The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-07
BY EDITH SESSIONS TUPPER.
Copyrighted, 1902.

The average Londoner believes New
York city to be inhabited by fierce,
man-eating animals and painted,
whoopihg savages.
In much the same fashion the aver
age Fastener looks upon the great
West as merely the resort of muir
derous Apaches, bowling wildcats and
kissing rattlesnakes. He knows some
thing of Chicago and St. Louis, a very
little of Denver, still less of Salt Lake
City, and absolutely nothing of the
life of the plains and mountains.
And the people who dwell there
their habits, manners, appearance,
hopes, aims, ambitions, loves, and
hates-are a sealed book to the New
York or Boston cockney.
Once in a while a man like Gates
comes out of the West with a rush
and a whirl, bringing with him some
of the breeziness of the Rockies, and
stirs things upon enough in the East
to make the languid Orientals of the
Atlantic coast open their eyes and
say: "Who the deuce is this manY
But as a rule Fasteners are very
provincial. They are prone to think
that Boston, New York and Philadel-
phia bound the universe. They quite
forget the wonderful chain of busting,
thriving. prosperous cities in the
West. They quite forget the thou
sands of alert keen. quick-witted,
foreseeing intelligent men who are
daily shaping and moulding the des-
tiny of that marvellous section of our
country known to us Fasteners
vaguely as the West"
A Hnstvar Etrsf and Last
The Western business man is first,
last and all the time, hustler" He
eats, sleeps and lives business. En-
ergetic and alert and ever on the look
out for a good thing, he yet finds time
for relaxation, for entertaining and
for a kindly interest in his fellows. 1t
is by no means so difficult to see a
prominent business man in the West
as in the East. The Westerner is not
SO closely hedged about by clerks
and fiunkies. He will see you and
| listen courteously to your project.
| But he expects you to be explicit and
concise and then to clear out.
The Western politician, as all the
world knows, is the slickest on earth.
He may look like a granger, but he
| can give Wall street points. He may
not dine in a dress coat, but he can
| sway the finances of a great nation.
| liant, audacious. 1t is his pen that
stabs. He usually writes with the
| business end of a wasp. But he is
| just as clever, as epigrammatic, as
| administrative, as powerful, as his
brethren of the Eastern press.
The great financiers of the West
are men who have made their money.
Perhaps it is that very fact that makes
| them such formidable competitors to
| the Eastern money kings, most OF
| whom have inherited their vast wealth
But what about the ordinary, every
day Western man? He is really the
subject of this study. What is he like ?
How does he differ from his Eastern
brother? What is his attitude toward
woman" Is he as intelligent. fasci-
natini, chivalrous and attractive as
! the el ery-day man of the East?
I KIN " this is a delicate topic, one
| TO be , )proached with humility and
| prayer. So, in the first place. l wish
TO disclaim any prejudice against any
class of men. There are good fellows
in every walk of life.
Unusually ChfvaIrous 20 women.
The Western man, as l have noted
him, Is not so self-satisfied as the East
ern man. This is perfectly logical The
| Eastern man has remained at home
where he has been petted. caressed
| pampered by the women OF his fam
lily. and, incidentally. by those of other
| families. The estern man. as a rule
| broke away from the East when a boy,
struck out for himself, got plenty or
hard work and hard knocks. no petting
20 speak Of, and did not grow up fan-
| cying himself the only man on earth
lie Is more deferential and chlvalrous
60 woman-Derhaps because ne knows
her less,
In the widest toughest mining
camps OF the Far West, a woman whD
respects herself ~ respected by every
man, however bad his record IN that
camp. This cannot BE- said 81 many
civilized towns ~ the East Personal
/ ~, 1 have resolved more courtesy and
chiFalry iu - Plata Or Cripple Greek
| thsn s0nsiiRfs on Broadway 1he