The times., 1899-08-07
RIGHTS DENIED HEBREWS
Anti-Semitic Rules Established in
a Seaside Hotel.
Jewish Patrons Are Undesirable at
the Oriental Coney Island Estab-
Hshment - Young Austin Corbin
Bevives Declaration Made by
His Father Twenty Years Ago.

New York, Aug. 6.-Much indignation has
been aroused among prominent Hebrews in
this city and throughout the country where
it is known by the determination of the
management of the Manhattan Beach Hotel
and Land Company to bar Hebrews from
the Oriental Hotel and, in a lesser de-
gree, from the Manhattan Hotel
Application for rooms at the Oriental
, which have been made by Hebrews have
been refused on the ground that the hotel
was full. At first there was no suspicion,
of discrimination, as many Hebrews have
been patrons of the hotel in recent years,
but finally the refusals became so frequent
as to lead to the conclusion that Hebrews,
as a rule, were not wanted.
Austin Corbin, the Vice President of the
Manhattan Beach Company, and the son
/ OF its founder, confirmed this conclusion
| when seen at the Oriental yesterday.
Some years ago the late Mr. Austin
! Corbin made it understood that he did not
I care for the patronage of Hebrews, said
/ Mr. Corbin. This caused a great deal
/ OF adverse criticism at the time, but We
have found the rule to operate satisfactorily,
and since then we have never catered to
] the Hebrews as class
Among those who have been disappointed
in obtaining quarters at the Oriental is
Edward Lauterbach, counsel for the Third
/ Avenue Railroad, and formerly the close
associate in politics of Senator Platt, who
! has lived at the Oriental every summer
since it was built. Mr. Lauterbach wrote
for rooms at the Oriental, saying that he
desired to go there yesterday. He was
told that there were no rooms vacant.
Il don't care to discuss it, said Mr..
Lauterbach before he started for Pomp-
ton, n. j., yesterday afternoon. There
will always be persons who will be preju-
diced against the Hebrews l think could
get into the hotel if l wished to do so.
and If believed l was being Disseminated
against personally / would resent it very
much''
Mr.. Corbin denied that Mr. Lauterbach
had been refused on account of his race,
but said that the reply which had been
given him was literally true.
Mr.. Lauterbach was told that he could
not get the rooms he wanted on Saturday
or Sunday said Mr. Corbin. but he was
! informed that he could have them by the
middle of the week. He said he did not
wish to come then. There is no disposi-
ton to exclude Mr.. Lauterbach and men
IKE him. He would not be excluded from
any hotel in the country. 1t might as we'll
be understood, however, that we do not
care Tor the patronage of the Hebrews as
a class"
Ihere was tremendous sensation when
the late Mr.. Austin Corbin, then President
OF the Manhattan Beach Company. an
nounced in July, 1879, that Hebrews would
be kept out of the Manhattan HOTEL His
decision came two years after former
Judge Hiltons attempt to bar Hebrews
from Saratoga, and It caused great ex-
cltement. Mr.. Corbin's reasons. written by
himself at that time, were as follows:
We do net like the Jews as a class.
There are some well behaved people among
them, but as a rule they make themselves
offensive to the kind of people who prin-
cfpally patronize our road and hotel, and
| am satisfied we should be better off
without than with their CUSTOM
Many prominent Hebrews protested Wig
orously against Mr.. Corbin's views and
among those who did so was Mr.. Lauter-
bach, who said:
England, France, Germany. and even
Russia, are protesting in Europe against
the treatment of the Jews in Roumelia,
and here we are today with such an issue
before us. Its source is ignorance and
nothing else. If that man has-th courage
Of his opinions, and he pretends that he
has, l will go down to his hotel ask for
room. tell him / am a Jew, and if he
refuses ii to me l will prosecute him to
lut 1uil 68teill Vi tUB law. IHeTP IS the
statute-chapter ia of the United States
laws of 1875. Let us see whether he is
equal to that or as able for it as he is to
talk"
Mr. Lauterbach, however did not carry
out his threat to prosecute Mr. Corbin
Such men as Emanuel B. Hart, former
Judge Dittenhoefer, and Myer S. Isaacs were
outspoken in their protests. Meetings were
held to discuss retaliation and many hotel
lyAaparc Thrictiau cla
the opinion that Mr. Corbin had made a
mistake
Gradually the rule was relaxed, so that
in recent years, if ii was enforced at all,
its enforcement was unnoticed. Apparently
the decision to revive the regulation was
made at the beginning of the present sea-
son, when Joseph P. Greaves became the
manager of the hotel. Mr. Greaves was
formerly bookkeeper and then aduitor in
the Manhattan Hotel, and in the winter is
the manager of the AlcaZar, the Flagler
hotel in st. Augustine, Fla. Mr.. Corbin
said yesterday that the manager was merely
obeying orders
Mr. Edgell, the president of the COM
pany, and l are entirely in accord in this
matter" said he. land what is done ia
done by our direction"
The officers of the company are as fol-
lows: George S. Edgell President; Austin
Corbin, Vice President; Daniel S. Voor-
hees. Secretary; William G. Bosworth,
Treasurer, and the directors, besides the
officers named. include William j. Kelly,
James K. O. Sherwood. James G. K. Duer,
Charles NJ Reynolds, Alfred N. Hehre,
Frederick Cook, William f. Brown, Willis
T. Wild and NJ. A. Smith.
Mr.. Corhin said yesterday that the rule
extended also TO the Manhattan Hotel
but he intimated that its enforcement
there was less strict. T. F. Silleck the
manager of the Manhattan, who was form
erIy manager of both hotels, declared that
he knew nothing of such rule.
81 have never Disseminated against any
body because of race or creed in any hotel
where I have been manager" said Mr.. Sill |
leck. mo discrimination whatever is
made here in the Manhattan"
AS a matter of fact many Hebrew pa
irons are at the Manhattan and no OBJ |
lection is made to them, while at the |
Oriental there are none.
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