The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-22

Chicago Tribune.
 In many of the Southern States the so- called Jim Crow" laws are on the stat ute books and so have the sembiance or legality. In many of the Northern States the same discrimination against the ne- gro Is enforced, though usually by un- derhanded and indirect methods. It might we'll be asked whether the real feeling and the real result is not praeti- cally the same in both cases.
 For instance, in the South negroes are not allowed to eat in the same room with white men. not even at railroad eating houses.
 Here are couple of instances of the way in which the same rule is enforced In the North:
 In one of the most famous restaurants in Chicago the walters were all colore1 men, When a negro entered and asked to be served he was seated in the usual way at a table on which there were no menu or price cards. Presently price card was laid before him. Aud in that price card lay all the effectiveness of the strictest Southern "Jim Crow law. It read something like this: =
 Coffee, per cup .........................$ .50 Coffee, with cream, per cup........... .75 Pork chops .............'.........sS S.cO
 
 Sirloin steak, plain .................. SIS Beer, draft, per glass ..............,.. 80
 One glance at that card and its awful prices was usually enough to send the colored man hurrying out of the place. If, in spite of 1t all. he persisted in giv- ing his order he found that he was ob- liged to wait for an hour or so before it was served, and then, if he had ordered pork chops, for instance, at s the order, al rnakinp Gavnra1 rOn1nIalnta tun 1ff. tie pieces of bone and gristle would be brought in on an icy cold plate and en- tirely surrounded by cold and solid grease
 It Is not on record that any colored man ever ventured to patronize this par ticular restaurant the second time.
 There is another restaurant in Chicago which is famous for its apple pie and cheese. Tn some way word of it's fame reached the ears of an old colored man, who has a small income and has retired from active work. The day after he went into this eating house and ordered apple pie and cheese. It was brought and he found that it's reputation was well de- served. The next day he came back again and repeated the order. Again he was promptly served. but this time the piece of pie was not more than half as large as it had been the first time. while the cheese had also greatly diminished in size since the day before. The third day the apple pie had reached almost rcicro- scopic proportions. It was the length and thickness of a lead pencil, while the cheese was a mere postage stamp in thickness. He stuck it out until the fourth noon, at which time there was placed before him a large plate with two atoms in Its center, one of pie. the other of cheese, both Of which together would not have made bill full for canary bird. 'I guess you don't want my custom said the colored man.
 That's as you please" answered the waiter who was only following the or- ders of his manager.
 In another prominent local restaurant not long ago a coIored man, almost a mulatto in color, and his wife were given seats at a table near the front of the room. They were seated GJTinR -she tenn porary absence of the head waiter, who, on his return, at once went to the table at which they were sitting and informed them that a mistake had been made; the table at which they sat was engaged and they would have to give 1t up. He led them to a small table near the rear of the room. They sat there with no at- tention paid to them for more than twen- ty minutes. Finally the man called a