Show t k COLLAPSED DREAM g = Or a Story of Great but Disappointed Disap-pointed Expectations I William Shakespeare the author I 1 of a number of greatly admired tragedies and comedies put into 4 I the mouth of one of his creations called Hamlet the words To S what base uses we may come The speculative train which gave birth to these words was caused by an inspectation of the skull of ona 4 IToric an individual with whom it Would appear this emaciated young man Hamlet once held very t intimate relations Be that however how-ever as it may HERALD reporter singularly enough had the same I thought suggested to him yesterday though from a somewhat different i P cause He happened to be knocking around the boiler yard of Hayne3 t I c Sons on South Temple street and 4 it saw the men hammering away at j1 I some very rusty boilers Enquiring F x what they were he was informed S that they were the boilers taken c from the famous General Garfield l the last name under which this craft was known to the great public pub-lic Mr Haynes stated that the t boilers had been taken out of the steamer and sent to this city to be I dressed up and they were then to 1 be sold or otherwise disposed of by Cunningtom Co who had ordered S or-dered the work done It was also ascertained in another quarter that ihis noble vessel which had plowed q11 the briny deep of Greut SaltLake for tij so many years would no more l1 0 said the ocean blue but had been consigned to the duty of affording i t bar luxuries and liquors during the coming summer and that she r l tightly moored to the shore near 4Y Lake point or Garfield Landing I9h Could a fellow hearing this help making a personal application of the illustrous brods suggestion To what base uses we may come Think of having your boilers taken out dressed up and L then sold while your carcass is used L for a bar roomoh happy second F thought I i But it was not always thus The Garfield was once a power and an influence where she is now a byword by-word and a saloon She was built at Corinne in 1870 and launched in I 4 1871 It may not nowbe generally IS known but Corinne was then an enterprising 1 f r en-terprising burg looked upon as a ej dread rival to the great burg of Og MW den so in honor of the Bug on the Bear the steamer was called the City of Jorinne Fox Diefendorf c j f conceived the idea of building her r and furnished the greater part of E the capital The inhabitants of t 1 Corinne contributed about 85000 in 4 ti cool cash towards the enterprise the Central Pacific hauled the lum ber with which to build the steamer over its road for nothing and Dief I T endorf put up the remainaer of the Li t lucre necessary to finish the boat t 4 I and get the machinerysomething Ii like 25000making over 330000 tJ in all as the cost of the craft The 1 < I 4 boilers and engines and other machinery ij I f ma-chinery are supposed to have been r i iti It purchased in St Louis The idea of 1 I tf construction was to utilize her in 3 1 7 11 1 carrying merchandise ore and bul r i jj1 lion lumber and the like between rJt t l Ophir and CorinneOphir then r 1 t U being a very prominent mining dis 1 i trict i 1 > t She was used this way for a time 1 tUi when she was purchased by H S l i I i Jacobs for the Lilly Leisenring 11ir T g ji I Mining Company to transport ore f I i and bullion from the southeastern L I u part of the lake to Monument Point S I or Corinne Her period of useful f i t i J ness in this regard having come to t 3 d I a brief termination she was next 1 ii i I t purchased by Mr John W Young ti i I to be possessed as an adjunct of the t j I is t f t Western Railway and was used for j t I a pleasure boatand such a pleasure S fl i 1 l pleas-ure boat I There has been more heartrending S ft 1 I t i heart-rending overpowering and demonstrative 1 fi i demon-strative sickness on her ia one 5 5 5 d I minute under the guise of pleasure S I 1 trips ori the lake than a wool dyed I 1 land lubber would witness under i t Uj t ordinary circumstances in 100 years r Oh the delicious picnics that have t 4tI 1 i been consigned amid unknown 5 1St J I sighs 7 of relief to the relentless andS and-S Iii r silent waters But the subject is J Ht 1 heartrending and we forbear f Alter having had her cognomen altered several times she was on the occasion of the visit of General SS b 4 Garfield to this city and on his trip ± on the lake on her christened the k J j S General Garfield under which ap i t pellation she has existed till the I St present time Latterly the poor old girl has been used as a saloon restaurant res-taurant and as a boarding house for a few persons during the summer season Captain Douris having EJr charge of her The more she became ci known and in this respect she is i i I singularly humanthe less she wa h liked and it was only when safely i uea up mat me great public could I S II iBl i I or be induced to place their dainty feet I 1ft on her heaving and responsive proportions t rh II pro-portions But she has gone the wayS I way-S lj of all fleshto speak figuratively I j 0 i 41II1 and is useful now for twe things I i onlyas a saloon and an illustration r j I t with which to point the painful Ii E truth above referred toro what 1 < I base uses mav we return i t w1 |