The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-19

are before the public, is my authority
for this statement. but when 1 asked
him yesterday to give me the name of
the most printed about person in the
United States. he surprised me by re-
plying: Miss Harriet b. Richardson of
Kentucky, who wanted to christen a
new battleshiD.'
After careful consideration of the
case. however. I saw no reason to
doubt his statement, for a pretty girl
and q bottle of 45-year- old whisky of q
brand that commands the respect and
confidence of the entire community, IS
a combination that is very hard for
the American public to resist.
KINDNESS OF MIR. BENNETT.
I believe that the affairs of newspa-
perdom possess an interest for the gen.
eral public second only to those of the
stage. and this is my only excuse for
speaking of one or two matters that
have lately come to my knowledge.
In the first place. Mr.. James Gordon
Bennett, who, not long ago, cabled to
his staff in this country to suspend the
publication of the Evening Telegram,
and then rescinded the order two days
later, is said to have shown a remark
able degree of human feeling at the
time of the illness and death of Mr..
John B. Jackson, an old and faithful
writer who had grown gray in the SER
vice of the Herald in all parts of the
world, having acted as a musical critic
and foreign editor in New York, as a
war correspondent in the Balkans, and
as special commissioner across the
frozen plains of Siberia, whittier he
Journey to meet the survivors of the
lost ''Je, 1lnette." Mr.. Jackson died in
Paris, where he was employed on Mr..
Benefits Paris Herald, and L am told
that THE Great White Chief" as the
newspaper proprietor is termed by his
subordinates, personally tended the sick
man during his illness, and secured for
him the best doctors that could be
found. and did all that he could to al
leviate his sufferings. [ will venture to
say that these tidings will create con-
siderable excitement when they reach
Park Row and Herald Square.
AMERICAN PAPER IN LONDON.
1t is a matter of gossip here that GER
toward London with the intention of
establishing a daily newspaper there,
to be conducted on the American plan.
| do not know the names of the men
interested in this project, but am told
that they are not altogether unknown
in Park Row, and [ have no doubt that
they have been influenced by the sue
cess OI the LOuQOu Mall, WHICH mas al
ready won for itself a circulation of
about 100000 copies, and cut into the
circulation Of both the Telegraph and
the Chronicle.
It is interesting for us in New York
to know that the managing editor of
this paper. and the man who is said
to be largely responsible for it's sue
cess, is young gentleman named S.
j. Prior, who was for many years a
member of the Sun staff in this city,
and went to London little more than
a year ago to fill a subordinate place
in the Office of Julian Ralph, who was
at that time the Suns correspondent
in the British capital. Mr.. Prior is an
extremely quiet and modest young man
who, although thoroughly faithful in
the discharge of his duties on the Sun,
was never regarded as one of the great
men OF Park Row. I have always be-
lieved that Park Row was the place
for the building up of a good many
false regulations for ability.) am told