The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-20

Removes
Tenderloin Of Beef with Mushrooms
Roast Turkey Crab Croluettes Green Pea.
Potted Quail Asparagus
Celery salad, Chicken salad 90
Ice Cream Strawberries and cream
Charlotte Russo Cakes Fruit
Codee Cigars
THE TOAST LIST.
a stronger list Of speakers than those
who +. spouded to the toasts last night
would have been hard 20 bring together.
The stewards were interchangeable in their
Efforts to arrange the speakers and the
tuastS. The honor Of being invited TO re-
spond 70 soasts before this society is s.
highly considered that the best Of speak
ers are glad 10 accept nvitations from its
board of stewards.
F'alligant, Mercer. Harden, Du
Bignon, Mac Donell, StovaIl,
of Savannah; Hartridge, Of Jack
sOnviue. and Knight of Atlanta, of un-
doubted oratOrical ability all, they are
sought on many such occasions. Their
voices have been heard in many ban
quet hall, many of their
beautiful sentences are often
between quotation marks. Their names
were not on the regular toast lists; their
| Introduction before the society was in
tended TO be IN the nature of a surprise
and each was a decidedly agreeable one.
Quite a mum Der of ladies and gentlemen
occupied seats In the two galleries and
| were most interested spectators. Many
Of them remained through the speaking.
/ which was 50 entertaining that all were
10th to leave, even when it had been con
Guided.
THE SPEAKING BEGINS.
The dinner was over shortly after 10
o'clock Mai. =. w. Meldrim. president
of the society, who presided over the ban
| quet, called for order, and Mr.. Charles
f. Prendergast, secretary, announced
| that he had some letters to read before
! the speaking began. Mr.. Preudergast
| began by reading the following brilliant
and humorous letter from Mr.. Gazaway
Hartridge, who had been invited to speak
before the society but who was unable to
! be present:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the Hiber-
| man Soclety-ln this of year-the midway
! plaisauce between political factions the
! meeting ground Of party leaders and partisan
! newspapers. that feel IL entirely safe to ad-
| nit that some honesty, some decency. a little
! patriotism and small share of intelligence
| may be found on the other sde-in this year
| OF peace without plenty do not hesitate to
| travel through the south because OF any fear
! OF being reprOaChed with a self seek ambition
! for the presidency or other minor ONCE
In all sincerity, / believe IL is to your ad-
! vantage that I refuse TO accept your kind in
| vitation TO speak at your sod anniversary
| banquet. For having Travelled eco miles on
! God green earth-the Almighty having Sc
| lected that color to paint his fOOtstOol be-
! cause Of his inycterate love for the
! irish having Journeyed thus far for no other
! purpose than TO crafty the sublimest aSpira-
! ton OF the true born American citizen.
! namely TO deliver myself. obstetriCaute
| manu-, of a speech, l would not consent to
surrender my rights and privileges in the
| premises. / would not be willing TO be con
! fined bV the Limitation of q efDyla
! sentiment Indeed, before / found IL impOsi-
/ sible to visit savannah and while casting
| about for rule to govern me in planning the
! length OF my remarks, l bethOught me, as
! good guide OF the law controlling the trans.
mission OF property You know that you can
not regulate the descent Of
! for two lives I'm being and few
| months after the death OF the last heir OF
course, in transferring the law to the domain
OF ter-dlnner speech making. il ought to be
literally construed. Nevertheless. with the
mania Of an imported orator strong upon
him, you could not reasonably expect that
two lives and one unborn generation would
be suhicient to Rlut The savage instincts OF an
inspired DemOSthcnes.
Still, controlled, as I always am ~ the
| irresistible impulse of the industrious bee to
improve each shining occasion, 1 cannot let
this one pass without making IL the vehicle
| OF few useful lessons. some obserVatf ions
| on New York and the opportunities it affords
| 10 the adventurous ana lmpecunlOus may be
| OF interest to a body of young men such as
/ constitute the warp and wool of the Hibernian
| Society, especially TO those who have not
! read Erastus Wlman's book on The Chances
| OF Success
To turn to a personal view Of this and kim
dred matters. knowing that he who makes
haste to be rich cannot be very particular /
resolved that the sIrest way Of getting rich
slowly would be to continue in the newspaper
business. one great impediment confronted
me IN this conscientious purpose. 1 was never
more panied in my life than when / was
forced, on ARRIVAL here to select one paper
from the whole list metropolitan journals,
which We'd with one another to secure my
services. ! hated to discriminate against the
rest. But as 1 could not distribute my tai
ent impartally among them all / decided to
attach the fortunes OF the Herald to my pen.
It's subsequent success proves that the public
was not ungrateful for my choice. In order
! not to appear eXultant over less fortunate
/ rivals my name and picture have been care
| fully omitted from that papers columns.
Ihere, as elsewhere, 1 owe my uuVaryiug
success 60 one simple rnle, which 1 observe az
/ any cost and IN all weather. ] do rot violate
! any confidence in myself when mention il.
/ never Joke in business hours. Your chair
/ man OF stewards asCUbes his success in life
/ TO another rule-neyer 10 drink in business
hours BQt notice tnat this rule has ten
/ dency, IN his case, to shorten materially the
/ hours for the transaction of business
/ KNOW many meE here who are on the top OF
! the pile and yet who strangely differ from us
/ both. They never take drink before break
/ fast. and never take joke at any time and
| yet they are faVOrites of fortune. hey make
/ money rapidly. ana IKE many others with
| this accumulative instinct, they make friends
! as fast as they make money. Nor are their
! friendships those Of day. They not only
/ make friends fast, but they make
| fast friends among both sexes. Some of
/ these rich milliOnQres are not without hopes
/ OF adding me to their Inst OF peers i'm wealth
ana allies in friendship. Of course I have
/ met some among them who seem to be very
| deserving, and while think it wrong for the
! poor to deSpise the rich, yet a millionaire 20
/ my mind is always an object of suspicion. (
/ can understand where ne gets 10 an This
| tenderness of conscience impcdes my pro
gress, but IL is hard for a man reared as
1 have been, in an Arcadian community. to
overcome IT, Brought up among those who
/ hold in contempt the rich and INSCRIPTIONS
/ and who themselves would rather be noor
than honest, il is difficult to adjust myself TO
! my new environment.
Hewitt remark to the Southern Society
! that an the men of brains have left the south
1 and come north, Will readily suggest itself
! also to you as one secret of my own and other
! sOutheruers success in New York South
/ ernerS here have often noticed the strange
| fact that only the most intellectual men from
/ the south grayltute this way. While freely
/ admitting the truth OF this statement among
/ themselves, a tender consideration for their
] less gifted hIusmeu remaining at home has
! hitherto kept them from making it known to
/ the country At large. Even now they blame
. Mr.. Hewitt - iulrSgrafio1 III s,u11fs hi4r lig