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

row ana Wnat not, was profusely pouring
forth, II never once seemed to occur to the
general public that all stories have at least
two sides, and that Mr.. John Hoey him
self might have something to say on the
subject. He has said something and he
will be fully heard in the judicial investi-
CATION which, in his manly letter resign
ing his office as manager in the company.
he earnestly "invites"-that in his word
investigation is not forced upon him, he
courts 1t. Meanwhile, all sensational
stories to the contrary, notwiths anding,
he is not ''mortgaged up TO the ears" nor
ruined" nor downcast. nor dlsheartened;
but Is living quietly in his city quarters at
Delmonico's, and is enjoying the rest he has
earned after more than forty years of faith
full service to the Adams Express CON-
pany." These words, too, are from his
letter. and they tell the truth of his al
ways FAITHFUL service. And his legion
of friends have no more fear of the out
come of the intended investigations than
Mr. John Hoey himself has.
ANOTHER LUCKY ENGLIsHMAN.
The French Place aux danes in this city
seems 10 be giving way to chance for the
young women in society. l will not be so
ungallant as to say that all tue old women
are marrying off, thus giving room for at
least some of the younger ones; but to take
only three conspicuous examples, the
| Widow Hamersley, the Widow Leslie, and
now, the Widow Roberts-all of them
pretty well along in the world, and, of
course, pretty well off, as otherwise the
marriages might not have occurred. The
eager husbands in every instance are
Englishmen. The Duke of Marlborough
was a desirable husband for any American
woman, not on account of his title, but be-
cause apart from his title he has excellent
qualities, which would make him an accept
| n h1o hap 10 of
and refinement. Mrs. Wilde's English
Irish husband is everywhere com
merded and the match is ap-
plauded. Mrs. Marshall o. Rob-
erts, who has an enormous fortune from
her late husband, to whom she was the
third wife, is now to marry q Col. Vivian
described as very handsome" and only
forty five years old, or lust leetle," say
younger than his to be wife. Mrs. Rob
erts has long been conspicuous in what is
here called society" Her wealth, dia-
monds, dresses and display have made her
conspicuous. Her entertainments and
hospitalities here, at Newport and at
Lenox have been models for even richer
but somewhat later corners into the same
set" With all the rest--her many ad-
mitted ocomplishments-th leader in the
social set to which she belongs and adorns
IS gifted with that rare tact which has
made her many friends and kept her from
making any enemies No woman in $50
ciety is more universally respected. The
same society is disgruntled because she
has kept away from New York two years,
and the expected opening of her
house this winter for series
of delightful dinners and dances is
likely to be disappointed. Mean
while nobody knows more about Colonel
Vivian than that he is an Englishman,
young, good looking and satisfactory to
Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts.
ATTEMPTS AT AMATEUR ACTING.
One of the funniest fads of society is it's
mania for amateur acting. Society is i'm
pressed with the idea that to dress stun
ningly, look prettily, stand around on the
stage, recite a few easily learned lines from
some commonplace play, and to pretend
that the performance is theatrical, is to act.
The idea that acting is the highest of
the arts requiring first Unborn
genius, and then years Of study
does not occur to society. Not
one of the young women or men who ap-
| pear as amateur factors" would venture to
chisel from marble statue or bust, or 10
paint great picture or write an epic poem :;
and yet any one of these things would be
easier to do than to acceptably act a
character on the stage. The most noted
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tours Of New York production, is Mrs.
James Brown-Potter, and she went on the
real stage only to make glaringly apparent
! that she was not an actress and never
would be, If she were to try to be till she
was gray. Our amateurs have made pub
/ lie their programme for the winter. They
announce that several remarkably hand
some young men and women will appear ="
1t is not pretended that they know any
thing, even of the elements Of the art: but
they are young, handsome, will dress
nicely, have half a dozen ''little act
plays" the lines of which they think they
/ can learn between now and December,
when they propose to stand in row at one
end of a parlor, say their little pieces and
call the performance acting"
THE GREAT MONUMENT.
During the past week the whole tomb, so
long familiar point of visit in beautiful
| Riverside park, has been raised into the
air fully fifteen feet, and then safely moved
to the spot where 1t will rest in the great
mausoleum to be built over it. $40 be
built" because it is yet 'to be-" as it GER
tainly will be, erected. This city has been
jeered at for not completing this work long
ago. But it takes time to collect the
S2,000,00o or more needed for the work. A
portion of the money has been raised right
here in this town. Almost the whole of
for the Bartholdi 'tStatue of Liberty''
was subscribed here, and the very little
not collected in the city came from the i'm
mediate vicinity. Yet, that was not a local
but national work. The statue was pre-
scented by the republic of France to the re
public of the United States, and New York
harbor was selected simply because it pre-
sented the best site on the Atlantic coast
for the statue. So the Grant monument
should be national work. This city was
chosen by Mrs. Grant as the most appro-
pirate place for the burial of the man who
was her husband, and who is the nation S
hero. His monument, when completed, will
be Mecca for patriotic pilgrims from all
parts of the country, and thsre is no reason
why all parts should not contribute to the
completion of memorial which will belong
to all parts.
THE LATEST WORK OF ART.
'Great is Diana of the Ephesians.n That
remark was made some years ago. The
Diana of New York, which surmounts the
graceful tower of Madison Square garden,
is also great. 1t is a great work of art, de-
signed by the distinguished sculptor,
Augustus st. Gaudens. This flving figure
of hammered copper, gilt, eighteen feet
high, stands, poised on one foot, on an
illuminated crescent moon, which is four
teen feet from tip to Toe. Though it weighs
1 oFoI itoVo POUNDS, IL Will HluFS Ut tue WING
pressure of half pound and is, in fact, q
gigantic weather vaue. The tower we al
ready consider the most beautiful architec-
tural effect in town, as it is by far the tall
est. Talk of tall towers From this eleYa.
ton the Tribune tall tower'' down town
looks ike pepper box, and the more pre-
tentious gilded dome near by like pump
kin on the ground ripening in the sun.
Stanford White, the architect of this tower.
I has ecected for himsalf a mapnifiraut N, ~,
ument.
| PERSONAL.
saw Mr.. James Gordon Bennett for q