The herald., 1898-12-01
DOWN The LINE

To be too late, when the time will never
come again, when the opportunity OF clasp.
ing hand and OF
Too Late saying the words IN
for Life the heart will till the
end of time be i'm
possible-this leaves the heart heavy ana
feeling of self-reproach that are as the dregs
of bitter draught that has been drunk.
heard the night before last that former
friend and companion in work was IN tne
city and dangerously i'll. l was gwen his
address, with the information that he had
expressed regret that had failed to come
to see him. l had not known before MS
place of abode, but went there this morning
as soon as | came down town. l rang the
door bell, and as the woman of the house
came forward I said: "Will you tell Mr..
Kiddell that l am here and would like to
see hims" 'Mr Rddell died at o'clock this
morning." came the reply.
O O o
George Riddell was but one of the many
thousands of newspaper men who have
found their death in
u;. S.-. their work. He be-
gan the work of re-
nanoeo III porting some three
years ago ON the Rec
ord, commencing as an apprentice ana work
ing up in a marvelously short time to the
place of city editor. His success was such
that he justly thought he could do better
in way of pay and Advancement IN the
east and went to Chicago and Washington.
His energy and devotion to work was end
less, and the result was the old, old story
overwork, sickness, want OF power to recu-
perate, and finally, Mr.. Riddle died at
o'clock this morning He has now that
which it is to be hoped most OF us Will have
when we reach the same end. bis fellows
say of him: He worked well, he was
straight. a good friend, a good fellow.
And we go to the funeral, and realize for the
time that his story will likely enough be
our story; that it will only be a few years
or perchanee a few months or days before
we put aside our pencils and wads of copy
paper and get our thirty
O O O
Some eight or ten years ago man opened
a little twenty-five foot wide store on
Spring street. The city, apparently, was
then overprovided
Remarkable with dry goods shops,
but he went at 1t
S"eeeSS with brains and hard
work and belief in his
ability to make a place for himself. Soon
he had to take the next store to find room.
then another was added, and another and
another, until yesterday his firm leased the
whole Of the immense Phillips block and
will occupy the entire edifice from eel
lar to mansard. The founder of the house
q k,s S.,a-1 httt
the same principles on which he started
have always been followed, and the result
is that today the firm has the largest es-
tablishment, save one. on the entire coast.
often hear men of capital say there Is no
opening here for business. That everything
is overdone and that they cannot enter
business. 1t was the same when Moses
Hamburger started his shop, more even
than it is now, for then the city was little
more than a Mexican town with lot OF
enterprsing Americans trying to make the
old timers realize that new era had
opened.
As ru' most of the men who have money
have it because they deserve it, and have
made it in the good
Progressive old American style,
Wood Chopper from the sweat OF
their brows and the
use Of the gray matter in their heads. Such
a man is A. w. McCune OF Salt Lake City,
who is candidate for the senate to succeed
Frank J. Cannon. Mr.. McCune twenty years
ago was woodchopper and he still enters
himself in the grand registers as being of
that occupation. This may be little atfec-
tation OF the sef-made man idea of the Mr..
Bounderby manner of humble arrogance,
but it is excusable and marks better pride
than that Of simply having long, Yell
filed purse. Mr.. McCune, by the way, is
one OF the men who it is likely will build
tina, long dreamed of Salt Lake City rail
way to this town. He has half a score of
millions, and knows a good thing when he