The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-07
HOTEL GOSSIP.


While you may read from time - time
reports IN the papers regarding n2SS2ereS
OF Christians in Turkey, there Is no dan
ger of a wholesale slaughter; the country
Is quiet and confidence is restored, said
the Rev. ]. P McNaughton. al the Cullen,
last night. Until four months ago the
minister has been engaged in missionary
work in Turkey in Asia for the space or
twelve years. In speaking of the work in
the land OF the Terrible Turk he said:
Christianity is not spreading among the
hOSl6mS. for II Just means that should
Mohamedan embrace Christianity that he
would disappear from sight Before 1873
the Turks used to visit apoStacy with cap
ital puras hment; today should a MosteIn
be suspected of leaning toward an ahen
faith he is at once spirited away into the
army or some other occupation. Our Work
/ as consequence is. for the major part,
confined 10 the Greeks and ArmenianS-
Today we have lsS American missionaries
male and female. working in Turke.', with
81 native evangelsts and teachers and
e.0a1 aOherents. We have established 40
schools. ranging from kindergarten insti-
tuiions to theological seminary. with
an attendance of $500.
Coming down TO the country proper. the
| missionary stated that the city OF Snayr-
ma was probably one Of the most cosmo-
poiitan in existence and contained quite q
number OF native mlllionaireS, while All
nationalities We're represented in rug, hg,
dried fruit and barley industries. As a
fertile spot for the raising of grain crops.
he said the plains in the Interior north OF
that city had no equal in the wide world
/ over. Why, he said. they have been
I cropping some of those lands continually
for thousand years, and, with the eX-
ception of along the sea coast. the people
/ there don't know the elementary ruol-
ments as regards fertilization as We IN
derstand it,
In conclusion. he dwelt at length upon
I RuSSia'S designs upon the Orient, ANA
/ said: The question faces the world to
day whether Asia shall be brought under
I Sfavonic civilization or Anglo-Saxon. and
I at this critical stage IL behooveS America
to stand shoulder TO shoulder with brit, Brit
/ ain for the supremacy of the Anglo-Sa&on
race and ideas in the Orient"
! Assistant Surgeon George W. Ely, L. S
army, came in from Pittsburg yesterday
/ and registered at the Kenyon The grad
/ uate of the scapei wore his brand new
/ uniform with an air Of consciousness. as
/ he only recently passed his army exam
| the Preside, San Francisco, where he will
I be assigned a post on one of the regiments
| now serving in Manila. In speaking OF
army life yesterday. he said: / entered
/ for my examination more in the spirit OF
| adventure than anything else am young.
/ and now is the time TO see the world, pc
! fore l settle down When 1 entered the
service L signed an agreement ior one
/ years service, and if at the end Of that
time 1 am not in love with army lie.
/ why 1 will know what 70 do. ! had a
| DTOLler VINO served Win a volunteer IOsl-
! ment in the Philippines, and he came back
! enthused with the islands" Surgeon Ely
/ is a friend Of Colonel Donnellan of this
/ city
| one hundred tourists, comprising q Ray
/ mond party. have wired for rooms at the
| Knutsford tonight
/ Collin Kemper, one of the proprietors Of
( the James-kidder- Hanford triumyirate,
/ also Mrs. Hendricks, mother-ln-laW 10
| Louis James. were among the guests who
registered at the Kenyon yesterday
T. D. Rees of Wales. Sanpete county,
was interrupted in an interesting CONVEX
| sation he was holding with Clerk Pollard
| in high Cambrian at the White House
| last night. The well known member Of
! the state land board stated that he was
/ relating the circumstances surrounding
! an old-time Welsh reunion which was
/ held at Wales last week. Continuing in
I English he said: We held the first
/ Welsh reunion in our town, and had such
a glorious time that it was universally
/ voted to repeat the gathering at some
/ later date. Practically the entire Welsh
/ population of SanpeJe county was there,
: and arrived in buggtes and by rail bright
/ and early 70 participate in the jollinca-
4 ton W H Jones was master Of cere-
! monies. We had a morning session,
wherein the exercises were rendered in
/ the Welsh tongue, accompanied by the
/ singing OF national airs. Then We had
another set-to in the afternoon, and wound
/ up the day with an old-tiIne ball. refresh
/ ments, Welsh rarebits and kindred ma
/ tiOnal dishes
P. c. o'Donnell. c. 5. Donohue and P.
: T. NIcCarty, three Catholic priests of Tor
onto, Canada, dined at the Knutsford and
then proceeded on their journey east.
They nave been spending the winter
/ among the California tourist resorts.
]. S. banner. representing the schloss
Crockery company OF san Francisco,
dropped on The train yesterday and ad-
journed to the Kenyon Two hours later
three profane and husky porters dumped
the first inStailmenI of banners samples
on the sidewalk, in the form Of seven
hogsheads of china and dozen house
and-lot trunks. In speaking Of Salt Lake
city last night, the china salesman said
! that Zion was the proud pOssesSOr Of the
/ finest fancy china and glass store west OF
I Chicago, San Francisco not excepted.
Coming down to the business, he said:
/ Very few men are aware Of the profits
| attached 10 a retail establishment, prop
! erly conducted. In no business are the
/ grades of the same pattern of goods so
I timely marked, and il takes an expert 70
! single them out OF course the values
upon staple articles are universally
] known. but II is in fancy goods where the
/ profits are made. The wholesale houses
I of the United States today are a unit
! when il comes 10 keeping up the prices
1 and The American trade together, and
/ NLSn Lltt are overloaded with a certain
| line they go outside of the United States
I 70 do their dumping. Take, for instance.
! Canada; there are certain lines of goods
| across the line Which are today retailing
! at less than the same articles in the
! United States, and this in the face OF the
I % per cent duty. The 81 alarm clock, too.
| sells today in London. England. for 4
I shinings, or 9S cents. and one might emu
merate numerous other articles"
Kenyon.-George Luellwitz, Bonner
I Mont; II. Ellis Chicago; Collin Kemper
| New York; Fred Le-Ch. E2ston, Pa: W.
| NJ Trigg, Kausas City; Leo W. Cay
| r. J. Evans. Pittsburg, Pa; II. n. Tur-
rell, Boston; Mrs. hendricks, Kansas
/ City; r. ]. Prince, Boston; W. T. Hicks
Laramie. Wyo. Mr. and Mrs. K. Shuck
| Grand River. Wyo.; Mrs. W. T. McQuar-
! RE. Denver; H. ?. Blanchard, a. D. Nc
! Mel Cheyenne. Wyo.; w. L. Nettelhoost
| Sundance. Wyo.; I. II. Turner, Toledo 0.
| Thomas Cupit, J. N. LOckhart. Park City:
/ B. f. Clark, ST. Joseph, Mo-; a. D. r.
| Reynolds, Ogden; Cicero Nichols, San
Francisco; Z. ?. Bacon. Logan; J. Walk
| er, Kaslo. 3. c; r. r Patterson, Oman
H. B. Aradoosian, Fred Williams, Castle
gate.
! The Knutsford.-W. c. Pitman. New
! York. J. X. Mullen, James Struggled and
I wife. Denver; Christian Henering, Mendo-
| Ia, Ills: r. P Hanson. Chicago; 7. L.
! Miller. San Francisco; A F. Adams and
| wife. Barre, Mass: A. S. Horne and wife
| New York; c. p. Thornton. Philadelphia
NJ. d. Roland. Boulder. Colo; r. o. Pad