Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-06-29
A NOTABLE WEDDING.

The New York Journal Of Sunday
June "a, has an illustrated article IN
tended TO explain TO the people Of the
F,ast the kind Of ceremony to be per-
formed in the Salt Lake Temple. at
the marriage ceremony Of Elder lie Rol
@ Snow and Miss Maude NJ. Ford. or
course the Imagination Of the writer Is
given full swing, and that Of the artist
corresponds. with as much regard LOT
facts as is usual In such cases. But II
all suits the Journal the reputation OK
which for sensations and canaras ex-
tends much further than the limits OF
the state that mas Gotham" for It's
capital
The portrait Of lie Roi is fair, that
OF his pretty and charming bride Is
foul, She Is pictured as a woman al
least old enough to be his mother, ana
big enough for two Of such a sweet ana
attractive maiden. The interior Of the
Temple looks like some cathedral altar
with aged, cadayerous and kneel'ns
monks PROSTATE before a tiower-rooed
scclesiast reading from an open book
The desoriber Of the ceremony sup
posed TO be telegraphing from SAT-
Lake. attempts TO explain a difference
between a marriage and sealing
and says It is not a wedding accord
ing 10 the Mormon belief" After stat
ing that 1T would be just as easy TO get
high Mason to describe in detail the
thirty-thlrd degree. as It would be to
get Mormon to tell all about the seal
ing process, the writer proceeds TO tell
about It in a general way" from the
disclosures Of an ALLEGED Mormon
who had broken away from the
Church." but who declined to tell
everything for fear that he'd "never
sleep another wink" he'd be 80
haUnted."
or course the whole attempt at de-
scriptlon is what in newspaper parlance
is called fake" For instance for
part of the ceremony some quotations
are given from the revelation on celes-
trail marriage in the Doctrine and Cow
ensnts, as being read, after the
bridal procession takes up its march
to the sealing ROOM" the altar In which
is said to have ivory enter largely in
its construction, while at the top is a
plate of solid gold two inches thick
The rest OF the story is Of a similar
character and is a good many inches
thick with brass"
II appears TO have been made for a
syndicate article. AT any rate it Is
duplicated. minus the preposterous tenn
pie illustration, In the Sunday Cleye-
land Plaindealer and we understand
that other papers have the same prod
uct Of mingled fact and fiction, a little
Of the former TO a great deal OF the lat
ter II is strange how ready even big
newspapers are to publish imaginary
stories that relate TO the "Mormons."
The chief bit Of truth in these flights
Of fancy, is the marriage Of Elder lie
Roi c. Snow, son Of President Lorenzo
Snow. and Miss Maude NJ. Ford daugh-
ter Of John Ford Esq, of Auburn. Ohio
The ceremony was performed this az
ternoon, President George Q. Cannon
officiating, It is suitable we'd
ding and has been contemplated
for some time. Elaborate prepare
tons have been made for re-
ception this evening at the Beehive
House. The Deseret News cordially
congratulates the bride and bridegroom
and their parents and relatives on this
happy union, and hopes that its joys
will increase as the years roll on, and
that they may be perfected in eternal
bliss and endless increase and glory.