The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-13
The Story Of What Happened to An American Consul

lx,1h, 1876. by George Ade,
L1artaking O trip 10 foreign parts
had two objects In view:
s,rcnethen and more closely ce-
u friendly relations with foreign
>Lr 10 furnish the cement
reform things In general o'er
al. .ho, there was no opening for
4 dsorocr In the U. S. A, inasmuch
zines were upsetting munich,
cornering tho beef trust ana
on the trail of every corpora
p seemed 10 be making money. l
~ wish 10 make a ten strike as
~ I must seek new fields.
.rIded TO fit through Europe and
\ iii The time / could spare from
4 @abIe d'hote dinners to bolstering
" rSrulating the consular service.
rfing today about the hhPp$ eA-
4 III OF an American Consui am
i, IL fhe advice OF friend. who
~ send some letters back home.
mt I'm too much about your
= be said. People have read
v h,ropean travels until they know
m rHefter than they do Montana.
W the opportunity presents itself
-omcthing entirely irrelevant
t1jcr that has nothing to do with
particular. The less you say
Erdi9n countries the better you
trnse Your readers. and II you can
Ian write a series OF letters Ia
M reference is made to either Eu-
= Africa, who knows but what you
- ~ro a hit?"
ne. / feel that up to date | have
- Instructions rather closely. II
j. a. statistics or useful information
y skut into these communications 1t
s1<h oversight and not by tnten-
- hing from Paris the natural inn
~ 10 describe Napoleon'S tomb and
the Champs Eysees runs right
a. be Arc de Triomphe and then cuts
tie Bols de Boulonge. Fearing
Nd subject matter has been touched
lf ; other visitors, ] shall disregard
Id 10 straight 10 my task of re-
Ithe consular service.
win with. usually the American
b all right in his place, but his
at home. Overpaid, possibly. but
''- his best 10 earn his $500 per an
4 be kept all the money that he
In the course of a year he could
really successful CRATER. He
-nself pumped down In a strange
About the time that he begins
l. the language and has saved up
f)Mnoney to buy evening clothes he
"a and goes back home with
IT. on his hands. Take the case
~ cben Willoughby OF Michigan. II
he narrative. but II will give you
a. the shortcomings OF our consul
lice. and 1t will carry Its own
Is Man Wllloughby, as he was
u " home, owned and edited a sue
llily paper on the outskirts of
ugan pine belt He was a wheel
tho party and for forty years
}orted the caucus nominees. The
|politiclan who wished to go to
. had TO go and see Wilioughby
hat In his hand He helped to
unmake United States Senator'S
1yU consulted regarding appoint
III uPut he never had asked anything
ELF His two boys went TO col
mn .Arbor. and when the young
homo with his degree and began
hand In running the paper. Mr..
By found himself. for the FIRST
bis life, relieved Of wearlng re-
Ep Hes He was well fixed flnan-
\ .lN Shbh III tHe piliuS el lllN-ilol
= IN ftire permanently, but ready TO
asy. For years he had nursed a
-" ulre 10 travel boyond the limits
BED i've lard. Mrs Willoughby, who
. tune circle was known as MA"
lfl r'7otce of the Chautauqua circle.
' too. had an ambition born OF
'.'s 1inB. TO pack up and go some
BED me family doctor said that a
plyssomo milder climate. far from
=. ~ OF northern winter, would be
~ benefit TO her.
c and Mrs. Willouehby began 10
e atlas. One OF the sons sug-
acs h'Old Man" Willoughby that he
a trip TO an attractive south
~ at the minimum expense by
..' m appointment as Consul. And.
sinh. apart from the financial ad-
~ mere would be the glory Of rep
great nation and hoisting the
me- oenighted foreign population.
W frstlon appealed very strongly
"fllouBhbv. He wrote to the
.,,oy Hen and the Senator and wanted
slus az tneTe was a yacancy-salary
psf put he would like to 70 Into
bs pd eQuable climate where he
v6 : cocoanuts.
pds at Washington simply over
40" ne State department In their
ID 70 give him what no wanted
M caToyered that there was some
4 IL me map n city called Galllvan-