The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-26

UUzM limited man S Hfe span 10
E @ three-scoro years and ten has
81 III lost its witchcraft. its banetul
u ~ suggestion that used To cause
more premature deaths than
the white plague. So those. who come
TO their seventicth milestone In l9lU Will
pass it with fewer fears, breads and
shivers than troubled their foretathers.
Were 1t otherwise, we might hesitate 20
point out these honoTed ones rs they
pass, now, out of the Tar gateway OF
their seventh decade into the vestlbuie
of the Temple of Patriarchs, where is
the inner shrine of the Grand Old Men;
1t is a long procession, this, OF
worthies waiting to receive the septua,
gennriau s crown upon their grizzled
heads; and who do we see In hpeg Let
us jot them down
Henry Watterson towers high amongst
the throng. He has passed fifty-two
milestones since first he became a re.
porter, and now he rounds out Il half
century as an editor.
Sir Hiram Maxim is nearby. He can
hardly realize that so nluch time has
flown by since he was a poor little
coach builders apprentice up there in
Maine; nor does it seem nearly so long
ago as twenty-siX years when he first
amazed the world with his automatic
gun, fired in Hatton Garden, London,
Nine years have slipped by since Vic.
IOT)a SnlOte ulul WllE HST SWORD anu
dubbed him HSir Hiram
Palmer Cox is waiting, too. with his
Brownies, the eldest of whom is now
twcnty-three, He ana this numerous
family are greeted bv many old Cab.
fo-bia pioneers who gave him stuff for
the Golden Era, back there i'll Frisco,
III the old days, VIXEN he was in his
early twenties
Thomas Hardy is there with his chill
dren-poor ''Tess of the D D'Urber.
villes, - Guide the Obscure, +" " A Group
of Noble Danes, " ''Under the Green
wood Tree and Far From the Mad
ding Crowd -
Austin Dobson is in line with his
.tNankin Plate, and sold Sedan
Chair. - Let us hope that another gen
Grafton will roll around before he re-
alizes the fate pictured in these lines
of his;
81 shall not see the morning sky,
/ shall moi hear the night wind sigh;
l shall be mute as all men must, Al
In after days.
Others who will reach their seventieth
milestone in the coming year are:
Lieut.. Gen S. B. NJ. Young, U, S. A.,
who worked up to the second highest
rank in the army from the grade of
private in Pennsylvania volunteer reg
iment during the Civil war.
Major General Joseph P. Sanger, u;
S. a., veteran not only of the civil
and Spanish wars, but of the anti.Fe-
nian expedition of sc, the ''Whisky
Riots Of "a, the railroad riots of ".
he studied law while in the army, was
admitted to the bar, and took the cen
sus OF Cuba and the Philippines.
Major General William A. Kobbe. Z.
S. a., veteran of the Civil and Span.
ish wars, and former military governor
of Mindanao and JOlo.
Rear admirals Mahan-author, for.
mer president of the Naval War college
and our delegate TO The Hague peace
conference; Cromwell-Civil war vet.
eran and lately commander-in-c chief of
the South Atlantic squadron; Howell
who fought through the civil struggle
and commanded the northern patrol
squadron in the Spanish war; Andrade
IA native of Mexico, who entered our
navy through the Engineer corps, and
who did active service in both the civil
struggle and the brush with the Dons.
John Lamb. member of congress from
Virginia, now serving his sixth term in