The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-06
GOSSIP In GOTHAM
Bright and Newsy Sketches of
Men and Things.
POLITICAL AND CLUB CIRCLES
Pen, Picture of an American Prince-A jolly
Railroad Man-Where are the
Pretty Women?
POLITICAL AND CLUB CIRCLES

New YORK, March Especial cor
respondence Of THE SUNDAY HERALD.l-
occasionally see Mr.. John Russell Young,
the well-known journalist, on flying visit
TO New York. Since ne retired from the
service Of the Herald the last time he has
made his home in Philadelphia-his birth
place. He has an interest in the EUGning
Star there along with his brother and
brother in-law, ana he is now doing con-
siderable writing for that journal. At the
same time he keeps up his literary work
and in all respects is leading very pleas
and satisfactory life. He tells that he is
collecting and preparing his material for
complete and thorough biography of Gen
eral U. S. Grant. II is shame, really,
that the history of the great soldier has
not been prepared before this time. OF
course we have the miserable and fraudu-
lent biographies of Bsdeau and a number
of trivial attempts to hand the great
soldier down TO posterity, but as yet moth
ing in any sense worthy of the great sub
ject. No man living to-day is as well equip
ped for this work as John Russell Young
His long training as a journalist and
his marvellous clearness as a writer provide
him with the literary qualifications, while
his close and intimate relation with Gen
eral Grant, during the years when he was
confidential and communicative, place him
far above all other asplrants; Mr. Young
had true and genuine admiration for
General Grant and he won the regard and
esteem of the great soldier on his cele-
brated tour around the world. The book
which he printed some years ago contain
ing transcript OF the principal events OF
that marvellous pilgrimage gives US a better
insight to General Grants character than
anything that has ever yet been placed in
type outside OF Grants own Memoirs. Mr..
Young always regarded General Grants
wlshes-never betrayed his confidence
and in time he became the depository of
many important personal political and
military facts which the general alone
could impart Or the many confidential
chats which they had while on the trip
around the world, Mr. Young took careful
shorthand notes. Reading them over
subsequently to the general, his mood
say to MIR. Young, Don't use that
remark about Mr.. So and SO. He is still
living and his friends would like TO have
these facts come to the public. l dont
want to provoke controversy" Mr.. Young
respected his friends wishes and the re-
suit was that many of the best features of
the interviews obtained from him in those
calm and thoughtful moments never
reached the public. But the material has
all been retained and as Mr.. Young was
regarded by General Grant as his true lit
erary executor, there is no reason why
they should not now be embraced in the
work which MIR. Young CONCENTRATES.
General Grant is growing daily in esteem,
and future generations will want to know
more about him. Every man who ever
came in contact with Napoleon Bonaparte
seemed TO retain some facts concerning
him, and they have all written and written
until the world has been flooded at one
time or another with matter relating Il
that remarkable monster. That the great
est soldier and the noblest victor of civiiz-
alton should be left without an adequately
written record is reflection upon oul
times. / was struck with what Mr.. YOUNG
said TO me not long ago about the ideal ex
istence which General Grant wanted t.
lead after be returned from his circumnavi
CATION of the globe. For the first time theI
he felt relieved from the cares and respon
slbiiities of office. He told Mr.. Young on
day, while on the trip, that he wanted L
buy a nice little farm somewhere nea
Washington city, where he could settl
down quietly and breed some handsom
horses. He wanted to be near enough I
the town so that he could drive in abou
once q week and have q chat with Genera
Beale and some friends, and far enoug
away from the city to prevent the intru
sion OF people W0Om l6 Qlu not care toI
With occasional visits from his old chum
he thought he would be able to en-
his days in peace and comfort. He after
ward regretted in a conversation wit
MIR Young his having come to the city c
New York BE never liked the hustle an
roar ana social exactions OF this life here
He felt, however that something was du
10 his wife and growing family and as the
liked New York city he yielded. He di,
liked dress coats and formal dinners an
social functions Of al kinds, and the las
years of his life here were passed in AM
thing but composure. In view of the o;
thetic ending, how much better it woul
have been could he have realized and en-
joyed his ideal stock farm. We shall neye
know the true nobility of General Grant
character until Mr. Young's book is writ
ten, and trust that he will not hesitate
soon discharge the obligation which /
owes to the American republic.
MR.. oTTENpoRFER's SORROW.
There is great disturbance just now b
tween Mr. Oswald Ottendorfer aud Il
gentlemen who politically control the de.
TIMES of this city. For the past three yea
the TGmmany magnates have been anxiol
to erect q new municipal building in IL
City Hall park They have met with gre,
hostility from the newspaper proprietor
whose buildings face the park and who al
averse, as it were 10 being shut out from
view of the green grass. Rills authorizir
the use of the park have been passed
Albany and have been repealed by II
newspapers. and finally the building cor
mission, being forced ID select site on
side of the park, has concluded to appr
pirate the triangular square near the bridI