The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-04-06
A COLLAPSED DREAM.
Or a Story Of Great but DiSap-
pointed Expectations.

pointed Expectations.
William Shakespeare, the author
of a number of greatly admired
tragedies and comedies, put into
the mouth of one of his creations
called Hamlet" the words: ITO
what base uses we may come"
The speculative train which gave
birth to these words was caused by
an inspectation of the skull of one
Yoric, an individual with whom it
would appear this emaciated young
man, Hamlet" once held very
intimate relations. Be that, how
ever, as it may, HERALD reporter,
singularly enough had the same
thought suggested to him yesterday,
though from a somewhat different
cause. He happened to be knocking
around the boiler yard Of Haynes y
Sons, on South Temple street, and
saw the men hammering away at
some very rusty boilers. Enqulrlng
what they were, he was informed
that they were the boilers taken
from the famous General Garfield,
the last name under which this
craft was known to the great pub
lie. Mr.. Haynes stated that the
boilers had been taken out OF the
steamer and sent to this city to be
dressed up, and they were then to
be sold or otherwise disposed OF by
cunningham s. Co., who had or
dered the work done. 1t was also
ascertained in another quarter, that
this noble vessel, which had plowed
the briny deep of Great Salt Lake for
so many years, would no more
'said the ocean blue" but Ihad been
consigned to the duty of affOrding
bar Injuries and liquors during the
coming summer, and that she is
tightly moored to the shore near
Lake point, or Garfield Landing.
Could a fellow hearing this help
making a personal application Of
the illustrous brod's suggestion.
"To what base uses we may
come" Think of having your
boilers taken out, dressed up and
then sold, while your carcass is used
for a bar room-Oh, happy second
thought!
But it was not always thus. The
Garfield was once power and an
influence where she is now a by
word and a saloon. She was built
at Corinne, in 1870 and launched in
1871. It may not now be generally
known, but;COrinne was then an en-
terprising burg, looked upon as a
dread rival to the great burg of Og-
den; so in honor Of the bug on the
Bear" the steamer was called the
city of COTi7l7le. Fox DiefendOrf
conceived the idea Of building her,
and furnished the greater part of
the capital. The inhabitants of
Corinne contributed about $4,000 in
cool cash towards the enterprise;
the Central Pacific hauled the lum-
Der with which to build the steamer
over its road for nothing, and DEF
endorf put up the remainder of the
lucre necessary to finish the boat
and get the machinery-something
like $25,0OO-making over $4,000
in all as the cost of the craft. The
boilers and engines and other ma
chinery are supposed to have been
purchased in st. Louis. The idea of
construction was to utilize her in
carrying merchandise, ore and bull
lion, lumber and the like, between
Ophir and COrinne-Ophir then
being very prominent mining dis
trict.
She was used this way for a time
when she was purchased by H. S.
Jacobs for the Lilly, Leisenring
Mining Company, to transport ore
and bullion from the southeastern
part Of..the lake to Monument Point
or Corinne. Her period Of useful
ness in this regard having come to
brief termination, she was next
purchased by Mr.. John W. Young,
to be possessed as an adjunct of the
Western Railway, and was used for
a pleasure bOat-and such a pleas
ure boat! There has been more heart
rending, overpowering and demon
strative sickness on her in one
minute, under the gUise of pleasure
trips on the lake, than a wool dyed
land lubber would witness under
ordinary circumstances in 100 years.
Oh, the delicious picnics that have
been consigned, amid unknown
signs Of relief to the relentless and
silent watersI But the subject is
heartrending, and we forbear.
After having had her cognomen
altered several times, she was, on
the occasion Of the visit of General
Garfield to this city, and on his trip
on the lake on her, christened the
General Garfield, under which ap-
pellation she has existed till the
present time. Latterly the poor old
girl has been used as a saloon, res
taurant and as a boarding house for
few persons during the summer
season, Captain Douris having
charge of her. The more she became
kHown-and in this respect she is
sfngularly human-the less she WAS
liked, and it was only when safely
tied up that the great public could
be induced to place their dainty feet
on her heaving and responsive pro-
portions. But she has gone the way
of all flesh-tO speak fguratively-