The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-21

election is ever and the Nack-ThOrn
murder trial has broken down after its
sensational scene, here we have been
running all week to the horse show. OF
course a few are interested in the
horses. A good many of us talk horse
while we are there. but to the thou
sands who ill the seats and boxes
nightly, and to the tens of thousands
who move in a dense mass around the
ring where the animals and the judges
are the sensation lies in the fact that
it is the great mass meeting of society
and fashion. The Easter day parade
on Fifth avenue is insignificant beside
it. That great procession Of the rich
walking home from church is over in
half an hour. The horse show beats
the opera for closeness of view Of SO
ciety notabilities. There you see Mrs
George Gould or the Vanderbilts
through an opera glass. At the horse
show you rub shoulders with them.
They sit in their boxes to be looked
at You pass by near enough to hear
blessed privileg of their con-
Versation. When they come on the
floor and move round the place a couple
of times. you begin to feel neighborly
with the Rockefellers, almost chummy
with the Webbs. and on all but visit
y
neys. Then as the big white numbers
so up on the blackboards, showing the
winners in class after class. you have
the privilege Of joining in the applause.
You see all the beauties of the year
and, if you are woman, you may take
great pleasure in noting that the beau
ties Of last year have decidedly gone
off" 1t is vanity in it's most joyous
rig set on its broadcast pedestal And it
n n -Fafn oh 1an haJ n
blares: the galloping horses make the
tanbark fly; the big picture hats and
the dainty toques of the women nod
to the music-likewise the big white or
yellow chrysanthemums that the ladies
wear. A ripple of applause runs around
the great amphitheatre. Somebody has
won, no matter whom, but still round
and round go the damned paraders,
laughing, chatting, saluting, stepping
on the trains of the ladies, begging
their pardon, nodding to each other
saluting the box occupants and frivol-
ing, frivoling to everybody's hearts
content. No wonder that dudes travel
a thousand miles to be seen at it. No
wonder that from the fat Mrs. Nudge,
who has for ten years hungered to be
somebody" to the imperious Mrs. Va
vaseur. who looks on everybody else as
nobody they would all lose their eyes
think it has been more brilliant thiA
year than ever.
THE SUPPER MANIA.
The big hotels are all full to over
flowing horse show week. and their
huge restaurants are packed With din
ers in the evening, and far into the
morning hours with the gayest supper
parties. Thus the full dress jollity ra.
dates over the town. Everybody ap-
pears to be supping in public. The very
staid air of the most august hOstelries
gives way to easy merriment. If you
looked in last week at the Waldorf or
the newly opened Astoria dining rooms
you might have wondered whether the
serried army OF walters you saw could
ever be all occupied at the same time.
You had to be sharp to get a table aast
night, and the walters were working
as hard as Mr.. Lemuel Quigg's jaws
worked before the last election. it was
the same story at the Holland House,
at the Imperial. The Gilsey shared the
rush. Sherry's was crowded to the
doors. The new Delmonico's was lit
orally mObbed. The New Manhattan
was besieged ana. q mile above the
Savoy, the Netherlands and the Plaza
were crowded. As these represent only
the great caravanserais, it viii be IN
derstood taat the lesser share in the
good fortune. I fancy the added ex-
travagaEce Of this year is a prosper
ity painter in its way. People spend
easily this year" said Stuart to me the
other NIGHT. There are many you
know, who discount all bull movements.
and it makes little difference in a cash
trade whether the man who pays can
afford it or only thinks he can"
THE CHAMPAGNE HABIT.
am sorry to say champagne drink
ing at supper is en- the increase. All
the rare good wines are neglected more
and more for this fixing god OF sus-
piciOus antecedents. No one thinks of
burgundy with birds now. The de-
hghtful golden Barsac is as seldom
called for as Chateau Yguens. An oc-
casiOnal economist asks in an under
tone for pint of St. Estephe, but the
glorious MargauX and the cobWebbed
port are all but unheard of. Two rea-
sons are given for the cnampa gne
habit one that a little Of it brings
quick merriment, and the other that
it makes a greater show. Alas for the
underlying dullness and make believe
OF Vanity Fair,
THE ASTORIA'S OUTWARD UGLI-
NESS
There is no sign that either in hotels.
Office buildings or apartment houses
the SSy-scraperS are oVerdOne in New
York yet, New buildings OF from II to
g stories are going up all the time
ana they are seldom month omen
until they are fully tenanted. Elevator
accidents don't brighten either tenants
or visitors any more than deathbeds
keep people out Of bed. Exteriorly.
the architects are getting better eff
fectS. 1t IS too much to expect beauty
or proportion out of buildings that are
as tail as steepleS and little thicker:
but, the latter examples being gener-
ally broader, are less offensive to the
artistic eye. cannot praise the new
AStoria's terra Gotta colored fscadas
1t makes an imposing effect from its
mass, but it is unbalanced and hybrid
INTELLECTUALLY. There is an attempt
BY using an elevated colonnade of pil-
lars, TO break I'D the many WindoWed
saIneness of detail, but it looks like an
after thought only half applied. II
seems to emphasize the want of mas
terful design and makes you feel what
q great opportunity has been wasted
Ene iron arcade which spans the side
E79ll<, though useful, is also distress
ragly feeble and aesthetically offensive,
INTERIOR Historian SPLENDORS
Inside you feel that a better order
of brains has been at work The right
ness of gliding and marble is not over
done. and the dining rooms, with their
great gray marble pillars and light
frescoes, are all in very correct taste
The ball room is perhaps the finest
room in America. Those who remem-