The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-27

SALT LAKE HERALD
committee that had so long been expect
ing, made its appearance. The hour had
arrived, and as fine looking body of men
as ever saw in my life asked me. on be-
half OF the Poles of America if would
give them the pleasure of my company at
dinner A better elmer never ate, and [
give you my word for it, my views of my
Polish brethren in America have under
gone remarkable revolutionn'
STEAL THAT BEATS TWEED.
The most patient animal we haye in this
country is the great American public
Otherwlse it might be expected to rise in
It's might and sweep out of existence the
men and their measures by which it is con-
stantly plundered. One of the biggest jobs
OF PUBLIC robbery we have ever had in
active operation in this state, even excell-
Ing in magnitude any single operation Of
the late William M. Tweed, is involved in
the State house at Albany. 1t has been
fifteen years since the inception of this
gigantic STEAL and it has been Furnishing
and prospering ever since. That the plum
dering has been going on all these years
without anyone ''doing time' in the peni-
Tertiary on account of it, shows how indif-
ferent the public has become in regard to
this sort of thing. This State house was
to originally cost s., 000,0 900. There was
careful figuring done on it by building eX-
perts, and it was agreed that the plans of
architecture could be carried out for this
sum and have something left over to buy a
keg OF beer to treat the boys with. The
a, co., 900 were appropriated and expended
and hardly made hole in the ground-and
yet the money was sunk somewhere. Ii it
did not go into a hole in the ground it went
somewhere else. 1t was gone More mil
lions were appropriated-and spent. A
building began
TO ARISE AND ASSUME FORM.
By and by roof was put on and beautiful
ceilings became feature of the decora-
tons. Then the ceilings began to drop off.
The more money appropriated to glue it on
again, the more it dropped.
And yet, strange to say, it did not drop
on any of the statesmen who were guilty of
Its having been put on so badly. More mil
lions were appropriated until up TO the
present time over SIS, 600 has been ex-
pended, and the State house is still uncom-
pleted. The present legislature has passed
bill appropriating $500, 600 to be spent
spent next year, and in all an additional
S2,OOO,O 600 will be expended, running up the
grand total to something over 500, 000 900
for building which originally was TO cost
a, OOO,O O0 And we have no assurance that
even $50, 000 600 will satisfy the spoilsmep.
Governor Flower has been making some
calculations, and thinks he can complete the
white elephant during his term of office by
the expenditure of this additional 81, 000 600.
He recommends that the work be pushed
through to completion on the ground of
economy. The several long periods of delay
which have punctuated the work have been
somewhat expensive, inaslnuch as this has
necessitated the renewal three times over
of the plant used in the construction, at a
cost of nearly S250,000. 1t need not be said
that q large part of this money has been
deliberately stolen. Much of it has been
wasted in the most wanton manner, and all
by legislative sanction. The patient, calm
eyed public looks on, grumbles a little
and the Doodle is carried off in bag before
its eyes.
AN EDITOR AND HIS DOGS.
The city editor of the New York Herald.
Mr. William Q. Reick, has gone abroad to
meet his employer, Mr.. James Gordon Ben
nett, somewhere along the shores of the
Mediterranean, where it is understood he
will be well entertained on board Mr.. Ben
nett's yacht, the Namouna. The trip. tits
understood, combines business and pleasure.
Mr. Reick is young man of perhaps
tWenty-elght years, who seems to have
made more rapid advances in his profession
than anybody who has yet come in contact
with the Kaleidoscope journalism of this
city. Six years ago he was doing reporting
for the Herald ia Newark, New Jersey. A
lot Of children in that vicinity were bitten
by mad dog, and Mr.. Reick worked the
Incident up with great fervor in the Herald.
He raised a fund of money and took the
children to Paris to be subjected TO DIR.
Pasteur's quack treatment. His energy
attracted the attention OF MIR. Bennett. and
IN short time he was attached to the main
Office. In little time he rose to the head
of the city staff, and is now practically the
news manager of the Herald He enjoys
the friendship and confidence of Mr. Ben
nett to very great degree. What started
out to say was, that Mr.. Reick is a news
paper man with "fad.n a more difficult
thing than keeping up an end on daily
new spaper in this city and maintaining a
lad" at the same time [ cannot conceive.
Mr.. Relck runs to dogs. He would walk
over to Hackensack any day in the week to
see new or fine specimen of the canine
species. He has at his home on Washing
ton Heights dozen or so of dogs of high
degree; some OF them estimated In value at
$1,000. His specialties are the ST. Bernard
and the mastiif. One of his neighbors
estimates his kennel to be worth at least
Sc, 600. He sells pups to his friends and the
public generally, and he keeps on adding to
his stock of dogs. One of his colleagues
told me the other day that he thought th at
with little careful management Mr.. Reick
could, if he 50 desired, drop out of journal
ism eventually and maintain himself as a
fancy dog breeder. He gets fine prices for
his stock, and dog from Mr.. Reicx's ken.
mel is considered quite the lum-tum thing
A pedigree goes with each animal.
AN ENGLISH FEMININE CRANK.
a well known attorney ia this city told
me the other day a very remarkable and
absolutely true story, which carries out a
theory that l have long maintained-that
England produces more "crauksn and
freaks" than any other country on tne
face OF the globe. He said that he received
one day, not long ago, from a firm of bar
listers IN London a letter iuclosing a draft
Tor 500 and statement TO the effect that
certain clients of the English fra had rea-
son to believe that their hayward daughter
was located in New York. She had run
away from home some months ago. and
they had traced her to this city The state
ment was made that this girl had ALWAYS
manifested a masculine disposition. She
cared nothing, from he earliest childhood.
about the society of girls, but persistently
sought out youths of the opposite sex for
panionship. She had also early shown
d disposition TO repudiate female attire and
wear boys clothing. y number of details
We're furnished which enabled the attorney
to set some detectives at work, and, in due
course OF time, the young woman was dis
covered. And what dc you think she was
doing? Driving carriage for prominent
physician in this city. She was brought
down to the lawyers Office in full male at
tire, including high hat. She was fairly
good looking reasonably intellirent nnH