The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-08-28
SATURDAY, AUGUST %, 1880.
THE POWER OF PREJUDICE.

III Treatment of Ladies at Long Branch-A
wealthy Manufacturers Family InsuIted-
SIR Brandt,s Discrimination to Try SEX
neriments ''-Thomas &. HIPS Intention TO
TRY One-Wm. T.. GiIbert's Treatment of
roIored Customers-Colored People Asked
n starve at the Grand Encampment-The
sentinel Mans Experience and What He
Can't Get.
Last week a couple of lady residents
Of a Southern city, who had been
spending a portion of the summer at
one of the mammoth Long Branch
hotels, stopped over in this city for
few DAYS to visit some friends. They
stated that while they had been
treated with every courtesy by the
hotel proprietor and their fellow
guests, they had, nevertheless, found
the manifestations of a bitter color
prejudice on the part Of the under
lines, so marked and intense that
they we're forced to leave the place.
And an event which occurred few
DAYS after proved that the only rea-
son why they had been accommodated
at all, was the failure of the hotel
clerk to at first discover that they
we're not of Simon Pure Caucasian
origin.
A wealthy rubber manufacturer of
Central New York had been spending
the maj portion of the summer at
one of the Saratoga Hotels. Last
season they spent at Atlantic City,
and about the first of this month they
decided to go there again for the
balance Of the season. Owing to the
sudden illness of one of the daugh-
ters they we're detained in Saratoga
until last week, when it was deter
mined to go to Long Branch instead
of Atlantic City. Rooms were en-
gagged by telegraph at a first-class
hotel, and the coachman sent ahead
with the horses and carriages His
horses were stabbed and taken care
Of but when the family arrived, and
it was discovered that they were col
ored people, the hotel manager not
only refused to allow them to remain
in his house over night, but asserted
that they had swindled him, because
the telegraph dispatch had not con-
tanned the information that they were
colored people. And an eminent
New York lawyer, after accepting a
retainer of $4,000 and making a
thorough examination into the merits
Of the case, on Thursday gave it as
his opinion that the Civil Rights bill
was SO full of imperfections that he
did not believe that it afforded a
means Of redress.
THE SENTINEL MANS EXPERIENCE.
Last summer the editor of The
oEyrTNEL was suffering from a severe
lmdlsposltlon, as a remedy for which
his physician recommended surf bath
ing Beng poor man, he was I'M
able to board at the seashore, but
made arrangements to go on half a
dozen excursions to Long Branch
during the season, and purchased
tickets IN advance for three of them.
lie never used but one of the tickets.
he was utterly unable to hire bath
n9 suit, OF the use of bath house,
anywhere on the beach, and in conse-
quence OF very earnest and energetic
attempt to disprove the insolent as
Sertlon of bath house keeper that
ne was ga niger" he came back so
weak and battered up that for time
us prospects were good for taking
patn IN the river Jordan, preparatory
70 taxing up an everlasting residence
III happy place, where Long Branch
Patll house keepers are not admitted.
EVEN IN A BEER SALOON.
Albert Brandt, proprietor of "The
Exchange Hotel and Lunch Room"
at No. % East Hanover street, this
guy absolutely refuses to serve colored
.ne1 With lunch or beer at the tables
n ms par room. He says that he
!, Will not try experiments. And vet
.ne Board of Excise grants license to
allS man to keep saloon for public
IaVehFenence. Fortunately for thirsty
Ano-Amencans, no other saloon keep
t 81 IN tins city is guilty of such con
'enphble meanness.
CHRISTIAN PREJUDICE.
Mr. Thomas c. Hill, confectioner
ailu caterer, at No II North Greene
Slfeet' politely waits upon colored
People who come into his store and
slen requests them never to come
a ' as "the girls do not like to
a%It OF colored people,. Mr.. Hill is
cl Geacon and leading member of the
linton Avenue Baptist Church. He
y paS formerly deacon of the Central
papust Church, and the Sunday
I 81 teacher of THE SENTINEL, man
IRON his lips we learned that of one
A. I,oou We're created all the nations of