| Show THE NEW JE JERUSALEM U J jr L I 1 I 1 H K A A dream of the night help heip edby a rush of water from the dilill hillside hill side not larger than the xenil which gave life to granada and changed the barren vega into a garden fixed the site of the new jerusalem brigham young tells me that when coming over the mountains in search of a new home for his people he saw in a vision of the night an angel standing on a conical hill pointing to a spot of ground on which the new temple must be built coming down into this basin of salt lake he first sought for the cone cane which he had seen in his dream and when he had found it be he noticed a stream of fresh hill water flowing at its base which he called the city creek elder george smith and a few pioneers led this creek through and through a patch of likely soil into which they then stuck potatoes and having planted these bulbs they took a few steps northward marked out the temple site and drew a great square line about it that square block ten acres in extent is the heart of the city the mormon onty only holy place the harem of this young jerusalem of the west the site of the new now city was laid between the two great lakes utah lake and salt lake like the town of inter lachen brienz and thun though the distances are here much greater the two inland seas of utah being real seas when compared against the two charming lake lets in the bed bep nese alps A river now called the jordan flows from utah into salt lake j but it skirts the town only and lying i low down in the vailey valley v vr i e y 1 is useless as yet for irrigation lt young 1 u u g has IL a plan I 1 for constructing a canal from utah lake to the city by way of the lower benches of the wasatch chain a plan plau which will cost much money and fertilize enormous sweeps of barren soil if salt lake city is left to extend itself in I 1 peace the canal will soon be dug and the bench now covered with stones with sand and aud a little wild sage will abe 1 be changed into vineyard sand gardens the city which covers we are told three thousand acres of land between the mountains and the river is laid out I 1 in blocks of ten acres each each block is la divided into lots of one acre and a quarter this tills quantity of land being considered enoah enough for an ordinary cottage 0 and garden As yet the temple is the foundations are well laid of massive granite and the work is of a kind that bids fair to last but the temple tempie block is covered with temporary buildings Imil dings and erections the old tabernacle the great bowry bown the new tabernacle the temple foundations A high wall encloses these edifices h poor poon art without strength streng thi more like a mud wall wali wall wail than the tha great work which surrounds ands the temple platform on moriah wo when hen the works are finished the enclosure will be trimmed and piali planted ted so as to offer shad walks and a garden of flo flowers flowerie weri wera the temple block gives form to the whole city from each side of it starts a street a hundred feet in width g going outon out on a level plain and in straight lines into space streets of the same width and parallel to these run north and southeast south east and west elch each planted with locust and ai lantus trees cooled by two running streams of water from the hillside these streets go up north towards the bench and nothing but the lack jack of people prevents them from traveling onward south and west to the lakes lakesy which they already reach on paper and in the imaginations of the more fervid saints i 1 1 I 1 maln main street runs along 0 th the temple front a street of offices of residence and trade originally it was meant for a street of the highest rank and bore the name of east temple street upon it stood besides the temple itself the council house the tithing office the dwellings of young 1 kimball wells the three chief officers of the Bl mormon ormon church it was once amply watered and nobly planted but commerce has invaded tile the of the modern temple as it invaded those of the old and the power of brigham young has broken and retreated be behare fare that of the maney dealers and the vendors of meat audrai audral and aud raiment ment banks and stores offices hotels all the conveniences of modern life are springing up in main maln street trees have in many parts been cut do down wn for the sake of loading and unloading goods the trim little gardens full fall of peach trees tres and apple trees bowering the adobe cottages in their midst have given way to shop fronts and to hucksters stalls in the business portion main blain street is wide dusty unpaved a street showing the three stages through which every american city has to pass the log shanty the adobe cot in places where clay and fuel can be easily obtained this stage is one of brick and the stone house many of the best houses are still of wood more are of adobe the sun dried bricks onee once used in babylonia