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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
The Limit IN TRUSTS.

Kind fate has deferred it a long time,
the unsuspecting have been spared in
mercy. but the blow has fallen. A
boarding house trust has been organ
lied in West Springfield, Mass, and il
is only a matter of months, a year or
two at the utmost, before the endemic
Will spread and the octopus will be lit
orally in the midst of all us.
Like every other great idea, 1t is so
simple that folks marvel it was not
conceived before. With trusts ruling
the continent from birth to death: with
trusts In baby foods. trusts in cloth
ing, in school books, in meat. trusts in
groceries. hen trusts, cracker trusts.
clear down to mans death when the
comm trust gets his estate-with all
THESE examples. ii is wonder that the
landladies who deal with mans most
vital want have not combined ere this.
Now the notion has struck them. and
soon the Amalgamated Boarding House
& Food Supply Corporation, Limited.
or the United Hashfounders' associa-
ton will loom large upon the horizon.
Picture the sad fate of the bachelor
these days with such an organization
in prospect. Dare he kick about the
case eggs for breakfast. or suggest that
he prefers parched corn to chicory in
his coffee? Has he any earthly show
for peace and comfort If he objects to
meeting the same turkey five DAYS in
succession under a different alias every
day?
lnexorable as death and taxes, stand
ing with uplifted bread-roller at the
end of every lane in life's weary trav-
els. the Amalgamated Boarding House
& Food Supply Company, Limited, con-
fronts the hapless bachelor. Here in
the wild and woolly some small re-
spite awaits him, because the boarding
house trust is yet unknown; but he
might as well prepare to meet the sit
uatiOn.
or course, In such grave emergency
only one escape offers; he can get mar
ried if any right-minded girl will have
i3lll NHcD ilc COMES 10 n6r ONLY
last resort. If she accepts him in spite
of his record, and knowing that she is
the alternative of trust then indeed
may he count himself fortunate. His
board Will probably cost more than it
would with the trust; he will-for
time at least-have to make the kitch-
en- fire in the morning and he will find
that matrimony is not without its re-
sponsibilities; but he will have the
happy consciousness Of liberty to cook
his own breakfast II he doesn't like
what he is getting; he will learn
heap about the difficulty of keeping
house without case eggs in winter;
eventually, he will even meet the same
turkey on successive days and smile
when his old friend comes on the table
He will be a slave, 1t is true, but
willing, cheerful slave, because. instead
of being oppressed by a heartless trust.
he will have a little trust of his own
and draw all the dividends-countless,
blessed dividends.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20

time to learn the pleasures Of genial
ity. Fish's manner is pleasant though
not enusive; Harriman's is nearly al
ways frosty, though the newspaper
men say he has '1oosened up" re-
h1arkably since he reversed his old rule
and began TO talk for publication
ooth men have achieved much in
iaiiroao operation, but Mr. Hartman
mas played the larger game, both in
operation and speculation. Both are
OF the dominant, autocratic stamp that
orooks no opposition where it can be
oNer-ridden, so that the struggle will
not end with this election. because nei-
'her VIII ever quit fighting until he has
WON or until the end of life has come.
On the face of things, it is likely that
MI hartman will win by the election
OF MS directors on the railroads board.
III ne does, the election will probably
De carried into the courts on the lines
iaio down in the Fish bill for tempo
Tary injunction against the voting of
the Hartman proxies; and if Fish
WINS, 1t is announced that Mr. Harri-
man will go into the courts for a rul-
ing as to the validity of the vote.
In any event, the struggle bids fair
to illuminate the history of great finan-
cial strategy and eventually to estab-
fish some new principles of law affect
ing railroad holdings. so that the peo-
pie affected by the roads position will
ultimately benefit, no matter which
way it ends.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
MANSFIELp'S CAR PURCHASE.
New York TeIegraphD

NANSN i OIh dDH.J
The story of Mr. Mansfield's pur-
chase of the fine private car he had
used for some time previous TO his
death never has been told. Until three
years ago he had been hauled around
the country in a car not in keeping
with the gate receipts. He yearned for
gaudier rolling stock. but never found
the opportunity to go shopping for il.
While playing in Cincinnati his car
was hauled every night out to Fern
back, a suburb. One evening he called
at the station for his car, in company
with Clarence Horton. an assistant
general passenger agent of the Big
-Four, and on the siding he beheld
magnificent new private car that made
his look like an abandoned caboose. He
asked permission TO inspect it, and
Horton conducted him through it.
Never having owned a private car
the writer IS unable TO state with pre-
cision the beauties of this ones inte-
rior Presumably. however, it was
fitted with diamond studded water
coolers. electric elevators, q southern
exposure, good view of the ocean. a
guarantee against mosquitoes, and
other twentieth century improvements
I've been looking for just such a
car, said Mr.. Mansfield. I'D like TO
buy this one"
Don't think it's for sale" explained
Horton. The car is new and Just ar
rived. 1t belongs to Mr.. NJ. E. Ingalls,
president of the road, and he has not
yet ridden in it."
See If you can't buy IL for me-"
asked Mr.. Mansfield
Mr.. ingalls, put what he believed TO
be a prohibitive price on the car
$4,000
And that must be paid on the spot"
he added. with a wink.
Horton reported this conversation to
Mr.. Mansfield, and the latter, without
comment. wrote his check for the
amount. He left Cincinnati IN the rev
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REPAIR SHIP WITH CONCRETE

