Show the morse alors memorial lff idd meeting e 1 eting LAST usi night in compliance with the call of hon non D af H WELLS mayor mayok of the city memorial orvices cervices eer eor er vices in honor of the late 8 F B morse the illustrious inventor of the telegraph tele grath were held hoid in the representatives rom baom in the city hall which wh was decorated in a mannet suitable to the occasion the national flag draped in crape floated at half mast from the liberty pole before the hall a plentiful pleni fui ful supply of the bame bam hombre sombre bomb homb re looking material being hung al at the front entrance the chair occupied by the president of the meeting as well as the stars et arsand and stripes above it were in mourning 11 in the hall in which the services took toots place was suspended un an appropriate picture one side being the Ins instruments trume ants and materials used in constructing and working the telegraph poles aples insulators and instruments with the first telegram ever sent hent by professor morse what hath god wrought on the other alde bide was inscribed utah terri fint firt in every enterprise ilas ilsa built aud and owns more than a thou sand hand miles of 0 telegraph lines during the day a wire had been stretched from the office of the deseret heleg telegraph aph company on eat ea t temple st to the hall hail ut at one end of which was actable with the necessary ap apparatus para parn tuo placing the assembly in com eom munica uon tion with the east and the most distant telegraphic regions of the world the meeting wasl called to order by mayor wells and on motion hon george A smith was elected chairman I 1 H ra S eldridge dridge Ej oko geo ellas elia smith joab law hunter J P V taggart and Z snow now vice vlee 8 hills john joh aca theodore mckean secre score on motion david W evans was appointed reporter report eri ori and W B dougall electrician afie the chairman briefly the meeting ng a and 6 d elder eider er charles B R savage offered lir prayer ayer dyer I 1 I 1 ad motion the following folio win g cammic te of nine the first named b bein i e icik cyga chairman r were appointed on resolutions Br igbani ighani young xoung jr josephe josephe JosephF smith ED E D hoge C H hempstead Hemp steade steady E M barnum ahm theof IF tracy and john B R winder and afterwards on motion two ladles indies arst hannah T king and mrs danford Ddn ford were addel to the comm committee ittie the committee retired ato 0 prepare reso reo yiu ild eions the following telegram telegrams ma the memorial meeting Washington at 0 were read 1 representatives HALL CITY HALL hanl salt lake like cli cit city ya i april 16 to the non won cb w anan of af the morse memorial meeting washington 1 D 0 our citizens meet it athala half past sean salt sait lake city time lime but fearing tearing that their resolutions may cowe come too abo bate for your rn meeting eting S forward I 1 the following in advance tirah cordially bolna loans the tho fraternity of states and nations in expressing 9 borrow horrow it at tho the demise and irreparable loss the world has sustained in the decease of professor samuel F B morge morse E each aeh ach successive year deve developed mthr through au h the genius ginius of morse ad f electrical science to the grest great benefit of 9 I 1 I 1 mankind in each he recognized the nirl niri finger ger of divinity and in lil his unostentatious mauner manner re e expressed the sentiment of bf hi his first telegraph what hihath god wrought his name will shine in lettera letters of living light bight throughout 0 all coming ages 1 1 DANIEL danien H WELLS mayor honor is due to the wise and the great professor more horo wor hor e W was both my follow him to the spirit offit world YOUNG youria sali Salt lil Lake city april 16 1872 1873 the committee returned and through mr hempstead presented the following resolutions whereas it has pleased almighty god in his inscrutable wisdom to call from earth Pro professor fessor samuel F B morse a man of brilliant intellect f full fuli ull uli of year yearb and full fali of honors honora therefore be it resolved first that while we bow with hum humn ble submission to the will of him who adoth doth all things well we cannot but feel that the world has lost one of its profoundest thinkers and certainly one of its greatest benefactors second that we regard no homage too great no sentiment too dear no language too eloquent to honor genius third that we cordially unite unito with the vast multitudes now assembled everywhere throughout the land to do honor bonor to him whose unrivalled genius made the lightning the messenger of man and taught the nations I 1 the mystery of holding converse beneath the ohe theseas sens sess 11 fourth that we recognize in the life and labors of the illustrious Illus rious deceased hla hib fittest monument one which has haa its found foundation atlon in all ali lands and which shall live as long as time endures fifth that we tender to the stricken family and friends frienda of the deceased our dur heartfelt sympathies and point them to their only real consolation the assured hope of reunion and a blissful i mortality immortality beyond the grave I 1 after the reading of the resolutions general barnum was called talle dupon upon for a speech and he be responded in