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Show BEEHIVE HOUSE: VEIL OF i MYSTERY IS TORN ASIDE , BY CONFIDENTIAL SERVANT Woman Who Worked' in . Home in Which brig- ham Young: Kept His Wives, Tells Story for the First Time. BHIGHAM YOUNO NOW HAS MORE THAN 1000 LINEAL DESCENDANTS. According to a confidential aer- () 0 vant who worked tor Brlghun Toung la the famous "Be Hive W W House," In which the plural wives W lived, and who has kept tab on his 9 (7) descendants, the Young family tig- ft urea to date are as follows: (5) Children 0 Grandchildren S&tf Great-grandchildren 1 M Great great-grandchildren 25 ) Great, great great-grandchll- drea 2 .Total 1.007 (.) There lives in Tooele county a woman wo-man well advanced in years who, as a child, was a confidential servant in the household of President Bzigham Young during hl ' regime in the Bee Hive house. During 'her service of a year and a half in this house, and in other homes in the years that followed, this woman, who refuses The Telegram permission to use her name, because of family feeling feel-ing that might be aroused against her. had a good opportunity to observe closely the conditions that prevailed in the polygamous families of all classes. Found in Toosle County. 'A' Telegram reporter sought this wo-'; man out In her little- home in one of the mailer irf'Tinra it fr"re'n "7n- .. , ty.'and urged hr to relate her obser- ' ' , vations. At first her refusal was positive, posi-tive, e After much solicitation and upon a promise on the part of The Telegram staff correspondent that her Identity 1 would not be revealed, related the following fol-lowing interesting narrative of her life In the home of President Brtgham Young. It Is the first story ever given to the public by this confidential servant. ser-vant. BY A FORMER SERVANT OF BRIGHAM. YOTJNOk I was born in 1S47 and was, accordingly, accord-ingly, 13 years old in I860 when I entered en-tered the family of President Brigham Young as a confidential servant. My duties were those of chambermaid in his household. I was with the family -for a year anda half or two years, and though but a child, I had a good opportunity op-portunity to -observe the inner workings work-ings of the home of a polygamous family. fam-ily. This Is the first authentic narrative narra-tive of the happenings In the famous Bee Hive. President Young ' occupied the Bee Hive house and the wives who -Jived with him were his second wife. Mrs. Angell-Young. Emily Free Young, Eli-xa Eli-xa Snow Young. Addle Young and Eliza -Ann Webb Young, the famous nineteenth nine-teenth wife. Ten others afterward came to the Lion house. Boss of the Family. Mrs. Angell Young was the boee of the household and all the other wives did as she said for them to do, and she " never asked advice from them. Her 1 word in the quintuple household was law, second only to the word of the lord and master of the five women. In some things the wives would "take counsel" together, advising and sug- 1 Resting to each other what should be done and what steps should be taken in certain matters. These counsels were usually with regard to buying clothing for themselves and their children, and the care of the children. Settled in Private. Mrs. Angell Young was a very clever woman and Brigham Young was not one-half the brute that he was pictured pic-tured to be with' his families. All the families got along well together to-gether as a whole, and what few differences dif-ferences that did occur were always settled in private. President Young had a private room, remote from the others, known as the "President's room." and when difficulties difficul-ties or differences would arise between the v.ives, the children or the servants, he would call the pt-rsons Interested for' a session In that room, where he sat . in Judgment on their reppectlve cases. His decision was always final, and there was no appeal therefrom. His judgments mut have been Just, for there were no murmurings or complaints com-plaints as far as 1 ever heard. This room was commonly known as the "scrap" room. , No Quarrels in Public. The wives never quarreled or bickered bick-ered before the other wives, the many children or the servants. If ever there was any trouble It would be silenced Instantly In-stantly on the appearance of some one else. ! We girls, .there were five of us servants, ser-vants, naturally learned of such things but there was never any Berious differences dif-ferences of opinion so far as I could learn. The statement that I have often, heard, that his wives used to quarrel and fight "to beat the band" until he had to come In and separate them and order them to their rooms. 1p tint (Continued on Tage y : . ' i cooked on Saturday, and all of the families fam-ilies and the servants were obliged to -' attend church services. All went In a body. President Young never bought tea or coffee, as it was contrary to the "Word of Wisdom." Tea was' $3 a pound, cot- ' fee was $2 a pound and sugar Ha pound. The wives, however, could.' " "'r their own tea and coffee and cook H themselves In small tomato cans with. . the tops melted off and with soldered bandies. Each one prepared her own , tea or coffee on the household range. - Had Plenty to Eat. The table was probably the best kept In the Territory those days. All of the families were well and plainly provided for as luxuries could not be furnished, a the country could not afford it. The servants were paid In tithing orders or-ders on various stores. I got $2.60 a week, which was considered good pay in those days. There was no money in circulation. cir-culation. Only the heads of the church could afford to keep servants. All of President Young's children were sent to school in the little school-house school-house that formerly stood on the prevent prev-ent site of the Emery Holmes flats, adjacent ad-jacent to the Eagle Oate. There the children of the president, the children of the father of the present Gov. Wells and those 'of Heber C. Kimball were educated in the first principles of a good English education. , The Cost of Tuition. . Tuition was from $1 to $1.60 per week per child. The smaller children were kept at home and educated by Mrs. Angell Young, who was the mother . to the brood of small children of all the i wives of the president. i President Young taught the children f to call their own mother "mother." and