The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18
ALABAMIAN NOT PLEASED
 BY NEW YORK RECEPTION

New York, November 17--(Special) )-The Morning Telegraph prints the following:
 Col. Walker r. Langdon of Harris vile. Ala, came north yesterday and right away quick he began to learn a few things about our northern customs. The colonel is good, old dyed-in-the-cotto southern gentleman. who, sir, has never before, sir, been this side of the Mason and Dixon line.
 The colonel only left Alabama because he has some stock in a sugar concern that is about to have shareholders meet ing, and the colonel thinks it is good opportunity to look after his interests and see what New York looks like. He has heard that Harrisville is quite different from New York, and so Is New Orleans.
 The colonel brought his daughter, Caro- line, along. Now, Caroline is some cotton bales in the way of looks; none of the stage stars can be said to have that at tractive freshness that Miss Caroline Langdon brings with her from the sunny old plantation. Therefore, no New York gentleman would think it strange or out of the ordinary that Caroline should be the cynosure of all eyes, as it were.
 But the southern gentleman feels very differently about such things. So does Caroline. Caroline does not look at man unless she knows him, and means 1t. The colonel believes. that that is right, quite right. He would not stand on corner and make remarks about any lady that passed by. If he did so, he would be prepared to defend his remark with all the weapons that nature and art pro- Vide
 So after the pair had arrived at the hotel and prepared their belongings so they could enjoy their stay, they bundled up in all their heavy clothes, expressed their views on how cold 1t was, and started to walk down Forty-second street toward Fifth avenue They were going to walk down Fifth avenue and see if the houses looked as nice as those on Main street, back in Harrisville. Here's where the excitement began.
 Colonel Langdon, by the way is quite some man, even if he is gray-haired and walks with a chapparal cane that a friend in Texas sent him. When he stepped out of the door of his hotel and walked as far as the Four Corners he had the street all to himself Still he noticed that few passersby on the other side stopped to look. He attributed it to all the advertisements strewn around, and he, too stopped to look and remark on them to his daughter
 But when he reached the Four Cor ners where three song-writing experts not unknown to fame happened to be standing, and saw that they were look ing at his daughter and not the signs, he stopped and scowled. He started to go toward them and raised his cane at the same time. Here one of the experts bowed slightly and turned. The others also proceeded to mind their own busi- ness The colonel evidently accepted this as an apology, murmured a few words and wandered on. Anyway, he thought, as his daughter resumed his arm, no gentleman would fight before lady.
 About halfway to Sixth avenue a man, well dressed and all the rest of it. not only looked at his daughter while he was approaching them, but he also stopped and looked after them. This swas more than Colonel Langdon's southern blood could stand for He escorted his daugh- ter to the doorway of fashionable store and then he walked right up to the man