The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-28

been permitted to have his own way by
any means. While the mayor of New York
city, he is also Tammany Halls mayor, and
Tammany Hall has servitors who must be
taken care of at any price. am inclined
to think that Mr.. Grant did not care for the
second term of the mayoralty, but was
rather forced into it by the attacks made
upon him by the legislative investigating
committee. His friends insisted upon his
vindication, and having secured it he is
now ready to end his official life next jan
uary. AS l have already said. the mayor is
a generous feeder and his table attracts
some Of the best known epicures in the
city.
No imam in the country knows more about
duck than Mayor Grant and his taste for
terrapin is simply sybaritic. His cook has
special formula for preparing this much
Wanted dish, and Notwithstanding the
very high price and great scarcity of this
reptile, no formal dinner at the mayors
house is considered complete without it.
His wine cellar is a gem in its way. He
makes his own selections, and, recoLecting
some half-dozen dinners with him, l cannot
recall an occasion when he did not intro
duce
NEW AND RARE
vintage of some kind. He told me the other
evening that one of his reasons for wishing
to be relieved of Office and political cares
was based upon his desire to be urtram-
meled in business way.
The mayor is very shrewd man Of af-
fairs, and has always been money maker,
Hampered as he is in the mayors Office, he
does not feel at liberty to seize upon the
business opportunities which come under
his observation from time to time. He has.
believe, already made arrangements to
take the presidency of very important
corporation as soon as he leaves his Office,
and we shall hear much of HIM hereafter
in the world OF affairs. His experience in
the mayors Office has been valuable one,
and l can see great growth in him since the
day that he evoluted from the sheriff.
Office. he is still young enough to have a
roseate future-but not political one.
fancy that he never cared much for politics,
except as youthful pastime, and that he
was forced into Office by his associations
rather than by self-seeking. He is good
fellow all round. and so far as the actual
business of the city is concerned, he has
Hewitt, whose Feasibility, loquacity and
general verbal irresponsloility made him a
conspicuous, out not very useful fixture
around the city hall.
SHOWS AND sHowMEN.
Meeting Uncle Dan Rice, the veteran
Snowman, the other day, he told me that he
had Just returned from visit to old Seth
Howe, the circus man. Some people will
probably recollect Mr.. Howe as one of the
successful showmen of more than genera
tion ago. l had supposed him dead as well
as forgotten, but Uncle Dan tells me he is
living up near Yonkers, where he has 6
beautiful estate and at least million dol
lare' worth Of the worlds best material
The oid man is over eighty years of age
and when he goes to join Sands, Nathan
Spaulding, Bidwell, Rogers. Lent Fore
paugh, John Robinson and Barnum, we
shall have nothing left of the ancient circu.
regime in this country. save Uncle Oar
Rice himself, who probably learned his besr
clown tricks and jokes from old Joe Pent
land, fifty years ago. While these old cir
Gus monarchs led for the most part rough
aud hazardous lives, and, in the early days
camped like soldiers In all sorts of weather
in all sorts of places, nearly all of then
lived 10 ripe old ages. They were really
men of heroic mold. Most of them devel
oped out of the very hard grinding of theil
antnraanrnn narears.