Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-03-13 | Page 2 | Slight Hope Held out for Bishop Tuttle

SliGHT HUPE f HElD OUT fUR FOR BISHUP TUTTlE Picturesque Clergyman Worked Years in Salt Lake Near Death at Home in St. St Louis ST. ST LOUIS Mo 1 March 13 Vir iro Vir Virtually no hope was held heid out by physicians physicians phy phy- s today for the recovery of the Right Rev Daniel DaniellS S. S Tuttle presiding bishop of ot the Episcopal church In the United States who Is suffering at his residence here with witha a severe attack of grip with which he was stricken a week ago I II The prelate who is 86 years old I and head of the diocese of ot Missouri was reported resting easily this morning following a critical day I yesterday Bishop Tuttle presided at the general general general gen gen- eral convention of the Episcopal church in Portland Ore last year Bishop Tuttle for nearly twenty years ears Episcopal missionary bishop I of Utah Idaho and Montana has hasa I a wide acquaintance throughout the west where his Influence e as a prelate prelate prelate pre pre- late and a citizen was appreciated by py y the entire populace His Ilis last visit here was about five months ago when he stopped as a 3 guest of the Rev W. W W W. Fleetwood At that time he remarked the change that had come to the west since his first arrival here in pioneer days recitIng reciting ing how the earlier Journey had been made by stagecoach hazards hazards hazards haz haz- ards of frontier travel He was elected elected- a bishop of the Episcopal church in 1866 but being under the required minimum age of 30 years was obliged to wait walt one Year rear for his consecration He lie was I I immediately named missionary bishop for the the far west I I i TRAVELED BY STAGE I II North Platte Neb eb was then rail rall I I end and Bishop Tuttle ruttie with his I I party part traveled by stagecoach from I II i I that point to Salt Lake They left Denver June 26 and arrived In this II city July 3 For a a. portion of the way they had a cavalry escort escort- as I protection against Indians At the time of his arrival here II two years before completion of the transcontinental railroad he found a city of population He at I once organized St. St Marks Mark's church and commenced holding services In 1870 he e planned construction of St. St Mat Marks cathedral and on May 2 of I the following year services were first held in the basement of ot that I structure I I He founded St. St Marks Mark's school I later discontinued St St. Marks Mark's ca cathedral cathedral cathedral ca- ca thedral and Rowland Hall school for I girls In 1886 he left Salt Lake e to I become bishop of ot Missouri at St. St Louis an office he still st holds By Br j I i I virtue of his seniority of service ho he hohas hohas has for tor several years been presiding presiding presiding ing bishop of the Episcopal chur church churchin h hIn I in Iii America Bishop Tuttles Tuttle's wife died at St. St L Louis in 1889 Dr George Tuttle I physician who married a daughter I I of Mr Mrs Grace Y Wallace of this city is a son of the the bishop PICTURESQUE FIGURE Bishop Tuttle has long been been- con been considered considered con con- the most picturesque figure I among American churchmen In Inthe Inthe Inthe the early days in making his his his' trips I Ib b by stage over Utah Idaho and Montana Montana Montana Mon Mon- tana he would hold servIces services services ices wherever convenient In sa saloonS saloonS saloonS' saloons sa- sa loons loonS' gambing houses and dance halls hans By his fine manliness fair ness and Indo Indomitable courage cour courage cour- cour age he attracted acted the love and respect re- re sp of all with whom he came in contact BISHOP D. D S. S TUTTLE 0 c it dc s I