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Show MORMONS TO BUILD TEMPLE IN HARLEM Committee to Com to Salt Lake to Report Favorably Upon an Immense Im-mense Now Tabernacle. New York World. A COMMITTEE of Mormons, roping rop-ing the Harlem colony, by the largest and strongest aggregation of followers of the doctrine oC Latter-day Saints in the country outside of Utah, will leave for Salt jLakc City within a few days to report favorably upon u suggestion emanating from the heas of the church to build a Mormon temple In Harlem. It Is said that they already have options op-tions on six plots of ground facing on Ono Hundred and Twenty-Fifth street and that the proposition Is to erect a magnificant temple to become the center cen-ter of Mormon activities In the East. In the Mormon church there is but one temple. That Is at Salt Lake City. Heretofore the Mormons have concentrated concen-trated so much in Utah that it has not been deemed practicable to build a temple tem-ple In any other part of the country. The decision to report favorably on the suggestion to build the temple was arrived at on Wednesday evening after the Mormons of Harlem had held a three days' conference at their meeting .place In the Hawthorne building, at tho northeast corner of Seventh avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth street. Several high officials of the church were present at the closing meeting of the conference, and it was decided Unanimously to do everything in the power of the organization to futher the plan. Salt Lako Started It. The suggestion is said to have originated origi-nated in Salt Lake City, where the church dignitaries havo looked with favor fa-vor upon the. spread of the cult in New York City. It was proposed to the Mormons In this city six weeks ago, at the time the excitement resulting from the Senate hearing over the admission of Reed Smoot was at lt3 highest pitch. None of the elders or prominent workers of the sect would either aJllrm or deny the story last night. They refused re-fused to make any statement whatever. William A. Martin, who is president of the Harlem Board of Commerce, nnd one of the largest individual property owners In Harlem, was seen by several sev-eral men last week. He says they presented pre-sented a proposition, the magnitude of which astounded him. It was to purchase the twelve blocks of land bounded by Madison and Lenox avenues, and One nundred and Twenty-Fourth and One nundred and Thirtieth Thir-tieth streets. They asked him. to figure on the probable price and what amount would secure an option from the several sev-eral owners. This land Is In the very center of Harlem, taking In the business busi-ness street and several of the llnest-resldence llnest-resldence blocks. The proposition seemed so ridiculous to Mr. Martin that he did not take it seriously. He believes be-lieves the men who made the proposition propo-sition to him represented the working heads of the Mormon movement In this city. Mormons Strong in Harlem. It was not until the W. C. T. U. started its national fight against Mor-monlsm Mor-monlsm In general and Reed Smoot in particular last fall that it -was discovered discov-ered how strongly the Mormon church had built itself up In Harlem. The local branches of the Yv C. T. U. started an Investigation and found that their disciples were preaching on street corners every evening, and that twice a week well-attended meetings were held in Hawthorne hall. Almost all the converts were of the better classes. It was charged hat one of their methods of winning converts was to Induce the young girls attending the Wadlelgh High school In One Hundred and Fourteenth Four-teenth street and other big schools to attend their meetings. The bi-weekly meetings at Hawthorne Haw-thorne hall average In attendance three hundred men and women. In addition to these meetings six Mormon elders duly ordained by President Joseph Smith, the head of the church, with six wives and forty-thrco children, preach nightly at street corner's In Harlem, Har-lem, and In this way win many converts. con-verts. The members of the sect In this city profess abhorrence of the principle of polygamy- |