The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-01-18
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
BY H. W. FINLAYSON.


thought in an editorial Saturday
in one of the city dailies. 1t i'm
pressed the writer so that he
culled the following pointed ad-
vice to send South. ':If dissatis
faction with what you are doing,
the way to get away from it, is
to work hard and intelligently
at it, you cannot grumble your
self away from it.
Your correspondent is ':dub-
bed" the yankee Southerner"
in New York. Don't know if
proud of the title or not, truth is
in daily contact with these
Yankees an opportunity is never
to press that a word for.the South
is not put in, and without mine
ing of words. It is certainly sur
prising, the ignorance prevail
ing in the minds of many here
of conditions South. Many public
speakers, ministers and others,
writer's, to say nothing of pro
fessional and business men, eX-
hibit a lack of information. that
would not be so marked and dis
gusting, if they did not arrogate
to themselves the right to criti-
else, denounce, dictate, suggest.
1t is a pity the press of the South
circulates so little North, or this
sad condition would not prevail.
Many here who have seen and
heard Booker Washington ina
CINE he is a fair sample of the
negro race, and believe all are
like him or can be developed into
his equal. They think farmers,
cotton raisers are all "Reubs"
from away back and when told
that the farming class in the
South measure up to their equal
Intellectually, morally and other
wise, they will not believe it.
Readers can imagine what a SEN
sitive Southerner has to contend
with among such people There
are exceptions, of course.
Fred Thompson, a young Ohio
boy, has met with phenomenal
success here. A mechanic, he
became a draughtsman, planned
buildings for the Nashville and
Buffalo Exposition. At the latter
he bought a stranded show,
made 100000, drifted to New
York, built Luna Park at Il cost
of 100000, with his 100000
cash and s500,000 credit, opened
it with 5000 in his pocket, and
a half million debt; employing
1000 men and women, later en-
larged it at cost of 81, 500, 900;
today completing and next
month opens the greatest Hip
podrome on earth. His wealth is
estimated at i to 100000 and
made it in about three years.
Thompson says his secret is con-
idence, cheerfulness and never
to lose his head. While he has
been doing this many scores
have signally failed Is it luck,
chance, good fortune or the fac
ulty Of finding the popular chord
and striking it right:
Your correspondent passes
Newspaper Row. twice daily
often halting and as he gazes on
the buildings housing the great
enterprising dailies, meditates
on present day New York Jour
nalism, comparing it with that
of long ago. Here on this spot
Horace Greely, James Gordan
Bennett, Charles A. Dana, all
the great editors who have a
place in history, did their work.
Great in their day, their papers
did not compare WITH InOSe OF
1905. Far better papers are pub
lished in cities of so to 100000
now than those leaders sent out
in their day. One reason the
present day publishers do not
rise to prominence as did Greedy:
Bennett, Dana, is their person
alities were in the papers then,
now on each great daily's staff
is a corps of able men, each do
ing his special work, SO that no
single man gets or deserves the
entire credit. The editors of old
wrote their own editorials: now
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