The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-18

up special enterprise. The hotel at
Havre had quarters reserved for Them
and naturally these expenses were
charged to the advertising account of
the show. Toward the close of the day
there was no news of the ship, and
knew it would be very difficult to mold
twenty newspaper men together III
provincial town like Havre unless
could create a diversion. So went out
and chartered a tug for $50 for the af-
ternoon and invited them to go with
me and hunt for the incoming ship.
I think fully half of these men had
never been out of Paris in their life be-
fore except for some days occasion.
This proposition was hailed as most
desperate venture conceivable by the
mind of man. They accepted with the
delight of children; climbed on board
with 'All aboard for China Good
bye, old France and with predictions
that we would all turn pirates and new
er come back The humble little French
tug steamed directly out to sea, and
within an hour we were out of sight or
land. Now the adventure was assum-
ing terrible proportions, and as there
was fairly good sea on, half of the
party collapsed entirely. Just before
night we came up to the Persian Mon
arch, and this success of the trip re-
/
cred on the deck and gave their war
songs and dances, which were respond
ed to by boots and yells by the excited
journalists. Such articles. never seen
before or since in the French news
papers, followed this trip. My two cars
Were sWelled up to special train. The
modest lunch and refreshments We're
exaggerated up to the proportions of a
Gargantuan banquet. The Figaro, in
its account, said champagne ran from
faucets overhanging each railway sta
ton, and that the country people
massed in blocks to see the Russian
prince who was travelling with his
friends. At Havre, it said, the entire
town was leased for the day, and that
anything that any of the visitors sought
to buy from a drink up to diamond,
was placed at his disposal. The little
tug was lifted up to the size of a great
ocean yacht. especially chartered fer
voyage of discovery, and the scenes
about the ship were pictured with an
extravaganza and abandon quite III
keeping with the character of the de-
seriptive writer's who would come to
me at different times during the day
for special information. shall never
forget how many asked me whether the
ship came to France by the Isthmus of
Suez or the other way.
Naturally no purse is long enough to
retain all OF the French newspapers, as
there are many of them with columns
absolutely worthless for any purpose.
The papers outside of your line of con-
tracts amuse themselves by attacking
me in every possible way. There was
not day that stories of smallpox and
contagious diseases were not charged
up to members OF this company in these
delightful little newspapers. There was
no crime too great to charge against
the management and no epidemic too
foul not to have been brought in the
train of our people. The health author
tiles were constantly ransacking the es-
adjustment under the spur of these
villainous attacks, any one Of which
could have been shut off for The small
sum of Is francs.
RAGE AT SEEING FRENCH MONEY
FALL INTO AMERICAN BOXES.
+ The local hatred of foreign success in,
France is hard to explain. 1 have seen
people coming into the show who would
grow black in the face with rage at the
sisht of French money being dropped
into American boxes. The show was q
success and very popular, yet it seemed
to lnturlate the average French visitor
that they had to pay to see it. I
heard over and over again common
French people say as they glared at
the rows of five franc pieces standing
on the front of the gate-keeper's treas