babelonia Baby lonia and in egypt onel arl ail and still used everywhere in mexico and california a few are of red stone and even granite the temple is being built ot of granite from a neighboring hill the council house is of red stone as are many of the great magazines such as godbe godbee God bes jennings gilberts claw sons magazines in which you find nind find everything for sale as in a turkish bazaar from candles an and aud d champagne down to gold dust cotton prints tea penknives pen knives canned meats and mouse traps the smaller shops the ice cream houses the saddlers the barbers the restaurants the hotels and all the better hotter class of dwellings are of sun dried bricks a good material in this sunny clit eilt climate nate bright to the eye cozy in win iter lter ter cool in summer though such houses are apt to crumble away in a shower of rain A few shanties rem remnants odthe of the first emigration sill still remain in u sight lower down towards th tho the I 1 south where tile the street runs off into infinite space the locust and lantus alvantus ai al trees reappear in its busy central portion nothing hints the difference between main street in salt lake city aud and the chief thoroughfare say of kansas leavenworth and denver except the absence of grog shops lagen lager beer saloons and bars the hotels hava have no bars the streets have no betting houses no gaming tables no brothels no drinking places in my hotel the salt lake kept by col little oneff one of the mormon I 1 elders I 1 cannot buy a glass of beer a flask of wine no house is Js now open for the sale of drink though the gentiles swear they will have one open in a few weeks and the table odthe of the hotel is served a at morning noon and night with tea in this absence of public solicitation to sip either claret cob bler bier wb whiskey iskey bourbon tom and jerry kimt julip eye opener nix fix up or any other yankee de deception eption in the shape of liquor the city eity c i ty ia is certainly very much unlike leavenworth and aua the river elver towns where every third house in a street appears to be a drinking den going past the business quarter wee we e turn to the firsti deas deag bf gin gln in planting his new home the familiar lines line of amacias acacias grow by the becks beeks the cottages stand back from the roadside twenty or thirty feet the peach trees an and vines dvines 1 tricked out with roses noses and gun s un flowers i smother up the roofs right and main street crossing it parallel to it ilca lica lie lle a multitude of str streets pets each like ita its fellow a hara hard dusty broadi with tiny beeks becks s and anil rowa rows of locust cottonwood cotton wood and arid the i building jaud laud laid down in blocks in 1 each block stands a 1 cotta colfa gein geln in the midst I 1 of fruit trees some of these houses were of goodly appearance as to size and is style iare y ae and would let ilor tor diw din high agh 0 rent rentals alsIn in i tilo the isle of wight others are mere cots I 1 of four or five rooms in which the families should they ever rel rei would nind find it U difficult to form a ring and light in some of or these or orchards i you see two three houses pretty swiss cottages like many in st johns wood as to gable roof and paint these are Ithe the dwellings of dif dlf different wives whose houses are these we asked a I 1 lad in east temple street pointing to i some pretty looking villas they bej long says he to brother Rim kim Kimball ballA balia 6 i family here on t the h e be bench n eh in the highest part of the city is hiram claw sons garden a lovely garden red with delicious peaches plums and apples on 04 which through the kindness of his youngest wife we have be been eu hospitably fed during our sojourn with the saints a large house s stands in front in which live his first and second wives with their nurseries of twenty children but what is yon dainty white bower in the corner with its little gate and its smother of roses and creepers that is the house of theyo the youngest unest wife alice a daughter of brigham young Y oun she zas has has a a nest of her own apart from tile the other women a nest in which she lives with her hgr four boys and where she is supposed to have ai as much of her own way with her lord as the daughter of a sultan en amoya ya i in the harem of a pasha elder eider al s bett lett one of the mormon poets poe tsan an E english convert to the faith as it is I 1 in n J joseph oseph lives with his two wives and t their h ein eln brood of young children on the high gnoun d opposite to elder clawson in n a very pretty mansion mansion i something like a cottage on the under I 1 cliff much of the city is only green glade and orchard waiting for the people p tte the who w ho are yet to come and fill it with the e pride of life in first south street stand the theatre I 1 and the city hall both fine structures and for western america remarkable in style I 1 the city