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

came from Cincinnati few years ago, poor
and unknown She has had no great life
experiences has never travelled; has never
seen but the commonest places of human
ity, and vet she seems to have discovered
the art of liking the attention of the shop
girl, the factory girl and the young women
who all expect to marry rich young men
and live in palace. Miss Libbey now has
an elegant home in Brooklyn, where she
lives with her mother, and she has nice
carriage and pair of sprightly horses. One
Of the Munros pays her handsome salary.
She writes stories and they sell so well
that she probably makes just low more
money by her own efforts than any woman
in this section. That, of course, does not
count investments. Miss Libbey is about
thirty years OF age. She goes to Saratoga
in the summer, TO the Berkshire Hills in
autumn, and her entertainments in Brook
lyn are now attracting the fashionables Of
that city. Her success is entirely due to
her own exertions and as an Ohio product
[ am rather proud of her.
IN ARCHITECTURAL DISAPPOINTMENT.
Passing down Fifth avenue the other dsy
l was particularly struck by the architec-
Jural disappointment in the new Astor
hotel, theWaldorf which is growing up at
the corner of Thirty-third street. This, 1
presume, is to be one Of the largest as well
as one Of the best finished hotels in the in
terror in this country. But as structure,
there will be no comparison between it and
the plain but striking old Fifth Avenue
hotel. The color is q dull and muddy
brown, relieved by spots of more emphatic
redness but no outward attempt has been
made at architecture. The Astors seem to
have prejudice against any thing ornatein
the building line The residences which
they have inhabited in this city for years,
and which some of them still inhabit, are
/ as plain as packing boxes. The old down.
/ at honSa ia nothing H17f
block of granite lacking proportion in
height. Its walls are as heavy as those Of
fortress, and the upper windows, in case
( of SIEGE could be well likened to port
holes prepared for defense. The location
of the Waldorf, its tireproof character. It's
fine interior and the fact that il will be kept
oy BOldt, OF Philadelphia, one of the best
hotel men in the country, will insure il
great popularity, but it Will not add much
to the characterization Of our great av enue.
MODERN DOCTOR.
| OF course, everybody knows who Allan
McLane Hamilton is, and how, when vet a
youth, by his testimony as government ex-
pert in the Guiteeu case, he made instan-
taneous fame as neurologist. There is
this much new and surprising about mis-
personality. He thinks no more of running
over to Washington or down to Memphis
or out to Chicago or up to Boston to see a
case than an old-style doctor would OF
down to the great ball in Baltimore a week
or two ago-for he is man who shines
among his fellows by charm of manner and
briltiancy of conversation as well as pro-
fessional skiIl-leaving town after Office
hours and returning next morning to his
practice. He is q handsome. dark type of
man. TOO who would make up readily as an
Arab ons would imagine, and he has trsv-
, eled extensively in the far east And il
happened that there was on the very train
that brought him back here from Balti-
more next day, young woman who had
come with her father and mother from
Mexico to go into his private hospital, and
for whose mental cure 100000 in gold was
offered him. That is fee worth haying 2.
, Mrs. Leslie Carter and Mrs. James q.
, Blaine, IT., were in that same hospital at
, one and the same time, once. A very pretty
: pair.
JOHN A. CocxEH1LL.