The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-13

cottages, villas or rustic res licences pretend
TO be ''places," and fiunkies call and con.
slider the more amazing architectural abom
nations palaces "Placesn assureIly
they are, if names can make them so. 1T.
so English, We kno'. The late p. It. Bar
mum began the business long years ago anC
his successive Bridgeport and Sound shore
residences were "Iranistan,n Linden
croft" 'Waldmeren and Marina Pre-
| clsely the same motive that prompted him
to give fancy and attractive names to his
places moves our four hundred-not half OF
whom have one-quarter of the amount o.
money Barnum left behind him-to do the
same thing, to advertise their big show
! business. And so the country is dotted
and the seashore sprinkled with 'Lolly-
pop Place." "Smithside," "Jonescroft' ;
"Brownbrake," "Chiselhurst by the Sea, )
and so on. The classic name of the New
| port farm of the alleged ''leader'' of the
four hundred and the scene of the profta.
BILE subscription picnics has escaped me
but believe 1t is Buffers Pantry"
RURAL RETIREMENTs.
Another far off following of the English
fashion by few of the four hundred, for
tunate enough to own places in the couu
try, Is their lately much longer season Of
rural retirement. Unhappily, SO Anglo
maniacs think, our city season Is not CO.
incident with that in London, which is in
summer when parliament sits, while here
| 1t Is In fall and winter, when business
| theatres, opera, balls, dinners, parties anC
other things get up or are gotten up But
] the fashionable fad now with the very ex
cIusVle lew Is to use ''our town residence
tor three or four months only in the veal
ana to live the rest of the time at "Oul
Place" IN the country. So, with them
the rural residence begins in April, and
with some, continues through Christmas
It's SO English, ye kno', to do the same
oaronlai business on a smaller scale-with
successive rounds of visitors from the CITY.
Inc city, which is becoming so common, SC
vulgar, with lots of upstairs, who made
their money only yesterday, as it were.
linen there are the great open fireplaces.
in which actual logs, three or four inches
thick, can be burned. And eggs, butter.
servants, cheese and church pew rent are
cheaper In the country than they are in the
city.
SOCIETY.
The exclusive four hundred is the fun
NEST unchartered 'society'' ever estab-
llshed in this city. An old citizen, still q
young man of sixty, was recalling to me
the other evening 1.-THE best society'' of
only few years ago. 1t was known as
The Upper Ten Thousand"-N p. Willis
1O,u0O OF EN- then in a population of onlv
about 500,0 900. And even the Astors were
mot IN it." Nor was Commodore Wander
ollt, the sturdy and sterling founder of his
family; you couldn't have driven him into
1t with CLUB. WHY continued nv curt
historian, Ward McAllister was only an
unknown cub down south, and l may saw
that he now is only better known, Even
when the quiet modern four hundred was
81.
picnic sponsor had not yet SO named it and
the late Mrs. John Jacob Astor, one OF the
Worthlest women New York ever knew.
was the acknowledged head of the $50
clety," the late w. H. Vanderbilt had a
very hard scrabble to get into the set. Not
that the old gentleman, who was sensible
as well as substantial, wanted to get in
But from the beginning of his breakfast
I'LL the end of his dinner, from Sunday
morning TIL Saturday night, he was per-
slstently prodded. At last Door man. he
gave IN. Worse yet, he gave out, right and
left, with liberal hands, invitations to a
fancy dress ball in the big house he had
built The Astors after due deliberation.
accepted invitations. That settled it.
Others Of the four hundred, kindly CON
sented to assist in inviting the new family
into their sacred order. Some of them
wanted to see the new house so infinitely
Logging the high priced pictures that pro-
fusely plastered the entire interior. Others
were eager to do their share in the supper
room. 1t was great occasion-great for
the family, the four hundred and the re-
porters who were furnished with printed
lists of the fancy costumes, names of the
wearers, and estimated wealth of each.
My historian, who still considers the chief
butler of the four hundred a--well, with
n - tkNl l.,
but smile when he thinks of the great giver
of the great ball in fancy costume. He
forgets the character but he thinks it was
Cromwell, the old king killer, satiricallv
expressive of the short work the million
aire had made of it in his sudden smashing
of the select set and then stepping on
them, so to speak. One of his sons-in-law
then young, whose vast versatility in abso-
lutely inane variety was a marvel to the
old gentleman, appeared In the costume and
character of John Calvin, and the then
younger and handsomer Wilfred Murray
was dressed, though scarcely disguised, as
Don Juan.
CHURCHES AND REAL ESTATE.
The ruthless demolition of the fine West
chester marble church at the corner of
Twenty-second street and Fourth avenue.
Will recall to many the not long gone by
eAAA4o NhOu IOuLIu dNcuu0 from Union
Square to, say, Thirtieth street, was a
choice residential region. And here comes
in the building of three more churches of
different denominations within the same
somewhat limited range. The one now
torn down furnishes my text. Ishould saw
by the by, that the edifice. with its hand,
some parsonage annex, is by no means
blotted out of existence 1t simply was
turned temporarily into a quarry of build
ing stone to be conveyed to New Rochelle
where it will be put up piece by piece in its
original form, only it will be converted
from Methodist to Catholic church
But to my text: The original builder was
the late Daniel Drew-late now, but in life
exceedingly early, and promptly on hand
where money was to be made. Daniel was
a devout Methodist, or supposed he was.
but he had no doubt whatever that he was
r millionaire from the day when he became
one, and meant to be more of one, as he
was many times, between his downs and
ups, from the happy o-lucky day when he
1rove his first wild steer down to the old
Bnlrs Head, to the unlucky day when he
took his last wild steer through stocks in
Wall street. He tailed, of course, perhans
rom the mere force of habit for he had
lone it before, and left TO his destitute
,amily not more than couple Of millions |