The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-22
HOTEL GOSSIP.


Boston, is quartered at the Kenyon.
Lieutenant Hall was appointed from civil
life about twenty years ago, and assigned
to the steam engineering division. He has
been continually advanced in grade and
number. and the recent passing of the
naval personnel bill placed him we'll up
toward the top of the list of line officers
Three years ago he was assigned to the
Boston and ordered to the TAR east, and
remained there until June of this year.
He was with Admiral Dewey during the
recent unpleasantness, and took an active
part in the naval engagement of Manila
bay on May /, 1898, as senior deck officer
OF the Boston. ''1he Boston,, said Lieu
tenant Hall, is a sister ship to the At
lanta and is what is known as a second
class unarmored cruiser. Her armament
consists of two S-inch and eight 6-inch
battery contains two 6-inch and four
3-inch rapid fire guns. She has dis
placement of 4, 200 tons, and steams twelve
knots an hour. We broke the record Tor
passage between Yokohama and Honolulu
and Honolulu and San Francisco, coming
out, doing the former in eleven days,
twenty-five hours. and the latter in some
thing under seven days. The Boston Is
now out of commission, and will be dry
locked at the Mare Island navy. yard and
undergo a thorough overhauling Her
main battery, six and eight-inch guns, are
oid-fashioned; they will be replaced by
modern rapid firing apparatus. The old
military masts with fighting tops. and
one-half the horsepower of the steaming
apparatus will be generated by modern
water tube boilers in place of the old time
Scotch fire tubes. Three of the Spanish
war boats sunk in the engagement of
Manila bay have been raised and sent, TO
Hongkong for overhauling. Two of these,
the Isle de Cuba and Isle de Luzon, are
hrSt-rate 1,OO0-ton protected cruisers. and
will well repay the trouble and expense OF
raising them. The third boat. the Don
Juan of Austria, is not so valuable as
either of the other two.
1T might be of interest 20 state that
the old Hartford. the famous flagship of
Admiral Farragut in the battle of Mobile
Island yard and will go into commission
next month. Formerly she was bark
rugged with the fore and main masts
square-rigged and the mizzen mast fitted
with fore and aft sails. She is rebuilt on
the same general lines that she had in
1864 with the addition of machinery sufti-
cient to give her speed of twelve knots.
Compound engines will replace the old
single cylinder and she will have a bat
terry of fourteen ripid fire 5-inch guns of
seventy calibres length, fitted on latest
style carriages. The broadside guns are
SO arranged that they can be trained to
shoot almost directly ahead and astern, or
through an Lar arc Of about $50 degrees.
manded the dynamite cruiser Nictheroy
at the time of the rebellion in Brazil in
1893. and who navigated around the streets
day, was messmate in the after cabin
with Lieutenant Hall fifteen years ago.
Press dispatches from the east stating
that the market values on shoe and sole
leather had advanced are not surprising, -
said j. W. Gribble of South Omaha at
the Cullen yesterday afternoon. "The
rise is due principally to the actual ex-
listing conditions. a falling off in the sup
ply, not to the grasping proclivities of the
trusts, though, of course. they had a
finger in the pie. The number of first
year and the combination of that state
of affairs with the continually increas-
ing demand for prime. quality beef by the
public at large, plus the more patent fact
that most of the business is controlled by
a few men in the trust, are the reasons
that account for the so-called inflated
true of shoe leather. look for still high
er prices as the season advances. The
fall market has just opened in Omaha. so
1t is impossible to foretell whether the
shipments this year will fall short or go
ahead of last years. The best feeders
west of the Rockies are to be found in
a few thousand heavies which will feed
until Jan. l and then dispose of. A
marked difference exists between the
quality of cattle in the northern M, and
from the south are crossed with steers
from New Mexico, and the result is q
scraggy looking animal. with small
frame and no stretch The farther
south you go the worse the cattle from a
feeders point of view. Mexican cattle
aren't worth the grass they eat, and
they'd prove nightmare should l happen
ID get hold of any-wnich L won't.'.l u
The first installment of political fire
works in the 1900 presidential campaign
were started fixing in the Office of the
White House last night. S. NJ. Barker,
of Silver Creek, Neb., formerly a New
York state senator EXPLODED go couple , OF
bug theories, and the noise all but SIAM
peded the bunch of shepherds and silver
miners who were holding down the cnalrs
The last gold squib had just had its little
say when the Tree coinage OF silver dele
CATION let loose mass of pin wheels and
rockets that overwhelmed the ex-senator
from the Empire state. Mr. Barker re-
tired temporarily from the battlefield, and
as his coat tails went through the door
his parting shot was: say. why ,oon
you fellows start up some ginger bread
mines and compel the government to
monetize the Droduct?"
Knutsford.-L. R. Mead, Thomas j. Bar
bour. Francis Yale, San. francisco: N. c..
Bennett. Chicago; w. 8, Keyes. San Fran
CISCO Jesse Troelich, Philadelphia; A. S.
Abraham and wife. New orleans; Martin
wife, Colorado Springs; w. w. Alverson,
Portland: d. c.. Mclaughlin, Park City;
Lee Wilson, Columbus, o.; CnarieS A
Cooper and wife, Indianapolis; J. Fred
Schflngman, San Franclsco; Mr.. and
Mrs c. F. Bell, G.. H. Bell, Washington.
ID. q; Z. b. Erase and wife Garden
Grove. Ia; II, O. Snyder, wife ana son.
Uhricnsviiie, o.; P. A. Mannheim, Great
Falls. Mont.
The Walker.-P. P. York, Dawson City;
and wife, Portland; Mrs. M. A. Cumm ngs.
Miss A. S. Cummings, Miss q. Nj. CUM
mings, Maiden, Mass; K. Forester, sun
nyside; A. Cozier; w; II. Germo and wife,
Cigale; w. w. Wallace, Marysvale; john
West. Bingham; Frank Hall, Mercur; O..
A. Hartwell, Portland.
Baird. Pittsburg; J. P. Sterling. Kansas
CITY: l.. n. Link. c. R. Blillbank. Kirk
vile, Mo; T.. Bassford. New York; S. J.
Thomas Bearali and family, Rock Springs,
Ayo.; r.. d. Huntley, Omaha; Lewis An
derson, Ezra Shoemaker, Manti; j. Hart
man. Cheyenne; w NJ, 4 vor Jones s a9ck
jr, heading, Pa; Frank Vieiran, Park
City; Theodore Mathis, San francisco; ;
j. Il. Pike, Ogden; K. B. Thurman, Provo;
3. II. ROBERTS, Centerville.
While House.-o. Olsen. Ephraim;, E.
St. Clair, J. England. Tooele; ]. +. Barker,
Portland, Ore; L. e. Anderson, Denver;
i. Reddan, Butte: Mrs. +. C. Garland,
Bingham: r. II. LOCKE and wife Glen
wood Springs; V. L. Estes and wife, Mem
ghis, Tenn. Miss h,va Bates New a o TX
and wife, Dillon Mont; y. Fouyer j.
Munsey, Mercur; H. S. Fatten, T. A.
Gordon. Omaha; c. w. Porter. Hunting-
ton. ore; F. A, Evans MilMaukee; j. X
Davis, Park City; j. G. Harsh, Grand
Junction: Miss f. Cummings, John Green,
Park City.