The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-06

entrance known as Tryon square. The
south end of this square is adorned by the
building of the Stddts-Zettung, one of the
handsomest structures in lower New York.
MIR. Ottendorfer, the proprietor, has
been manifesting hostility to Tammany
hall for some time in his newspaper,
and he now claims that the proposed
condemnation and appropriation of his
property is simply retaliation and persecu-
ton on the part of Tammany and Mayor
Grant. do not believe this, for the sim
pie reason that this site has been under
discussion for at least three years, or be-
fore Mr.. Ottendofer began to made his
hostility to Tammany hall seriously felt.
Viewed from a distance, Mr.. Ottendorfer
has always struck me as a-gentleman in
ciined to exaggerate his Importance very
much. He wears his skin wrong side out
and is nearly always ready to manifest his
sensitiveness. His intellectual ability IN
not great and his chief distinction comes
from the fact that he owns the most profit
able German newspaper in the United
States. The Stats -Zeitun0 was established
some hfty-eight years ago. In 1884 it fell
into the hands of 6 German printer named
Uhl. His wife was a remarkable woman.
She was indeed his helpmeet and partner.
While MIR. Uhl looked after the mechanical
department of the little newspaper,
mis- wife superintendent the business
end of it, ana to her sagacity and
energy much of the success of the
news paper is due. She was one of the first
to reach the business Office every day and
one of the last to leave, and her influence
was felt throughout the entire establish
ment. Mr.. Ottendorfer in time became a
clerk in the Office. After Mr.. UhPs death
| be married the widow. While she lived
/ and kept her health she retained a close
| grip upon the business affairs Of the paper,
and at her death it was so well grounded
that no sort of Encouragement could
shake or disparage it. She was an exceed
| lngly benevolent woman and she has left
traces or her benevolence throughout this
! city. MIR. Ottendorfer has harbored for
years an idea that he could make himself q
great power politically in this country
am told that he has even entertained the
idea that he might be elected mayor of this
/ city. l have heard it said, when prominent
Germans were spoken of In connection
with that Office, that MIR. Ottendorfer
would never support man of German
| extraction for mayor because he had
not been permitted To enjoy that Office him
self. He fell out with Mayor Hewitt on
account OF his idiotic prejudice against for
eign born citizens and IN small way
/ helped to elect Mr. Grant mayor Shortly
afterward he fell away from the admins
trstion, and recently he has been quite bit
ter in his enmity to Tsmmany and it's
bosses. While eminent as reformer, Mr..
! Ottendorfer has never failed to have can
didate for pretty much every Office in the
| gift of the people. Not lonS ago he insisted
upon having one of his protegses sent to
! Congress He asks great deal politically
and gives very little in return, so the Tam
many people say, and the quarrel which
has taken place was not an unlocked for de-
velopment Mr. Ottendorfer is now an old
man and his health is sadly broken. He
takes the proposition to appropriate his
fine property seriously to heart. His wealth
is estimated at s., 900, 900.
THE END OF LONG BRANCH.
1t seems to me that the death of David
Durham Withers puts an end TO Long
Branch as a summer resort. Two years
ago when | last visited that place it struck
me that its days were numbered. The
beautiful driveway along the bluff had beer
pretty thoroughly eaten away by the
waves; dog fennel was growing in the
front yards of the cottages, and there wa:
an air of dilspidation and neglect which be
spoke village " hich had long since seer
It's climacteric. The Monmouth park race
course was all that seemed to be drawiue
, patronage to the few hotels and the blow
the town received last year by the legal in
reference with the races, followed now bJ
The death OF the man who was alone i'm
: parting life TO the town, ends the place as
fashionable resort. OF course the beauti
full hotels at Hollywood and the handsome
! cottages at Elberon will con tinue 10 impair
} life and beauty TO the lower end of tn,
, once great resort, but we shall never Sc,
Long Branch in its glory again. Speaking
OF hir. Wlthers, | see that he left q fortune
estimated at something like 100000
r The bulk of this he made out of his rae
: courses and his breeding farm a
: BrooKdale, n. J. Mr. Wit ers was Ell
Ia, -
: the death of MIR. Belmont has been re
i garded as about the only man connecte
: with racing in this country who was move
e by lofty purpose touching the turf. H
o had the old southern idea that horse-racin
r was great and noble sport and be had n
e sympathy whatever with the mercenar
e gamblers and bookmakers who hav
o dragged the pastime down to the level O
/ bunco and skin" faro. He had no syn
i pathy for the men who gallop horses i
b snow and mud in order that a lot of pro
/ fessional gamblers may have something I
:. wager money on. AS the head of the rae
8 ing board of control he antagonized thi
d blackleg gentry and invited their unite
: hostility-much to his detriment and los:
b Mr.. Winters new race course al Lon
# Branch must have cost him quarter of
d million of dollars. What its future will
?. nobody can foretell, for the reason ths
q the state of New Jersey is not showing
Y very warm side to sports of the turf 6
s. present, and very few people will care I
d invest in such an important piece of pro-
st erty without the assurance of non-inte
Y ference with their business. MIR. Jane
B. Gordon Bennett was partner with M
d Withers in the Monmouth Park Racin
l. association, likewise Messrs. A. j. Casa
,r and John A. Morris the Louisiana lotter
IS man. MIR. Withers was the only sport
+ man Of the old school in the combination
TO He never lost his faith n-the future
lie racing in this country, and up to the la.
moment was trying TO establish his idea
which was an English race course undo
the patronage of rich and distinguish
E. men. His death has probably spared hi
lie the spectacle of further humiliation ar
s. degradation of what was once regarded
RS this country as the true sport of gentl,
is men. The ethics of horse racing in u
he opinion, are likely TO grow much worse
at this country before they grow better.
20 CRoCKER AND THE MAFoRALTY.
One of the newspapers here the 9th
lg day discussing the mayoralty made u
at rather startling announcement that Rio
le AID Croker hRrbored designs upon th
n Office and would probably have himss
t. nominated therefor this fall. From wha,
o. know of MIR. Croker cannot believe tn
&c he contemplates any such political NOV