The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-06-15
Gebhard Walks the Streets of
Salt Lake Inc0g.
PURSUING THE LILY, WITH
THE LILY'S CONSENT.
The Jersey Lily and the New Ysrk
Ivy-Mr. Stephens Classes-The
Rajah Coming-DeviPs Aue-
Observation-Disclosures
News.

It Is with feeling of humiliation,
which will doubtless be shared by
the entire reportorial force of this
city, that we announce the fact that
Mr.. Frederick Gerhard, millionaire
and minister plenipotentiary to Mrs.
Lille Langt1y, has been visitor to
Salt Lake during the past several
days; has trodden our streets, and
betaken himself away in the Lily's
train with never go much as word
Of greeting, announce ment or god
speed from one of our newspapers.
That such ordinary mortsls as Sem
ators, Generals, or Recorders Of
Marks and Brands should be en-
abled to pass through our commu-
nifty without exciting special atten>
ton, ls perhaps no marvel; but that
Gebhard-a character whose history
is bound up with that of special dis
patches and sensational reports,
whose name is indissolubIy linked
with that of the great Langtry her.
5elt-that such q man should arrive
in city like Salt Lake, with its lynx
eyed corps of reporters, and its OLD
Guard of female gossips,-lodge eor
several days and nights in a
palace car, show himself in an
open barouche, and attend
as he must have done, the recent
theatrical performance, and all
without having gained a single
personal" line, is something that,
unless there be extenuating clrcum.
stances, must be Get down as the
very acme of reportorlal thick,
Medicines. Fortunately for the
profession, however. there are Gil =
cumstsnces that may be taken in
extenuation. Several months ago
the intelligence was flashed over
the wires that Mrs. Langtry had
applied to Mr.. Gebhard that SOW
ereign remedy known as theIG B,and
that Mr.. Gerhard had quit a wiser
and a losing man; in moment of
foolish trustfulness we allowed this
item of news to go into the Dramatic
and Lyric columns of THE HERALD
and thus it was that the report of
the Langtry and Gerhard separa
ton gained that widespread circula.
ton it was found to have obtained
to further throw dust into the eyes
OF the lynx-eyed fraternity, the coy
couple agreed that Mr.. Gebhard
should appear upon the streets OF
Salt Lake and, where it was una
voidable, be introduced under the
soubrjquet OF Mr.. Davis; this act of
1iabolical cunning it was, more
than anything else, which threw us
off our guard; had any of the
usual aliases been chosen the
Montmorencis, the De Wells, the
Montagues, etc, our suspicious
would have been aroused in a mo-
ment; but in the simple nom de
plume of "Davis" there is so much
to lull distrust, so much that ap-
pears in the placidly ordinary, that
no thought of suspicion was in the
least awakened. AS Davis he came,
as Davis he saw, and as Davis he Is
whizzing down the Sierras; as Davis
however, he will not rest undis,
turbed amid the critics of San Fran
cisco; there's some comfort in that
The secret of Mr.. Gebhard's iden
tity leaked out through the instru:
mentality of his washerwoman, who
was intelligent enough to see thai
| the initials "F. g." made no part OF
the name "Mr. Davis" then s
young man employed ut one of oul
hotels, with whom q reporter con-
versed last evening, knew GebharC
in racing circles in New York, anG
conversed with him freely while he
was here. Halt a dozen gentlemen
besides were let into the secret by
some one in authority, land 1t was the
CALLING taunts and insinuations OF
one of these gentlemen relative tC
the laxity Of Salt Lake reporters in
having missed so stupendous ar
item which put us on the track Of
the intelligence and spurred US int
obtaining all it, details.
The exact position Mr.. Lsngtry
occupies amidst all this, and the de-
grees of cordislity existing between
Mr.. Gerhard Davis and Manager
Mendum (slsn said to be a worship
er at the Lily'5 shrine) to say moth
ing of one or two others reported t
have cast all aside to follow the
Langtty, we found no one sufii.
cien,ly posted to enlighten US upon
the most we could do in the emer-
gency was to poet a copy of thi:
paper 10 the Lily's husband in Eng
land, and to await patiently fol
future developments.
MR.. STEPHENS LABoRs.
Mr.. Evan Stephens dismisses hi
| Classes and goes into the country To-
rest, with results that must be very
| gratifying to his pride. During TIT
past eighteen months he has hat
from 800 to 1000 pupils under hi
charge, and Of this number a goot
proportion have become capabl
readers at sight. In their studio
the classes have used Mr.. Stephens
own books aDd methods; ten publ
performances have been given, ant
from the proceeds the sum of $i,50
has been distributed among thre
worthy lnstitutions-ihe 3. 7
Academy, the Deseret Hospital ant
the Sunday School Union; beside
this, over $500 has been invested II
1 hooHs and 30 000 hoop mold ont fn