Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-10-19
D S appearance of Ges. Louis
Fitzgerald Reyives Memories
Of the Past.
SNUBBED SALT LAKE REPORTER
And Was So Favoraby Mentioned
That lie Remlined lncog the Rest
OF the Journey

one OF the missing former directors
OF the Equitable Assurance company Of
New York and whose whereabouts are
at present unknown and unlSnowabIc,
Is BrgadIer General Louis Fitzgerald
Of the First Brigade, n. c. s. n. Y,
and who several years ago had quite
a fall taken out OF him by Salt Lake
newspaper reporter Gen. Fitzgerald is
a very pompous parsonage the circum-
ference Of whose head long since eX-
ceeded the limitations of ordinary ana
tony, and whose ideas Of his own i'm.
portance could scarcely be contained
within the circumsCribed boundaries
OF Nebraska prairie. Gen, FitZgeralt
was stopping at the Knutsford hotel, en-
route 10 san Francisco, and while
there, two venturesome, plebean report
ers dared to approach his patriCidu
parsonage, ana respectfully ask for In
formation relative to his visit
This very great man On his mind)
was righteously offended, yes deeply
lnsulted, and drawing himslef up am
Inch or two higher than wont, heayed
out with indignation his padded ches
and demanded, Sirrah, how dare you
address me? What right have YOU to
stop ANA accost me7 Who are you,
anyhow
THE GENERAL INDIGNANT.
The astonlshed reporter meekly re-
piled that he was member of the
press merely looking for Information.
and az the general was a man in mill
tary and railroad ai'airs,he only wished
70 ask q few questions as TO the oc-
casion OF his visit. and to know where
he was going. Gen Fitzgerald then
rose and froze like Sennacherlb on hls
throne when the imperial spinous pro-
cess had been rubbed the wrong way,
and In the frostieSt Of accents told the
reporter that he, Gen. Fitzgerald, was
not 10 be approached by any one with
out the fomality of an invitation, AMI
would the starvcling be good enough to
take himself off noiens volens, POGO
pronto, Immediately, II not sooner.
Then this great man turned con-
temptuously ON his heel and STROBE
grandly away, as he used 10 march
down Fifth avenue when adjut9ut OF
the Gallant Seventh" conscious that
the eyes of countless admirlng females
were fastened on his chaste and corr
set shapen form.
RETURNED THE COMPLIMENT
The reporter Went back to relate the
incident TO his city editor, and was told
to sit down and write up as stin a
roast as he knew how, and he ala IT,
The roast succeeded far beyond the eS-
pectations of the writer At the hotel
breakfast table every guest had pa
per, and every eye was turned toward
Cen Fitzgerald and his party as they
entered. The situation became so un-
pleasant for the ladies' Of the party,
that the breakfast was cut short and
they insisted ON "a speedy resumption Of
the journey When the party reached
san Francisco the general signed him
self plain Louis Fitzgerald and ladies"
General business was omitted. Ac-
quaintances of his remarked afterwards
at the l(nutsford that he was about as
badly a broken up man as they had
seen for some time.
A SUPERIOR" CHARACTER.
General Fitzgerald was disliked very
much in "the seventh" by reason Of hla
persistent and inslsteut assumption OF
superiority and there was q breath Of
relief in the regiment when he was
pitchforked by the grace Of Gov, Robin,
son into the succession 10 Gen. Shn'er
as commanding officer Of the First de-
vision of the national guard In New
York state, brigadiers are elected by
reeimental colonels and In this case
there was q hung jury" so that tn
governor In his constitutional capacity
as commander In chief had to take tn
matter into his own hands and Fltz-
geralds family influence got him the
lob