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Atlanta, Aug. 24. — United States Senator A. O. Bacon and a party of prominent Atlanta people went without breakfast today at Hamlet, N. C, while Booker T. Washington and a number of negroes ate in the dining-room at the station.

The main dining-room was given over entirely to the negro delegation, while a smaller table in the side reading-room was cleared of books and papers and a few plates laid for Senator Bacon and friends. Under the circumstances. Senator Bacon and the Atlanta people refused to eat.

Hamlet is the regular station where Seaboard Air Line trains stop for meals. Senator Bacon and friends, who were en route to Wilmington, had ordered their meals in advance. When the station was reached they went to the dining-room and were greatly astonished to find it occupied by Washington and his friends.

The same feelmg prevails everywhere, and hun- dreds of instances are reported in the daily papers all over the country every day. Here is a brief ex- ample of one of them, clipped by the author from the New York American and Journal (Sunday, October 4, 1903, page 40). It reads thus : —

Chicago, Oct. 3. — A revolt of school children in the Oak Ridge public school followed the assignment of a colored woman as teacher in the sixth grade, in the absence of Miss Catherine Ralph, a white teacher. A number of pupils left the school at the noon hour, and a general defection was prevented by Principal