The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-24
Miscellany
Minutes in Manhattan.
BY Gotham. Knickerbocker.

BY Gotham -Hr1ckerb booker.
just off Fifth avenue, in the wonder
ful new section Of town which is grow
ing up around the Grand Central ter
minal is the Women s University club,
at LOG East Forty.second street. TO be
precise. It's nine neat stone stories loom
up briskly. was conveyed thither by
Il Smith college alumna.
ooh, dear mo, how distrcssinglp she
exclaimed at the entrance. I had
thrown away about half of one Of my
favorite cigars. "You don It think we ID
be RS iubospitable as tnat9' she con-
tinued.
"Men guests are always privileged TO
smoke here. We can, too, though few
of the girls do. -
So I lit up a fresh butt and we in.
vaded the sacred precincts.
Each section is furnished By diff
ferent college explained Miss Smith
. We did the library on the third floor
Nassar the living room on the fourth
the first floor and the "U' of Chi
cago the dressing room on the first
floor. Wells gave the silver, and so
on.
"Thls was certainly real club. But
there was different atmosphere than
| that of man q menage Everything
was bright and sunny. The man IS club
is dull and somber. Herc the furnish
| ings were gay and warm, positively
cheerful It was not q place to while
away fit of the blues, but q place
| to forget them.
But let me get some statistics. and so
on, out Of my system. The building
cost 100000. II has innumerable
dressing rooms, manicure and hair
dressing parlor and roof garden, where
tea will be served in summer. There
are forty-three chambers, Of which
twenty are reserved for transients, The
entire eighth floor is a big gymnasium
| with shower bath, and so on.
We We're on the beautiful second
| floor, where from a balcony one may
look upon tasty mahogany furniture
and recessed windows. The effect is
gray and old rose.
~ don't think this club will brea k
up any homes, - [ observed sincerely,
"That tired wife and mother ought to
come back to father and the children
With new bundle OF sunshine after an
hour or two here"
| There used to be an idea current that
the son of a very rich man could not
be good for anything. Some day when
7 have an industrious streak I will
|
notable mon of wealth who are taking
part in the leadership Of Now York
activities. But right now | will men
tion one example, John d. Rockefel-
| ler Jr.
With n father so rich that he makes
men with an income of a million year
seem only comfortably fixed, John D.,
| Jr.. is about the farthest from that
| legendary horror, the "idle rich, - that
could be imagined.
Aside from what be is able to do with
his money. he personally works hard in
churches and Sunday schools every week
| in his life Any regular preacher who
could write and deliver sermon as well
as John D., Jr., would soon become ia
mons and have an important charge.
he personally goes outside the church
into the unsavory corners and does
sociological work which is so utterly I'm.
like that Of the typical kid-gloved re-
Z, former that it defies ridlcule.
But John D., Jr,, is barred from an
opportunity which is open to you and
me. He can never be president of the
United States. His father S money is
too great a handicap. His own sky.
scraper mansion with express and local
elevators is an absolute bar.
BY the way, John D. has a new claim
to fame Just now. He is the first OF
sively. For 1000 he secured twenty
Chinese porcelains known as Black
Hawthornes, - which were made for the
great Chinese emperor, Kang-hi, under
whom the art Of ceramics probably
reached the greatest development in the
history of civilization.
That band Of ruffians, the New York
stock exchange brokers, ripped b young
| l.. Ii ehr
sent him flying into New street, THEN
back alley, with scarcely enough ap
parel TO conceal his nakedness as re-
quired by law.
II happened this way: He is broth
er of a board member and looks sc
much like his brother that casua
glance does not distinguish them.
Thinking TO have a little fun by
breaking one Of the strictest rules OF
the exchange and by smashing cher
ished tradition, he ran the gauntlet OF
the door tenders ut the New street en-
trance. These men pride themselves or
knowing every member of the exchange
by his gait, shape, voice and face. But
in be went. He wandered about the
big floor for many minutes. Then
somebody who knew hls brother espe
cially well began to observe him closely
A whispered conference and then the
mack fell upon him Off came his hat
| fhcn his collar aud coat, and when he
finally emerged there was little of the
respectable in his appearance
One Of the wags went around TO John
| Connolly, the veteran on the main door
The intruder badp t passed through this
way, but tho wag told Connolly he had
The old man was much distressed, espe
ciallv when the joker added:
'fYou II let in Sam Untermyer next.