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

faulty article made the will of the trustees
instead of the will of the testator, the con-
trolling power in the disposition of the
great bequest. This is in contravention of
the statute and SO the will is set aside as
void. But, by latest accounts, the city
will get part Of the money. Under the
settlement of the estate, as it now stands,
as left by one who died jntestate, niece,
Mrs. William A. Hazard, should re-
ceive one-h half of it, or $4,0OO,00O.
But one newspaper makes the eXtrava-
CANT statement that last June
she compromised with the executors
for S975000, leaving the rest of her share
in the hands of the executors for the pur-
poses of the trust. BY the decision of the
court of appeals the 'eXecutors'' are no.
where, since there can be no executors of
will that no longer exists. Surely this
story, or this phase of ii, needs some ex-
PLANTATION. Meanwhile the city is COM
forted by the assurance that somehow, and
through the agency OF Mrs. Hazard, some
s., 000,G00 of the property will be devoted
to the public library which Mr.. Tilden
wished to give to the city. If this is so, it
is to be hoped that the large and beautiful
mansion on Gramercy park will become
the library building. 1t has been closed
since Tilden's death, or occupied only by a
keeper and his family and is better adapt
ed for public purposes than it is for pri-
IDENTIFY planned it for public purpose.
A COLUMBIAN CELEBRATION.
This city didn't get the Worlds fair,
mainly, if not wholly, through it's own
fault, and with the now closed state cam
paigd there will be little talk about it and
no weeping over it. But there is talk of q
celebration of the four hundredth anniver-
sara of the discovery by Columbus on the
exact day, October y next year. This
will be only a curtain raiser' to the
great Chicago performance in the year fol-
lowing. And from the programme of
what is promised here it looks as if the
thing might be just d bit too theatrical
The principal feature is professedly 'pa-
geant." Mr.. 1mre kiralfy, who has had
considerable experience in catering to the
appetite of the purely spectacular, has
been over to Spain to see what can be col
lected in the way of costumes, armor
arms, banners, regalia and general para
phernalia pertaining to the time of Colum-
bus. II enough of these traps can be i'm
ported to rig out procession to parade
from the battery to Central park, that part
of the programme will be fixed. 1t is pro-
posed to halt at least five times on the
way for impressive ceremonies in illustra-
ton and eulogy of the "Great Navigator
But it will require considerable navigation
to get through the remainder of the pro-
gramme, which is to unveil in Central Park
a monument surmounted by heroic statue
in bronze, which is not yet designed or even
subscribed for. The idea of the whole per-
Torrance originated at dinner October 12,
when few of our Spanish American citi-
zens net TO celebrate the three hun
dred and ninety ninth anniversary of the
landing of Columbus, and when Mr.. XII
rally was present. To him, naturally
enough, the show business occurred, and it
is understood that he is willing to under
take the entire management of the per-
Torrance next year. This city likes an oc-
casional outdoor and street show, and if
the performance promises to be success
the money will be forthcoming. The
crowds drawn into town will more than re-
pao the money laid out.
THE SEASON FOR SOCIETY.
1t is gravely announced in one of the
organs of the Four Hundred that 'sdanc-
ing is the chief form of amusement in New
Y ork society,"" This can readily be be-
lieved. Society cannot be amused by the
opera where society goes to chatter and
make itself an intolerable nuisance to cul-
tlyated people who pay their money for
the purpose of hearing the music Litera-
ture can have no charms for society," which
knows no book excepting the one written
for its special delectation by its butler. {"
Even the theatres are attractive only as a
place to see and criticise the clothes worn
and changed with eac thy the actresses;
or, as at the opera, Tor the dis
play OF society's own dresses and diamonds
What can poor society do? 1t can dance
And the balls are by no means the least
lucrative part of the buffers business. Nc
Allister already announces that he is plan
ming for New Years the handsomest ball
ever given in New York. 1t is to be 'sby
A
projected by McAllister, especially the pic
MICS on his little farm near Newport, are
"by subscriptions For the threatened
ball he wants, to begin with, 100 su bscribers
at Sl0J each, or SO, 000-enough TO cover the
supper, music, rent OF either the Metro
politan opera house or Madison Square
garden, and, presumably his wages.
Whether or not society selects Madison
Square garden, it is sure to be the scene of
many public balls, and it is doubtful if
there is finer ball room in the world.
SUCCESSION OF EVENTS.
The suddenness with which sensations of
all sorts drop out of sight in this city can
be accounted for only in the fact that we
almost always have sensation on hand that
must be attended to and then got rid of so
that we can be IN readiness for another. |
forget what wiped out the Park place dis
is to-day as good az forgotten 1t came
with a crash and vanished in a flash. 1t
seems scarcely fortnight since the whole
town was talking OF Deacon Whites fail
ure to pay, not his debts, but his bets. For
some days the town talked of nothing else.
Now when the deacon has Settled or
otherwise arranged" and is well on his
way to another fortune, he has sunk into
oblivion. 1t is as ii we never had heard of
n
portance is soon succeeded by another of
apparently, for the moment, more import
ance, aud is pushed out, obliterated. At
the end OF the year, when we come to re-
view our twelve months history, it is at
once amazing and amusing to see how all
minor matters, momentarily SO important,
have dropped out and are nowhere. Only
two or three events out of the whole lot of
wonderful happenings still stick up, and
even these, as we look pack at them do
not seem SO very remarkable.
The foregoing retections-and they are
literal reflections from what the poet, or
some other fellow, calls the mirror of
passing events'-are vivid in showing how
Deacon White was followed by Mr.. John
Hoey as newspaper and town talk topic
In my last letter, written when the ''Hoev
natter was first blazed out as a s'stun-
ming sensation" | intuitiyely felt that
was taking exactly the right tone with re-
gard to the affair and the man. The man I
knew, as thousands know MIN, to be hon
orabls In all his dealings. 1t is evident
enough now that the most of the news
papers, not only here but ali through the
country, were quite ZOO previous in their
expression Of opinion that something
dreadful had happened. Not the least
funny phase of the matter was that those
who know the least about it had the most
to say about it; but this, though anus
ing, is not unusual. To most oh
servers, what was glaringly obvious. did
not seem at all important, viz, that Mr..
Sanford wanted MIR. Hoey's place as pres
ident OF the Adams Express company, and
matters were so managed-cct and dried
so to speak-that Mr.. Hoey was student