The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-18
JoSHING THE LONDoNERS.
Wilberforce Jenkins Gives the Latest
Gossip in Cockneytown.


Observation-Disclosures Jenkins has
created much amusement in London by
the following stories he has written:
1t is said upon reliable authority
that when ]. Pierpont Morgan and
King Edward went into pleasant lit
tie game of bridge at Ambassador
Choate's recent affair, the band began
to play God Save the King
Mrs. Cold Steel of Pittsburg, who
wrote last month for terms at a Lon
don hotel for coronation week. re-
ceived a reply by return mail. What
the reply was can best be judged by
Mrs. Cold-Steels response on postal
to the hotel manager, which ran as
follows:
Sir, 1 did not ask you the cost of
the Boer war. asked for your terms
for single room. without board. for
the coronation week Kindly cable f1g-
ures to 'Cold-Steel. Pittsburg."
1t is denied by the parties most con-
cerned that Mr. and Mrs. Wigginity-
Jones of Buffalo. N Y, have declined
to attend the coronation unless they
are permitted to wear buffalo robes in
stead of those prescribed by the kings
chief equerry of the tailor shop. Mr..
w
ten to the king himself to say that
they win come in bathing suits if re-
quired rather than miss the show
The departure of j. p. Morgan for
Venice on the eve of the coronation
festivities is regarded as a singularly
gracious act 1t might mar the pleas
ure of the function if the chief mort.
gagee of the empire were to be pres
ent upon such an occasion, and the
= ha re hon fx-.,
of the Americans delicacy.
In the gO-as-you- please laurel race,
William Watson has been declared the
winner by seven stanzas five couplets
and a line. Mr.. Alfred Austin, the
champion lightweight poet of the en-
pire, was left at the post, while Mr..
Rudyard kipling proposes TO confine
himself to an exhibition run 10 be
brought off later.
When the king was asked to make
Beerbohm Tree a knight, he is said to
have answered that, in view of Mr..
Trees successful career as a theatsi-
cal manager, he should be made "A
Hundred knights. not to mention the
matinees.' What will come of the
suggestion is as yet unknown
Andrew Lang has some fishing for
coronation week.
Tie absence of Lord Rector Carnegie
from the coronation festivities has
caused much uneasiness in Runipleton-
on-Swike. 1t is believed that Mr.. Car
negie has by this act indicated his DIS
approval of English literature. and
since the Rumpleton-on -Swike public
library association has been found 10
encourage English literature, 1t is
feared that the request of its trus-
tees for a half million dollar library
building viii not be met by a return
check.
Chauncey NJ. Depews arrival in Lon
don to attend the coronation festivf-
ties has been hailed with a laughter
which indicates a fine British apprecia-
ton of American humor. As the rep~
resentative of Puck. Judge and Life.
Mr.. Depew win receive the most dts
tinguished attention from Britafrfs
most humorous society. The British
lion viii roar for three consecutive
hours in honor of the event, and at
twenty-seven minutes past on coro-
nation day the king has graciousIy
consented to salute Mr.. Depew's last
years jokes with three smiles and a
handshake.
The report that Mr. Waldorf Aston
IS TO be made a peer, with the title OF
Earl Of Oscar Of Waldorf, lacks con-
frmation-