The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

interesting couple and one very popular in the Southern social circles of New York.
 William Parker, a son of Prof. W. A. Parker, of the University of Alabama, holds a high office with a steamship company. His brother is . successful New York lawyer.
 Having gone through with the money making Alabamians there are number who are not quite so fortunate in worldly goods but who have attained enviable regulations nevertheless. They are the newspaper men. Practically every newspaper writer who came to New York from Alabama mas been suc- cessful.
 The veterans of the corps are Will Ham Hawley. political editor of the Evening Sun and Roy McCardell. hum orist of the Evening World Both of them came from The Bil mingham Age Herald and made good. They have been nere fifteen years and are regarded as 'topnotchers" in their profession,
 Theodore B. Sayre, another Alabama writer is now a playwright of the | first rank. He is Froham's right hand man and has written some of the most successful plays of the last decade. Other newspaper men who have come to the top are Sewell Haggard, tele- graph Editor of The New York Even ing Sun and T. Math Alexander of The Journal of Commerce. The writer has been with The World two years. |, Montrose Moses, a young man from Montgomery, is a competent New York reviewer and critic whose writings are sought by high class magazines The AlnbRma women. It listing all the prominent Alaba- mians it would be unfair to conclude without mentioning some of the wo- men who have come here and have their efforts rewarded.
 Of the art colony Mrs. Clara Wea- yer Parrish, of Selma, has been more successful than she had ever hoped for In art the rise is not rapid andAit takes years for a student to become known. Some of Mrs. Parrish's work has been complimented by the masters and that means a whole lot. Art critics are not very profuse with their praise. It is usually one of those foreign shrugs Of the shoulders.
 Mrs Darlington Sempie, is an esti- mahle Alabama woman who has suc- ceded here. She has one of the most se- llect and well patroniZed private schools 1 in the city of New York. Many of her pupils are Southern girls.
 Martha Young, the well known read CT is very, popular with those who love
 the higher classes of entertainment She gives frequent readings of her Southern sketcpes at the AstOr rOoIn of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel and is well patronized. The, pHrroness of her entertainments include some of the best known society women Of New York Miss Young comes from Greens boo.
 Miss Pauline Dubose has succeeded in establishing a home where girls from Alabama can board in New York without the necessity of a chaperon. Her home is a great place for meeting people from the South and d few hours there makes one feel aA 1T he were back in the South and enjoying the real Southern dishes which are very rare in New York, by tAo way. Mrs, Dubose comes from Birmingham.
 Tn the limited space of this article 1t Is very difficult to give an intelli- gent idea of what Aiabamians are do- ing here and only few could be se- lected from the ones more prominent. lit will he remembered that there are over three hundred not mentioned in this article. There's quite a colony
 Until this year the icsa of an Ala bama Society had never been spread in y, fertile ground. All of the Southern states have societies here however, and Col Caftey and Phelan Beale started the new movement. It immed- iately became popular and Mir. Beale says that he is receivfSy on an aver age of thirty applications for member.