Telegram-herald., 1890-10-18

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q Rsbresentzsivs ScuddsF Il VII be
seen that the Ey4rts zirls have L4ken
strong Eknz - their fstAsT profession
Three Il the I've sons are also iasyers
Chzrles marriages TIE p4trIm0nial estate.
Prescott Is Al Episcopal clergy EazE.
while tie other three. Allen. sherman
and Maxwell. are IA thelF f2LLers l2w
hrn.
hal started oUt 70 write II W 2shing-
ton street scenes, and here an gossip
ing about Wsshingt0n's big families.
as = matter " fast the largest families
ia Washington ars and probably always
win be unknown % fame. They sre Az
rioGn. AT the census Office II is said the
colored population Of the District os
Columbia Is constantly gaining on the
white population. and no w0adsr. Take
a peep IA some Of the alleys of rhe Capi-
tai City. and SC the nyriads OF pickanin-
MES running about therein. Where they
al come from. where they all sleep. who
cares for them, whence comes their food
and raiment, meager as these articles
are, combine 20 form oue OF the myster-
les u life. 4 Washington policeman
told ne ho knew OF one of these alleys ia
which. IN a single block. there were $50
children by actual count.
This seems incredible, but IL must be
relnemb bered that the building OF alley
houses is one Of the most profitable in
vasaaeuts capital can find in Washing
ton. The houses are little coops Of brick,
about fifteen feet wide and generally
three stories high. Each story NAV
have as tenants an entire family, with
al the way from two 70 dozen children
in each family Imagine the appear
ance of an alley flanked by two rows Of
tenant houses thus peOpled, the thorough
fare itself being no more than twenty
feet wide. SO great a nuisance has this
business Of peophng alleys with colored
families become IN Washington that a
western senator has introduced a bill
forbidding the erection Of houses in al
leys less than forty feet in width. II
viii not be likely 70 pass. however. for
among the men who have invested money
in these houses, and who are getting
dividends of Is 10 20 per cent year
thereon, are a number of United States
senator's.
Speaking Of the colored people Of
Washington reminds me Of a novel sort
of contest that is constantly going OH in
this city. On the street cars about one
half the passengers are colored and about
one-half white. The population of the
District Of Columbia is only one-third
colored, but the street railway people say
a colored man or woman will ride twice
as often as white man or woman.
-Four out OF five persons you see on
the sidewalks are white; on the street
cars fully one-half, and think more,
are colored. Just why the colored peo-
pie give up so much mora of their money
TO the street railways than their white
neighbors no one appears TO know, but
at a guess l should say it is because the
colored people have constitutional an
tipathy to walking. At any rate, there
are so many passengers Of both colors
that the cars are nearly always crowded.
and the men have to get up and give
L ~. i. l. IL.
war of races comes in.
In Washington a white man Will not
rise and give his seat TO a colored wom-
F an. In retaliation colored men refuse to
rise and give their seats to white wom-
en-. Thus it often happens that one will
see all the seats in car occupied by
white women and blsck men. In all my
experience In Washington | have never
seen but three white men rise and give
seats TO colored women, and in one Of
/ these cases the woman was very old and
/ infirm, and in the other two cases they
were young and pretty and stylishly
dressed. II all the colored women in
Washington were of the working class it
would not be such delicate matter, but
many of them are well bred, handsome
ly dressed, live in fine houses, and are
IN every way as much worthy of respect
and courtesy as white women.
But what is one TO doS AS to women
Of his own color he makes no discr1mi-
nation. he rises 10 give seat to any
white woman, young or old, rich or
poor. But it Is obvious that he does not
want 70 do this ss TO colored women.
/ There are few white men who will carry
gallantry 20 far as 70 give their places to
black washerwomen and kitchen maids
One feels tempted 70 show more courtesy
to the colored women who are evidently
well bred and Of good station, but dis
examinations are always dangerous and
bothersome. and the white men conclude.
therefore, that they will not discrimi-
nate. but will sit while colored women
stand
The husbands and brothers Of the col
ored women resent this hotly, and claim
that a gentleman who will discriminate
against lady simply because she is
dark or black is not gentleman At all.
In retaliation. therefore, these colored
men doggedly Sit while white ladies' are
standing. and scenes Of this description
occasionally lead % trouble. especially
when a southern senator OF Congressman
Is unable TO find seat for the ladies' whom
+ ne is escorting. Wales wEIJxAS.
A Fafr Presuraptfon.