Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-05-24

friends In New York, then fastened
away 10 Boston. The old New England
conversatory seemed natural though
but few Of the old features OF 10 years
ago remain MY harmony teacher then
is now the president. only a day here,
and then ship ahoy." On ship board
our second cabin was sea OF song,
as the Welsh put t. About 20 of our
young men could sing, nearly all OF
them from Salt Lake Ogden and Pro-
80, led by our Charlie Pike (who cap
tured the entire ship the very first
night with his earnest, soulful singing.
Eddie Kimball and a young brother
by the name OF Clayton from Provo
were at the plano, so | had but little
TO do but act as "A sort OF centerpiece,
and we sang and sang, altogether and
singly, sang sill the whales and sharks
beneath us wagged their tails for joy
we sang while we could. for by Satur-
day night we left the singing TO the
winds and the accomplishments TO the
wild waves. our own music being hush
ed 10 q soft moan and now aud then
less musical though not audible sounds,
not exactly controlled by the dia-
phragm. II was real storm for about
~ HouIht anu uuAF lbui NuN VI WV
party cung TO the table for dinner
You were represented by myself, but
only for the one meal, The rest Of the
day | observed as q day of rest In
the sense real lazy man would put
It; without being sick, l lay abed the
whole daY,
DEATH AT SEA.
One poor fellow who had been
taken with consumption Just prior
to embarking died a couple OF days
afterwards the strain OF the seaslck-
ness evidently having FASTENED his
death. Though within q few hours OF
Ireland, where he was bound, he was
buried in the sea In what most OF us
felt q most barbarous way. After a
short service, the body, which was
sewed up In sail cloth, and covered
with an American flag was laid upon
a plank. the end OF which protruded a
few feet over the side OF the ship. Al
the close of the service the inner end
Of the plank was raised and the body
slid of into space, turning completely
over before striking the water None
Of us knew the poor fellow, but you
may depend upon II every heart
throbbed with pain as we turned away
from the spectacle
UTAH TALENT TO THE FORE.
We gave the usual concert for charity
on Tuesday night, Utah furnishing nine
numbers out Of 1S, and a very nice con
cert It was voted to be. Many cabin
passengers attended 20 hear the "hlor- |
mon boys All you young men at
home, could you but catch the spirit |
OF Il M advance, there would be in |
Utah $4,000 boys and men learning to |
sing creditably IN time and tune. An.
me- What q community OF triners we |
are, too generally Thanks TO the end |
less efforts Of few, we are slowly inn |
proving, but What with Moody and |
sankeyism, aud Idle songs OF sentl-
mentality ON the one side and button
cry and comic operaism on the other. |
we rise with many letters and draw |
bucks. I mean even the talented ones
Who rise at all The cloud OF COM
parative indifference Of the older PEG.
pie, and the frivolous galey OF the
Younger ones, too, make the sowing"
a difIicult task, but an win come per-
hNps in due time, In the meantime
Tie workers must remember that Ell.
fort ehort, effort Is even necessary |
TO their own development. 70 do not
become discouraged or inactive We earn.
est ones at home, o FOR 10000 Charlie
Pixies What might we not accomplish
with earnest singing lie again sang.
accompanied by young Kimhall at the
plano In the first cabin concert Wed.
nesday night, and was the real attrac.
ton OF the evening.
MEETING APOSTLE LYMAN.
Thursday night We arrived az Liver.
pool. whore We found our ever faithful
brethren at their posts and ready 10
welcome us, and show as up 10 "Isling-
ton" We found, 10 our 10Y. that Prest
Lyman had just returned home from
Palestine that day, and 10 attend the
meetings he held with the roomful of
newly arrived missionaries on Friday
morning, and later an hours private
conversation with that kind-hearted.
more .than-father-Apostle. was worth
Journey TO England alone. Then dur
ing Friday We an scattered out. the
missionaries 10 their various fields of |
labor. l came on here with those whose
way teak tham " Loneen, Az hare