The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
Especial Correspondence

NSpeClul 0OTTeSpOlueIce.y
New York. May S.-William Astor
Chanler was really the first New York
man to earn name by travelling In
far countries, and since his African ex-
petition the gilded youth of million
airedom has decided that the boundary
lines of the United States are too close
ly drawn, and that Europe, even, is
poor field for satisfying his love of dan
ger and his curiosity. He and his fellow
clubmen are. therefore. assiduously Gull
tivating the rowing spirit. and now-a-
days directly he gets out of college he
goes on a. trip round the world. That Is
merely preliminary, though, to his gen
uine Sinbad expeditions, for the amDl-
ton of every young man, IL he does not
go into the army for a spell ana earn
renown as an advocate of blood ana
iron is to penetrate dangerous and ut
tle-known corners of the earth. Charles
L. Gray, for instance, rs one of the men
for whom the younger set cherish an
honestly profound respect, since he has
crossed not only both the Arabian and
Saharan deserts on comeback, but has
been we'll into the Arctic seas, and
writes to his friends from an ink well
made from the tooth of a walruS shot
by his own hand.
Very nearly as progressive traveller
is young Arson Stokes, who only came
out of Yale a year ago, and who Is
now seeing sights and circumnavigat-
ing the globe by no ordinary route, for
he is going his watery way by sail, not
steam. and he is rounding the .capes.
He expects to make quite as good time
as Drake did, and come back with an
indelible souvenir of his extensive row.
ings. This souvenir will take the form,
of course, of likeness of some strange
object he has seen tattOoed on his arm.
Mr. Bishop, Bob Walcott, Sam and
Brinkerhoff Thorne are ali as appropri-
ately tattooed as young Stokes is. 1t is
essential to have this hall mark of
travel stamped on the right arm, so
that when golf tennis or polo are
played, and the shirt sleeve is rolled
high for comfort, interested and admir-
ing femininity may observe and appre-
ciate-
Where They Travelled.
The Thorne boys. who are mighty
hunters, satisfied their thirst for ad-
venture and travel by penetrating the
uttermost parts of India, and now they
are at home with speaking likenesseS of
tigers done across the upper right BIZ
ceps; young Webb, who has seen more
American. wears the head of Siberian
wolf on his right arm: and the proof of
Willie Jays wonderful escapes and dar-
ing adventures is none other than the
well-defined scar of four lions teeth on
the arm by which a wild beast in the
African jungle dragged him down.
OF course there are ill-natured cynlcS
who hint that any sailor on the New
York docks can prick out as pretty
beaten and that many of these nimrodS
have nothing but circus and menag-
erie acquaintance with the terrible
beasts of prey, but be that as it may,
the pretty girls thoroughly believe in
the proweSs of these great travellers, a
great majority of whom undoubtedly
have shot over rajah's preserves,
crossed deserts and scaled perfectly in
accessible mountain peaks, and done
full credit TO their native American
pluck and ambition.
Hard L mes For Newcomers.
1t is, of a truth, easier for a camel to
go through a needles eye than for
newcomer to get into New York So
ciety on anything like one seasons in
PRODUCTION. New York society is con-
Quoted very much on the lines on which
a popular theatre is managed. Long
before the season opens all the dates
are taken up, invitations sent out and
gayeties planned. Newcomers settling
at Newport. for instance. who, pro-
Vided with the finest introductiOnS. may
naturally desire to give handsome en-
tertainments. will find themselves, to
put it mildly, but eXpressivelv. very
sadly left. This will be from no i'll will
or lack of hospitable inclinations on
the part of the leaders of Newport, but