The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-15

new guest, pointing to the satcheI my
trunks have been forwarded TO the
Adelphi hotel in Liverpool. sail in
a few days
Here is the way ne talked to a re-
porter-as self-possessed as a man of
%, and making gestures with his baby
hands:
IT am on my way around the world.
and will sail a week from Saturday on
the St. Paul. 1 came to The waldorf
sunday. night, because I understood
this was the best hotel in the city For
a year and half / nave been editing
my paper, the Spectator, in Jefferson
City. / employ only boys in the edi-
tOrial department. Yes, the Spectator
is doing very well. It netted me S23. 900
last year Ny first assistant editor.
Walt Sbackelford, gets SIS a week.
have fOrty-SiX names on the payroll,
and it costs me $500 every week. IN the
EDITORIAL department 1 win not employ
any boy more than Is years old. Walt
shaekeiford is but 10 now,
The Spectator is a strong Demo-
cratic paper. In the last campaign
opposed Mckinley bitterly, but I did
not like the free silver plank in Bry-
ans platform
Yes, it's true. went to see Mr..
sage the other day. ] said 10 him:
Mr. Sage, ] called to see you as the
Oldest and richest man in Wall street
he said 10 me: We'll. I'm not as rich
now as was before the panic@ Why
] said 10 him, had you anything to do
with the pantc2 I thought Morgan and
Kuhn, Loeb & co. managed the panic
! had more 10 do with the panic, said
Mr.. Sage, than anybody has any idea
of. Privately L had more to do with it
than Morgan or any Of the others
is the panic over?' 1 asked.
No, the panic is coming back said
Mr.. Sage.
Then we got down to business. I
got Mr., Sage to subscribe for the Spec
tatOr for himself and ten Of his clerks
That was $11.
d" Now said I, you've been so kind,
Mr.. Sage, that I'll give you a nice ad-
Vertlsing notice in, my paper, five
inches long. that viii only cost you S41,
making So in ALL He wrote out a
check and gave 1t to me.
Mr.. Sage said the New York
World reporter declares that he gave
YOU some good advice, but not a cent
Of money, but that you asked him for
$50 TO .helP pay your expenses around
Mr.. Sage is surely mistaken" re-
piled the little fellow, without the
culver of an eyelid.
He gave me the check, and I gave it
to Samuel Keech, the banker. next door
IN Aston court"
You saw Mr.. Keech yesterday" said
the reporter, and told him that you
would give him $1,000 today in exchange
for a letter of credit in Europe, but you
haven't been there with the 50 00O'
mo, but I'll go there tomorrow after
noon with The $4,000. I have a check
for that amount drawn to my order"
rs it true that your grandfather, left
you s250,0o0?"
No; it was a, much smaller amount,
but I don't want TO go into that. 1t is
said here my father has 81, 900, 600. AS
a matter Of fact, he has only $500, 600.
He is the head Of the elevated railroad
in Jefferson City.
. . @
AS to my newspaper business? Well,
I have been in the business since I was
very young" and Mr. Murphy's coun-
/ tenanee took reminiscent wrinkle. "a
year and half ago I thought I would
start a paper of my own, a red paper
SO / bought fOur-stOry building, got
presses and started the Spectator. II
/ has grown by leaps and bounds from
the very start It is a weekly paper
/ strongly Democratic, opposed to trusts
/ Imperialism and everything that is
/ wrong. i supported Bryan for the pres
/ idency. and think he would make a
/ good president if he would leave silver
alone.
Personally, however, I have no use
! for the man. During the recent mayor
I atty campaign in Jefferson city which
1 ended in the election of our candidate
I Mr. Bryan referred in his paper. the
I tor of a mugwump city in a mugWunI
/ state. I replied in my paper that W,
only paid attention editOrially to Wha
/ really great men said"
! Richard Murphy is a son of John =
/ Murphy Of Jefferson City. He started
/ a little paper there about the first o
/ the year, called the Spectator. II,
managed it for about three months
i when ii suspended. He has continues
/ TO solicit for the paper. and when re
mOnstrated by his father. who is
/ printer, for getting money for pape
(Which is not being published, he Ief
/ home, and seems to be working tn
1 people Of New York now for funds &
travel around the world. His paper ma.
not been issued for two months, a
least The work of the Spectator ha
caused Richard to want 10 become al
/ adventurer. He ran away from hom
70 make his way around the world
Senator Depew's Gift to Peekslzi1l
New York letter.
senator Chauncey NJ. DepeW. who ha
presented the village of PeekskiH with
puDlic park, sent Il letter to the trustee
u inc village today incloSlng the deed Z
the property. He said it had been in tn
D@pew family since 1854