The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-25

a hundred employees shows to the cas-.
ual eye only ranks ond rows of iaer
and women, reading. blue penciling
clipping, FASTING and stamping. This
bureaus usual output is $4,000 clippings
a week Under a rush order it could
clip and mail 100000 There is an elab-
crate system of card classification. The
cards are hung on hooks in a stair
step-y rack some four feet across, and
| running the whole length of a very
long room. Nearly every hook is, filled
but, the fact is far from being solely a
| comment on human vanity. 1t needs
but little reflection to see that the
| clippings run the whole gamut of hu-
| man passions, necessities and desires.
With that in mind certain sense of
tragt-comedy, or comic tragedy comes
as one locks. The commonplace Manila
envelopes fly out and about, freighted
with many things. Ninety-nine may
mean nothing, yet the hundredth be
| potential of joy or grief, of failure or
success. Particularly among the per-
sonal clippings, which make still SO
large part of the general business
Oddly enough, it is not the class che
would look for. actors, artists and
authors-which is most avid of this
sort of thing. Society people are even
more anxious to see what the world
outside thinks of them. This not only
of the great lights. but those who affect
to deplore publicity. The book Of
latest orders" in big New York es-
Enlistment around horse show and
dog show times, and in the era of i'm
portant social functions, would reveal
much as to the inwardness and inspira-
ton of certain published things
The professionals. however, by no
means slight the bureaus good offices.
They could not afford to. Neither could
the bureaus afford to let them. Wit
ness these two facts: Duse, in the
course of eleven weeks. received two
thousand, eight hundred and eighty
eight personal clippings; Richard
Mansfield's order excludes the works of
his press agent, and critiques of his
plays as plays, yet in the season, his
weekly clippings bill often runs to $50.
Queen Victoria .subscribes to more
than one bureau, but never sees the
clippings until they have been put in
books under the editing of some of
her family. which means, of course, the
leaving out Of anything unpleasant.
The Prince of Wales also takes Clip
pings from two sources. In addition
he cuts out with his own royal hands
all the pictures of himself which ap-
pear in the public prints. The greater
the caricature the broader his chuck!e
over it. Slurs upon his family are said
to touch him nearly, yet TO things slid
against hlmSelf he is artleSSly lndifftf-
ent. One can readily credit that upon
hearing that by his own order a scrap
book was made for him containing
American opinions in re the baccarat
scandal.
However, the royal patron dearest to
clippings bureau regard is his majesty
the car of all the Russias. He has
shown himself exceedingly well dis
posed toward them. Some of their
notable orders have come at his in
stance A New York bureau man has
made for him sumptuously bound |
all Russia leather, and
gold clasps and gilt edges. first about !
the death and obsequies of his father, |
Alexander III, then about his own
marriage and coronation ceremonies. |
and later in regard to the American |
journey of Prince Hillkoff. his minis
ter of railways. The same house has |
now in hand clippings about the peace |