The daily sentinel., 1908-03-19
MRS. WADSW0RTH
WRITES LETTER.
Prominent Grand Junction Woman Spending the Winter in
in New York City, Makes Some Very Interesting
Comments on People and Affairs Down in
Gotham---Wouldn't Like to Live There

deal of physical endurance and
money to enable one to grasp the
opportunities. Money is the main
factor. 1t melts away so rapidly you
cannot see it go, and when it is gone
you know not what became of It
and you look in vain for material
things it has brought to you.
Il am having feast of grand
opera. wonderful music in the grea.
churches which seek to out-do each
other in this line, and rich dramatic
treats. I have heard Gadski, Homer.
Tettrazini, Eames, Schumann-Heink,
Resso, Scotti, Caruso and others of
equal or less fame, and some of
them / have enjoyed many times. In
the theatres / have been entertained
by Olga Nethersole, Blanch Bates,
Mrs. Patrick Campbell Maude Ad-
ans. Ethel Barrymore, Maxine Ell
liott, Mrs. Fisk, Kyrle Bellew, No
velli and long list of other great
actors. l have spent much time
but not half I wanted to-in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Then
l have heard most of the city's emf
nent preachers and some of the
worlds leading orators and lectur-
ers. who have been this way. Then
there are the symphony concers
and the Philharmonic, the Hippo
'drome which is the largest play
house in the world where for awhile
they sail boats and then right before
your eyes turn the big lake into
skating pond of ice over which
scores of merry skaters merrily skim.
There are many other attractions l
have witnessed, but a list of them
all would be of length beyond rea-
son for friendly letter.
eve 1.-Two in nratty firm ish pd
flat of five rooms at $50, including
, heating, lights, etc, which proves
that rents here are not excessive.
81 have occasionally seen some of
the Nevada City people who are
here, including the Misses Maude
Murchie and Elizabeth Richards who
are taking a social science course at
Columbia college. but really this
burg is no place for sociability. One
might easily live for years here with
out making a friend or scarcely
forming an acquaintance.
"At Columbia college. about which
my interest mainly centers of course,
because my daughter is one of the
students, there is noticeable a great
difference between the Western and
the Eastern girls. Each element
keeps on its own side of clearly
marked line. BY the way I would
never think of sending a girl here
from the West to learn hospitality,
cordiality and naturalness.
club meeting at theshrdluetaoinino
Awhile ago I attended a Give
club meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria.
Presenting my invitation and per-
sonal card at the door / was ad-
mitted The matter of municipal
ownership was under discussion.
What the silk-gowned and bejeweled
danes who were talking did not
know about the subject would fill
very large book. When they were
tired of talking they called on the
visitors, | was one of the two with
| them of my personal observations
along this line in Colorado, cf the
success of Nevada City in operating
water system, and the like. They
seemed vastly interested and cate
chised me at length OF course l
gave them the information they
thirsted for.
what about that meeting do you
think impressed me in the most fore
inle and lasting manner? 1t was
that not one of those women came
to speak to me at the close, although
had in beginning TO speak, given
them my name, together with the
name and location of my home club.
"A visitor from Cleveland had
told them about Tom Johnson's work
in the way of municipal ownership.
Some of them seemed to have never
before heard of Cleveland, and not
one of them knew a zhir.s about Tom
Jchrson, The Cleveland lady and
naturally exchanged opinions about