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

conference, which are to form another
in the series of imperial scrap-books
They are the finest ever made in New
York, exceeding even the magnificent
volumes in which Mrs. Bradley-Martir
is preserving the 5000 odd clippings in
praise of her famous ball.
Governmental Clippings.
Uncle Sam himself has stolen the
clippings idea. and keeps at the White
House a corps of trained clippers and
a government scrap-book- President
Cleveland is said to have looked at the
scrap-book just once in his last term.
| That was in the course of the Nene-
zuelan crisis. Mrs. Harrison subscribed
/ to a bureau on her own account. aud
1 her daughter has many books full of
! the things printed about Baby Nc
Kee Mrs. Cleveland had a scrap-book
of personal notices-not, however, of
herself, but of her husband. The
wives of many other prominent men
have similar books, which it is both
reasonable and charitable to hope. DO
not include the caricatures OF their
liege lords. Almost every man in pub
lie life is a bureau subscriber. Him
SELF is the order oftenest written cp
posite a big name, though in many
cases ii is Himself and Pacific rail-
roads," or Himself and the agricul-
tural department
Uncle Sam is. however, not wholly
without conscience in the matter OF
clippings, or perhaps he has learned
wisdom by experience. 1t took fifteen
thousand dollars to buy for his arch
ives a complete file of New York pa
per covering the period of the civil
war: further the Townsend scrap book
history of that war cost Columbia col
lege 1000. Whether from conscience
or thrift, the government has just
ordered and received from a New York
establishment, scrap history OF the
war with Spain. 1t is in twenty big
volumes though most of the war pic
lures were left out. The volumes are
bound in morocco cloth, and cost the
government a thousand dollars. That
sum indeed hardly covered the cost of
making. but the bureau man has
gathered a duplicate set of clippings
and. looks for his profit in them, when
ever a rich and patriotic citizen de-
cided to give a similar history to
West Point or Annapolis. Stanford
university has already a monumental
set of scrap histories. bearing on every
thing American. and particularly the
life and works of its founder.
John L. Sullivan gets clippings-sum-
ject not specified. Lord Randolph
Churchill ordered everything unfavor-
able and was forced by the size of
MS nTSt TlO0ln b Dill " eAdStiS iC-
verse his order. Nicola Tesla wants
electrical inventions" Edison is more
comprehensive-he orders clippings up
on above twenty subjects of living in
terest. w. D. Howells subscribes in
for real incidents going
with whatever story he may have in
hand. Many lesser lights of literature
order unusual real stories" One man
who is said to have a plot factory pat
ronized by both novelists and dram
atists when imagination lags, wants all
sorts of hairbreadth happenings. "Sto-
ries of elopment' was another order
The maker of it, strange to relate, was
not realistic novelist, but luckless
lover who hoped thus by yicarious ex-
ample to persuade his sweetheart to
defy her parents and make him happy. !
The Cramps get every line printed in |
any part of the world about any one
Of their ships. DR.. Seward Webb has