Show 00 TELL ORIGIN OF DIXIELAND I II I II Claim Dixie Was d I From Misnomer For I ForI French Bank Note I NEW ORLEANS La April 12 The wI r The passing of a famous southern banking I through consolidation has haa drawn draw n attention again to the origin of the term Dixie as applied to the th southland The claim that the th e word came from the name of o a aman aman man who once lived lI In New York k seems to be set at rest by the tee I ec- ec of this Institution the Citi Citizen's zens zen's Bank and Trust compan which has haa been merge merged after 91 9 years of continuous operation nit with Ith d Ithe the Commercial Canal Trust Truet and an bank bankMAN MiL MAX MAN NAMED DIXIE andI I Some authorities have attribute a Dixie to the name of one Dixie a large landholder and kind heart kindhearted kindhearted ed sla slave e owner 0 ner who resided on o n Manhattan Island during the latter part butIn of the eighteenth but bu buIn t In hew ew t ew Orleans they take no stock In in such a story and point to old of d chronicles of the Mississippi val sal al valley salley Ie ley and to the records of the to disprove itIn It ItIn In the he thirties America w was s flooded with wildcat mone money mones and an d counterfeiting was so common that tha dt t suspicion became fled fined on almost almos t all paper money mone Through It all ho hoe e er the bank notes of the th e CItizens commanded the tho respect of o othe the tho hole of the Mississippi v Salle aile and the remainder ot of o the country as we well II PRINTED IN L FRENCH FRIl n nathe In the days daya before the ar na r the Citizens notes note were printed In 1 French as well as English The Th a most common denomination was wa B the tho ten dollar note Dote and It bor bore e the Roman numeral X N and the th e Arabic numerals IO 10 But also alao In the middle of the back was printed the French word Dix amidst other lettering In I French rench ron MOEY The Mississippi river then was the tho between great highway of be- be be tween New Orleans and the north and In the tho argot of the river when a man was wag headed down south In- In In to Into Louisiana on on a trading expedition backwith tion he was going too to to come back with a pocket full ot of Dines to Dixie was an Easy step And the south louth particularly Louisiana theland became known as the tho land of or more briefly as Dixie Land It was then that Daniel Emmett minstrel wrote hie his Jing jing- ling Jingling song Away Down South In DixIe Incidentally the Song Bong first was wae published In New Orleans and by a business music mUle house which still is in busl- busl busi busi- ness on Canal street |