The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-23
MAUD ADAMS
ARRIVES TODAY
This is Her First Visit in Eight
Years.
WILL BE WELCOMED HOME
OLD RESIDENCE MECCA FOR
RELIC SEEKERS,

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Salt Lake on special train over the
Oregon short Line this morning it win
be her first visit i'm eight years 10
her birthplace the city where her
grandparents lived and where her
came across the plains win Brigham
Young in IS47.
When the young actress goes to the
salt Lake theatre 90 dress for the ini-
tlal performance of her engagement,
she viii enter a playhouse which her
grandfather helped to build. Upon the
same stage her mother delighted audi
ences years ago. il was behind the
same f0otlghts that Miss Adams first
made her appearance before an audi
ence,
Pioneers to Greet Young Actress.
In the audiences that win greet Miss
Adams during her four performance
engagement viii be many faces which
VIII recall Barnabas l.. Adams. her
grandfather who hewed many of the
umDerS IN the theatre Many VIII re-
member when her mother, Mrs. Annie
Asenath Adams kiskadden, made some
or her earliest successes on the same
stage, ana on one occasion an infant
less than year old was carried out
Ia front Of the fOOtlights. That wee bit
OF humanity was Maude Adams. 1t
was her first appearance upon the
american stage. She was too Young
TO remember the incident. but there are
hundreds of men and women in Salt
Lake City who can recall Ill for her
IN another part of the city there is
a spot which must be as sacred to the
actress S the Theatre. 1t Is the place
where she was born, where her mother
lived, and where her grandparents re-
SIDED in their younger days, and where
they died.
Old Trees Await a Greeting.
The house in which the young actress
was born does not exist today But
the trees which her grandparents
planted almost half a century ago. and
under which she played when a child,
are stiH there. The house pointed out
to sightseeTs as the birthplace of Miss
Adams was built by her Grandmother
/ when the actress was about 8 years
old. She lived in it for years 1t was
there that she learned 10 love the stage
and made the mental resolve TO become
an actress
Tt is q tw0-st0ry brick house, paint
ed yellow. 1T has two 'Iean-tOs. one
is to the east of the brick part and
the other to the north Of the first lean
to- Those two additions contain the
remnants of the house in which Miss
Adams. was born.
The house where She was born was
of adobe, and was built by her grand
father I'm the winter of 1861. The fam
iIy moved into 10 April IA, le3l- Nov
H. 1872. Miss Adams was born there.
When she was about years old the
adobe house was torn down, because
a more pTetenions residence had oeeh
erected by the grandmother after the
death Of the grandfather, a rod or two
further back upon the same lot
Material is Used Twice.
Portions of thar old adobe building,
some of the large sun-dried bricks,
doors and WiudOW sllls, were used 10
erect the present lean-tO TO the exist
ing Adams homestead They are an
that remain of the house where the
prominent actress first saw the light of
day.
The house as IL stands now is 505
East Eighth South street. Ill is lu
lot I65 by l65 feet on the northeast cor
ner Of Seventh East and Eighth South
streets The property is owned by W.
ID. Yingst. a mechanic, who lives there
with his wife and baby boy. They
bought it from George r. Norton of
Chicago. who. it was said yesterday.
acquired the house and lots from the
Tunt estate.
The house is one Of the many at
fractions I'm the city to sight-seers. The
Seeing salt Lake City cars, on the
Calder's park line, pass the premises
The conductor stops sufficiently long
TO explain to credulous strangers that
the yellow house is where Miss Adams
was born. Several times a week the
car remains at the corner sufficiently
long to enable visitors to take snap
shot of il.
Souvenir Seekers Are Many.
Hardly a day passes. either winter or
summer, when sightseers do not visit
the place The more daring ones carry
souvenirs away with them. The keep
sakes consist of flowers twigs from
trees, bark of the trees, pebbles from
the gravel walk i'm front of the porch,
and kindred articles. Before the pres
ent owners bought the premises, when
it was neglected and in rundown con-
ditiOn. and the fence was remnant
OF pioneer days, people were i'm the
habit of taking pieces from the fence
jim the front ward stands an old tree
planted 10y Miss Adams grandfather.
There were two Of them, one of which
died few years ago. IL was cut off
about twelve feet from the ground.
leaving "a stump. one night. few
months ago. during a severe STORM, q
tourist entered the yard and tore q
large piece of bark from the stump.
Others have taken smaller pieces from
time to time until now Che stump is
more than half peeled of the covering
given il by nature,
Mr.. and Mrs. Iingst are anticipating
q visit from Miss Adams during her
short stay IN the CITY. They viii be
not a little disappointed If she does
not go back to the scenes of her birth
and childhood days
There was no sod here when 7
bought the place. said mr. Tingst yes
terday. The front yard was one mass
of weeds and rank grass. I planted an
this sod. Right in front of this porch
WAS an old-fashioued well and worm
out pump. I cleared it away The
trees were so covered with limbs close
TO the ground you could NOT see the
streets I cut them away. So thick
We're the trees that WAS forced TO cut
a number of them down 60 let iu
little sunlight
Are Used to Strangers
When asked if strangers annoyed
her Mrs Tingst said
"At 6rst they did, but now i ann used
90 it, Hardly p day goes by but what
tourists visit the place and ask all
manner OF funny questions. Some ask
10 be permitted 10 enter the house and
sit down. just to bc able to say they
have been in the house where Miss
Adams was born. They ask for all
kinds Of keeDsa kes. The merest triHe
sumces to satisfy most OF them
"A great many ask 10 see the room
in which the actress was born. or
course won know this is NOT the nauzn