The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
.SOUTHERNERS IN
CITY OF NEW YORK
Are Given Some G0od Advice
BY Justice Swain
NOTES AND PERSONALS
About People and Things in the Coun-
ty's Metropolis That Are In
teresting to Newspaper
Readers In the South.


There has been good dial of discussion
among southerners here of the address
made by Justice Swami at the recent Sc
vance alumni dinner In which he said:
| stop being professional southerners and
be New YorSers. 1t Is to this city that
you have come to make your fortunes
and you owe it to her to aelp her ac-
complish her ideals"
It is the best opinion that Justice
| Swami was simply INDUCING in little
rhetorical persifage 80 to speak. While
tho southern men in New York are loyal
| to their old homes and always will be
with rare exceptions. there are no moro
loyal New Yorkers and no inen who have
helped the city Of their adoption more
to accomplish her ideals. In every line
of endeavor in New York southern men
may be found working loyalty. inte'li-
gently and effectively for tie best In
terests of the great city. Nevertheless
they are proud of their southern hertz
! age.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bedell Parker entertained
the officers of the Georgia society dur
ing Christmas week.
Among those present were: Thomas H.
Mcclure, James b. Allen, Floyd S. Car
bin, w. NJ Pendleton. D. Wyatt Aiken,
| E. e. Malcolm, Lagare Walker and DR..
| r. L. Pou.
| letter was read from John d. Rookie
! Teller thanking the society for resoiu-
| ton which was passed at one OF Its re"
| cent meetings commencing him for his
donation of $1,0O0000 toward the estab-
| lishment of commission to investigate
| the hookworm'' disease in the south.
! Mr.. William G. Jones of this city who
| has Just returned from a business trip
through the south does not think much
| of the prohibition law in Alabama Mr.
| Jones said to me the other day: THE
prohibition law in Mobile, Ala, Is not
enforced among the white people, but 1t
| Is the law with negroes"
| II did not myself experiment with the
| hotel bars, but was told that any re-
| spectacle looking person will be served
! on application with cocktails from bot
| ties; high balls, which are a mixture or
| whisky and soda water In ordinary soda
| water bottles; with the sarue form or
| ginger ale, and with near beer, which
| is the real article under a fictitious label.
| I'm addition to these regular bars"
| continued Mr.. Jones, there are large
number of soda fountains at which the
If a certain kind of drink is called for
the man at the fountain will pour an
ordinary dose of whisky into glass
and fill it up with carbonated water
I had the pleasure of meeting Rev. r.
r. White, formerly pastor CT the First
Presbyterian church of Macon. Ga, this
week and of exchanging news OF mutual
acquaintances in the Central City.
Mr. White is pastor of the Fourth Pres
byterian church in this city and Is one
of the busiest men in New York with
something like 100 communicates under
his care He has made place for him.
self in New York and is regarded IS one
of the strong men in the New YORK
presbytery. He has a warm spot In. mis-
heart for Georgia and GeorE1ans.
The official announcement by Chief Som
mex of the division of music OF the
library of Congress that Dixie Is the
most popular national air, should cause
no surprise to any one who has heard
the yell which nearly always greets THIS
battle song of the Confederacy when II
is played in public. There Is something
In the air of Dixie or maybe 1t Is In
the associations which sets the blood OF
a southerner tingling and makes MIN
want to express his feelings In noise ana
he generally does 1t.
New York's fame as a matrimonial CEN
ter has received another Endorsement
when a Georgia man, "a widower by
death" wrote to 1.-The manager OF the
New York matrimonial bureau for q
wife of very particular qualifications. inc
postal people interpreted the address 10
mean the marriage license bureau at
the city han and City Clerk soully, after
puzzling over the missive, gave 1t out
with the elimination OIL the nPpAe"s
name and address.
"I am a widower by death. 30 years OF
age. light complexion, weigh 210 pounds
am feet, 10 inches tall, of good moral
standing. religiously Methodist, have
position which pays $40 month, am
worth 5000 and have no incumbranoe
1T want to get for a wife woman be-
tween the ages of Is and As years of age
She must be intelligent, with $l0,oO or
more.
"The right woman will be placed in good
society and treated like a queen. For an
introduction of the above character, II IL
amounts to anything, will pay you we'll
Understand, am looking for some ready
cash as we'll as good looks. Hope TO near
from you at an early date.
There must be something wrong with
that man. or he wouldn't have to 30 so
far from the Sand Of good wives to secure
q helpmate.
Louisiana will have to BE- reckoned
with in the citrus fruit business of the
east" says J. NJ. Ragsdale OF New Or
leans, who was in New York over the
holidays I'VE are growing oranges fully
the equal Of any from Florida or Cali
fornia. and that fact is being recognized
in the eastern markets The industry Is
growing and many groves are being plant
ed and the growers are making money"
Among the southerners I have seen in
New York the past few days are c. B.
Jones and Mrs. Jones of Knoxville. Mr..
and Mrs. Forbes of Chattanooga, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. D. Rogers OF Chattanooga. Mr..
Charles A. Wickersham of Atlanta, Miss
Mabel Shelton of Paducah. KY, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. J. Trimble of Louisville. Mr..
and Mrs. T. J. Southland of Richmond,
va Nj, and Mrs. Hubbard of Richmond