The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-19

sitions. while the greater part of them
might just as wei be throwing rocks
in the river. Such statements sound
cold and heartless, but they are tho
actual facts governing. The majority
of the roads give service letters !.
showing length of time employed, in
what capacity and standing at time of
severance. But letter given over tie
a. r. u affair would only queer
man on sight anyWhere-uhe letter. so
given are a detrimert, and not in any
way beneficial. The Southern Pacific
company is one that don't give
Service" letters of the regulation type
at any time. though the officials may
tell the employee on leaving to cite
them as reference, when applying for
positions elsewhere. But at this time
it would be useless to do SO. and they
know it.
A DEPRESSING EFFECT.
That strike hurt business to very
great extent, and its effects are still
lingering with Ogden houses. 1t ap-
plies to other towns throughout the
country in a direct ratio to size anc
volume of business done. An old es-
tabl;shed railroad man has good credit.
paying up every month when he gets
his check. He is good pay, and bust
ness men want his trade. Then all the
old> men leave, as in this case, and
when the new men come in, they don't
draw a check for nearly two months.
Besides. they are wholly unknown.
and must establish themselves before
they enjoy the confidence of the mer-
chants, as did the old class. No odds
though they be just as honest and de-
serving as the former it cuts no figure,
and all told, business suffers to a great
extent. Ogden's business men admit
such statements in their entirity, and
no mistake is made in saying that all
this acts in a great measure to make
dull times. After a time these matters
adjust themselves, but while the adj
justment is on, all branches of business
are made to feel the depression so oc-
casioned.
PRESIDENT BIGLOW.
President Biglow, of the Ogden State
bank said:
Future conditions are certainly in
our favor and 1 must regard Utah as
being in line to reap her merited re-
ward accordingly Statehood will tend
j to allay more fully any fears that capt.
talists may have in the past entertained
in regard to investments We find that
theory has applied to other states when
coming in, and no other deduction is
| tenabe in our case, I think. The tariff
question being passed upon will
strengthen the business tone in the near
! future Silver? I see it has gone up
point or more, and believe it will con-
tinue to advance for a time. occasioned
to degree by Japan and China en-
gagged in conflict. / think silver will
after a time. be rehabilitated with its
purchasing power as money-it Will not
do to treat it as a commodity-and
think the error will be remedied, and
that ere long. I am inclined to the
hot "a silver could
! have got ratio of Is to
instead of the Sheman purchas-
ing clause. had they at the time
pressed it on that basis. The Sherman
purchasing clause I regard as having
! been injurious to silver, and 1t was well
to repeal it. Even at a, ratio of Is to l
great prosperity would come to the
whole country, as l believe the country
needs it and must come to it.
| President Biglow, while a very con-
fservative man in touching on financial
conditions, may be put down as
strong silver advocate.
MAYOR BROUGH
Nravor Brough said: It's better that
the suspense is over A settlement of
! the tariff in some shape or another will
enable the people to know just what
/ TO eXpect, and they can now launch
out in the business field shorn OF that
perplexity they knew for so long a
period. look for some revival in ousl-
ness fields, occasioned largely oy the
! dominant pluck and energy character
/ izing our people as a whole. and more
particularly those of the west Mlnlm-
I lied to a, nicely, Ogden people are TO
the fore In the near future there Will
be DEVELOPMENTS in our city giving us
great hope locally, and then business
will get out of that slough of despond
| it has so long been in. Oh, yes; l nave
hopes of better times-to lose nope
would not do at any time"
Mayor Brough is an enthusiast on
Ogden's future great advantages, and
recounts them with pride and pardon
able glee.
c. A. sMURTHWAITE.
G. A. Smurthwaite, the wholesale
grain dealer, said:
what is affecting US just now as
much as anything else, is freight rates,
and until better rates are put IN, our
farmers are handicapped to a great
extent. and in way that tells
against them. Now, take the rate on
grain from here to the coast. The rate
is 371a cents per hundred, and when
YOU add to this the cost of sacking,
another ~ cents per hundred, 1t leaves
our farmer Just 81 cents per bushel for
his wheat That tells against farming
interests very strongly. This is con-
dition that needs to be remedied.
/ Statehood? 1t means much for us, and
I believe that a great deal of capital
will gravitate this way that would not
were we destined to go for years in the
old way Settlement of the tariff will
bear in our favor. and in the very near
future business will begin to feel its
effects. Manufacturers will commence
to stock up; mills will start up, plants
ni+ Il her.
must be noticed a revival in conse-
quence of all this"
UNIFORM QUESTION SETTLED.
I said 1 would call and observe the
seven Chicago young ladies now domi-
ciled pleasantly in the Union Pacific
Hotel company's dining rooms in this
city, and to that resolve l adhered
faithfully Right here / want to say
that all day yesterday big COB of
gloom hung pendant upon the scene,
and the air was full of rumors to the
effect that the whole seven Of them had
a grievance" the first day, and had
as a whole appointed themselves a
committee on ways and means to set
things right. 1t was a question of sal
airy, as they are receiving SIC and SIS,
instead of $40 and $25, as formerly paid.
In order to ascertain the true facts in
the case, I coyly approached the head
waitress. Miss Petra Koldrup, and as
I stood abashed before a battery of
seven pairs of questioning eyes, she
said:
I'll tell you all about it, and won't
you please tell the truth? Oh, you
must-I know you will! Arrangements
were made with us in Chicago to come
out here, and at the rate of SIC and SIS
per month, which was then satisfac-
tory to u.s. and all the way out we were
nicely treated by the company. Our