The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-28
THE FREE LANCE.


some time in THE HERALD Office that Mr.
William Balderston would retire from the
management of our evening contemporary,
but out of professional courtesy the an
nouncement was withheld. Last evening,
however, the Times itself made it, and SO
it is settled. Mr.. Balderston goes to Boise
City on Friday to take charge of the States
man, and his vigorous and yet courteous
pen will be sadly missed. While extreme
in his Republican partisanship and always
consistent IN his policy he never once
descended to personal abuse. and in this
he maintained the respect of the paper as
well as his own self-respecs in this COM
munity which will not gladly part with
him.
Hereafter the policy of the Times will be
-retrenchment. Mr.. b. Clark Wheeler
announces himself as the future editor-in
chief. 1t was presumed that MIR. Calvin
Reasoner would fill that place, but then
Mr.. Reasoner would expect a salary and
that would not be in consonance with the
new policy of the paper. If James Gordon
Bennett can conduct the New York Herald
from Paris. why not b. Clark Wheeler the
Salt Lake Times from Aspen9 (By the
way, Aspen is mining camp in Colorado. }
I I
AS Mr.. Wheeler's interests are all, or
nearly all, in Aspen, of which he is we be-
lieve the honorable mayor, we imagine he
will not waste much of his time in Zion.
Perhaps there will be no occasion for it.
He Is editor-in chief of another paper
there, that is, he reads the editorials after
they appear in print, with great diligence,
| and pockets the little indulgences that go
| with the position. Besides that, he runs a
well appointed rat office.
The retirement of Mr. Balderston Is not
the only change that took place on the
Times yesterday. The force of compositors
was at the same time cut down to six, just
enough to alter the Office lad" at frequent
intervals and make it interesting reading.
The telegraph boy was summarily dis
charged and with him also the circulator,
and subsltern collector found himself
suddenly elevated to the combined dignity
OF circulator collector and errand boy in
one. Lord Byron, when he woke up one
morning and found himself famous, was
not circumstance to this thrice crowned
individual. He beats all.
| Brief as the announcement yesterday g
Times is, il still contains food enough for
weeks reflection. We regret the
crowded columns of The HERALD
forbid lengthy review at this
time. We may utilize future
supplement for it. But it would be sheer
neglect of duty if we failed to notice the
last pregnant sentence of the announce
ment which is as follows, to-wit: Colonel
Joe Jenkins remains at the head of the local
| force" Colonel Jenkins, we salute thee
and thy head. tits great head-715, we
believe, and parts its hair in the middle.
! But it needs must be great head that can
marshal such force and do its paper JUS
tice.
We imagine when the colonel arrives in
his Office at s a. m. he will detail himself to
read the morning papers and clip the latest
news from them. AT 10 q. n. he will order
himself to "do' the courts During recess,
while munching an apple on tho fly to stay
the cravings of the inner man, he will col
lect the mining, railroad, building, bust
ness, criminal, society, hotel, political, re
ligtous, municipal, sporting, school
and miscellaneous news of the day
and return promptly at 2 p m
to the various halls of Justice
At odd moments he will rush copy and at
+ 30 ne will be ready to read the proof of it
| If tue associate editor, who is telegraph
exchange and managing editor and proof
reader at large at the same time shonld fine
himself crowded he may now call upor
Colonel Jenkins to lend his force to him fol
a spare hour or so. Otherwise the force
might be applied to other uses. The rollers
may need washing. The Office may neeG
| sweeping. The mailing clerk may be sich
as he will be- and there are always a grea
many duties to perform about newspaper
Office that is retrenching in which willing
force can lend helping hand.
When Colonel Joe Jenkins gathers hii
bedcover about him at night he will be
tired and weary force.
Judge Goodwin has written an interest
ing volume of "reminiscences and sketche.
of the palmy days on the Comstcck, which
is now in press, under the title Of tn,
"Comstock Club" The advance sheets
show that the work is in his happiest vein
and 1t witt be read with interest by the oil
! '49ers, Argonauts and other folks. Tn,
mystery is, how and when does the iudg,
find the time to write book in addition t.
his ordinary duties
+
Few people have the fertily and facilit,
OF quick and happy expression. The olde
Dumas, however, possessed it in q mos
extraordinary degree. After his death, Ii
lawsuit resulting from one of his CODY
RI ghts, the lawyers of the opposite sid
essayed 10 prove that the great novels
could have never written all that was at
tributed to him or bore his autograph
because to do that it would have REQUIRED
him, at mathematical calculation, Il
dictate twenty-four hours a day at tn
rate of 100 words per minute Here is
chance for some enterprising Ignatiu
Donnelly to attack the literary reputation
of the author of the Three Musketiers.
And yet who but Alexander Dumas Der
could have written Alexander Dumasa
The Scandinavian Democratic club ha
taken the right method of informing itsel
on the current questions OF politics, by in
viting prominent speakers to address it a
brief and regular intervals. Thus far th
Hon. f. S. Richards and Judge Judd hay
spoken and what they said ontained mea
and spice. Next Monday Governor Yves
will continue the series. Let the good wor
go on.
We admire Acting Mayor Pickard's grl
| and backbone in voting for the reductio
TO the ranks of Captain Parker 1t was
long and bitter struggle, and the influence
brought to bear upon him were stron
enough to upset a less determined man.
the face of the notorious demoralizatio
) existing in the force it would have been al
most fatal to allow this opportunity to re
: buke one of the heads Of the department
pass without action. If discipline is to b
maintained the way to maintain it is to re
exon in just that way with those who ar
either unwilling or incapable of enforcin