New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-11

absent In Charleston During the gay season the
young people Of course me- eacn a o'a are Usually
put of as long as possible. Sunday nights being
usually chosen when the men 80 round from mouse
tanning many forty or fifty In an evening ihrs
SSsR or s' mon and srHps
there is the utmost intimacy. Women III ChariSS-
ion do not go driving OF 10 the theatre or to balls
with strangers or slight acqla'ntances: man
must be long and thoroughly ana -avorably k,oWii
before he can make the least progress beyond the
hensvely expressed II, I'VE respect character Wuch
The business men of Charleston usually begin
their day late. This IS often rendered necessary by
the festivities of the preceding evening but they
make up for the loss of early hours b. devoting
late ones to work Dinner Is almost universally
eaten at 3 p. m. and after taking his dinner the
lawyer or merchant returns To his office and works
until ! or even O'Clock. Theatrical performances
do not begin until $50 or p. m. ana balls usually
The prevailing style of beauty in Charleston is
brunette the Huguenot type Blondes rare. ex-
cept in the case OF some few of the Younger mar
ried women. who come from other Northern or
Southern towns. The St cecilias and cotllions
are perfect flower gardens OF hearty: an endless
delight to the artists eye and mind The ola ante
bellum families. with the names. which alone are
open sesame in all societies. are still active. itut-
ledge. Frost. Ravane, PrIoeau Trenholm Ehett'
Whaley Porcher. de Saussure. Gourdin. Dawson,
Van der Horst Pnckney. Miles. lowndes. Huger'
Fraser. Legare LAYTON. sloan; simoni3n sim,
mons Williams. Middleton. jiase and Deiia Iorre
are names found everywhere
The German element Is large and influential In
politics than the English and Huguenot arstocracy
OF the town This German element may Do sald 10
control the entire retail and wholesale grocery Dusi
ness OF Charleston, and has through industry ana
honesty graduated many capitalists Dank presl-
dents and business magnates out or is corner
grocery stores Formerly all these corner groceries
IAN a barroom in the rear and took back over their
counters very large proportion or the wages OF
the negro population Since the enactment OF me
Tillman Dspensary law this corner groggery busl-
has been entirely broken up ana the revenues
Of the German merchants have been seriously re-.
duced in this direction. But II that man OF blood
and iron'-(overnor Tillman-is able to make ms
prohibition experiment permanent success ls
eventual effec, upon the character and morals or
cha rleston cannot help being felt and being good
At present the feeling between the thief Executive
and his most wealthy and influential citizens ~
Litter.
The future of Charleston Is entirely problematc.
With every attraction In the world Tor Northern
she does seem 70 wish that they shouii
come down her I'm swarms. for the good reason
that "A large influx ~ blood would completely
and unquest.onably change the whole character or
the town. The venerable antiquity and quaint
customs which now surround Charleston would
soon disappear and in their place we should have
an ordinary, dusty. unattractive, booming southern
town. still. the subject ~ a serious one Tor me
consideration OF her most thoughtful citizens AS
things look now, Charleston stands a fair chanoe
OF being completely frozen out by the coast
line as has been Wilnngton--left like Beaufort ana
Georgetown to MOURN over the daily fading sioticS
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