The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-20
tised as secured at enormous expense, 'for
this journal only"

tised as secured at enormous expense, "for
this journal only"
MARK TWAIN A MILLIONAIRE.
Mark Twain is not only one of our most
popular authors but he is one of the most
publishers. He is like the star
actor who Is his own manager, or better,
who owns or leases the theatre in which he
brings out his plays and has complete con-
troll of everybody and everyth concerned
in their production. Thus Clemens has
made in bringing out works other than his
own, notably in publishing the Life OF
Gen. Grant" Mark Twain is good book
maker, and like some other bookmakers he
is better" money maker. His estimated
present fortune small part of which
came to him by marriage. as fortunate as
it was felicitious, is in the neighborhood OF
81 100000. Not many years ago, when the
then almost unknown MARK Twain was
still in California, or otherwise in the
"Wild West,' his friend, Chas.
H. Webb, attempted to secure some
reputation and more money for the
young humorist here in New York. He
Frog and two or three more funny stories
which had been printed, not published, in
some San Francisco periodical or news
paper. Webb travelled from Dan to Beer
sheba, or from one publishing house to an
other throughout the whole city, but no
one of them could be induced to touch the
work with a pair of tongs. So Webb, who
had some money, published the jumping
Frog" which jumped Mark Twain into i'm
mediate notoriety here in the east and was
the beginning of his fame and fortune.
CALIFORNIA; INDICATIONS.
Mr.. Webb, by-the-bye an old-time jour
1o+a f,11 Wo1l otr
is considered by many much more of a real
bumorist than Clemens is, or ever was, and
Webb's pen productions over the nom de
plume "John Paul. almost warrant the
claim. What notable lot of men Califor-
MIA has incubatei for full Hedging on this
side of the continent. And some of the
best of them who counted for but little in
California are now literally mo more"
even here A partial list pr some of the
last includes John Mccullough, Barrett,
Dan Setchell and Artemus Ward. Among
the living still with US are Edwin Booth,
Brete Harte, Clemens, Webb and others
whose careers began in California and cut
minated in New York.
HUDNUT, THE PHARMACIST.
The beginning of Alexander Hudnut's
tenantcy OF the corner store in the Herald
building dates from the erection of that
edifce. When James Gordon Bennett the
elder moved in up stairs, his intimate
friend, Alexander Hudnut, took possession
below. The Scotch are not only canny but
clanish, and these two Scotchmen were the
closest of friends. Hence the favor ex-
tended to the then young druggist which
has enabled him to make fortune Few
families inhabit Northumberland fact,
excepting the janitorial households living
aloft in some of the big buildings, of which
the janitor himself. assisted by his wife
4 OH hoa he Co
there are very few prescriptions to ''put
up" But there is an immense soda fount-
ain. The word ''soda'' especially in close
connection with the ever more expressive
word SYRUP" has, in modern usage, more
meanings than there are vastly
various kinds of fool to be
found in single individual, as
millionaire in embodying his collective
opinion of one of his sons in-law. And
then this "soda" spot is so central and
accessible at all hours of the day and night,
including Sundays, that it Is as univer-
sally known and. patronized as is the
Herald. In the immense and constant
stream of passersby nobody can miss it,
neither citizen nor stranger, and the way
faring man, though a member of the
Farmers Alliance, need not err therein.
II is said that a wink is as good as nod
to blind horse; what, then, must be the
suggestive and persuasive power Of wink
to wide awake young man behind a
soda" counter like Hudnut's. OF course
the accommo ating. genial and popular
proprietor of such soda" stand is the
possessor of the ''potentiality of wealth
beyond the dreams of avarice,'' and the
owner of several patent medicines as we'll.
1t is reported that he lately has sold for
huge price his well known property on
Orange Mountain, intending hereafter to
make his home in Scotland with occasional
sojourns only in this city.
HIGH UP.
Orange mountain in nearby New Jersey
is the summer home locality of some noted
people. In fact it is shoot off spire of the
mountain, and as a residential region is q
| formidable to the not far away Llewellyn
Park, also exceedingly elevated topograph-
ically and socially. his particular part OF
the Orange range was picked out and pur
chased by DR.. E. +. Marcy, who bought
some hundreds Of acres, years ago, at then
New Jersey price, dogwood, rock and scrub
land And years ago the doctor practiced
homeopathy in Hartford, Conn, when that
phase of medical practice was pretty gen
orally regarded as the faith curen is now
But the doctor came to New York and speed
lily pushed himself to the very front of the
profession, acquiring great fame and much
| W6dlUn. his DTUtuoE, Gcu MARTY. WHOSE
daughter Nellie was the belle of Hartford
with her husband Gen. Mcclellan, ant
the doctor himself were the first colonist
on the Orange Mountain purchase ant
were the nucleus of the most charming so
ciety, inhabiting the most charming cot
rages to be found anywhere within tn
geographically defined ring of twenty fiv
miles around New York.
TIE STREET TRAIN ORDERED IN.
The trailing street dress is no. going t
devastate the land. The indications durin
the summer were that it might. and Their
was much unhappiness in consequence
This was one of the most incomprehensibl
edicCs of fashion that the mind of man ha
been disturbed with for some time, and hi
protest was loud against it from the outse,
!, But mans influence in this case, as il
others like it, was not powerful and tn
trailing street dress threatened to sweep a
before 1t, as it did everything behind i,
!, The pulpst Numbered against the stree
train, the press stepped on it. but 1t move
on as If it were the admiration of every eye
Last week came the news from Paris tina
/ the abomination would have to go, and @
course this will be the end of it. Paris CAV
US this fashion and Paris can take it away
Blessed be the name Of Paris While tn
ladies were persistent in clinging to thi
! bad habit in the face of disappearing pull
lie sentiment. there are already indication