Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-03-30
BILL NYE AND KATE FIELD.
A Witty Chicago Journalist Talks
Kate,s Bath Tub.
Interview with Eugene Field.]


"Of course you know Bill Nye, the
: humorist?"
GIN and out of season know Bill Nye.
He is the homelest man in the seven
States. Not many months ago Bill and L
and another went on a trip West to-
gether. 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. Bills LONELINESS &C
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
ladies. He does it, too, with tact and di-
piomacy that wins admiration and makes
the fair creatures forget that he has a
face. Nye is bald. He is painfully bald.
Out of one hundred bald heads his would
be the man you would pick as the mark
for particular badness. He is tall and
loose jointed, and wherever he goes he is
attired in q claw-hammer coat. He
stands with his hands behind and his
toes turned in.
It is circus to see the lecturer come
out and pose with that coat on. Ididn'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 sweetly and sprightly to ladies,
and it goes without saying thathe is very
popular, not only with them, but with
men. He gets good prices for his work.
Well, know them all-Eli Perkins, Bob
Burdette, Armory Knox, George Hutch
ms, and Petroleum " 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
DIR. Morris Munford, who is quite tall and
slender. Petroleum is medium height
and very broad. | laughed like Jacques
in the forest when 1 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 magnificent
He worked it up from bank
ruptcy into afHuence, and he cannot be
too highly praised. R. NJ Field, who
writes the bright things for the paper, 2
and who is another of your homely men, $
claims to be my brother" .
care you not related to Miss Kate
Field, the anti-Mormon lecturer"
"She is cousin of mine. All, Kate is
very thrifty, financially speaking. She 9
has property in Washington, the bulk of
t lying down in the delightfully."- situated
Potomac flats. She intends to convert
he place into fashionable watering re-
ort and erect a mammoth house with
lamboyant gables and Etruscan bay
windows at the corner of Four-and-a-
Half Q-sts., N. w. This structure will
'e permanently used as home for wild
ws and orphans of the Revolutionary 1
eroes. The first time I met Kate was .
n train out West. She had a large
inc sitz-bat tub, presented to her by 8
ir Charles Dixie. She imagined that no
UGH thing as a bath tub could be had
l Denver. understand that quite re- A.
emily, Miss Field has lost all faith in hui
ian friendships and has fallen to keep s.
lg a pet poodle"