The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-28
HOTEL GOSSIP.


The sufferin2s of the natives in India
during this famine are simply terrible"
remarked Mrs. Bradd0ck, recently re-
turned from Umballa Cantonment, Pun
jaub, India, at the Walker House last
night. ITO add to their Distress they are
cheated right and left at the hands OF the
BabU natives. VINO are a99ointed by tho
British government TO assist the English
men who are in charge of the reiieT sta
tons for the sufferers there. These i3a-
bus keep the records of all the labOrerS
that are employed in the construction Of
the railroad and irrigation works, the
men, women and boys receiving their pay
from the lists that are kept by these ma
tive -OVerseers. These fellows, in a ma
jority ot-cases, pay the men the wages
assigned to the women, and the women
the price of the boys, and keep the ball
ance.
Just before I left India, six weeks ago,
there was a Babu who was on a station
situated near us This man. during the
course of his short career, had held out
the copper coins until he had a small key
full of them. When he came to transport
this key to his home that was a distance
away, he was at a loss to know how to
do so without being found out At last
he hit upon the idea of mailing the top
on and cOnsignfng it under the title OF
nails When he eventually arrived at
his home he found that the keg had been
duly delivered and he proceeded to open
when he was Mortified to find that the
keg did really come up TO its title and
contained nothing more or less than nails
Some enterprising native had discovered
his secret and had distracted the copper
pieces and substituted in its stead half a
hundTed-Weight Of wire nails. And this
is the way that each native cheats his
brother, right down the line
Among the guests registered at the Ken
yon is c. II. Jackson of San Francisco.
Jackson is, first, last and all the time a
| hardware man, having Travelled in the
business for years. In speaking as 10 the
prevailing prices in his branch Of business
last night, he said: NO; prices VIII go
no higher; in fact, they have already
come down somewhat IN comparison 10
what t=av were some few months ago.
| This condition of affairs cannot be traced
to the impending election, but 1t is simply
a case wherein the price Of the cOmmodi-
| " had risen higher than the purchaser
could afford TO go. As a consequence thd
manufacturer had TO come down to meet
/ the existing state of affairs"
! Jackson last night was just cOnyalescS
| ing from a severe attack Of an internal
/ application of Great Salt lake water anc
4 in sizing up the sensations superinducec
( by the swallowing of pint of that huld
/ he said it was for all the world as though
/ he had taken a dose Of taper tbree-eor-
/ nered files net
There is also another San Francisco
4 drummer stopping at the Kenyon IN the
! person Of G. Dick, the only japanese trav-
| cling salesman in the United States. Dick
! is. representing the firm of 9. Solomon,
! ir., export and import japanese art
/ goods, and he is a full-blOWn Amertcam
| citizen with a T. P. A. button in the lapel
of his coat Last night he stated that he
/ had been on the road in America Tor the
| past five years and was infatuated with
| the business which took him into all the
/ leading dry goods stores in the west
| Yesterday afternoon a swarthy bearded.
/ individual entered the Cullen hotel and.
! proceeded to indulge in a series of unin-
/ teligible gutteral sounds that caused the
/ clerk TO wonder what had come to town.
! Finally. after a series Of psntoalime had
! been INDUCED in. the prospective guest
! seized q pen and the next instant the
legenyl '.Kosakavitch. St. Petersburg"
appeared upon the register. The boys
! around the hotel for the rest of the day
| INDUCED in the pastime of playing three
/ guesses and out at the signature. with
but indifferent success. When seen later
/ in the day leading question in regard
| TO the attitude of Russia in regard 20 the
I Chinese situation was pr0pOunded, with
| but dubious results.
With the poltest of smiles and a grace
! full uplifting of the shoulders, the pill
| grim from the land of the Slav INDUCED
in two sneezes and a cough that sounded
| suspiciously like: Dammit ] knovistch -
At this iuncture all concerned lifted their
hats and the interview terminated = "a
| mutual understanding.