Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-07-27
A WILD=EYED ORGY
Spotted Cake Walk at Sam
Halls on Ivy Avenue.
STUDY IN BLACK AND WHITE
Unclaimed Lightning Flashing In the
Stygiau Darkness. Painted Pigeons
GA the Wings of Blootltield Black
birds. "A Di-sraceful Scene.

You remember sam Hail. the dive
ment plan not long ago and made Surc
q howl about it, Well. Sam has had an
even,ful and exciting career in his eN
per:encc in running joints n"re ans!
else where
One of the livclcst Of Sans cXlc-
fitHccs was when he shot Il Sa.itllcr ..c!e
something over a Year ago and about
two thousand cnrased wearcrs of Uncl,
SANS blue and brass started IN to |. Itch
him. The events Of that ,nomc:,tns.,
occasion. the details Of the story If how
sam was spirited away. ana how the in
cipient riot was quellcd.arc still fresh in
the public mind as are also TIL. f:l:-S a:
his subsequent :lcuuittal Ny Il WanNicK
county jury
1t is also known that he returned ~
his lflo"dticll dive and for :.%.l:,,
pursued the uneven tenor Of hi, Way
which was the way of darkness r.lhc,
than light.
hen. suddenly. the nnhal!owc.l Pre-
cincts OF Ivy Avenue ana the adjoining
region round about Rockets heard 1ha,
Sam had beer, visited in a dream, y III
Il vision Of his sins SO terrible as 10
scare him out Of seven years g.cv1i.
an! to make him see the error u l,ls
Wy and repent. sam announced 10
the startled community that ne IA, re-
!"!on and Was going to devote him self
in the future to fleeing from the wraln
70 come.
This business of fleeing from tho
W'';tth to come is, however. h,- no means
Il f:lb nc 1i,,o
&vcnue.
The next heard Of Sam Hall h was
g. ing L cakcwalk at the aforesaid
dive
Ths cakewal1 is what is being tcl.l
;aEHut- 1t happened the other nigh, ant
it IS said that its like was never tiorc
seen. or heard Of in the annals o. Ia,
game.
II was whn, might be called a spotted
cake walk. or a crazy quilt afiai:
Every color under the sun was repre-
scented. In that gorgeous and nnrigh1-
eous aggregation gathered in thar sam
Hall joint on the Avenue were black
people and white People. yellow people
and red people. brown people ana lra3
people.evcry Old kind of people and peo-
pie that We're CT no particular kind at
all All the hues that tingc the skins
of Humankind entered into that muddy
stream which flowed into sam Hairs
dive.
The scene Within absolutely besgars
description. The language does not af-
ford facilities for Painting it. The yo
cahulary is 100 limited
The painted pigeons Of Twenty-t,,irl
street tluttcred proudly on the wings
OF the gay hlackh.tis CT ;loolltield. The
unclaimed lightning Of Rockets flash
60 amid the Stygian darkness CT wv
Avenue. Women whose skins were
Whlte bcncath The gludy cosmetics that
sinearcd them, rubbed checks with wo-
men who to the raked eye appeared
carved from chunks of eternal night.
IN the feminine equation the unknown
quantitN-the hearts, *" Line IL,
all OF these different colorel women
into equations. eliminate the superb
rlalitics. and You will find that different
as they may appear unsolved, the *,
m each equation equals the same thing.
The heart Of each is black
Things equal to the same thing are
equal to each ether
IheSc women. apparently separated
ny the distinction of race. are all coua!
when analysed ana solved SO th..y
mingled as equals on the floor Of sam
Halls place that night While the devil.
hardly Disguised, stood in one corner
and chuckled with wicked ana unmus-
zeal mirth. It may be believed ,bat
sam Hall also smiled
The function proper did not begin
until after midnight. 1t was cousid.ra-
bly, after that hour when one eft TIC
most important contingents from Rock
+t1s arrived. How long the festivities
continued is not t. be measured IN
hours or fraction of hours FOR no one
took any note IF the fight of time. AMI
few were able to, had they been 81
minded
&c VIII be remembered that the pow
ers that be in their wisdom saw ne to
remove the old police force and sul,sti-
tute new. What it was done for
goodness only knows. The law-akdjnr
people had a right to expect to he Rene
hted by the change. Things wcr. hal
enough as they We're. 1t was not Ia he
expected that they would go from ba]
I" worse. 1T was hoped that they would
go from bad to better.
MS hcpe, 1t appears. is not to be ius-
t'f'ed. Tor a bad beginning has been
made. That cake-walk is characi erizc]
ny some who saw it as the widest and
most disgraceful orgy ever witnessed
even IN bloodfia!d. the scene of SO MANY,
Wild and disgraceful orgies. Tt was =
disgrace to the community, to tn,
county to the State and an insrit to tho
morality and law Of the land.
Had such thing occurred in the
heart of Darkest Africa. some exp,ore,.
would have come back to civilization
and reported it to a shocked and Won
derlng world. The good people all Over
the land would grid their f0ins afresh
Tor the sending Of missionaries to lead
the heather from the paths of upright
eOuSlCSS and El.in t},o.,