The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-23
HOSPITABLE HILTON.
HOW HE PROTECTED THE PROPERTY
HE REPRESENTS BY HIS VIM
DICTIyE ACTION.
Prominent Firms ting Their BUS
mess Connection with A. II. stewart
a. CO.-Mr. seligman's Letters.

Especial Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.)
NEW YORK, June 10, 1877.-The publication
by the Times Of the fact of Joseph Seligman
being denied admission to the Grand Union
Hotel at Saratoga, as a guest, has created o
profound excitement in this city. The most
bitter hostility is exhibited to Judge Hilton
by the Jewish population, and he is con-
demned without stint or delicacy,. but the
Jews are not the only ones excited Every
one who keeps hotel or boarding house, and
every one who boards either in the city or
elsewhere, are Interested as in no previous
race question in the social world.
Dispatches from Saratoga Indicate the eX-
element there to be very great. Mr.. Seig-
man was not the only one who has been re-
fused rooms at the Grand Union. Indeed,
Mr. Hellman son-in-law of Mr.. Seligman,
was first refused, and several prominent mer-
chants and @ Judge have been denied. 1t is
plainly a race matter, so far as Judge Hilton
is concerned. except that he would make
some and probably many exceptions. Mr..
Segman seems to be a man who is genera uy
disiked by his Jewish brethren, and they aye
disposed to let him fight his own battles.
The Times has interviews with the various
hotel managers of Saratoga, Long Branch,
New York, Philadelphia and other places.
The general position taken is decidedly. op-
posed to that of Judge Hilton, although there
are few hotels in this city where Jewish GUS
tom is openly discouraged on grounds SINH
l6E 10 DnOSe stated Dy Juu9e ftllGOU Iii yGSU6T-
days Times. Others discriminate very close
ly, but are careful not to openly base such
discrimination on race grounds. The proprie-
tors of the Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga
state their case very plainly, and base their
action suuarely on the demands of their GUS
toners They desire a different class of Gus
toners than that which the Jewish people
bring, and, therefore, they Decline as rule,
to receive the latter.
The St James and the Albermarle, of this
,lc,ta tinII ba
those Of the Grand Union, at Saratoga, and
the managers state them as frankly.
Edward Lauterbach, attorney for Mr.. Sc
ligman, makes a vigorous. reply to Judge
business methods of Mr. Stewards successor,
and compares him with Mr.. Selgman in pub
lie and social life, to the disadvantage, of
course of Judge Hilton. He also states that
one hundred Jewish merchants withdrew
their accounts yesterday from the house of
A. r. Stewart & Co.. and he estimates the loss
of trade which this detection is likely to be
to the firm at from S3, 100000 to $5,000,000 @
year. Mr.. Seligman's remedy, he says, is in
the courts, under the civil rights bill, which
prescribes q fine of $500 and imprisonment of
from one month to year for such action as
that of the Grand Union Hotel.
Mr. Laulerbach says Of Seligman that he is
really the head of the Jewish people in this
the board of education; he is the president of
the Rapid Transit Company; he is a leading
director in many of the best banks in this
city, a leading member Of the Republican
party and vice president Of the Union League
Club, into which Judge Hilton has vainly
sought admittance He is also prominent
member of the Chamber Of Commerce. When
Gen. Grant was here the Union League, with
the Century and others of the best clubs,
rendered him receptions, but Mr.. Seligmans;
Delmonico supper was the only one accepted
from the whole splendid list.
Mr.. Hilton states his ground with great
clearness tonight. He says: "The step
have taken has been forced upon me after
long deliberation, and | believe that every
proprietor of a tirst-class summer hotel will
hail with Joy the break which this precedent
has made for them. | know that scores of
these proprietors would long ago have done
Just what have done if they had dared to do
right, and had been independent enough finan-
long time been insisting should be taken. 1t
is not personal controversy. The true fOun-
dation OF it is the principle of the exclusion
of certain class Of Jews from first-class
summer hotels.
Mr. Hilton denies Mr.. Lauterbach's state
ment about firms withdrawing their trade
from Stewards, and says but one such firm
has closed it's accounts. eve got a letter to-
day from city merchant, saying that he
could no longer deal with a house that was
reviving the middle ages. His name is Elm
STEIN and he does business on Church street
He promptly closed his aeeount-it amounted
to S2 ~.
He then continues: FShould the Seligman
Jews be excluded from certain first-class
hotels? | say emphatically yes. Not at all
because he is q Hebrew, but because he is not
wanted. Who don't want him? Those peo-
ple who support the hotels and for whose es-
pecial benefit the hotels are built and con-
Quoted. What is there wrong about that?
Nothing. Hebrews are not prosecuted there
is no religious standard raised, hotels run for
O particular class OF patrons must conform in
b,
judices of these patrons or go down, and such
hotels are in their very nature exclusive.
A hotel that charges 81 q day proscribes the
people who can not pay 81 q day, but they do
not complain--they go elsewhere; Four
dollar hotels don't want them, and they go
to the two-dollar hotels, which do, and that
ends it, But here is the Selgman Jew, who
represents nothing that is standard Hebrew.
He is to the Hebrew what the shyster is to the
law profession. He is the ''sheene' He has
made money, and he must advertise it in his
person. He is of low origin, and his instincts
are all of the gutter.
'He comes to the Grand Union, big with
himself and little with everybody else In the
decent world, planks down his cash with his
royal order, and having never seen respecta-
Bile food, he can't get enough to eat unless he
gorges down his impractical throat six mealsa
day. People won't go to hotels where the
Seligman Jew is admitted, and hotels, if they
would thrive, must keep out those who would
the Seligman Jew makes such a fuss because
people don't want his society, and makes such
a noise to force himself where he is unwel-
come instead of going elsewhere, proves him
to be just what described him"
Among those refused accommodation at the
Grand Union Hotel are Marcus Goldman, q
broker living on Madison Avenue; Louis
Josephthal, wholesale manufacturer, the
well known tobacconist OF Pearl street.
Another case was that of the Hon. John Kock,
ex-justice of the Fifth District Court, who is
well known in the best Jewish society. AS
early as four or five weeks ago Judge Koch,
who spent last season and several other sum
mers at the Grand Union Hotel, called upon
Mr.. Cain at A. T. Stewards store, to make
arrangements for securing accommodation,
for himself and family. Mr.. Cain informed
the Judge that he could have his old apart
ments, and on the latter expressing the wish
to occupy a more desirable suit of apart
ments, Mr. Cain said that he would see about
it the moment he got to Saratoga. Judge
Koch never received any communication from
Mr.. Cain. OF those who have withdrawn
business from Stewart & Co are the following
Menstadter Bros, of San Francisco, on
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