The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-10-18
SOUTHERN STREET CAR MANNERS.
white Me- Not 30 Dssceurtesas % Bsms
visitors Try to Make 10 Appear.

To the EpIroR op TnH sus-Sr; In
THn Sun to-day I find a short article. under
the heading: ITS Ser. Not Color. That
Counts which contains q great deal OF error
-misinformation perhaps and serves no
good purpose that I can luna CINE. A white
mar. In a street car. In New York. offered
his seat 10 a color-d woman. aud she accepted
ia thing long ceased 90 be uncommon
Ia New York 4 southern white man. who
saw the occurrence. said 10 your reporter
You neVah would see a white man IN the
South give hts seat 10 a nisgah And you
nevah would see a niggah take a seat from
a white man
Poor blaokEuard' for such his speech
stamps him
Well. | have seen both tho wonders he has
not seen. not In one southern city. but In
several. and the roof did not ny on the chr.
either. nor show any disposition otherwise
20 agitats itself.
In the city OF Washington. where race
preJudic. has grown very intense since Presi-
dent Clcvclrd's first term. ] have seen white
men. who ] knew were Southerners. rclin-
quish their sea's TO colored women aud black
men Telinquish theirs To white women, not
on one llhe only but on several. aud the thihs
10 80 common as Ia toe uHuotiCeAhle
Once on "a surface ear IN luchmQnd, Va
one 81 IA" most lrciudiced Citlcs in the south,
Atlanta not excepted. ! once saw a young
sout"ern"T. dressed ia the latest fashion,
seated near the door. fclinquish his seat
o. a mIddle-agrd black woman. with n basket
~ clothes. and he tipped his tile .n doing
- in a way ~ lordly that Chesterfield would
have admired W" spontan"ity aud natural
ness of i Soon after ward q Young white
woman, hand-um" aud queenly IN face and
ngur", came into the car Hall G dozen men
Icsa at once. hat ga hand. but che took the
seat offered her by the person nearest her,
who happaned a. b." a. black Hs Ink. but
neatly dressed and courtly ~ manners. and
the smile which accompanied her Thank
YOU was a. sweet az honey
] have seen thos" exchanges 81 street car
couttc-ies Ia Charleston. savannah. Jackson
VILE. Pensacola. and other Southern cities,
IN some more general than In others ~ all
81 them you vii find IN each car gentlemen,
black and white. who will not stop 10 make
mental noto Of the color 81 the woman. but
honor and respect her sex
New southern men. white men, when they
come 20 New YORK. seem 20 think they serve
the South beet hy striving . show that ne
races are A. far apart a. the North and south
between tho races In public OF private rela-
lions This - far from being true of any city.
town or villa g. ia the South. Where the gentle
men OF both races leave it TO the toughs OF
both races 20 be rude 90 women. black OF
white, Just the same A. u true ~ New York
And he y no gentleman, be he black or
White. In tho North or the South. who viii
treat a woman. black oT white. rudely. iu pub
Tie OF private relations aud O. do 10 Nut hrag
about u but heaps infsmy upon intauN
Her sex should protect "a woman and com
mand tho most chivaltio conduct toward her
everywhere
The relation. ~ the races In the South
lowing falschood unnecessarily TO get mixed
up la tho confusion.
RAD BANK. y J. oct ~