Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-03-30
BILL NYE AND KATE FIELD.
A witty chicago Journalist Talks
Rates bath Tub.
Interview with Eugene Field

"Of course you know Bill Nye, the
humorist?"
an and out of season know Bill Nye.
He is the homeliest man in the seven
States. Not many months ago Bill and
and another went on trip West to-
pether. William was lecturing. The
more travelled with him and saw him
in the primitive state, the more became
convinced of his ugliness. became
really ashamed OF him. At the hotels
where we stopped. Bits homeliness ac-
tually took away my appetite. His face
will stop the hands OF clock any day;
Yet with all these trongly developed
physical phenomena, Bill is vain, posi-
lively vain, and loves to pose before the
pomacy that wins admiration and makes
the fair creatures forget that he has n
face Nye is bald. He is painfully bald.
Out of one hundred bald heads his would
be the man you would pick rs the mark
for particular badness. He is tall and
loose jointed, and wherever he goes he is
attired in claw-hammer coat. He
stands with his hands behind and his
toes turned in.
1t is circus to see the lecturer come
out and pose with that coat on. didn't
know that he had game eye until re-
Gently. He is totally blind in his left
eye and has cast in it. His full name
is Edward William Nye. He knows how
to talk swectly and sprightly to ladies',
and it goes without saying that he is very
popular, not only with them, but with
men. He gets good prices for his work,
Well, l know them all-Eli Perkins, Bob
| la al,
ms, and Petroleum V. Nasty. Now there
is Nasty, one of the wealthiest funny
men in the lot. He is simply immensely
wealthy, and owns property everywhere.
The last time saw him was in Chicago,
at the Columbia theatre. He was with
DR.. Morris Munford, who is quite tall and
slender. Petroleum is medium height
and very broad. l laughed like Jacques
in the forest when | saw the two going
about together, for they reminded me of
Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Sir Toby
Belch, or the picture, Before and After
Taking The doctor is making a great
success OF the Kansas City Times. The
paper is well edited and is n magnificent
property. He worked it up from bank
ruptcy into aflluence, and he cannot be
too highly praised. r. NJ. Field, who
WRITES tlle bright tnlneS Ior lne paper,
and who is another of your homely men,
claims to be my brother"
care you not related to Miss Kate
Field, the ant-Mormon lecturer"
"She is cousin of mine. All, Kate is
very thrifty, financially speaking. She
has property in Washington, the bulk OF
it lying down in the delightfully."- situated
Potomac flats. She intends to convert
the place into fashionable watering re-
sort and erect u mammoth house with
tlamboyant gables and Etruscan bay
windows at the corner of Four.and-a-
Hall Q-sts., N. w. This structure will
be permanently used MS home for wild
ows and orphans of the Revolutionary
heroes. The first time l met Kate was
on train out West. She had large
zinc sitz- bath tub, presented to her by
Sir Charles Dixie. She imagined that nc
such thing rs bath tub could be had
in Denver. understand that quite re-
Gently, Miss Field has lost all faith in hui
man friendships and has fallen to keep
ing a pet poodle.n