Show MRS CUMMINGS HERE I Widow of Late Congressman Visits Salt Lake PRINTERS HOME LIBRARY jJrg Cummings With Her Brother is Touring tho We5t to Regain Her Health and Expects to Arrange at Colorado Springs for Presentation to Printers Homo of Mr Cum rningss Pine Library Stories of Mr Cummiagss Early Life Told by BrotherinLnw TJio widow of the Into Congressman iiul newspaper alan Amos J Cummlngs accompanied by her brother Kugono J YanNYjo arrived In the I city yesterday and look apartments at the Cullen Mrs Cunimlngs was prostrated by the dcnlli of her husband on the 2nd of Inst Mny and wjisiidvlscd 10 visit other scenes When sho left her homo In company with her brother she vas on the verge of n collapse but a tour of the Weal Including Includ-ing visits to Victoria San Krnnclsco southern California and Ix leo have done wonders ami slue la rapidly rfegnln Ino hcr health of mind nail body She will remain InSalt 1 > > until tomorrow visiting Ute places that usuallx appeal I to the strancfr GIKT FOr PRINTERS HOME This la not however her llrst trip to Utah Many warn ago she passed 1 n month In Salt Lake In company i with hei hiibbniul From hrl she will go to Colorado Colo-rado Springs to visit I thc Uillon Printers home A short time before hlq death Mr Cummings expressed iho wish to a Wnsh Ingtun friend that hln line library should po to the homo when he could no longei lisa It This dislre Mrs Cummlngs has determined to carry out nnd while In Colorado Springs ihe will arrange for the presentation Mr Van Ness hint evening told several lnt ruling anecdotes of Mr Cummings who like so many other successful men bvgan life aa a printer Ilia father who waa n minister ran a little wekly papei at Camptown now Jrvhiglon N J and Amos learned iho ciiwe in the paternal print shop Enily In MB career he innnl t estl 1 a taste for JounmllBm and llir leaning toward Democrney thnt wcrp to bu the guiding Influences of his later life LEIT AMOS AT 1I07IE I On ammo occasion when he was lers than 15 years old bin father wan called awn > from horn to attend a mlnlslorlul conference con-ference The old srontlemnn loft pent of good orthodox Republican copy on the I hook and carefully Instructed Anio how to pet oat the paper But when Amos rend the editorial matter 111 dU not approve of It at nil lie I had even cil that youthful age Imbibed the doctrinea of Democracy and he could not sympathize sympa-thize with his fathers political views C DID SOME EDITING A part of th opy was dumped unceremoniously un-ceremoniously Into the vnrto baiskot and the remainder wan duly edited by I thr voung typographer With a long blue pencil ho went over the pages striking out the words Democratic and Republican Repub-lican then pen In hand he wrote In Republican for Democratic and Democratic for Republican lie pclssorcd the most Btrlklnfr editorials from the leading Democratic exchanges and himself composed a telling roast on the Republican candidates MADE A SENSATION Young Amos had never sot type wllh ns much nlocrlty and satisfaction as he did on that Issue HIt fingers fairly new and the office lamp burned far Into Iho night The JIlner lamC7 out at the en rib est ttoaslblo moment and when It uas circulated from the poBtofflco hero was ppmruhliiK doing In Cumplown Tin Democrale were overjoyed and conster nitlon reigned In the ranku of the t Republicans Re-publicans A coo > of the paper reached th > minister beforo ito onpnliifr nf ihr conference and ho l l hnnllly Htnrtfd for hr > rne Tho Interview between fnlhor allli son has not been recorded but It Is a matter nf history that Amos was never again left to get out tho paper alone REGAN EARLY A short time afterward there was a great campaign III Newark N J of which Cnmptown wns u suburb It I was the fashion In thoo days for the ablest men on 1 both l aides to air tholr arguments through letters In tho iicxvnpiiiwra Dur lug this ciimpalgn tho mnat spicy conlrl biulons on lx half of tho Democracy veix signed Camptuwn Tin Democratic candidate was olocle l anti a great ban quet was given to celebrate I the victory At I the table Uv convirKitlon turned upon thf campaign letlerp and the sue c 4ipful candidate reforred In terms of warm praise to tho letters signed Camp town1 towxmWoull Would you like lo meet the writer of those lotIons l asked Charles Stewart tho lonMtmastcr Indeed I 1 would replied tho I candidate Stewart went outside and returned In mow m low l-ow mlnntPH with a freckled barefooted boy In knee pants Hero Is Cumptown said Mr Slew nrU nrUAmos Amos was tho lion of the evening amid H la safe to say that It was the proudest moment of his life SLCCKBDBD BY HEARST When 15 or IG years old he had mas lorotl I his trade and rcftiocd to do further violence to hl In feelings by settIng up Republican Re-publican editorials lie started out on the road l going from town to town and Hotline typo In all parts of tho country lie accompanied tho 111fnled Walker jillbualcrlnir expedition to Nicaragua und barely wcarcd wllh bin life Later he became one of the moat prominent fig i uroT In New York jouninllHm and represented I repre-sented his district In Conxrvaa for ylxtccn years until the time of his death ills auccvtJROr In Congress la I also n news imncr man of more than local note His name Is I William R hearst I |