The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-30

,bsolutely refused the nomination.

absolutely refused the nomination.
| He is a fine looking gentleman with
clear cut features At the 81 conven-
| ton it was doubtful who would be
! chosen president for the ensuing year,
| and when his name was proposed, he
| explained that he was overloaded with
private and public business: but the
convention wouldn't see it that way,
and he was declared elected. A strong
armed committee picked him up and
carried him to the presidents chalr-7n
unprecedented and amusing incident.
| He was a splendid president, not
withstanding his business matters.
In New York everyone knows him,
his offices are loaded with the filthy
lucre;" he holds a score of private and
public Offices and if one doesn't know
Brockway he isn't a New Yorker.
! Mr.. Brockway has been q successful
proprietor for nearly thirty years; he
holds stock in some of the wealthiest
corporations in New York, is a mem
Der of the Old Guard and a Mason from
the word go.
Upon the death of F. W. Hilton in
1882, the first vice-president j. I. De-
vine was made president. Mr.. Devine
has host of friends here who called
on him yesterday. and talked over rem
iniscences of yore. Mr.. Devine is best
known as the popular clerk of the st.
James in New York, and after that he
managed the Long Beach hotel at Long
Island.
He is now the proprietor of the Shore
ham in Washington. the rendezvous of
the nations representative law makers.
The wittiest motel man IN the whole
crowd is probably Simeon Ford, who,
his friends say, is the best after dinner
speaker in America with the excep-
tion of Depew.
Mr. Ford is a tall, thin man with
rather long face covered with wtlis-
kers which come almost to a point.
In a quiet and modest way he has at
traoted more attention than perhaps
any other hotel man in America. He
is the proprietor of the Grand Union
in New York, and secretary of the
New York City Hotel association. Mr..
Ford was 1.-THE power behind 'the
throne so to speak, for years, while
the late W. D. Gunison was manager.
Mr.. Ford married into the Shaw family
and in that way into the Grand Union
property.
Not long after becoming proprietor
of this hotel he was quoted in a hui
morous manner in some New York pa
pers, and shortly after made very
funny speech at a banquet ait Delmon-
ico's. Fever since he has been in de-
mand for speeches, and he is the only
hotel man whose speeches always ap-
pear in full in the papers.
AS an actor a humorous author OF on
the platform, Mr.. Ford would unques-
'tionably shine, but he prefers the life
of a plain Gotham hotel keeper He
went to Washington some weeks ago
to help get the convention for New
York, and the daily papers declared
that his speech before the committee
made him famous as an orator. He is
the lucky possessor of pure, spontan-
eous Wit, which is neither buffonery nor
a play upon words, and which S per-
fectly natural and enforced He has a
great deal of good sense and business
ability, and all look to him as the next
president of the association.
Another visitor With yesterdays del
egation was E. L. Menifield, who, with
his daughters, is located in the New
Yory delegation. Mr. Menifield is a
feshy, jovial gentleman, and has got
an irresistible gurgling laugh.
Within the last twenty years he has
made fortune out Of the Broadway
and for years was president of the N.
Y. H. NJ. A.
Hon. Tilly Haynes was another mem
Der of the New York delegation seen at
the Knutsford yesterday He is pro-
prietor of the Broadway Central in
New York and the United States hotel
at Boston. He has lots of push, and
relies greatly on his Judgment, having
won a $4,000 election bet on it at one
time. He was raised in Massachusetts,
and was a Springfield tailor. He built
the Haynes hotel in that CITY, and took
hold of the United States hotel in Bos-
ton some years later, when that house
was in very straitened circumskan-
ces. He thoroughly modernized the
house, and now the hotel is one of the
most profitable in Boston.
DIR. Charles T. Ryan, proprietor of
the Lafayette Place hotel in New York,
was one of yesterdays visitors. DR..
Ryan is famous for the luxurious baths
for men in connection with his estab-
liShment.
Gus Hoffstadt of Chicago and ]. P
Care of New York are clothing sales
men at the Templeton.
Lon Mayer of Omaha got in yester-
day. He Is at the Iempleton with PIC
ture frames.
E. NJ. Madison and wife from Gibson
city, ILL.,, are Templeton guests. Mr..
Madison is banker of that place.
]. P. Smith, the manager for Hoyt's
"a Trip to Chinatown" is a Templeton
guest.
G. E. Ames, manager of the Union
iron works of San Francisco, registered
at the Knutsford yesterday.
|
Cullen arrivals yesterday were: c..
D. Dorr and wife, Minnesota; r. c..
Leavitt and wife, Minnesota A. c..
Grotta and wife Missouri; ]. w. Green,
Eureka; John Homer, Sunshine; ]. F.
Brink and E. P Creigton, Grand juno
| ton; M. Idleman, Cheyenne; Sol Spiro,
Park city; P. j. Fennell, Mercur; w.
F. Snyder, Richfeld; 1. N. Pratt, Og-
/ den; Rose Moore and Mrs. Olsen,