Show JAMES JAME S if H HART I 1 lit Is fairly by bj knerr a yew york vork sun san Pe porter i V I 1 stern for the tie mormon emigrating business on aj n be second llor floor of 8 battery place it is a little front hall room which in tho the old time when the house home wu was residence fronting on the pless pleasant atit green of the battery park was wai used ucil as a bedroom it Is a mor roon moo bead headquarters quarters now the die eastern headquarters of the mormon church in the united states it is not over ten feet ion long by four wide but bill it is ade a deaf blittle little apartment apartment with snowy white paint on the woodwork aul a tidy red ingrain 0 carpet carpel on the floor la in ibe corner next the window windo I 1 i a looking 0 oaken writing a icek with its a folding top I 1 at this desk sits bits a good sized well built man who mho is not far from sixty years of age though he look it lie ile wears a neat cutaway coat aud and waistcoat of black ribbed cloth and equally neatly fitting trousers of sm small all figured light colar ed material on oil tile the ample expanse of waistcoat there rests a substantial got gold chain with a good sized seat seal attached to it an aror gray beard that is well trimmed and cared for drops from a strong chin and jaw and above the chin is a fresh erobb ruddy complexion which eh forms a background for a prominent nose and deep set smallish black eyes shaded by thick black ea ec c brows which are separated by a low square forehead from a licad head of thick jet black hair you yon would quickly take tile the owner owne r of all this for a prosperous downtown down town merchant but never for a mormon elder it is elder james 11 alart H nevertheless th eless and for thirty eight years lie he has devoted hi his s life to trying a to make latter day saints of people e and to building up the mormon p power ower in in utah ile he now has supervision of nil all the alic mormon emi emigrant n rint business at this port as well as of other mormon matters in the cast requiring attention until three years ago the pennsylvania road had had all the mormon tr traffic affia but the uric erie cut in ill on oil the emigrant business and tile the mormon agency that is mr clarl harts s collico was made a pait of their offices in battery place now kow it is in 11 the again again lit in the block belch the pennsyl emigrant rN reduction luction to 1 from here to chicago it swept tile entire enit emi emigrant rant business into their 0 hands blinds an and i the mormons cormons went aith the rest it costs 38 to get a mormon from new york to utah thai is 37 from chicago mr hart has is been with the pennsylvania people since list last january jianu iry during that time they have carried west for him up to the eighth of this month 1353 cormons mormons Mor mons and it has been a notoriously bad year for mormons cormons as well as other emigrants rants another bor mormon party conti consisting sting of froni from 00 to will leave liverpool on oil 0 oct c t 21 this will be the last lad batch brou brought 0 lit over this year making tho the total years immigration from 1053 1653 to 1853 there has been a steady falling off in ili mormon arrivals durin during tile the past four years in 1882 there were 2745 landed at castle garden in ill 1883 the figure was 2557 slid and in ili 1881 only 1802 1892 came over but it Is only fair to say that other immigration has fallen oft off proportionately mr hart does docs not believe the recent account of tile the mobbing of normon mormon missionaries in london lie he was over but a short time thue before tile the alleged riding occurred and lie he saw no indications of hostility abom among the people sometimes a crowd would hoogand hoot and howl a ii little tile but he never saw any indications of violence areat britain is divided into fifteen districts and in each cach district there orp ju jj pon conference ference president and from twelve to fifteen cission drics tho the presidents and the llie pla missionaries sion aries of these districts meet for confer oice and compari slon from time to time the mormon headquarters for europe is at 18 islin isling 0 ton si tl treet liverpool for fort forty years t they lwy jiava 0 the building in A mormon on is printed tinted there mr hart himself is a coat ert diatte in en england 0 land lie ile heird heard a mormon missionary issi 0 nary preach in ili london thirty eight years ago and at once set out oj on aliis liis labors for the cause three dearr lie he worked in ili france anti and then lie he went back to england and labored four year I 1 noro more ile he did not nap a rich harvest of eoula in I 1 france aalice ra lice tho the french never have tak token ell to latter day Sain tista ile he lid did not see sec tins the promised land of the elect to wit utah ulah until 18 1857 1837 37 then lie ho went out there at uia the time Presie ent beldt out loofe men to wipe the saints off of from the pr tile he earth it was all on oil acco account of the 1 it int ing reports sent out b by y the chief ef justice of bf the territory judge said sir mr hart 1 ite mormon were not disturbed when it found out how drummond hid had been beai i ying I 1 noticed in ill tile the the other day elial drummond had find been arrested ill chic chicago a a 0 for stealing the stamps off newspapers till atiat A hd had been left on oil tile the tops of letter jelter boxes ever since that time mr hart has been prominent in the church councils and active in ili missionary work V though li lie had bad not been back to europe for thirty one yer years until lie went back this suin summer mer lie he doe docs not nol gilck all 1110 o dr talmage chave given i van bild hot ahot lie salt said 1 ile he has shown a laiti bitter cr a devilish malignity if I 1 my may uc tiro the expression toward people which is i amazing naring Bi ik said he would like to see gee file guns in camp douglas turned upon salt lake city and all our people siept from off the ciroli that i is tine talk to conic COMO frum froma a t hristian aul alii nil a aln bui ini nitter but it 1 s all the sami nat W acu ai i in 11 utah altah ill m wu cuili 11 u III biuk abic u thur libi ur anti ami mam aars ian all per mule ii 11 law do nut hlll ll 11 V 1111 is ily 1 11 I 1 II 11 I 1 I 1 1 t hlll ni ill 31 tul mi it 23 li i ip of the great truth we rire I 1 l son ant I 1 the ions of the ear gawe I 1 I 1 am hii ra abe n g together ether it r I 1 i that w w ft aiji 1 JU ID f t t ilir mi i i t in r n fl er n no 11 nl th they egl com because they are ar con to the faial tk T nr r c th efina together t r d 1 I conking coming 0 of f mani 6 0 0 1 r p ia f n the t e second 4 11 I 1 1 in wa wy tin th i idea if t HIP lie ga gathering therin g of the sainta of the lord to one I 1 luia in d alico lien all the nation of abr earth nrc are destroyed estryl 1 i is the mormon faith to which all the world mut must come or irish elder lhart 6 coin elated wi us lie w talks religion and hit his small mall black ecca llah out excitedly from under their heavy brows brown hut with a word in another direction lie is ii i i back apin again to t the solid busine basin eia nian man with willi 1 keen knowledge of buatt ri temporal find manners and ich that indicate indic te polish as well as common sense i lie ile landed himself with a party af murmon murmen immigrants thirty oue years year aeo 90 mid d na as an example of what mormonism can do tor for an u immigrant he be certainly would not pro our ance e an unfavorable impression |