Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-17
OHIO TOWN BARS NEGROES.
Syracuse Will Not Allow Black Man
 to Spend One Night There.

syracuse VIII N0t ALLOW black MdH
 to Spend One Night There.
 In the town of Syracuse. Ohio, on the Ohio river four miles above Pome- roy. a town of about 2000 inhabitants. DO negro is permitted to live. No ne- gro is permitted to stay in the town over night under any consideration. This is an absolute rule in this year 1905, and it has existed for several generations. The enforcement of this unwritten law for keeping the negro from staying in the town over night is ill the hands of the boys from twelve years of age, while the alt tempt of a negro to become a resident of the town is resisted by the town en masse.
 When the colored man is seen in the town during the day he is gener- ally told of these traditions, if be is so ignorant as not to know them al- ready, and is warned to leave before sundown. If he fails to take heed. he is surrounded at about the time dark ness begins. and is addressed by the leaders of the gang in about this Ian guage: No nigger is allowed to stay in this town over night. We don't care what you are here for. Get out of here now, and get out quick. He sees from twenty-five to fifty boys about him talking in subdued voices, | and waiting tofsee whether he obeys. 1 If he hesitates little stones begin to ! ana rfklPS and | soon persuade him to begin his hegira. 1 He is not allowed to walk, but is told , to get on his little dog trot." The i command is always effective. for it is backed by stones in the ready hands | of boys none too friendly.
 1 So long as he keeps up good gait, ' the crowd. which follows him just at l his heels. and which keeps growing until it sometimes numbers seventy 1 five to one hundred boys. is good na- tured and contents itself with yelling 1 laughing and hurling gibes at its vie ! tim But let him stop his '-trot'' for one moment. from any cause what. ! ever, and the stones immediately take effect as their chief persuader.
 ] Thus they follow him to the furth est ends of the town where they send him on his way rejoicing ft1 while they return 10 the city with triumph and tell their fathers all about the function. how fast the victim ran how scared he was. how he pleaded and promised that he would co and never return if they would only g back and leave him. how Johnnie Jones hit him with such a big roeE that il knocked him down. Then ths
 fathers tell how they used to do th' same thing. and thus the heroes oi two wars spend the rest of the even ing by the old campfire recountin. their several campaigns.
 The cause of this extraortliBar! raee rrsfuslice is hard to discern. Jh' majority of the inhabitants are no
 from the south. but strange to say gre of New England stock In tii' early days of ihe town many iri>l
 lived therp srha were So bitterly hos tie to the negro that some people at
 tribute the present treatment of fHi
 colnre7 man to their influence.
 The population is mixed tnciudin. many Welsh aIFI Germans Most o fND FltafIsEG aEN slAt
 in the coaI mines and in salt mann
 facture. and perhaps they feel th'
 danger of negro competition Certain
 Iv they v-ouId as readily asseeiat'
 viii, | snake as permit black niai
 fl, v-ortS tr their side. They alHlos
 feel that he detiles anything that D
 touches
 .t To the women he is an nslfest [" i-
 srras.r-I srd feared. even fn the dai
 fine. The little children are tauzh to fear the blaek man win sh flp t.rrorS associated with that name
 The writer has seen many . s1lia'
 frfxhfer1F almost into tysteFigz zt ttf
 mere sight of $ cOIored n5ss- and D vaS himself inabued with that terror |. What has caused this frare No cfafs
 has ever been committed by a nezT