The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-04
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Almost without exception the great sea
size ana country hotels are under the sun
mer management of the men who orc
pfoprietors of the leading hotels in town
10 THIS very fact is due the enormous i'm
proVe1nent IN the resort hotels of late wears
SoloneI dlldretn, who has arrived at the
deserved distinction of having his portrait
printed In a newspaper as one of our
prominent public men, and deserves
universal new Spaper praise for his elegant
treatment OF the Georgia editors-with his
energetic son, keeps the METROPOLITAN hotel
IN town. The story of that house. with ali
inc changes 1t has gone through, would be
curious bit OF Broadway history. 1t
covers, with the adjoining theatre the area
once occupied by Niblo's Garden. and orig
inally was part of the estate left by VIII
liam Nlolo. After his death l have heard
that 1t belonged for awhile to the Van
Rensselaers, of Albany, and that it was
purchased from that estate by A, T. Stew
art Tor what now would seem the coutemp-
tloly small sum Of $3.50, OOO-for it would
Dring TOUR or 1--WE times that amount now.
When IL IS now spoken of as belonging to
tne Stewart estate" one is at liberty to
imagine If it is the property of Henry Hill
ton, or may yet be absorbed by the 800 or
more of the Scotch Irish t'cIa1mants,, who
fancy that they have a lien upon all THAI
ever belonged to The late Stewart.
cooPER's UNION
| This brings to mind that wiser citizsn in
the disposition. of his property the late
Peter Cooper. His famoue Union is now,
In process OF one of those extensive trans
formations which seem almost annual A
platform, staging or gallery, high above
ground, completely surrounds the building
IL Is compaI atlVely recently that another
st9ry was aided, and now the very garnet
Is oeihs turned into roomy attic that will
aItord me accommodation for 100 pnnils
ALI this, as in the case of previous iu-
! provements made at enormous exnense ia
done by the Cooper children, who thus fol-
| low the example of the wise old Peter in
laying out money for public benefit while
ne was yet ION hand" 10 see how it was
spent These children, too, pull from their
pockets every year, the sums needed for
the support of the schools, above what ia
derived from the income of the huilding
And this year the 100000 of the Fayer-
"eatner endowment comes in as a separ-
ate Iund Tor the support of the Art School
for Women. --'O-
A REVEREND JOURNALIST
The Rev. DR.. John Hall has retrrned
from his summer vacation abroad. and has
ceased contributing his in no way remark
aole letters to the evening newspapers
| Whlch secured the CORES pondence and maid
roundly for it, not because the letters were
worth anything like the price paid for
them, but because DR.. HalPs name. simply
as an advertisement, was. 1t was on the
same principal that is as an advertisement
adopted by some OF the Sunday smotherers
DIR. Hall has been peculiarly fortunate in
his newspaper work. In addition to his
handsome salary, said to be 500. 600 with
wedding and christening fees of at least
s5,OO0 more as very popular Fifth avenue
pastor, the New York Leader for wears has
paid him at the rate of $4,000 wear. In
addition to his weekly article of the most
palpable pot-boiling ponderosity, and paid
for at the rate of 500 the column simply
because it was Shy Dr. John Hall,n he is
SAID to nave been salaried at $1,000 a year
TO take charge of the Answers to Core
spondents.' This requires only the eouin.
ment of the common senses with which the
excellent doctor is richly endowed. and
easy access to cyclopedies, ''Men of the
Times" biographies, cook books school
| DOCKS aud old almanacs. He is no more a
newspaper man than he is ward politi-
clan, and scores of unknown reporters do
Infinitely better work at considerably less
pay-but he is DR.. John Hall.
BIG NAMES.
Mr.. Robert Bonner owes the BEGINNING
OF his large fortune to his apt appreciation
oil the value OF big names. When he was .
Liable was very bright one-and was
learning his trade as a composltor in the
old Cootrant Office in Hartford, he used oc-
casionally to try his pen on a paragraph or
brief moral article, which he would sign
"Chann1ng," or some equally eminen,
name as if it was an extract from the EN-
lnent authors works-and without regard
to the value or importance of the matter its