The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-14

society. Abbey and Grau have not made
much money out of their venture, fear, /
but they have achieved artistic success and |
have earned the thanks of that portion of |
the community which really worshlps
music.
THE GREAT ACTORS FAIR.
The most remarkable fair on record,
not excepting the big annual one at Ninii- !
Novgorod, nor the horse show which seems
to hold the American record 70 date, will
be an Actors Fund fair in the Madison
Square Garden, Maya. For months prep |
arations have been making, and it is al
ready certain, not only that nothing like ID
has ever been seen, but in all probability |
no similar thing will ever be arranged. |
One of its odd features is to be an exhibit |
ton of the photographs of the leading men |
and women not only of the American, but
OF the European stage as well, duly auto
graphed In many cases and arranged in
groups about central picture of the the
atre which these actresses and actors have
been identified, or the manager who has
been most prominently connected with
their professional careers. This feature
alone ought to make the fair attrac-
tive No window on Broadway
d raws moro curious eyes than KEITH
mans, where an attempt at gath
ering theatrical celebrities has been
made near Twenty second street by an ex-
perienced photographer. 1t is human ma
ture for men and women to be in terested
in the everyday personality of people who
amuse them behind the footlights. Ac-
tresses and actors wear good clothes and
have exercised the uplifting of the spirit"
by which Phillips Brooks made for him.
self handsome out Of homely mouth, as
rule, with measurable success. Their
foot and I,afy. olnf how 1lty
something piquant and striking in ensem-
BILE. If people will stop and stare at an
| incomplete collection of American and
| English stage favorites, their admiration
for a complete arrangement of the photo
graphs of the best looking and most tai
euted men and women of the stages Of
Berlin, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Naples, St.
Petersburg, London, Buenos Ayres, Copen-
hagen, Melbourne, Sydney, Calcutta. Bonn
bay, Dublin and Hong Kong is safely dis
counted. This is what Manager A. M.
Palmer contemplates and the idea is a
novel one, to say the least.
ovEREsTImATED FORTUNES.
The newspaper making of a baby in the
| junior branch Of the Astor family heir 10
| $50, 000 900 is Gully an example of the ab-
surd overestimation of numerous great
fortunes in this town. For example, il is q
current delusion that every member of the
so-called -Four Hundred" is the master or
mistress of many millions. This BELIEF is
based upon the assumption of the other
wise styled ''smart set'' itself that its only
| claim 10 distinction is its great wealth.
And surely it must be that, if anything. for
| 1t is not education, intelligence, refine
ment, civilization, or like qualities which
go to make the really "best society," in
any city; sc that it must be the wealth
But wealth is sometimes that the public
ut least satisfactorily, can put its finger on.
1t is tangible, because it is taxable,
and the books are open to whoever
chooses to read. Everybody knows the
multi miilionaires, and verv few even of
these are in the -Four Hundred.'' Jay
Gould and Russell Sage are not. William
Waldorf Astor, the present generation OF
| Belmonts and dozen more of the richest
! families in town are more out OF the ''smart
sep' than in it, and, indeed regard the
-Four Hundred with tolerance, if not
with contempt. In the self-styled "smart
set' there ere not more than twenty who
are multi-miilionaires, and of the remain
ing $50 there are not so who are worth a
| million apiece. That brings the large re-
| mainder to $50 who are worth from 500 900
to 100000, and no more. If mere money
could give one claim to assume to be an
''arisJocrat," there are hundreds upon hun
| dreds of merchants bankers, brokers and
|
city, whom one hardly ever hears of, whose
annual incomes are larger than the entire
fortunes of at least a hundred in the s'snart
| set" These very rich people enjoy their
fortunes in their own way and are not on
parade as professional 'aristocrats"
HIGH LIVING IN NEW YORK.
Mr.. Ward McAllister, who is servant
of the ''smart set'-that is, until mis- now
| threatened discharge-lately printed in his
| Sunday medium an estimate of what rich
family spends in single year, and every
year, in this city. He puts the amount at
about Sl4S, goo, and gives the details of the
expenditure. The absurd extravaganza of
his estimate 10 shown in two sample items
he puts down for the schooling of three
| children $500, and for the clothing and
pocket money of these little ones 81, 500
! Now, there are members of the "smart
set" whose annual expenditure for the
whole family does not exceed $4,000 or
| $4,000 a year, from the simple fact that
they haven't more than that to spend; and
no family in the -Four Hundred" includ-
| ing the multi-millionaires, spends in actual
! living expt nses, including all the Injuries
! McAllister specifies, one half the sum he
estimates. There is not now and never
was in this town single family that ever
expended in single year anywhere near
| the amount it costs one bachelor to live
as he lives, and that bachelor is New
| Yorker, whether he is here or abroad, and
his name-more widely known and re-
spected than that of any member of the
-Four Hundred''-is James Gordon Ben
! nett.
EXPERT TESTIMONY.
1t begins to look as though our courts, as
well as our public, were about ready to
give up the fetch SO long and so fondly
wins pered and commonly called expert