tITUH ASt.I
Concrete has come into use in connec-
ton with steamship repairs. 1t has been
successfully employed to patch up the
hull of a steamer 1t struck on jagged
rock and several holes were made in the
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The largest one was about so feet from
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the ship was towed 40 miles to a dry dock
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
CLEARING UP THE WRECkAGE

Further reports of the HeinZe bust
ness in New York show very clearly
that something very rotten in Ma
poleonic finance was behind the extra
ordinary furry in Wall street follow
ing the collapse of the corner in Heinze
stocks. All of the directors of the Mer-
camille National bank, of which Heinze
was president, have been compelled TO
resign by the clearing house commit
tee which helped the bank tide over
crisis; and such wholesale house,
cleaning in an institution of that kind
means more than appears in the sim
pie announcement Moreover, the sue
cessors of these disgraced directors
will be named-not by the stockholders
but by the clearing house commit
tee
The significance of this action may
never be fully known; but it is certain
that the management which has been
thus summarily displaced must have
violated the commonest rules of bank
ing or they would not have been COM
PEELED to submit to open humiliation at
the hands of the associated banks of
New York.
One cheerful aspect presents itself.
however; the clearing house is behind
the institution, and will carry it
through what might have been a dis
astrous period in finance. Whether the
stockholders suffer any serious loss or
not, the country will be protected from
the grave consequences that might
have followed if the bank had been
permitted to go under.
With this fear relieved and the mar
ket protected from such raids as the
copper collapse precipitated, there
should be a recovery from the depres-
sion OF Thursday and Friday, when men
unlOaded securities at any price rather
than take the risk of an unknown fac
tor such as the Heinze scandal pre-
scented.
The wreckage is being cleared away,
and sailing should be the palmer for it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
THROUGH BRITISH EYES.


Il guess said the Yankee. who had
been asked TO admire an echo. Il guess
you don't know anything about echoes
in this country. Why, at my sumner
eight hours TO hear the echo of your voice
When I go to bed I put my head out Of
the window and shout Time to get up"
and the echo wakes me in the morning
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
GLACIERS, SIX CENTS A POUND.

The glaciers of Switzerland. which till
recently have been useful only for fool
hardy tourists TO break their necks upou.
are now being turned to better account.
says a German writer.
Several of them have been bought by
enterprising companies and have been
turned into ice mines. The face of the
glacier is cleared, and great vertical in
cisions are made upon it from top to
bottom: downward. behind these cuts.
another groove is drilled, and in the mid
die of this is placed a small charge of
gunpowder. The explosion shivers the
face of the glacier. and the valley is
strewn with huge blocks OF ice. which
are then cut up into suitable sizes. These
are slung upon an overhead ropeWay
and, propelled by their own weight
swing down to the nearest railway sta
ton, perhaps many miles away. Here
they are loaded on trucks and dispatched
to Paris, where, in the hot summer
months, very high prices are obtained
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
Beat Teddy 10 II.

nos Angeles Times)
We may talk as we like, but Mark
Twain is really the man who made tho
Mississippi river famous.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
Long on Quantity, if Not Quality.

milwaukee Sentinel)
says the Detroit Times: ''Of the las
four presidents, Roosevelt is probably tn,
poorest tallIer." But consider the output
man,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20

1t will be recalled that John Brans-
ford was so little afraid of Mayor Nor
ris' administration that he bought
large real estate holdings for himself
and others while Morris was in office
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20

Harry Joseph defeated the Galveston
bills, which were intended to give Salt
also responsible for the political appro-
priatiOn of a Democratic candidates
name in the Fourth. Need anything
more be said?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
Besides. 1t Is Not Digging a Canal.

philadelphia Inquirer
, Europe is getting ahead of us in the bal
loon industry only because the war office
over there doesn't care what it does with
the taxpayers money
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
Pitied Woman Who scoIded Him.

