Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
OHIO MAN WROTE
DIXIE" FAVORTE
SONG OF THE SOUTH
First Written as a Walk
Around" for Minstrel
Show in New Y ork
Made a Hit at Once.

Once appropriated to the service Of the
Confederacy as battle song ITS use
ana popularity are no" n"'''nol-'n 'ae'
one iears 1t inc world over re" kno"
Une ""'"S o' l'N'e' yet SO '""'aS'""SN
p'eaS'"s Is 'I9 music '''"' II mas 'e'''"'
so"s "''"o'' "''"S VI u'''''S0I "p-
pea'
many stories are related with moro
or less authority by the t"liers, as to
how the song came To he comDoscd
mud ps 70 tb. ori,i, aud .irris,,,,, of
lne WORD blN'e. mere u.s. however
NO uou1t as TO its a'thotshiP. IT. was
written hN DaneI pecG-ur Emmett In l>5'
Wnle ne was memher or NIEantH
Mlnstrt!S' whose lAeatFe was at az
DLvau"HH'
me STORY "i now II came 10 ne writ
zen was "ltsl to'd 70. Emmett. nd"r
ms contract NE was oolA@d' whenever
Ca"eu upon" |" CONFUSE new walk
ai"uhu 10 oe sung AT the close oi each
performance. II was on one Of these
oScas'ohS tAat ne Wrote DIXIE on very
snort notice as he shid. II was first
sung as 'N'aht programs snow on sep
'emoer u, I>'4 program OF that date
Ieaus! Inc performance to conclude with
ban Emmett urlsinnl plantation song
'-'N' ms III
"hoIe troupe IN their festival dance
ORIGIN or UORD "Drvrr-"
!" ""e '''S'" ana slshihcance OF
the word Dixie Mr.. Emmett said
that It was suggested 10 hin, in this
vav. Ae soon ss co,i ,,tr.n,. IT.
sun as C''"' "'''E weather
oon,a,,. -.a,,,5 ,,s ,'.'.,s''t.5 ....,., u ms
IN nixio,s ro,d ~, . -. .,,., ,.,,
if was common for tba,o ~ cav '' ,ona. %"H
ingy. 40, 1 wish was in Dixtes
Land. As to the meaning of tho
wag,o,,. wW,m D.M,V s,,nr,sol mus uS'' IL Was
of Dixon" donoting anv place south
of Ntaso,, ard ri>o,,,s Iiro
Anotber am aWthorfty oTT,' tbn tj,,' Now vor,,
,Itsi,,' w Nv lu.N
MuslcaI Age, lonS extinct mad con-
nected it with one Dixie, Long Island
farmer, who harbored runaway female
slaves and treated them so kindly that
his asylum became known far and wide
among the Negroes; hence, when. from
time to time. the wife of slave would
make successful getaway" and reach
DiXie's the word went around that she
was in Dixie Land"
Another widely accepted version was
based upon an old New York tradition
anent a man AIMED Dixie who owned a
tract OF land on Manhattan island. II,
he treated so kindly that Diyic's was
regarded as a sort of Negroes nara
disc In course of time he sold ali his
slaves to Southern rlsn+ors and +baro
after they used 10 wish themselves bscl,
at DiXie's. and so Divis or Di,ia rard
--seearne a synonym for 4 place or state
VI P''p''''' ''Pi'''''SS
GAME or DIME LAND
An Old resident Of New York tells Of
game called pixie Land which he
used to play many years before the Civil
war Inc game was to run upon Your
opponents section and then taunt the
catcher with = song running so1,o,,b.t
as follows.
I'm on Dlxio's land Dixie ain, a, howe.
Dixie's gone fishing. DINO can't come
Another curious conjecture as to the
origin OF the word 'DtNie' is current
among Louis.anians who aver that the
word DIX was printed on the $40 bank
notes which the New orleans banks had
MADE IN Paris. They were always re-
ierred TO as 'DiNies,' and so Southerners
away fFom home and in low water .nan-
GlaIly would sigh regrettullF for Dixie
Land and wish themselves back there
But Whatever the origin OF the word
frst sprang @ into inc nopgiarity 7G17 in New Ntg or
leans in the fall of 1860 whore it was
suns IN a taeatFe at the c1oSs Of spec
women dressed ~ z5a,.es ~. 'T, '' o.''.I
was instantaneous. and from the eros
cent city 1t rapidly spread to Confederate
i,sboI ~ s"S SntS IG-o,'',,- 'ry eSt"'-
.,,o,.,- -
n H.
IL Is sald that New YORK band, Men
ters, brought the song back with them
from New Orleans. whittier they had gone