The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-01

solely on the fact that he is business
from the word go. Mr.. Steinhart
has been in the service of the
Army and State departments for
twenty-five years That he comes of
capable official stock is shown by the
fact that his grandfather was Chief
or Police of Munich until he died, at
the age of 101.
Miss Maud Powell is the greatest
woman Ylollnist. She is famous be-
cause she is great artist, and she is
Rreht because she measures up to the
standard of violin playing established
py Vlrtuosos of the highest rank, with
our any allowance being made for the
IaSI thaG she Is woman "She is
plood descendant of Spohr," wrote
| distinguished critic of her last winter.
when she tucks her fiddle under her
cnln, she makes solemn reverence
oeIore the altar of music and officiatcs
as Il prIestess in the temple Miss
Powell was born in Peru, Ill. Her
rather was Welsh and his knowledge of
music was limited to the old-fashioned
hymns that were lined out" by the
preacher. Her mother, however. is
musical, though she never had an or
Portunity to have her talent cultivated
She says that she has achieved throup;,
her talented daughter what she was
never able to do herself. Miss Powell
STUDIED with the greatest living violin
teacher, Herr Joachim, who is now past
sevehty.tlye years of age, and still
teaching in Berlin. He was A harsh
master, and rarely failed to make his
pupils cry when they came TO him for
Instruc ton. Miss Powell ALWAYS an.
lswered with spirit when he spoke
roughly TO her, and he paid her back
oS giving her harder lessons than any
or the rest. She always made it
C4s,. IL, I.
SO the lessons became harder and hard.
er. Finally, on Tuesday he gave her
the 50 Moto Pcrpctuo of Paganinni
20 make ready for Friday. 1t was an
almost impossible task. but she set to
work NOT only to master it for him,
but to give him little surprise as
well When she came for her lesson
she closed the music and stood ready
TO play. He asked her with an I'M
believing grin if she expected to play
1T from memory, thinking it would be
farce OF short duration. She nodded
ar affirmative, and before the piece
was half over the skeptical master was
sitting forward on the edge of his
chair, showing in every way his anxi-
After that he offered no more sar,
castle comments and they got on ia
mously.
When old Dominic Hodges, Yale
man. found himself in the barrons of
Kentucky IN the early fifties, out Of
money aud out of job he applied
farmers of the Chicken BristIe'5
neighborhood for nights lodging,
Hodges knew Latin and Greek and
mathematics. The farmer had son
fourteen years old and nephew
twelve. Hodges was engaged to tutor
the boys. Eugene was the elder and
Will the younger. Eugene excelled in
history and the humanities-Will was
always far ahead in mathematics.
about to break the scholarly Hodges |
wanted to go back home to spend his
old age, He took sorrowfu leave of |
his two pupils and addressed his patron |
concerning them. eugene. he said,
will know more than anybody about |
history. but he will never have money.
Will, however, can do any kind of bust
Nea y half century has gone and
Mctcalfo county, Kentucky, knows
those two BOYS as its most distin-.
guishcd sous. One Of them is William
II. Newman, president of the New York
Central lines, and the highest salaried
railroad man in the world, receiving
Sl25,000 year. Eugene is known all
Savoyard. " His entertaining es-
says on political subjects show a won
derful fund of information, but he is
not rich like his cousin. Thus have
The prophecies of old Dominic Hodges
been fulfilled.
Mrs. Joseph +: Knapp is the best
known hymn writer In the United
States She lives In beautiful apart
ments at the Hotel Savoy, New York,
and her suite Of ten rooms is rich III
rare tapestries, costly bric-a. .brac, orr.
entail fittings and suggestions of
Egyptian gorgeousness, modified by
modern taste, In the room known as
the "Sunsbine Melody Bower Mrs,
guished people. and has gwen many ar
tistic entertainments. Here is the
organ where she composes her hymns
and cantatas Presidents. bishops, and
literary people have been among her
guests. and have felt themselves hon
orcd at the attention of this gifted wo"
man Her talent for rhyming and hymn
lyric, "Better Rub than Rust was
penned when she was nine years old.
Incidents from real life constitute sug"
gestions for her hymns, Once when
impatiently waiting for two shop girls
to get through gossiping and wait on
her. she heard one say to tpG other;
-" Well, its worth r million dollars and
il doesn Il cost cent; You might just
as we'll smile Mrs. Knapp forgot her
own impatience in the appreciation or
this philosophy, and she vert home 1M and
wrote the famous song, Its Worth
Million Dollars, and 1t Doesn t Cost a
Cent. The best known of her many. |
many hymns are Blessed Assurance,
'.Up for Jesus Stand, - Everlasting
Love. 4" "a Ray Of Sunshine Every
Day" and ''Open the Gates of the
Temple" " Her cantata, "The Prince
Of Peace, - when given a few years ago
at the Brooklyn Academy, of Music,
under the direction of Theodore Thomas
and his orchestra, nettcd $500 for the
Home for the Aged. Mrs, Knapp comes
Of a family who have done, much for
Methodism in particular and for religion
in general, Her mother. Mrs: Phoebe
Palmer. and her aunt, Mrs Snran LanN-
ford Palmer. instituted the holiness
meetings i'm New York that have since