The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-14
HOTEL GOSSIP.


/ by every returned miner, but his parltcu-
lar bugbears were the mosquitoes and
black flies which follow the advent OF
warm weather in the far northwest. He
said: When I was boy used TO think
that when the Almighty topped off the
various plaques of the Egyptians with a
visitation of flies that ne was letting
them down easy. Since l have been in
Alaska, however, l have entertained a
wholesome respect for the foresight of the
Almighty. Mosquitoes, as we have them
big, hungry beggars with abnormal ap-
petiteS and a hum like a threShing ma
chlne-dTe bad enough. and have seen
men with their ears a Yeritable sore, OW-
. ing TO their attentions, but they are a
mere circumstance compared with the
! black flies which swarm into your eyes.
nose and cover your food in Yeritable
| black pyramid.
Returning once more to the outlook at
Cape Nome, Boyant stated that he had
reliable authority for the assertion that
miners working in tire sand on the beach
upon a strip some 100 miles in length were
making from so TO $40 per diem by rock
ing out the sand as it lay upon the
shore.
Burr Mcintosh came to town yester-
day with the Pudd' nhead Wilson COM
pany and registered at the lKnutsfOrd.
This is his first visit 70 Salt Lake. The
actor yesterday expressed himself as be-
ing charmed with Zion and everything
pertaining thereto. Mcintosh ranks among
the Bohemians, has trod most of the
paths wended by representative Ameri-
cans and is Withdl Il ruStler He is a
Princeton man. who, after casting around
for a time, eventually landed before the
fOOtlights where he soon began 10 climb
the hiStrlOn1c ladder. With the breaking
out Of the SpaniSh-American war the
actor DOTTED the buskin to accompany the
Fifth army corps 10 Cuba in the ca
pacity of war correspondent, and sue
ceeded in scOoping Printers square TO the
extent of sending in photographs of the
landing at Daiquiri and the rough riders
in action four days ahead of his competi-
tors. To look at Burr one would be
inclined to put his vocation down as being
that Of successful lawyer or medical
man, as to the casual observer he bears
none of the ear marks of the professional
actor. Mcintosh was selected to I'LL the
role made vacant by the sudden demise
of Edwin Mayo recently; the eastern pa
p6rs are responsible for the statement
that he appears to be better in the part
than even its creator.
E. S. Smith of Provo is among the
guests registered at the Kenyon. Smith
Is representative of a local implement
corporabi zion and has just returned from
an extensive trip through Emery and ad-
Jacent counties. He Said last night: PEG
pie may talk all they want in regard TO
good times, but the farmer fails TO see
where they come in. Last year he was
paying 500 per 100 pounds in carload lots
for barbed wire; today he has to plank
down his $40. During my last trip I
had dozens of men ask me how it was
that all agricultural implements and
farm machinery were so high in price this
year While produce. If anything. was low
er all around. When 1 would tell them
THAI il was the direct outcome of the
way they voted last election. which was
factor in the installation of trusts to-
day, they would get slightly cross. No,
they can talk all they want regarding
good times but ] can tell YOU even if a
has 81 70 hiarra h.a.I
rs wages raised. he will invariably tell
you that his nose was never tighter on
the grindStOne than il is today. You just
want 10 ask some of your representative
the country this year. a16 they will tell
you a tale which will aStOniSh YOU In
doubleday there is considerable money be-
ing turned over. but if one takes the
trouble to anaiyze the sales, he Will in
variably find that the number of pieces of
goods sold does not correspond with that
Of twelve months ago"
Ex-Sherif c. r. Mcbride of Tooele is
among the guests who slept at the White
House last night. He reports the farmers
IN his section of the foOtstOol TO be up
at daybreak and leaving the fields at
dark. This proceeding is as it should be
says the ToOele miller, only unfortunate
~ he is one man and a team shy owing to
the fact that he sent a load of -four over
10 Mercur and just as soon as il arrived
the mining camp was placed under quar-
autine. Now. when Mcbride wants to
send a consignment he has to take il 10
the neutral territory unload his wagon
whistle and then drive off. Then his man
appears on the scene, loads up his wa
gOn and HES toward Mercur once more
Mcbride is enthusiastic regarding the Op-
erations of the new creamery which was
started up at TOOele ten days ago. He
said: We are now turning out close upon
100 pounds of butter a day. and every
pound Of the product IS bought up right
in Hooele and vicinity. Ours is about the
only creamery in the state which uses the
PaStueriZing system, which effectually
kills any germs Of tuberculosis and nu-
merous other diseases which are trans
ter If we only hal The milk at hand and
the capacity. we could sell 1000 pounds
of butter a day. as people are beginning
TO see the utility of the system as a pre-
tentative against disease"
Among the guests who registered at the
knutsford yesterday is a graduate of the
University of Missouri. who a few brief
years ago went into that much nnaligned
business Of portrait enlarging. L. A Ev-
ans of Chicago is the young mans name
and today the firm of which he is a men,
Der is turning out 1000 portraits and pic
lures per diem. which give employment to
1900 hands and turns over 100, 600 per
annum. In speaking Of the business last
night, Mr. Evans said: When I was
about to leave college cast about for a
u.
outcome that some half dozen graduates
got together and after looking over the
field concluded that there was money in
the portrait enlarging business if properly
conducted: so We set tentatiOusly to
work. with the result that We subsequent
~ Incorporated in 1894 with a capital stock
Of 100000 By dint of strict attention TO
business we were soon in a position TO
turn our capital stock over about eight
times year. To Illustrate what a SUCCESS
We made Of the business three of the
members Of the firm. holding SO per cent
of the stock, desired TO draw out of the
concern. and we finally bought them out
for Sl52 000 Then we bought out picture
frame works in Chicago which we have
worked up until we do a large business in
manufacturing picture holdings which we
handle from the rough log and turn out
a finished article 1 am out here looking
after our various state agents who are
scattered throughout the Union"
Among the commercial men at present
in town is one H. +. O'Brien of Chicago
who registered at the Kenyon last night
Today the hotel porter will revel in the
deliriOus joy of handling $500 pounds Of
samples in glass and chinaWare. In speak
ing Of his particular line Of business last
night. O Brien said: The china business
fact that so few men understand it. and
one and all labor under the delusion that
YOU are trying 10 skin them alive This
year however is a record breaker and
everybody seems TO be buying- In fact.