The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-05

cratic position that her husband old In MS
when they were married. And she had An
additional and still more potent gift OF fas-
cination; for nobody once in her company
has stopped as yet to analyze her personal
attractions according to the canons Of per-
lection. The most plausible explanation
offered of her adoption of the stage as a
career is this: She is undoubtedly
DEVOTED TO COLONEL URoUHART,
her father, her mother and her sister, Jen-
ME Urquhart, who is also training for
a professional life in Paris. From the
time she entered upon social career OF
great brilliancy in New York city, with
unlimited wealth at her command-fOr Mr..
Howard Potter. the secular head of the
family, was devoted to both her and her
husband. and stinted nothing in expense
she could not fail to contrast the meager-
ness of home affairs in the south, the res
dngLstG domi, as 1t were, of the Urquhart
establishment with the luxury of her own.
She was too proud to offer them assistance
from her husbands bank account, which
they in turn would have been far too proud
to accept They would not, in any sense Of
the word, become pensioners upon her
bounty, and even avoided, to noticeable
degree, becoming her guests. Devoted as
she was to them, and finding, as this inter
esting suggestion intimateS plenty of af-
lection, but very little congeniality and
sympathy in her husband, she was forced,
she thought, to do something to put an end
to this painful condition of things, and SO
adopted the stage as
MEANS OF MAKING MONEY.
Whether or not on the occasion of that
famous interview between herself and
Bishop Potter, the spiritual head of the
family, in which she was made to say she
could not think of abandoning a name she
had ''made famous" there was any allusion
to money matters. is a question. Probably
not. But am ong her intimates here there
is a confident hope and belief that when, in
a few weeks she IS once more in London, a
duly accredited agent of the Brown family
will make formal offer to her of very
handsome annuity on condition that she
abandons the stage. Failing this, further
offer not so large. but still quite attractive.
will be made, ii is thought, on condition of
her agreeing to abandon the name of Pot
ter.
All the world and his wife know by this
time thst that mysterious and yet obtrus-
i've article of costume technically des-
cribed in the publication devoted to crino-
inc specialties as
"DREss IMPRovER,"
has been banished to the limbo of the dis
carded and ludicrous. 1t is a question in
the mind of thoughtful man on Fifth ave
Park, and on the hotel porches at Saratoga
and Long Branch, Sharon Springs and
Richtield, not TO speak of the sylvan roads
of the famous McAllister farm al Newport,
whether or not the successor 10 this re-
jected ornament is not still more worthy Of
at least masculine criticism. Just who it
was that introduced the fashion of rubber
hips into New York fame has not been re-
corded. The charge has been laid at the
door of the Baroness Blanc, whose should
ers used to be her strong point. Sadie
Martinez is suggested in some quarters as
the inventor or importer. Fay Tempieton
and Mabel Jordan are believed by others to
divide the honors. However this be, and
whatever be either the origin or outcome
Hesitation of daily life in the metropolis, the
fact remains, and surely if, as some sage
has observed ''eggs is eggs" 1t ought to be
allowed that 'facts is facts"
A slender, elderly gentleman with medi-
tative and quiet countenance, a grayish
brown beard trimmed to a point on his
chin, decided bald spot where the hair
ought to have grown over his os fronts and
pair of spectacle almost as benevolent
looking as those of Mr.. Benjamin Gold
finch, in the play of that name, walked to
the window of No. 40 Br0ayway as
CHANGED to be passing and pulled down the
shade. He looked like respectable elerly
managing clerk in the Office of a we'll
established firm of family lawyers. There
was more pepper than salt in his pepper
and-salt suit as if to make amends for the
preponderance Of gray over black in
his hair and beard. He didn't yank
the shade down as as Office
boy would have done, but soothed and
caressed IL as he depressed ii, until one
could almost imagine that no such person
as 'sTomn Platt, that widely and we'll
al- or Of ho icor in
New York state and city, had ever been
seen in No. 70 Broadway, one flight UP,
the Office of the American Express COM
pany, over whose front door is still visible
faded escutcheon bearing thirteen stars.
MR.. THOMAS C. PLATT,
whose personal friends are not said to be
proportionately numerous to his political
acquaintance, but who are not infrequent
ly heard to say that they would go through
fire and water for him, has indeed aged
very considerably in the last year or two.
But there are no signs that his hand has
left his party's helm or that in anything
more important than local fight against
the wicked Gibbs'' his influence
has been found on the losing side In Repub-
ican councils. Just at present it is the
talk ABOUT town that Cornell Van Colt,
the postmaster of this big town, is Ir.
Platt's candidate for the governorship this
fall-until, at least, Mr.. Platt gets ready to
bare his hand and throw his strength TO the
man he genuinely desires at Albany. Van
Colt is one OF the smartest and most expe-
rienced Of the old-t time school of rural poll
ticians. His training has been, as matter
of fact, in New York city, but he repre-
sents the up-country genius OF worker and
ralker from his beard to his boots. What
1.-The boys" think of him may be inferred
from the fact that they call him cornell"
fa~r feffa NJ ~hxaG
Long Island, and more than thirty years
ago one Of them was the champion ball
player, tradition says, OF all this country
side.
Everybody who goes to Europe on a
pleasure trip comes to New York to board
ship. The exceptional people who sail from
Montreal, Boston, Baltimore and New
Orleans only prove the rule. The additions
to the fleet of the ocean ferry during the
last week or two are magnificent and
numerous enough to give a thrill of genu-
inc surprise TO the tourist who selects to-
day the vessel in which he would cross the
Atlantic The French line has La Touraine,
a beautiful vessel, and the North German
Lloyd the Fuerst Bismarck, which the
steamboat men who ply the pay say is the
finest craft they have laid eyes on since the
AMERICAS TINE.
Some years ago when the America sailed
into the bay the fastest and most commo
dious passenger ship afioat her builders
having made no allowance for freight what
ever, she created a sensation. There were
not so many Of these floating hotels TO COM
pare Ter with then as now. So numerous
have they become, indeed, since her day,
that her sale to the Italian government
and subsequent shipwreck are now almost
forgotten. But nobody has as yet found
anything on the water more admirable to
the nautical eye in these ATTITUDES than