The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-06-18

nIIeen such merchants on on,
Diock In Chicago-the same is tru,
OF New York and Philadelphia.
Few persons seem interested il
Otahi affairs; they have too many
cares of their own to trouble about
us: Our relation to the great re
Pushc Is as l to $50. We may be
compared to large frog pond where
constant crOhking is going on or
All sides and nobody hurt. The
frogs on one side are croaking at
those on the other side. and still
they are only frogs though: rot all
the same size. OF course the big
ones are trying to Out-croak the
smaller ones, but every frog will
nave his day-and he ought to in a
free country (so-calIed). Some of the
imported frogs will swell out and
burst. like the frog in the fable. So
mout it be.
The growth of eastern cities is
marvellous. Chicago grows faster
than any Of them. New York is an
Immense hive ofcrOwded humanity.
going and coming by Swarms above
and below. Elevated railroads, street
railroads and underground rail-
roads, what with telephones and
telegraph it is like a great wire
cage. Philadelphia boasts some
splendid new buildings and more
shipping than L ever saw. Boston
Is the most staid Of them all. Bus
mess men everywhere are anxious
to do business with Utah, for in
spite of the extremely low status
morally credited to us by living
priests, our commercial status is the
highest in the United States.
While in Philadelphia I was in
Vited to attend q preliminary
contest for the election of two
contestants from the senior oratory
class of the National School of
ElocutiOR. There were seven con-
testants-four gentlemen and three
Jadies-viZ:
He was a Man., by o. Van
Mercer, Of Salisbury, Pa.
Public Opinion by Helen R.
Heron, of Muncy, Pa.
"Sublimity of America" by D. S.
Naugle, Of Beaver Falls, Pa.
"Phe End in View" by Barbara
E. Replogle, Of Cerro Gordo, Ill.
Nothing Lost" by Martha P.
Hughes, N. D., of Salt Lake City,
Utah.
ethics and Esthetics," by Agnes
A. Morton, of Camden, n. J.
"MOrmoniSm," by Edward Jen-
ninOS of Philodnlnbio Do
The lucky contestants were o.
Van Mercer and Agnes H. Morton;
although the rest were very good.
The Mormon subject was the least
popular it was the usual stock in
trade twaddle of anti-Mormon
writer's, whose coat of arms is the
deaths head and bloody bOnes-mar-
rying grandmothers, deadly assas-
sins, bishops capturing girl emf
grants, debauchery, sand so on ad
nauseum, ad stinkum. It was in
wretched bad taste when a young
lady like Miss Hughes, raised in
Utah, was present. She has sue
ceeded in obtaining the highest
honors conferred upon any lady,
namely, NJ. d. at ann Arbor, 3. s.
at the University of Pennsylvan la,
B. o. at the National School of Ora
tory, and is credit to any com
munity, Mormon or non-Mormon.
The model railroad Of America.
the Pennsylvania, has a depot in
Broad street, Philadelphia, similar
to that of Broad street, London. 1t
cost them SS,0O0,OOO to get the right
of way.
1 returned ola the Baltimore and
Ohio, and was too late to get the
train that jumped the track and
wound up in terrible smash up. l
was fully convinced that smash ups
are not healthy. l did not hear Of
any persons being killed outright,
but some were badly wounded. I
must confess that the won
derful scenery of Cheat River
and the Alleganies is not en-
joyable at the rate of forty
five miles per hour. After the pic
ture Of the result of the jumping the
track, however, got through all
right and l am glad of it.
At Sidney on the Union Pacific we
were delayed by a terrible hail storm
that smashed every window on the
north side of the train we passed, and
flooded Sidney several feet. Hail |
stones the size of hens eggs is the |
usual story; but hqilStones one inch |
in diameter are large enough to
break windows. Piles Of them that |
size were on each side Of the track.
Luckily, l missed this experience
and gladly l am "heme again"