New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-26
THE PASSING THRONG.

W. H. Young. prominent mining man Of Butte
Mont, who started In life a civn engineer, told
the following story the Gilsey
REVERSED House yesterday OF experience
THE he once bad IN lis early days. I'VE
SUPREME building the line Of the
COURT Northern Pacific Railroad" said
Mr.. Young. "and running it
through as rapidly possible. Where we had the
rights of way. well and good. and where for any
reason had them not, we'll and good also. for
the less went ahead with the line trust
ing TO our ability 10 settle with the owners of the
land afterward l was IN eharge OF the advanSe
ou3d a a5 e 9sSe OF the ran named
Meagher. Meagher promptly arrested me, Tor the
hostage until he could get service on President
Cakes. BeIHs unable to accomplish this praise
engaged Bill Ston to defend me. The trial came
on on IN due G[ne Me9gheG j. r. end back ak up
his contentious in my behalf, began reading i'm
Meagher. J. P, however: interrupted him With
Misther sth9i9T That may IL please Your aoq
volume containing the decisions OF The supreme rene
Court of Idaho Politely. but with ominous calm
Misther Sthole AT numerous and divers times.
continued the learned Justice. the Shuprame Coort
noomber of my decaysions and my toorn | Cow
Idayho And I'm blessed if he didn't" concluded
Mr. Young, with a reminiscent sigh
disappearance of the Great Salt Lake said Walton
II. Smith, OF ogden. yesterday at
SALT the Gilsey House. Already the
LAKE lake through evaporation and other
DOOMED. causes, is greatly reduced in size.
and this, too. within the memory
of still living. What effect the ultimate dis
appearance of this body of water will have upon
the wonderfully rich and fertile valley, which the
prophesy but its gradual disappearance is regarded
holders in that neighborhood. TO one who has
Unique. At Garfeid Beach. where You can make a
dive or jump from considerable height, you
enter the water all over, but in the Great Salt
Lake. so brackish is IT, that it is al but impossible
feet. When you first strike the water you have the
matte cushion. the further you go the greater
becomes the force opposing your entrance Not
lake is its altitude, lying it does 1920 feet above
sea level"
Years ago" continued Mr.. Smith, 81 paid a
visit TO the Far East and in the course of my
travels visited the Dead Sea- which
A BATH IN is situated in Southern Syria. not
THE DEAD far from Suez. Compared to the
SEA waters of the Dead Sea. those
OF the Salt Lake compare lively
fresh, and a scientific whom 1 met in London
gave me this explanation OF the of their eX-
IRENE saltiness. All water carries a percentage
of salt and in both the cases of the Dead Sea and
the Great Salt Lake there is outlet 10 the lakes
and they maintain their levels through evapora-
ton Through the countless centuries during which
they have existed this salt since it does not evap
crate, has accumulated until these bodies OF
have attained their present bracksh condition
'Ba hing in the Dead Sea is really fearful In
the first place, you buoyed up by the water
as TO literally lie on its surface, and after bath
IN it you are almost sticky you would have
been had you taken plunge into hOgShead OF
molasses-a state you must endure for some time.
as fresh water does not lie it, 1t is only to
be able to say afterward that you have bathed in
the waters of the Dead Sea that induces you to
take that nauseOus plunge The Dead Sea as YOU
look from its borders, Is seemingly surrounded by
lofty hills, but when you reach their summit
and your eve again over the level stretches
of plain to a realization of the fact that
the lies below the surface of the
earth. and what you had taken for hills were
simply the sides of the tndentatiOn cup IN which
& sunk"