The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-16
ON LONG ISLAND.
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ON LONG ISLAND.
Bishop F. A. Hammond Renews Old Family
Associations.
PATCnoGUE, LONG ISLAND, New York,
Dec. 80, 1SS9.-[ Correspondence of THE
HERALD. II am here and in the midst of
one ovation after an other. We had
grand reunion of the Hammond and Ed
wards families on Christmas day. This is
the second time have visited my native
town since 1913. The first time was away
twenty-siX years and six months. l made
the trip round the world in that time.
Again | was here in the winter of 1S69-7O,
the celebrated Poland bill. Bishop Bring
hurst, Bishop Robert Burton, President
Angus Cannon, Hon. w. W. Ritter, myself
and others were here and did a little
preaching-enough to geta good pelting of
eggs that were somewhat ancient spelling
good Sl5 silk umbrella; it was hard on
the umbrella but it saved our store
clothes. We had a meeting broken up by
couple of Irishmen at ''Reene Point where
we were holding forth in the ball room of
the tavern, as hotels were then called.
While they were wrangling among them
selves, we quietly slipped down the stairs
and on the porch we saw a few baskets of
eggs and stones as large as goose eggs,
gathered no doubt for our benefit, but we
climbed into Father Benedict's wagon and
with him to drive span of twenty three
year-old Morgan mares we were soon out
Of harms way-times are changed. Now
they come at US in more refined way, but
quite as telling, in their special happy way
OF making laws for our special benefit
believe l would rather take the egg and
stone business OF former day treatment.
AS Judge f. H, Hammond, having bust
ness In Washington l am admitted to So
clety that | could not reach as a humble
Mormon elder; then | was looked upon as
lazy tramp, but now ! am called upon by
the most noted men in the place, and you
may rest assured l lose no opportunity of
slipping in a word concerning the true sit
uation of Utah and her much abused and
sorely afflicted people. | am pleased to say
that many listen with much interest and
wonder how can such things be, in free
America.
believe | owe the kind reception l am
receiving to the article you wrote concern
ing my appointment by the people of San
j uan county to represent them in the mat
ter of
THE SOUTHERN UTE REMOVAL.
into Utah; that article has caused man tc
call on me. ~
Mr.. Austin Roe, one of the oldest
settlers, is among those who have called on
me. He stated that seventy-five years ago
Christmas day great tempest arose in
this country accompanied with snow, that
fell and drlfted twenty feet deep in places
Many lives were lost, and there was great
destruction OF property by sea and land.
He states that he can remember it quite
distinctly. He is eighty-tive years old and
still hale and hearty, and says he can sow
as much wheat In day as ever he could.
He is the boss farmer and cattle breeder of
this section. He furnished the dinner for
Webster in the great log cabin and hard
cider campaign of 1910. Silas Wright, of
Virginia, and Webster We're the speakers
at the convention. He had 200 four to six
| weeks old pigs dressed and baked whole
On the table. Webster remarked as he ap-
preached the table and caught sight of the
pigs, snow boys we must go the whole hog.n
He also says he had four hundred dressed
chickens, took in for table, and other sup
plies that day cost 81, 400. The Roe and
Hammond families were the first to settle
in this place on a little creek called Patch
ogue, from the Indians that were then
roaming in the wilds of dense forests 1
| brought with me few of Utah's apples
| raised at Moab, Emery county, by o. w.
Warner. They are very large and fair,
entirely free from worms, weigh about one
pound six ounces each and are quite an
attraction. No such apples were ever
raised here; also few Navajo Indian blan-
kets, and a few ears of corn from Moab,
dozen nice potatoes from the cellar of Hon.
w. w. Ritter, altogether making quite an
exhibition that calls fourth unstinted
praise from all who came to see few of
THE PRODUCTS OF UTAH.
The old old farm on which l was rails ed
is now cut up into town lots, and being
sold by the foot at what they call here good
round figures, but not a 1.-THE of the price
for which land was being sold in your city
when | left. This place has been settled
$50 years and Utah only some forty-two
or three. All themanufacturing of leather
boots and shoes, cotton, wool and paper
that was done here in my youth is now en-
tirely closed down; one dying factory and
dynamo plant is all that is being done
with that nice water power-the people
have gone into the hotel business for
the accommodation of visitors from New
York City, sixty miles west of here Dur
ing two months of the summer season,
money is plenty, the rest of the year times
are very dull. The oyster and clam trade
is falling off. A great many oysters, the
blue point red combers, have been shipped
to England in large quantities for planting.
It is small roundish oyster Of very supe-
rior flavor
The weather here as elsewhere seems to
be doing just as it is a mind to, no regulat-
ing of it by any Of the weather cranks
down here; it is the one topic of converse
ton wherever l go; summer in winter,
green grass, no frost in ground, pleasure
boats out ON the bay as In summer; where
as in my boy hood we now would be sailing
on said bay on ice boats, that use to go like
the wind. After holidays will return to
Washington to watch as well as pray
about the Indian matter so far as they re
late to San Juan, Utah.
F. A. HAMMOND.