The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-09
MUST SEPARATE RACES.
Yacht Club Members Want New Or
der of Things on ThunderboIt GAYS.

Yacht Club Members Want New Or
der of Things on ThunderboIt GAYS.
Several members of the Savannah
Yacht Club stated yesterday their in
tention of forcing the Savannah, Thun-
derbolt and Isle of Hope Railway Com
pany to provide separate cars for ne
goes. Some members of the club will
go before the grand jury at its next
session and call attention to the fact
that the law in this regard is being vi
dated daily by the railway company.
The gentleman who gave out the in
terview stated that the subject has
been discussed freely at the club, and
that the members are in earnest and
that the attention of the grand jury
will be called to the fact that the rail-
road is violating the law.
Under the law the railway company
may be forced to separate the races,
but there is no section which can be
construed to mean that whites and
blacks cannot ride in the same car.
Every summer, for several years, the
question has been raised, and as regu-
larly the threats made by those who
Kicked have melted into thin air. The
members of the Yacht Club, or at least
large number of them. insist that the
grand jury be asked to indict the COM
pany for a miSdemeanor.
Inc expression of disapproval will
probably be followed by the placing of
whites and blacks on separate seats
on the cars but so long as the law is
as it now stands blacks and whites will
ride in the same cars. 1t has been sug-
gested that City Council pass an ordi-
nance requiring the street railway
company to furnish separate cars and
not seats for the races, but it is doubt
Iul II 1t would adopt such a measure.
IN the event of the passage of an
ordnance of that character, if indeed it
would stand, the city's Jurisdiction
would extend only to the corporate
limits, but would effect the suburban
mes materially. The company would
nave to carry cars for colored people
as FAR as the limits, and would not
care to drop them at that point. 1t
may be that the members of the Yacht
Vlup VIII make an effort to have such
an ordinance passed.
Last summer the town of Warsaw
Vesdn action against the railway, in
an enort to have cars for whites only,
Tut IN this move it was unsuccessful.
-, VIZ special ACT Ine company only
nau 10 separate the races by seats, and
Tneh the suit was begun whites and
UldcKs We're made to occupy separate
edtS The conductors had stringent
uuers 70 see that the law was obeyed
Sliie the cars were within the juris-
~ ~In OF the Thunderbolt authorities.
inlS dld not apply to the city, or to the
OIiel suburbs, and matters rocked
S pIohg IN that way for several weeks.
NV. .he agitation quieted down and the old
pan was resumed. Since then the
'GCes nave ridden together.
DuIlhg the early part of the present
,sailn the members of the Yacht Club
, w. kick, and a special trailer
boit aetached to the regular Thunder
sh ae ears after p. m. The car was
s stueleu Yacht Club" and under the
Thie .se only carried whites. Any
he s'% person was permitted to ride in
S,s special car, but negroes were ex-
h oaeu. When the Casino began to at
Sa,,., large crowds and the summer
w. began in earnest the special cars
bo e taken off. This is the cause of
N ne present agitation, which promises
Ss r Oh longer duration than those in