The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

ST. LOUIS, June 10-That the color line
has been drawn by some of the hotels of
this city, there can be no longer any
doubt
The st. James hotel today openly refused
to entertain negro delegates and cancelled
$1,000 contract it had made for feeding
and housing delegates.
Several weeks ago the officers of the
Tippecanoe club, under the direction of
NJ A. Hanna, made a contract with
Thomas P. Miller. the proprietor of the
st. James hotel, to take care Of a certain
number of delegates for five days during
the convention. The club officers then
wrote to certain southern delegations that
rooms had been engaged for them at the
ST. James. When Mr.. Miller learned the
club intended to fill the rooms with ne
groes, he objected.
THE HELP OBJECTS.
IF I permit you to bring negroes here
he said, ''all my help will leave. 1t will
put me in most embarrassing predica-
ment"
Upon the arrival of Mr.. Hanna from
Cleveland today he was told of what had
occurred.
81 am sorry for Mr.. Miller" said Hanna
to his agent, but he signed contract,
and unless he lives up TO it he will find
himself involved in a most unpleasant
legal complication
When the hotel man was so notified of
this he made the following written reply:
st. Louis, June 10.
Mr.. j. G: Dorm, Agent Tippecanoe Club.
Dear Sir:-I cannot entertain the col
ored delegates in our main dining room
Or under the contract with your club
Yours truly,
THOMAS P. MILLER"
As all the leading hotels are crowded.
the -Tippecanoe club is in duandary as
to what it will do with the colored dele
gates whom it promised to care for. Mr..
Hanna said he felt very sorry for the
Business Mems league, which promised
the national committee there
WOULD BE NO COLOR LINE DRAWN
1.-THE league has done everything in its
power to prevent this trouble he added,
land I do not consider it in any way to
blame"
Mr.. Hanna's emissares also rented the
big Exposition building for use during
the convention. 1t was suggested that
cots be placed in it for the use of the
colored men, but when the management
of the building learned of this it told the
club the negroes could not be quartered
there. 1t was finally agreed, however,
that the coloced delegates might be fed
there.
Tony Faust. who holds the lease of the
kitchen at the exposition said he could
not furnish either food or cooks to do the
work. An officer of the club said tonight
Cleveland.
Many of the colored man have, of their
own accord, gone to the homes of the
coiored people living, here and obtained
board and lodgings. Some of them, how
ever, refuse to do this.
GRANT IS MAD.
Dr. John Grant of Sherman, Texas, who
CATION from the Lone Star state, is mad
over the treatment which he is assured
Proprietor George Griswold of the La
clede hotel expects to give the colored
members of his delegation. Grant has a
contract with Griswold for quarters at
the Laclede for his people, black and
white alike. and this end of it the hotel
man is going to keep. The black dele
dining hall Meals will be served in their
rooms and there will be no lack OF at
tention to them, but the discrimination
will exist just the same. This is what
disposition of the colored citizen well
enough to. understand that he will feel
inSulted The fact that such service is
usually charged aextra and INDUCED in by
notables who dislike the stare of the COM
mon herd, will not appease the wrath OF
the darkeys.
When Peter Jackson, Joe Walcott and
George Dixon, the fighters, were in st
Louis, they stopped at the Laclede, and
they had their meals served in Their
rooms.
r. r. Wright, colored delegate from
Georgia, is at the Southern. Mr.. Wright
is president of the Georgia State college
He said the negroes were treated scan.
dalously.
contracts should be cancelled the way
they are" said Mr.. Wright. 1--WE have
to find accommoda tons as best we can
l personally will probably find a good
place, but some of my friends will ge-
along very differently. There will bt
about 200 negro delegates and alternates
and they are all good men, deserving Of
hotter treatment