The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-18

a Quaker training and taste which has
| smoothed down much of the rugged
| uncouthness characteristic of the
| sps cies. Rochdale is typical Lanca-
| shire town, irregular, up and down,
more dirty than clean, its air penetrated
with as rank dialect as now remains
in England. Near by, just across the
| wild moor that begins back of John
| Brights house, is Tedmorden, whose
! people explain its queer design, as the
"Rachda fowk" might say of their
town, God made tn earth, but forgot
! Tordmudden cos it he'd gotten under lis
! thoomb." The Rochdale COOPERATIVE
| Pioneers are the largest trading concern
on that system in the world. Through
| one of its long snake.like streets, out
| toward the moor, past large family of
| huge factories, we come to plain, old
fashioned but stately red brick house,
standing On a Well-kept lawn, edged
| with flower beds and shrubs. This is
lone Ash" the home of John Bright,
Quaker and man Of the people. No
(sbowiness. yet unnistakabie dignity;
no trace of wealth display. vet there is
q refinement in the surroundings which
tells of highly cultivated taste. The
home prOclaims the man. A maidser-
want opens the door, q favorite Scotch
collie gives q much more home-like
welcome than liveried footman, and
the simple ct ceter0S that interest the
visitor in the drawing room are thor
oughly in keeping with the unostenta-
tious character of the host. Busts of
Golden, Chevalier, Miner Gibson, and
engraved portraits of others of his emf.
nent comrades in the old campaigns g
the principal works OF art. A ha
some oaken cabinet holds collection OF
fine specimens of Statfordshire pottery
and other manufactures, presented to |
Mr.. Bright by the people of that coun-
try. His large correspondence finds |
him plenty of work with that fine small |
hand pom which he SO courteously and |
conscientiously Yields.
He is simplicity itself ia his habits. |
John Bright never was a"society man"
Since his widowerhood, he has done |
more reading. For several years, he |
overlooking Green Park, with the lead
ing people of title as his neIghbors on
either hand. His relations with his
work people ere those of conscientious
who pays market wages and
expects full tale of work. The local
institute has been benefited considerably
by MIR. Bright's gifts of books and his
kindly interest IN whatever helps the
of the people. AS carpet
the firm of which John Bright
is senior partner have worldwide s
and have made an immense
fortune. The business has been under
he management of Mr.. Benjamin
Bright. and is now chiefly controlled By G
Iohn Bright, Jr., of whom something Z
nay yet be heard in the political world, /
houeh he has not his fathers elo-
luence. Mr.. Jacob Bright, younger S
,rother, though now about sixty, Is one d
# the members for Manchester, weak d
nan. physically and politically, the v
hampton of the Woman's Fights G
movements, which big brother John C
toutly opposes. g
Mr.. Bright is always "proper" in t
ress. He does not wear the Quaker v
arb, though he attends meeting" and b
OCCASIONALLY breaches. You always O
nj him in superfne black oad-c'oth, u
ld-fashioned stand-up collar, black L
ecktie, and tall hat. But if you fol- t.