behalf of the committee as follone follows fol ool lowe i miu blk CHAIRMAN AD the airis alris full of farewells to the dying and mourn ings to the dead when earths eartha greatest pass away all hearts are stricken when a hero llero who has yon won von achievements on the field of battle is stricken down how many thousand hearts mourn his loss when a statesman dies the thep whole state 18 s wrapped in mourning when wilen some great commander whom the people have looked to aa their leader whose guerdon they have followed towards whose standard they have turned their eyes when be passes away all heads beads are bowed but when a man who has lived through all his life as a public benefactor who has haa done something upon this earth that sheds a beula benin and sacred influence throughout all the borders thereof not a state alone not a nation mourns but hut earths myriad millions tonight ni this whole land is draped in the ha ba bili ments of woe one of ameri Amerl americas cays cats noblest born one who has achieved sonie somo thing ahat that is higher than all wrought upon battle fields amir amid carnage and blood has hab and not america alone mourns his loss bno abne ss from every continent from every isle isie all hearts unite in one glorious requiem to the tho name of sidney rinley finley breeze morse ji it is well for us when such a great pub dlo dio benefactor has bas passed away to recall the ithe incidents ino inc identa of his life for from them we may draw lessons that shall urge us onward each in his humbler path for tor monse morse has won his glorious achievements amid long years of trial triai and toti toki and study of persevering energy relying upon the fact that goda truths will triumph trl tri that he had bad welling up in his soul soui a great and mighty aruth truth aa a discovery that was bound to I 1 redound co the interests and the benefaction and glod of the whole world it is not often that one who has been a discoverer or ia an inventor of some great achievement which has spread and dovell devel aped p until ai it has hab as helped on the progress of the he world orld orid it is not often L say that thai he lives ilves iii gut gud t the fully and more t than hn fulga fully allotted ilo iio a time lime of man to seq see in his grey paired a DO years a full or of the hopes hohes ail afi and tolls toils and I 1 labors of his early ilie klie lo 10 morse this has beon grant granted pd born in new now R england fourscore and one years ago bred to letters to io sciences to te art morse in early life leyel in his us college years while eul enjoying the teachings and the of the highest attainments of the professors obart of art and science at harvard and yale was filled ailed with a divine afflatus s which showed in the chich gad aad sent seni from fi fleaven heaven eaven a power that could be tamed and chained to mans will and indis in his early days he conceived that thought and developed that thought into action cllon that thai throughout all nature was pvn peny pent a mighty power that man inan could yet develop and bridle to his daily use a power powei chichas which chas as he saw it displayed in nature the untutored savage one of the most bost fearful an and d awe inspiring forces of the un universe verse verbe As ag 1 early morse bad invented and had bad made rude nude machinery by which he was enabled to transmit in one direction ion lon along a wire the tha effect of electricity by his experiments peri perl ments he be be became ame satisfied that jaag neusom was vas akin to if not the same great power as electricity displayed in nature we sojo yojo aouger nger ngor ago than IW 1835 by bya the rudo rude I 1 implements m clements ts he succeeded in fix transmitting for a few feet this influence or power or something that could be befell felt feit he nad had here the starting point the nucleus the radiating abing centre which afterwards became the study the problem of his life and which he has solved xiong ye years aers airs of toil spent com comparatively a competency a fortune left him by his ance ancestors exhausted poor down almost to the lowest condition ol of pa poverty a alt ait it the material aid that he could bo borrow arow or beg from friends was wai gone for fot you know how it is with the discoveries co of the world these things are not evolved in a day dayt it sonae sometimes t imes takes a burter qu arter or half a century for the student the chemist the philosopher or alchemist to evolve some great truth and develop it into an accomplished fact it was so with morse what seems now to the man who sits sita by this table and with the simple mechanical ch touch of the finger sends a thrill a sor bor something which he nor an any other othen man nor morse monse himself was able to fathom to t the farthest corner of the earth it is so simple and so easy that all wondered why it was not done before I 1 jt Is so with al most moat all great achievements achievement fi in science and art with his bis fortune exhausted but with unbounded that he had fast hold of bf a mighty truth a great science a lofty art to be developed he be applied to friends frienda for money but without successful result at last he resolved that he ha would appeal to the great groat american people and to that american people through their