The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-22
JUST A NATTER OF CAR SEATS
POLICE COURT AIRING OF A
QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE.
Should q Colored Gentleman Whose Lady
Friend Has to Climb Over Another
Gentleman Cali Him an InserNiceabie
Cur?-Is q Fight tho Proper Answer!

Friend Has to Climb Over Another
Gentleman Call Him an InserNiceable
Cur?-Is . Fight the Proper Answer?
MAGISTRATE Cornell was on the bench.
In and about the court room negro women
in laces and + ale pink costumes chatted IN
low tones with negro men in racet'ack
check garments. while the co rt cops were
kept busy over near the street windows
where a white-haired negro, acting az
referee in a crap game, now and then cried
Fade i'm! Fade 'iml Come seben, come
elebenl"
"Who is the complainant in this case''
inquired the Magistrate.
"'Ts me, 20 Honah.' replied tall,
dignified looking negro. who described
himself as Eugene Redd.
@And what is the complaint
We'll" said Mr.. Redd, these two
colored gen'lmen at the bar chased me
wifi gun and most had me out
"Ill tell you how it started chimed in
O'Connor, the cop from the Fifty-frst
street station. "The negro bellboys had
a picnic at Suffers Park the other night.
and when it was over there was great
rush to get seats in the cars. The COM
plainant and these defendants got into
some sort OF an argument, guns were pulled
some one yelled murder, and when l ar
rived the crowd told me that this little
fat prisoner had thrown away his gun,
which found in an empty wagon nearby
"He we're the man what started 1t all,
and what chased we wifi the gun, added
Mr.. Redd. He's bad coon, he is, and he
started the fuss by calling me frightful
name
What did he call your" asked Magistrate
Cornell.
"Somethin' worser than adog,' answered
Mr.. Redd.
Indeed And what did he call your
He called me an inserviceable cur.
"Gracious!"
yes, sir" continued the complainant,
and he called it to me right in the presence
OF ladies'"
-Jedge, we're much exasperationed at the
time" explained the little fat man. -, lou
see, had lady wifi mo, and this gen Fmah,
the replainant, refused to offer her seat
in the car. sir. The ladies' what got seats
had ter crawl over the gen l,nlAns knees
TO get EN-, and them as didn't crawl had
ter stan, yo' Honah.
And you called him an inserVicesoe
our?' 49,, J.
Oats true, sir, but l didn't know do
meanin' oh it. Then he gets to high
heeIing and championed me ter fight.
And did you accept the challenge a.,
"Well, sir, I only grabbed him by his leg I"
Didn't you pull revolver and threaten
to shoot him?"
~ The idea Why nebber carried gun
in ma life
aNo. ,
"No, sir | may have tapped him on de
head wifi club, but that was all.
-Where did you get that big scar on your
cheek?"
.That's where ma brother-in-law carved
me-" .,;., f,
uEamilv affair. Jes' a little fuss"
"And where did you lose the lower part
crowd that we're fighting at ball
pushed me inter the middle OBJ IT..
what do you work att"
Jest at present fer year or so am
done muffin ter speak be ILLUSTRATE Of: .vou are
wearing good clothes. that's more than
Il know. but work for ma clothes. do.
This we're suit has done me two summers,
sir. There's y gen'l'man there weerln'
better clothes n me.
"No, sir; he's the ketcher for the An
sonias
The baseball player stood up, smiled and
bowed ma ically. Magist rate Cornell
returned he bow with mill airy salute.
The .ket cher" of he Ansontas looked
shuftled along the benches 20 find room for
him He sal down beside a miss in blue
silk
, Miss Rosie Williams WIS hen called ard
, vert into eails in relating how the men
"copped of the seats III the car % ne eX'
clusion Of no women. Then Miss Melinda
Lincoln Henderson took he staru
YOU Honah" she said, we'd all been
Tor the oicric and in oder ter git seat In
: .he electric car, the ladies had ter do con
! a;oerable showing Fust they had ter elbow
hon they had ter push he knees ob de gen
: tlemen ont OBJ he way. SO one lady she sale
| W that complain,iff IF yer don't hicf
~, y..r Knees so kin git by I'll put ma hat PR
thro,oh yer leg
.And be ran-ar-teed, 'Tnshi TIsh'
| yuess dem feet ob yourn needs wide chan
sci Tor sail in Then her young man
that's her company. said, VIVA don't vel
| i've Inc lady a seat? You are an inser
| T;Ieahle curp Then KEN the fuss. Thu
men folks gifts of the car ter fight, and III
wo,nenfolks gifts out ter see how it's goin
t.r end We walked lit le ahead 80 W,
could follow 'em wit bout lookin' back
cause we spec,ed ter see some cuttin' o
some sort and next seen these two mel
aorunnin' around beer truck near TIT
was this man chasing that man; o
Magistrate.