Show OFP TO THE EAST a I p t I Ada Dwyers Close Call in the Syracuse Fire I SALT LAKERS ON A LONG JAUNT From Salt Lake to Chicago Sights and Scenes at OmahaA Pause at t Syracuse EN ROUTE October 17 1S90Wo left Salt Lakea merry party of six amid the drizzle and gloom of Saturday the llth y and plunged eastward as fast as a Union Pacific train could convey us endeavoring r In vain to outstrip the storm I kept ahead of us however and the long ride on the plains from Ogden t Cheyenne was through a succession of wintry blasts and sleet that sent the thermometer down near to zero and must have played havoc among the herds of shivering stock which we passed all along the route huddled together for warmth In such weather the genial corner of a Pullman was more than ever appreciated and hardly a nose was protruded pro-truded from the train till after Cheyenne wa passed Monday noon at Omaha saw the weather moderate and gave our party a chance t make a three hours run about town while waiting for the Northwestern flyer which tears out of Omaha at 430 p m AT OMAHA our real estate contingent was interested to note several things First that despite her 135000 population Omahas business is deadly dull second that the sign to rent hangs out in a big number of her windows third that 503 a year will rent an establishment estab-lishment of a size andJn a locality that in Salt Lake would command 8700 fourth that the for sale sign stands on some immensely desirable corners fifth that the long stretches of cement walks are cracked as i there had been a shower or cannon balls thereabouts sixth that stone 1 block pavements render it desirable desir-able that pedestrians should wear ear trumpet as watch guards and seventh that Omaha owes prodigious prosperity In the past and size at the present to the competition of the many railroads that center in her and radiate from her In all that will temptxailroad building to her and Irom her Salt Lake can afford to do everything every-thing and more than ever after seeing Omaha our party casts its vote in favor of the city councils encouraging the Deep Creek scheme The head that first conceived the Union PacificNorthwestern coalition whosoever it was is one that could be used to test spirit levels by Competing freight agents in Salt Lake have told me that the combine was a great thing for shippers and i is equally great for travelers The large tenderfoot contingent of the west which is given more and more to venturing away Irom home especially appreciates the convenience con-venience of being able to book through to or from Chicago and the maze and wilderness wilder-ness of cars at Omaha is enough to make r even the oldtimer thankful that the two roads are pulling in unison But our advice ad-vice is that travelers who go by the Union Pacific should take themorningratber than the evening train It has fewer stops and the Weber scenery is passed in daylight The Northwestern pulls out of Omaha at 430 and lands you in Chicago next morn in nt S AT CHICAGO Wo found the young commercial giant bursting with pride over the fact that the census brings her up to New Yorks heels and that the Worlds fair is to give her advertising ad-vertising that will put the 1 O figures well who should say where Already the big pulsating problem in Chicago is what shall we do witli wir guestst On the day our party arrived Tuesday 14th there was convention of iron and steel manufacturers manu-facturers and every principal hotel in the city was turning away people At the Auditorium Au-ditorium tho building which now contains the first hotel as well as the first theatre of Americatwo hundred applicants stood about the office and waiting rooms all day to obtain rooms as soon as the iron and steel men had gone The question is if a little three days trade convention is going to tax Chicagos hotel facilities what will the Worlds fair do But the matter has been taken up and is being grappled with by Chicagos hustlers ana I know of no problem they ever turned their attention to which they laid down without a solution solu-tion Speaking of tne Auditorium we were among the lucky 2 who were finally quartered by midnight The hotel was one of the things we had come to Chicago to do and we were willing to put up with the inconvenience of four in a room for tho sake of getting our names on the register At the risk of infringing on advertising rules I will say that Auditorium hotel and theatre is the most stupendous piece of architecture in America perhaps in the word I throws the Metropolitan opera house of New York till now without a peer in the United States far far back in the shade and those who have seen both say it even surpasses the famed Grand opera house structure in Paris It is built of solid gray stone runs up ten stories and has a tower which goes up eighteen Its otnces and grand staircase are all marble ana onyx and under the rays of hundreds of electric lights it looks like it might bo located in ideallic Constantinople but never in hogpacking Chicago Its main dining room is on the top floor where while sitting around a spread that in its profusion and splendor might be called reckless the guest can look out of the windows win-dows and see the dancing waves on the broad bosom of lake Michigan Besides Be-sides this there arewinerooms and banquet ban-quet rooms tucked away in odd corners of the building where their existence would never be suspected and all of them furnished fur-nished and fitted up