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Show Israelite. Kxclnded Kro:ii u Murutotca Hotel. New York, 19. The New York Times says: New rules have baon adopted by the Grand Union hotel at Saratoga, whereby no Israelites are to In; admitted. The well-known banker, Joseph Seiigman, was sent away on Wednesday, having Bpent bis summers sum-mers there for ten years. The proprietor pro-prietor said in explanation that the buninesa at the hotel was not good hist season and they had a large number of Jews there. Hilton came to tho conclusion that tiifl Christiana did not like their company and for that reaton ahuuned tho hotel. He resolved to run the Union on a diikrent princi pic this season, and gave us instructions instruc-tions to admit no Jew. Yesterday an iulormal meeting of Seligiuan's friends and acquaintances was held to consider what action was desirable under the circumstances. Jdward Lftuterback, counsel to the bankers, occupied the chair. A maas meeting ii to be called at an early day. Judge Hilton says in dehuicc that Seligman ia not a Hobrew, He is a Jew in a trade sense of the word and the class of Jews he represents, while' they are noWorbidden to come to the Grand Union, are not' enccuniged to come. The proprietors have good reasons for this discrimination. The great secret of Seligman'a preaont public hostile attitude, Judge Hilton finds it easy to account for. Tho house of A. T. Stewart formerly did a great deal of its foreign banking buni-nesa buni-nesa through Seligman's firm, and nearly all ol their loreign bills of exchange ex-change were . purchased there, but finding good and sufficient roaaon for discontinuing ite patronaje it trans ferred it to other houses. .Ever eiucu this Seligman has beon spoiling fwr u fight with Stewart tt Co. Judge Hilton in an iuterview said: The idea of the Grand Union hotel wag to make it a family home where men could leave their families during their absence with pertect security and satisfaction. The wishes and prejudices of the only class of people who can or will support a hotel like this must be consulted and followed. The hotel ia run for them and not. for those they dislike. Sdigniau, Hilton said, belongs to a class of, not Hebrews, He-brews, hut Jews with whom thii clas of guests, especially the female portion por-tion of them, will not associate, and with whom they do not wiBh to be forced to meet, even under the etiquette eti-quette of the dining room and parlor of the public hotel. The hotel managers mana-gers only do their duty by excluding these dieazreeable people from their hotels. It is the fault, continued Hilton, of this class of Jows themselves them-selves that they are discriminated against. Families like the Hendricks and Nathans are welcome every where, while those Jowa, not Hebrews, of whom Joseph Seligman is the representative, re-presentative, are not wanted any more at any of the first class summer hotels. They have Uought the public pub-lic opinion down on themselves by a vulgar ostentation, pufTcd-up vanity end over-weening display of condition, and a lack of thoe eousiderate civilities so much appreciated by good American society, and a general obtrusivencss that is frequently disgusting and always al-ways repulsive to the well-bred. Judge Hilton asserted that these notorious characteristics had almost ruined the Long Branch hotels into which they had been admitted, and said that laotel men all over the country wer? awakening to it, so much so that a man of this type will soon find no admittance at all to euch hoteld as the Buckingham, the Windsor and those at Sharon Springe, Saratoga and elsewhere; and that it even now was a scvero tax upon the judgment of the proprietors of these places to admit them. As might be expected this affair haa aroused quite a storm of discussion, marked by considerable division ol opinion among both Christians and Hebrews; but thero will bo non among the latter if they should become satisfied that Hilton's purpose pur-pose was to reflect upon a religious faith. Already there is also au undercurrent under-current stir in the Christian world here, which bids fair to load to a liberal public demonstration by eminent emi-nent Christian clergymen against anything like proscription for religion's reli-gion's sake. It is a developemeut that only awaits satisfactory evidence that proscription was intended. |