The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-24
WONDERS OF WEST
SEEN BY TEMPLARS
CAPT. FRED GARDEN RETURNS
FROM KNIGHTS TEMPLARS CON-
CLAVE AT SAN FRANCISCO,

Visited the Cripple Creek District.
Both Sides Admit They Went Too
Far In the Warfarc-Miners Claim
That Deportation Was Part of a
Political Scheme-The State EIec-
tOral Vote is Almost Certain to
Be for Roosevelt and Fairbanks.
Capt. Fred w. Garden, who attended
the big conclave of knights Templars
in San Francisco, returned to the city
yesterday morning. Capt. Garden
speaks in the highest terms of the hos
pitality accorded the visiting knights
and of the splendors of the receptions.
Nearly every building in Frisco was
illuminated in honor of the gathering,
and every effort was made to make
the occasion one that the visitors
would long remember.
On the return journey Capt. Car
den stopped at a number of points of
interest in the Far West Among the
other places visited was Cripple Creek,
and in speaking of the condition there
he said:
II found things rather quiet, COM
paratively speaking, in that city which
has been the subject of so much COM
ment recently, and which oc-
cupied the attention of the
entire country for so long.
1 talked with both sides and find they
admit they went too far. Miners and
operators each say they themselves
and their opponents went to extremes
and farther than they should have
gone.
Democrats Were Rum Ont.
Some claim the deportation of the
miners was political scheme. Every
one of the 1900 men deported were
Democrats, and it is alleged it was for
this reason that Gov. Peabody wished
to get them out of the state. Several
of the miners stated they did not dare
express themselves now, but they
would show their strength at the polls
and surprise the Republican state ad-
ministration.
The electoral vote of the state"
continued Capt. Garden. will proba-
bly, go for Roosevelt and Fairbanks.
The Republican administration has car
rled out extensive irrigation schemes,
and this has been of great benefit to
the state. Naturally, therefore, the
people will seek to perpetuate the pres
ent administration. and l will be sur
prised if the electoral vote turns in for
Parker and Davis.
Visit to Salt Lake.
"One of the most interesting places
at which l stopped was Salt Lake
City. Conditions there surprised me
greatly, especially in regard to the
strength of the Mormons. 1 had eX-
pected to find them greatly in the
majority. but on the contrary they are
in the minority. The greater part of
the Mormon Church seems to be scat
tered through the country. Churches
of all denominations are going up in
the city indicating a general increase.
1.-THE Mormon Tabernacle was one
of the most interesting of all the
structures to me. The roof of this
building consists of a single wooden
arch 1t was commenced in 1865 and
completed in April, 1870. 1t is $50
feet wide, $50 feet long. and so feet
high, and has wonderful acoustic prop
critics. A pin dropped in one end of
the building can be heard to fall by
person standing in the extreme rear,
$50 feet away.
Reauty of Mormon Tabernacle.
1.-THE gallery is not built against the
walls, but stands out at some dis
tance. This allows the waves of sound
to penetrate to all parts of the i'm
mense building. 1t is one of the most
wonderful buildings in the world, and
the more one learns of it's details, the
more wonderful it seems.
I'm the west end stands the great
organ, in all probability the widest
and most favorably known pipe organ
in the world. 1t was constructed over
thirty years ago entirely by Utah ar
tisans and mostly from native ma
terials. The front towers have an
altitude of fifty-eight feet, and the
dimensions of the organ are thirty by
thirty-three feet. 1t has 10 stops and
accessories, and contains a total of s.,
900 pipes, ranging in length from one
fourth of an inch to thirty-two feet.
1t is composed of five complete or
gans and is capable of 400 tonal varie-
ties.
Great Beds of Salt.
Among the other points of interest
to me-" said Capt. Garden, was Salt
Lake itself. This immense body of
water is gradually drying up. This can
be plainly seen, as buildings which
were once on the edge of the water
are now fully a quarter of a mile in
land. Great beds of salt show where
the water has been, deposited there as
the lake receded. The cause or this
drying up is that the streams which
formerly emptied into the lake have