The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-24
HOTEL GOSSIP.

when it comes to trusts I think the
worst trusts Of them all are these labor
unions. said A J. Cooper Chicago
real estate man. at the Cullen last night
You don hear much about the big ma
chinistS' strike in Chicago ont here, but I
want to tell YOU that it is a mighty Sc
riOuS thing. Talk about the Standard Oil
company. 1t isn't in ii, and l think that
It is about time a halt was called upon
these fellows who tie up business all along
the line and say who shall work and who
shall not. This strike in Chicago is al
ready being felt TO the extent that opera
tons upon large buildings are practically
suspended. and l believe that they will
have 70 quit work on the big new post
Office building which is to occupy a. block
opposite ths Great Northern hotel
Cooper came to Salt Lake yesterday with
the object in view of comforting with Mat
Cufien regarding the sale of a certain
piece OF real estate in Chicago owned by
tha Latter. In all probability they viii
return 10 tho Windy City together at the
early part Of next week. In speaking of
the real estate situation IN the village on
the lake he said: Rents in Chicago to-
day ars keeping up we'll and the tone is
nrm with a constant demand for office
room and residence retals. Judging from
present indications we Will see consider
bic activity in the line of building this
season" In answer to the question as TO
whether ii We're a fact that there ars
many churches on the market the real
estate man admitted such to be the fact
ton. In the majority of cases, he said
the various denominations were moving
out into the suburbs owing TO the rapid
growth Of the business portions of the
city; then again some churches in their
halcyon days had been the proud pos
SCISSORS of fluent preachers who had at
tracted a large and influential following
A pretentious church had been erected
and era the mortgage upon it had been
paid off the pastor had received d call
and migrated TO grealer pastures. with
the result that thd congregation had
dW1ndbed down until the church was
eventually fOreclosed and put upon the
market.
James c. Cunningham of Spokane,
special agent and adjuster for several fire
west last night and registered at the
KnUtSfOrd. In speaking of the business
transacted last year he said: THE year
Just closed has been the heaviest one
from a loss standpoint known in the his
tory Of the insurance business in the
United States. Taken altogether the
various companies paid out s., 900, 900 over
and above their receipts for policies. In
the face OF these figures unusual caution
is being exercised this year in the hand
ling of the business. l am just in receipt
OF a telegram to the effect that the re-
cent big fire in Montana will mean a loss
of over 100000 to the thirty companies
which are involved Cunningham stated
further that ii spoke well for the at
mos pnerio coIhQlU0nS OF the west When ne
said that there had not been a dollar
worth of insurance written west of Da-
kota for damaged crops by hailstOrms.
Cunningham reports that the state of
Washington is coming right along to the
front IN mining, numbering and the mat
ter of the installation Of sugar factories
one having been recently put in in the
eastern part OF the state by D. c. Cotton
In Spokane. he says, the Cape Nome
travel is congTegating and buying Up out
fits preparatory to fitting toward the land
Great Northern and the Oregon Railway
& Navigation. situated in the center of
town is being erected while several miles
of street paving are under contemplation.
The insurance man stated that the resi-
dents Of Spokane were now congratulat-
ing themselves that the last smallpox
patient was released from the isolation
hospital three days ago. As elswhere he
said that the disease had been in their
midst in a very mild form, with only two
deaths recorded. SO light was the vista
ton that the patients in the pest house in
augTTdt6d little tea parties and SOcialS
among themselves when some seventy
five Of them were under isolation. In an
other case one man who had the disease,
and Was accordingly quSrantined, put in
all his spare time in painting his house.
Lewis Anderson. superintendent of the
Central Utah Wool company at Aianti, is
among the guests registered at the Cullen
he reports considerable activity among
the Sfeepmen, with sheep Shearing
scheduled to commence at various points
IN SanPetea county next week. He states
that has company IS not making a great
number of contracts, but that there is
plenty of time as Yet before the sheapmen