The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
DOLLY DALRYMPLE IN SERIES OF STORIES TELLS OF SOME THINGS SHE SAW AND
 HEARD ON REGENT VISIT TO NEW YORK
No. 4-An Alabama Man Who Has Made Good in New York
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE


 This is the story of an Alabama man who has made good' in the big old busy. hustling city of New York
 Anybody who has the inane imagination to think that making good" there doesn't mean a lot has got another guess com ing to them.
 Making good" in New York is differ ent from making good" anywhere else in, the world; there. the best talent from every quarter of the globe is gathered; :; mediocre people don't count; this is an age of specializing and if you don't measure up to your particular speciality hand, why, you'd better cash in your chips and skip.
 In any line-music, art. church work settlement work, dress making, nllli- nery the hotel business, stocks and bonds, it matters not how important the pcofes- sion-or unimportant, if you are not ''ace high" in your work you stand a mighty poor show in New York.
 Some 20 years ago MT, Roy L. Brown of Decatur left the south and decided he'd make a name for himself in the hotel business.
 It so happened that he was minehost at the pretty little Hotel Bresln in New York when I was there recently
 What more natural than that we should talk of Alabama-our mutual friends our interests, and what more natural than that the successful achievement of this popular Alabama man who by sheer force of personality, -stickability and ciev- erness should be chronicled by one from his own native state?
 Mir Brown has many friends nsre in Birmingham who remember him no doubt as boy certainly all of his Decatur friends recall the youngster who played about the streets there when he was lit tie more than babe in arms.
 Today MT. Brown is the manager of one of the most attractive and one of the most largely patronized hotels in New York, and what struck me most forcibly about his clientele was that nearly every body was from the south
 That MT. Brown has kept up his ac- quaintance and has declared a dividend on his loyal friendship to his southern friends. is manifest in the success of his hotel.
 In speaking of his career and how he set New York as the goal to which he meant to work, MT Brown said among other things
 Tt is rather odd, but when I was a little boy. quite g. little boy, I made up my mind that l was going to be one of two things-a hotel man or an actor T didn't get as far as the footlights, not even for an amateur tryout, and I guess 1t was lucky I didn't. So early in the game 1 decided on carrying out my plans to become the manager of big hotel in New York some day. stuck to it and here I am.'
 q used to see the clerks standing back of the desk in the hotels in Decatur where was a boy. and I was very much impressed with the elegant aid and big diamond rings that they wore" said he and so l determined to follow out that calling. Accordingly when I was old enough to get away from home I went to Cincinnati and my first job was with the Palace hotel there. Of course, I started in the smallest sort of position and I can safely say I have worked in every position that is possible for a man to occupy in the hotel business I know it from every angle, from every side, and in my estimation it is the only way for a man to become the successful head of a big hotel I served my time in different southern hotels after I left Cincinnati being connected for sometime with the Staunton house in Chattanooga after which I went to the Hotel Somerset in Boston. This gave be my first real start In the hotel business, you might say, for northern hotels differ considerably both in management and patronage from southern hotels ,and man has got to