The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-31
TOPICS ROUND TOWN
Wax Works INDUCES in Some
Side-Saddle Poetry.
KATE FIELD ON THE HOME RUN.
Why Secretary Pollock Loves 'Mary"-The
Highest Boarding House in the World
Personal Sketches.

Highest Boarding House in the World
Personal Sketches.
Women that rode aside
Are now to ride astride-
And women will be men
In spite of nature, then.
Their skirts it will divide,
When they do ride astride,
And though it shocks my pride
will not stand aside
But salute them with my whip
And give my hat tip
For woman is most human
When she does ape man.
B. w. briggs, jr., is-a young Utah man
who is forging his way to the front. He
graduated out of the law department of the
Michigan university in the class of 'S6. At
that time Judge Cooley was the lecturer on
constitutional law. Mr.. briggs has found
time outside Of the practice of the law to
interest himself in many private and pub
lie business enterprises His latest pro
ject is railroad 10 the Castle valley coal
beds. he owns half interest in 500 acres
of land near the Union stock yards and
number Of tenement houses on Fourth
West and Third East streets. He has
other interests scattered over the country,
including big stock ranch in Idaho, and
and holds stock in the Liberty Park rolling
mill, and the Buckhorn Irrigation and
Canal company. M. Drugs is one of the
Capitol hill pioneers and has developed a
number of springs on the hill which fur
nish good supply of fresh water for the
"Capitol" folks
There was a lovely and very enjoyable
progressive euchre party given by the
Misses kimball at their residence on South
Main street, Thursday evening to the
Misses johnson, of Racine, Wisconsin
Among those present were the Misses
Lawrence Woodward, Sadler, Worthen,
Lynch, Conklin, Gilmer, Anderson, Jones,
Austin, Mrs. Shelton, Messrs. Clarke,
Bidwell, Read, Glendinning, Kerr, Gregg
and others.
j. H. Bacon, who has been filing the
public eye for some weeks past, is product
of the farm. His boyhood was passed at
McComb, McDonnough county, Illinois,
and he was seventeen when he went to
town to attend school. He followed this
by reading law, in which profession he be-
precarious and two members of the family
having died of consumption, he feared
pulmonary troubles would make quick work
of him unless he sought higher altitude.
He came west and his success as financier
has commanded the confidence Of large
capitalists and in a few years he has built
the foundation Of considerable fortune.
knew Kate Field very well. 1 used to
drow into her sumptuous pa rlors at the
Victoria-Getham's carivansary for strong
minded women-with more freedom than l
enjoyed at the shrine of many lesser lumi-
naries, what chatty, jolly woman she was,
and how the hours would fly before the
scintillations of her brilliant rencounter.
The freshness Of youth had at this early
day began to scatter and dare say by this
time she has degenerated into cantanker
Gus old maid, sallow and wrinkled as a
frozen apple.
OAnd how consistently eccentric Kate
Field is After lecturing for years against
the Mormons, she deserted her work to
scour the country as the advertising agent
of California vintage works. At this late
day, after polygamy has the seal of the
church against it, Kate Field comes down
the home stretch at a laundering gait to
SdbnCI III bu6 SAOIy VI q IdCc 1IOuu WHICH
she flew the track years ago in quest of
more money than her lectures drew.
In the same hotel there was another
woman of genius, with fine Roman head,
high browed, and masculine in its lines,
yet refined and full of intelligence. Great
ness was cast upon her features and disap-
pointment and chagrin were written on
the lineaments of that fine face. 1t was
Anna Dickinson, the brainy woman with
forensic attachments that ever charmed the
American people-eloquent, terse, terrible
She would embellish literature with Joan
of Arc romance or pounce upon political
defaulter with the claws of tigress.
With consistent application Anna Dick
inson would have filled the pages of our
magazines with even more pungent thought
than that which falls from the brilliant pen
of Gail Hamilton.
But Anna Dickinson was a child of
genius, and as so often happens with these
children Of the soil, the emotions ran away
with the intellect. BeecEer and Dickinson
were kindred spirits, though | do not
know that they ever bore any friendship
towards each other.
Dickinson, like Beecher, had a strong de-
hesitation for slavery. not SO much because
of the lash as from their high sense of per-
sonal freedom and scorn for any species of
tyranny. Both these great, grand spon-
taneous growths, through their own indis-
cretions and unruly emotions, ended their
lives sadly-though / have not heard
whether Anna Dickinson Is dead or alive.
so completely has she disappeared from
the stage of human action.
When Anna Dickinson set her cap to
dazzle the public by her genius and her
egs-and she was very proud Of the latter.
as l heard her speak approvingly of them
she made this mistake. She assumed that
person knowing how acting should be
done could 60 and do il. She knew. that
Anna Dickinson knew more of art than
halt the i'll bred mimics on the stage. and
because she felt that she possessed higher
critical mind she believed she could sue
coed.
But, alb me, she cut sorry figure before
the foot-lights, and the great intellect only
staggered through the parts to be laughed
at by the spectators and jeered by the crit
les. The tempest Of her feelings rebelled
against the mob that assaulted her, and she
deiied them all. Having pinned her whole
destiny to the Thespian star, the shock of
the fall was too much, and the great intel
lect grew methodically dull, if not weak.
Hank Barnes feels very "clammy'' to-
wards The HERALD for inferring that he
wanted anything so small as the deputy col.