The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-29
HE wANTEp CLEVELAND.
Now He and His Scheme Are in nm
Insane Asylum.
[From the Washington star.1


From the Washington Start
President Cleveland will miss call
from Bostonian who intended to pre-
sent him with $10000,OO0 Mr.. Cleveland's
guest, instead of sleeping in Washington.
spent FRIDAY night in the Mclean asylum
ct SomerVille, Mass He is a well known
Boston business man, with offices not far
from the custom house He is about 10
years old, graduate of Amherst college
and of the University of Gettingen His
firm does a large business and is SUP
posed to have made money rapidly of
late. Overwork and an undue interest in
politics and the tariff turned his brain.
When the Mckinley bill was being
drafted he was called upon to testify as
an expert before the committee on ways
and means, and his delusion drew in such
prominent members of Congress as Sen
ator Aldrich of Rhode Island. Represent
auVe William l.. Wilson of West Virgin
IA, and Congressman Moses Stevens OF
Massachusetts. His plan, IN brief, was
to start an immense corporation for the
production of his discovery 1t was to be
called THE Grover Cleveland Free Trade
OIL Company and his object in going to
Washington was to induce Mr.. Cleveland
to become president at an annual salary
of S10,000,000 He selected Mr.. Wilson for
vicepresident, and MIR. Stevens, whom he
knows, was to be the general manager.
He had gone SO far as to consider several
sites in Boston for a great still. and had
written TO perSOHSS1n nine OF E0S largest
cities with a view to establishing similar
works. He had also arranged for oil
plants in fifteen European cities.
Every detail of his plan was carefully
elaborated and he figured out net profit
the first year of more than S137 600 600.
He decided to start on Friday morning
for Washington. Before going, however,
he determined to unfold his plans to the
press and sent for reporter, to whom he
talked for three hours.
He was going to employ only China
men, because they never strike and sell
dom commit murder. For some reason
the first place in his heart and he was
arranging to pay them each S100 a month
out of his bank account.
He explained how he would build little
cities for the workers in his factories. He
would have no rum sold in them, but
there should be lager beer aqueduct
HARR1soN's COLORADO SUNDAY.
From the N. Y Recorder.l
! The recently published statement thai
recreation and rest in the neighborhood Of
Glenwood Springs, Col, recalls the some
what amusing experience which his i'm
mediate predecessor BENJAMIN Harrison
had in that same neighborhood. One o.
the special correspondents who accompan
led President Harrison on his western
trip in May, 1891, thus relates the circum
stances.
/ General Harrison had become complete
, " fatigued after three weeks of speech
making and banlrlrtin$. and it was ar
r9nped that he should spend n restf1l
Sunday at Glenwood Springs, which wa.
described as g. juliet little nook heyon,
/ the reach of excursion crowds. Mr. Har
rison went to church at Il o'clock and tn
services had hardly begun when 2.0U
miners from Aspen, red .shirted and silk
titled, reached Glenwood with their wives
sisters, daughters and sweethearts by al
/ inpronptu excursion train made UP prin
OiT "a n tr--tn i1iy7
camp cordially they proceeded to give tn
president a ''send-off.' The miners sur
rounded the church, which was tot
crowded to allow their entrance, and Il
respect to the day their band, somewha
/ to the confusion of the choir within rem
! dered, Nearer. My God, to Thee" Thi
was followed fol by a more more personal, bu
| Where did You Get That Hat" which
was recognized by the president and mos
of the congregation.
went to his room at the principal hotel t.
obtain a little needed sleep, but the AS
pen band seized the opportunity to Civ
him him a. sers snf f.t n n, which Where Di
inent part. Tired out and Disguised, Gen
eral Harrison spent he rest Of the after
noon in momentary terror of another in
vasion. and his reflections resulted in
decision to break his rule of not travel
ing on the Sabbath. At O'Clock wor,
was passed around among the presidential
/ party that the special train would leav
! Glenwood without delay, and an hou
later, when the good people of tina
| quiet little resort We're preparing TO
1 new honors to the chief executive, tn
president and his fellow travellers wer
steaming eastward.
That night was spent in Gypsum
Gulch, thirty miles from Glenwood
where there was nothing to interior
with the rest of General Harrison excep
the occasional howl of a coyote or tn
lhooting of an owl He preferred those t
the quiet of Glenwood Springs.