The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-13
He VIII Make a Good Head For
the Worlds Fair.
HIS MANY PET HORSES AND COWS
His Theory of Money Making, and how d fic
ture Made Him Horse Lover-oOssip
of Newspaper Men.

as one of the mediocre gold-Dags" When
he first came here. After a short Tune,
however, he showed himself TO be man OF
broad culture and a thinker He made
several speeches which read like the Old
English classics, and at the end of his first
year he was known as the lolllest and
brainiest of the new Senators. A snort
experience with him showed that ne old
not worship his money, and he put on no
more airs than the poorest messenger who
stood at the Senate doors. He soon rented
the big mansion on Scott Circle winch
Window then owned and kept open house.
The year following he bought lot and
built his $50, 900 brown stone palace on Nc
Pherson square and
ENTERTAINED MAGNIFIcENTLT.
One of the doctrines in his philosophy of
life is that man should cultivate his
social nature and that of his friends. Pal
mer did this. He went on the principle
that it was just as easy to say pleasant
thing as mean one, and his actions bred
him friends as fast as though they had
been so many Australian rabbits. Before
his term was over he had the friendship of
all his brothers, and he got more bills
trough for his constituents than any man
from the northwest.
Palmer is a man of strong friendships
and he sticks to his friends so. He is also
man of few enemies, and he once told me
that life was too short for revenge, and
that ne could not afford to spend time
thinking how TO get even with man who
did him an injury. These features of his
character made him an excellent minister
to Spain, and they will make him strong as
head of the fair. He is diplomat without
q diplomats hypocrisy, and he will make
the fair popular in this country and the
world over. He will travel over the United
States in its interest, will know all the
governors before 1888, and will have every
one of them working for him to make the
exposition a success. / hear 1t rum0red
that he will take run over TO Europe and
look up matters there this year or next,
and the acquaintance he has viii do wond-
ers.
Senator Palmer is in many respects
LIKE CHAUNCEY DEPEw.
He can make nearly as good an after din
ner speech as Chauncey, and there is no
man in public life who can equal him in
singing Methodist hymns or Moody and
Sankey songs. Like Mr.. Depew he has
temper as smooth as the Lake of Como in
its gentlest mood. Nothing ever worries
him. He doesen't fret, and he never loses
his head. If he is ever annoyed he doesn't
show it, and he can do an immense amount
of work while pretending to do nothing.
He understands how to make others work
for him, and he carries on one of the big
gest businesses of the country with no fric-
ton.
Just how much Tom Palmer is worth
do not know. / believe ii any one asked
him, he would tell him in a lazy, unosten-
tatious way, without thinking. L know,
however, that he has his millions and that
his lumber mills, his pine forests, his great
salt wells and his real estate if put under
the hammer would bring in pile that
would have bought out Job ten times over,
that would have made the Queen of Sheba
bow down TO him as she did to Solomon
and would have redeemed Midas from the
lust of more gold. His wife is also worth
several millions, and the two control one
of the biggest fortunes of the country
This fortune was made in lumber, and Sen
ator Palmer married the daughter of his
partner. When ne began life he was for a
time unsuccessful, but after his marriage
in connection with his father-in-aw he
made money hand over fist, and now every
thing he touches
TURNS TO GOLD.
He once told me that man ought to work
hard until his property brought him in an
income of s.. 100 year and after that he
ought to let up and take things easy
"EVerything comes TO the man who waits, -
said he, land if you keep your eyes open,
you're sure to make by and by. / don't be-
lieve that a big fortune makes man any
happier, and after he gets to a certain point
he reaches the limit of his spending power.
There is no man in the world who can, for
his personal qualification, use more than
four per cent. on a million dollars and as
for me / can be satisfied with little''
Still Senator Palmer has a number of
very expensive luxuries. His farm near
Detroit is one OF them, but the increase in
the value of the land has made this pay for
itself many times over. If he could move
this farm TO the worlds fair it would be
one of the greatest sights of the exposition.
II contains 657 acres and it is laid out like
great English park. There is a big forest
on it, in which are shady glens and roman
tic drives and where you may wander
through all the mazes of RosamoEd's bower
and lose yourself il the end. Everyone Of
the walks has its name and some of these
hooks are called after the Senator'S friends
/ remember Henderson avenue and Sher-
mans hill, and l saw grey squirrel play
ing on Evarts' knoll. The Senator has
sixty fine Percheron horses, each of which
is worth at least 81, 900. He brought some
horse three years old, which weighs . ,0OO
pounds. He has four-months-old colts
which weigh asmu Oh as the ordinary horse,
and he has his own
THEORY OF HORSE BREEDING.
Hefell in love with the Percheron horse
In making study of Rosa Bonheur's IA
nous picture, 1.-The Horse Fair and he
believes il is the finest horse that walks
He claims that it is cross between the
Arabian and the Norman, and it was with
this idea that ne sent his farm manager 10
Jerusalem TO pick him out an Arabian stall
lion. The farm manager found that very
few of the Arabian horses were sound, and
Palmer's permit from tile Sultan TO take a
horse from his dominioRs amounted to
nothing. Outside Of Percheron horses
Senator Palmer RMS to Jersey cows. His
butter costs him dollar pound, but he
gets two dollars worth of fun out of every
pound. and the eighty cows which he keeps
are q perpetual source of amusement to
HIM. ] wish ! could give you a picture Of
his barn. The cow stable is as wed lighted
as a parlor, and the floor back Of where the
animals stand is so clean that you could
drop cambria handkerchief on it and pick
IL I'D without selling. The woodwork of
this stable is polished yellow pine, finished
IN oil. and Il Is as well finished as that OF
many cottages.
senator Palmer is careful in his treat
mcnt OF his caTsic and hcrses, and he las
rules pasted up IN the stables for his men.
A whip is never used on the horses and no
LOUD words can be spoken to the cows. =
rewalar record is kept OF the milk each AM
saai gives. and each COW has its mama and
its page in tiie hero book. II takes steau,
engine to DO the work of these COW stables.
The hay is raised TO the second story BIZ
steam. The oats and corn are ground into
meal in the same way, and the water is
pumped and ensilage cut up by steam.
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