Show A SALT LAKER IN KANSAS CITY he clives a usey account of ills his ob tons and impressions KANSAS KANAS CITY MISSOURI july 1887 editor deseret news tais A 16 a city of about inhabitants it is considerable ot of a sight to te walk or ride town containing a condensed population as large as that of the entire territory of utah here the observer sees ai a once the whole alphabet of western business life and to write it up successfully the ibe would woula have to touch every note in the gamut of social existence exl stence hero her is the much admired millionaire in fact several of them living in palatial splendor counts his colln coming dividends and rejoices at the rise of stock he is a miser on a large scale and his eyes twinkle with satisfaction as he bontemp contemplates tes his swelling shares in the vast enterprises of the country no miser of meagre lodging and scanty meal gloats over his hidden len hoards with greater glee than does the owner of railroad stocks irk in contemplating a report that increases his bank account with all its possibilities for future greatness human nature seems to be pretty much the same in all social spheres you hardly ever find the man of wealth reaching that hat t condition of satiety where he says ays s now I 1 have all I 1 want for myself and my family and a little toj tol spare so I 1 will henceforth devote my talent to the benefaction of my friends and tel fel I 1 will now help some struggling fing climber up the rugged steep 0 of for fortune forture tuve I 1 win will go down dowa and draw the deserving poor roia their haunts ot of privation priva tiou oad nd give alve them not only sound advice but An ganancial ancial assistance so that they too may in time be ou on the road tu to affluence and happiness on the contrary the demon of greed is often developed to as great a degree inthe man who has provided for his bis every want for a hundred years hence as in the pauper who looks with envious eye upon the splendid surroundings of his bis successful superior in the social scale and on the other hand it to is pitiful to behold the weaknesses that are to be expected only among the rich manifesting themselves in all their depravity also to la the ranks of the poor among amone these is pride bishop hun tor ter that revered patriarch la one of his bis quaint sententious speeches says pride and poverty pride and poverty two bad things to go together this is exemplified in the family whose circumstances will not admit of a summer at the cool seaside sea side but whose pride causes them to close the front of the house and aad live in the rear during the heated season notwithstanding the said front is on the north side with a good cool porch and the said rear part is a sout southern heru extension exposed to the summer sun at 40 degrees hotter than the sam espirit induces the poor clerk to put on the sits aits of his rich em and runs him into debt for wife dressing so aste as to outshine that employers extravagant family the clerk who earns 75 a mouth month thinks he be ought to drive as good horses and attend theatres theartres the atres balls and excursions in the same name style and sphere as the mare merchant whose income reaches fram 2 2000 to 1 per annum he a wears if anything better at ter clothes and smokes su superior eror c cigars gars I 1 am not dot saying that ka kansas as city ity is alone in this regard it is done in every town except perhaps salt lake and so there may be no jealousy I 1 will add ogden Thep the asper who cannot tell where next weeks living is to come from also has his little ideas of appearances and turns tarns up his skinny nose at the other pauper whose whole only sate gate provision is the one oae deposited in his bis stomach and the chronological happening whose next meal to is as uncertain as a tribune truth then there is the fashionable young lady who spends all she expects to get next year in the latest things that the parisian audies Du dies present dudie is the name of the fer female nale among the gonles ton les of the gutter A few ol of the males have reached salt lake but they dont take there the dude is regarded by some as the connecting link under the darwinian doctrine of monkey decent but I 1 think it is an insult to the patriarchal monkey to place him even on a par with the dude as he be appears in the streets balls gardens a and ad cardens parks of the larger cities the he monkey as he be walks jumps and capers exhibiting hi his wonderful preben powers and other natural qualifications of his bis kind looks like he be was the better man iran of al the two both mentally and physically however joking aside this penniless representative of degenerated humanity manity liu called the dude seems to live and move and havea have a being such as it la is in almost ever every city in the civilized world and aad 50 sol 1 find him here kansas city is a thriving and heal healthy th v looking business center some of the finest residences of the west grace the line of car travel in every direction one of the pleasures is to get into a cable car and travel at seven miles an hour hoar for five or six miles through the city these cars are a wonder to the tou tourist rist he ascends from the station like a fly on a wall up the hill bill to the main thoroughfare and coming down it is like dropping off the roof of the tabernacle er but bat they ride very easy and are so thoroughly under control that albough traveling at a greater speed than in chicago only two men have been een killed by t them hem in two years while the st louis cars used to kill a man every morning so the conductor told me they go g every two minutes minuses and travel day and night the drivers or brakesman brak esmen and conductors are relieved every sixteen hours and get about 76 75 a mouth month they carry a wll bell punch and a sharp ring attests their honesty as they pocket the proverbial nickel which is collected while you sit in the car one feature ot of this line is particularly admirable when the car seats are full they never take on more people unless the passenger consents to stand will you stand briw rings out on the night air thena shrill yes yea from a female voice and the car stops on a lady passenger no one moves the contract covers all bashfulness fal nesson on herp her part artand and all boorishness among the gentlemen who keep their seats ladies are surprised and need pressing some places in the east when you ask theato them to take your seat they are not used to it the gentlemen look at you as a being from another and not very superior world and plunge their noses deeper de e per into their newspapers for the balance b of the journey at kansas city we see the battle of missionary ridge and also that of gettysburg the former is by far the best it is really wonderful how the scene can be made so realistic it cost real cannon and real trees in the foreground and magnificent life size paintings 01 the officers aad armies of the blue and the gray transport you yon to the battlefield at once ence on reaching the summit of the stairs in the centre of the scene three great german painters assisted by about ten local artists have produced one oae of the finest imitations ot 0 real life in the world the osy day we visited the tb gettysburg burg show the lecturer was hot over the rebel flag bag business and I 1 had to comb him the right way to get him cooled down so he could feel like telling his little story of warfare he seemed to smell bood blood as he be advanced and would interpolate and ejaculate land and d the abe reba 11 saying some very uncomfortable things for a democrat to swallow and still feel that the coming campaign was safe for his bis side well as the preacher says one word and I 1 have done there is more fight in the united states today to day than be f re the war if I 1 may bay judge by the cruel and expressions of fighting republicans old soldiers and aad G A R s generally wherever I 1 have heard beard them talking of politics and that to is all the time when talking at allU al lUtah tati can look out for opposition to statehood from that side unless a republican state is contemplated they cant bant get over their last defeat c w s |