The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-12
THE TOURIST HOG
How He Feeds off From Presiden-
tial Families.
STORY OF PRESIDENT HARRISON
Mrs. Cleyeland's Communion Cup, and Wash
ington Slghtseers- Literary Men
How Russia Befriended America.

WASHINGTON, April 10, 1S91.-[Special
correspondence of THE HERALD. Wash
ington is now swarming with tourists, and
the great American hog and the great
American boor is at large on our wide
streets and avenues. He has brought his
wife and children with him and the famous
courtesy of the national capital is tried to
its utmost. The American hog among tour
lists is no respector of persons. He has
crowded into the funeral assemblages of the
noted men who have died recently and has
pressed himself even up to the collins Of
the deceased. He goes to churches to see
the great men who attend them, and Presi-
dent Harrison's church has been thronged
Sunday after Sunday with his kind, in
droves. These men and women come into
church and at once begin to crane their
necks and ask questions as to where the
President sits, and whether he comes regu-
larry. They are anxious to get near him,
and after church is over they rush around
to the side door out of which he usually goes
when he returns to the White House, and
stare and criticize his personal appearance
as though he were prize hog at county
fair. President Harrison is very fond of
walking. He generally comes to church on
foot with d springing step, and in going
home he sometimes walks around in order
TO increase his constitution. Last Sunday
he walked home alone, and l saw him as he
was going at a rapid pace up Massachusetts
avenue towards Thomas circle. About
block in the rear Of him l noticed party
whom l az once sized up as fair specimens
of our tourist hog. There was a great big
long whiskered jay at the head of them,
who, with very long legs was making very
long strides to shorten the distance which
lay between him and the President. Be-
hind him, and tagging at his coat tail, was
a very thin, and very fat and dumpy wo-
man, who evidently belonged to the very
long man. These two were also on fast
walk, but the President seemed to walk
faster than they did, and they gained but
little. As the President got to Thomas cir
Gle the long man turLed to the short woman,
said word, and then broke into run. He
soon got up to the President, and putting
his hand on his shoulder caused him to turn
round. The President was surprised and
was near enough to hear the man say that
he was from Illinois and had come to see
Washington and he wanted to see the Pres
ident. Upon this he stuck out his hand,
and the President with the nearest ap
proach to a scowl / have yet seen on his
face, reached out his gloved hand and took
it. The man grasped it with the grip of q
John Sullivan. The President attempted
TO release it but the man stuck and said that
he wanted the President to see his wife and
daughter and with the other hand he beck
oned violently to the fat, dumpy woman,
calling her Mary Jane and telling her to
hurry. By this time the women had gotten
up both painting and out of breath, and the
man from Illinois presented them. The
President said a few words which l
could not hear, and then bowed and went
on. As he left, the man and Mary Jane
looked after him with open mouths and de-
lighted eyes, and they will, I've no doubt,
tell how the President stopped them on the
street and spoke to them.
PRESIDENTIAL CHURCH TROUBLES.
This sort of boorishness seems to grow
worse and worse every year. 1t was such
that Arthur seldom went out except in a
carriage, and President Cleveland took most
of his walks back of the White House or in
the country about Oak View. Mrs Cleve-
land was imposed upon wherever she went,
and both she and the President were looked
upon as free circus whenever they
went to church. At one time a party
of tourists sat near them when the commun-
ion was administered, and there was dis
graceful strife among them as to who should
get a chance at the communion cup after
Mrs. Cleveland. Mrs. Harrison, even now,
has to do much of her shopping away from
Washington, and she goes to Baltimore to
get away from the crowd. 1t is only up
stairs in the White House and at one end OF
of the second floor that she can have any
seclusion whatever, and it is a question
as to whether we are not entirely too Dem
ocratic The President and his wife should
certainly be treated with as much common
decency as other Americans.
BLAINE AND SALISBURY AND THE SEALS.
Our troubles with the English in regard
to the seal question will probably be settled
BY the visit of the agents of both parties t
Alaska this summer. The chief American
as far as knowledge goes, in this expedition
will be Mr.. Henry w. Elliott of the Smith
sonian institution. He knows more abou
seals and Alaska than any man in the world
He made his first trip to Alaska in the en-
ploy of the Western Union Telegraph com
pany, when he went north with Georgt
KEENAN, and others to lay aline Of telegraph
wire across Behring Straights and over ST
IBERIA to Europe. The Atlantic cable de
feated the project anc brought him back Il
this country, but the exploring party wa
80 far away at the time that the cable wa,
completed, that it took three years befor
the news of it could reach them. Abou
sixteen years ago Mr.. Elliott was again il
Alaska this time the agent of the govern
ment and he then made thorough study o
the seal trade, and gave very full accoun
OF the number of seals, pictures of thei
breeding ground and upon returning Il
America, wrote book which is now tn
standard authority on Alaska. Mr.. Ell
lott is an artist. as well as an able write
and explorer, and the pictures which b
brought back in 1872 give an accurate ide;
of the extent of the seal industry. During
the past summer he was again sent t
Alaska and he has just returned bringing
with him pictures of the breeding ground
of the seals as they are to-day, and thes
being compared with the pictures of tn
same places in 1872, show that the seal
are on fair way to determination, an
that if something is not at once done, tn
time will soon come when they will be ex
tinct as the buffalo is to-day. MIR. Elliot
has unearthed the fraud which George K
Tingle, an agent of the treasury depart
mant, perpetrated on the government, AM
which may result in international compli
cations between US and England. Thi
man, Tingie, has for years been sending il
false reports, and it is on these false re
ports that the English base their claims
that the seals are not being destroyed, ant
thereby apparently got the better of Mr.
Blaine in his correspondence to the Englisi
government Whether he was in the pa,
of poachers or of the new seal company o
which he is one of the chief officers, 1t i
impossible to know, but if Mr.. Elliotts re
port is correct, he has proven false to TIL
government and to the treasury depart
ment, and has sold out this country as mucl
as Benedict Arnold did during the Revolu
tionary war. The truth of the matter il
that there were in 1872 about 1,500, 600 kill
able seals and there are now about &C, 00O
We have the most stringent laws agains
the killing Of females, and it is only tn,
Young males who can be killed for furs
When Mr.. Elliott was in Alaska in 1872