The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-30
HOTEL MAGNATES.
Men Who Entertain Presidents
and the Moneyed Kings.
WHAT THEY THINK OF SALT LAKE.
The Mayor of Omaha Greets His Western
Neishbor With Kind Words Of
Encouragement.

. 1t is seldom that this city is visited by
such distinguished guests as those now
within its gates
There are probably not four men in the
states with as large an acquaintance among
the prominent statesmen, railroad mag
mates and the moneyed kings of America
as H. b. Darling, of the Fifth Avenue; G.
Wetherbee, of the Windsor; John E.
Drake, of the Grand Pacific; and ]. E.
Kingsley, of the Continental, Philadelphia.
The Fifth Avenue is the best paying
piece of property in the world, and there
is not President of the United States, for
the last twenty five years, but has been a
guest at this house. 1t is the popular re.
sort of Senators, Congressman and politi
clans and scarcely foreign potentate comes
to this country but makes the Fifth Avenue
his home while in the metropolis. What
the Fifth Avenue is to the politicians the
Windsor is to the presidents of the great
railroad corporations and the stock brokers
and bankers of Wall street.
1t is here that Vanderbilt and Jay Gould
entertain their guests and in its lobby the
stock brokers congregate in the evening to
formulate plans for putting stocks up or
down; to disturb or strengthen the money
market of the country. Nearly all the big
synd1cates and trusts, combinations and
pools have been discussed in the private
parlors of Windsor and over the choicest
wines that the vintage of Europe affords
1t was here that Jay Gould was hid away
when the mob howled to get at him during
the exciting times of the Presidential cleo
ton of 1854, when he was charged with
manipulating the wires of the Western
Union in the interest of the Republican
party by Withholding the returns. 1t was
here that that the pig-iron millionaire
Carnegie entertained the foremost critic of
of Europe, Matthew Arnold.
What the Fifth Avenue and Windsor are
| to New York, the Continental is to the
| Quaker city and the Grand Pacific is to
the city of 1882"
Mr.. Drake has the advantage over his
| New York friends in having a monopoly
on the patronage of both the politicians
and railway magnates, and of being better
known in the west than his more ''swell''
hotel autocrats of Gotham.
SUBURB OF CHICAGO.
"Your city is but suburb of Chicago, -
said Mr.. Drake, in his neighborly and
sweeping way to THE HERALD. "Just
think of it," he exclaimed, "only two days
| and two hours from Chicago. We left Chi
cago Wednesday night, and Friday night
we are in your city. 1t is twelve years
since was here before, and see wonder
full improvements. l have no doubt that
a man investing money here will double it
in two years.
| Mr.. Wetherbee was delighted with the
city, and was impressed with its advan-
tages as salt water resortfo the western
people. 1--WE New Workers" he said, ''find
it easier to make trip to Europe than to
Chicago, and with less dirt and more rest
for man accustomed to the sea-"
The reporter intimated that the hotel men
were overreached by Chicago enterprise.
"We didn't want the worlds fair and
Chicago did, and she got it. While the
1 Windsor has 400 rooms and 400 servants tc
wait on its guests, we were not disposed tC
discommode our regular trade for the pur
pose of going into the packing business
for few months" MIR. Drake did moi
hear this remark
Mr.. Wetherbee had Just dined and com
plimented the catering of Landlord Erb
He had hardly make this complimentary
remark until an electric street Car Lighted
by electricity passed the Walker, when h,
said: ''That beats New York. Our car!
are not lit by electric light
With the hotel party were the two Misses
Kingsley and Miss Helen " Drake. The
party is travelling in their private car, the
''Mascotte," and will leave this city at
o'clock tomorrow afternoon to connec
with the Central Pacific for San Francisco
They expect to spend three weeks on tn
coast and return via Portland and tn
Northern Pacific.