The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-19
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PROF PARRY ON SALT LAKE
THE FIsTEDDFop ADJUDIcAToR
TELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCES.
Some Observations That Possess the
Quality of Unconscious Humor-
Has Great Liking For Zion.
(Cardin Wales News \

Dr. Joseph Parry, the well-known
Welsh musician, arrived home in Car
diff on Saturday evening after an alb
sence Of eleven weeks in America,
where he officiated as the chief musical
adjudicator at the great eisteddfod held
by the Mormons on the 9Th and 18th f
this month at Salt Lake City, Utah. DR..
Parry looks all the better Tor his long
journey to the far west, and when seen
Oh hICnt,dy Dy Z South Wales DAILY
News representative, had a good deal
to say of his experiences among Brig
ham Young's people.
We'll and what about the eistedd-
fodic Mormons?" asked our represen-
tative.
THE eisteddfod was huge suc-ess in
every way" said DR.. Parry 1T was
held in connection with a Mormon .es-
tIYal called the convention, and was at
tended by 10000 people. The great Nor
mon tabernacle was crammed."
''Of course you came across many of
your countrymen among the Latter
day Saints?"
My dear sir, met scores of them.
They came into the city from all parts
of the state of Utah. Among them l
met some Merthyr people who attended
the same chapel as l did when a boy,
and they well remembered my parents.
Others again came from the Rhondda
Valley, Aberdare, Carmarthen, Penn
/ brokeshire, North Wales-in fact from
all over the principality
and all of them good and jealous
Mormons?"
Every one of them
Including yourself?"
'Sir!''-but the doctor happily saw
the joke. NO" he added, they made
no Mormon of me, nor, fair play, did
they attempt it. They are in no way
intrusive as to their religious views
Why, l never saw nicer people in ali
my life. Polygany there is absolutely
thing of the past Another man 1
met came from Rhyl, and he was
member of the Cambridge choir at the
time took my degree
And Salt Lake City-were you i'm
/ pressed by it!''
Immensely. Brigham Young had a
genius for organization. There is this
beautiful city, 700 miles away from
Denver, the nearest city on the east.
and 900 miles from California on the
west. planted in the center of what was
years ago a vast wilderness. 1t is now
magnificently wooded, and the roads
are 125 feet wide. I ascended the sum-
NIT OF Ensign peak, where Brigham
Young planted the Mormon flag, and
| could not distinguish the city for the
trees. 1t stands in an enormous am
phitheatre surrounded by the snow
capped Rockies, and presents one of the
most impressive pictures 1 have ever
seen. The buildings are magnificent.
They have the tabernacle, which holds
10000 people, the temple, an opera
house, baths, and cher superb struc-
lures.
And how did the inhabitants receive
you?"
II was never better treated in all my
life. They simply overwhelmed me with
kindness. 1 was among them for two
weeks but one day, and had interviews
with nearly all the Mormon leaders,
including President Snow, the bishops.
| and the apostles. I attended one of
their services on Sunday night. The
+ city is divided into twenty-four wards
They have place of worship in each
of these, and on Sunday they all meet
in the tabernacle, where the eisteddfod
was held. They made me president of
another night 1 delivered my lecture on
| The Masters before q crowded audi
ence at the tabernacle"
"And what had the Mormon leaders
to tell you of their Welsh co-religion-
ists?"
They rank the Welsh among the best
citizens in America"
| ut elSleuulOu- every respect was
it Welsh?"
''Well, it was originally promoted by
the Welsh section. This was the third
eisteddfod held The committee, how
ever, included Welshmen and Gentiles' -
How about the music-was it good?''
1.-THE singing of the competitors, So
loists, and choirs was fully up to the
standard of the Welsh national eistedd-
fod, and to my surprise some of the
compositions sent in were excellent.
, They are truly a music-loving people.
They have a choir Of 500 voices at
tached to the tabernacle, and they had
the members photographed specially
for me, and placed me in the center"
and you are going there again, of
course?"
well they intend to have another
eisteddfod there two years hence, and
they have pressed me to be there, and
don't know that, if alive and well,
| chant on -