The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-12
NEW YORK IS
POPULAR RESORT
With Thousands of Visitors
From the South
Jim CROW" METHODS
Effective Plans Used to Separate White
and Colored People In Chicago
Restaurants-The Appa-
lachinn Exposition
By ROBERT LEE CARTER


New York, June 1L-(Special. New
York always has been a popular summer
resort with southern people and is be-
coming more SO each year. Not only are
there thousands of visitors who come
for week or two during the summer,
but the number of southerners who come
early and stay till cool weather is con-
stantly on the increase.
| And honestly there Is no place in the
country which offers a wider range of
attractions for as little money. Within an
hours ride of the city one may get surf
bathing or mountain trout fishing. while
in the city itself there is an infnitude
of interesting things to see.
! One may see something new and strange
| here every day for month or so for no
greater outlay than a dime or so of car
fare.
Already the advance guard of the army
of summer visitors Is here and the main
body will be in "our midst" within
month or so.
One of the most enthusiastic of our
summer guests is Col. Henry watterson
of the Louisville Courier-Journal.
| Twenty years ago Colonel Watterson
wrote an editorial In which he said New
York was the greatest summer resort in
the world, and he has come here every
year to prove it. Two hundred thousand
others from the south and the west agree
with the brilliant Louisville editor.
The colonel says he cannot understand
why New Workers want to leave their
own beautiful city in the summer. To
his mind it is the finest place on God s
footstool and he expects to enjoy every
minute of his stay here this summer, with
just to see that he doesn't miss any Of
the good things that may be going on.
| Colonel Watterson is much interested
in the project now under way by the va
rious state associations In New York city
| to take a large assembly room in the
Metropolitan tower for the establishment
of national headquarters, thus bringing
together people from all sections of the
country. He thinks 1t would be a great
| idea to have one central place where WIS.,
itors could meet their friends by appoint
ment. He said it wouldn't be any trouble
!
any night for session In the tower, and
he thinks that other southern and western
states would do as well.
| This he says would be a grand way for
| the visitors to see the sons of their re-
spective states who have come to New
York and have either hit the bull-eye of
success or are in fair way to do so.
! Colonel Watterson has lived in nearly
every capital In the world. and is of the
| >tv,i- hot hoc hi
on little old New York.
"In the many of the southern states the
so-called Jim crow laws are on the stat
ute books, and so have the semblance of
legality said James F. Berry of Chica-
go, ILL.,. who was in the city recently.
I'm many of the northern states the
same discrimination against the negro Is
inforced, though usually by underhanded
and indirect methods. 1t might well be
asked whether the real feeling and the
real result are practically 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. In one of the most famous res
taurants in Chicago the walters were all
colored men. When a negro entered and
asked to be served, he was seated in the
usual way at table on which there were
no menu or price cards. Presently price
card was laid before him. And in that
price card lay all the effectiveness of the
strictest southern Jim crow law. sir
loin steak cost 50 and cup of coffee so
cents, and so on down the line-everything
about ten times the regular price.
lone glance at that card and its prices
was usually enough to send the colored
man hurrying out of the place.
There is another restaurant in Chicago
which is famous for its apple pie and
cheese. In 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. 1t was brought out 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 1t had been the first time, while the
cheese had also greatly diminished in size
since the day before. The third day the