The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-29
RECALLED BY
BLACK WIT
White Woman Settlement
Worker Pleads for Social
Equality and Abolition of
Caste Spirit" = Negro
Speaker Boldly Advocates
Bleaching" of Negro by
Marriage With Whites.
Special to The Journal.

New York. April 27.-SociaI equal
ity and intermarriage between the
races were advocated last night at !
banquet of the Cosmopolitan Society
of Greater New York where twenty
white girls and women dined side by
side al the tables With negroes.
Whether by accident or design ali Of
the white women save three found
when they reached the tables in Peck :
French restaurant in Fulton street
that the seats beside them were TO be
occupied by negro men. Many Of
the men were as black as coal.
Rev. Madison c. Peters, who had
intended 10 speak to the society, re
manned only long enough 10 view this
startling seating arranSemnet. As
the first course of the+ dinner was
served he called Andre TridOn, the
treasurer Of the society aside and
pleaded as an excuse another speech
which must be delivered up town.
hurried from the room. IN spite of
promises that he would return and
speak, DR., Peters failed TO come back
and the spec f5was got delivered.
SHE SAL AMIDST THEM.
Miss Mary White OringtOn. who
has been promiheIfsss- xx4Hfemept
work and whose father is proprietor
of the Hotel ST. George in Brooklyn.
was the only white girl who occupied
seat by the speakers table. Ne
grOes were clustered all about her
On her right hand sat William II.
Ferris. a negro graduate Of Harvard,
who told later of his efforts To i'm
plant his Boston education" in the
South. BY this table also sat Ham
iltOn Holt, introduced as 'Edit0r-in-
Chief of the Independent" and whose
in, -
riage stirred his audience to enthus-
iastic applause.
On the left of Miss OyingtOn was
seated Editor Willard of the Newark
Evening Post and his plea for Equal
ity and Abolition of Caste Spirit" a
Wv minutes later drew forth another
wild outburst.
But the one table. in particular
which attracted attention was that at
which half a dozen white women were
seated and where the dashine young
negro, Capt. H. A. Thompson. sat be
tween two prominent white giiIs from
Green point. These young ladies were
Miss Isabel Eaton and Miss Marion
Doolittle
RECALLED BY DUSkY HERO
They laughed and chatTed with
their negro entertainer during the
meal while the captain re-tcld his eX-
perienceS on San Juan Hill. where he
served as adjuJant of the eighth Hi
nOis tnesrOl infantry. One OF his ap-
parently interesting recitals was
dramatically interrupted by Il violent
attack of nose-bleed which caused his
unceremOnious and hasty departure
from the table. but he was received
with evident pleasure when he re
turned five minutes later and renewed
his N - ladies
BY this same table We're seated Mrs
J. w. Gates and her I6-year-OId
daughter. Bessie The latter was a
very attractive blonde girl. sowned
by a blue creation slightly decOlette.
and wearing a light straw haT trim
MED with brilliant peoples Treasurer
TridOn announced that Mrs. Gates
and her daughter We're prominent in
society in Seattle and We're in New
| York studying art Directly across
the table from the little debutante
the Sunrise Club" which or@aniza-
ton was among the fiISr to rush 70
the defense of Affinity Earle aad
which later attracted attention BY
predchings of pOlySamy.
ENJOYED BLACKLIST ATTENTION
Mrs. 4. Stirling . white woman. Oc-
cupied a seat by the same table on the
I left hand OF DR.. John A. Morgan. a
West Indian, who was the blacklist
man in the assemblage. Mrs. Morgan
sat near Prof Walker and importuned
him with questions during the dinner.
Mrs !. Lands. said to be a prOmf-
nent Brooklyn woman. sat at an oppO-
site table ut which We're seated ten
negroes. men and women. Her hus-
band also occupied a seat by this
table and the couple seemed To enjoy
their dusky comrades. Miss VI. Lyons.
one OF the negreSseS who spoke. sat
directly opposite Mr. Lands The
LandiseS. however. left the room he
fore the speaking concluded. when
. the place became quite warm.
The social equality OF the affair act
I'd like new wine upon the party. two
thirds OF whom we're negroes. The
( free license of IN speeches was ~