Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-03-04
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hotel ketpers, theater managers, and
others affected by the civil rights bill are
moving in behalf OF concerted action as to the
course TO be pursued to save their business
from injury. In Baltimore the hotel keepers
have had a meeting and decided to follow
the course TO be pursued by the principal
hotels i'm New York city. Should there be
any necessity, the accommodations will be
designated by the proprietOrs, and all who
are in hotel will receive the same fare, the
proprietors to regulate the location of rooms
&c, in the same manner as they have been
accustomed to DO. In New York il is ex-
pected test OF the matter will be made to-
day at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
In a conversation yesterday Bishop A. W
Wayman, Of the African NJ. +. church. and
Mr. Webb, cashier of the Baltimore branch
of the late Freedmen's Savings Bank, both
intelligent men, experienced in the needs of
their race, and both exerting considerable
influence with them, give their views freely
in reference TO the bill, the Sun states. Bishop
wsyman said the colored people have nu-
merous churches and schools of their own in
Baltimore, and, said he, .'they have their
own graveyarls too" AS to theaters and
restaurants, the good bishop did not care
about them at all, but he knows the colored
people are too well accommodated with
drinking places OF their own, and they have
very numerous public entertainments at
scores Of halls all over the city. Houses of
public entertainment kept by respectable
colored people are as plenty as the needs OF
the population demand, and no disposition
is manifested TO interfere with the white
people by respectable cOlored people. Neither
the bishop nor Mr.. Webb expressed any graf
ifcation at the passage of the bill, nor did
they state any objection to il. Both were of
opinion that the colored people could not be
elevated I'm the social scale by legal statute,
but must depend upon their personal worth
and endeavOr. They said that in a week if
the question vas not agitated by the white
people, IL would be forgotten in Baltimore
that there was civil rights bill. II any
overt acts are undertaken by colored people
there they would be by strangers or designing
politicians among the co,ored residents of
the city.
In New York the theater managers pro-
pose TO be guided by the advice of counsel
Some OF the hotel proprietors have also been
interviewed" upon the matter. At the
Fifth Avenue hotel, Mr.. Griswold said he
did not think that the bill would trouble the
New York hotel prOprietors. To the ques-
ton IL he would permit colored men to have
such rooms as they desired, he said he did
not allow his present guests to dictate to him
as to what portion OF the house they would
occupy; they were assigned such rooms as he
saw fit to give them, and if they were not
satisfied they were at perfect liberty 10 go
elsewhere. At the Grand Central H. l..
Powers, the lessee, was called upon, and in
reply 70 the question whether lie would en-
terrain colored guests, he said that he did
not think he woul1 be either honOred or
troubled with them. When asked IL he
would allow them to sit at the general table,
he said that the hotel was provided with
three dining rooms, and as he did not allow
any one TO dictate in his establishment he
could dispose Of eolOred guests as he saw fit,
and that if he saw fit 10 put any one in the
smallest dinirg-room he should do so.
The general impression given by the pro-
prietors was that probably all their rooms
would be occupied, or not in a condition TO
receive undesirable guests.