| Show v I rG GERMAN VIEW v OF SAL I LAKE AND THE MORMONS S Sin 1 in 10 Correspondence Saxony Fen JS 23 I It I a translation of vC an a x xi i f from A R l tUr written by IJ Cupta t Tur f of or the army Tl letter ir l 1 In the Chemnitz Tag faga I aU of oC February 17 It ri Ii such Hueh n truthful of our city an Hint lIun we IO thought you oU might space for lor U It In your AB 11 ra It II n German will Mill carry curt great I nt weight with thu hers especially I those of the lite upp or Tle fl rives an account c ot American travel In general then deal of Utah and the Yellow Mono Huno Jark Wo vo translate only that tha which on our Tho writer write tells how lie lib od 1 the at Og Ogden Ogden den owing to tin the difference In ba San Francisco and that city the writ os as follows That left mo In no cheerful o of mind Thin feeling re vanished that evening a aliI I through tho of this highly Interest Ins Ini ind pleasant dW What wide am beautifully J paved l streets almost all o oC which were lined with lights broad and nud commodious sidewalks What magnificently furnished am and Illuminated establishment And above all what a genteel and rc re 8 public As yet on tho of at no city at ot night have I J seen gc 80 many unmistakably respectable wo women nun dressed according to the latest fashion The Tho two and half days of at in sojourn in Snit Salt Lake City strengthened my lilY first Impressions Yet Yes my admired lady readers tho Mormon lormon women ap apt apper per pel very elegant v vory ry neat very much and frequently very beautiful I ful Cui The last Is probably duo to the tho Intermingling of oC the different I peoples people who aro found Cound among the tho I could not grow grall tired of oC oCI looking at this fair picture U It was a i I charming sight from the tho streets to see whole families In front of ot their sociably chatting It reminded me of and Baden Only that her heu no peasants but gaily attired men and women silting Bitting under the tho stone stano built buill verandas or on the tha steps at the entrances lly II day dl these pleasant t Impressions of oC the city for America Here lit and force rule one can see ice that tha tho people arc prosperous they arc much more polite polito than I 1 have noticed elan eha where In America ono sees no beggars no poor appearing men but much lux luxury luxury ury I have seen two wagons and arll buggy bugg handling establishments of oC which I 1 dont know the tho like In Ber Berlin lin Here opposite my hotel and In tho adjacent streets are aro fancy fanc goods good II stores and curiosity shops tha tho latter mostly of an Indian character which would attract attention In any largo city of oC I Hut But the tho prices I nuked lI kell the value of oC an of course cour e faultlessly mounted head h nd or 00 marks they saw Itaw him coming a n grizzly bear skin 2000 or marks It Is III needless to say that I lout nil dl to be a n purchaser In In tho barber harber shops restaurants art aro electrically fans which create fresh air at which travelers coming In from the country cnn can water horses found In many streets etre ts Kings been placed on the tho curbing i ml these aro ara used usell as hitching posts Who ho will eat ent nn expensive meal can find a n who muRt t live lIe cheaply goes Into the more morl fitting houses or traveling lunch counters which ni they thoy drawn through h the streets very cry much iv t n gipsy outfit t When the tho ro roo wagon ono ona can climb In and his appetite a for five or ur orten ten cents struck sIr lick me most moet forcibly hero here was Wl tho cycler lyler So mOil wheelmen a genuine would say lIa and so many pretty Netty girl riders 1 I have hare never lIever neverseen seen anywhere Hut they the are there and I saw th m everywhere riding even eve II on tho sidewalks at lit night without lanterns Revered policeman of oC Her Do not swoon when you vou rend read this thill It tt Is so and 1111 reasonably to so too for Cor the streets are arc HO well Illuminated that a lantern would be as n much n 1 pleonasm as If It were In the well lighted streets of your capital city Thin extensive riding Is a 1 necessity notwithstanding the many man electric carH carll and hacks be because because cause the city which now 1101 has hils about 60 Inhabitant Mormons gentiles covers on nn extraordinary wide There It Is true a 11 few gigantic II structures utter the stylI style of oC San Ban Francisco I and New York but butIn butIn In general In tho heart of oC the city only three and at nt the highest four Cour story buildings aro to be found and on the one or two tO story dwelling houses surrounded by email gardens The street could not be bemore Ie more practicable In tho center of or Salt o City CUy l the square sq laro Temple Templo bio which ID IS laid out according to llio tho of at the compass