Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-04-27
FROM CINCINNATI, OHIO.
A News Correspondents Visit 10 the ST.
Joseph Cemeley.
THE TRAMP OF SOLDIERS OFF FOR WAR.
The Religious Atmosphere stirred Up by
CeIebreties In the Ecclesiastical World
Mormon Elders.
THE TRAMP OF SOLDIERS OFF FOR WAR.
Cincinnati. April 20, 1898.

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To the Editor.
Last Sunday Elders Burton, Clark
and 1 visited the new st. Joseph
tCatholic) cemetery, this city. The
sexton showed us through the vault
house for the storage of dead bodies
pending burial. The rent for space
in the vault is S1.50 month for adults.
and 10 cents for children.
The ground plan of the structure IS
In the shape Of cross; there is door
but no windows in the building. venu-
lation is provided for by means OF
small holes near the bottom In the
door and an opening-also In the shape
OF cross-ln each of the four gables.
On each of three sides of the vault
shelves are running from the floor
nearly to the roof (there is no ceiling).
The COINS are placed on the shelves
side by side, and one row above the
other, arranged exactly like shoe boxes
in n store. on the end of the coiiin.
at the head, is tackled a card giving
the name and age of the deceased and
the date of death and of deposit In
the vault.
1t is customary here TO leave the
dead bodies in the vault for several
months before burial. My landlady's
husband was lying in the vault SIX
months before interment. We were
shown bodies in different stages OF
preservation; among others, one OF
woman % years old, who had died De-
cember 10, 1891
At the Instance of the Cincinnati
chamber of commerce, the Fort Thomas
(Ky.) soldiers who left last night for
Tampa, Florida paraded the streets OF
this city yesterday afternoon. All
along the line of march the thorough
fares were thronged with eager spec
tators. Every available space from
the streets to the tops of the buildings
was occupied. Some attempted 10
combine pleasure and profit with the
necessary expenditure of valuable
time but It was peculiarly striking to
see men engrossed in reading their
newspapers while cinging to telephone
poles twenty or thirty feet up in the
air, awaiting the arrival of the guests
of honor. Great interest was mani
tested by the tens of thousands or
people who were gathered to get a
glimpse at the boys In blue. MS they
actually appear when ready for husi-
ness II was particularly pathetic to
witness the parting Of the soldiers
from their loved and loving ones, who
had accompanied them on the cars
from the fort-ubout six miles distant
to this city.
The procession was headed by the
usual advance platoon of mounted po-
lice and half dozen patrol wagons,
followed by the military band playing
marching Tho Georgia." then came
the officers. body of privates, carrying
their guns with bayonets fixed, and
lastly regiments of soldiers, with their
regulation paraphernalia. as IL out on
march in actual service.
The vacuum created behind the pass
ing service OF our brave defenders was
shrewdly filled In with ever present evil
dence of business" that characterizes
American demonstrations of whatever
nature.
Many and varied were the expressions
heard as one walked among the crowd
of people: everybody seemingly had
war ON the brain. war seems to be the
drift theme of conversation ut present
everywhere and with everybody. War
is indeed n stern reality; measure
horrible to contemplate; a sad COM
mentary on the boosted advancement
in this enlightened age.
While standing on the steps of the
postofilce an accident occurred that
came within six inches of perhaps cost
Ing my life: II was the fall from some
of the stories above of an earthen
flower pot with Its contents. l moved
on.
As soon as II was known here today
that the President had signed the Gu
ban resolutions, steam whistles. gongs.
bells, and other instruments of noise
We're brought Into play, producing n
deafening and discordant din din, last
Ing over an hour.
Now, when nil that Is left to remind
one of Easter is the sign in grocery
windows. Eggs 20 cents yard. "
the religious atmosphere in this city Is
being stirred by such celebrities as MIR.
Moody. who preached here last week.
Rev. and Mrs. John Alex Dowle. from
Chicago. who next Sunday with Mr..
Moody will deliver in the Music Hall
'Zion's Message from God to Cincln-
natl" and last, but not least, Elders
Burton OF Ogden and Clark of Pan
guitch, Utah, the unpretending but
jealous Mormon missionaries who sew
eral times week boldly deliver Gods
message to all the world, not from the
stage In the commodious Music Hall,
and to thousands who are In quest
OF cheap and convenient form OF re-
ligion, but from the steps of the base
OF Garfield monument. to a few who
are willing to pause and lend an atten-
tive ear to the pristine Gospel truths.
Cincinnati being In every sense a
college center, has at this time OF tho
year an abundance of commencement
exercises md many n happy worker
rejoices at the end of his allotted proba-
tion. on receiving his hard earned
"sheep- skin"
Our college (the Eclectic Medlcal)
will soon have Its commencement--and
am not sorry for 1t,
CHARLES l.. OLSEN.
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