The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-05
COLONEL COCKERlLL
A Letter From Him on PrOmi-
nent New Workers.
B0URKE C0CKRAN's DELIGHT
A. I. Stewards Exporter Smoking Perfectos
In HE Drawing Room-Oakey Hall
Mrs. Brown Potter, Etc.

In HE Drawing Room-Oakey Hall
Mrs. Brown Potter, Etc.
New YORK, June 80, 1S91.-[Special Cor
respondence of TIE HERALD. when
closely followed in New York City, the
trade Of politics is frequently productive
of rich returns. There is at least one man
connected with Tammany Hall who has
reason to be satisfied in a marked degree
with the time and labor which he has In
vested in helping to care for the munich
pality. This is Bourke Cochran, sometimes
referred to as the custos morum, and very
generally recognized as the legal ADVISER OF
the semi-feudal organization which now
dominates this city. Bourke Cochran IS
big. jovial, irrepressible broth OF an irish
boy, with tremendous head and jowl, great
working capacity and highly trained glit
OF CAB. Once warmed he becomes abso-
lutely eloquent, and is, perhaps, the most
effective stump speaker we now have IN
this town. He knows how to reach tine
boys and in the last campaign he bore
practically the brunt of the hotly contested
fight, which ended in Tammany's remark
able triumph.
Cochran is more than six feet high and
must weigh nearly 240 pounds. He came
from ireland when quite Lad. His hrst
employment was found in A. L. Stewart
down town store. The highest salary that
he received during his association with MIR.
Stewart was 50 week; $500 week is a
very reasonable estimate of his profes-
Mr
Cochran told me number OF stories of his
early struggles in New York, some OF
which were quite pathetic. One OF these
anecdotes was highly characteristic of
the merchant prince, Stewart MIR.
Cochran said that while work
ing one afternoon in the basement
of the big Chambers street store Mr.. Stew
art came down stairs with some gentlemen
who wished to look into some special line
Of goods stored in that part of the house.
The place was rather dark, and Stewart
called, in his arbitrary way, for light. De-
sirlng 20 make himself useful, Cochran
came forward and, taking match from
his pocket, lighted the gas Jet. He did not
expect much for this act of gentility, but
was hardly prepared for the terrible lee
ture Mr.. Stewart gave him on the impro-
priety of carrying matches about the build
ing. From that day the merchant prince
had the undivided hostility of
HIS IRISH PORTER
After pushing truck far several years
in Stewards store, Cochran lifted himself
TO the law, and for some years led an ex-
ceedingly precarious existence. To-day he
is estimated to be worth a half million dol
lars. He has a country seat up on the sound,
= 70 no rsaro nod Or1e
side or the other of every big suit which
stands in shy sense in need of political in
fuence He says that one of the greatest
delights nowadays IS to repair to the Man
hatten club, which occupies A t. Stewards
marble palace on Fifth avenue, and there
to regale himself with the best the house
affords. In the smoke of his fragrant after
dinner Perfecto he imagines he can see the
spirit of a. T. Stewart contemplating his
exporter in his best drawing room and
getting out OF the establishment what MIR.
Stewart, with all his millions, was never
able 10 secure-absolute comfort and happi-
ness.
MET oAKEY HALL
q few days ago. The eX-mayor il as gray
as a badger but still full of vigor. The
worst that can be said of him is that he has
fallen into the reminiscent state and has
gone to filling the newspapers with stories
OF things that were. What marvellous
career he has hadl A popular lawyer
York, playwright, actor, journalist. foreign
correspondent, etc. / have always had the
kindest feeling for Mr.. Hall. No man has
suffered more from being generous, sympa-
thetic and trusrful. During the reign of
the Tweed ring here Oakley Hall flourished
because the ruling powers of that day
found him useful and played upon his van
came unsc2rhpd ont of the inyasfi-
cations of the rings dolngs, no corrupt
dollar having found its way TO his pockets.
AS he puts it himself, he was
CAUGHT ON BOARD PIRATE SHIP.
Since quitting politics and journalism on
this side of the water Mr.. Hall has had a
career in London as lawyer and press
writer. The greatest disappointment of
his life, perhaps, came to him with the
severance of his connection with James
Gordon Bennett and the New York Herald.
To the elder Bennett he had been close
and valued friend. He had, in due time,
come to be the friend, adviser and compan-
ion of the younger Bennett In London he
looked after Mr.. Benefits Legal affairs and
superintended his bureau of foreign CORES
pondence. When / saw him there, four
years ago, be was absolutely contented.
He said he was attached to London because
it was the paradise of old men. That
York, Mr.. Hall went on, man OF fifty was
HELD TO BE An OLD FoGY,
incapable of new enterprise, and so side
tracked and counted out. In London a man
under fifty who asserted himself was re-
Garded as an upstart. For in London the
active and influential factors in business
and professional life are men of mature
years and gray hair.
Suddenly and UNEXPECTEDLY there was
falling out with Mr.. Bennett and Mr..
Hall now finds himself beginning to day a
new career. He is here looking after some
legal business, and is incidentally con-
tributing articles 10 the newspapers. In
London he has engagements with a number
of journals, and is able to earn fair in
come. In spite of his vicissitudes, he is
still buoyant and always entertaining.
Oskey Hall has host of warm friends
here who admire him and believe in him.
1t is astonishing how many warm per-
Sonal friends
MRS. JAMES BROWN POTTER
retains in this city in spite of ner long alb
sence from New York-two years this
interval a welcome, which she has failed 10
take advantage of, has awaited her at the
Preside of her husband and in the heart of
her beautiful little daughter. Her friends
saw that some astonishing developments,
which will go far to put her in at least q
more favorable position in the public eye
than she has occupied since her practical
desertion of her home, may be expected
within a month or two, shortly after her
return from her protracted tour through
Japan, India and Australia Just what the
developments they refer 70 are they decline
now to intimate, but that they will add a
deeper and more pathetic interest to the