Mexico weekly ledger., 1908-05-07
white women and BLACK Dine

" A-0AEA ~ 1it Cl4Als
Court attendants we're also hueeed,
and there was agenerAl kiSsiag bee
White Women and Black Dine.
New YoSs april 2-Soci1l equality
and lntermarTilge between the races
wers advocated last night at q han
q1et Of the 0os0ePolitant Society OF.
Greater Nee York, where 20 white.
girls and women dined side by side
with negroes.
Whether BY accident or design, all
the white women save three found
when they reached the tables In Pecks.
French restaurant in Fulton street.
that the ssats beside them we're u Be.
occupied By negro men. Many OF the
men were black as coal
Rev. Madison @ Peters, Who bad
attended 10 speak 20 the society, re-
NAMED only long enough 10 view this
startling seating arrangement As
the first course Of the dinner vas serv-
ed he called Andre Tridon, the treas
urer Of the sOcietF. aside and pleading
Is an excuse another speech which
must be delivered up town, hurried
from the r0on.
In spite Of promises that be would
return and speak, Dr.. Peters fail d TO
come hack aud the speech was not de-
livere5.
DR.. Peters is pastor Of q fashionable
R1ftn avenue church, and = series Of
sermons be preached some time ago.
On Women attracted county wide
attention.
GIRLS SURROUNDED By NEGROES.
Miss MARY White Osingfon, Who.
has been prominent in settlement
work and whose father is proprietor Of
the Hotel St George in Brooklyn, was
the only white girl who occupied q
seat By the speakes' table NegrUes
were clustered all about her.
On her right hand sat William n.
Ferris, q negro graduate Of Harvard,
who told later OF his Efforts to Inplant
his Boston education In the South.
By this table also sat Hamilton Holt,
introduced as "editor-in-ehief Of the
Independent" and whose subsequent
u~tterznces on intermzrrfsge stirred
mis- auditors to enthusiastic spplause.
On the left Of Miss Ovi1gton was
seated Editor Willard OF the New
York Evening Post, and his plea for
equality and abolition Of caste spirit
. few minutes later drew forth another
wild outburst
But the M table in particular
which attracted attention vas that at
which bali q dozen white women were
seated and where . young negro, Capt
81. A. Thompson, sat between two
prominent white girls from Green
Point
LAUGH AND CHAT WITH HKeRo.
These young women we're Miss Isa-
bel Eaton and Miss Marion DoolittIe.
They laughed and chatted With their
negro entertainer during the meal,
while be retold his exploits on San
Juan Hill, where be ser sed as sdjutans
Of the Eighth Illinois lnegrO) Infan-
try.
By this same table were seated MB
J. w. Gates and her le year-old daugh-
ter, Bessie, Of Seattle, Wash. Treas
urer Tridon announced that Mrs
GATES and her daughter we're p,omin-
ent in society in Seattle and we're In
New York studying art.
Directly across the table from the
little debutante sat Edward C Wal
ker, president Of the sunrise Club"
which organization was among the
fnt TO rush 70 the defense Of "Afin-
ity'' Earle, and which later attract
ed attention By ~preachings Of poly
Qamy.
WHITE WOMAN HAS 'iBLACKEsT.n
Mrs. Sterling, q white woman,f Occu-
pied 8 seat BY the same table on the
left Of DIR. John A. Morgan, a West
Indian who was the blacklist man in
the assemblsge- Mrs Morgan sat
near Prof. Walker and importuned
him with questions during the din
ner.
Mrs. L. lands, said 70 be a pFomi-
nent Brooklyn woman, sat at an oppo-
site table, BY which we're seated 10
negroes, mel and women. Her hus-
band also occupied aseat BY this table,
and the couple seemed 10 enjoy their
dusky comrades. Miss N. Lyons, one
Of the negresses who spoke, sat direct
Iy opposite Mr.. lands.
Hamilton Holt struck the keynote
Of the feelings Of the negro when be
said:
"Intermarriage, IL continued long
enough, would solve the race prob
lem"
Tn incident Of the dinner that is
causing the most dissatisfaction
among the negroes to-day is the fact
that the name Of Booker T. Washing.
ton, who advocates peaceful resis-
lance" was b0oed down and greeted
with cstcslIs and Kisses, while that Of
W: z B. Dubois, president OF Fisk
University AZ Atlanta, Ga, who fayors
Exercising all rights under the Con.
stitutiOn,' was given > volley Of ap-
plause.
BOOKER WASHINGTON is AeITATKD.
Booker T. Washington, head Of Tus-
kegee Institute, who is at the Man.
haitian Hotel, was agitated greatly
when be read the story OF the Cosmo
politan Club banquet and especially
over the frank statements made BY
Hamilton Holt. he sent word 70 the
desk Of the hotel that be was mot to
be disturbed" and notified bis two
secretaries be was not ''at homeH toll
reporters. A call Of Washington's
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