The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-26
Mr.. DraYton at the Union Climb

| Especial to THE acknowledgements Dispatch. !
New YORK, March 25.-Mr. Drayton
stopped last night at the house of his
friend DR.. Richard H. Derby. In the
orning both the men went to the DOCTORS
Office. Then Mr.. Drayton called on his
lawyer, Mr.. Nash, and remained c!oseted
with him an hour. 1t was generally sup
posed that Mr.. Drayton was preparing g
statement for publication under the direc-
ton of his counsel. The discussion re-
suited in Mr.. Drayton deciding not to pub
lish statement for the present, at least.
He accepted the advice OF his friends to
adopt no extraordinary measures, but,
on the contrary, to go his wsv
as If nothing unusual had happened.
Whether MIR. Drayton felt any timidity at
the idea CT going to his club while the scan
DIAL was uppermost in every body's mind,
nobody out he knows. At any rate, be de-
cided promptly TO go, and he went There
were not many members in the Union club
when Mr. Drayton entered, but such as
were there came forward and offered their
hands. Nobody was ill bred enough, of
cours to refer to the scandal. MIR. Dray-
ton was greeted just as he would have been
had he not been absent from the city u dav
There Was no effusiveuess on the par of
anyone nor was there any GOODNESS la a
word, Mr.. Drayton came back to the Union
club In full standing. It's significant from
the fact that the Union club is the ultra
conservative social organization of the
metropolis If the Union club decided to
sustain MIR. Drayton by coolly ignoring any
and all imputations against him, it means
that exclusive club society would take no
cognizance of the unfortunate affair which
involves the domestic establishment OF a
great house.
1t was member of the Union club. q
man well known as a competent Judge in
aft airs polite, who has this to say of Mr..
DrayloE's visit to the club: mir Dravlon
occupies the position of man intrenched
in his own castle, which has been assaied
by treachery. The position he is in is one
| that appeals to every married man, whether
he ia a member of the Four Hundred
or not. 1t keeps up the question
How long must a man suspect that his
home is not inviolate before be seeks a sep
aration! 1t has been charged that Mr..
DraytoD knew that Burrows had been in
innate with his wife for several wears.
Suppose that were so, concede it for g
moment, and then look at it from Drayton's
side. He has children whom he loves: he
would do almost anything to spare them
the shame and disgrace of scandal. He
might submit for years to ignoring the
knowledge of any transgression for the sake
Of the honor of his family and his children.
Finally, when he saw that disgrace was
bound to come, he sought a gentleman's
means of settling the score with traitor.
In none of his correspondence DID he men
ton the challenge to a duel. 1t could not
have been accepted without sur being
cast by either side upon the wife and
children whatever the result may have
been. Had Burrows been killed in duel.
Mr. Drayton could have said it was due to
personal insult, and the same explanation
would have applied had q fatal result
| been the reverse. 1t all comes back to the
original question, how long must man be