The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-05-31
''HUB' NEWS AND GOSSIP
Real Cause for a Storm Of Popular
indignation.
CONFESSION OF PRES WHITNEY.
Removal of Superintendent Doogue Un-
expectsd-what Il Means to be n Har-
ward Football PIayer-Don't Judge a
Man by His Looks.

a. Is as senseless as the wall of disappointed
Office seeker, but just now there is real
cause for howl The pride of Boston Is
its public garden and common. and the
particular JOY is the beautiful horal dis
play in the former. Superintendent
Doogue, with his heart In the work, has
exceled the attempts of like officials in
different cities and won for himself and
the city an enviable reputation. This year
he started out as usual, and for the past
two weeks our people have enjoyed tulip
show of remarkable beauty. Eyes have
feasted on the scene of splendor and re-
qrets have been heard that the glory was
fast fading away. Then came the shock
that has stirred up all classes OF people
Some one discovered that Superintendent
Doogue had been legislated out of office or
rather that his Office had been legislated
out of existence and that the public
garden and common must pass into the
control Of the park commission. Nobody
appears TO know why or for what reason
the blow was aimed, but IL was deadly
enc and cannot be undone now. The gen.
eral court was appealed to, but refused 20
remedy the matter and the edict must
stand.
Doogue must go, unless he Is em ployed
by the commissioners, but while he re-
mains his reign will be brilliant one, for
the program of the summer as he has
planned it was never equalled. The tup
hips 20 this week, but in their place will be
found the most marvellous exhibit of vases
New England ever saw. Six thousand
lro o1,.o ~.~s, lu s,.,y taI ho
gardens Of the famous rose culturists,
Dixon & Sons of Belfast, Ireland, will be
set in the garden beds and In a few days
will be In blossom, making a scene of be-
wildering beauty In connection with the
pansies, spired jabonicas and great roses of
towering plants. Other plants will follow
in their season SO that from now till the
cheerless day of autumn there will be n
constant Succession of bloom and beauty.
You need not TO be told that according
TO Boston estimates membership of the
football team Of Harvard college entities q
man to admission to the best society in
this world and gives him passport to the
inner circles in the world to come This
has often been illusti ated but never more
forcibly than last week when a humble
knight of the razor and shears raised a
storm about his ears by refusing to cut the
shaggy locks of young man by the name
of Lewis who happens to have some col
ored blood In his veins. During the season
the football player has no use for barber,
but Just now he may indulge in a respect
able looking cut of the hair, IL he pleases.
Lewis decided he would try the expert
ment of wearing his hair at a respectable
length but the barber declined to serve q
colored man.
II Lewis had been an every day colored
person that would have been the end of
the matter, for there are dozens of shops
In Boston that would have refused just as
the Cambridge man did, but Lewis wasn't
an ordinary fellow. His dignity as a mem
Der of the highly educated, leg breaking,
eye blackine eleven was at stake, and
howl that was almost storm went up. 1t
got too loud and strong for Cambridge to
hold It. and Lewis with hts offended Dig
nifty was borne on gentle zephyrs over to
Beacon Hill and front seat given him in
the legislature, where his injured char
acter was apparent to all. Then in his
place arose q member Of the general court
and with the object lesson before him pre-
sented the outline of bill that, stronger
and more efficacious than the constitution
of the United States, was to prevent such
m outrage In the future.
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The remainder of the drama is of less
startling character The bill has not be-
come law, fhe barber still lives and the
football player Is quoted as having come
to the conclusion that it would not COM
port with his dignity to agitate the matter
further with the man who wouldn't cut
his hair, and has decided to let it drop. As
suggested in the first Iplace, the fuss all
comes from the fact that Lewis is Har-
ward football player, and not ayoung man
In ordinary life Colored men are not ac-
ceptable nor accepted customers in the
better class Of barber shops In Boston, and
know one shop owned and presided over
by a colored man who will not serve one OF
his race. Equality under the constitution
is not equality in fact, as demonstrated
every day in great city.
The hearing upon the petition I men
toned last week, for the removal of some
Of the tracks from Washington and Tre-
mont streets, brought Mr.. Whitney of the
West End to the front and at the same
time caused him 10 add his testimony to
the fact that he and his road cannot ac-
sommodate the public. OF course Mr.
Whitney did not intend It that way, but
there is but one conclusion to be reached
from his statement, that more cars are
demanded by the public" AS the streets
are crowded and blockaded now TO such
an extent that a public protest is made, of
course no more cars are wanted, but more
and better facilities for travel The West
End cannot give what is asked and it does
not appear as though its influence would
allow any other corporation or system to
do it. II the legislature was as prompt to
act In this matter as some of its mem bers
were to attempt TO keep the BARRIERS of the
state ip line with the constitution of the
country rapid transit would not appear
20 Ear away.
Boston may be queer her people may do
peculiar things, dress oddly, eat, ditto, but
Il II not always safe TO Judge a man By the
way ne ls clothed or the manner m wpIcn
he parts HIS hair. In fact appearances are
deceptive and should be depended upon ss
little 90 the weather. I recently had the
pleasure OF entertaing q bright young
friend OF mine with a lunch at Youngs.
Opposite Us sat young man whose father