The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-10-02

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people can reach the open air in a few
moments The building has but one
counterpart in the world and was
planned wholly by Brigham Young
It's said to have been put together
without the use Of nail, the i'm
mense roof being pegged together.
The tabernacle is noted the world over
for it's wonderful acoustic properties,
the faintest whisper or the dropping
a pin can be heard all over the
btildlng- so tits said. At the organ
rdf fital given for our party-to which
a thousand OF more other visitors were
pre- sent-all were seated at the ex.
treme end Of the building and in the
gallery overhead. One of the elders
up in front, near the big organ, drop
ped pin on little stone slab. T
didn't hear it.
Within the building is the famous
Mormon organ, built when the near
est railroad was a thousand miles
away, from native woods, and for
many years the largest organ in the
world and now the second in size in
the United States. 1t has since been
rebuilt by prominent organ factory
and represents a cost of about Sll5, 5,9cO.
The organ is SO feet high and has lOS
stops. The organist is a native Nor
mon, educated in Germany. After
the departure of the crowd the news
paper folks were asked to step up to
the organ and watch the organist
make it sing. The mechanism is ten
feet in front OF the organ and the
player faces the audience. There are
four key boards besides the pedals.
The organ has 5000 pipes, ranging
from two inches to thirtY-two feet in
length, and is one of the most perfect
instruments IN the world
The Latter Day Saints University
building, Tithing Store-house, Lion
and Beehive houses, Eagle Gate and
church offices are located on the ten
acre square east of the Temple Block.
Amelia palace is directly across the
way from the Beehive house, and
short distance away-up Brigham
the grave Of Brigham
Young.
The most interesting building to
visitors is the old colonial mansion
known as the Beehive, upon the top
OF which is beehive, the state en-
blem. 1t was here and in the auxiliary
buildings that Brigham housed some
thing like seventeen of his wives. He
had during his lifetime twenty-three
Of them-thoughtnot all living at the
same time and something like sixty
Directly across the road, on
a corner, once stood a school house in
which fifty-two of his children had
their special instruction under their
own tutors. The spot is now occupied
by handsome apartment building.
On the corner diagonally across the
street stands the costly home erected
by Brigham for his favorite wife,
Amelio T olson, a distant relative Of
Mrs. Grover Cleveland. He died be-
fore the building was completed and
it is now owned by wealthy miner.
Eagle Gate was the entrance to the
private property in that part Of the
city owned by Brigham Young.
Brigham died in 1877. His grave
is in the heart Of the scene Of his
former triumph, a short distance away
from his Office and place of residence
on Brigham street-in a vacant city
lot. 1t is special object ct interest
to all visitors. The burial place is a
bit Of ground 75x125 feet, surrounded
by an iron fence three feet high, set
on a stone coping. His grave lies in
one Of the extreme back corners and
it is necessary for visitors to walk
along the coping on the high wall at
the rear Of the lot to get to it. The
grounds are not open. Brigham's
tomb is made Of solid rock sunk in
the earth, over which is a granite slab
with no mark or inscription whatever.
A neat iron fence encloses it,. Three
of his wives are buried near him, with
slabs of stone, face down, marking
the spot. The city authorities have
forbidden any more interments here.
The lot is covered with a growth Of
grassland a single walk. 1t shows
signs of NEGLECT and altogether most
unlikely place to look for the grave
Of Brigham Young.
The street-Brig CHAM contains the
3hands0mest dwellings in the city
among them the home Of Senator
Kearns IA mansion Of white granite,
which with its barn, cost $3.50, 900, It
is one Of the handsomest-if not the
most beaut.ful-homes this writer
ever saw. On this same street the
PresbYterlans are building costly
church and just a little farther away
a magnificent Catholic cathedral is.
going llD--nOW in It's third year f,f