The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-22
HOTEL AND CORRIDOR.


! Yesterday being wool mans day. as
established some weeks ago, Davis and
Burke made flying trip from the south
on purpose to tell a couple of stories for
this mornings corridor.
Did they tell you that little one on
me while l was in st. LOUISE" asked
Davis. Il was with gang of the boys
who, from time TO time, kept dropping
hints as to little Iun they were going TO
have that evening, and finally my curios-
ity was aroused and L asked them what
they were going to do.
They wouldn't tell me for quite a
while, but after eXacting promise out
OF me to keep the thing quiet, they told
me that there was going TO be a little
| finish tight.
L wanted to go, and they said all right,
but wouldn't tell me where it was. Tney
called Tor me after dinner, and took me
| to the toughest looking street l ever
saw in my life. l thought l had been to
nearly every place in st. Louis, but sure
enough this was new one. We walked
down narrow alley and into an old
/ three story building. After closing the
door | saw dim light at the top of a
dismal, pinched stairway and one of
my friends told me to take my shoes and
hat of, and they did the same. We went
up the stairs and stumbled along black
hallway and l thought the footsteps of
my companions sounded as II they were
made by shoes in place of socks. We
went up another staircase, and into what
was apparently a room. l was led from
this down two flights of stairs and then
through long close passage way. The
quarters were so cramped, and the eXer-
else SO brisk, that l took off my coat and
unbuttoned my vest.
"A few more steps and We'll be at the
ring side said Jim Elliot, and hurried on.
We went up a few more, and down again,
then Jim said, very easy now and l
cr.pra tint cr,ft a
sound, and jim whispered, now go right
ahead with one hand in front of you and
when you strike the door, push
L did so, and walked right into one of
the SWEETEST bars in town, my shoes in my
hand, my coat over my arm, my hat in
the other hand and dripping with perspira-
ton. But that wasn't all. 1t seemed to me
that all of the boys that l had ever
seen were in a SeTni-circle around that
door, and of all the laughs man ever
got that was the worst.
That fight cost me nearly $40, and the
hardest nights work | ever had"
ION the way up here" said Burke, 81
noticed very seedy looking Individual
jump the train at a city down here called
Deseret He got in the seat ahead of me,
and l went on reading without paying
any attention to him. Pretty soon the
con tackled him for his ticket, and in a
surprised tone of voice he asked: Do
have to have ticket? I'm carrying
wool on this here train, and l thought
rode free
Wei, you'll have to dig up; see the
boss when you get to Salt Lake, and L
guess he'll fix you.
y saw this was my opportunity, and
bending owed / said: SO you have some
wool; DO you want to sell IL, ana handed
him my card.
"''Well, yes: I've got some I'm going to
try to sell in the city,
Bat why not sell it to a Philadelphia
house and get a good price?'
oh, ] usually get a good price in
Salt Lake; that's good enough for me-
How much wool have you got, my
man.?
sacks and you may infer that he got the
marble heart"
Horse Shoe Jake of Denver, is at the
Templeton.
The Walker house guests of yesterday
were: c. E. Bradish, St. Joe; c. NJ Sex
ton, Salina; Thomas Maloney, Ogden; J.
W. Grant and wife, Bingham; P. t.
Simons, Montana; T. D. Rees, Wales, and
c. E. Adderly, Bingham.
Those who registered at the Cullen
yesterday were: Mrs. F. w. Harrington
and Mrs. Lodd, A. f. Smith, Omaha; c. o.
Geller and S. Nj. Woman, Evanston; Dave
Turner, Ogden; G. F. Davis, Denver; j.
S. Stevenson. Evanston; H. c. Glover and
T. c. Werner. New York; G. NJ. Beason
and G. Hurtado, Ogden, and c. e. Hamp-
The Templeton list comprised 7. E.
Guessin, Chicago; D. E. and G.. B. Ver-
non, Philadelphia; e. c. Potter and wife,
Denver, and j. c. Effinger, Chicago.
Yesterdays Knutsford arrivals were c.
w. Fogg, Colorado Springs; James
Stephenson, Omaha; NJ r. Engel, New
York; II. ]. Lewis, Pittsburg; E. Villas
and wife, Ogdensburg, n. Y; f. G. Grote,
Cincinnati; Mr.. and Mrs. G. NJ. Taylor,
Colorado Springs; Mrs. c. ]. Yerkes, and
Miss Bane More Cook. Chicago; James
Kennedy and wife, Ogden; w. S. Hayes,
Chicago; E. r. Ball, Denver, and A. L.
Becker, Buffalo.
G. w McGratl, eX-superintendent of
the Union Pacific coal department, was
in the city yesterday for few hours.
He is a resident of Omaha, and his
interests are now centered in coal pro-
perties at Rock Springs. To The Her
aid man he said. II can see that Utah
is coming to the front every day. The
mining industry within your new state
is attracting attention everywhere, and
thousands will come here to stay. Salt
Lake is on the up grade, and is des-
tined to keep right on. l would like
to live in this city if my business in
terests warranted. The railroads that
will be built out of here will have
good effect Mr.. McGrath is as genial
as ever and hooked radiant as he swung
himself on the Union Pacific train for
the east