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

called on me this morning. Announced
that they all wished 20 go home 20
their mothers and would start at once
if they had ever had any. Committee
reported that I was a brute. Report
placed on file. Just before dinner was
served with an injunction procured by
J. Pierpont Morgan which fOrbids me
giving a gold brick as a Christmas gift,
Dee. Settled the trouble among
the dolls by what L consider a master
stroke of diplomacy. / organized them
into a wOman's culture club early this
morning, and ever since they have
been so busy lighting over the offices
and knocking each other they have had
no time to bother about anything else.
BY the time Christmas comes none OF
them viii be on speaking terms and
they viii be glad TO go TO 4 Christmas
tree or anything else where the others
will not be, even if they have nothing
10 wear.
Dec. S.-AIore trouble. A walking
delegate from the Chimney Makers
union called on me this morning and
announced that If l slid down any nom
union built chimney l would be
branded as a scab.
Dee. 9-Afore tough luck today. Il
begins TO look as though Jonah and
Job were a couple of amateurs in the
hoodoo line when you stack them up
alongside of me. The Society for the
Prevention Of Cruelty 10 Animals has
notified me that if I attempt to drive
my reindeer on my customary long
trip it will have me pinched. 1t does
not seem TO figure that l am an ami
mai and this order is cruelty 10 me.
1t forces me TO fall back on one Of
those gasoline gigs and the naughty
persons who run them. / cannot spell
or pronounce the name they call them
selves. ana l am too wise to spell or
pronounce the names ! call them.
Dec l0-Mail very heavy today. a
number OF requests from prominent
| people received. Chauncey NJ. Depew
writes 70 ask for a few kind words.
/ He says that those are the only things
I he cannot get nowadays. David Be
! lasco writes to know if there really
is such q person as George Henry
/ Lewis. and, II SO. will / please put a
full set OF his works in his (David's)
| stocking. Charles r. Murphy asks for
| the best liniment / can find. He says
/ that he has been badly stung.
| Dee 1I-Took a preliminary spin over
| the course in the automobile. accom-
I panied by the overload who drives it..
Weather clear, track fast. Uneventful
trip until we reached New York. That
is, the driver said il was uneventful.
I was a good deal worked up because
we ran over thirteen men, three chill
dren, GS5 chickens and four and one
half dogs The driver said that that
was nowhere near a good days kill,
and he hoped We would have better
luck next trip. When we reached New
York we tried to go up Broadway from
Twenty third to Twenty-fourth street.
a policeman stopped us and said that
if we wanted to make that trip we
would have to go back 10 Twenty-see-
Ond street, thence west 10 Ninth ave
nue., thence north To Thirty-fifth, thence
east 10 First avenue, thence north to
hirty-sixth, thence west to Eighth
avenue, thence south to Twenty-third,
thence east. to Broadway, thence north
to TWenty-fOurth. I Objected and told
him was Santa Claus, but he said
he did not care ii | were Dr.. Park
hurst, ] would have TO go that way
on account Of the traffic regulations.
/ Dec. Ie--Secured a number OF inter
esting gifts today. Here is a list. For
District Attorney Jerome, book en-
titled silence Is Golden" by Judge
! Andrew Hamilton of London and Paris:
/ for John ID. Rockefeller, a iine port
raft Of Ida Al Tarbell Inscribed with
| the motto, Love One Another: Tor
John A. MCCALL a book called THE