Show A CARD EDITORS HERALD in a recent iesue issue speaking of the prosperity prosE prosperity erity of your beautiful city and t the e many signs of progress to be seen on every hand yo you u give a glowing account of the artistic skill and mechanical ingenuity of one of the leading artisans of that place you say dm mr r wilson ia is known in this community as the leading painter and decorator his work such as the ornamentation in the broom hotel speak for him we recognize the fact that it is i not your wish to credit a man with that which is not his d due ve but why should mr wilson be so anxious to claim as his handiwork that which belongs to another it is well known in ogden as can bo couched vouched for by mr broom the builder or mr of the broom hotel that as far as the decorations above mentioned are concerned the entire work was ours the wholesale house in chicago which furnished the gooda goods will speak for us we not only did the work at the hotel but we drew the design and ordered the stock by numbers hence the to us mystery why mr W should try to claim work done by one whom he has denounced as a noboa nobody and a novice at the business as lis his own in short mr wilson should make no pretensions re bension so long as ogden has 1 a I blackwell ackwell to do ornamental painting g and graining I 1 ng or a seibert to do slain in anu andrain 4 decorative papering in eed adlie he would have been lost in the painting of the elegant broom hotel hotell tell were it the services of mr now of seattle W T the recognized leading painter on that job by publishing the foregoing you will confer a favor upon one who expects in tho the near future to return to ogden signing A G MECHANIC MH ANic HELENA af T july 16 15 83 |