The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-21

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LCNCHING WITH THE COLLECTOR.
of the pickerel. 1t is an announcement
stone quarry with fiuted columns, and,
would say, seems to be cross between
a long neglected cistern and second
hand sarcophagus.
Ii this be treason make the most of it.
I've already had an Indian outbreak
this winter, and DO not mind little
set-to with the government, as l had
funds left over after adjusting the In
dian difficulty.
The New York custom house is a tri-
umph Of inconvenience, a miracle of
insists and architectural deformities. 1t
is sort Of COMPROMISE, so far as com
fort goes. between the massive, rectan-
Gular residence of the cave dweller and
the root cellar of the renaissance
There is no room IL it, no elevator. no
effort to be fireproof above the first
floor, no light, no air, no method. no
comfort and no economy. Venerable
officials and employees who were there to
show Henry Hudson over the building
are still using the same tin cuspidors
made Of the inverted lid Of the tin din
ner pail of the past. The same sand is
in them yet.
Monarchies have risen, fiourished and
decayed, kings have been born, cut their
eye teeth, reigned a few lonesome weeks
and moldered back into plebeian dust
Emperors have risen, and in few years
practically dictated to the world for a
time, but their dust IS in the mighty
brick yard of the past, and the winds of
heaven are whistling through the tat
tered upholstery of their vacant thrones,
but the gray sand in the tin cuspidor of
the custom house of the United States
smiles moclingly at the swift and hungry
centuries.
The custom house is ornagnented with
big granite porch. supported by the gov
eminent and row of massive futed col
umns as devoid of beauty as the ami
mated drumstick of the antique chorus
girl. This porch is expensive, but with
out use or beauty. In this respect it re-
sembles the average case of typhoid
initiative Englishman.
The first thing encountered in the in
terror is a rotunda, which presents the
bright and ever changing scenery no.
ticeable from the bottom of a drilled
well. It started out to pe the arena for
cock fight, changed its mind and sought
to be dry cistern; then securing a DO
htical pull it proceeded TO become the
rotunda of the custom house, and every
effort TO remove it has so far proved I'M
availing.
Entering the large corner room where
sits the collector of the portland other
dutiable beverages found AR. En-
hardt with his back to the fire and his
face to the foe.
He comes down about 8 a. m and
works till o'clock in the evening, lunch
ing in his Office.
By hanging around till about o'clock
! was invited to lunch with him. Hon.
James W. Hustled sat and conversed
while we ate. The artist will kindly
make rather pleasing drawing of the
three scholarly gentlemen as they APP
peared at the time.
A man went by the door and looked
cautiously in. Afterward / heard him
say to another man that he understood
the Sutherland sisters were lunching to-
gether today. They then, both of them,
burst into low, coarse laugh.
The correspondence room is a very
busy place, and hundreds of letters in
tended for the collectors private eye are
l1-c Tof
fries, who came to New York in the fall
of 1892, and at once went to work at his
present job. l refer to this matter of
correspondence because a great many
people think that by marking letter to
high official as private or personal
it will be read only by him and i'm
mediately placed under his pillow at
night. The collector can, however, have
no secrets during Office hours, at least
through the mails and hardly viva voce.
The cashiers room interested me a
good deal. 1t always does wherever
go. So, with the collector to vouch fol
me, / went through the little dingy
Offices and dens where as high as q
million and half per day is handled
This money, as Col. Jones explained, is
either in the form Of specially certified
check or currency, and the latter is con.
stantly assorted into the proper denomi
nations, SO that at the time for handing
over to the sub-treasury at evening
quarters are in their proper parcels, duly
counted, SO likewise small change and
large up to the ten thousand dollar bill
which held in my hand quite while
meantime asking Col. Jones to notice
what a peculiarly notified appearance
the sky had.
However, with suspicion growing,
dare say, out of his long and busy con
sact with sharpers and men of LITTLE
principle, he watched me eagerly, l no
ticed, and sent an employee to tie window