The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-12
HOTEL AND CORRIDOR.
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Captain Schjorring. Eighteenth Royal
infantry of Denmark. is a military char
acter not often met in the dull routine
of the hotel. The captain arrived at the
Knutssord last evening and added bit
of color to the usual oppressive civil at
mosphere of that place. although he dld
not happen to be Topping about foreign
lands in the gOrgeOuSneS or q DANISH uni
form. All of the color in the incident EN-
anated purely from the captain private
personality which was so thoroughly re-
dolent of monarchy and the politlcai ana
diplomatic analogy of Europe that ii was
not IT all difficult TO imagine that you
were hobnobbing with one who held the
present situation of the powers in the
palm of his hand.
Germany and Denmark are natural en-
emies. although preserving the peace tfiat
the concert has established. Ever since since
Germany Topped of SchleswiG- H isteln
from Denmark that sturdy little Kingdom
has regarded her big neighbor with
averted eye II IS parallel csse Win
tain Schjorring is remarkably frank Wn1le
discussing these matters his estimatlon
of young William Is not a crammed
opinion. He says that in Germany the
present emperor is not popular IDOL.
and that il is very doubtful whether the
people through the reichstag would en-
man who fondly refers to the exploits of
papa and grandpa The captain was GER
tain that all of the true sentiment was
still with Bismarck. the man who was
the comrade of papa" and grandpa,
and now the subject of the grandchild.
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A high tribute was paid by the visitor
to the standing army OF Denmark. Whlch
consists of So 900 men. all OF whom are in
a high state of efficiency. King Christian
can command in time of war 5000 troops.
but he does not anticipate any conflict
that will make necessary the calling out
of the reserve force. In the mind OF the
Danish captain. the king is the sturuiest
monarch OF ChriStendom. his reputation
throughout Europe being that of an hon
est statesmanlike and kind ruler Much
of Christians high standing among the
other crowned heads and their govern
ments IS due to the extraordinary tact
and common sense of his queen. a sister
of Oscar, king of Sweden Through her
offices, the czars have become powerful
Schiorring pointed out the material safe
guards possessed by Denmark in its
royal marital connections with various
Kingdoms of Europe the mother of the
present ear the wife of the Prince of
Wales the Duchess of Cumberland. King
George of Greece and various Others are
entwined in the royal houses of the great
est kingdoms Of the world
Captain Schjorring left Denmark on
furlough last November. and since that
matra. Borneo. Java. China. Japan and
Hawaii. He goes to the Yellowstone park
before proceeding TO New York for the
purpose of taking steamer for Hamburg.
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Colonel Dockery of Ashland, Wis, one
of the prominent Democrats of that
state, is in town. He represents Wiscon-
sin capitalists and is looking over the
mining field. Mr. Dockery was a dele
gate to the Chicago convention last year
and broke the unit rule when the Wiscon-
sin delegation refused to vote. He held
that the delegation could be controlled by
the rule on any proposition voted upon
except that a delegate could not be pre-
vented from voting at ALL He carried his
point and supported Bryan.
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Philip T. Colgroye and wife, Hastings.
Mich, are at the Knutsford.
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Mr. and Mrs S. A. Fuller and Mrs. A
F. O'Brien of Hartford. Conn.,, arrived in
the city yesterday
r. Waldo Ward of New York was a
Knutsford arrival last evening.
Mrs. Margaret -Rosekrans. Burton NJ
Smith and Ada NJ Fleming of Chicago
will spend today in the city.
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Mrs. and Mrs. ]. Jacobs. San Francisco,
are at the knutsfOrd.