The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-18

heavy shippers, the minion of the press
followed in his wake. Everywhere ne
Swallowed him except in his room 81 nlgut.
Finally General Manager 5. II. h Clark
offered 20 bribe the reporter with cnaIa-
payne supper if he would desist, hut Inc
average HERALD reporter when bent on a
news errand is not in a desistlng mooo,
and he declined; but the champagne sup
per is coming Just the same, and 1t is COM,
ing, too, oy the order OF Jay LIQUID
himself. To Mr.. d. c. Adams, Of the Union
Pacific, was assigned the pleasant task OIL
preparing an elaborate banquet for the re-
porters Of the Salt Lake press, and 1t VIII
be rendered them at the Templeton hotel on
Sunday next The gentlemen will all be
there, and no brighter company ever sur
rounded festive board. Keen, quick and
intelligent by nature as they must be, their
dsily contact with all the phases OF life
ripens their judgment and makes them
what they really arc, the peers Of the best,
and tie mainstay OF great paper.
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The ladies' window which Postro aster
Benton has improvised in the postofice
will prove great convenience and accom-
mediation to those Of the gentle sex who do
not care 10 jostle against crowd OF men,
or stand IN line with them awaiting their
turn. But as for Miss Jennie Hawlcy, the
pretty and accomplished olerk at the now
window, we imagine she won't like it there
very long. BY and by she will ask Mr..
benton tc transfer her to the stamp
window, or to the mems window, for even
the latter 10 preferable To the ladies'
window, and II tho postmaster has learned
wisdom from experience he will comply
without inquiring into the why and where
fore Of the request. No woman ever pre-
sided With any d5gree OF satisfaction or
comfort to herself ut LADIES'
window in any large postofice; and
we imagine Salt Lake is no exception to the
rule. The fact ia that too many of the pat
rons Of the ladies' window are not ladies
at all, They comprise to q large extent,
that class Of the female population which
sniff habitation too often 70 have the mail
delivered at fixed addresses. That, of
course, implies no disrespect for those who
Cor manifold reasons must get their letters
in the general delivery. But taking 1t alto
gether, the place ct the ladies' window is
hotter suited for horrid man than a SEN
6itive woman.
Aside from his politics Postmaster Ben
ton is @ good man, officially. Although the
salary OF q postmaster is gagged by the
increase of his office, MIR. Benton has
nevertheless reduced, of his own FREQ will,
the rontal of the boxes from $3.50 to 80
cents a quarter. King Louis XII, of
France, wanted overy Frenchman to have
his chicken in the pot of Sundays. Mr..
Benton evidently wants every Salt Laker
20 have his postoffice box every day in his
life. He 10 almost At to be a Democrat.
There is q count in town, and the count
was in The theatre or Friday night He
wac IN full dress, as becomes your genuine
counts, and he carried with him a pair of
field glasses which a sea captain might
have envied him. Through these he
peered at the ladies with an impudent per.
sistency that made some Of them nervous
Perhaps they did not know he was a count
or they might heVs endured the ordeal
more indifferently, for a count who puts
himself on dress parade in this country Is
generally no count, and this particular
count has. besides, shady history which
tie San Francisco Chronicle took pains to
expose in true plebeian style. But If we
ever had any doubt as to the claim of the
count to his title his conduct in the the atre
would have dispelled it. The impudence
is genuine, and all real counts possess it.
We have seen them exercise it in the thea
tres of Europe
But why should common count create
SO much excitement here: The country is
full of organ grinders, BARRIERS and such.
of blue blood, and il there are not q great
many more OF them it is simply because
the broken down sristocrats of the old
world find il difficult to raise the price of
steersge ticket.
OF course there are exceptions 10 this
rule. We have seen counts who were noble
in character as well as in pedigree and
IN every respect quite equal to the
American sovereign. But then, they
didn't travel through the country on their
title and cheek and other peoples money.
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atMr Goodwin iS dollar holF
show in himself" When l saw this para
graph in THE HERALD's theatrical notice
yesterday, l thought it must have got
Rwitched out of its place-that it belonged
by rights in the notice of Judge Goodwin's
lecture. The Judge is not only dollar and
a half, but holy show. In his statement
that Mormous would vote for Mormons in
state election irrespective of Democracy
or Republicanism, he flies directly in the
face of some local history of such recent
date that one would hardly know what to
make of it If one didn't know the Judge
was merely quoting from his own e6ito-
rails. l would like to ask him is he has
forgotten that a Mormon apostle, Mr.
Lund, was defeated for the legislature by
q lay member! That Mr.. Eldredge, q high
church official, received fewer votes in his
own home than the Democratic nomiuee, a
man not a. all prominent as 8 church mem
Der, and that Mormon Democrats voted
mon Repubhcansi Go TO, judge. Go to-
Heretofore Nat Goodwin, the actor, en-
1oyed the enyiable repu tation Of being one
of the best representatives of clean CON-
edy. He has forfeited that reputation now.
The Nominee" which ne played here this
week In an outrage upon decency. 1t is one
OF the nastiest pieces in its construction
that was ever put upon tho boards. In
these fast times when anything that is
uproerious passes under the name of iegit-
innate because people like to be entertained
for the moment and 10 90 that they cannot
afford to be over-critical-iu these days con.
siderable license and latitude is gwen to
actions, but IL hasn't yet come to this. that
immoral and disgusting sentiments can {
interviewer in q play and palmed of 9
comedy.
Some of the churches rail against tht
theatre on general principles. Different
from the example the Lord set them in
Sodom and Gomorrah, they want to extin-
gaish the good with the evil; but few
more such pieces as Goodwin's Nominee ;
and the number Of converts to their notion
will be legion.
Somebody left The HERALD a clippinc
from some eastern paper concerning Baby
Cleveland. Among other things we learr
therefrom that oddly enough, she is not s
dimpled baby; nobody could call her roly-
poly, and she hasn't even the suggestion Of
magic bracelet or necklace. An authority
on babies would take her to be boy. She
is strong aud muscular, has a large frame
superb respiration, good appetite, perfect
digestion and the promise of developing
into large woman. Although ten
FOUNDER, she is a magnificent specimen OF
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