withoriental magnificence cence Of the great theatre I shall have to speak in some other tithe but it is up and abreast with the hotel in all respects W S McCormick of Salt Lake was at F tile hotel the day we passed there Ernest Eldredge and wife were there quietly enjoying en-joying their honeymoon accompanied by Miss Eldredge B B Young and wife are settled on Belden avenue and I learned are rapidly opening up a large professional connection The charming soprano Miss Bayiiss is still with them THE SALT LAKE HERALD ty the way is found at thePostoflice News company near the postofuce building and Judging from the scarcity of copies when we called especially of the Sunday issue there are a good many Chicagoans who take an interest in the affairs of Salt Lake and Utah In Omaha we learned inquiries at the newsstands were equally numerous q LEAVING CHICAGO our party divides some going to New York by the Erie others by the Michigan Central Cen-tral and New York Central Our lot falls fals with the latter route past the Niagara through Buffalo Rochester Syracuse and down the banks of the Hudson passing Albany Al-bany and West Point en route Vauder bit and Depows road shows not the slightest slight-est sign of the tremendous strikes that have lately raged over and around it The road is beautifully groomed no other expression expres-sion does it justice The four tracks from Buffalo toNew York are kept in shining order and it i said the sight of a weed growing on the grade would bring on Depews heart disease Seated in one of the Centrals dining cars spinning down the Hudson past the swell country residences s resi-dences and through all the lovely hills and vales that abound on either side of the stream waited on by an Ethiopaim Gany mede is the acme of pleasant traveling almost anything else is simply a railroad ride This is a tour dc lu THE SYRACUSE FIE I reopen this to give you something of the terrible Leland hotel fire at Syracuse thinking you may not have had all the details de-tails by wire We arrived in Syracuse only a Jew hours after the calamity and found theJiuge pile of crick still smoking and still being played on by the firemens hose A careful corps of workers was handling each brick t see whether the remains of those reported missing rested beneath any of the piles Our little party had been wrought up to a high pitch by reading in a paper aboard the train that Cora Tanner and her company were at the Leland and tie knowledge that Ada Dwyer of Salt Lake was one of the I troupe kept us on the tendernoolts of anxiety until later intelligence was received re-ceived that she had been in the fire but had escaped unharmed though the escape escapc was so marvelously close that it took our breaths t hear of it When the fire was discovered the night clerk pressed the electric alarm which rang a bell in every room in tho house The guests ran out into the dark halls all lights were out only to be choked by the smoke and fire Among them were the stars Miss Tanner and Miss Dwyer who had rooms in the upper part of the house Miss Tanrier becoming ant from the fumes of smoke rushed into aroom where she saw a man just j climbing out of the fourtii story window on to a fire escape For Gods sake save me she screamed and the man a Brooklyn drummer chivalrously chival-rously sent her out ahead of him She slid down one story and fell the other three t bo caught miraculously in a net spread by the firemen She was unhurt with the exception ex-ception of ome bruises on the hands She had no sooner looked about her than she screamed for some one to go after Ada She had been left groping through the smoke in the hall on the fourth or sixth story it was not very clear which Had it not been for the heroism of tIe boy who ran the hotel elevator Miss Dwyer must hare perished and some twentyfive people with her Ifiven I while the smoke and flames were thick on every floor and pouring pour-ing into the elevator shaft tho boy made five or six trips from the office to the top story stopping in some instances at each floor to assist some fainting women into tho elevator One of these was Ada Dwyer who got to the office and outof the building unhurt but after an experience that it almost al-most appals one to think of it The killed were seven in number the injured thirty and nearly all of the killed met their death by jumping from the building The hotel was located almost adjoining the New York Central depot and the twenty five minutes we spent there were passed in viewing with a sickening interest the spot I where the terrible scenes had been enacted only a few hours before We had telegraphed tele-graphed congratulations to Miss Dwyer on her escape and spent some time looking for her but learned that Miss Tanner was so much prostrated that she had cancelled the dates for the remainder of the week and allowed the company to scatter till Monday Mon-day when they reopen in Philadelphia Louis Arch and his company were also in the fire and they too had calls equally close cose The Leland was a handsome hotel six stories brick with all modern conveniences and cost about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars Its fire escapes are said to have been deficient and the cloud of overhead wires which ran close to the cose building interfered seriously with the operations of the firemen It may be that a hint of these things will be useful t those now engaged in building large hostelries hostel-ries for Salt Lake GAX |