The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17
New York. Dec. F.


 uucstfne me to write something of tn. succhss of Southern men and women in New York. assigned to me a subject beyond my ability. but one which must confess quite touched my heart
 The love of home and native land even of section of a native land. Is q human emotion that Is enduring. My earliest recollections of the South bring ever before me a scene of smoul- derfne, smoking wreck and ruin, for my childhood was passed in the broad barren way of sherman's march to the sea, and to this day can hear, in my waking dreams the dull. distant roar Of fthe guns at Bentonville, the last i battle of the Civil War.
 My later recollections of the South are slargeiv of years of bitter toll and str1isr1e with poverty. Illness and ad- versitv: then. finally some small suc- cesses Tn my work that proved stenpins stones to better things. But through alI those reccIlections there runs ever and always the memory of brave men and gentle women. the music of kin' words and the touch of hefping hands Tn my dreamssI can see again the lone moss on the trees. the fields of cottni and cane: the odor of the magnolia blossoms comes back to me on the winds of .dreamland and then ! can say with truth and feeling. T love the South."
 To write of the success of Southern men and women in New York in detail would he much like writing story of events day by day. record of the days work They succeed here. sun pose, because they were born to sue ceed somewhere in the world and New york fs just a great big world con- fined in a small space. Or 1t may be ' {hat there is some stimulant in the at rnosphere of ceaseiess activity that rouses all their latent energy.
 One en virsinia.
 There Is an old. old story of an old vtrrinfa negro who met in Broadwav one dav a white man whom he at once reeasaizesi as Southerner.
 ssvhat State. Is gou from, Colonel? the nesro asked ;.fvtr@iniar"
 TT know'd it. Colonel. the minute I sut eyes on you. Lots o.mfghtv smart folks comes here from ole Virginy an de smarter dey is de sooner dey comes" . n EIt may be that the men and women wflo have cone here from the south were smart and came early on that ac- count. In any event they have sue t.eeded, most of them. Southern men stfe in the very forefront of business. f,nanceE and tho professions In New York: and Southern women rank high m music, art. literature and in the best social life of the city. It is estimated that there are in New York today 250.- poe natives of the South, and 1t Is safe to say that all of them who are fail uros here would fail anywhere. But there is nothing striking ar unusual In this. New York is fertile field for the development of brains and energy. lt is the most cosmopolitan city in the world and in business and the profess sions 1t is strikingly free from cant. sectionalism and hypocrisy. Men and women from tho South. the West, the East. from every quarter of the globe for that matter, are in New York just what they make themselves, in social aud material life. When they enter the race here with start. any kind of a start be 1t never so humble. they may truthfully sing with the poet Henley:
 T am the master of my fate.
 l am the captain of my soul"
 had never been in New York until came here 10 work and to live. But the pictures Of the place and its peo- pie that had been painted for me! remember some of them. but I see them no more because the living realities have plotted them all out as sunshine dispels a mist. And If I may write a little of personal experience let 1t be to send message to all the South to say that human nature is just the same in New York as 1t is in all the world, except men and women touching elbows so closely in the mad rush for fame and fortune get the veneer of sham conventionality sand-papered off them and they stand with their virtues and their faults revealed.
 New York Has Heart.
 My friends of the South, believe me the people of New York are not the an lures they are painted. We have fren- zied fnanciers. thieving politicians and buccaneering insurance men, but down under the surface in the great throb- ping, pulsfng human life of New York there are millions of hearts as true and friendships as warm as the world has eyer known. was told before came here that in case of sickness or trouble I would find no friends in New York I have had the sickness and the trouble all right, plenty, but here in this great city have found the truest. kindest and most disinterested friends I have ever known.
 One of tke delights of New York Is that you may pick your friends and ae- quaintantes. If you make an enemy move next door and see him 10 more That is another of the advantages, tho small one eithsr) of fife in great
 But had not intended indulging in so much personal talk. want to send another message to the South and in this also I know whereof speak There Is no sectionalism In Wall Street and just now the great fnan>iers of New York are looking towards the South and make no mistake. they are very much awake to the possibilities of that section. One incident will illus trate what mean. Last summer two distinguished citizens of Alabama came here seeking $2,000.000 capital to de- velop certain property in the State. They asked me if I could arrange for them to meet certain men. l could. They spent two hours telling me about their plans. I went to see Mir. Cord Meyer who is a large stockholder- in the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company and told him of the scheme. In i've minutes he told me more of the mat ter than the promoters had told me in demonstrate that they can do what they say, they can get $20.000, 900 in day"
 Must Make Showing.
 The poInt would, if 1 may, impress Oh the men of the South who seek to develop its wonderful resources is that they can get all the money they nevd in New York, but come with goud bus mess propositions and when you go to the banker or the financIer be able to show him" that you can make good Oh what you say.
 This Is all one country now. There are no war memories in Wall Etraef