The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-25
DRUMMERs FEAR THE FEVER.
They Are Waiting for a Frost Before
They Start South.

"Drummersl"
'No drummers.'
Not many of them have put in their ap-
pearance in Savannah this season. Now
and then stray one is seen around the
like his last friend had deserted him and he
is three sheets" in the plague. He makes
hasty canvass of the city and shifts the
air curiously i'd HES out.
at is high time the drummers were
swooping down upon us, said hotel clerk
yesterday Generally by this time the
town is full of them, and the hotel business
is humming. They are giving Savannah
the dead go-by this season, though-or they
ing, though, for We know they are bound
to come"
much trouble9
Gwen should say they are. Most of
them have an idea that the hotels belong to
them, and they have right in the manage
ment, and unless they are allowed to do
some ordering about they pull up their
stakes and move somewhere else. With all
their whims, though, they bring life with
them, and if they are sometimes trouble
some, we overlook it, and wonder what we
would do without the jolly drummers.
They go everywhere, and see everything.
and tell every thing they know, and great
deal they don't know, and upon the whole
we are wiser for their having come"
where do they come froml Oh. every
where from the north New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, Cincinnati Baltimore, ST.
Louis, Chicago, and a score of other places
The New York men are from New York, of
course, and they are the recognized leaders.
Philadelphia men are their bitter rivals, and
they think the New York men
are too previous in most things.
One of them was opening his vials
of vituperation on a New Yorker
yesterday. New York men, said he,
know too much about affairs CT which
they are as ignorant as a Florida cracker
One of the dead game sports has been try
ing all the morning to convince me that
New York is ahead of Philadelphia. Ar
gument as absurd as he is foolisp. No, the
truth Is, the poor thing has been cooped up
in New York ever since he began to exist,
and he is taught nothing but New York,
and consequently kno IS nothing but New
York. Why, those fellows see less of the
world than any other people under the sun.
Now, the Boston men, they don't boast, "
said the clerk. ''They believe in solid old
Boston, and they love her just we'll enough
to knock a fellows jaw off if he runs her
down. We get our supply of slang from
the Bostonians. There has been only one of
them here this season, and the very first
question he asked was, How was this SAT-
fron scourge getting on in Jacksonville?
The Cincinnati, Baltimore and st. Louis
men are always listeners when the other
men are on deck, but they tell mammoth
yarns when they have the field to them
selves. Chicago men seem to pride them
selves on their business qualifications, and
they have an idea toat it is undignified to
string out long yarns, or to boast or fight
about their place. They go right along
talking business all the time. As a rule,
though, they are the most troublesome, and
the hardest people to please"
One of them said yesterday that the rea-
son the drummers are late about coming, is
that they want frost to fall on this portion
of the country. He said that until the
quarantine is raised to allow them in and
out of Florida without danger, they will
not come in great numbers. Their object
is to do Florida in connection with Georgia,
and by waiting until frost, they cover the
two states in one trip. When they do start
coming through they will all come at once,
and there will be more hard work done this
season than there has been for several years