Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-07-20

magnates, one OF whom has been prom
inent for wears in the management or
the Pullman system. Field and Roth-
acker figuratiyely, took 20 the woods.
Finding the editorial rooms vacated.
the rlotous railroad officials, inspired
nv n luxurious sense of humor, pro-
ceeded to demolIsh everything In sight
Not even the early copy on the hooks
was spared. Later in the night Wheh
they could persuade no one TO 90 town
paintlng with them. they tore barrel
TO pieees in the street and bombarded
,he editorial windows with the slaves.
All this was an expensive joke Tor the
Pullman company. When the leglsla-
tllre subsequently convened, the Trl'
hume demanded a reduction OF the
Pullman rates and a drastic bill was
introduced In the house by the chair
man OF the railroad committee, VINO
was party to the conspiracy The
worst OF the two vandals was hurried
10 Denver with a grip full OF ANIMALS
and doodle. In his odd gossip tleld
noted the arrival as follows
Mr.. -------- - ---------------, OF
&c occunylpe a suite Of rooms at the
Windsor with his heautilul niece MISS
Maudie We're de Nore.'
A marked copy Of the Tribune con
tanning this paragraph was mailed TO
the gentleman's wife, and nearly Yea 10
an action in the divorce courts me
legislative visitor was pointed our eul.
torially as a convict and everything
mean under the sun. He begged pie
ously for quarter. took TO huying cham.
pagne bv the basket, suffered hlmseH
"a be held up right and left, and when
the bill was finally bottled In the rail-
road committee, as was its prearranse-
ed fate. he left for home wreck
The two years in Denver tried Fields
capacity. endurance and character 10
the utmost. Poor Rothacker, brilliant,
generous but erratic, never found the
I'M grade again, and glided swiftly
6own to an untImely death at Omaha,
with the pictures Of those he loved
best turned to the wall while he ex-
plred. He was a literary encyelopedla'
a novelist and a poet. He LETT verse
worthy of place on q classic shell, anu
wrote eplgram with the felicity OF
Hugo His reply to Ingersoll In when
he embalmed the great American
agnostic as "a moment Drawing az
eternity" was a masterpiece OF ue-
Tense for Christianity. lngersoh com
pllmented him in an autograph letter.
on It's force and effect as an answer
This little work was No. IN the IT'D
une literary series, OF which Field
primer was No. 2, and the last.
The cross road Of Fields career came
when he was stricken with nervous
dyspepsia, He was acutely attacked
and for a period suffered the contem-
niative horrors OF suicide and death.
Drugs having failed TO bring him re-
lief his latent will power asserted u
self and he set aside all stimulants,
together with tobacco and coffee tor
a wear he restricted himself TO an ~
valid diet. working constantly the
while. often he would write his daily
stint. his head crowned with Ice
wranped in a towel. When his digestion
was apparently restored he resumed
Tho tobacco and coffee habits at Chi
cago though he never again touched al
cohoIic stlmulants. save for brief spell
I'm London. While there for his health
in 1899 his physician persuaded nun 10
sin of Bordeaux at meals, but II was
unnalatable and he soon abandoned 1t
as a dietary aid.
1ne excessive utt Va A'b'NNP
coffee. and an unconquerable appetite
for mirce pie and indigestibles, together
with on aversion for physical exercise.
shortened Fields life. Even In ms SUI
fcrngs he found inspiration for much
humorous prose and verse, and some OF
his best work was done AT LONDON III
lsss-9O. while he was living on ho'
milk and cracker diet cooked py MN
self three times a day.
When Field Joined the Chicago News
staff in 1883 he was broken In health.
destitute and pursued by a horde OF
creditors. His family was large. ms
responsibilities would have taxed the
stoulest heart. No visible worry aiteet-
Ell him. however, until the friendship
between himself and Rothacker was
Violently sundered. While Field was
attached to the Denver Tribune, Gen.
eral Hamill, az that time rated as
mining millionaire, and one OF the Re
publIcan leaders OF Colorado, owned
large interest in the property. He was
an exceedingly liberal man. and, Tor
any one he esteemed, always held an
omen nurse. Rothacker, among the
new spaper fraternity, was especially
his protege. Field having got into a
stew OF trouble over o $500 furniture
debt telegraphed General Hamill IN the
mountains. asking him for an lmmedl-
ate loan of that amount. He was re-
quested TO visit the general at George
town when he would be accommodated.
Field took the earliest train, but upon
meeting General Hamlll was Informed
that IL was impossible TO let nm haVe
the money. Fields disappointment was
great: his disgust greater General
Hamilrs change Of front could be ex-
planned only by the assumption ina,
somebody TO whose advice he Would
listen. had warned him by wire against
trusting Field.
MOI many months later the tribune
noeeed into the Junk room OF Amerl-
can Journalism: Rothacker was editing