The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-04

lClS lOOuG biil ySoio es0Os OSOLiOy
Bellingham was born. He was child
of unusual intelligence, and with a
strong appetite both for reading and ad-
venture. But the monotonous and life
less existence of the sluggish old town
vexed and wearied him; he wished he
had come into the world a hundred
years earlier, when men went forth to |
battle, and to sail the seas, and the days
were full of novelty, activity and excite
ment. His heart stirred within him to
bear hand in the work and movement
of the world, and such echoes as reached
him of what was going on in other places
and lands kept alive this longing and de-
veloped it. He met with no sympathy,
however, from his own family circle,
and at length ceased to make them con-
fidants of his desires and projects; yet
this Encouragement to the utterance of
his thoughts led him to cherish them
not less but more ardently. Finally, in
his twelfth year, he ran away to sea,
taking passage on board a Boston vessel
bound for the Pacific.
He was absent three years, and he
came home first mate on board an En-
glish blockade runner from Liverpool.
1t was in the midst of our civil war; the
blockade runner was captured and Bel
bingham was taken prisoner. On his an
nouncing his readiness to take service
under the federal flag, however, he was
allowed to join the crew of a govern
ment war vessel. He had the good luck
to see a great deal of fighting, and was
promoted for gallantry and general eff
cheney. Before the year was out he met
Confederate bullet, which put an end
to his participation in the war, and very
nearly severed his connection with all hui
man affairs. Nevertheless he recovered
and made his way to the north with
1000 in his pocket. On reaching his
native place he found his father and
mother both dead, and his sister (the
only child besides himself) married.
He. was at this time about II years
old, but as tall and robust (barring the
temporary effects of his wound) as a
much older man; with premature
gravity and dignity of demeanor, and
a strong, penetrating and resolute mind.
After remaining quiet for month or
two, to recuperate his physical powers
and to think over his position, he deter
mined to be an architect. He set to
work at once, with his usual energy and
persistence; and after having familiarized
himself with the rudiments of the pro-
fession at the best scientific school in the
country he entered an architects office
in New York, and worked there from
twelve to fifteen hours a day for seven
years. Unremitting application such as
this, rendered physically possible as it
was by an invincible constitution, and
turned to the best advantage by a pow
erful and comprehensive intellect, could
not fail to have its effect.
When Bellingham, at the end of his
apprenticeship period, set up in business
ON his own account there were few men
in the country who possessed broader
and sounder knowledge of architecture
than this young man of %, or who had
so much taste and originality in matters
of design. The remainder of his pro-
fessional history, being mainly a record
of well deserved and increasing success,
has little interest. At the epoch of his
entrance into this story he had had a
hand in many of the best buildings of
our large cities, both private and public,
and incidentally he had been brought in
contact with great number of people
whom it might be deemed socially ex-
pedient to know. But Bellingham
scarcely seemed to have the ordinary
social instinct. His manners were abrupt
and reserved, and he had very discon-
certing glance for those who seemed dis
posed to attempt to be familiar with
him. He seemed TO have a te1npera-
mental antipathy against aristocratical
or exclusive pretensiOns of any kind,
though in a certain sense no one was
more exclusive and aristocratic than he.
The type is no uncommon one, as the
critics say; and it is perhaps pity, now.
, adays, that it is not q great deal COM
moner. Though repellent in several
ways, it has some qualities of almost in.
finite redemption. It includes every
thing that we call masculine. Its ex,
emplars are often deficient in humor
but they have sternness and simplicity
Ulldb dlC W tllC pCl1 ID VI llull1dl
nature what sea salt is to water. They
are often unjust, but they are never com
PLEASANT. They may be bitter, but they
are never sweet or hard, but never soft
And yet there is another side to them
but only very few-perhaps only one
ever comes to know it. Enough of gen
Civilizations.
Godfrey Bellingham had not the all
of being susceptible to feminine charms
\ His manner, when he was brought il
contact with the gentler sex, underwear
no gentle and Illuminating change. Thu
elements of his nature seemed avers
from harmonizing with those of women
When he happened to speak with
woman he would express himself in hi
usual curt, laconic way, keeping his eye
fixed upon her face the while, with sor
of unsympathetic 1nquisition. The i'm
preston conveyed was that he consid
cred women insufficient and untrust
worthy. On the other hand he neve
o rallied against them, as self consciou
misogynists do; his Indifference seeme
r not to be the result of an exhaustive O
: notifying experience of them in til
r past; it was scientific or temperamenta
% rather. He recognized their functiona
5, uses to the race and to society, but di
not care to be personally concerned wit
9 them more than was necessary.
But his professional reputation was S
n high and SO well attested that his socis
5; disqualifications did not injure his sue
E. cess; and when Gen. lingo conceive