The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-19

are yet warm memories in the hearts
of many who recommend them TO their
Grandchildren; and Rosa Nouchette
Carey and NJ u. VI. Davis belong prac
ticallY to that same school Of now half
neglected letters On tho other hand,
pained surprise the unexpected word Of
the passing OF Elinor Mccartney Lane.
who. at only 10, and with "Nancv
Stair and three other tales 10 her
credit, might well have been expected
10 charm us for years yet to come.
sueio, Dowagcr Duchess Of Manchester;
Lily, Duchess of Marlborough. and that
Lady Alma Tadema, who had painted
80 many wholly delightful genre pic
turcs, now Of the life Of old Holland,
now Of the commonwealth times of her
native England.
The stage has lost those splendid
actresses of other days. WilhelBina
Mitterwurzer. famed and loved where
ever German is spoken. and Henrietta
T.. Chanfrau. at whose name memory
harks back TO tne splendid days of
Forrest and the Booths, and Olive Lo.
/ gan, who could tell of such triumpbs IN
| the brilliant court of France s second
empire as would have made memorable
any span OF three score and ten, Us
hers had run.
| NdBS LII oiL viz LiciiTsSs
Every walk in life has suffered loss
as the neurology 9 total OF l25 has
been built up. The public service IS
| such an one as Ethan Allen Hitchcock,
and it may be doubted if there lives
TODAY an American architect the full
peer of the late Charles Mcklm- Bench
and bar are deprived of Justice Peck
ham and Frederick de Martens; the
army of Generals Howard and Corbin,
the navy of Admirals Converse and Won
Senden BibTan. and the church Of Viii
liam Hobart Hare, the reformer, Tyr
reIl. and "Father john OF Cron-
stadt. whose power throughout all Rus
sia made him indeed an uncrowned
pope.
Not far beneath those greater names
in literary history already set upon the
scroll. should be written Charles War
rem Stoddard and Richard Watson
Glider, while. in the field Of journalism
literature itself. the twelve month s
losses include Mayo ". Hazeltiue, for
a generation the critic of the New
York Sun. aud pone better wrote
than ''M. ". NV. NJ. Jafrsu.
the Suns mind aud energy since the
departure Of Charles A. Dana, and Al
bert Laugen, ono of the youngest but
one or the uloSC DrllllauI OI Osrlndn
pcnmen, founder and editor of Simpi-
clssimus.
English theater goers may no more
lar~h over the sallies of Lionel Brough
nor shall their American cousins listen
: lagain to '"Oid Jed Prouty' Golden
Heinrich Conried has laid by the baton
for all time to come. Dudley Buck s
/. sympathetic fingers havye fallen for
ever from the keys over which ne com
posed those AL but innumerable an
thems and services.
II is a list, III its entirety, this list
of the dead during the year 1909
which makes some appeal TO every
interest, touches at some point every
activity throughout the whole wide
world, representing so much that thu
pessjmist might find depression IN its
reading. did not the optimist (who for
ever shoulders his blacker fellow ii
us all) recall that, in the main, these
were they who had done good work
and did il well. They have crossed tc
what IN ignorant, Imaginative, hopeful
race has come 10 cali 1.-THE dim be
yond. - but they have left to the living
the high heritage Of example and
achievement.