The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-06
DYING HARD.
Baltimore Passing Threush n Terrtble Ordeal
-.iI ,olored Persons Admitted In This Onr.o

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The Baltimore city railroad companies have
put cars on the tracks In which colored people
are admitted, in obedience to q recent decision of
the courts compelling them either to do this or to
allow negroes to ride in all cars on the routes.
On Monday, cars with the following placard
appeared upon the streets at regular Intervals
'FColored Persons Admitted in this Car"
The Baltimore american says:-To the utter
astonishment of those persons who predicted
that the cars set apart for the colored persons
would be run without passengers, they yesterday
traversed our streets with about the same quota
of passengers as were wont to patronize them
before. One of our reporters spent an hour on
the corner of Baltimore and Eutaw streets OBJ
serving the result of the first days experiment.
There were as many white passengers in the
cars to which colored people were admitted as
in the other cars. There were not more than
four colored persons in any one of the labelled
cars, aud in most of them there were only one
or two, but the full complement of passengers
was made up by white people. In very few in
stances did passengers hesitate TO take the first
car that came along, utterly regardless and pos
sibly unconscious Of the red-lettered label.
1t was astonishing during the early portion of
yesterday morning to watch the antics of those
few persons who objected to ride in the cars de-
voted to the colored people. On Madison avenue
ladies and gentlemen would carefully peer into
the cars and If no person OF color was there
ensconced, in they would jump, but secretly
praying that they might not be disturbed by the
entrance of a colored man, woman, or child.
One lady, who had entered a car at the corner of
Madison and Biddle streets, CHANGED to seat her
self beside man whose complexion indicated
that he was not pure Caucasian. The lady
squirmed for while, and at last, being unable
to restrain her passion almost screamed into the
mans ear, ''Why don't you get into the car de-
voted to persons of your color2"
The maR fairly bounded from his seat, SO ter
rife was the sereech given, and for a moment
seemed to be lost in thought regarding the
sanity of the lady. He finally managed to say,
"Am ] not in the right ?" to which she replied,
mo, you're not; colored persons ride in spe-
cial car to-day, and this car is for white per-
sons" The affrighted man now regained his
composure, and said, MADAM, / am q resident
of Charleston, South Carolina, and can boast of
as good family, perhaps, as you can, and per-
haps if you knew my name, you would be more
careful in future how you find fault with persons
whose compilations a shade darker than
yours" The lady called upon the conductor to
stop the car and quilted it with feelings expe-
rienced by person who has committed a mean
action and been exposed.
Several of the conductors, when they had
been informed that their cars had been set apart
for the accommodation of colored persons, re-
fused to take charge of them, and resigned their
positions. Their situations did not remain idle
many minutes, as there are plenty of men on
hand who are happy to get an opportunity of
earning $21 per week, and who did not object
to collect fare from a man because his COM
plexion did not resemble Parian marble.