The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-17
HOTEL AND CORRIDOR.

Not a day goes by but some traveller
passing through the city mentions the
Atlanta exposition, the Leadville ice pal
ace. the carnival at Truckee, the exhi-
bition of Californian products at San
Francisco. or some other similar affair.
In every case the takers speak of the
valuable. results obtained at small ex-
pense, the greatly stimulated business
and the sudden increase in immigra ton.
EVERY city that is a city has an exhi-
Dluon, or some big demonstration which
lhor0ughly adVertlses the state and the
result is that the travel is increased ten
per cent; people begin to talk about this
place and that and new people begin TO
make homes there and it follows that
the business OF a state takes aOn steady
growth and the Inhabitants are most
prosperous. Now, why does Utah let
the mouths slip around and allow some
petty states to get a big share of the
pie? 1t would cost a very little money
70 Drlng vast throng of people here in
the summer time, and in fact all of
the money which would need to be spent
would be upon little judicious advertis-
ing.
Look at the lake. and that monstrous
resort at Saltair- 1t is twenty years
not realize what good thing they've
got.
Show this to tourists take them to the
mines. drive them through our canyons,
/
manufactures; take them TO the sanitdr-
| lum, to the springs, let them gaze down
this valley, miniature Willemet
and then the boys that leave here can
tell the newspapers of another town
that Utah's trade is wonderful. her in
dusW1es are known far and wide, and
that the. people are fast reaching the
zenith OF their prosperity and all
through little judicious advertising.
This was the burden of very inter-
estlng discourse heard at one Of the no.
tells yesterday.
A Jolly little commercial traveller, w.
T. Livingstone, told story at the Tenn
pleton last evening which is worth re-
/ peating.
During the Worlds Columbian EXPO
sition he lived some distance out on Wa
| DaSh avenue for a couple of months One
night about n;S0 he awoke at hearing
a changing of bells and shouting OF peO-
! Die. and was Mortified to see on the wall
1 opposite the window the reflection of a
mighty flame. He turned over and saw
! a great storehouse on a side street burn
ing merrily while the ladies shaved
/ 70 quench the flames. He hurMedly
dressed and stood on the front steps
| watching the fire. frightened young
I iady was there also, and she asked him
/ in a decided broSue if he thought the
| house would burn He told her no and
! paid little attention to her, thinking she
was some laxative domestic whose IA
! Vorlte occupation was to stand over a
/ for ne could not see her refined and al
most arlstocratic features in the dark.
| Suddenly he remembered that he want
/ cd 10 get up early the next morning,
and so turning around he inquired,
What time do you get up in the morn
IL ana received this answer in a
naughty tone, "Oh different times. I'll
/ be. up rather early tomorrow" He then
said. Il wish you'd come and knock at
/ my door about $40; if you do not arouse
me 9,, at tlrst knock until you do"
| took no notice of the gasp.
Next day he met handsome young
woman on the stairs who stopped him
and said stifffy, Il knocked at your door
J TINS morning but l was unable to rouse
/ you.''
''Y-vou dfdY' he stammered. and then
he went down stairs and inquired who
The answer was. She's very wealthy
1 young Irish beauty who with her father
| Is seeing the fair Her uncle is a mem
Der parliament" and after that Mr.,
Livingston changed his place of resi-
| dence.
Mr.. Adams. of the O. N. c. from Port
land. is at the Knutsford He reports
railroad business in the northwest very
| good. and at a question from the Corri-
dor man. told several interesting things
about Oregon hops. Last year through
! out the state one hundred bales were
produced, making Oregon the second
| III,
York being the first. It took five cents
| a pound to put them on the market, and
| they only brought seven, so this year
! there will be many a last years hop field
where something else is growing
Some years ago hops brought 40 to so
cents. and sometimes a dollar a
pound, and everyone began to raise
them. 1t was better than a gold mine
OF course the prices fell, and now they
n. 60,
raising them.
Mr.. Kahn. of the Wolf company, adj
vertising novelties. is at the Knuts-
ford; Mr.. Hunter with underwear from
New York is there, and genial Clerk
Harris is always there. Well, these three
I got together yesterday, and for several
( minutes the air was blue with red hot
Tepartee. Before this, however, Mr.
Kahn was seen and gave neat little
talk on lad" novelties.
He was asked why the merchants in
J this town did not know 50 much about
and replied: '"They don't have to, for
the simple reason that there is not
{ enough competition. II some big man
! with mammoth stock came to town
and BEGAN to advertise in every way on
! q heavy scale they would all begin to
study advertising, for they would have
TO to get any trade
II struck a farmer the other day.
| tor brings his prices away below yours
you can't come down for me- assured
him | could and ended by saying. when
YOU take the cash discount off our
goods we owe you money"
| AT this JunCture, Mr.. Hunter dropped a
! nickel in the music box, and after look
ing for something to throw, Kahn told
him how man suicided in Oregon, to
the tune of "Sweet Marie
Why did he want to hang himseIf?''
said Hunter
"Oh. he was just trying the line. as
Katie says in the telephone office
DO you leave tonight, Mr.. Kahn?r
asked the smiling Harris.
! mo. not exactly. Mr. Corridor please
say that was to leave tonight but hay
| ing a wish to smoke a pipeful of Harris'
mand-before left, I'll remain until
Tuesday,
springs year ago?" asked Harris. You
know the day you looked at
me when we started home and
said, Is that your brother Harris?'
don't let him in. thereII be too many.
and I was standing alone in the snow.
Wonder why you thought there was two
of us?"
After little more of this, Mr.. Corri-
dor had to leave, and the man behind
the laugh. otherwise the handsome
KnutSford clerk. said. looking at Kahn,
You still have your watch, Mr.. Corri-
dor?" and Kahn thought that was Wor-
thy OF Manhattan, but remembered
that it was dry Sunday and asked with
disgust. When did you say the admin
istration was going to put a big can
churchY'