The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-18

when all the rest of his officers about him
are angry. He never gets worried and
never loses his grip and he works steadily
along from the time he gets to the office
until about !, when he goes out for his
lunch.
LUNCH OF MILLIoNAIREs.
Mr.. Depew takes his lunch at the Muir
ray Hill hotel cafe and during the half
hour which he spends there he meets some
OF the biggest millionaires of the country,
and some of the most noted railroad men of
the United States. At the same table with
! him sit perhaps Cornelius Vanderbilt, H
Walter Webb and General Lang, and at
other tables are other men who represent
millions. Mr.. Depew's lunch is temper
ate one, and be is one of the most careful
eaters IN the country. ] don't think he
knows he has q stomach, but he confines
himself to the substantials, and a plate of
oyster soup, bit of chicken and a cup of
coffee make him good meal. He is lust
as simple as to his breakfasts and dinners.
He eats the first at about $50, and a plate
OF oatmeal, couple of soft boiled eggs
some buttered toast and of glass Of milk
are all that he needs If he takes anv cof-
lee, 1t is not strong, and he sometimes
varies the repast with tea. His dinner is
without wine. As for smoking, he gave
that up entirely years ago when he found
it hurt him, and he takes no stimulants, |
am told, except at big dinner, when he
sips little champagne towards the latter
part OF the feast.
HOW CHAUNCET DEPEw SPEAKS
L first heard Chauncey Depew speak at
Of 49,
Washington. The Washington correspon-
dents, who make up this club, are the pick
1 OF the newspaper men of the United States.
Their dinners are noted, and United States
senators, supreme court justices, famous
! generals, and men prominent in all
the branches of life are glad to
attend them. They come knowing
that what they say will not be reported,
| but they also know that they must leave
their dignity outside the club doors, and
the unconventionality which prevails at
| the table Is to the guests the charm and the
lear OF the dinner. In the speeches made
no one is permitted to be prosy or dull. If
the President of the United States should
! tell an old story it would be greeted with
the word chestnut" from all parts of the
| room, and the phrase monger and platltude
peddler had better keep his seat. The
speeches are interrupted again and again
with the sharpest of witticisms and a
chance IS offered for the brightest of re-
parte. Mr. Depew's speech st this dinner
was as full of wit and of ideas as an egg ia
full OF meat, and he was given several
speeches. during the evening. His manner
OF speaking was surprise TO me. Houses
the conversational tone, seldom makes a
gesture and has no mannerisms nor trick
cards OF oratory- His speaking makes me
think OF Joe Jetferson's acting and he saws
Re got his first ideas of good speaking from
Wendell Phillips, who simply talked TO the
brains of the people in front of him
Let me give you picture of Chauncey
/ DepeW as he makes an after dinner speech
He looks more like preacher than a club
man, and as be stands swinging his glasses
In his hand, looking ous of his sober blpe
eyes up and down the table, his cultured
clerical face makes you wonder when he
steppedeout of the pulpit and whether after
ali 1t is not mistake and he is not about TO
ask grace. He begins to talk. His words
come freely and naturally. He smiles a lit
tie as be tells a good story, and his blue
eyes twinkle as he wittily replies to the
sally OF one OF the men from the other side
OF the table. AS he goes on his face beams
with good fellowship and you note that his
fifty eight years have not made HIM old.
and that though his hair and beard are
frosted silver. his soul is as young as that
OF any boy about the board AS he coptip-
ues you lind that his speeches are more
than stories. You note that he has ideas as
well as wit, and you realize that the speaker
Is not only an orator. but man and that a
great one.
CHAUNCET DEPEw TALKS OF THE AFTER DIN
NER STAGE.
Returning to Mr.. Depew's business life.
l waited for several hours to have an inter.
view at his Office, but imperative work
Kept plllDg up and 1t was o'clock before I
got access to him. At BIS he had to make
the train for his summer home at Paving.
two hours from New York, his engage,
ments wele ali full for the morrow, and he
finally suggested that | jump on the cars
and run up to Pawling with him, and we
could have our talk on the train. He or
dered pass for me and ten minutes later
we were seated in a chair-car on the New
ork Central railroad, the train going at
forty miles an hour and Mr.. Depew talk
ing In response to my questions at the rate
OF 100 words per minute. The following is
the substance of our talk:
Said L: "Mr. Depew, how do you find it
possible to get your mind away from your
business and railway down TO your after
dinner speech!n
ut is hard sometimes replied Mr. De-
pow, "but have the faculty of leaving my
business at my Office, and such success as
have had in life, attribute largely to the
lact tnat l can drop my business and get
rest by thinking of other things. AS rule,
whatever be the cares of the day. ten
minutes after have gotten TO my house. |
nave dismissed them altogether, and | do
not take them up again until the next day
nave peculiar theory of the working OF
the mind, aud that Is that it tends to keep
up the same pace in which it has been run
Elng when 1t enters q new field The
trouble with most men is that thew have
only one pace and they never set out of il.
They contine themselves to think about
three things, their business themselves
and their families. They run at this busi-
ness and personal pace their lives through,
ana II they ever chance to speak Ia public
they use business terms and the Language
is that OF the commonplace Thew sur
round their souls with the most practical
environment, and they never get out of it.
Now the plane OF the dinner table is a
higher one than that of business life. and in
preparing for a speech, [ find / must
nrst get my mind on different level from
the one have been working on all day.
do this by reading McCauley's ESSAYS. Ten
minutes reading turns my thoughts in a
new channel. l cast off the cIothes of
every day work and my soul seems To he
re- habilitated into a more intellectual and
critical garb. L can then think of the and
fence l am to address, and by remembering
the people am to meet, adapt my remarks
to them. 1t does not seem TO make much
difference which part of McCauley read