J his other wives "aunt." Such terms of t endearment as "mamma" or "ma" wers i not permitted. The home was a home In common for j all the wives and children. Each wife ; had one or two private rooms, accord- Ing to the number of children she had. , and it was in her own apartments that -she received her husband for conflden- J tial chats and private, conversations j and counsels. General Sitting-Room. f There was a general sitting-room, general dining-room and a general par-' lor. common to all the families. The wives would visit back and fort . in their private apartments. If Prsst-1 dent Young wanted a private sesslor with any one of his wives, he would y ' to her- private room or send for her . go to the president's room, where b1 " would await her. He showed many favors to Mrs. .in- . gell Young, and I used to often see him ' go off to one side with her away from the others and "spoon" with her. ' , Mrs. Emily Free Young was another of his favorites. Both were ladylike and had kindly dispositions. President Young had a fine Horary, for those days, considering that all the books were brought in hundreds of miles by ox freight. Ordered to Scraproom. President Young was kind U every- . one within his household. On one occasion oc-casion I got Into a difficulty vlth one of the other sen-ants and was In the wrong. President Young heard of the trouble and ordered us to tte "scrap room" to tell him all about It. I was In awe of him and feared some terrible punishment when he decided against me. He kept me In the room after he sent the other girl away and tad me my punishment would begin at ence. I was In fear and trembling and he then ordered or-dered me to sing "Mary of the Wild Moor." a song I knew as a girl, and one of his favorites. He then said that his punishment was not completed, and that he would finish -it some other day. I didn't know w hat else was coming to me. The following day Gov. Cummlngs. who succeeded President Young as Governor Gov-ernor of the Territory, and five or six other Gentiles took dinner with Fresi- . dent Young. "Punk" Young (1 don't know her true name), one of his daughters, was playing the piano and he ordered me to come in and he would firish my punishment. pun-ishment. He made me ting the song again. Then he complimented me. That was the only punishment I ever got while I was there. President Young was the absolute leader of the Mormon people In those days and his word was law. He probably prob-ably had the greatest influence of any man who ever ruled the destinies of the Mormon church. I was In the family of "Squire Well, after I left President Young's home. He had two wives, who were sisters. They were sisters of Emily Free Young, one of President Young's wives. The sisters lived well enough together, although they had their little flare up. I never saw any hair-pulling or scratching scratch-ing between them. Fights in Families. I know, however, that in the loqsifr classes there were exceptions to v the rule among the upper classes. When men of no means took plural wives, trouble almost always followed. There was no cloth in those days, ex- cept w hat the women spun an wove. A man who lived at Stockton, near here, had a house consisting of one room, 12x12 feet, when he had but one wife. This had in it a fireplace over which the rooking was done, and a table and bed. Then he took a plural wife and built . a shanty on the side of his original room. Then he took another and another an-other erecting a lean-to shanty for each until he had seven wives and seven ebanties. ' Flour was $25 per hundred with no $35 to pay for it and Porter and his seraglio had a hard time of It. Had a Large Family. The man had eighteen children, who. in summer had to run around like Indians, In-dians, clad only in breechclouts. Some . of his wives were ambitious and industrious, indus-trious, spun and wove their cloth and made clothes. These looked fairly well. He had two, however, who would not spin or weave and as a consequence they had a hard time to cover their nakedness. He used to beat his wives when they would not do as he told them to do. While his wives 'looked like squaws and the babies like savages, he dressed like a prince and drove his fine team, while he was living on greasewood shoots instead of flour. Soxns Hair-Pulling. When differences arose between thse women, they would r.ot wait to submit their differences to their husband for arbitration but would settle them on first principles. One wife was the boss hair-puller, and was an artist In that line. The others learned, for good cause, to feaf her greatly and she domineered over them accordingly. Their quarrel were frequent and nearly always aroiV over the children. V lomstic bliss of that kind wa to8- much for this man and he died many years ago, leaving seven sorrowful widows and a host of tearful children to grow up and bear his name. . t Beehive House. (Continued from page 1.) Such a thing never occurred as far as I know. None of the wives did her own housework. house-work. There were servants to attend to that. The wives, however, did all the sewing for themselves and their children and cared for the children personally. Cook a Deaf Mute. The cook for all the families was a deaf mute, named Jane Mud. She was a very nice girl and a good cook. All of the children of President Young and his many wives were good and were never disobedient. They got along together much as an ordinary large family of children would do. Small disputes dis-putes would arise from time to time but nothing more serious or more frequent fre-quent than In any large family. At the table President Young always sat at the head of the table. Each wife had her own place and her children surrounded sur-rounded her. Each mother waited on her own children at the table. There were no chairs with backs, except the one at the head of the table occupied by the president. All the others were round stools. A blessing was always asked on the food before meals. Order at the Table. At the table all was orderly and there was no confusion or loud conversation. Household prayers were said In the dining-room before breakfast each morning ar.d after supper each night. In ;whlch all the wives, children and servants Joined. Attendance on prayers pray-ers was obligatory, as was attendance at church. Nearly all the food for Sunday was |