Show A FOREIGNER IS fali WS I 1 what an all english editor thinks ol of utah ulah territory THE HOMS HOME or OF THE MORMON MOEMON PEOPLE A general description of tho the city and battling bathing resorts of salt lake and aad fort douglas looking 0 town down upon the smiling valley dotted around tho the central city with pretty garden homes ll 11 in 1 english in ill design and c character h r salt lake offers boners an ideal picture clustering blossoms of peach and nd cherry and other fruit trees laake biake tho the light air rich with perfume while over carpets of the greenest grass grass tens of thousands ot of shade trees are unfolding their spring aprin foliage it is difficult nay nay almost impossible to realize that less than a half a century ago ago this delightful and culli cultivated vat e d region was a howling desert desert where a few indians hunted the bual buffalo alo bear and other wild animals on oil either handout hand jut out in all the glory of primeval di days lys the snow capped peaks of the wasatch and other spurs of the rock rocky k y mountains but the table land that lies between at in an elevation of rather more than four thousand feet above the sea pea level now yields abundantly tor for the wants of a civilized people several of the pioneers who after enduring indescribable hardships c ei the valley on the of jul july 1847 still live sir mr wilford woodruff the mormon president is eighty 0 six another vel veteran cran who settled down aown in liis his own huie as a village blacksmith is aaa a blacksmith still some families R by speculations in land and mines have become wealthy and houses of a more commodious 1110 dious and handsome character are increasing these are not confined to the cormons mormons Mor mons as about two nath of the population are now outside the body included among the latter being c several everal influential people who have lave repudiated the teachings of jozeph joseph smith electricity is used not only for general li lighting it but also aleo for a far k oiva ant fi fai tree lined roadways are are now undergoing a complete process of level lin ling and rela relaying id the great lake from from which the city takes its name lies some eighteen miles to the west and is reached by rail in half an hour the fare being fifty cents A vast pavillion papillion pa with conceit and dan dancing cino 0 halls and lines of dressing rooms for bathers is now in course of completion it is built on oil piles over the lake some half mile from shore where tho the water is ia about five feet deep mon men and women bathe together 0 lier both bogli in the lake and at t the lie hot springs the water from the latter which is stron strongly ly impregnated with euphur su chur flows fro from the mountain side summer and winter at a temperature of degrees for bathing 0 purposes it is reduced to a few fei v degrees above blood heat and I 1 am able to say from experience that in this way the hot springs 0 are made most e enjoyable there are private batha a select plunge bath under tinder cover and a more extensive one open to the sky in ili the latter the score or so of bathers included several females who were distinguished by wearing something aft after e r the fashion of sma small ll 11 mother alethe r shipton hats alon aloag C g with w i I 1 it divi diving ing boards and other temptations for swimmers there was a kind of toboggan slide reached preached by climbing a ladder down which the men and women shot rapidly into the hot water at salt lake which had a quantity of white froth floating on its deep greenish blue water when I 1 saw it the bathing beason commences a little later antelope island rising c some seven miles from the shore 0 of f the lake is the only place in Ani aberici erica where buffaloes can call bo be seen in any number some an englisch Englif Z 1611 ch officers who came over last year were understood to have made an offer for the purchase of the island but nothing came of the negotiations one 0 of f many interesting drives I 1 have lave had here was to the military station at fort douglas this is near the mouth of red butto butte canyon the targets of the rifle ranges being r placed on the mountain side the th e three officers on duty licurs tyler thurston and gregg were most hospitable and kind and after a delightful D chat over a fragrant cigar cicar a move was made to see gee the evening parade with the carriage drawn up under a boxelder box elder a native dative of the canyons near the flagstaff the parade grounds sloped down towards a stretch of the val ley scattered cred over with houses in ili 1 alio 1 csc d distance i s stood out grandly under tho rays of tile the selling setting sun the white summits of till alin mountain range named oquirrh descendants of 1 english sparrows whick have lave mu multiplied too extensively to please those who till the soil hopped and twitted twisted around and tile the familiar yellow flowers of our dandelion one of the few woods weeds that have become in ill america americ were plentiful by the roadside nine companies of troops with not quite fifty men in each cacti went thO through their evolution evo luon luton with case cage and celerity and then marched very steadily past tile the saluting point one company consisted entirely of young 0 indians chiefly sioux and they were said to beguin be getting b or on well ayel the their i r sergeant displaying displaying marked intelli m enco in drill and also in teaching english to his companions no welcome could have lave been warmer that that given to tome tit e and my fellow traveller by the genial members of tile tho I 1 press club here to judge 0 goodwin goodwill the able editor of the he salt lake tribune und and other journalists I 1 tender my best thanks whatever may have been the vagaries of dai aham ham young in re regard gard to wives seventeen were tell left at the time of his is death and eight still survive it cannot bo be denied that he displayed remarkable foresight in laying out this city it is broad and beautiful and allon alloi s for very wide expansion son by tapping tho mountain streams anis a sy system stein of irrigation 0 was introduced that has proved most serviceable and been very extensively imi imitated toted the desert has become a fertile ill plain 1 I the he inhabitants of which rejoice in in almost a superabundance of sunshine what of the cormons mormons of today it t would be neither fair not nor judicious for me ine after spend spending ng less than ban a week in salt lake city to speak too positively upon nay conflicting points but I 1 am hour bound to say that I 1 have found among the mormons cormons quite a number highly 1 intelligent and attractive people 1 I was received and greeted with the 1 uti I hoat ilot kindness by the heads of the lie organization other members spared no pains to render my stay interesting b and a agreeable 0 carria carriages and friendly guides were as my illy disposal and also seats at the theatre which was built by brigham 0 le young 0 in and is ruled by AL mormon lormon delegates 1 e gates ay my iy letter of introduction asked for such curtesy as they could show a stranger who has travelled many miles but I 1 was W 13 in ill no way prepared for the generous 1 I au alt i t lano were anticipated any question was freely answered and everything possible done to show tile me that I 1 was in the midst of an active vi vigorous sensitive and kindly community mul lity yesterday afternoon I 1 attended a service in the lar large lare e Tabernacle when some 1000 p persons dersons received the communion after in an opening hymn there was a brief prayer and then more singing s i nging A blessing having been asad askea on oil the bread some twenty young men dien bore it in baskets to all parts of the lie building subsequently carrying tankards tank ards and mugs of water mc a preacher arose announcing noun cing that eliat he hall had been called upon without any notice to address them this is tile tho usual cu custom storn there bein being no regular preachers at the tabe tabernacle though 0 bishops conduct the services held each sunday in the ecclesiastical wards of tho the city the speaker mr penrose editor of the S salt alt lake herald fern ld enlarged on the need of light and truth in the world invested joseph smith with the character of a prophet and claimed inspiration for lii ili followers ilis his address which occupied rather more than an hour was earnestly delivered and attentively listened to an anthem well 0 given by a large 0 and efficient choir closed the service the new temple since its dedication has been closed to all save cormons mormons no alien eyes are permitted to gazo gaze upon the manifold beauties of it decoration As a letter upon mormonism without some reference to polygamy 0 would be incomplete I 1 may say that inquiry upon this point led to my illy bel being D 0 assured that it is now neither recognized nor tided in the ocal local tribune of 1 friday last there was a 1 statement that sisters could betroth themselves to it a brother and put themselves in bond to him for time and eternity and be sealed by proxy ta on askin asking as to the truth of this I 1 was handed bcd a manifesto issued by president woodruff in 1890 in which lie he declared his intention to submit to the law of congress forbidding plural marriage and advised the mormons cormons to follow hia 16 example bijos CATLING |