The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-28
Of passe prima donna, gave dignity to the

with envelopes, each of which hung on the
wall by its flap, like well merited rebuke
on the brow of beauty when administered
by my CO. worker in the dramatic field,
Colonel John l.. Sullivan. This was Genes
scrapbook. He has since secured letters
patent on it, but is kept busy fighting in
Engagements. 1t consists simply of box
OF manila envelopes each of which, when
called into use, contains the scrap with title
on outside Of envelope. Then the owner,
with a dexterous movement Of the damp
tongue, prepares the flap of the envelope
and deity sticks it to the wall. When
Field required any of these envelopes he
would walk around the room, reading the
the titles, till he came to what he wanted,
and ii 1t happened to be out of his reach he
would call Mr.. Skiff, who is very tall man,
and mount ting on his shoulders would soon
have it down.
l was introduced to Field by Colonel
William Lighttoot Visscher, of Kentucky,
who was then running bright little
PAPER CALLED ''HELLow
1t was cut off by the central Office about
two weeks afterwards, and folding it's little
tired hands over its pale calm face, its little
| scare head fell forward on its form and all
was still save the muffied remarks of the
| printers towel or the dying echoes of the
| hammer as Colonel Visscher finished nail
4 ing another political lie.
Field welcomed me heartily to Denver,
and taking his foot out of large hole in
the wall which he had bored with his heel
! "a fashion he has yet while engaged in
! thought-he rose to his feet and catching
appreheusively at the waistband of his
! trousers ere it was too late he put his sus-
penders back over his shoulders again with
a sigh Of relief and grasped me heartily by
/ the hand. While at work Mr.. Field re-
moves great deal of his clothing Some
times when poetess calls on him suddenly
/ while at work he only has time to stick his
limbs into the drawers of his desk and run
his head through vile contemporary, al
lowing II to droop down over his shoulders,
before some great warbler from The tall
grass of the literary field enters the room.
He asked me to be seated, pointing to the
only chair in his Office, barring MS own.
began to remove the exchanges, of which
there were a great number, but ne said
| "Never mind the this, that and the other
papers. Sit down on them. Every body
else does" So | sat down on them. l can
remember it yet. There
WAS NO SEAT IN THE CHAIR,
and so passed on rapidly till 1 struck the
floor with much feeling. never saw any
one feel sadder than Field did over that
for he never could bear to give any one
needless pain.
| Once he left hotel in Denver and went
/ elsewhere because, as he said to the pro-
prietor, he had thoughtlessly, while asleep
rolled over on several little creatures in his
bed, crushing the life and lights and frag
rance out of them, and he would pay his
bill. please, and go elsewhere, where he
would not give pain to the smallest OF
smelliest of Gods creatures.
I So he went away to another place, fol
Field has tender heart
| MIR. Stone, who used to own the Nelrs
but who is now banker and has pleasant
relations with dividends and first mortgage
bonds and preferred stock, said that three
little boys hung around his Office once fol-
several days, attracting his attention By
their brightness and their pathetic anC
hungry look, till at last he inquired abou
them, for they were handsome boys, ani
yet their poor, little, blue toes stuck out o.
their little red and broken shoes, while thu
! blast outside seemed at times almost 10 out
shrek the blast that Mr.. Stone was giving
the corrupt city government at that time
Finally he called the boys to him anC
asked them whose children they were--i
they had any father. One of the lad
rubbed his purple foot against the cali o
the other leg and said in pathetic chile
treble, while his little chin quivered:
1--WE ARE MR.. FIELDS LITTLE RoYs.n
1udL SeGtISu IL WILL MI. OLOn6, IOF 09 ma
kind heart. "Is it possible" he said t.
himself, "that we are accepting the won
derful work of this wonderful man, We
! failing to pay him enough no keep his fam
ily from want?" On the following da,
Genes salary was doubled, and patting tn
little boys on the head tina. evening he com
plimented them Oh the way they ha,
''created the part" and he gave each o
them nice candy cane over five feet il
length.
Three years ago, on professional tri
with MIR. Riley. and while my wife wa
with ne bound for the coast we got wor,
at Kansas City that the children had BEEF
attacked simultaneously with scarlet fever
and so it was necessary to give up the Cali
fornia trip.
Our manager hated to give up the tou
entirely, and in order to make it more in
pressive wired that was i'll, which was a.
right for a manager, but would not do 70
anybody else. He sent the following mes
sage, totally unpunctuated, to Field
KANSAS CITY, April 20, 1889.
Eugene Field, Neacs, Chicago:
Nye very i'll west of Missouri what would vo
take for sixty nights with Riley?
POND.
Eugene did not seem to understand th
telegram, for he wired back:
CHICAGO, April 81 1885,
J.B Pond Kansas City:
I also am sick west of the Missouri, but don
know what L would take.
EUGENE FIELD.
Mr.. Field is an erudite scholar and
great collector of antiques. l have
- PROMISED HIM JOKE
: of mine to put with bookworm which /
g has in bottle of alcohol.
S In his office while at work once he w;
8 interrupted by very raw visitor WI
wanted to see how he thought his thought
do you think them easily?" he askei
"Do you think them between meals,
e how"
"Oh, never know when it will attac
e me-" Field said. This divine racket
t liable to catch me at any moment.n f
/, then looked far away and his symmetric
:, limbs bgan to jerk.
J. Excuse me moment" he said ~ m u
n write poem" He then put his feet On tt
d table, with one heel in a yentilator over b
It head, and wrote that beautiful and pathet
l. little thing that has spoken with tenderne,