H 4 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY.
H his efficiency, for the captain was watching him,
H and he leaned too far, lost his balance and fell 30
H feet to the deck. Every one thought of course
H the fall would kill him, but he landed square on
H the deck in a sitting position. Springing up he
H extended his arms, made a bow, such as circus
H acrobats do after a stunt, and said: "Captain,
H 'yees have not a man aboard the ship that can do
H the likes of that," and walked ashore. The cap-
H tain smiled grimly, but Wooley rolled on the
H deck and screamed with laughter.
M But that same laughing Wooley was once on
H his way to New York as a passenger when the
H steamer caught on fire. The fire had started just
B over the boilers, the seamen could not get to it,
H and the fire was gaining headway rapidly. Wooley
M knew every inch of a ship. Throwing off his coat,
fl he seized an axe, and saying to the officer in
m command: "Get two strings of hose ready right
M here, and man your pumps. I will find a way to
M the fire," and commenced chopping his way. He
H soon made a place where the hose could play on
H the fire, but they carried hiin out unconscious,
H overcome with the smoke and hot fumes.
M He left the sea and was running the engines of
M the (Manhattan mill in Austin when Stedefeldt
M completed his furnace. Meeting Stedefeldt one
m morning he asked him how he was getting on
M with the furnace. Stedefeldt replied that every-
m thing was perfect, except that he could not give
M the screen at the top feed the necessary shaking
M motion, that he had worked weeks upon it, but
M could not fix it, and added that if he had that
M fixed his furnace would be worth a million to
H
H "Oh, I will do it for half that," said Wooley,
M and picking up a shingle, he with a pencil made a
M rough drawing and handing it to the baffled in-
H ventor said: "Fix it that way and it will work
H all right," and it did.
M Later Wooley was the engineer in charge of
m the machinery in the first Eureka furnaces at
H Eureka, Nev. Then he came to Salt Lake and
B later went away to Arizona and died there.
H He was the jolliest soul on earth, but one of
H- the most capable men in his profession that ever
H worked out his life in the west.
MR. GRANT "
The cut and dried testimony of Mr. Grant
with its febrific accompaniment, has been the big
laugh at the opera bouffe, staged by the city
commissioners during the week, and in his ex
citement he so far forgot himself and his own
record as to deviate considerably and take up
the time of the mock court to carry out the threat
he made in one of the ante rooms of the counv
ell chamber that he would throw plenty of mud
when h got on the stand. Owing to the utter
incompetency, not to mention suspicious circum
stances which have characterized the police de
partment since B. F. Grant has had charge of it,
this journal has been unremitting in its zeal to
have the stench stopped or have him removed lor
"the good of the service."
It has not been a personal fight; we don't
care what he does personally just so his official
acts are above reproach and his work competent
But the Cheese of Police has seen fit to make
it personal, and if he wants to, he's on.
B. F. Grant is a fine old bird to have anything
to say about the libations anyone has connected
with. The first time the writer saw him, he was
standing at the end of a not overly crowded rou
lette table supporting numerous drinks by leaning
on the table with one hand while he fussed with a
couple of stacks of chips with the other stacks
such as boosters use and carefully increase dur
ing the evening when the play is light.
His height and distinguished bearing, also his
mellowness attracted attention and when asked
who he was, the gentleman with us said: "Why,
that's Heber J.'s brother; you will always find
him around the gambling joints this time of
night."
Then we learned that he was very well known
about town and other towns, principally mining
camps, a saloon keeper who worried a local brew
ery for years, and a fellow just like any other or
dinary one of his type whose consorts were the
kind one might expect to find in the same pro
fession. U Drifting along, he was said to have separated
from John Barleycorn and otherwise showed
"signs of leading the life immaculate, and then
i Cfje Jetof)ou& IMel
H Is the Newest Ffrst-Class American Hotel to be opened,
I and already it is a great hotel success.
I . It is the social and business meeting place of the city,
I convenient to everything, perfect in appointment, rea-
H sonable in rates, unexcelled in service, cuisine and
H equipment.
I The number of visitors from out of town we are enter-
I taining, is the best indication of what those who have
H been with us in their travels have had to say.
H The hotel that meets every requirement of those used
I to life in first-class hotels in larger cities.
H 'Sunday Table d'Hotc Dinner $1.50 , ,,.
Daily Wagon Dinner 7 5c The NEWHOUSE HOTEL
H Merchant's Lunch 50c F. W. PAGET, Manager
Hi
someone conceived the brilliant idea of making
him chief of police.
The files of this paper will show that we en
dorsed him, expressing the opinion that he would
make good on the job and asking that he be given
a chance to show what he could do. We apologize
for that and take our part of the blame. His
regime has proven that he is anything but the
man for the place and his record is one of in
competency and laxity in respect to crime un
paralleled in the police annals of the city.
Really, nothing else was to have been ex
pected in view of his personal record, and to al
low such a man to take the stand and scarify
those who have an honest desire to clean up the
city, is just another reflection on him and the com
mission, the majority of whose members have
long been familiar with the life and work of B. F.
Grant.
When he talks about special privileges in
restaurants in the face of testimony that is ab
solutely true and which may be verified by scores
of other witnesses who have never had any trou
ble getting a drink in certain restaurants after
midnight, it looks very much as if either he had
received instructions from the lawbreaking in
terests with which he seems to be in such per
fect accord, or was seeking revenge for an ex
pose of conditions through which there might be a
chance to profit if allowed to continue. But his
should be a weighty word in an investigation
started with the idea of completely whitewashing
this ex-tippler and petty gambler of the past who,
according to his own reports, has made the
purity of this city like unto the lilies of the field.
But all that does not reach the real business.
That is only discriminating between the men and ;
women who know how to fix things and the timid 1
ones who dare not attempt to bribe an officer; 1
nor does it turn aside the greater danger of per- 1
mitting thugs, holdups and dangerous burglars
from going free after they have been arrested. '
1
"We'll make a night of it," declared the Bos- '
tonlan. "We'll have a feast of reason and a flow j
of soul." "All right," assented the New Yorker;
''I never heard of them cabaret features, but they
sound good." Judge.
An
INVITATION
We want you to accept this invitation
to go through, the finest equipped brewery
in the west. A most delightful trip during ,
these hot days around through the many I
miles of refrigerator pipe lines, hundreds J
of large ten thousand gallon glass lined
steel storage tanks filled with delicious
American Beauty Beer. Then, if you wish
you may partake of this product direct from
the storage tanks in ice cold copper steins.
We will be waiting for you and shall con
sider it a pleasure to guide you through, ex
plaining every detail in the manufacture
of this delightful beverage.
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111 Lake Brewing Co.
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