The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-27
Utah Boys in Paris, Acapulco
and Samoa.
DALLIN AND HARWOOD's WORK
Mr. Ferry and Party at Acapulco
En- Route to Peru-Beezley and
Wood at Samoa.


writes as follows: I'VE had lovely
trip all the way, and enjoyed the diff
terent kinds of scenery that We passed
through, but l do not think any of it
comes up to our Utah scenery, and my
companions remarked the same. They
came from California, but were very
well pleased with what they saw in
Utah. We arrived in New York in due
time. There We met another California
chum, and with him took in the sights
OF the city. We sailed for the old wor. d
on the steamer Trave, and reached
Southampton Eng, in exactly seven
days from the day of starting. We
remained there two days, and from
were very favorabiy impresse At
Havre we took a funny little railroad
for Paris. and arrived in the gay city at
about p. M, September 9th. We
passed through some very lovely
sketching country here. The harvest
fields were very interesting in color and
| comp osi'ion-pic.ures everywhere. The
costumes of the peasants were inter
esting. They all wore blouses. This is
truly great city. The first week we
| spent in sightseeing and hunting up
| fiat. We have been to the Louvre, and
| paid our respects to the old masters. OF
course, they are great, but l must con-
TESS, that l like thu modern painters
better. We are told that we will like
them better when We get more
acquainted with them, but to me they
lack the charm OF nature. There is
very little quality in color, and any
amount of exceedingly bad drawing
The sculpture, however, pleased me
very much. The Luxembourg was the
next place visited, and l must confess
| that it fetched me-" 1t is wonderful
how near to nature those fellows can
paint. l am very anxious to see the
next years salon. We are located right
near the Luxembourg, in the Latin
Quarter, which is great place for stu
dents. We entered the st. Julien on the
18th of September, and went right to-
work We go to school at in the
morning and work from the Lying
model till in the afternoon, with one
| hours rest at noon. G. Z. Dailin,
UTAE's YOUNG SCULPTOR,
is here, having arrived about week
later than I. He was very pleased 10
meet someone from his mountain home
and eagerly inquired of his
many friends in Salt Lake and
elsewhere in the Territory. He
likes Paris, but would give consider
able, he says, for a months ramble
among the mountains and canyons of
Utah. was very glad to see him, also,
as it is great pleasure to meet with one
from home. He is very hopeful that
America will soon take the lead in art
matters, and most of the American
students here are of the same opinion.
The school is filling up rapidly, aud last
week one poor fellow was badly
| hazsd.' On the entrance of a new ar
rival, the whole school turns out to
mass'-that is, in honor of the new
conner; leaving their work and their
swarm of bees The new arrival was
picked up,and placed on ladder Then
dozen of the fellows picked
up the load, and way they went down
the boulevard, headed by several of the
students in grotesque make-ups, and
carrying imitation torches. One with
a negroes makeup, played guitar, and
the other banjo, and the entire school
followed, singing 'John Browns
Body and making all the noise posi-
BILE. All stopped at the first cafe, where
the ceremonies Of the mass were gone
through with-as long as the mass
money lasted-which the poor beginner
has to pay for. After one of the
students had delivered a political
speech to the mob that had gathered
around, the line of march was again
taken up, and back to school we went,
the entire procession keeping up
a mournful chant. Once or twice
stop was made and a mock
ceremony performed. When school
was reached, the victim was
released, and all his tormentors dof-
Then, with a yell, all rushed up stairs,
! leaving an astonished mob outside to
wonder, and in ten minutes all were
at work again-and the incident for
gotten. The police never interfere
with the students, and sometimes
they kick up most awful disturbances.
I am doing fairly well, and received a
most encouraging criticism FROM the
professor on Friday. He said l had
the best likeness in the room, and here
are congregated some of the strongest
students Paris boasts Dailin has
created a profound impression by his
first study, and the professor under
whom he labors has taken considerably
more than passing fancy to him."
FROM THE SAMOAN ISLANDS.
MIR. E. j. Wood, who recently left for
the Samoan Islands, writes as follows,
under date of October II: "We arrived
az Annum, the smallest inhabited is
land OF the Samoan group, after quite a
siege of trouble. We awoke on the
morning after our departure to find
ourselves swiftly passing the beautiful
scenes III the wilds of Nevada, made up
of lofty sagebrush, large banks Sand
banks) and many fine patches of saler-
atus; all of which including the small
cobbles in the shape of dust, and the
Jumps of coal from the iron horses
puffer, made up our scenes for Friday
and Friday night; bat Saturday morr-
ing at 430. found us at the Blue
Canyon. We enjoyed tbs many
canyon sights, the scene of the
| Cane and the MANY VINEYARDS