The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-25
HOTEL GOSSIP.

and blue sky" said p c. Corning at the
| Cullen Our governor is patterned af-
ter the city and is the most picturesque
man in public life today, except posi-
| bly, Pitchfork Tillman of South Caro-
lima, and the Sockless Simpson of Kan
sas. l refer to Pingree, commonly de-
nominated Potato Pingree because he
takes lively interest in agricultural
products and believes in the virtue of
the old song that tells us the potatoes
they grow small and they eat them
skins and all over there, over there.
Pfngree is following in the footsteps of
the famous Pickwick and when he isn't
fighting the city council for cent
streetcar fares, or upholding En-
baimed Beef Alger, he is collaborating
statistics about the propagation of the
Hottentots under the influences of a
tropical sun. His latest hobby is math-
ematics and he's galloping through the
hours writing treatises and delivering
himself of opinions as to why some
fractions are called vulgar and others
common, and likening the mathematical
terms to some people who've sneered
at him. Some of the Detroit papers
give ten columns each week to exploit
ing his peculiarities, and the ones that
Con ike him are unanimous in declar-
ing that the proper place for him is on
the seward end of a duckIpg STOOL
]. Louis MacEvoy. the press repre-
sentative of Madame Emma Nevada of
the Metropolitan Opera company, was
at the Kenyon yesterday. He said:
The musical treat of the season for
salt Lakers will be given on the first
night of the new year by the famous
soprano who has just returned from an
absence of three years on the CONT
nent- Madame Nevada is one of the
very few artists that have not been
carried off their feet by stage triumphs,
and she readily responds to calls for
a rendering of Professor Evan Steph-
ems song, My Western Home" which
ne composed after listening to the great
diva in Boston some years ago. and
winch she has sung at several private
houses in New York and Washington
TINS winter. Madame Nevada is as firm
a oellever in the supernatural as is
carve, and always carries about her
neck a tiny chain of gold and pearls
from which is suspended a crystal disc
containing four-leaved clover. 1t
sounds strange, but she really believes
that her voice will last as long as the
clover remains green, and that it will
fade with the charm
Merry Christmas" said Mining
Operator W. B. LAWYER of Oregon at
the Cullen yesterday afternoon. Every
time the happy Yuietide season rolls
round L light my pipe. plant my feet
on the andironS of an open fire and
DloW smoke rings at the memory of the
happenings or long ago. 1 haven't got
the open fire this time, nothing but
one of these new-fangled steam rad
latorS that squirtS ,bilge water on the
carpets, and knocks inspiration higher
than kite, so my Christmas musings
are bit jerky. 1t happened about
TINS time some years ago that the
daughter of one of my old friends in
the east, who went broke on a sure
thing mining deal-the friend, not the
daughter-was studying at the Art
League in New York with the hope that
it would enable her to exc out some sort
OF an existence. She was improvident
by nature and training, and as soon as
she got hold of any money she set to
work TO rid herself of it by giving blow
outs and theatre parties to her friends.
Christmas was coming on, and the
inevitable this ccount-is-long-ov
due, please remit-andsave-us- the-an
noyance-of placing -it-in- the hands Of
a-collector' was the sum and substance
of most of her correspondence. She be-
thought of making an effort to stave
OF the bounding creditors by doing
some sort of illustrating of IA holiday
nature for one of the pictorial week.
lies, and with a timid heart and falter-
ing footsteps set out on her way down
town to beard the mighty editor in his
den. She wound up at the entrance to
a well known publishing house, and
CROPPED her way up three dingy flights
of stairs and into room Uttered with
papers and time-stained fur
niture, and decorated with yellow gas
jets and smoke from corncob pipes.
THE managing editor was perched /
upon a long-legged stool with two pair |
Of spectacles on the tip of his nose, |
looking as he had never heard of the |
peace on earth good will-to-men story. !
What do you want?' he roared at the |
frightened miss. Please, !
sir, 1 would like TO draw for your pa
per- she faltered. Let's see some OF |
your work, and what are YOU doing |
low?' was the reply that seemed tinged |
with icicles. / am studying at the Art |
League, under the mighty Carroll |
she replied, with some as
;urance.
".HumphI said the ogre as he
scanned the efforts of two wears, this
S the worst rot I've ever seen: who /
sent you here, anyway The maid
the traditional L = horse, ana
,etorted: 7 came of m own accord
after carefully studying the illustra-
ions in all the magazines and week
les l know that my work is about
he worst at the League, and l also
Know that your weekly is the worst IL
ustrated in the country. / thought Ia
.ome here first, because If couldn
,et a job here couldn't get it any
where
'she got the job"
Knutsford.-H. Schifiin, Chicago; Abe
lewburger, New York; John A: Shelton,
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:. A. McGievey. Kansas City; N. H. We
,er, Chicago; L. A. Schrieman. Fort
vayne: c. a. Hoffheimer. Cincinnati; f.
:. N. Candel and wife. Chicago; b F.
$, New York; George j. Burnham. Ana
onda; ]. E. Jennings. Denver.
Culien.-E. X. Campbell. Denver; Clar-
nee 3. Chadwick Chicago; 5. r. Thur
nan, Provo; S. w Larey and wife, Free
ON, Ills; Leon Kusel, New York; j. y.
Whitney, Wyoming; Samuel Hart. Mar
ct Lake: Allen P. Corr, ]. Corr. Chris
enseri. A. 4. Ackerson. Cold Mountain;
)smon Justesen, Spring City; ]. Z. Hick-
v. Aspen. Wyo.; William Bagnell and
Tife. Coaiville: Miss Hpffman. Coalviiie;
!. W. Nelson. Bingham Junction; David
Randolph.
Walker House-William Frazer. Bing- {
am; A. R. Glenn. Grand Junction; A. G
'ameron, Bingham; James Blair, Lake
lew; G. X. Ball. Spokane; L. K. Hughes,
AXE villa, Ills: c. E. Hamilton and wife,
aradox. Cal; Duncan Campbell, Los An
eles: a F. Grant and wife. Denver; ].
Y. kellogg. Park City; Thomas Oats,
Bingham; c. E. Higbee. Aitus; ]. ]. I
Woods. Park City; L. S. Wood F. o. Ri {
", Provo: Tom Birton. Mt. Pleasant:
N Walker, IL c. Butler Bingham;
Ohm c. O'Niel, Mercur; L. f. Feltman,
gden; E. W. Erickson Grantsville; A
arando, South Jordan; w. ]. Jones. Og-
en-; NJ d. Cox Corinne; NJ. II. Blount,
nca felIn: f II. Drake. Mercur. u. NJ. |