Deseret Evening News | 1901-08-12 | Page 3 | Buddhist Rites

BITES Curious thiiS 54 I In III I a Memory i 11 t V of or 1 f li Ie I thus of o 1 u n Wreck San Francisco Aug Buddhist services III In memory of the oriental vie 1 Urns Ulna of or the lie wreck w ek of or the Hlo lio de Jan Jami Janeiro eiro elro were ware held yesterday on the df dk k kf If bf f the steamer Caroline In the Golden holden late Gate over oer the spot where the lost yes ves s sell FP sei ell Is to He lie The Tue Caroline was las chartered by b K I ogawa O a n wealthy Sap Jap Japanese these anese and luau hall on vu board boaN M of oC the this mi subjects as aM his guests The TIm steamer was II its garlanded with lowers from rom stem to stern st rn end gaily all tinted taper lisper lanterns decked th ii rigging When hen the th appointed place pill was reached n a little altar with strange was isas brought out and amid placed on a stand heaped with lowers and fruits fruit Hey Ue K I head of oC the he mission In mourning robes of oC If black antI and purple seated himself lr tie lit fore COI this Improvised shrine and begun an all Incantation low bow monotonous and ond pathetic while the company listened with bowed heads Then all on board Joined In iii strewing the ho sea sen with Mowers ilni er ers fruits and confection while sonic some alii slips of ot tissue p er hearing bearing tin till names of or the ancestors of or the dead were WN also consigned ron to the waves 11 This f ceremony ended this the host pr r l ii n 11 na A ft four Cour hours hour pleasure trip around the thi bay br wore were wr d slid and Ihl music anti c gamnes mes enlivened the this oc occasion casion caston