The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-09
HOTEL AND CORRIDOR.

Miss A. NJ. Beecher, a cousin of Henry
| Ward Beecher and Harriet BeecheI
Stowe is at the Knutsford, where she
will remain long enough to complete q
study of modern conditions in Utah, be-
sides delivering a lecture on economics
and possibly one in which "reminiscences
of her distinguished family will form the
theme.
Miss Beecher's tour of the continent
contemplates a visit to the Pacific coast,
time. She is no novice to the lecture plat
form, having given drawingroom dis
courses in all of the large cities of the
east on the subject which she has made
a speciality. Economics. as she views
/ the term, is ''the best means to the high
force.1
The underlying scope of Miss Beecher's
journey through the west is that of COM
ing in contact with the women of this
section for the purpose of forming an in
telligent idea of their wants and why
they want them, besides how they are
striving to attain these ends. This ma
terial will be embodied hereafter in a
eastern audiences. 1t will ultimately De
used in the interest of suffrage. Miss
Beecher does not believe in thrusting the
franchise upon. her sex They must be-
come thoroughly familiar with the idea,
and even have become better educated
before they assume such rights She re-
spects the ideas of western women and
comes to them more in the spirit OF a
student of their opinions than pre-
cepter.
Miss Beecher is the daughter of David
Beecher, an uncle of the famous divine.
She is the youngest of II children The
scion of the great family is 70 years of
age but remarkably active and possess
ing the intellectual characteristics of her
wonderful family.
Her fathers family win Henry and
Harriet Beecher'S fathers family num-
bered 80 persons, only five of whom are
In retirement except during four years
of her life, while in charge of the Hart
ford seminary, founded in 1922 by Cath
crime Beecher.
As she has spent the last % years of
her career in Brooklyn and Hartford in
the companionship of Henry Ward Beech
er and Harriet Beecher Stowe, it is per-
Beecher has many interesting biograph-
ical things to relate. She is a fluent con-
versationalist and affects a masculine
style of dress, which is in keeping with
her commanding presence and strong de-
livery.
Clinton Barnum Seeley, who has been
sojourning with his bride in Zion for the
past week, and whose personality has
become almost inseparable from banQuets,
IS stakeholder in the Ontario mine, or,
rather, Mrs. Seeley happens to be the
fortunate holder of certificates which en-
title her to. enjoy the dividends of that
wonderful property. While Mrs. Seeley
was still Miss Florence futile, she in
vested in Ontario and became curious,
upon her visit here, to behold the source
from which her western revenues are de-
rived. Mr.. Seeley and Mrs. Seeley have
already visited the property. 1t is said
that he contemplates other mining in
vestments in this state.
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The particular dinner which has made
Mr.. Seeley. somewhat known throughout
Saturday preceding last Christmas, at
Sherrys, which has been admittedly the
swell place in New York since Delmon-
ico's lost its ancient prestige and as the
Waldorf is SO much frequented by
wealthy westerners and others from out
of town. The dinner in question was
given by Herbert B. Seeley in honor of
the farewell bachelorhood of his brother.
The guests on that occasion were c. A.
Postley, well-known yachting man;
Edward Fish, II: e; Smith. Conrad L.
mann, Louis Ogden. H. H. Flagler, VIII
son Marshall, c. Barnum Seeley. Clair
Hamilton. E. p. Delaney, A. Gould Ham
ilton. Marmaduke Tilden, Nathan Seeley,
Theodore D. Rich. ST., John H. Irwin,
r. Harper of Harper Brothers.
and Charles Tobias. The prominence of
some of these gentlemen and the fact that
many of them had already embraced
marital careers caused a great deal of
talk. Many of them are members of the
Larchmont Yacht club. All were men of
good standing.
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The dinner was raided by the famous
Police Captain Chapman, and what he
found there has been told in press dis
The investigation of Chap
mans charges with regard to Little
Egypt resulted in startling disclosures
and the indictment of Herbert B. Seeley.
who was afterwards discharged through
powerful Influences