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Show Impressions of a Traveler. Mney people will remember Dr. McCarthy, Mc-Carthy, tho plcn.mnt gentleman who, with bis wife, visited Mr nnd Mrs. T. F, Trnnc Inst summer. He has return ed to his Australian homo nnd the following fol-lowing article is taken from his correspondence corres-pondence to a Melbourne paper, Though we arrive nt Salt L'ike City late nt night, yet thero is such a huM) nnd animation nbout the place that makes ono wonder whether he is tenly in (lie heart of tho American continent, or whether he ha been dropped suddenly sud-denly Into the l'lai'c de 1' Opein or the Boulevard HntMsmnu' I'uU. Salt Lnko City la gcneraly associated in the minds of most F.uglish speaking people which polygamy, nnd nil tho worst vices and traits that u (.htls'.I.in but unkindly ngc can heap upon tho heads of then" unique people, thu Mormons. The visitor who oomes licit under the linpresson that he is going to sec queer people living strange primitive modes of life, nnd every man with 11 doen or more wives, will ho sadly disappointed. On the contrary, ho will llud 1111 up to-dato to-dato race of piople. henllhy, vigorous, thrifty, cleanly, mornlcd, nnd perhaps holding n higher posltim In tho van of progress than inostotherF.nglishepeak-Ing inostotherF.nglishepeak-Ing peoples. The position of tho city Is uuiqii ly bcnutllul, being hounded 011 thu unu oido by tho mammoth Wasatch mountain, capped in eternal enow, 011 tho other hv thatlu;iis natiirn tho great Inland Bca of Salt Lake, and 011 11 thlid hy thu level plain i.s far ns the ovu can reach. Too much pialse cannot bu lavished on the forethought of Diigham Young, to whoso g?nlua thu city owcb Its origin mid splendid disposition. The skill nnd wisdom liu displayed in planning it out linn conliibutcd in no smnll degree to its being to-day a pai-agou pai-agou of municipal management. Its wide rectangular Ftreuta planted with magnificent shade treesnud wo.l lighted nnd deep sewered, nil havu given to the city in less than M) yeaisu statulinCM which oilier cities linvo not attained nf'er centuries of enru. Tlio buildings, too, aro on n grand scnle. Tho Temple Square (ontalnes two buildings, the equal of whtrn cannot lie Been in America, viz: thu Teniplu mid the Tabernacle. F.iich o( these buildings conilructed by volunteer laborniul iu-fleet iu-fleet thu greatest credit u thu nrlUtii. architectural tnet of thu people, and the M'lf-sacrlllcing devotion ol those Mormon Mor-mon builders, who n filled t li is com-111011-weiilth iu tliefar-nwny mountain fastnessesof Utah. Tlio temple Is n very pmnlnent in fact the mot piouiiiiciit-featuie piouiiiiciit-featuie in th.i landscape ol Iho city Its six spires anil the largy golden angel "Moion!"', which surinoiinta thu laigent one, living vUHi'e from a great distance. Wo were not permitted to enter this building. It is tlio "Holy of Holies" ottho Lttter-day Siinta. It contains the mysteries of their religion, nnd I hne hojn told that it liai never boon desecrated by thu foot ol iinbelloverH or Ueutllu Closu by is thu Tabernacle, a structure covered out by a gigantic domed roof, whose nub epnna 11 vast auditorium without ti support, a.ivo tlio outer walls. Tills is c.ipabio of Beating 10,000 people, llcie every Sunday afternoon the followers of Jojcph Smith nnd Utighain Young fill the placu to overflowing, mid it win our good fortune for-tune to bo presautnt ono of those services. ser-vices. Tho choir confuted of a 1000 viices, mid thu organ is tho largest in tho U. S. Su you can imagine what uu entli'iilling sensation nil that makes on n visitor. Thu system ol electrle trams iu Salt Lnku City is perhaps tho most perfect iu the world, nnd fur 11 few cents ono cm ride to all parts of thu city by nicni.s of theso "rnp'-l tinii-sits" tinii-sits" which oftimes run witli 11 velocity nf :JJ miles 1111 hour. O1.0 of tlio great attractions to tourists tour-ists is thu bathing Iu tho hi I.e. With the exception of gay Mr.iihattan, In N Y. there is no bathing resort throughout through-out the length nu.l breadth of tho continent con-tinent fo sought nfter as thU. During the summer mouths tens of thousands ol people come here to hatho tin I as 11 consequenco ono uees at Ci.irtleld mid Saltnlr beaches some of lh" fines! bath lug houses iu thu wur.d. Indtctl, it i8 sad) to say that the gi cut Moouth designed de-signed bathing p.ivilliou at thu hittui place ! tho most luxuriant thing of Its kind iu existiiuce, Tho waters ot the lako are quite as dento as those of the Dead Sen In l'alcsliue, nnd owing Iu thu amount of solid salluu matter Iu it tlio salt BO'inh to 01x0 out of one for days aftir. Drowning lieio U utteily impossible impos-sible a bad placo for suicides to repair to. (To be continued.) |