Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS j Miss Mabellc Blggart author lecturer and traveler Is at the Knutsford from New York She Is a Swarlhmore college I col-lege graduate a member of the National Nation-al Geographical Society of the United Slates and has pursued ethnological I studies throughout this country the I Dominion and England and Is in this city for a few days before continuing J south Miss Biggnrt will give a lecture recital before the Ladles Literary club Saturday evening next on George Eliot 1 Including a condensed dramatization of Adam IJede with orchestral accompaniment I accompa-niment She said In conversation yes I I terday I am n route to New Mexico f and old Mexico to study the customs and habits of the peoples there and their peculiarities of civilization In the Zunis of New Mexico I expect to find rich returns In the way of Information Informa-tion for the time and effort expended The main object In my travels Is to I secure material for a book I propose I I I publishing entitled Ourselves and Our I I Neighbors and which will be completed 1 com-pleted after my Mexican tour is over I 1 shall give the few days while in 1 Salt Lake to looking into the material I Interests of this section of the country and Inquire Into the social and political i conditions obtaining In this State as far I as I can Last summt 1 spent the sea I son traveling over Newfoundland I Labrador and the Esquimaux country and found the people Intensely Interesting Interest-ing from a sociological as well as an ethnological standpoint and two results of thin trip were the publications Solomon Solo-mon Garland of Newfoundland and Arcadians Old and New From Salt Lake I shall go to Santa Fe and visit I Ithe Pueblo Indians who are an interestIng interest-Ing subject for study I Miss Blggart Is an engaging lady and I I an enlhuslat In her work I 0 I Glen Hall of Chicago who Is to sing with the Orpheus club at this evenings I concert arrived yesterday from the East Chicago Is I becoming more musical mu-sical every year he said MO that It Is a question whrthor I after II 1 notion Is Its superior In that line The Thomas orchestra is the equal of the Huston Symphony and the Apollo club Is fully the peer uf the Handel and Haydn society so-ciety of Boston But the KnelntM 1 stringed quartette of the Hub may be a llltlo better than our Splerlng quartette quar-tette because It Is considerably older In vocal mutters Chicago stands I very high and the interest in vocal music there Is constantly Increasing I Bicknell Young a Salt Lake baritone Is doing well In Chicago whore he and his wife have long had a studio and given instruction In singing Some New York musicians affect to regard Chlcagon musical claims with suspicion suspi-cion because we did not support the Metropolitan opera that came from New York But they did not deserve to be supported or patronized In anyway any-way They advertised to present VanDyke Van-Dyke and other noted singers but when they appeared the noted sliiKcrs had been replaced with Inferior talent and still the outrageously high prices were charged Just the some But a French opera company came from New Orleans and charged 5150 per seat instead in-stead of 55 and had far helter singers than the Metropolitan people had and the house was packed at every performance per-formance On Christmas night when people generally are supposed to prefer to remain at home the Auditorium was packed solid by citizens In attendance I I on the Messiah by the Apollo club I think the muslcn prospects of this country are steadily improving Mr Hall has a olce ranging from C above to C below and he stands very well In musical circles of Chicago TO Dr W R Gillette general manager of the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York city who was at the I Knutsford yesterday left last night for I I the north en 1 route to the coast and I thence south He said last night I I get out Into this country about once in two years and am always Pleased to come here I have always liked the West and believed in Its great future and our people are taking good care to cultivate cordial relations > all through the Intermountain country I The doctor is on a tour of Inspection of the Western agencies Although 0 I years of age he does not appear to be over 45 For many years he was a prominent practicing physician in New York before accepting his present responsible re-sponsible position His father was Rev Dr A D Gillette for many years pastor pas-tor of the Calvary Baptist church In New York city and one of the best known and most respected clergymen in the United States President Gowans of Tooele reports that the winter thus far has been very favorable for the farmers and stockmen stock-men 1 He says thai the county has had much 1m more snow than usual for this time of the year which Is very gratifying tl ing l to the dry farmers Tooele valleys is i becoming a great dryfarm district and President Iowans says the aver ago In this kind of farming is double that of any previous years u S President Geddes of Oneida stake Ida reports fine weather In his locality and says that the snow is nearly all gone The fall to date he says Is about as usual Fall grain looks well cattle and sheep are doing well and business generally Is in a good condition Many families are moving there now new houses are being built In every part of the town and many new business houses have started up within the past year The schools are In an excellent condition and the town generally is growing rapidly |