The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-07-01
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MRS. WILLIAM c. BROWNLOW,
Grand Old Lady's Birthday In Sept
ember.

Grand Old Lady's Birthday In Sept
ember.
1t will be many years before Mrs.
William G. Brownlow, wife of the
famous former governor of the Vol
unteer Srate, will be forgotten to
the public view. Her place in the
hearts and minds of the people of
Knoxville is unique, and is a gen.
erous place which has been made
so by the balm of time which heals
the wounds of all ARRAYS whether
OF heart, or pen or sword.
When a reporter for the Journal
and Tribune called at the Brown
low residence on East Cumberland
street during the latter part of the
week Mrs. Brownlow, now in her
eightieth year, was found talking
over the olden times with a friend.
The grand old lady loves to live
in the past. She is abreast of the
times nevertheless, but it is when
when the stories of the past years
of her life with which she is so well
acquainted are recalled that she
becomes young once again and tells
of those things which are so dear to
her memory.
But on this particular occasion. of
the-aforesaid reporters visit, Mrs.
Brownlow said very quietly and in
a very smiling manner, that she
did not wish to be interview. She
had something of a horror Of a
newspaper reporter, she said, with
just the suspicion of a touch of lev
ity in her voice. They quoted her
sadly as she explained and she
was afraid thVt another effort
would be as bad in this direction as
previous ones.
But Mrs. Brownlow meant only
half of what she said regarding the
reporters. She likes them as well
as any other class of workers, and
she knows that which but few 9th.
er people in Knoxville know, the
names of nearly every member Of
the newspaper craft of this city
She asked about them separately
and recOunted the times when they
had assailed her for information on
various subjects. Sometimes, said
Mrs. Brownlow, she had been re.
ported correctly, and at other times
she had had the misfortune to find
her interviews bungled, and all the
time in the wrong direction.
Mrs. Brownlow said IN this con
nection that at the outbreak of the
Spanish-American war a local cor
respondent for a New York paper
had talked with her relative to the
outlook for the war at that time
and that few days later she Wa,
quoted in the New York paper az
being of a very patriotic spirit anC
wishing her grandson, Mr.. Boytor
Hale, OF this city. to enlist as vol
unteer to fight the Spanish.
Mrs. Brownlow said that she was
of course patriotic to the stars anG
: stripes but that so far as wishing L
send her grandson to the front tina
part of the story was rathel
stretched. She promised a gooC
raking for the correspondent thu
next time she caught him within
the confines of her part of the city
Mrs. BrownlOw discussed tn,
newspapers of to-day in Knoxville
and compared them with the pa
pers of her younger time. Sh,
thought the character of the press
were much improved, but believed
that the press of today should no
harp too much on modern time
without given some space to tn,
happenings of long ago. She be
lieved that this sort of readin,
would form aWery interesting col
umn for any daily especially to tn
cider people of Knoxville.
Although Mrs. Brownlow ha
felt the blithe winds of eighty aut
ums, her face is yet more than OF
/ dinarly bright and her intellect ha
| not been in the least bedimmed h
the soaring marks of time. Des
/ pite the fact that the SHOWS OF a