The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-29

During the first three days in Cairo :
brilliant and original pl1n Of acr Oh ha,
heen outlining Itself n my mind. Al las
. could not keep II To myself any longer
40 l told Mr.. Peasley.,
DO you know VIVA. 1 am going TO do|
Mr. Peasley did not
II am going to write Up :he Pyramids
l am going to tell who quilt them unt
how long II took md how many BLOCK:
OF stone they contain. | shall have myself
photographed sitting on camel ant
holding an American flag. Also, ] shol
within me as l stand iii the bhadoW ol
the Sphinx and gaze up at that vast anc
: 'mperturbable exPanse OF t9cs ,,,
but you've been scooped They've beer
written up already
Are you surc2'
has been described in special article by
4 man named Herodotus.
How long since?
He produced guide book and proved
that he was right All the things thu,
{ had been getting ready 10 say apou'
He had got there ahead OF me--Jus5 sc 80
years ahead OF me, In daily newspaper
competition, when some man gets h,s
news twenty-four hours ahead OF anothor
ono he is proud Of his beat" and Is the
hero of the Office for fifteen or twenty
minutes But think OF trailing 9long
space writer! 1t took NIL the starch out
pf me.
Mr.. Peaslcy suggested that inasmuch
as considerable timo had elapsed since
the appearance of the first wrte-up. pos
sibly the average reader would have only
a dim recollection of II and accept my
account as brand new stun. But | knew
better. / knew that some old subscriber.
With complete file put away In the bu-
reau, would rise up and draw the deadly
parallel on me. All 1 can safely do in
I'd "a hG iS
few points overlooked by my predecessor.
Herodotus, by the way, Ind quite time
In Egypt. At that time Shepherds hotel
was not in operation, although II must
have been under way, and no round trip
tickets were being issued by Cook, so
Herodotus had to do his own booking and
put up at boarding house. In Memphis.
which is now a fragmentary suburb OF
Cairo. Herodotus engaged guide He
does not tell MS what he paid, but he
does give us line on the character of
tho dragoman, who was full of superfu-
Gus and undesirable Information, but who
fell down when asked TO divulge facts OF
breed has not changed since 500 B. c.
The guide took Herodotus out to the
Pyramids and filled him up, II Is now
believed that most OF what Hcrodotus
sent back was merely hearsay. but II
made good reading The Pyramids had
been standing some two thousand years.
and any information in regard to their
origin could hardly come under the head
Of personal recollections. Whatever He
rodotus has to say about the Pyramids is
now. accepted AS gospel, in spite of the
TACT that he never saw them until twenty
centuries after the last block Of stone had
been put in place and Cheops had taken
possession OF the tomb chambers. Rather
late for a grand opening
When he arrived at the great Pyramid
he stepped 1t off and put down the dG-
nensions. and then he remarked to some
natives standing around that it must have
been quite Job To build n tomb OF that
size. They said yes, it had been n big
contract. and az the thing had been COM
pleted only two thousand years they
enve Herodotus a fine layout of round
figures. They said that one hundred
thousand men had worked on the Job
and that the time required was thirty
vears-ten to build the road and the huge
Incline for bringing the blocks OF stone
into place. and then twenty years TO
quarry the stone and transport il across
the Nile and tho valley. The stone cut