representatives the congress of the united state states assembled at washington agton the winter of 1837 8 saw baw morse then past the prime of life a petitioner lor fb i raa a few thousand dollars to enable him to lay because at ono one time it was thought that the wire should be bebur burled burlea lod loa in the earth a wire from the city of washington the capital of the nation to the city of Bal bai baltimore limore a distance of about forty miles the proposition was so strange and curious curl curi ohis ofis so novel that it was thought by bj a majority of the members of that congress to be but the adlo fancy of au an addlebrained crazy man like those of many other discoverers and benefactors of earth after labor laboring ing log in vain vain through two sessions of congress and beginning be inning to give up hope feeling that in hist his native land he could not obtain that aid and hoping that in the language of scripture a prophet might not be without honor save at his own home and in his hla own land he crossed the atlantic lu iu a packet ship ho he had taken out letters patent for his invention in america and when he reached 1 ingland angland d mgt he applied for a patent at the pat patent a office fv of the english government tor for this tells so called invention this thiis simple simpie coil of wire of which you see two in this little ment mont lying on the table the invention or of morse made by byl him itai iu in 1830 and still used in all telegraphing it hag haa never been changed around in this little spool form are myriad yards af pf of wire coil upon coil surrounding a magnet he applied to the english government for a patent upon that and failed it was to bem them hem to the great commissioners and examiners of the british patent office such a simple and thing that a pat patent erit elit was refused he applied to lo other governments or of E europe but have havo only in franca did he hei obtain what was called a simple brevet 6 sort of complimentary patent which to nothing struggling as did one of italis noble born in foreign lands but not so successfully and had hadl morse lorse been successful in obtaining his patent from thee elih government from the brow of the genius of american liberty would have been snatched the honor which she how bears as one of the brightest gems in her crown and the english government had the honor of bestowing aid upon Morse and the english people would have had the honor of enabling him to develop this wonderful thing you recollect how it was waa with one born tn id genoa when the eastern continent was believed to be all there was of earth the spanish main on the west and the furthest farthest cathay on the east were the boundaries of the known world upon the other side of this globe a whole continent was unknown christopher Coluin columbus bus bas struggling seeking asking beg begging glug in vain from irom the rulers the potentates and wealthy men of his own land to give him lelent sufficient money to betsall set sati sail in t a few tew ships westward across that I 1 great ocean beechin oer which on the western shores of europe they could look towards the setting eun sun gun he like ilko morse traveled to other lands and after of searching pleading and begging he obtained the ears pf af one who listened intently to his story and saw him spread out the map of the then teen known world and demonstrate that there vias mias another continent upon the other si side of this great globe and glory be to that thad personage a representative of gods noblest work a perfect woman isabella of spain to whom was given the honorof honor of aiding alding columbus to work out his god inspired project and today to day spain bears upon her escutel escutcheon leon as one of the gran grandest grandeau desu deau of her memorial mottoes words which shall be handed down through numberless ages to the glory and ana credit of that old ola nation though she may crumble crumbie and abid decay A castille Cd stille a leon neuvo aundo hundo dio colon to castile castila and leon a new world gave columbus unsuccessful in europe the moral hero heno whose obsequies we now commemorate returned on the packet ship scylla to the city of new now york in 1838 itla itly ili iti related that upon the deck of that ship amid his fel fei fella lw passengers with his drawings and his instruments ho he demonstrated again the power the wonderful vital energy the marvellous marcellous marv ellous forc force ethera thera was in this some thing called electricity in the development known as material magnetism asserting that it could be applied to the use of man for the transmission of messages along vast extents of country by simple wires to those fellow passengers upon the deck of this packet ship it was a h marvel a mystery and few lew lent willing ears almost all turned away with or expression it is a pity that a man so nobly born so wonderful in his endowments so intellectually bred has gone crazy upon this thing again upon the shores of his hla native land with naught left but undying energy and persevering hope money gone friends dropping away one by one tired of his asking them for aid blek alck of meeting with his hla crazy babble he wended bended his way again to the capital ba pital ot of his country A gray haired man he be |