Morris was known all over the stock
yards for his charities. although he never
was ostentatiouS in this regard One dav
during the hard times of 1888 he and
Woods were riding along one of the
streets in the vicinity of the stockyards
when they came upon five women stand
ing in the road crying. The packer stop-
Ped to inquire into their difficulty and
was told by one of the women that an
their children were sick and hungry and
that none of them had ANYTHING to eat
Nhereupon he ordered his companion to
take them all to the bank and give them
$40 each. Before Woods started one of
the women. recognizing the packer and
knowing him to be a wealthy man. be-
gan to reVile him for not offering them
more than $40.
'All right. Scotty," he said. You may
give the others so, but don't give this
woman anything"
At that the woman began to cry, but
Morris drove away before she could make
an apology. The next day, however. he
called "Scottv' over to his desk to ask
him what the woman had done or said
after he had gone.
Scotty had noticed that his employer
seemed 10 be. worried about it. and when
he told him that he had given all of the
women $40. as he had been ordered al
first. Morris was relieved.
Scotty. " he said, its good thing
there's q little sense between the two of
us. | was awake all night wondering II
you had let me make q fool of myself
over q little money. If you see that wo-
man again give her $50"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20

1t is significant that the only poll
ticians who approve of the Republican
game in this campaign belong to the
American" party, to which Devine,
the Republican chairman, owed allie
glance the last campaign?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
Has Ii All to Himself

anaconda Standard
Since 1904 some of President Roosevelt
strange bedfellows seem TO have tumble
out of bed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20

Still, some folks are foolish enough
TO believe that the city will fare very
well without Jake Raleigh and A. j.
Davis and the rest of the patriots who
want to stay in office.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
How "scotty" Stole the overeoat.

No one knew Nelson Morris as we'll as
'Scotty" Woods, now in the government
with Buck Mccarthy, the former stock
yards politician, who died last winter.
used to work for the packer when he first
began to export the products of his pack
ing house, and they often were commits
stoned to visit the seaboard cities to see
that consignments of beef. both on and off
the hoOf, got through properly
One cold winter day, "Scotty'' and
Buck were told to prepare for a trip
to Providence, r. l. At that time Scot
ty' had an overcoat that was entitled to
a pension if ever long service deserved
that reward Also he knew that his en-
ployer had fine English melton coat
which had been presented to him by a
London tailor and which he had never
worn The coat had hung all winter in
the packers private office, and 'Scotty"
figuring that some one else would steal il
If he didn't, made away with it the night
before he was to start east
A few days later when he and Buck
returned from Providence, they saw Nor
ris standing in one of the cattle pens bag
Cling with a salesman over the price of
some fine steers They walked up to re-
port, 'Scotty" having forgotten about The
purloined coat, although he was still
wearing it.
We'll. We got back all right. dad" said
'Scotty.' who always addressed his en-
For a minute the packer said nothing
but he looked at ''Scotty's" coat care
fully
And it was cold down east 'Scotty?' he
asked. finally.
Pretty cold, dad" said "Scotty." as his
conscience began to Jingle
Il see you bought yourself a new over
coat"
''Why-er-yes. You see. dad, it was-er-
like this
By this time the packer was smiling
broadly.
Never mind, 'Scotty,' - he squeaked. as
he started toward the office IT'S all
right. It's all right. my boy But. saw.
'Scotty,' I've got a fine new hat in nv
wardrobe at home, and if you say the
word I'll leave the basement window nm
locked tonight -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
Remembered an s5-cent Debt.

When young Morris first came to Chi
cago he did odd jobs about the old Myrick
hotel at Twenty-sixth street and Cottage
Grove avenue. Twenty-Five years later
when he was established in the present
stockyards, he met a man who had known
him in the old days. Mr.. Morris had
reason to believe that this man disliked
him on account of his Jewish origin, and
this belief was strengthened when the
man asked him. in the presence of some
of his friends. If he remembered the time
when he BACKED boots for a living.
Il suppose you remember me- said the
man, land how you used to black my
boots when | came to town.
Yes" the packer squeaked. Yes; I'll
never forget you. I've got a little book
in my attic at home which shows that you
Still owe me s. cents"
The man stammered about a willingness
to pay, but the great packer was gone be-
fore he could get the money out of his
DOcket
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20

Queer, isn't ii, that the Republicans
should insist they have the most votes
and yet are stealing Democratic candi-
dates names to help them out on cleo
ton day?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20

AS we understand it. that special
auditors report on city finances is en-
tirely harmless. but the Americans
would a good deal rather have an cleo
ton held before they show the docu-
ment outside the family
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20

Possibly the Americans" are keep
ing back that $4,000 auditors report for
fear the public would die of joy if ii
knew how much money the administra-
ton, has saved. Possibly. but hardly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
A Good Place For others to Go.

