The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-03
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Colonel Nat Ward FITZGERALD
q Millionaire.
Salt Laker Who Left Here Six Years Ago Ia Want
Comes Back With Wad
By WARREN FOSTER.
BY WARREN FOSTER.

Those whose good fortune it was 10 be
soIoHruers i'm zion between tho years It
1880 ana 1899 well remember tile advent
OF Dortiy digniGed looking gentleman
py the symph0uious name OF CUlouel SAT
Ward Fftz-Gorald
.CoioneI Fitz- Gerald is man who stands
I0uy six feet three in bis stocking feet.
Of uncertain age. one or his pcculiarltiea
pelns -hdt le wiI! ROT tell his age: weighs
ABOUT I'D pounds dresses well; smooth
eEefg DooE notices when nu PASSES byi
ne d one OF the mon that would bp seen
ana noticed BID crowd of 100 men tnat
could be gathered together
Colonel Fitz-Cera Id came 10 SAT- Lake
,Eesl from the forensic fields of West
virginia politics. with 1.-THE smell of the
powder of many battle stilI on his cloth
ms lie had just completed an tile hou-
ols tnat are Que defeated crnatoriai
se.l,iuettt haFinF e4Tried me PopuHst
banner successfully down 10 defeat.
We have already minated that colonel
Flta-t4eIala had pFeposses~ing appear
auce. lie is more than that he is q
handsome man-not pretty-but hand
nave but 90 see lim 90 think go VET
However the people did not stand alone
in l1ls uplnlCI Tor the c1iOHel himself
shared somewhat i'm this same opinion. as
De comfortably located himself here than
ne nae ltVa5 blotters printed each eff
uels lace, This picture accompa by
MS tiNe-plE name scattered broadcast
over the cay carried with Do the lnIor-
nation that there was somethn doin' in
The name face and fame Of Colonel
Nat Ward Fitz-G6rHld became a house
Hoio word u not household necessity.
Colonel FITZGERALD in addition to being
a lawyer WAS also am orator and none
the less an actor. lie was a life long COM
pauiCu and bosom friend of Colonel Rob
eTt q. InEprSDl He loved the great
scQtter and the ereac ScQtfer loved Colo
be true, were as completely bound up to
each other as were those OF Jonathan and
David of old. So great was his admira-
li1l I1r the reloWneu agucstic that ne
had collected, coliated. and memorized
an OF The beautiful things that he had
said and had woven wreath of rhetor-
lcdI heaFty. Tie prepared lecture which
be entitled cone Hour with IugersolI."
The old han in the Gladstone building
on Main street was at that time-lS SIS
ypeH Tor pup1e meetings. and the colonel
secured Ii for Sunday evening for the
purpose of giving his lecture. a large
crowd greeted him. II was indeed "a
feast OF reason and flow OF SOUL The
colonel was at his best Clad I'm a fash
luuaDle cuL-a-Way. and wearing pleas
lng smile ana white cravat he did him
ser proudly Inc audience was pleased
The most pleasing part. however. of 1T
an was that SO close had been the lives
of these two great men that rha Sneaker
was uprs0nalIv D-esarf an nearly slT ne
occasions fn which Colonel Fnrers6II badi
distinguished himself for orator..
lit so happened that Colonel Fitz-Gerald
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