The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-12-25
sOUTHERNERS IN NEW YORK.

YOUTH EkN EkS In NEW YORK.
ann, OF Them ia ali departments OF !he
S,y Cit,'- Litr--~"m- Who Huye Won
Fame aud Fortune.
n. Y. Letter to Baltimore iAme!ican.
1t is said by some that New York
contains more Southern than Rich.
mond or Atlanta, and quite recently
a boomer of New Ytrk's claim to the
Worlds Fair cited TO this fact as
showing that the Southern i'll Congress
would vote tor New York. A South
erner is said TO feel especially at home
in this city, fact which is in part ex-
planned by the recent opening OF
club house tor Southern men in New
York city and visitors here from that
part of the country. In every profes-
sion and iu nearly branch of CONNER
cial endeavor and III public Office We
find Southern-born men in Gotham.
When the war closed, the men whose
fortunes had disappeared. and whose
prospects did not seem bright in their
native States, came to New York TO
seek employment. Many of them have
become rich and famous, and have
nothing left by which to trace their
Southern nativity but tinge of dia-
lect. Perhaps it is the dropping OF 3
few ''r rs'' or quick way OF getting
over thh vowel sounds. But one,
meeting them on the big exchanges
and in courts, will invariably recog-
nize the Southern men. In walking
yesterday a single block, met three
men, all OF them born III Dixie" all
Of them lawyers, and all ofthem pref
ty we'll known in their profession.
The first was Assistant District At
torney Dawson, hearty looking old
gentlemen with iron-gray hair. pierc-
ing eyes and courtly manners, who at
tends the dinners of the Twilight Club
and amuses the members with his
taking stories of the Southern darkey.
He was lawyer before Colonel John
4. Fellows, his chisf, had left. college,
Of course, he has title, and the frat
ernity alw eys speak of him as Major
Dawson. At the Twilight dinners
NJ ajor Dswson manages tc get a seat
between another Sou.heruer and
some New Yorker, and then begins
his interesting sIories Of aute-bellum
days.
following Major Dawson was Mr..
Eben Appleton. 1t is hardly necessary
to tell Baltimoreans that MIR. Apple
ton is the custodian of the Star span
eled Banner and blood .elation OF
the Armistead family. For many years
Mr.. Appleton has practiced law Ia this
city, but he came from the State Vi
Virginia, spending several ears in
Baltimore on his way to Gotham. He
is a little past middle age and Is
counted one of the handsomest mem
bers of the New York bar.
II dislike to ask young men-some
of them-to come up to see me-" sald
Mr.. Appleton to me, when he had
finished telling about the means ne
has taken for the proper preservation
of his banner. ':You see." said he
modestly, II am such poor company,
l don't smoke; can't chew, never drink
and can't tell new story. Butl Hat
ter myself I am good listener, and
enjoy the company Of young people
Despite these facts, Nir. Appleton Is
highly entertaining talker, but is
! close reader of law and current litcra
ture. He has a valuable library in
which he spends most of the time MOI
devoted to his clients.
Burton n. Harrison, who was the
private secretary of Jefferson Davis
from 1862 to 1865, was seen in the same
block. Mr.. Harrison looks abou
forty-eight, but must be y tride oldel
than that, as he was man when The
civil war began. He comes from Mr.
Davi' own State-Mississlppi-but ha:
been long time 3 member OF the
New York bar, with an office in the
handsomest office building in New
York-the Equitable. 1t would no
take stranger long TO find out thai
Mr., Harfisen-~as toInin the South
He is much like the more important
member Of Congress from the South II
his manner ard way Of saying things
He likrs poetry and law, and can re
member when he could quote Dor
Juan" from the first canto 10 the las
couplet. He is very precise, and look:
lide mao who has single purpose
in mind. His hair, once jet black, ha:
tegun to take or small quantity O.
of silvery gray. His law Office is Sc
full of papers and briefs that Mr.. Har'
rison has to keep his type writer's II
an adjoining room. Gen. Roger A
P.yor, John S. Wise and John e. Cal
boun might have been seen in their
Offices within three blocks of each
other, while in Wall Street .perhap:
one-Gfth of the big law firms contain
the names of men whose fathers were
famous in the South years age
Their club has nearly six hundred
members, while applications for &C.
tive membership are being received
every day.
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