The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-04
M|[L|ONA|RES
BLOCKING BACK
Wall Street Amazed at the
Geniality of the Mag
mates Coming Home.
SHARKEY is CHASING ART
MRS. SAGE AND DEAD HUS-
BANDS MILLIONS.
Especial to The Herald.)


New York, Aug with all the mil
lionaires sWarming back from abroad
Wall street is humming once more with
its accustomed activity. To many or
these gilded gentlemen the summer seems
to have lent tinge of geniality and on
their arrival they knocked the maxim that
millionaires never laugh into q cooked hat.
Even the snapshot fiend and the uD1qul-
tous interviewer were met cheer1ly by
such VIGOROUSLY retiring persons as ].
Pierpont Morgan and John d. Roekefel-
Ter. Seasoned interviewers almost COL
ldpsed with wonder, on Mr.. MOrgan's ar
rival, to find that the huge attendant who
usually pushed all curious persons away
from the magnate was not IN evidence ana
they could fling their volley of questions
without reproach. AS for John D., he not
only manifested willingness to talk free
ly-ab0ut golf and bicycling-but also
posed for the snapshot brigade. Reginald
Vanderbilt, who came over on the same
acterized him as "a delightful old gentle
man." 1t is true that William Rockefel-
Ter slipped into the country from Europe
by way OF Canada, and stopped off at his
Adirondack camp en- route for New York.
But when he was cornered by reporters a
few days later he submitted with a laugh
to tell something about motoring In Eu-
rope, and II. II. Rogers, the saturnine OIL
trust vice president. who happened to be
with him, unbent so far as to joke with
the reporters. Wall street stands amazed
at these manifestations and Manhattan is
beginning to think that its millionaires
are almost human.
Other Notables Back.
Other persons of note who are back from
trips abroad are Deputy Police Commits
sioner Rhelnlander Waldo, and Mr..
Thomas Sharkey, retired exponent of the
''manly art" who now runs thirst par
lor opposite Tammany hall. Captain Wal
do spent a week in London and another
In Paris studying the police systems. and
he comes back with the statement that
our police are as good as those abroad.
Captain Waldo returned converted to the
system of identifying criminals by impress
sions of their thumbs. as practiced in
London, and he alleges that the system
has so terrified London thieves that they
now wear gloves when they break into
houses. This, of course, may be COM
fort to the householder who goes In for
style. As for Mr.. Sharkey, he went to
Paris, too, where he apparently spent
most of his time at the Louvre admiring
the art treasures. Indeed he became
enamored of the statue of the Venus de
Milo, which, he conceived If set up be-
hind the bar, would please the aesthetic
thought" he said, that she certainly
looked pretty dirty and badly busted, too
But if | could get Kleinvingel that Dutch
friend of mine on Third avenue, to put
arms on her and fill in the Clipped places
and just put nice coat of clean white
paint on her. shed do. So / told an old
guy with brass buttons that I'd be willing
to pay $500 or $500 for her. What do you
think he says? He told me the govern
ment paid 100000 for the thing" So Mr..
Sharkey came home without his prize and
the Tammany aesthetics must continue to
drain their schooners without any classic
lady to grace the corner near the pretzei
table
Second Harber Needed.
to take care of its OVERLOOKING commerce
and particularly to relieve the congestion
along the water fronts of Manhattan and
Brooklyn. For this purpose jamaica bay,
which forms the southern edge of the
borough of Brooklyn and of q portion of
the borough of Queens, stands ready to
meet her increased need Plans have been
outlined which include the transformation
of a great stretch of unreclaimed marsh
land about the bay and of land under
water, by filling in and bulkheadng, into
improved harbor frontage, and the Deepen
ing of the channels of the bay leading
into the Atlantic so as to accommodate
coastwise vessels of deep draught. 1t is
estimated that no less than 10000 feet of
bulkhead will be thus added along the
shores of the mainland alone. The city
and the national government are cooper
ating in an investigation of this plan.
Hitherto agitation to make Jamaica bay
a harbor had had no result. owing to the
inadequate funds at the disposal of the
rivers and harbors committee of congress,
which has been compelled to attend to ap-
proved engineering projects aggregating
$500 100000 with an annual appropriation
OF about SIS, $4,000 for the whole country.
Hence local commercial interests are now
looking hopefully to the campaign of the
national rivers and harbors congress for
a liberal policy of waterways improve
ments and an annual appropriation of S0-
0O0.0O0
The Sage Millions.
With that intent almost impertinent
curiosity characteristic of the town, New
York is now watching Mrs. Russell Sage,
who. by the death of her husband. will
have the disposition of his estate of s70,-
CO., 600 which, il Is understood, she will
distribute for charity Many a woman in
Mrs Sages position would probably have
allowed herself to stagnate and lose in
terest in the world, for she was allowed
practically no latitude in money matters
her husband had no social friends, and
UP to few years ago he not only man
aged all the household accounts himself,
but in addition did his own mending and
darning. The picture of the old man sit
ting up o'nights in his meager chamber
darning socks and sewing on buttons is a
pitiful commentary on his mental re-
sources. Mrs. Sage does not care for
amusements appreciably more than her
husband. and she never went to the the
atre. but she is keenly interested in char
table work to which she has contrib
uted freely from the very limited sums
her husband allowed her. Since the death