Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-17
PLANTATION MANNERS IN
BOSTON.
A COlOred General Refused a
Room at the Revere House.

BosToN, May 12.-Much indigna-
ton has been stirred up among the
colored people Of this city by the
alleged refusal. at the Revere House,
of a room for the occupancy of Gen.
Robert Small, who arrived here to day
on account of his color. Yesterday
the committee of colored men, ap-
pointed by the Shaw Guard Veteran
Associates, to receive and provide
accommodations for the General,
called at the Revere House and en-
gagged in advance a room for him.
To-day, when the General and party
arrived at the hotel, they were told
that the house was undergoing repairs
that many rooms were being painted,
and that there was no room vacant for
the General. The party then went to
the Quincy House, where it was ac-
commodated. The committeeman
who made the arrangements for the
room at the Revere House says he
engaged a room and board
at four dollars per day, and that the
clerk made a memorandum on a card
and put it in the rack, assigning
room No. Ii, and, in answer to q ques-
ton said that it would be all right"
The committee arrived first with some
Of Small's baggage, which, the mem
bers claim, was taken to the room
engaged. Nothing was said to them
about no room being ready for Small,
but soon afterward, when Small ar
rived in another carriage, they were
informed that he could not be accom-
modated. They say that on this an
nouncement they demanded the lug
gage, and had to wait some little time
until it could be brought from where
it had been taken. General Small
asked the clerk If he had not promised
the committee a room, and the clerk
said yes, but that he found that he
could notacconmodate him on account
of the house being upside down. Cen
eral Small said, "You won't take me
because of my color" The clerk re-
piled, I'VE are painting"
AT the Revere House to night there
is a number of rooms being renovated,
and No. 10 is certainly unfit for occu-
pancy, and looks as if it had been in
that condition several days. The
clerk states that he never assigned O
room for General Small's use; that in
fact they never do assign a room
ahead; that those ordering rooms in
advance have TO take their chances
and that the room he expected t
give General Small, was not vacated
this morning, as they expected il
would be. He further said that wheI
the party arrived, the room clerk wal
up stairs, and only the cashier, who
knew nothing whatever about the
rooms, was at the desks, and this il
why the committee was not informed
Immediately. The proprietors DEM
General Small's discrimination OF
account of color, and stat
that they we're obliged to disap
point several other gentlemen, ole
customers at the house, who requires
rooms at the same time. 1t could no
be ascertained at the Revere Hous
who took the Generals baggage no
where it was taken. The clerk say
positively that it was not carried t
any room, but knows nothing furthe
about it. General Small views tn
matter c~omplacently, and admits Their
is reasonable doubt that his first i'm
preston in the matter may have bee
erroneous. Some OF the more excita
BILE members Of the committee talk Q
a suit under the civil rights bill, bu
at a battalion meeting of the SHAY
Guards tonight no action was take
on the subject. the whole matter, i
Difference to General ShaW's wishes
being postpOned.