Show FROM IRELAND Ireland June 29 1924 Mr S. S Peter Peterson P-eterson Dear Editor Editor Editor- Your paper has been a a. a welcome a-welcome visitor each Week now for for or some sometime sometime sometime time and I feel it my duty to ac- ac kno edge receipt of the same an and express my appreciation to yo for Cor sending the paper It is with eagerness eagerness eagerness erness that we read the local items contained in the r l Messenger If I were a talented speaker or writer I would give glye you a description description description tion of the o Emereld Isle and some of the experiences of a l latter Day Saint Missionary In a foreign land but since I am neither I will content nt myself with giving you a afew afew afew few unpolished facts As you OU know Mrs Johnson an I left leCt home last fast November We had hada a no pleasant trip across the tho Atlantic from ron Montreal to Liverpool Li Liverpool has a Q population of or about and the houses are ara 30 close together that one may t go for miles and see no openings between between between be be- tween the houses except the street The Tho County of or Lancashire has a population of bout five fhe million and is the tho center canter of the tho cotton tex tex- textile textile tile lilo industry of oC Great and includes the following Cities L Lv- Lv Blackburn Nelson Burnley Wigan Accrington Darwen Bolton Dolton and Manchester l r tho latter having havinga a population about the same same as Liverpool Many years ears ago a canal was made from Liverpool Lh to Manchester a distance of forty miles and connecting connecting con con- n most moat of the above cities upon which the raw materials for forthe forthe the factories was brought In and I the manufactured goods gooda out But sinco since the introduction of ot the tho American Am Am- Automobile into England Jt lt has done away with the usel of the tho canal almost entirely Lancashire is the tho richest county in England and i it ft itis is claimed that they own one eighth of the finances of the world Yet the state of or Utah is greater grenter in area than all of England Scotland and Wales Vale com corn blued One of or the cities In this co county nt p has smoke stacks and one of or orthe the tho mills has 1710 17 looms with only on one hundred in operation at the tho present time In III this city there are about people employed In the mills wh when n they are in op op- Owing to the depression of or the cotton textile industry about of these people are idle at present according to the best In Information information in- in formation n I can get This information information information tion Is from one of the Elders who has been laboring in the the- Liverpool Conference Mrs Johnson and I remained fn In Liverpool only a short time a and d then came to Belfast Ireland whore where wo we remained about six l Continued on It page go eight From Ireland Continued from pogo 1 months mouths Belfast is situated on both sides of the Logan River and has a pop a of about about the of or Utah There same as the state of or a n percentage is about as large is unemployed at Belfast as there in the County o of Lancashire Eng Eng- land The principal Industries of or Belfast Belfast Belfast Bel Bel- fast are Irish linen rope manufacturing manu manu- manufacturing and shipbuilding Belfast Belfast Belfast Bel Bel- fast boasts of having the largest linen factory in tho the world the tho condition condition condition con con- To give sonic some idea as to of tho the working II I will state that when the tho ship yards are busy they employ about but at present they have S only about 1000 and man many of these thes not full ull time I know JatOW of one ono house of three small rooms wherein 3 familIes consisting o of 11 1 souls are living or existing On the tho ol of olMay I May May Mayall all the missionaries missionaries' of the Ulster Conference attended the Irish 1 Free leo State Conference at Dub Dub- lin The morning session was taken up by the Sunday School children WIO who rendered a er very beautiful program program pro pro- gram gram in commemoration of Mothers Mother's Moth Moth- Mothers Mother's I ers er's Day The children all marl had had their parts well and tIt brogue which the tho ch children dren used while taking their pasts parts mado made the time program programs all tho time more interesting tc us When hen you listen to tho the Irish speaking English you must pay par strict att attention or you may play think the they ore are using some foreign lang lang- cage A splendid spirit prevailed pre throughout through through- I out omit all the sessions of tho the conference confori confer confer- i I en ence which were presided over O bv hv David 0 O. 1 McKay president of the European Mission l who gave sonic some excellent council I I The Th'S membership of the Dublin Branch was 51 51 and they were all p to meeting except one lady who was home on account of a new arrival only a few sw days old who has since become the time Latter Da Day Saint in the tho Dublin Branch Dranch Many Jany i I friends and Investigators also were there Dublin is situated upon both hoth sides of the tho river Liffe Liffey where it empties Into the Dublin Bay Day It has a a. population of about and appears to bo be about the most Britian American like liI City in Great Dublin boasts of having haing the larg largest st distillery In Iii tho the world They call caIl holdings holdIngs holdings hold hold- it Their Thol property ings cover enough ground to make a fair fall sized city Saints While at Dublin the tho there thore treated U us royally taking us their th motors out into the country in on a sight seeing trip In Iii the summer Bummer time Ireland is grand beautiful landscape 1 just test one with its lakes rivers rolling hillsand hills hillsand hillsand and grassy vales all fenced and cross fenced with rock rocIe walls Th There re thickets of oC trees all alllan are aro man mun many lan tangled led together with English Ivy The English Nether bother is to be lie found round in rich abundance along the rock rock- the hills and walls or fences on some places It has taken entire possession possession pos pos- session 1 of oC certain pastures Where th time the ground is left unmolested for hether nether runs over-runs it the some ome time a good deal the same as Us sage and rabbit brush over runs the dry farm larm land in Sanpete if not 1 For about the last month Mrs Johnson and I have been working in Londonderry which Is situated I on both sides of oC tho the Foyle river About 20 miles inland from the Oc Ocean an Medium 1 sized ships come ap tp the river to the tho docks b but t it Is 00 shallow for large largo ships During a u siege about 1688 A A. D.a. D. D 1 a. stone stono wall was built around the ity of Londonderry This wall waIl IsHill is isHill Hill till standing There are no street cars here so If tf one ono desires to ride he must take an Irish car a two affair which puts you high up in the air all and you OU sit on the side and let your our feet hang over Londonderry has han a population of hut hilt ol- ol b f f r t r o r rIft Y thousand but a out o y U u. u most any of or the towns in Sanpete exhibit more lir life than is manifested here Most lost of the people seem to tobe tobe tobe be content to stand in the doorways and at tho the passerby It appears appears appears ap ap- ap- ap pears that the time people as a rule here are very poor and I thi think k that one of the reasons is found in the fact that on one street within about oile one half mile there are aro fifteen sa- sa saloons sa sa- loons loons about about an average of the principal streets I asked one man what the people of Londonderry live on and he lie n u uin said The T reputation this hiS ity l got in the siege si-ege of or 1688 so It it must have been a A. good reputation to toI I last sra so long 1 1 Again I wish to thank y you lU u for forthe forthe forthe the Messenger whose week weekly visit never fails fails- to Interest and I cheer us And ma may success attend your efforts in the activities es of Sanpete he before fore the people thru your paper is the sincere sincere- fish of or orL L 1 Your F Fend end E. E J J. J John Johnsin to n nI I Fountain Green Greenl Uta Utah |