The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-13
AROUND IN GOTHAM
John A. Cockerill on Timely
Topics of Interest.
EVERYTHING BOOMING JUST NOW
Summer Homes With Big Names-When Me-
Allister Was an Unknown Cub-Eow
Pat Got Even.

Pat Got Even.
New YORK, Sep. S, 1S91.-TSpecial cor
respondence of The HERALD. The recent
Democratic primaries throughout this state
reveal state of affairs which should be
well considered by the national Democracy.
OF course it Is well known that the Demo
cratic machine is in the hands of Govern or
Hill absolutely. His friends control every
committee. There is not an institution in
the state non political, charitable, penal or
reformatory that is rot controlled by Hilrs
friends, and if boy could be found on the
canal towpath drawing wages from the
state he would be pitched into the canal if
he could not prove himself loyal to the
state administration. For ten days the
work Of choosing delegates to the Demo
cratic state convention which meets at Sar-
Rtoga on the 18th, has been going on. In a
number of districts bitter contests
have taken place between the Hill
and anti-Hill factions. In most instances
the Hill supporters were victorious, but
these fights have developed a wonderful
amount of hostility TO the governor | do
uJI D6ltN6 ludI MT. SI6N6lalQ'S ADVISERS
are responsible for the forcing of these con-
ficts. Such policy at this time would be
certainly unwise. They seem to have been
spontaneous and this makes them signifi-
can't Whenever the anti-Hill men HAD the
slightest chance of defeating a machine
delegation they made the effort. Naturally
this has embittered Mr.. Hills friends, and
the most intelligent Democrats now see
that it would be more than folly to nomin-
ate either Cleveland or Hill for President
in 1892, if the fate of New York state is to
enter into the question. Knowing some
thing of the feeling here | do believe it
possible TO give this state to either of the
gentlemen named. MIR. Cleveland's follow
ers have not yet recovered from the chagrin
OF defeat in 1883, and they feel that they
have an account to settle with Mr.. Hills
supporters. The Hillites, never particu-
larly fond OF MIR. Cleveland, are incensed
by the recent contests and inclined to seek
revenge. The breach between the factions
will grow wider as time rolls on, and my
opinion is emphatic that the Democratic
party should make up its mind right now
90 find Presidential candidate outside the
state of New York.
HOTEL LIFE.
1t really is wonderful how autumn bust
ness is booming. Smiling merchants say
there has been no such season in the past
ten years. The hotels and theatres feel the
Influx OF men from all parts of the country
who are here to buy, to see, to enjoy and to
have a good time. The capacity of the
great hotels in this city is popularity sup
posed to be unlimited. but lust now they
seem to be full. Nearly all of them have
gone through, or are still going through,
their annual renovation, and guests are
nInCr mt orb hol1o hor
parlors under stagings, while fresh fresco-
ing is going on overhead. 1t is mystery
how these walls wear out An absolutely
new hotel needs complete renovation in a
year or two. And every little while they
are completely refurnished throughout
Yet the business never seems overdone,
and the actual demand is never supplied
A new house opened to-day is filed with
guests before night Another new one, on
the same block even, opened tomorrow,
viii also be filed. All the best hotels have
many permanent residents. Many families
find it not only the most convenient, but
the cheapest way of living. 1t effectually
disposes Of the much-vexed and more vex-I
Ing servant question: AS for transient
custom, the same patrons are pretty sure
TO stick to the same hotels for years in sue
cession. When the magnificent clerk in
charge Of the register condescends to ad-
dress you by your right name and graci-
ously informs you that he can put you in,
''your old ROOM you begin to feel at home
The proprietors generally are invisible, ex-
cepting to a favored few. Most of them
live in their own elegant private resi-
oences away up town, and daily come
down, as other men do, to their business.
say from 10 in the morning till 4 in the
afternoon. These lordly gentlemen, they
are landlords anyhow, would no more live
in their own hotels than Mr.. Richard Mans
field would sleep in the Garden theatre.
HIGHsoUNDING NAMES.
These first autumn days, which bring
back to so many the romance of youth and
TO others the rheumatism of maturer years,
also brings back considerable proportion
OF our uptown population. They return
from abroad, from over the sea- from all
along ashore, from the woods, the fields,
the farms, the springs and the mountains.
from anywhere and everywhere outside of
the city. The summer girls skirmisbes here
and there, have ended in a serious engage
ment. The hotel proprietors are reckoning |
up their profits, which this season. are
more than usually profuse. The most of |
the money is made nowadays from tran |
sient sojourners. To be sure there is the |
same old ''set, whole families of 'em. that
summer after summer take the same old
rooms in the same old favorite hotel at Sar-
atoga, Long Branch, Long Beach, and es-
peoially at Richtield Springs. But The
most OF those who assume to be very fash
ionable as well as very rich, hire or own
cottages or villas at Newport which really
is only an outlying ward of this city-po
inslnuation, please, that anything there is
outlying Ward McAlllster. There the