The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23


erners in New York is legion. A story
is told of an Englishman, up to his
arms in a bog and rapidly sinking. A
Scotchman came along, and the fren-
zted Englishman shrieked at him:
Help, help! How can l get out?"
The Scotchman slowly removed his
pipe and looked. "Hoot, mon,' he an
swered, calmly, 81 dinna think We can
get oot." Then he went on his way.
No better antipode than the sublime
indifference of the Scotchman could
possibly be found for the attitude of
the average Southerner He has the
keenest sympathy with his kind, and if
he could have done nothing else he
would probably have jumped genially
into the bog to keep the Englishman
company. This sympathy gives one
reason why the Southern lawyer is so
| often particular success in his pro-
fession. He thinks of his client first
and his retainer afterwards. He sees
out of his clients eyeglasses, identi-
fies him with himself, prepares the
case, and pleads it as if he were work
ing for another ego. Whatever the
case, his personal interest is enlisted,
and George Gordon Battle and James
w. Osborne on opposite sides of the
well-known Molineux case, make an
interesting study of two North Caro-
llllldlS pltLGU against eSCn
The adjustable point of view which
| puts itself in the other mans place at
! will, is the quality pre-eminently re-
{ quired by the medical profession. A
| patient needs to be understood as we'll
as analysed, to be dosed spiritually
as well as physically by some one
! who diagnoses temperament and mall
| ady alike. A man may have the phar-
I macopoeia at his tongues end, but
| hex n@% L. I,.l
| his vocation. The Southerner with
his quick appreciation of different per-
sonalities. his love of people, his abb
| sorbing interest in every human fact,
| is ideal material for a doctor. 1t is
no wonder that New Yorks cross
| streets are punctuated with signs of
| successful Southern doctors. Several
! of these doctors stand among the first
| ten in the city, with an international
reputation to their credit. DR.. VIII
liam NJ. Polk, grandson of a Presi-
dent son of the fighting bishop" and
/ Southern to the core; DR.. Walter B.
| James, professor of medicine, the
most important chair of all perhaps
| in the College of Physicians and Sur
geons; DR.. Virgil P. Gibney, DR.. John
A Wyeth, all of them in the sacred
| ten of New York's leading physicians,
are demonstrating every day to the
country in general, to New York and
! suffering humanity in particular, the
advantages of a Southern heritage
| plus genius.
Prominen Teachers and CIergymen.
Columbia University, with three
Southern professors, Thomas r.
Price, William P. Trent and j. Bas-
sett Moore, and Dean Keener of the
| Law School graduated to a judgeship,
has shown it's material approval of
| the South in New York. A trio of
New York's famous ministers are
! Southerners-Dr. David H. Greer of
st. Bartholomew j. Nevett Steele
of Trinity and Ernest M. Stores
of Trinity. Indeed, so many and so
! important are the Southerners within
| the borders of the city that only with
a blue book of professions and indus
| tries would it be possible to classify
them. The South and the North are
bound together in New York, and if
| a cyclone tomorrow should sweep
every Southerner out of the city, So
ciety would have to drape itself in
Grape and business go on clutches. If
John G.. Carlisle, Thomas F. Ryan.
i capitalist and director in twenty five
| of the most important companies in
| the city; George Foster Peabody,
J Charles Steele, member of the firm
of John P. Morgan, director in twen-
ty-five railroads or more; r. t. Will
son; Emerson Mcmillan, president or
director of a score of the leading gas
companies in New York; w. H. TIL
ford, treasurer of the Standard Oil
Company; Randolph Guggenheimer,
Theodore Price, ex-Gov. Thompson of
| South Carolina, controller of the New
| York Life--if these and a score of
/ the other Southern men whose indi-
vidual brains are conceiving and car
rying out gigantic plans and far
reaching enterprises, should suddenly
drop them where they were, in the
crash and panic that would beat about
| the ears of the country, it would APP
preciate the South in New York as it
never had before.
An Old Myth Exploded.
! In the face of the untiring energy
with which the Northern Southerners
have threshed out success from New
! York fields the supposed languor of
| the South-born seems rather joke.
| A Southern-born Erie clerk who
| rose from the yard gets down town
| at $50 and leaves anywhere
between the hours of and
that seems to him wise. A young
Georgian tackled up cheap little sign
on the door of a sky-lit room in the
Post building about fifteen years ago,
| and in less than six years his was the
! leading name in one of the most con-
| spicuous houses in the street, and his
rent was more month than his first
! office had cost year. He did not get
his success by sitting still, but by in
tense application and downright hard
work that would have made a stone
| breaker wonder Even the average
! transplanted Southerner works with a
zeal and fire and energy that quite
| eclipse the strenuous efforts of the
/ Northerner. 1t is as IL the unexhaust-
ed strength of leisurely foregoing gen.
4 erations, coiled within him like
| spring, was released against the task
/ in hand with an overwhelming impact.
''They come up here with their car
pet-bags and walk off with thing you
have worked to get for years. Think of
| the luck of it," walled a disgruntled
| Northerner who had just lost an office
| to a Southerner. He did not understand
| that "the luck" was a combination of
energy and his opponents talent for
| making friends. whatever might Re
pressing. Pleasure, too, is more often
| included In his schedule, and he sell
! dom gets so completely submerged in
work that he losses fun when IL offers.
/ Why do Southern men succeed so
| pre-eminently and so conspicuously?
They have nothing 10 lose, so they
| can risk everything" was the laugh
ing answer OF one OF the successful
| who himself had risen 10 be a MEM
Der Of a great law firm IN few years.
That is not all II is the flavor OF
originality that goes into the daring