The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-24
blance to Ralph Waldo Emerson. He

blance to Ralph Waldo Emerson. He ap-
pears but rarely in the counts, but always
in connection with some big corporation
case. The smashing Of the sugar trust in
cae courts and the voluntary dissolution OF
the Standard Oil trust Will, no doubt, have
depressing influence upon the expensive
legal business of organizing trusts. A very
snug fee was claimed by ex-Judge George
NJ. Curtis and George S. Hastings for their
services in the contest over the will of
Maltby G. Lane, which occupied the atten-
ton or the public some months ago. The
contest was settled by compromise with
the heirs and the will set aside. Mrs.Lane
signed q contract, which was filed in court,
agreeing to pay Judge Curtis and Mr..
Hastings $4,000 for their services. Two
of the children of Mr.. Lane contested this
and compromise was effected.
MAN OF MUCH ROMANCE.
The announcement made the other day
that Mr.. Timothy Hopkins had resigned
the treasurership of the Southern Pacific
Railroad company calls renewed attention
to the marvellous romance of this man, who
cut something of figure in these parts last
autumn. His retirement from the railway
service, observe, was marked by great
act of beuevolence on his part. He
California with 1000 volumes and 1000
pamphlets, composed entirely of railroad
literary reports collected from various
states. 1t probably cost Mr.. Hopkins about
S cents personally and would be worth to
the Stanford University just whatever the
market price Of paper junk happens to be in
California at this time. Still, it shows
that Mr.. Hopkins, on whom fortune has
smiled and winked so graciously, is dis
posed to give away something, and now
that he has taken his place among the mil
lionaires of the country there is hope that
he may yet furnish a corner stone for a
church. By his recent settlement with the
Searles estate, MIR. Hopkins came into pos
session of S3,000,000. This. taken in con-
! nection with the million-dollar estate given
him by his foster mother before her death,
makes him very rich man. As his in
stincts are Of penurioas character, the
probabilities are that he will never be
worth any less money, unless overtaker by
some distrustful stroke. For these a, 000,-
600 it may be said that Mr.. Hopkins practi-
Caly never rendered particle of service.
The only
LABOR INVOLVED
was the changing of his name from Tim.
othy Nolan 10 Timothy Hopkins. Ger
tainly Mr. Richard Whittington-he of the
famous cat-could not point to a more re.
unto Mr.. Hopkins. Picked up from beside
/ the washtub of his mother by the kind
hearted wife of old Mark Hopkins, he be.
came in time her adopted son, and though
/ spoiled as a railroad brakeman and educated
to be something of a gentleman, he man
ages to secure very fine slice of old Hop
kins' estate by maigning and traducing the
memory of his benefactors. 1t is said thai
1 he is a shrewG tinancier-that | can readily
D Oailnzva-pnd hqf a lie in a
tion of economics. 1t is related that while
treasurer of the Southern Pacific Railway
company he instituted one reform alone
which saved several thousands of dollars
year TO the company. He found that tn,
cores ondence of the company was being
conducted in all of its branches on Irisl
linen paper He introduced a fair article
of manila paper into the service, and thi
saved the corporation at least s., 900 per an
nun. AS the Hopkins estate was largel.
interested in the Southern Pacific railway
it may be said that this was about tn
greatest service he rendered 1t for tn
1000, 900 which have fallen to him Xix
mama out Of the skies. If Mr.. Hopkins
tastes were political we might expect t
hear of him turning up as United State
Senator one of these days. l am told, how
ever, that he cares nothing about politics
and is chiefly devoted TO his flower garden
at Menlo Park
now SOME PEOPLE LIVE.
We are always hearing about the quee
modes of earning a livelihood which ar
encountered in this wonderful city. l saw
in one of the newspapers the other day,
statement that certain young men are nov
picking up daily bread by exercising tn
pet dogs of the fashionable women OF tn
city. When the weather is not propitiou
for promenading, the women who own AM
cherish dogs are not able to perform tina
interesting function of exercising thei
pets. For weekly stipend these youni
men, known as dog exercisers, call at TIA
houses of their customers and take thei
dogs out for what might be termed ''ca
nine constitutional These young me-
are necessarily of high character an,
known probity, and in course of time the,
will become valuable dog fanciers an
dealers. But the people who have tn
queerest and most devious ways of pickin
up a living are the hustling women. Lad
agents. are thing of the past. The disin
clination of woman to engage in any bust
ness which smacks Of the "agentn featur
is SO well recognized that such houses q
!, Appletons, Harper Bros, etc., have cease
advertising for agents to canvass for thei
works of art and resort to Innocent
worded lads" which catch even the mos
wary. Then personal interview with
| SudNS duQ mduu6T lOllOWS, an
, my lady, who would not for worlds becom
an agent, is engaged as special represen
tatiVe, and her conscience is thus appeasec
1t is wonderful how many women, an
high up in the social swim, too, are engage
in booming this, that or the other thing
The booming is generally done in
THEIR OWN IMMEDIATE CIRCLE OF FRIEND
{ The method pursued is identical with ths
| of the society man who only orders ce,
/ tain brand Of wine in low voice. "don
} yer know, because it is the only tit wine O
} the Market" and carries the corks away
his pocket as vouchers for money spep
Your friend calls on you, and in burst {
confidence imparts the information that sh
/ has 'just, quite by accident, you know, ru
: across the most wonderful and dainty toilt
Z cream, and if you wish a jar, why. T.
} order it sent to you, my dear" OF cours
you order the cream because you really q,
preciate so much unselfshness, and til
: commission is pocketed by your frient
3 You lost nothing, however, for there is a
: the trouble of shopping saved, and you pa
3 no more for the goods. Really the seer,
/ oboomer' is worthy of her wage, for it r
: quires tact, and she is so good natured wit
) it all. Another pretty little subterfuge
: to speak of certain article by lettle. a.
4 s'Oh, by the way, had almost forgotte
to tell you. Helen dear, l found the cute
and cunningest something or other). ar
: so cheap, too. just what you have bee