The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-12-18
NEGROES TAKE
WHITE PEOPLES
COACH.
objectionable Outrage Committed
On Passenger Train No. !. Out
of Nashville Last Fri
day.
White Passengers Driven from
Reclining Chair Coach and
Latter is Given Over to
Negroes w Order
OIL. & =. Off
cial.

Whoever the depot Master at tht
Terminal Station at Nashville may be
he needs to learn q few things. Or hi
very BADLY nee0s some instructions
from his superlors on how to treat
white people. Coming OUT of Nasn
vile last Friday about three o clock,
NO. |, Through Passenger Train from
| Cincinnati to New Orleans was well
loaded With passengers. The trail
seemed to be shorter than usual and
minus a car or two. This tram carries
one of the new reclining chair coaches
recently put on by the l.. q N. system
on its through trains. This coach was
about nalf filled with white people,
consisting mostly of emigrants. There
were quite d number of women and
children In the coach, emlgraut
families, they might be called, who
mad ridden perhaps all night, and
were too poor to take sleepers. When
the train reached Nashville perhaps
some eighteen passengers got aboard,
some for Columbia, and some for other
places down the road. All these
passengers went into the reclining
chair coach. and though they nearly
filled the coach, all found chair
before the train pulled out of the
station, however, gang Of about forty
negroes, men and women, reached the |
train to become passengers There !
being no place for them. the other !
coaches being filed, an extra coach
was coupled onto the train. This
extra coach was one Of the old time
day coaches with the long seats on
each side. Then the white people in
the reclining cnalr coach were ordered
out of that coach into the old time day
car and the reclining chair coach was
given over to the negroes White
mer, women and children were driven
)ut of comfortable reclining cha T
and made to give their places to
black negroes.
This objectionable condu t raised a
torn of Indignation from every white
nan aboard the train but it did no
rood. One passenger made bold enough
o ask the train conductor for an ex
,lanation of why the white passengers
we're driven out of the comfortable
zach into an uncomfortable one, for
he negroes benefit but the conductor q
aid he did not know; that 1t was the l
rider of the depot master.
We don t know who the depot master
J, neither do we care But we 40 =
now that his order was an outrage on
ne white people who have 20 ride mp =
nd down the L. q n. system. Mr. M.
l. Smith ana superintendent Brooks |
re not to be blamed for this act, we ]
oink, because they knew nothing of :
!. But they should take 1T upon y
to investigate this case,
nd issue an crder to that depot master Q
t Nashville that will prevent repe-
ton of such an outrage as that conf .
lifted on No last Friday
It would be bad enough If the l., q
Railroad Co., should consider that o
egroes are az good as white peoples q
at TO treat them as il they were our d
stters, certainly won't so here In II
ennessee. :"
Some of the train officials of No l II
limited that the driving OF the white -
from the reclining chairs to W
We place for the negroes was not 81
gnt And they could offer no ex- o.
anatIon OF 1t. Nor can any be made.
was an outrage on common decency, tt
Id 1t should not be allowed to occur &C
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