The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-03
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER.
THEY WANT THE GOVERNORS
STAFF "TOUCHED UP"

Comment on Eleanor LexingtOn's
Articles ON AncestOrs-NO One
State Could Claim DIR. Curry-A
short Discourse on Names-The
Claim Put Forth by the Washing
ton, ID. c.. Chapter of Colonial
Danes of America-Some Views on
Name That Has Practically Pass
ed Out of the Public Mind-InfOr-
nation Relative to Promotions In
the Nayy-Other Matters of General
Interest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla, May
3.-The printer who made Maj" Cal
houn out of my Mayor" Calhoun de-
serves to be publicly reprimanded. The
Mayor Calhoun to whom l referred
was the honored and beloved father of
Col. William L. Calhoun, ex-Mayor Of
Atlanta, and almost, if not quite as
good a man as his worthy father, of
whom Gen. Sherman said to me: He
was one of the best men I ever knew.
and 1 was always glad to do anything
1 could for him, during my occupancy
of Atlanta" And when l introduced
Col. Calhoun to the general he gave
him a cordial greeting, saying: IF
you are half as good a man as your
father Atlanta ought to be proud OF
you" never knew the father, but
can bear testimony to the high char
acter of the son. Every old Confed-
crate soldier in Georgia blesses the
name of William Lowndes Calhoun,
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Atlanta.
1 am not a citizen of Savannah, yet
1 must heartily indorse the protest of
the Colonial Danes against the de-
struction of the old City Exchange.
Such an act of selfishness would sadly
mar the reputation of Savannah as d
venerable city, whose patriotism has
always been unselfish and heroic. What
better place could be selected in which
to store her treasures of old Colonial
days and her relics of later years of
heroic struggles? / cannot understand
why people ''ransack all creation" and
pay fabulous prices for old Colonial
furniture, and yet fail to preserve the
very Colonial or ancient home from
which such treasures come. Save the
old City Exchange and let the Colonial
Danes, the Daughters of the American
Revolution, the United Daughter of
the Confederacy, the Sons of the Amer
lean Revolution and other patriotic So
cieties have the use of it and keep it
in repair, preserving as far as possible
it's ancient features.
A reader of these letters wants to
know why I do not touch up" the
Governors staff. Well, there are two
reasons, one of which is that 1 don't
;c1, 20 I,,-k e.
timable gentlemen in Savannah who,
unfortunately, are in the gang" Sec
ondly, the caricatureS and satire of
the Atlanta papers make it quite I'M
necessary for me to drop down. and
take UP so ridiculous a Subject The
cartoons about the New Georgia
Colonels' of the past week in Atlanta
papers ought to make Gov Terrell feel
somewhat ashamed of his army of mis-
cellaneous staff officers. Gov. Stephens
and Gov. Northen both made their
stats somewhat ridiculous, but Geor-
gia's present Governor has won the
blue ribbon" over any Governor of
any state, past or present, in the whole
country. If the Legislature does not
remedy this evil. Georgia will become
the Laughing stock of the world in
this matter.
see that Eleanor Lexington is still
keeping up "A Corner in Ancestors"
in the Morning News. Last Sunday she
tackled the Wilhelm" "Pillelm," or,
in these days, Williams family, al
though the Wilhelm" family name
still goes sounding down the corridor
of Time" This writer, as I before stat
ed in connection with the Jones fam
lily, is both careless and ignorant in
her character of biographer. She says
Col. Ephriam Williams founded a
school. with free tuition, at "Williams-
town, Conn.," and it was called after
his name, which was the foundation
of the college of that place" Now, this
will mislead hundreds of the readers
of the Morning News, but the more