The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-07
CHICAGO SOCIETY
LEADER IN ZION
Tells How Men Of Wealth Try
to Purchase Social
Recognition.
GUEST OF MRS. HOLMES
AT THE AMELIA PALACE
Visitor Is the Owner of Elite"
Leading Society Paper
of Chicago.

Mrs. Mary Stuart Armstrong. one Of
Chicago's most brilliant society leaders.
Is guest OF Mrs Edwin r, Holmes at
Amelia Palace. Mrs Armstrong ar
rived IN Salt Lake Friday and has spent
n great deal OF the time since then In
viewing the interesting sights in and
nbout the city. She announced Monday
afternoon that she had been much i'm
pressed with the beauties of Zion and
that she had not spent an uninteresting
half hour since her arrival
Mrs. Armstrong is the owner and odit-
ress of Elite" Chicagos leading society
Journal
Tone Kept at High Notch.
AS a matter Of fact Elite" Is said to
be the only publication in the Windy City
devoted to social affairs, whose tone Is
kept UP TO the very highest notch. In
addition To the work OF keeping the world
posted as to who's who in Chicago social
circles. Mrs. Armstrong keeps within easy
reach a big stick for use in the treat
ment of such shems and imposters as
seek TO invade the sacred precincts OF
the approved and the elect. In the last
issue of Elite which Mrs. Armstrong
proudly exhibited to Tribune represen-
tative Monday afternoon, she lamoasts
such purse proud persons az Millionaire
Mccormick the agricultural implement
vast fortune in speculation.
Money Gets Them Nothing.
These persons. according to Mrs Arm
strong. seem TO think their money will
gain social recognition for them In Chi
cago. but not SO; and the good lady tells
them In plain black and white. on the
editorial page OF Elite" that they may
as well abandon their preposterous So
cial ambitions Mrs. Armstrong assured
The Tribune representative that McCor-
mick had been known TO walk into
Chicago parlor and sit there talking to
ladies with his hat on. Equally damn
proved against the man Frank Logan
and other pretenders of his ilk.
All Try to Break In.
Everybody In Chicago" said Mrs.
Armstrong, Seems TO be trying TO
secure honorable mention In Elite, They
send me their photographs by the dozen,
but /, in nearly every instance, return
them with thanks. They are awfully
persistent and, in many cases Will not
be satisfied with a single rebuff They
return TO the attack and send their pho
tographs back accompanied by checks
for good round sums. But it will not do
at all. Such attempts to buy social
recognition always fail and / deem 1t
my duty to hold up TO public ridicule
and scorn the men who make them. Take
the case of Mccormick, for instance.
Now, he has brother. very nice man,
in London. Just think what lovely
reading this article in my paper about
the Chicago Mccormick will make for
that London brother, Oh, l tell you.
have circulation In London and other
European capitals as we'll as In Chi
cago, The very best people on earth
read Elite. I'll send you copy Just
as soon as I get back home"
Making Her Stay Pleasant.
Mrs Holmes has made Mrs. Arm
strong's visit to Salt Lake n very pleas
ant one. On Saturday evening she en-
tertalned at dinner in honor Of her guest,
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Gilbert Davis OF
Chicago, who are friends OF Mrs. Arm
strong.
Mrs. Holmes has q number of other
functions programmed for the pleasure
OF her friend.