The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-15

3
AS TAR as the Mormon people are
! concerned he said. we have not had
/ an opportunity to see much of them
and learn much more than we knew
| before. Still, for my part, l have been
greatly taken with the city and with
what the MormOns have accomplished
/ mere The church is undoubtedly one
| of a wealth Of resources and of great
strength. The city seems to me to be
| one with a great future from a bust
ness standpoint. It is in the center OF
I such great mining country, and then
there is so much land, as 1 under
stand it, that can be made fertile by
| irrigation.
81 suppose the action in the Roberts
| case has had a very salutary effect
on conditions here. If polygamy is
crushed out there ought to be great
strides made in the way Of improve
ment here. Whether the visit of the
Epworth Leaguers viii have any f.
feet on future agitatiOhs regarding the
Mormon people is hard to say, how
ever"
T S. Marshall Of Salem. Ills, state
president Of the EpwOrth League, wss
among the excursion visitors.
This contact with the Mormoas has
opened our eyes to a great many
things" he said yesterday. 1T has
shown number of people who had
strange ideas that the MOTmons were
not altogether such people as they had
supposed them. / think everybody has
thoroughly enjoyed the organ recitals.
They have done more to give a pleas
ant impression of Salt Lake and the
Mormons than anything else I was
greatly interested IN the OTganIsL, who
looks like such a fine man, as wei
as a, musician. Altogether we have had
a delightful time in Salt Lake"
This one was evidently from New
England. He watched the wafer run
ming down in the gutter on Main street
for some time, carrying its burden Of
banana peals, snipes, scraps of PAPER
and other refuse.
IF / lived in this city" he was
heard to say. I should want 10 live
high up in the hills. Trims OF the
poor people in the lower parts Ct the
city who must use this water after 1t
has passed dawn through the city"
The bystanders did MT have tie
time or inclination to take the tTavt Ter
up into the canyons 20 show him the
city's water system
A number Of the Epwarth League
visitors are inclined to blame the MGR
mons for all the thefts committed since
the crowds have been entering the
city.
you see. it makes a bad impression
of the city" said G.. w. Clayton of
Philadelphia. one of the Leaguers, be
cause when we came here the Nor
mons tried to break into our car. and
there have been several things stolen
since We have-6een -here.''
A remark like this caused an alter
cation Between two women on a Salt
air train. The remark was overheard
by a Utah woman, who retorted:
wen. the MOrmOnS must have gone
to Chicago and Denver to meet you,
for I hear you lost more there than
you ever have here. For my part. 1
never heard of so much crime in the
same space Of time in Salt Lake as
there has been since you EpwOrth
LeagUers came here"
A woman came into the general
headquarters COT the EpWoTth League
at the First Methodist church last
evening and inquired.
rs it safe for me to go out on the
streets here alone?'
Inquiry developed that she had fears
Of the Danites.
The local entertainers of the visitors
took delight in telling queer tales
about Utah. In a down town grocery
store one of the clerks, who is an
EpwOrth Lacquer, went into the re-
frigerator and made a SNOWFALL out
of the accumulat lions where the vapor
had been crystallized. He laid it on
the counter and a visitor observed it
wonderingly and inquired about it.
oh said the clerk, "a wagons just
came down from Little Cottonwood
canyon. and I picked this off the hun."
Whereat the stranger went away,
marveling much.
The gathering of so many church
people has brought out the usual crop
of church stories. Rev Alfred H
Henry of the First Methodist church
is responsible for the tale of a certain
man who wanted to be the entire
prayer meeting. class meeting, expert
ence meeting or any other meeting he
might be attending. His long-winded
remarks began to keep people away
from meeting. and they were such an
afdictiOp upon those who attended that
the pastor saw he must do some
thing TO remedy the situation. Con-
sequently, he announced a rule that
no person should talk in meeting over
three minutes.
THE minute your time is up ] shall
rap you down. he declared. This rule
must be followed"
At the first opportunity the wordy
man arose and talked for three min
utes without stopping for breath. At
the end of the three minutes the pastor
raped.
rs my three minutes up! inquired
the speaker.
1T is. answered the pastor, deter
minedly.
well. then. brethren and sisters"
said the long-winded man, I will nm
ish my remarks in prayer.
And he dropped to his knees and
prayed for a solid hour.
I'VE saw Brigham Young at the
tabernacle today" said one woman at
the Epworth League headquarters i
don't think he looks a bit ike his
statue. It doesn't seem possible, does
it. that that man can have TWENTY
nine wives2"
The fire that threatened the town of
Enid. Okla. with total destruction,
caused the Rev. NJ. Porter of that
place some hours of the keenest anx-
iety. His family were left behind, and
the first reports indicated that the en-
tire town would be destroyed. he
wired back to Enid for information,
and had to wait some time Tor ms
reply. At last word came that MS
home had been saved and his family
were safe. although half the town had
already been destroyed by IRE. MI
Porter planned to give up the re-
lnainder of his trip and to take the next
train home.
Irrcvr ron CHANGERS