Tha fht contiguous nr aru j called lust Kust South Wet ana Nor North rumple All others running parallel to these and cutting nt right n Ile and North Fir find nd Second South Houth etc eto Thus 01 aile known Immediately where Fifteen Hast J n t treat I lies Now to public building Thello Ore lIro truly lC built The ho Jan Temple whose who e Interior gentiles which means l oro not pe pot 1 to BI sHO C la Is n It Is 18 made of white him hili si the 01 meters high an ClIst Adjoining stands tl tho n 11 place fop lor meet mill worship which parries without support tin n roof of oC elliptic form Thin IH III 70 meters l nB 15 meters wide wIlle and 21 meters high It Jt 1 Is to bo be ono of oC the buildings In tho world Tho room con can cont t Iris an organ an and cnn cat accommodate people Tho other buildings of oC tho city nr not of ot much h consequence Magnificent however and anI grand Is the erected City CIt and building Imposing with Its singular sty Its Il high Is built o at quarried gray ond on Olt tho In with costly onyx In one of 01 till thu parks In III the suburbs n or orthe the city Is n I kind of oC Copenhagen Tl TI voll whoso main building Is of oC huge hugi circumference In the evening every ever things Is brilliantly lighted by elec I saw there lOng other several variety exhibitions and a 1111 th dancing of oC a Mexican girl Irl The thing could cout not have been carried or on with more propriety Ono sees that UK tho Mormons know how to live However tho center of at attraction among the pleasure len ure of or Salt L ke City Is hi a bath In Bait Lake A special train runs runa out to 10 tho bathing report re ort of 01 Snit Salt It takes nn hour to go 10 thero About OO meters ler tram from tho shore ha hem erected a n pavilion after the order of or the Jete promenade In only ani anion on a 11 much larger scale scalf The Tho whole building which In th the different stores stol an dancing hall r tro rooms room nine pin halls play playgrounds pI grounds etc ete also 1000 hath rooms roo illS rents on Doth men and wo woo women men descend Into the lake smooth bottom permits one to go out hundreds of at meters and tumble around In the tho clear fresh tresh waves while over overhead overhead head on an excellent orchestra plays lively melodies Hut Dut uhl A drop of or water In the eyes es or mouth oa n most sensation The fhe lako which ins no outlet anI whom surplus water t cape only through evaporation con contains 22 per cent salt In proportion on to ho ocean 3 per cent to tho Dead Sell iea 21 per cent Therefore It la Is almost almo t ta a IB Impossible for fish to live IIvo here as It 19 9 In III the Dead Sea Sen The water Is very buoyant to sink Is Impossible On the tho contrary In n depth of ot water up to n nans breast his legs simply reused pressed upward he swims In the thc clear loar billows whether sitting or standing landing I had already learned this from Crom a bath In tho Demi Deall Sea Seato to ook k care that I did not get any water wn ter terIn In i my lilY mouth and eyes through the ath felt very much refreshed especial Iy f since the Rood shower l hath ath easily awny all particles of snit salt ily My short In Salt Bait Mke Inko City aught ma mO to iok upon with Ith other othor eyes eye than heretofore as I Ime new very little of oC It and this only ani rom hearsay It H Is almost re hen how h such a contused confusedly I gath gathered red ered company led thousands of miles n wilderness of or mountains and Ivors by a 1 man who was chosen choRen by b them hem and who served without onton could In the course cour e of lC fifty years their alms convert conert the tha salty I which ono one notices nil all round around Into Inlo n 1 fruitful land and found no of ot the tM most beautiful cities of or It took a II firm and amI unshaken In their lender leader a high moral lnell an In Iron will and amt Incessant All this Is 19 characterise of th life Mormons They have proved and oro now harvesting theIr toward as Utah Is one of IC tho most lost prosperous States In the Union on account of which they avi been maligned so M much has hns not existed for a n long InnS time even ven then It was as In Turkey more lhnn It certainly Is III In n 1 hidden way amon the higher clas es e oC f J today loday Only hero In Utah the ie people have openly acknowledged It have not hypocritically lied ns OR In Inthe the 10 Orient and nOlI this the th world ot t l and America cannot stand the hatred and hostility toward tho 10 repeatedly oppressed but absolute Iy peaceable ahlo Mormon Of OC tho mor of oC the AmerIcans Americana I 1 cannot speak I n I know two little of oC them but sure the Mormons one sees with I few exceptions only respect able hie women while throughout nil all other arts of at West America Amerle the people did didot I Inot not ot Impress me In this way I |
