The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-06-06
u. PROPER ACCOMMODATIONS IN
RESTAURANTS CONTROLLED
BY RAILROADS.
a. Present. Conditions:

majority of cases. This makes it
necessary for them to try to obtain
food at the railroad restaurants.
ii. They are seldom permitted to
buy food at railroad restaurants.
III. If they are allowed to pur-
chase food at these restaurants, they
must take the food out of the place,
be sent to some room not properly
cared for, or be kept waiting at the
lunch stand until it is almost time for
their trains to leave.
". Colored restaurants are sell
dom near enough to the depots to be
of any service to the passengers.
3. Conditions Desired:
(a) In Particular:
l. Opportunity to purchase food
at railroad restaurants so that colored
passengers may claim the service,
not as a favor g%rudgingly given, but
as a privilege to which they, like all
other passengers, are entitled, and
without paying higher prices.
II. Proper provision in these res
taurants so that colored passenger
may be served promptly and courte-
ously, always with a view of their hav-
ing the same time to eat their meals
as other classes of passengers have.
2. PROPER ACCOMMODATIONS IN
SITTING ROOMS IN THE DE-
POTS CONTROLLED BY
RAILROADS.
A. Present Conditions:
(a) Waiting Rooms, Atoms
Colored waiting rooms,
/. Are not kept clean.
II. Are usually too small.
Ill. Seldom are built so as to per-
NIT proper ventilation.
w. In winter, are very often with
out fires.
v. Seats are often of the most
uncomfortable character.
VI. Seldom offer any toilet com.
forts for colored women who travel
in most cases conveniences for wash
ing the face and hands and preparing
the toilet, generally, are absolutely
unheard of.
VII. In most every case the &C
commodations denied colored passen.
gers, as indicated above, are given
to other passengers in other waiting
rooms at the same depots.
OBJ Waiting Rooms In Connection
With Employees of the Rail
roads
VIII. In a great tnumber of cases
: ticket agents will not sell colored PEG
pie tickets until all other passengers
have been served, even though color
ed passengers have been standing a
their windows long before the arriva
of the most favored class of passen
gers.
TX. The harshness of speech o.
many ticket sellers, directed studi
ously and specifically to colored pas
sengers, is provocative of needles!
friction and bitterness, and is one O
the most gr%evious burdens laid upoI
colored travellers.
, 3. Conditions Desired:
l. Clean waiting rooms.
II. Rooms large enough to accom-
modate comfortably all the colore,
passengers.
III. Properly ventilated waiting
rooms.
". Efficient janitor service as i
provided for passengers of the mos
favored class.
V. Comfortable seats.
VI. Clearly kept toilets with nee
essary comforts for women who ira
vel.
VII. Ticket agents who will no
needlessly insult colored passenger
who ask for tickets.
VIII. Such regulations for the gov
eminent of railroad ticket offices, O
such increase in the number of ticl
ct agents, as will permit colored pas
sengers to purchase their tickets i
ample time to allow the former t
check their baggage and go into thei
trains without needless friction an
bitterness.
8. PROPER AND JUST AccoMMC
DATloNs ON RAILROADS.
A. Present Conditions:
|. Inferior equipment of cars, en-
bracing-
!. In many cases, but half of a ca.
the other half being either a baggae
compartment or a smoker for whit
men.
2. In most cases but one toilet fl
men and women
8. Toilets without conveniences fl
washing the face and hands.
4. Dilapidated and worn-out cars
8. Cars without any ~convenienc,
for sleeping. In the South, colort
passengers are prohibited from ridir
in sleeping cars. even when they no
sleeping-car tickets.
6. Cars without smokers for colo
ed passengers.
T. Cars without conveniences I,
the purchase Of food.
II. Annoyances and Embarras
ments-
l. Location of news butchers"