The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-08

Enquirer Mr.. Halstead had set the pace for
US in that part OF the country, and |
nearly broke down my constitution trying
TO work fifteen hours day. At the dinner
the other evening l found him chatting
with big, brainy ST. Clair Mckelway,
editor of the Brooklyn Eagle Frank
Thurber, being impressed with this dis
play of journalistic good fellowship, made
remark thereon which induced Mr.
Halstead to tell story apropos. He
said that about the beginning of his news
paper career in Cincinnati, Charles Ham
mond was the famous editor of the Gazette
and the acknowledged Wing leader Bob
Lyle, the father of General Lytle, who
wrote the popular poem of CLEOPATRA
and who was killed at Chicamauga was
the Democratic leader. One evening these
worthless met at dinner and became etfu-
slye in their friendship, much to the aston
1shmeht OF respective partisans. They
left the dinner together and on the way
Hammond suggested that he must go to
the Office and write his LEADER for the
next days paper. Lyle insisted upon
accompanying him. Arrived at the Office
they found the gas in the EDITORS room out
! OF order, and the genial Lyle hunted up a
candle and voluntee to hold it while the
editor wrote. He did so with great faith
| fulness. The article finished the friends
separated. Next morning Lyle found that
the leading article in the Gdzette-the one
Tor which he had held the candle-was
cruel, sarcastic aid bitter arralgnment of
himself as Democratic freebooter. Mr..
Lyle afterwards told his friends that his
feelings upon reading that article were
akin to those of the eagle which was
wounded to death by an arrow tipped with
one OF Its own feathers. Thus" said
Mr.. Halstead, 1--WE may Judge of the value
OF journalistic ameniues."
The fact that Rnllin Nj. Squire has started
gambling house in town has once more
brought that stormy petrol into public
notice Squire was such an important
factor in New York affairs at one time that
1t seemed no more than fitting to speak uf
MN as esquire. He has achieved dstinc-
ton in many ways in New York, but the
outside world will remember him solely as
the author of the wretched doggerel which
was such an ofense to the whole country
at the time of General Grants death
Squire was at that time commissioner of
public works, very important office in
THIS town, where SO many millions are
expended IN public improvements in
that department of the city govern
ment. Squire believed that in his
public capacity it was his duty to
do some mighty thing in honor of
the dead soldier, so he sat down ana wrote
/
OF Grant. He was so well pleased with his
poetic effort that he had it painted in large
Whlte letters on black banner which he
mad stretched across the front of the city
nall The banner was about twenty-five
feet long, and the letters-tbere being but
TOUR lines In the stauza-were of CORES
spending size. Here are the lines, and they
may well take their place among the curl
osities of literature:
/ lie hal5 a1o o,,- s,r,-,5 g.. .
enYied Nation
| Where Vict'ry sang, while trembling Kings be.
spoke our desoiation.
No faltering marked tthe Titan's task no
shrinking from the trial.
de faced the foe ere Freedoms hand fell shat
tered from Times dial.
This banner with the strange device at
tracted an extraordinary amount of atten-
ton. The utterly bad taste of the thing
excited indignation and the bad poetry
rldlcule. On the second day, as L remem-
Der the occurrence, indignation got the
upper hand, and Mayor Grace ordered the
ridiculous banner to be taken down. The
amazing thing to the public was that it
should nave been permitted to go up at all,
! but the fact is that Squire was very i'm
! portant parsonage around the city hall at
that time. He had been q school fellow of
Mayor Edison, who had elevated him TO the
! dignity OF commissioner of public works. q
tlons. 1t is due Mr.. Squire to say that he
denies that the place be has lately opened
is an embryo Monte Carlo or ANYTHING of
tnat sinful nature. His description of the
institution is that it is simply an elegant
clubhouse for gentlemen, and, like all per
feet clubhOuses, has a dice box and
checkerboard. On this slight basis he
claims the newspapers have built sensa-
tlonal and untruthtul story to the great
! injury OF his good name Rollin NJ. SQUIRE
! has good name, so far as that goes He
! IS the great grandson of Ethan Allen, and
/ MS grandmother was cousin of Chief
Justice Chase. He was at one time in his
busy career writer of short stories for
country newspapers, and this being true.
/ the wonder Is that he was not able to write
verse on the occasion of General Grants
death that at least had glimmering raw
! OF sense. But an examination of.the dog
! gerel shows that il is totally devoid of any
thing to 81 Zgest that intelligence had a
hand IN Its construction. Squire claims to
have fought under Mcmahon during the
war in Algiers, and also t. have fought
side by side with Garibaldi. Whether he
4 did or not he has had an adventurous ca
reer In this country, develoving silver
mlmes IN the west fighting duels in the
/ south and cutting a large swath wherever
he went, especially in New York. The
/ toWE has not seen much of him of late.
though his retirement and semi poverty
have been borne with proper resignation.
One OF his best qualifications is that of
story telling, in which respect he is almost
the equal of Colonel Tom Ochiltree.
ONE THOUSAND SPEECHES IN ONE NIGHT
The Importance with which the Demo-
Gratis regarded the campaign Just closed is
seen in the fact that on Friday night prior
to the election zoo speeches were made in
the state. Large as this record was. il was
beaten on Saturday, when 1000 meetings
were held throughout the state. 1t is safe
to count one speech for each of these meet
lngs, but at some of them perhaps two Or
three addresses were made by different
speakers. 1t has been long time since
New York has been SO completely sur
charged with oratory. The Republicans
were not greatly behind the Democrats in
this matter, although Mr.. Fassett made
more speeches than any dozen men who
were stumping with nim. And the re-
markable fact is that he came out of the
light olithe and clipper.
TIE TILDEN ESTATE,
The town is still talking about the J'ilden
will. This is because by the intent of the
testator, the tewn was Immediately inter-
ested In 1t and SO, Tor once, in. talking about
the fortune left by q private citizen. it was
mlnding its own business. One of the
most remarkable things connected with the
estate is scarcely considered worth com
ment. In 1865 tue property was appraised
at Sc, coo, O0O and to-day it fairly estimated
at So,000,0O0 1t has increased 81, 900 coo in
! five years, and people pretend to wonder
how far greater estates like the Astor and
Vanderbilt properties swell, and keep
swelling, to such enormous proportions
OF course, 1t has been said over and
over again that a great lawyer ike
Tilden ought to have known how
to draw a will But even Tilden
had his doubts on the subject and