderly person of whatever race or color without regard to the wishes or the complexion of those who live next door If this be true, then the well-known Radicke case in 49th Maryland, to say nothing of other authorities, would seem to show clearly that if our always wise mayor and city council should undertake to interfere in such a matter, they could, and would, be politely advised to mind their own business.

The Brooklyn Eagle, the Nyack Star, and the Dover Democrat call attention to the Lee Sing case, which voided an ordinance restricting the residence of a Chinaman.

The New York Sun says on the property values issue, the baltimore ordinance cannot be supported on the ground that it is intended to protect one race against the indignities invariably experienced whenever it is compelled to force its presence upon another race in the pursuit of education business and pleasure or in the exercise of political rights its frank purpose is to protect the property interests of the stronger race in the opinion of the city council of baltimore real estate values in certain avenues have depreciated thirty to fifty per cent owing to the presence of negro residents but if the sapient council were to study the recent census showing of baltimore it would no doubt find that other causes have been at work in bringing about the depreciation in any event the proposed ordinance involves a principle which the courts are not likely to accept the manchester union says it would seem as if the negroes themselves would tire of making purchases which immediately sink in value from a third to one-half and it is somewhat peculiar that in philadelphia and washington there has been no tendency to anything of the kind either as to the encroachment upon the territory of the whites or a depreciation of the property occupied by the negroes the macon telegraph sees a chance for the negro to make money through such segregation and to be proud of their ghettos but the southwestern christian advocate a colored paper says it is almost certain that wherever there is a negro quarter there will be little or no city improvement notwithstanding negroes pay the same rate of taxes the streets on which they live are seldom paved poorly lighted and any public improvements that might be made are always last in coming to them thousands of negroes make an effort not to buy within the white district but so near that district that they may be able to get some of the city improvements there is also a measure of protection as well as a measure of convenience when negroes live on the better streets the negro has a just protest against the sort of treatment he is forced to endure notwithstanding he is a taxpayer it may be alleged that he is not a heavy taxpayer and this we grant but there are sections of cities sparsely settled which are improved at the behest of speculators while negro residents are compelled to live in discomfiture and inconvenience because of the lack of improvement dr hughes of baltimore speaking for colored citizens said it means the stopping of self-respecting law-abiding colored citizens in their efforts to secure homes and plant themselves in communities as taxpayers rental values will advance since there will be no outlet for an already congested population they must stay where they are and in order to do so pay any price which an unscrupulous money-grabber may demand with the high cost of foodstuffs and the low scale of wages for unskilled labor the passage of the west ordinance points to the creation of a pauper element in our city rather than a thrifty law-abiding colored citizenship and the pauper element of any city or community makes the more prosperous pay in one way or another for their support in your ordinance you involve the bread of my people recently i stood in pier street and overheard this conversation a colored woman was asked did you get the place yes i got it and started to work when the lady asked me where i lived and when i told her she said she could not have any one in her house who came from that street she said there was too much disease there it remained for that woman to move with the west ordinance in force where could she go we have already a crowded colored population for her to move out meant for some one else to move in it affects not only the employed but the employer and the only way out is for the man who hires a servant to go to the additional expense of renting or buying a house for his servants in more healthy quarters which will aggravate the already troublesome help problem the philadelphia ledger adds helplessly how the negro is going to be helped to rise under these circumstances is one of the inscrutable problems of our time and generation his own unaided efforts are blocked everywhere by caste restrictions and discriminations The New York Globe says, "...the Negro has been told to smile and look pleasant as his political rights have been taken from him.

The argument has been that if he did not make a fuss over voting, the race prejudice of his white fellow citizen would abate, that he would be given a freer chance to work, to acquire property, to become of material weight in the community." but north as well as south doors of industry are being shut against the negro the economic tragedy of the educated negro who aspires to good things is pitiful he finds either that personal effort and merit do not count or that they do not count much in many places it is against the negro who is not willing to stay down in the mire that antipathy blazes the most brightly

All right.

