The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-16
NEGRO SERVANTS BARRED.
From His Apartment House.
From the New York World.

From His Apartment House.
From the New York World.
H. Wonkrow, owner of a fashionable
apartment house at No. IS Irving place,
recently barred ,colored servants. and the
family which employed them was COM
PEELED to move. Now the tenant has sub
let 1t too the Colored Civil Rights Republi-
can Association, and they expect to move
in next Tuesday and to make a desperate
Wronkow.
Mr.. Wronkov served as lieutenant
colonel in a Georgia regiment. He is in
the clothing and banking businesses, says
he is worth S1,50O,O00, and is reported to
own 100 apartment houses in this city,
from all of which colored servants are
barred. His office is at No. % Union
square.
Albert T. Patrick, lawyer Of No. 40
Wall street, leased the first fiat in the
Irving place house for three years. The
lease called for $iO5O a year rent, but he
says the real rent is $780, That is called
sailing fats, - said Mr.. Patrick yester-
day. The owner wanted to sell again
on the basis of the leases. i sublet my
fiat to Granville S. Rider. He had as serv-
ants an old colored man named Gilbert
Brodus, and his wife Alice. They are a
respectable Georgia couple who have been
married thirty-five years. Soon after the
Riders took possession the ianitor an
nounced that no niggers were allowed in
the fiat and refused the servants &C
cess to the house
II heard of this, and called up Wron-
kow on the telephone, asking him what
1t meant He replied that the janitor
had acted on his orders, and that no
i-coons' were allowed IN his house, and
that they would be evicted by force If
necessary. Mr.. Rider. rather than dis
miss his old colored servants, moved
away.
/ Il then offered to surrender posses
sion of the premises, claiming that the
practical eviction of my sub-tenant broke
! the lease. Wronkow refused to accept
y possession and threatened to sue me.
/ He said he had a right to say that his
tenants should not employ colored SER
wants. / decided to figat the thing out
} on the color issue. He said he was
worth a million and a half, and that he
would spend it fighting niggers;' and
that's how the row began.
II had an unrestricted lease that en-
powered me to sub-let or to use the fiat
for manufacturing, or any legal purpose.
l employed William G. Weimann of No.
14S East Sixteenth street and put up a
to let sign in the window. Then Wron-
kow asked me to settle the matter ami
cably but 1 said there could be no set
tlement unless he made retraction of
his claim that he could exclude colored
servants. He got hot and said he
wouldn't.
Then he put awnings over my signs,
and ! removed them, policeman stand
ind by to see fair play, and the jantress
reyiling me. 1 tried to rent the fiat, but
was bounded by the janitor. I concIu-
ded the fiat must be occupied by fighters
l had signs painted four feet by six, an
nouncing that the fiat would be let for
manufacturing or business purposes, OF
for a social or political club, with the use
of the magnificent windows for advertis-
ing purposes. ! added, AN unrestricted
lease guaranteed for two and half years
The janitor has no concern with this
fiat
Crowds collected to discuss the mean.
ing of the signs. Two colored clubs ar,
piled for the fiat. 1 would have let il
as a laundry. 1 have closed with the Civil
Rights Club, whose president is Jacob H
Simms. distinguished colored lawyer, oi
No. % Chambers street. They have taker
the place for two and half years These
gentlemen know their rights and they will
enforce them.
"Wronkow says he win resist their en-.
try by force. Simms says the first mar
who obstructs his entrance viii get ar.
rested, and that if Wronkow interferes
he will have him bound over to keep the
peace"
David S. Ritterban, Wronkow's lawyer
tried to negotiate with the colored club
but Mr.. Simms told him his obligation as
president was sacred and that the clubs
blood was up. Both Mr. Wronkow and his
lawyer were out of town yesterday. Al
the fiat house, which is called the sibylla
the janitress said to the reporter: ''This
place is exclusively for white people,