Middletown transcript., 1894-02-10

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s &@l. ally set the Hud
.4YgS.sNSS 1850 son on fire, some o
ssgsR ~ b. ~ 70 "a them have takel
sSs@'' a" creditable place
in the business life of the city. The Della
ware Societys fourth ANNUAL dinner II
occur at Sherry's, on February 18th, vii
bring together hundred or more of thu
most prominent D elawareans in this city
and the health of the Diamond State viii
be drunk in peach and barley or whatsove
other liquid may best please he taste oil
the society.
1t happens that when the Southern
| Society was about to take ON the clul
feature just abandoned by that organiza
| ton. the question came up whether resi-
dent Delawareans were properly eligible tc
the society. The question was decided in
favor of the Delawareans, but whatever
the Southern society had decided as to this
question of eligibility, New Workers
would have gone right on CHASING Delaware
as Southern State, and Delawareans as
Southerners. To tell the truth, New
Workers are SO much occupied with theil
own affairs that they have little time for
the study of geography, so that they all
believe Delaware to be much further South
than she is. When New Yorker hears a
resident Delawarean speak of going home,
he gravely wishes him bon voyage as
though the man were about to take long
and perilous journey. The New Yorker
stares in astonishment ON hearing that the
Delawarean may reasonably hope to get
home in from to hours. But even a
clear notion of. Delaware's geographical re-
lation to New York would not disabuse
New Workers of the impression that Della
wareans are Southerners. "Oh that's your
southern wayl" is the explanation New
Yorker gives to any thing peculiar in a
Delawarean's conduct, and most New
Workers profess to detect slight Southern
accent upon the tongue of every Della
warean. Doubtless there is suspicion of
truth in all this. At any rate there is a
certain type that Delawareans long away
from home come to expect Of their fellow
Delawareans still nesting beneath the wing
of the tutelary Blue Hens Chickens, and
whether it be southern or not, it is certainly
something not usual in New York. came
across pronounced instance of the type
the other day. A friend had fallen in with
a clergyman and reported to me that he
looked more like a cavalryman than
parson. fell in with him myself not long
afterwards, and instantly recognized the
type. That tall, spare, almost gaunt figure,
with the straight muscular shoulders,
bronzed face, mustache and half military
air properly belonging to Southern Della
warean or an Eastern Shoreman. The
type, indeed, was almost sufficiently pro-
nouneed to be of Virginia origin. 1t was
all explained when the clergyman told me
that he was a Kent countian by birth, but
a Baltimorean by bringing up.
You find Delawareans here in all walks
of life. The one who has recently attracted
most attention is man of my own trade,
Lemuel Ely Quigg, M. c. Mr.. Quigg, as
perhaps you know, did his first newspaper
work as a reporter on the Wilmington
Morning Nea0s, ~ or IA years ago, when
his brother. was, I think. connected with
the business department of the same news
paper. When Mr.. Quigg came to New
York he quickly made for himself good
reputation as a wide-awake and capable
newspaper man. His place on the Tribune
staff has been an enviable one of late years
and there have been some uncommonly
clever things in its columns bearing his
signature. He made some studies of the
Bowery and of other odd places in New
Yord that newspaper men thought excel
lent
There is a considerable sprinkling of
in Newspaper Row. Harry
who was once associated with
the late Charles Reynolds in newspaper
venture up in Connecticut has been one or
more New York newspapers and is now
believe, the editor of Wall Street daily.
Harry Brown. formerly of Wilmington,
and later of Philadelphia, is the local polit-
icat man of the Herald, post that only |
an efficient man can get and keep. Pennel
Higgins is another newspaper man of Della |
ware, with three or four other Delawareans
scattered among the various newspaper |
staffs. Henry B. B. Staples, who resigned
his post as assistant distr let attorney, on
The recent election of Colonel Fellows, al.
though not Delawarean by birth, is one
by bringing up and, so, to speak, by
being son-in-law of H. Taylor
tiause. Mr.. Staples has now returned to
Ihe private practice of his profession. He
has delightful home at Pelham Manor,
West Chester county, the most beautiful
village within twenty miles of
New York. Mr.. Staples is interested in
politics and member of the Reform Clubs
Board of Trustees.
James A. B. Dilworth is certainly the
heaviest Delawarean in New York, and no
ION of the little state has more thoroughly
han he retained his native flavor. He be-
longs to widely known business house,
and his partner, Read Gordon, is, believe
of Delaware ancestry. A HeQnger brother
Of Mr., Dilworth is also in the 1Asiness.
The Rev. F. B Duh amal II not a Della
warean by birth. is at lea yseducation
and affection. His father certainly at one
lime ministered to a parish in Delaware.
and the son was educated at Delaware Col
Iege. The young man is now an assistant
In an important New York parish. The