"hot dog" article, 1913: "hot cat" stand (for African-Americans)

[Gerald Cohen]

Below my signoff is another excerpt from Meade's 1913 article on "hot dog."
---"'Hot cat' stand"--what exactly is this? Is it a hot-dog stand for
African-Americans, viewed with the slang term "cat" in mind? (HDAS
seems to have 1920 as the earliest date for "hot cat"--in an
African-American context)

Gerald Cohen


        [col. 1]-- 'Right here let it be said that Atlanta's "hot
dog" industry   from a "teenie, weenie" weinie grew.
        'You'll find them on Marietta street as this [sic: should be
'thick'] as     fleas on a mongrel's back. On Peachtree they line the
curbing close to        the sidewalk, and in Decatur street, the
"Great Black Way" of Atlanta, you'll find the "hot dog" man competing
with the "hot cat" stands that cater exclusively to the gourmants of
Atlanta's ebony population.'

in: Meade, James W. 1913. "Have You got the 'Hot Dog' Habit? No? Then
Hurry   for Everybody That's Anybody is Doing it Now." Atlanta
Constitution, Sunday, April 13, 1913, section A, p. 15. cols. 1-7.