hall is used as headquarters of police and as a court of justice the mormon police are swift and silent with their eyes in every corner their I 1 grip on every rogue no fact however slight appears to escape their notice noflie A genthie gentile friend of mine going through the dark streets at night towards the theatre spoke to a mormon lady of his acquaintance whom he overtook next day a gentleman called at his hotel and warned him not to speak with a mormon woman in the dark streets unless her father should be with her in the winter winten months there are usually seven or eight hundred miners in salt lake city young norse gods of the defever stamp every man with a bowie bowle knife in hl his belt and a revolver in his hand clamoring for beer and nd whiskey for gaming tables and lewd women comforts which aich are strictly denied to them by these ailiese saints the police have all these violent spirits to repress that they hold bold them indecent in decent order with so little bloodshed is the wonder of every western governor and judge william I 1 gilpin gil pin governor elect of colorado and I 1 robert wilson sharlit sheriff of denver and justice of the peace have nothing but praise to give these stern sterna and but most able and effective ministers oli off I 1 police I 1 i with this court of justice we have scarcely made acquaintance A fer fet nights ago we met the judge who kind ly asked us to ta come aado aadi see bee his court but while whre we were chatting in hla hia anteroom lorethe belore before the cases were called som cne one whispered in his ear that we wert werl members of ot the english bar on he be slipped out ut of sight and adjourned his court this judge when he be is not sitting on the bench is engaged in vending drugs across a counter in maid main street and as we know where to find him in his store we sometimes drop in for soda water and a cigar but we have not yet been able to fix a time forse for seeing ellig his method of administering justice at fit salt lake the city has two sulphur springs over which Brigha mYoung has built women md shanties one bath is free freel thie trie water is refreshing and relaxing the heat W 95 no beggar is seen in the st reefs street scarcely ever a tipsy topsy man and the drunken fellow when you see one is always either a miner miney or a soldier f er of course a gentile no man seems poor the people are quiet and civil far more so than is usual in these western parts from tho the presence of trees of water i and of or cattle the streets have a pastoral character seen in no other city of the mountains and the plains here standing under und erthe the tho green locust trees is an ox come home for the night yonder on derisa is a cow at a gate being milked ty by a child light mountain mounta in wagons stand about and the sun burnt emigrants who have just come in from the pr prairies airle airie s t thankful for forshage I 1 shade and water set under the aca acacias amacias clas eias and dabble their feet in the running nir creeks more ore one than all other streets perhaps main maln street as the business quarter offers picture after picture to an artists eye ge most of all when an emigrant train is is coming in from the plains such a scene is before me now for the train which we passed in the gorge above Bea beai river has just arrived with sixty wagons four hundred bullocks six hundred men women and children all english and welch the wagons fill the street some of the cattle are lying I 1 down in the hor hot hofson sun the men are eager and excited having finished their long journey across the sea across the states across the prairies across the mountains the women and little folks are scorched scorched and wan dirt fatigue priva tion give them a wild unearthly look and you would hardly recognize in this don gon monmouth picturesque and ragged group the sober monmouth mouth farmer the clean woolwich artiman art izan the smart london smith mule teams are being unloaded at the stores ill All miners ners from montana and idaho in huge boots and belts are loafing about abang A gang of snake shake indians with their lh long iong on hair their scanty drapery and alid reserve are cheapening the dirties jel fel tand vand cheapest L i lots lotsi yon fellows fellow in inthe the 1 1 sombrero dashing up the dust with his wiry little horse hond 1 is a new mexican here comes a heavy califor i nia nian n swell and there in the blue who um util t form 1 go yo two officers from the camp thy the e ainis atris air ain is wonderfully pure and bright I 1 rain seldom falls in the valley vailey though storms occur in the mountains almost I 1 daily dally a cloud coming up in the western j hills rolling along the crests and threatening the city with a deluge but when breaking into wind and showers it seems to run along the hilltop hlll hill top into the wasatch chain and sail away eastward into the snowy range mr al W I 1 dixons meto anieca Ani grica erica 11 |
