The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-24

George AIDE in Kansas City starr
It's all off with Santa Claus but the
whiskers, and he Is considering bids
now from wholesale BARRIERS who want
TO take the job of painlessiy removing
them. His present annual Christmas
tour is positively his farewell one
and it's not one of those prima donna
fareweIs at that but the kind a
cashier makes after he has learned
way wise guys call a race track Sep
aratiOn park.
As he lives only a couple Of miles
from where | do. he has asked me as
neighbor to see that a part of his
diary for this year be published. IN
order that the few friends who have
stuck may know what he Is up against
Also. he has asked me to state thai
he does not ny any means intend to
retire from nhilanthropic and mission
airy enterprises, but will start life
insurance company as soon as the
graft gets good again. Here are the
extracts from his diary:
Dec. Holiday rush is fairly on and
this was my busy day. The first al
ways il my busy day, however. The
collectors see TO that. They keep run
ming across me i'm places where ! never
expect 10 meet them. and | always get
hoarse asking them for the 18th.
Dec My mail is beginning to grow
very heavy. / am getting as many re-
quests as a manager does for a pro-
fessiOnal matinee. Among other things
received a letter from patent medicine
concern asking for u testimonial. They
enclosed a bottle OF this stuff, but
asked me TO write my appreciation be-
fore sampling. Am saving the sample
as q present for a prohibitiOnists who
likes whisky. Also received an offer
from a Chicago department store TO
pose in one of their windows the week
before Christmas, and another offer
from n vaudeville managerial deliver
a monOlogue.
Dec 3-Another heavy mail An
anonymous correspondent calls me a
piker and says that Il l want TO learn
a little about giving away things ]
should attend a meeting OF the insur-
ance investigating committee. He adds
that almost everybody has been given
away since that started. Also re-
ccived 81 letter from the Tin trust re-
fusing Ia furnish me with their pro-
duct unless / added 10 their regular
tarff 10 per cent of my gross receipts
This makes il impossible to have any
tin soldiers this year, whic' is most
embarra ssing. as l cannot think OF
anything else TO give Ineodorc Roose-
welt
Dec. 4,-Today has been one of those
strenuous days all right. Trouble
started early in the dolls house, where
it Is always starting, or TO be more
exact, where Il never stops The dolls
sent for me and refused 10 act as pres
ents unless they had some new clothes
They said IL was out OF the question
TO ask them TO appear at Christmas
tree among a lot of strangers when
they had nothing new 10 wear. Then
they got warmed To their work and
called me hard names because ] never
took them out TO dinner or TO the the
ater. Also. they told me some things
about my private character that | had
40 idea any one had ever guessed and
which / would not make public Tor the
world J tried to argue with them. but
they beat me q block.
Dec. 5---TrOubie in the dolls house
still continues. Have been too busy
and too wise 10 go there. Ny ears
have been burning Oh day long but
even i they had not l would know
what they were talking about. Re-
ceived a letter from McCurdy of the
Mutual Life, regarding Christmas pres
ents. He wants q million dollars for
himself three-quarteEs OF q million
dollars for his son, same amount for