Evening journal., 1908-04-29
WILL CONTINUE
RACE DINNERS
Clashes Between Whites and
COIOred Men in the
Spade Flush District
SOCIAL EQUALITY IS
URGED BY MISS OVERTON
By United Press Leased Special Wire.

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
NEW YORK, April 29.-Police are
expecting trouble to result from the
wave Of indignation now sweeping
over the city as the result Of the din
.ner of " the Cosmopolitan Club. in
Brooklyn, on Monday night, at which
white men and women sat elbow to
elbow with colored men and women
while they discussed social equality
and cheered the suggestion of inter-
marriage as the solution Of the race
problem.
The wide publicity given the dinner
has caused IL to be the talk of New
York for the time being, and the police
expect considerable trouble with self
appointed guardians OF the csty's NOR
ais, who viii doubtless endeavor to OFF,
set the effect OF Monday nights din
ner.
Clash Of Races
A number Of minor clashes occurred
last night in the Spade Flush" dis
trict, as the neighborhood around
Fifty-ninth street. where the colored
tenants are located, is known. IEamil-
ton Holt editor of the independent.
whose remarks on inter-marriage of
the whites and blacks precipitated the
trouble, to-day denied that he had
urged such a course. He admitted
having mentioned il, and admitted
that it was enthusiastically received
by the colored diners, but declared
that he only mentioned II as one solu-
ton Of the race problem and had not
put himself on record as favoring it.
1t is stated to-day that despite the
disapproval the dinner aroused similar
affairs will be held monthly for the
purpose Of furthering the social equal
lity between the whites and the blacks
in New York city. Members of the
Southern States societies in New York
declare to-day. however, that there
would be no further meetings of this
nature If it lay in their power to stop
them They declare that such actions
lby Northerners were the chief cause
of the Souths troubles with its me-
groes, who. hearing Of these affairs
did not consider the negroes partici.
ipating as much more enlightened thar
the white brethren.
Favors Equality
Miss Ovington. who is one whit,
woman speaker at Monday nights
dinner insisted when seen to-day al
her apartments I'm the negro tenement
I in Sixty-third street, that the Cosmo-
lpolitan Club win continue it's efforts Ia
bring the two races closes together.
Miss Ovington has been doing set
Element work among the negroes FOR
four years. and while admitting that
she is not an advocate OF tntermar-
riage Of the races. declares her perfect
Willingness to meet negroes on equal
social plane.
Il do not believe in intermarriage of
the races. at least not at present" said
Miss Ovington to-day. I don't think
There is any reason to talk about It.
ultimately all the nations of the world
will intermix, but those things work
themselves out I can't understand all
this hub-bub. however. raised by our
dinner. New York is too big a place
to be governed by the prejudices OF a
lsmall village Southern congressmen
who criticize us so loudly should con-
/ fine their attention to their own home
districts. New York people cannot be
governed by conditions which obtain
lin North Carolina and Alabama. New
York is a cosmopolitan city and
want to see It like London, Paris and
Berlin, where people of any race car
get about without being subject tc
criticism. That day is near at hand"