The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-04
E. H. LANSING, NJ. D.,
President.

which the old Union club 80 much wanted.
and that he will build thereon ''palace''
for MS brief sojourns at such times as he
may consent to honor his native CITY. He
Is native New Yorker by birth. but he is
no more au American than the Prince of
Wales is an Englishman-both of them are
Germans to the backbone. MIR, Astor has
very considerable fortune-apart from
MS real estate wealth heroes timated at
SlO,0OO,OOO, invested in English funds. On
tne income OF that alone he can live abroad
IN England or Germany a great part of
every year, or two or three years at a
stretch. Meanwhile his rents here can be
invested by his New York agents in local
real estate, as the bulk of the Aston accum-
nlatlons has been from the beginning of the
famlIy's fortune. Isn't it funny. by the
bye, that the lordly foreign law of progeni-
ture should be the rigid rule in a family
mat began, century ago, in a small
butcher shop in a little German village.
But what society, as Mr.. McAllister found
II, calls "aristocracy" doesn't bear minute
analysis. Unquestionably the most sub
stantlal, though, in these days of railways
and telegraphs, not the largest fortunes in
this town have been made by investments
In real estate, which mas advanced
In value with the growth of the city
Nothing is more common than to hear
meE say, "If my father or if l. ten, twenty
or thirty years ago had bought lots when
they were cheap well up on the avenues, l
should be very rich man to-day" Very
true. The Lenox, Goelet Gilsey, Lorfi-
lard, Stevens, Jerome and half hundred
families have been enriched by this very
process. But they had money, not only to
buy the up town lots, but to keep them, by
paying taxes, improvements and expenses
Which kept constantly increasing the cost
as well as value of the lots The very same
opportunities are open to those who can
afford to invest up town toward Fordham
to-day.
WEATHER NONSENSE.
1t may be called perhaps, meteorologi-
cal misfortune, but probably in the whole
range of easy newspaper writing there is
nothing more productive, or rather actu-
ally provocative, of sheer nonsense than
the weather. No matter what may be the
season, it never was SO wet, so dry, so
warm, so cool at this precise time of the
year before. In the favorite phrase, it is
altogether abnormal This merely is be-
cause there is no memOry-aud there are
as many kinds of memory as there are
varieties of folly il the scriptural "wild
ass" mentioned by Job-so deceitful. as
well as defective, as our memory of mat
tiers meteorological. What we call tab
normal was normal, or equally abnormal
year, or two years or more ago at this
time. This is pertinent Of the plethora of
newspaper talk about the "extraor-
dinarily' warm September, when there
was nothing really extraordinary in it.
There is just so much weather of all sorts
every year, and if the particular sort nor
NAL to one week or month doesn't come 'on
time" it will come in the week or month
afterward. he beautiful law of compen-
sation is nowhere more conspicuous than
in the seasons. 1t is the warm. sunuv
September that gives the golden fullness to
tho best and latest grapes. But it was
warmer than need be for this particular
purpose. But in every such September
that is, in nearly every September the
usual and universal conundrum is current ::
Why didn't the seaside and summer hotels
keep opens Pathetic pictures are drawn
of the crowds deprived of the advantage of
outings at this glorious season, and land
lords are commiserated on the great losses
they sustain by not providing for the pat
ronage which would have been showed nav
shoveled, into their houses. All this is
nonsense. The newspapers cannot teach.
for example, Colonel d. NJ Hildreth when
to open and how long to keep open his West
End hotel at Long Branch; and he is bur a
type Of great and unsuccessful landlords
who 'own" the hotels at all the resorts
They measure everything for the set asa.
son-the time, help, supplies, even wines
and bar liquors-with mathematical exact
ness. They can calculate almost to dol
lar how much favorable season win bring
IN, and they simply are satisfied with such
season. That is all there is to it. Their
patrons must return to the city, or wbsr-
ever they live, in time to send the children
to school, TO attend to fall business. to get
ready for the season in town with its round
of duties and pleasures; and the cooks
walters and help of all kinds must 90 back
to their city engagements