The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-13
HOTEL GOSSIP.


Leon Lapierre of Pautucket, r. l.. rolled
in from Cripple Creek yesterday morning
and put up at the Walker Mr. Lapierre
said that all the manufacturing interests
or the far east were flooded with orders
that VIII keep them working full time
Tor twelvemonth. and in a number of in
stances were so showed under bv the
prosperity storm that they had refused
to contract for the delivery of goods at
any specified time The cotton interests
OF the New England states were being
seriously impaired by the erection of
Georgia. the Carolinas Alabama and
other states. and from the present
status OF affairs 1t looked as if all the
mills of the east would have TO move
their plants to that section of the coun-
try in order TO compete with low priced
labor and save the expense of railroading
the raw products Mr.; Lapisrre has been
sofa, but his visit to Cripple Creek was
Iraught with such good luck that as soon
as his present business obligations are
cancelled he viii look around for q box of
wind-proof matches and engage in the
money burning pastime.
William Harcombe of ST. Joe No. was
surrounded by a bewildering array of un-
derwear. gloves. stockings neckties and
shirts in room 81 of the Kenyon last night.
Ihe assortment represented the proposed
STYLES for fashionable folk that will be in
vogue the coming spring and summer
Mr. Harcomhe said that the fashionable
color next year will be what is known as
OK blood, and then he exhibited a shirt
front that looked like an animated bull
poster to illustrate it. Some of the soft
6osomed shirts will be composed of old
fashioned ruffied and fiuted silk-"that is
they viii. said Mr. Harcombe until the
laundrles get through mangling them.
Ihen they will be tattered and torn. the
owners filled with wrath and the air with
cuss words. Aside from the OK blood
pink and blue will be the prevailing col
ors. and dimity and pique will replace
much of the linen now worn. We are
putting out new line of what is known
as mercerized underwear: il is of cotton
or'wool and treated with a special prep
aration that makes it look and feel like
the finest. of silk goods
you have doubtless heard of people
with axes TO grind said Charles E. Louis
of Jeffersonville Ind. at the Walker yes
terday afternoon. well, / assist them
in the noble work by manufacturing the
grinding stones. and in addition | am
doing prosperous business in oil. water
sand and rubbing stones. All the oil
stones the world over come from the vi
cinity of Hot Springs, Ark, and they are
gold and other metals are hunted in other
parts of the world. The first oil stone
works were opened at New Albany. Ind
IN 1913. There are two kinds of oil stones
used by carpenters and workers of soft
woods. The Arkansaw stone is harder
and is used by jewelers. surgeons, watch
makers and all others who require hard,
keen-edged tools. The average person
doesn't know why he uses an oil instead
OF wet or water stone to put an edge
on certain classes of tools; il is because
the stone is more or less porous and the
OIL is poured on to fill up the cavities and
float off the particles of steel as they are
ground off the tool. If water were used
instead of oil. the steel grindings would
remain on the surface of the stone-it
would become CLASSY and refuse to cut the
tool at all. Water stones are of a sand
stone formation. rougher in texture and
more adapted for rough class of work.
such as axes and the like
Ben Butler of mining fame was lodging
the raindrops in front of the Walker yes
terday afternoon. and between showers he
found time to tell some of the things that
happened when he was railroading it
thirty long years ago. 1T was away
back in the COS that / used to run on
the Hannibal & st. Joe road. / must have
lead a sort of charmed life. because that
road. and later on the Union Pacific. tried
their level best to send me TO the final
reckoning. 1t is about 2eO miles between
Hannibal and St. Joe and we used to make
the distance in sixty-six hours. and in
variably ran off the track about seventeen
times every trip we made. | got mixed
up in nasty wreck near Hannibal once.
The car overturned and | found myself
buried beneath six women and prOfusion
of female haberdaShery. / emerged from
the bottom of the pile with a wrenched
neck and Il few minor bruises. and then
lit out for less murderous road than
the Horrible & Slow Jogging. as we used
to dub ii. j got job on the Union Pa
cific. but wrecks followed wherever l
happened to be. The worSt~one | ever
was in was at Alma switch in 1869. Eleven
people were mashed into pancakes by
an emigrant train that was running
thirty miles an hour behind a Pullman
that hadn't sense enough to remain on
the track. The Union Pacific was in the
wrecking business for fair in those days
they didn't do anything by halves. and
when they went at a wreck they pushed
IL through to a finish by smashing every
car on the train. / was coming down
Echo canyon at a sixteen-mile clip one
day with a train of thirty box. two bag
gage and six emgrant cars. Fifteen hun
bred head of cattle were being driven
sent back to warn us of what was ahead.
l saw how things stood just as we round
ed a sharp curve. 1t was impossible to
stop the train on that steep grade. Well.
sir, we had the darndeSt rear-end COLI
sion that ever was. We killed thirty-five
of the cattle and eighteen of the box
cars for the Union Pacific before we halt
ed: the emigrant and baggage cars were
piled in a powerful big heap. and there
was the gosh hangest mess of bOnnets.
bedding. clothes. whisky and molasses L
ever See.
W. A. Fremont. manager of the mys-
TIT show. which savors of soul
melodramatic scenes alloyed with
bits of tear-extracting pathos. is at the
Wey with his wife. Ella Weaver FIRE.
mont. and their 4-year-old dog Pete"
Pete was left an orphan by a cruel fate
long before he had learned the Ubiquitous
ways of the ubiquitous small boy. but
he was saved the usual hardships of stray
doghood by the kindly Intervention of
Mrs. Fremont who nursed him to a Wig
orous barking age by means of a bottle.