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we suppose that a white man who owns a house has a legal right to sell it to a negro if he pleases and we suppose that the highest court in the country will sustain the right of a colored man to live in his own home subject to the tax laws and regulations of his neighborhood probably the plan to compel a hundred thousand colored people in baltimore to live all together in one neighborhood could not legally be enforced on the legal side of the matter charles j bonaparte formerly united states attorney general says to a baltimore sun reporter i have always understood however that it was a lawful use of private property to sell or rent one's house for a proper purpose to an orderly person of whatever race or color without regard to the wishes or the complexion of those who live next door If this be true, then the well-known Radicke case in 49th Maryland, to say nothing of other authorities, would seem to show clearly that if our always wise mayor and city council should undertake to interfere in such a matter, they could, and would, be politely advised to mind their own business.

The Brooklyn Eagle, the Nyack Star, and the Dover Democrat call attention to the Lee Sing case, which voided an ordinance restricting the residence of a Chinaman.

The New York Sun says on the property values issue, the baltimore ordinance cannot be supported on the ground that it is intended to protect one race against the indignities invariably experienced whenever it is compelled to force its presence upon another race in the pursuit of education business and pleasure or in the exercise of political rights its frank purpose is to protect the property interests of the stronger race in the opinion of the city council of baltimore real estate values in certain avenues have depreciated thirty to fifty per cent owing to the presence of negro residents but if the sapient council were to study the recent census showing of baltimore it would no doubt find that other causes have been at work in bringing about the depreciation in any event the proposed ordinance involves a principle which the courts are not likely to accept the manchester union says it would seem as if the negroes themselves would tire of making purchases which immediately sink in value from a third to one-half and it is somewhat peculiar that in philadelphia and washington there has been no tendency to anything of the kind either as to the encroachment upon the territory of the whites or a depreciation of the property occupied by the negroes the macon telegraph sees a chance for the negro to make money through such segregation and to be proud of their ghettos but the southwestern christian advocate a colored paper says it is almost certain that wherever there is a negro quarter there will be little or no city improvement notwithstanding negroes pay the same rate of taxes the streets on which they live are seldom paved poorly lighted and any public improvements that might be made are always last in coming to them thousands of negroes make an effort not to buy within the white district but so near that district that they may be able to get some of the city improvements there is also a measure of protection as well as a measure of convenience when negroes live on the better streets The Negro has a just protest against the sort of treatment he is forced to endure, notwithstanding he is a taxpayer.

It may be alleged that he is not a heavy taxpayer, and this we grant, but there are sections of cities sparsely settled which are improved at the behest of speculators while Negro residents are compelled to live in discomfiture and inconvenience because of the lack of improvement.

Yeah.

And Bruce Craig finds records in the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper where, among other things, Charles Feltman says, quote, sausages must go.

He tries to loop together powerful people and government to limit or restrict these little sausage sellers just because it's cutting into his giant business empire on Coney Island.

Yeah.

As far as we know, the quiz show is an American invention.

It appears that the first one on the air was a show on the radio around 1924 called Brooklyn Daily Eagle Quiz on Current Events.

[laughs]

Catchy.

Rolls right off the tongue.

This is Adam Nedeff, author, historian, and researcher for the National Archives of Game Show History.

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was a newspaper in New York, and they had these events called Current Events Bees.

These events were kind of like a spelling bee for topical issues.

Last week we talked about penalties and how those evolved.

But here the issue is, so Allison Danzig was a top sports writer, wrote for the Brooklyn Eagle and New York Times for like 45 years.

But he was probably best known for tennis, but he covered a lot of football too.

And He wrote an article that caught my eye.

Is it really so different? White Law Read had a point of view and you knew it.

And for Walt Whitman, once very much a reporter like Reed for the Brooklyn Eagle, he also reports on the Civil War.

But his reporting is so much about the feelings, the emotion.

He lets the world pass through him like a good student of Emerson.

In 1934, the Dodgers got him.

And to quote the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper, and their archives are online, by the way, and it's really fun to read their sports pages from the 1890s.

The 1890s sports pages of the Brooklyn Eagle are great.

So everybody, that's your homework.

Go do that.

That's just ridiculous.

I think upstairs I have a... full-page enlargement of Brooklyn Eagle has an eight-column double-deck headline quoting Charles Lindbergh.

We want nothing to do with Hitler's war, and let's sign peace for him.

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