Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-07-25 | Page 4 | Local News

And BO John Smith tho oldtime car riagedriver IH dead No more will people peo-ple see him driving tourists up and I down the streets leaning far backwards back-wards and sldewise keeping but a scant aye on the team but loading 1 tho tourists with moro Information than thoy could get from all the statistics of the States lie had an Inexhaustible fund of Information He knew everyman every-man and every oman He knew everyman every-man and every mans wife or wives down to the fourth or fifth installment I He knew where they lived what their ways were Hence when begot on the I box with no one behind him but some credulous Easterners ho was prepared to stuff them with Information enough to last them until they each could write a book An unequaled man was John Ho was moro than n oarrlagedrlvor ho was a genius Thoso who knew him have noticed during the past few months that ho was not quite his old self but wo all thought he would droop along yet for perhaps n half dozen years and tell the same stories to new tourists and do it with that candid and at the same time specific style which would leave In their minds tho impression that however much other sources of information might bo amiss what might bo received from John would ho absolutely reliable Poor old John Wo are sorry he Is gone We arc glad that when the last hours camo ho sank Into n painless sleep and thus unconscious passed through the valley of the shadow of death