The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-06
AQUEER ADVENTURE
The Colorado Mans Journey to
New York.
"A 18TH CENTURY EXPERIENCE
Robbers and Good samaritans-The Con-
ventions and New York-Nilliners-
The Honeymoon Guest.
Especial Correspondence OF the SUNDAY HER
AID


Half an hour ago q man left the city,
whose story is like chapter of Bret Harte
with an intermingling of Ragged Dick.
He was born in New England and
promptly chased out of it by consumption
He went to Colorado where the wife of his
youth died Two young children he sent
back to his fathers house, and dug and dug
and dug at the mountain side till the un-
responsive rock grew ashamed of it's tinty
heart and opened to his view a vein of rich !
ore, assaying Sl06 to the ton, or to the |
ounce or something or other, / don't just
remember which. Then q company was |
formed, capital being ready, to assist in the
development of his Find" Gold, silver,
copper, even tin, are in the neighborhood,
but the greatest of these is silver. And so
he started east to buy machinery.
On coming down out of the high attitudes
he was promptly taken i'll and was carried
from the cars to q railway hotel, where he
lay two weeks at the point of death. He got
up finally, thin and cadaverous looking, but
eager TO press on. The last night of his stay
man walked into his room and made away
with all his money except Sl.30 in change.
He borrowed little money of the landlord,
who had to borrow it himself-but western
ers have hearts-left his lug gage as secur
ity against his hosts protest, and came to
Pittsburg, where he had friend. The
friend was out Of town. Then he tele
graphed to the president of his company for
funds to be sent to New York and came
hither himself to find them. But his mine
was twenty miles from railroad or tele
graph. Without so much as a change of
clothing he stayed in New York three days,
sleeping IN Bcwery logging houses and liv
ing on air Then, in despair of delayed re
mlttance, he appealed again to a stranger
and was promptly provided for the journey
to his fatner's home in the country.
Misfortunes did not cease. The stranger
who loaned the Colorado man money had
been obliged to make it up partly in silver,
being little short himself. The miner
had had no breakfast, nor dinner, nor sup
per. and as he tried 10 board moving
street car bound for the station, he STUN
Die d and fell in very W eakness. The money
was clutched tightly in his nervous hand,
and as he fell the dimes and quarters rolled
in every direction. He recovered the bills
easily, but they were short of the required
amount, and no amount OF searching would
reveal the coins.
There was nothing to do but stay another
night at cheap lodging house He had no
watch to pawn, the robber had relieved
him of that. In the morning, ashamed
again TO face the man from whom he had
last borrowed money, he sent him a district
mes senger with an abject note of explana-
ton, Five dollars was promptly returned
to him and ne scarcely breathed again until
he was on the train bound fer home.
This story is absolutely true in every de-
tail. Funny scrape for the part owner of
rich silver mine, wasn't 1t.
THE STORY OF A CLOCK.
Inspired by the laudable wish to do
T., Of iS lond h 1k
citizen, giving his affairs deathbed settle
ment, added TO his last will and testament
this clause:
And to my beloved granddaughter
Laura, my sitting room clock
A little after he was gathered to hi
fathers and now sleeps the sleep of the
just
Some days after the funeral, some mem
bers of the family sent the clock to Laura
father at his Office, not deeming any for
mality necessary about so small a matter
The clock was an ordinary machine mad
affair worth when new 50. 1t had been il
use about a dozen years.
Laura's father hired a boy to carry tn
clock TO his home in the suburbs, at til
total expense Of about dollar and a hall
including car fare. That was the begin
ming of the trouble.
1t seems there was something very il
regular in carrying off legacy before tn
will had been probated, and the believe
granddaughter was cited to appear by
guardian specially appointed for the occa
sion and to assist at the proving The sum
mons came just as the poor man was get
ting his business in shape to start for
weeks trip TO the Catskills. Accompany
ing the paper was some sort of an affiday
from which he was expected to fill GU
make oath to before a notary and return
The day set for the probate came just
the middle OF the suffering fathers mour
49, n hn T,rrht % d
stayed at home, qualified as his daughter
guardian, attended the probate and a.
counted for his clock somehow or othe
But his wife was waiting for him at tt
station. Catching up what he suppose
was the affidavit blank he beat hasty ext
In minute or two hoy came runnir
back with this hastily scrubbed note:
Find mat id clock affidavit and send it
me and call up the lawyer by phone and I
things somehow
Evidently the guardian and father of Il
girl who got the clock, who is not usual
profane, was getting excited and had 10
his affidavit. But it was no where to
found on his desk until some hours late
Meanwhile, the Office boy had spent half
hour at the telephone, which was workil
tery badly, trying to call up the dead man
supposed lawyer, only TO ind out that
had nothing to do with the case and dldr
know who had.
expects TO be arrested for contempt
court, but he swears he won't go near t
probate court about that old clock; no, u
If they put him in prison. He is do
with il.
MEN MILLINERs.
Nobody would have supposed that I
men dressmakers of New York would ST
Mt the tailor made gown; and they haven
That was merely an suspicious beginnir
But from being lady's tailor to becomi
lady's dressmaker is not so very long
step. Plenty of men have taken it. a
there are now in this American Paris
small host Of would be imitators Of Wor
and Felix. A queer sight it is to SCI
great chap, big enough to kill oxen holdi
up dainty film of lace and silk in
hand, and struggling hard to make 1t q
pear that the French phrases he so lib
ally uses are in his native tongue, desp
his potato mouth.
The most famous of the ladies' tailS
is unquestionably the one who proud
boasts that he is honored by the patrons
of Queen Victoria; but he has plenty of
walls, One of these men recently overhes
some one asking if one of his patrons b
not ordered her summer wardrobe fri
Paris. This lady declares that the DIRE
maker is now SO proud of the implied CO
pliment, that ne is as imperious as
Gar and puts on the airs of Napoleon.
It's queer world Women blacksmi
and dentists, and BARRIERS and men maui
makers would have astonished our gre
grandmothers.
HONEYMOON GUEST.
John Burroughs, on these rare occasi
wheu he comes out OF his she'll and Wis