The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-25
EDITOR HARMSWoRTH
CHATS OF AMERICA
New York Worldl


Alfred Harmsworth and Ii HunS Chang
have just one thing in common-each likes
to interview the interviewer.
Seated in big easy chair IN the little
reception room attached 10 his suite Sun
day Mr. HaTmsworth smoked two big
I CisdIs Gnu gave MS passing impression
about New York Americans, our ways
OF doing things society, q trife on poll
tics ana much about the changes he has
noticed since his last visit here in 1888.
Changes 1 should say So" he
| laughed And more pronounced, too, be-
cause i have had the privilege of seeing
( depression. in 1898. and now again at the
period OF its greatest prosperity, in 1901
1 Great things have been wrought in these
seven eventful years"
w hat has impressed YOU m5St2'
Why, the speed with which your big
| buildings are climbing s6yward-ten,
twenty, twenty-five, thirty stories. The
sky line Of New York has quite changed
since l was here last. And now YOU can
get around Dead Mans Curve and only
lose one leg, while in 1898 you always lost
What American is best known
/ abroad?"
Thomas A. Edison, decidedly. If he
| should come to England he'd get a tire
menGous national reception
For q hundred reasons. not the least
/ that, and MIR. HarmswOrth pointed 10
the cluster Of incandescent lights that IL
Eliminated the room y m reminded of the
days of shipboard when we had nasty lit
tie oil lamDs and all lights must be out
at 10 y m.
Then it isn't Mr.. Croker"
Nonsense. no! ] known nothing at all
about Mr.. Croker. Personally / have
never seen him. know. though. that
when he's in England he leads the life of
quiet country gentleman; in fact, he's
a model squire, unObtruSiVe and devoted
to our national sport, horse racing as
peer and peasant are alike
BY the way. when I was here in 1898 1
nan nd hat faeas r.
ing. / hear it's still coming.
That Mr.. Croker is known as a poll
tlclan or d boss doesn't hurt him in Eng
land The word politician IT. America
carries with il an idea Of debasement.
with US that Is not so. 1t is the ambition
of every well educated man in ENGLAND
10 get into politics, and far from being a
source Of profit, most of them find it q
pretty expensive amusement
Have you met Mr.. Edison here2'
Yes; spent most delightful day
with him at his laboratories. He was
working upon the problem of the electric
automobile. II ever there is a perfect
electric automobile il will be due to Mr.
Edison The American electrics are I'M
questionably better than foreigu ma keS.
What wonderful man Mr.. Edison is
lie remalnded me of a young man of five
and twenty with his boundIess enere,,
and enthusiasm And do you know he
reminds me much OF Cecil RhOdes-nOt
much in appearance, though there is a
resemblance in the shape of their heads
as IN their manner. When YOU leaVs
Rhodes you feel s if your mental ba /
terleS had been charged to run for d year,
50 II Is when YOU leave Edison"
And speaking of leading New Workers.
how do you enjoy New York society,"
4 am not society man, and isn't so
clety the same everywhere? I was at Mr.
WhltneyS the other night. Mr. Whitney
himself Is grand seigneur and a wonder
fui host His was the perfection of hos
pitaiity without OstentatiOn- And what a
beautiful, artistic house he has made for
himselfl''-
How did the people you saw there I'M
press you?''
Just like the leaders Of society one
meets anywhere all over the world. The
best people are always the same every
where New York girls ar wonderfully
pretty and stylishly gOwned, but I won't
yield that they surDass our British beau
ties. And I'm going to tread on your
corns by saying that our men are often
finer, physically, than yours
NO, journalism doesn't interest he
average Englishman at all. Our public
men rarely see a newspaper or grant an
Interview The names of the people who
own the papers and the people who run
them are practically unknown. Yet
everybody in America knows who owns
the New York World and who owns the
New York Herald Not one Euglishman
in 10.CG0 could tell you who owns the
London Standard, one of the towns chief
datlieS.