Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1905 — Special Prices For Undesirables. [ARTICLE]

Special Prices For Undesirables.

New York restaurants that decline certain classes of trade have a special menu card that is placed In the hands of undesirable guests. The prices are marked away up to six or seven times the standard charges. A small steak costs from $1.50 to $3. three boiled eggs St. an oyster stew So cents and a cup of tea or coffee half a dollar. In one of these restaurants the other night two orientals who insisted on being served paid S 3 for steaks that cost other customers not more than half a dollar. A colored couple dropped in for breakfast and read the special bill of fare with Increasing astonishment. “They don’t charge 50 cents for a cup of coffee!” remarked the man Incredulously. not understanding the situation. “Le's gwlne right away out o’ yere,” ■aid the woman, showing her whits teeth. “This ain’t no lit place for docent cullud folks.”—New York Press.