The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-19
as an arrow and as fresh-faced as college


young man. He is conyivial with the best
of US, but temperate to degree.
New York as seen in midsummer from
al uptown street in the residents quarter"
said he yesterday, sis about as desolate a
sight as can be readily imagined. My father
is sharing my residence on Fifty third
street this summer, and when the house IS
open all front and back we have delight
full current of air through the block, but a
glance out of the front door at the silent
rows of houses in front and on either side
shut up so tight that even the dust OF the
street has hard time to find an entrance,
is mournful beyond description. 1t is such
views that give such lucid meaning to the
assertion in the society columns that
that there is nobody in town. and only q
visit to the East Side or trip down town
will demonstrate instantly how erroneous
such an idea il"
PEN AND REINS.
Racing men who write for print and
writers who race for profit are becoming
interesting figures on the turf. A year or
two ago there was sensation TO mild ex-
tent in the debut as racing man of @. r.
Tompkins, the horse reporter OF an eve
ming newspaper here. Mr.. Tompkins wrote
well-ss well as, if not better, than he
raced-and he has wife VINO is rarely
gifted with pen knack, as well as practi-
cal knowledge of horses. He became the
nominal owner at least Of more than one
horse that won quite sum OF money, and
he was said to have won within year
Sc, GOO or $50, 600. Then he ceased to be
heard of conspicuouSly, and going up to
take a position under President "Billy'
Arkell, Of the Quaint club, who contem-
plated at one time taking hold of the track
at Saratoga, seemed to disappear
from view somewhat. He didn't seem
10 be able TO make new winnings or to keep
possession OF his old ones. TompkinS' sue
cessor as literary plunger on the race
course and as a practical horseman VINO
handles the pen and reins with almost equal
facility, is a boyish looking fellow, who
can't be over % or %, if looks count for
anything, named A. Bennett. 1t is almost
amusing to hear Bennett speak of his ex-
periences ON the turf. He has very sober
bearing, and talks in matter of fact way,
about in this style: "Oh, there's more
money in racing than there is in writing;
made about $4,000 last year. You see,
had Lee Christy, just about the best
anywhere around, and he
won me $1,000. lost Sl3, 0O0 last Thursday
and 5000 yesterday" 1t is interesting to
surmise how long it would take so youth
ful a gladiator to get ahead that much in
the literary arena here: little, if any,
is required to understand how
he could lose it on the race course.
IN ovERALLs TEN YEARS AGO.
1t hasn't been ten years ago since Marcus
DAILY worked in overalls, with a pick, in
the Anaconda copper silver mine near
Butte, Mont. He is now, since the death
of George Hearst, and the sale of the Hag
gin stables perhaps the most eminent figure
on the turf from the west. His Anaconda
mines have just been sold TO an English
syndicate for S25, 600, 900, which is $4,000
)0O more than Mr.. DAILY and his partners,
Hearst and Tevis, are said to have spent on
the mine in the way of improvements
since they bought it ten years ago for So
200, 900. He is a big, quiet blonde, with q
good deal Of that dignitied reserve which
John w. Mackay, and which
IN such men as he and DAILY means great
1eal. DAILY is seldom seen hereabouts in
public, but he is becoming more and more
4 power in the racing world. 1t is pre-
iicted in some quarters that Mackay and
Daily are going to be the powers on the
Pacific coast for the next ten or fifteen
years. They are types of men whom
money does not seem to spoil, as simple
and unaffected il their tastes now as when
they worked at the miners per diem of s.,
devoted to their families and faithful in
ali the relations of life,
ASKING QUESTIONS.
OF the literally millions Of pleasure seek
FRS who sail from the Battery to Bay Ridge
Turing the summer season here, drinking
n, in their twenty minutes trip across the
finest bay in the world,'' the beauties of q
varying panorama by land and
sea, passing within hailirg distance day
after day and week after week of the whole
feet of passenger steamers,
Teering in and out among whole bevies OF
yhite-winged pleasure boats, passing
swiftly now and then ahead of some great
ioating tank, such as the Standard Oil
,eople use for the shipment of their pro-
iucts TO Germany-tO avoid the German
ariff on barrels - skirting Governors
sland, which is now delightful little
rmy park, but out to be popular pleasure
round and breathing spot. at least two in
very five seek TO crafty their curiosity by
skiing questions about what is unquestion-
bly, the oldest structure N the environs of
Jew York city.
t'THE OLDEST BUILDING N NEW YORK"
nust of necessity be an object of interest |
[ is castle, & regular ''donjon keep that !
night have been picked up out of the .
Ifueenth century and dropped down on top
f the bluff just south of the Bay Ridge I.
Terry landing. An irregular facade of I
ough brownstone descends at steep angle /
rom the foot of the tower several hundred |
eet to the waters of the bay. The keep
tself is of gray hewn stone modelled archi-
exactly on the lines of the favor
te feudal eyry of some roober baron of old.
| rich man has Of course a right 10 indulge
is fancy any way he chooses within the
aw, and the steamboat men, who have of
ecessity become the guides to his feudal
etreat, say that Banker h. w. Bliss, who
ives in a splendid mansion in the rear of !
is donion, bought his picturesque estate
rom Henry &. Murphy and built, not only
his question-breeding tower, which gives
7orld, but great stable, also visible from
be bay, and as big and ornate as a public
library or hospital.
CASH FOR OFFICE.
s.If Roswell p Flower were nominated |
Or governor" said one of the shrewdest
official workers about town yesterday.
he would probably De assessed s2,000 for
ach of the thirty six wards which. with |
ne annexed district, constitute New York
ity. That would make an assessment of |
- 900 to begin with OF this - 600 in the |
lrge majority OF the wards the voters
nat is the men on the street who do days
lbor under a foreman, who also acts as
leir guide and counselor when it comes TO
citing time-would get little or nothing.
he DOODLE would be calmly, quietly
I'd regularly divided among the three or
Dur leaders of the organization in each
ard. The boys would vote as their
brennan directed. You never went to
real ward primary il the Fourth, for
xample! Well, it's picnic-seel
Z s o'clock in come forty seven
ZEN who have been digging up Broad
Iay ali day under Foreman Billy
dRourke. They haven't changed their
Lothes and would much rather be in bed
r at the corner saloon; they are here
imply because Foreman Billy O'Rourke
bid them either to drop the job or come
nd vote They sit down together, with