The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-17
HOTEL GOSSIP.

After an absence from Utah Of TWENTY
two years En-. Eissler of Paris, France,
registered at the KnutsfOrd yesterday
Since Mr.. EiSSler last visited Salt Lake
his occupation as a mining engineer has
carried him to all parts of the habitable
globe wherein men delve for metals.
When approached last night the engin-
eer stated that he left Paris two weeks
ago in a chaotic state paris, not the en-
glneer), Superinduced by the approaching
opening Of the exposition. In his opin-
ION, the world $ TAR would not be in full
blast until the middle of June, by which
time the exhibits would all be in place
and everything in running order.
He said that even in their present state
the buildings were of a most beautiful
and costly order. Mons. Eissler's visit to
the gay capital was OccaSioned by the
fact that he had placed his son at school
there. Otherwise he said he did not care
so much for the place, and was panied to
see and read regarding the attitude of the
French generally against England in the
Boer war. He stated that he was thor
oughly conVersant with the BOer in all
his moods and lenses, having left johann
nesburg two years ago, after spending
several years in the Tran&vaal. In speak
ing of the situation in South Africa he
said:
when you look into the matters which
led up to the war there is only one con
clusion to be arrived at. and that is that
England simply had to bring the issue 10
a focus or abandon South Africa entirely
wards the inevitable and the Africander
bund has been quietly plotting to embrace
the Transvaal, Free State. Cape Colony
and Natal into a huge South African re-
public. 1t is all very well to sit down
here in America or France and criticiSe
England, but one has to be right on the
spot TO realize the unbearable state of
affairs which have existed for years
There is one thing about this war which
shows in what faith the world looks for
ward TO the ultimate result of this con-
fict, the Rand shares have never gone
down in value. Certainly they did for a
few days when the British met their first
reverSes, but at the present day theysare
AT the same prices at which they were
held at the outbreak of the war, despite
the mines being in the hands Of the
Beers"
General Eissler then proceeded to di-
late upon the policy of the French press
in the main, which had been for some
months past directed against England.
and in times when news was scarce, de-
voted columns to the invasion of England
by the French and the arming of Russia
in the east with the object in view of
erasing England from the map.
Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Ames and child of
Chicago, G. c. Gill and wife of HOlyOl5e
Mass, and George Manns of Leicester.
Mass, arrived from the coast in the pri-
vate car Yellowstone, and registered at
the Knutsford. The party has been spend
ing some weeks in doing Mexico and Cal
ifOrnia. and is now on the way back to
the east.
"Pipe-smoking is daily superceding ci-
gars in America, and il is now beginning
to take on in the west said Ernest Bas-
sett of the r. a Patterson Tobacco COM
pany, Richmond, Va. at the Kenyon last
night. Continuing, he said: There used
to be a time when It was thought that a
pipe was only intended for teamster or
& section hand, but that day has passed.
and nearly everyone smokes a pipe now
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