Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-15 | Page 14 | "Race" Whitney Goes to the Great Beyond

"RACE" WHITNEY US 10 THE GREAT 1101 Well-Known Newspaper Man, Son of Apostle Whitney. Dies in This City. i Horace Nowol -Whitney, son of Orson Or-son F. and Zina Smoot Whitnoy, aud woll known among tho newspaper fraternity fra-ternity of tho west as "Race" Whit-no3r, Whit-no3r, died at 7 o'clock Tuesday morning at tho L. D. S. hospital, in his twenty-seventh twenty-seventh year, after a lingoring illness. Mr. AVhitnoy's death was duo directly to an attack of nouritis, a form of rheumatism, rheu-matism, which ho contracted some timo aero in Los Angeles. Mr. Whitnoy was a nativo of this i city and as a newspaper man mado an enviable record for himself. Ho received re-ceived his primary education in tho public pub-lic schools of Salt Lako aud lator attended at-tended the Brigham Young, educational institutions at both Provo and Logan. II is first experience in newspaper work was acquired shortly after his family moved to Logan in tho year 1S9G, at which time ho secured cmploy-mont on tho Journal of that city. However, ho left thero in 1S07 and becamo a cleric in the Roberts Houso of Provo, and while so engaged served as Provo correspondent cor-respondent for Tho Salt Lako Tribune In 1S9S he wont on the editorial staff of The Salt Lako Herald, and shortly after married Rosmary Glosz, a singer of national reputation, who at the time of tho marriage was prima donna in tho "Foxy Quiller" opora company. I Later Whitney went cast with tho company in which his wife was engaged en-gaged and for some timo traveled in the eastern and sou thorn states no ad-vaneo ad-vaneo agent for it. Mr. Whitnoy was employed on the Deseret News, the Journal of Portland, Ore., and was a reporter on the San Francisco Chronicle at tho time of tho earthquake. Business there being demoralized de-moralized as the result of that catastrophe catas-trophe ho camo back to Salt Lako. Still later ho went to Los Angeles, where he was stricken with the diseaso which brought his end. The funeral services will be held at f) p. m. Thursday from tho Eighteenth ward meeting house.