The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-08-09

body-diamonds flash from immaculate
shirt fl ]nts, while the fema e contingent
dress in the finest fabrics. And how
they all gamble! They bet on anything
and would stake dollars on either horse
running neck and neck fifty feet from
the flag. There is nothing too good in
the grand or boxes, and but for the fact
that the visitor knows the place is for the
public, the impression would prevail
that it was entirely for the colored
brothers benefit. Some of the hotels
object to him. but they say they are pow
erless to keep him out. saw a gentle
man from Atlanta enter restaurant the
other day with his family They had
nearly finished dinner, when, in walked
fiashily dressed negro youth, as black
as a coal. He took a seat opposite the
gentlemen, and tossing his buzz-saw hat
on the back of his head, sat there await
ing the approach OF the waiter The
latter was plucky little woman, and she
didn't want the negro there. Going up
to him she asked:
"What is it you want?"
"a cup of coffee and some eggs on
toast" replied the boy
"They will cost you three dollars"
= 'Let me see the bill of fare?''
"We have. none"
"I'il repclt you for this, and the dis
appointed youngster got up and strobe
out, about the most indignant mortal
you ever saw.
That's the only way we can get rid of
them," she remarked to the Atlanta
man. II knew you were from the south,
and your patronage is worth more than
his insignificant order. Besides, we
have the right to charge what we please
from any one, l knew you would leave
if l served the negro, so I ran him out
that way
1t was only yesterday that Mrs. Potter
Palmer, together with number of other
notable American ladies and gentlemen
sat down at the same festal board with
Fred Douglass, and the Chicago papers
spoke of the Dinner and the negro's pres
ence simply as a matter of fact, Mr..
Douglass being the toast of the occasion.
This incident, unnotlced here, could not
have taken place south of the Ohio river
without some unsavOry comment. Fred
Douglass as probably the greatest man
of his race and is really a~grand old man
and is still power in the land.
Phe Douglass banquet episode recalls
one of per contra suggestiveness, which
happened at one of the big inaugural
ceremonial days dnring the opening of
the worlds fair. A Kentucky colonel,
who was a commissioner from his state,
was to ride in carriage on this occasion.
Just before the procession started he was
met by the marshal of the day, Chica-
go man, who recognizing the delicacy of
the situation, made the following ap.
prOach to the Kentuckian:
"Ah! good morning, Colonel. hope
yoL are feeling well on this historic day
and, by-the-way-ah-yOu see, we
want to start pretty soon and wished
to suggest that under the circumstances
or rather to ask if it would be agreea-
BILE for you to be seated in carriage
with Mr.. Douglass-the Hon. Frederick
Douglass, you know?"
The Kentuckian, with that suave,
frank and deucedly candid manner of
his breeding, answered: Certainly, sir
certainly, sir-if he is to be the driver
or footman, have no objections whatev-
er sir-none whatever, sir"
This incident did not happen to get in
to the newspapers at the time. Other
wise that Kentucky colonel would have
been roasted by such journals as the
Evening Post and Inter-Ocean, two
sheets which delight in abusing south
erners an6 slandering the south.
l. E. ORCHARD.