The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-07

come a more than ordinarily successful
lawyer.
John w. Mackey, son of the BONANZA
King and his counterpart in appearance,
used to be a pretty wild boy, but latterly
he has settled down and. as his father ex-
presses il, has got his gait"
The young Floods and Fairs has not
done so well.
William NJ Evarts' sons are lawyers
with the exception of Prescott, who is an
Episcopal clergyman, with a growing
reputation. The son of Supreme Court
Judge Harlan is a minister Of glowing re
nown. The son of the late Judge Rains
ford is also a popular New York pastor.
Frank Talmage, son of DIR. Talmage
whois youthful edition of his father, is
a minister who has already won fame in
spite OF the fact that he is blanketed by
his fathers reputation.
Robert Bonner turned his Ledger prop
erty over TO his three sons, Robert,
Charles aud James, some years ago and
gave them full rein. The three young
men changed the form and matter of the
paper radically and failure was prophe-
sled for them. The haven't failed On
the contrary, they have forged ahead.
THE SONS OF ACTORS.
Great actors of a recent period have
not had their names perpetuated by, their
sons. There are no Booths, or Barretts or
Wallacks. Davenport's name is repre-
sented, put the woman who plays over it
is no longer young. Tommaso Salvini aud
Edward Sothern, neither of whom was
an American, have sons who have won
success, and j. X. Emmett is still on the
play bills
The poets and nliterary and newspaper
men have been successful in their sons
where they have had any
The son Of Oliver Wendell Holmes is a
highly respected judge in Massachusetts,
Julian Hawthorne, son of the great New
England author, without having his
fathers great genius is an Industrious and
successful author. The William Lloyd
Garrison of to-day is writer of uncom-
mon power
Charles A. Dana still wields the scepter
in the New York Sun office, but his son
Paul is the chief assistant and has many
of his fathers characteristics. Gilbert
A. Jones' son of George Jones, one of the
founders of the New York Times, and its
manager now, is the genius, though not in
literary way. Upon plans received by
him the old Times building was torn
down and the present handsome building
erected and yet the editors reporters
and printers continued at their various
tasks without moving to other quarters.
1t was feat that attracted some atten-
ton at the time.
tor of the World, is not yet arrived at
manhood, but he is being carefully trained
to take his fathers place.
Eliot f. Shepard, Jr., son of the late
editor of the New York Mail and Express,
is growing up tall handsome STRIPPING,
very like his father. He is bright boy,
and, he, too, is expected to become an ed
itor for the Mail and Express has not
been sold yet, and is still a part of the
Shepard estate.
Chauncey Depew, Jr., is another lad
who is fast approaching manhood, and a
very accomplished lad he promises to be.
Mr.. Depew hopes for great things from
Buster" who is bright and amiable, and
who, like his cultured mother and his
famous father, has no lack of brains to
carry him through.
The son of Thomas L. James, ex-Post-
master General, is another young man
who has Inherited his fathers brains and
is likely to be heard of in the financial
world some time in the future.
John G. Carlisle's son is seen often in
New York, and much resembles his father,
whose assistant he is in the United States
treasury department.
Young Phil Armour, son of the pork
king, is another young man very like his
father, or will be when he grows stouter.
The late Cyrus w. Field was not so for
tunate in his sons as might have been ex-
pected in view of the fact that brains and
energy and audacity have been charac-
teristic of the Fields for generations David
Dudley Field, the famous 3urist has been
more fortunate. His sons conduct the
great law business he built up, and con
duct it in such way that the octogenari-
an finds 40 reason to complain when he
visits the old Office now and then.
This record might be stretched on and
on, but it is needless, for the examples
given show that the pat sayings used to
pass for truth, to the effect that the sons
of rich men and ministers usually turn
out badly, were sayings only. They were
not truth. 1t is unnecessary to mOralize'
or preach here, but it is probably true
that more depends on the sort of father
and mother boy has whether he grows up
good man or a dissipated fool than lies
in the amount of wealth he may be pro-
spective heir to-
Brains and training count for as much
as money more often than we think.