Omaha Bee.)
The Knox boom has been revived IN
Kentucky" says a southern paper. Ken
lucky hospitality always includes the Of
fer of something reviVing
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
Where Weioht Counted.

New York WOrldD
The Chinese boycott held up all right
under cotton cloth, ten penny nails and
locomotives. but it couldn't hold out
against Taft.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
VERY LIKELY.
(Exchange.)

Thief-So YOU do not think that l am
a common robber?
Victim-No you're too smooth in your
manner. ] think that you must at some
time in your life, have been head
waiter,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
Troubled With a Leaky Memory.
CBirmingham Age-fIeraldO

birmingham Age-herdld.)
The country has a president who Is
frank and gushy as TO certain subjects
and mum as to other subjects He has
wholly forgotten the word tariff" for
example.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
His Main Business Just Now.

atlanta JOurnaL)
Mr. Fairbanks has recently expressed
his warm approval of the Y. NJ. c. A II
any other good things need approval.
please apply 10 the vice presidential can
didate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20

F. Aug. Heinze, who bears a distant
resemblance to Napoleon, knows now
how his prototype felt on st. Helena
Possibly more so.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
viii Make the Fur Fly,

Nashville Americana
If Theodore. Rex. fails TO bag eight or
ten sure enough bears in the Louisiana
congress will get the warm
est ever in the way of a message about
Dec. >
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
Can He Do as Much at the conven
tion2
0ndianapolis News1

Although Uncle Joe Cannon kicked off I'm
the Galesburg game, he managed to get
off the field quickly enough TO prevent his
boom from being damaged in the scrim1
mage.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
And Teddy Has Been stung.

(New York SUM-
Evidently the Louisiana canebrake was
not planted with bears after all
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
CLEVER PARAGRAPHS.
is a Differences In the Morning.
Kansas CitV journal

Mr.. ROckefeller's doctor saws the Ameri-
can people are perpendicular drinkers
That is true for while. but toward morn
ing many of them become horizontal
DRINKS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20

When Harry Joseph and the Repub-
lican legislature defeated the bills for
the Galveston plan of city administra-
ton they made certain the financial
dilemma in which the city now finds
itself. Worse than that, they are try
ing to insure its continuation for at
least two years more by helping to
elect the American" ticket again.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
STORIES TOLD OF
NELSON MORRIS
Chicago Tribune

t0nlcdSO ITlDlne-l
Two things characterized Nelson Morris
among his friends and associates in the
stockyards- They were his high, Squeaky
voice and his habit of whiting.
And of his whiting no end of stories
are told. Once. when he was making his
annual winter trip to California, Mr.. Nor
ris was left alone for few hours in
Stateroom of his hands omely decorated
private car. In which he and his family
were making the trip west. Later when
his wife returned, she found the window
sills, the walls of the car. and the chair
arms. all OF which were carved from the
costliest of hardwoods, hacked and goueed
and splintered until the whole place had
more the appearance of carpenter
workshop than a staterOOm. When mis-
wife looked at him accusingly he stopped
whiting, and then, seeing what he had
done, he remarked in his usual squeakv
voice:
''Oh, by jing. ma. look what I've done.
l bet III catch the dickens for this
amusement Whenever he went out into
the. yards there always was a pine stick
ID The buggy, put there by a boy named
Jimmy Wall, whose main duty 1t was TO
see that his employer was kept supplied
with whiting material Jimmy also was
supposed to buy the office stamps, but
this duty ne showed off on to one of the
other boys. Sometimes the other boys
objected and a written complaint was sent
to the beef baron.
he would say, in his high-ptched voice.
That boy knows where there's all kinds
of pine sticks without knots in EN- and
that's enough for him to know You let
little Jimmy alone and quit pegging at
him.
Little Jimmy. who was known from one
end of the stockyards to the other as Nels
Morris official stick finder died a few
years ago, and 1t is recorded that no one
was more distressed over his death than
the millionaire packer for whom he had
worked
Mr.. Morris was scrupulOusly accurate In
his business affairs In the early days of
the stockyards accounts between the
packers and cattlemen often were carried
in the heads of the men who dealth with
each other. Often, when he was doing
business in a small way at the old Myrick
yards. he did all of his bookkeeping In
his head. and this developed in him a re-
markable capacity for detail. II also made
mis- memory keen, as one man, at least
learned to his sorrow.
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Total Copies of The Herald
Printed September. 1907.
WEATHER FOR SALT LAKE.
THE M ETAlS.

Silver, Coo per ounce.
No change in copper and lead quota
lions.