The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-08-09
FLYING TRIP 10 THE GREAT SALT LAKE.
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At moor we dined with the commercial
club, and at two O'Clock with the pres
club and commercial club. we're escort
ed to Salt Lake, about ten miles dis
tant, where the whole party werI
o rolling in the briny waves. l
was a luxurious feeling to roll over OF
One's back and let the wind and wave,
toss n about. Even the ladies soor
learned that they could swim, the only
trouble being in keeping the feet under
the water. The water is four times a:
salt as ocean water, and In every hun.
dred pounds of water there Is held in
solution thirteen pounds OF salt.
We visited the Tabernacle" where
the Mormons hold q part of their
religious services. This building is
100 feet wide by 26O feet long, with
self-supporting roof. The whole struc-
tureils exactly the shape of half an egg,
cut the long way. In the tabernacle is
an immense organ, said to b. the finest
in the world. We we're treated to a
cOncer of two hours, the performer
being a brilliant musician. Every
Tuesday and Friday a public enter
tainment Is gwen, free of charge.
There were about three thousand per-
sons present when we went in, and the
gallery was not full, and no one was
on the floor below. The house will
seat about $4,000 people and is the
finest auditorium iu the world.
At the conclusion Of the programme
the Missourans we're invited to inspect
the organ and the building. There
were four banks of keys, with five
banks Of stops On eacL side, and the
combinations that could be made was
almost beyond belief. We heard nine
different flute tones and as many clari-
onet tones and almost any instrument
could be initiated. After looking at
the organ, and after every one had
left the building except the editorial
party, we were requested to 60 back
IN the gallery as far as we could 90,
and test the auditorium. We were
more than two hundred feet from the
speaker, yet could hear every zone of
his voice at an ordinary conversational
pitch. he held up a pin and dropped
1t, and two of our party said they
heard it fall. We did not, though we
could easily believe that others with
sharper ears might have beard it.
We saw the great Mormon temple,
but did not see the inside of it. Gen.
tiles are excluded from this "holy of
holies." Only Mormons IN good stan
ding, with clearance papers from the
tithing house, are permitted to enter.
On one pinnacle of this magnificent
building is a statue representing "Moro-
nj" the angel who told Joseph Smith
where to find the plates which were
the foundation of the Book OF Mormon.
The statue is fourteen feet high, made
of beaten copper and gilded with pure
gold. Looking at this figure from the
ground IL appears about the size of a
fourteen year old girl. The temple
itself is a handsome building, made Of
granite, and the pinnacles are 260 feet
above the ground.
We saw the sun-dried brick house
where Brigham Young's children at
tended school; no other children we're
allowed to attend this school. We
also saw "Amelia Palace" the hand
some residence erected by Brigham
Young for his favorite wife. Also the
''Eagle Gate" erected BY Brigham
Young. We saw the ''Lion House."
the ''Bee Hive The "Tithing Honse.n
the Mormon printing Office, the Assem-
bly, House, the great statute of Brigham
Young, and much other Mormon prop
erty, but the greatest of all, except the
temple, was the "Zion Cooperative
Mercantile lnstitute," an immense
store, covering bali a block, and now
being almost doubled IN size. This
''Enstitute' belongs to the church and
does an immense business. The Nor
mons generally are poor. The church
is immensely rich. We visited the
grave of Brigham Young, but were as
sured that his body "ls mol here, but IS
in the temple We visited the salt