Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS

"a case Of much interest to people resid-
ing in sections where race privilege is still
claimed as an unquestioned prerogatlve
was decided out in Kentucky the other
| day." said r. S. Collingwood of Columbus
at the Metropolitan yesterday. "A coiored
minister brought suit against the LOUIS
VILE and Nashville Railroad Company for
$15,O 600 damages because he was not al
lowed to ride in the car reserved TOT
whites. The action was really intended TO
test the separate coach law In force IN Ken
lucky. 1t was heard in the United states
court by Judge Barr, who had decloeo last
year that the law was unconstitutional pc
lnerce law. In the recent case the rallroao
company held that 1t had established
rule separating colored from white passen-
gers, and that it had perfect right 10 90
so. Judge Barr, however, instructed the
jury to find for the plaintiff and the min
lister got verdict of l cent and costs;
The company Immediately gave notice OF
an appeal to the United States Supreme
Court, and the final fight over the question
WILL therefore, take place here. Almost
all railroads in the south have separate
coaches or compartments for whites ana
| blacks, and consequently they will eagerly
await the outcome Of the suit. II the
minister wins in the highest court there
will be an end to discrimination between
passengers of one color and another, ana
then the Pullman business in the south
will vastly increase, because the whites
won't stand travelling in the same car with
their former VaSSals.
when it comes to adapting the latest
inventions to everyday uses the new south
can abundantly take care of ITSELF" said
Louis Reynolds of Providence at the Ar
lngton last night. Il have been engaged
for several months in Atlanta and the
hat p-n Gil
and 1 struck with the remarkably
comprehensive system of telephone ex-
| change in operation 1t is SO complete
and we'll managed that man can tran
sact business with half dozen others in
as many different towns in the course of
half an hour or SO. The system is also
| applied in other ways. Now what would
you think If some paper here announced
that telephone subscribers could listen to
sermon by leading preacher tomorrow
office and getting switched OH to the
church at the time service is to begin?
Why. you'd think it was a joke. Well,
| when l left Atlanta Wednesday evening
read in the Athens correspondence Of the
| afternoon paper that arrangements had
been made so that telephone subscribers in
Athens could listen to the sermon to be
| preached by DR.. Hawthorne on Sunday, if
they SO desired. Now. if that isn't keeping
abreast of the times and getting ahead
of them. like to know what to call it,
1T is a singular thing in these modern
days when the general of the type
writer makes legibility cheap and at every
bodys command that many aspirant's for
the honors and emoluments of authorship
continue to complete their creations in
their own chrography ard send them in
that shape t. the publishers said Ernest
Ra tcliffe of New York, at the Riggs House
| yesterday. IF they only knew what delay,
to say nothing harsher, was incurred by
such a course they would, I am sure have
their copy neatly typewriter before en-
trusting 1t to the mercy of the critics who
| are to judge 1t. The sight of hand-written
copy makes the spleen of publishers
reader rise up as soon as he opens 1T. So
| the author already has a certain feeling of
| enmity against him before word is read.
Then the critic begins to wade through it,
| more intent upon ascertaining its poor
qualities than upon discovering any real
merit it may contain. Il the handwriting
| is not twin-sister to copper-plate he does
not get far before he is mad a wet hen.
| Then he closes it with bang and takes up
slip. Crude, ill-fashior ed, poor taste and
weak treatment. Plot involved and dis
| connected Characters Informed and I'M
| studied He pins this on it and sends it
| into the office, where the slip is removed
| and the manuscript returned to its author
| unavailable. This mind you happens
after the thing has been in the publishers.
| or rather, the reader g, possession for weeks
because he won't examine a hand-Written
contribution until he has cleaned up all the
| typewriter stuff, Old authors are familiar
with these tricks of the trade. and young
| ones should become acquainted. with them,
and remember that typewriter manu-
script, where everything else is even, stands
| ten chances for acceptance against one for
| the other kind.
1.-The best paying railroad property in
Florida runs between the station at Winter
Gumby of Jacksonville at La Normandie
| last night ut is narrow-gauge affair,
whose rusty iron rails rest on squared pine
logs laid in the sand and its equipment
consists of a single car formerly in use
upon northern street railway, and a pair
of old mules. The entire outfit did not
cost more than $500, and yet it makes an
enormous percentage in carrying freight.
From the holidays to April there is con-
tinual stream of tourists coming and going
from that hotel. and, of course, they carry
baggage. All of 1T is transported over that
little railroad, both upon arrival and de-
parture, and for each piece and parcel
charge of % cents is made each way. Over
5000 pieces were carried on it last year,
counting both ways, so you can figure out
what valuable property it is
Il saw singular case down in Fluvanna
county, Va, not long ago." said S. G. Bar
row, a Traveller 1Or Il baltimore WnOleSlle
house, at the Metropolitan last night. 1T
was nothing less than that of a horse in
trance. 1 heard of the matter when 1
was at Gordons~ilIe and inquired about it
when l reached Fluvanna. 1 was directed
to the farm Of an Englishman named Sud-
low, and, as it was on my route, l stopped
| there. The owner was away, but his over
seer showed me the animal. He fine
locking animal, as far as I could judge
from seeing him lying on the floor of what
| had been a feed room, and he seemad to
be healthy and asleep. There was no sign
of breathing, however and 1 could per-
ceive no heart action whatever. 1 was
sured that the horse had been In that con-
dition for over two months, and had never
given any sign of life since he had first
been found in his stall, but that a slight
irCsion in the gums would at all times
bring fresh blood. The horse was a favor
lite of it's owner and he will be kept until
he RECEIVERS his energy or does the other
thing beyond any question or doubt"