The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-27
MEN RISEN TO FAME
Once Obscure, They Are Now
Conspicuous.
SECRETARY TRACY ONE OF THEM
Ward the Sculptor, Willard, HOweIls, DAILY,
Holley the Engineer, Reid and
Many Other Notables.
SECRETARY TRACY ONE OF THEM

Especial Correspondence of SUNDAY HERALD. |
New YORK, Dec. 22.-Upward or down
ward, hither or thither, yesterday or to-
morrow, gaiety or gravity; and thus it is
that life has gone or will 60. IL is inter-
esting 10 one who has known New York
for many years to spend an hour In taking
account of the people of his acquaintance
here who have risen or fallen in the world
during these years. l could not tell of the
hundreds of men l have known whose for
tunes in life have changed in all kinds of
ways since first 1 knew them, the obscure
men who have WOE renown, the hard-up
men who have grown rich, the lubbers who
have become experts, the cheap reporters
who have become chief editors, the small
potato players who lave become theatrical
stars, the counter jumpers who have be-
come leaders in business or commerce., the
billiards who have become scholars, the
ward politicians who have become states
men, the pettifoggers who have become
luminaries OF the bench, the manuscript
peddlers who have become illustrious
authors, the greenhorns who have exalted
their horns, or the black sheep whose wool
Aoo NAoAbCO 4AS NOLOl. j COGlu LOU Tell OIL
the unpromisiug young chaps who have
turned out well, or of the promising sprigs
who have withered before the time of ripe-
age, or OF the many others who have
turned out to be so very different from
what had been expected" We all know
that nature and life are full of surprises,
and well 1t is for Us that they are.
Among my acquaintance here about
twenty years ago was an u-ndistinguished
lawyer about thirty years old, a fellow
worker OF mine IN q business which af-
1orded him q slight income beyond that de-
rived from his legal practice. Few of those
who knew him at that time could have
forecast his career from then till now, his
advancement in his profession and to the
bench, and the other changes that took
place in his life, until he attained his pres
ent distinction in this public service. / re-
fer to the efficient secretary of the navy.
BENJAMIN F. TRACY.
Well do / remember the time when
through a mutual friend, l formed the ac.
quaintance OF a young, free-spirited. sspir-
ing and tawuY-haired sculptor who had
come TO New York from his native town of
Urbana in Ohio. He had opened a studio
and II was a fine one; he was ready for or
Gers, and they were not long in coming to
him; 1t was evident from his work and
words that he had the artistic geuius
broad and clear, and time has justified the
evidence. He had yet to win the fame
which now belongs TO him and which is not
conhned to his native land. In the Central
park there are two of his masterpieces
''Ths Indian Hunter and -'Shakespeare y
In other parts of the city and of Brook
lyn are his washington" s'Greelev. },
"Beecher" and other works; while Vet
other noble statues from his studio are 10
be seen in Boston, Washington. Gettys-
burg, Hartford, Newport and elsewhere
The aspiring sculptor of 1861, j. O. S.
Ward, has become the masterful sculptor
of 1891.