The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-19
MRS. EDDY ALIVE.
in GOOD HEALTH
Founder of Christian Science Gives
Interesting Interview.
DENIES RUMOR OF DEATH
OLD STORY PROVED FALSE BY
NEW YORK PAPER.

To settle the question whether Mrs.
Mary Baker G. Eddy was alive or dead,
a reporter for the New York Herald
went TO Concord. \. H. and his expert
ence makes an interesting story
He established the fact that she is
aIlNe' and secured this statement for
publication:
Pleasant View. Concord. \. II.
Editor New York Herald. New York:
Dear MI EditOr-A representative Of
the Herald called today to inform me
OF the ruInOr that had deceased some
three months ago. This is an Oft-re-
peated falseh0od ] granted him a mo-
ment's interview, hoping YOU would
IeIuJe THIS rumor in the next edition Of
your paper. 1 am in my usual good
heaIth. drive out every day and attend
10 my regular business
MARY BAKER @. EDDY.
The reporters actual meeting with
Mrs. Eddy is thus described:
The electric bell at the oaken front
door is answered with considera BILE
pTomptitude by Whitehead. becapped
maid. who smilingly makes the usual
Inquiries rs 10 whom the visitor wishes
to see. etc. 1 asked for Mr.. Frye
i do not know that even l can see
him the maid replied. but 7 will see.
\ letter explained my reason for call
ms and addressed TO Mrs. Eddy was
given 10 the maid. She took II and
started TO close the door
L would like an answer. please I
said. The girls face expressed doubt
and again she said: Il do not know that
! can see Mr. Frye She closed the
door and left me to wan on the porch.
In few minutes the door opened and
an elderly man, in clerical garb. babe
me enter. ! entered the vestibule and
then the hallway It was bright and
cheerful. and withal homelike and COM
Portable in its Oaken fnishings.
Il was ushered into the costly but
not eXtravagantly furnished parlor at
the right. My host invited me to be
seated. and. drawing up a chair, faced
me. He did not say so. but / knew he
wanted 10 know about my mission. No
! was not speaking with Mr.. Frye 1
asked his name, but il was not given to
me.
Then I explained the persistency of
the rumOr Of the death of Mrs. Eddy
and that the Herald had determined
once and for all to either prove or dis
prove the truth of the report. We were
discussing the matter when another
man walked in upon us. It was Mr..
Frye. very pleasant-faced man, with
hair slightly tinged with gray and with
short gray muStache- Delightful of
manners. easy and graceful Mr. FRYE
has a bright, smiling eye.
He greeted me CheeTfuIly and said
that he had read my letter TO Mrs.
Eddy and that che would see me in her
library for a few minutes. 1t was stip-
ulated that there was to be no inter-
view for publication. and 1 acquiesced.
I'm few minutes. possibly three, Mr.
Frye said Mrs. Eddy was ready TO
see me, and i followed him up the front
stairs, where at the left the library
door stood open. / let Mr. Frye pre-
cede me to the door, and in few
seconds Mrs. Eddy came toward me
and extended her hand in greeting.
AS Mr.. Eddy spoke her face lighted
Sweetly. mOtherly expression. and
the brightness of the large. full eyes
heSped king the owners mental aCtiV-
ity. Her tall figure was eXquieitely
gowned in black silk of becoming and
mOdISh cut Her welcome was cordial,
but withal / could not but feel that
the cNiEenCies of my quest for facts
had not been without their exactionS
IN thus compelling Mrs. Eddy to stand
before me to prove that she still lived.
But her grace and charm SOftened
the difficulty and hardship OF that
visit. and 1 left Pleasant View with a
mind filled with peculiar thoughts.
Mrs Eddy still lives and apparently
is enjoying the normal health of one
of her years"
The preliminary Investigations of the
reporter were caused by a statement
that reached the New York Herald.
from a source that could not be ques-
toned a. 10 reliability" that Mrs. Ed
dy died last fall In Concord and Bos-
ton this report was circulated. and It
was added that a dummy was put
in the carriage and driven about the
streets of Concord. and that the coach
man had been seen winding up this
dummy.
The reporter, however, saw persons
I'm Concord who had seen Mrs. Eddy
recently; found that bank checks had
been signed by her and paid for ex-
penses she had incurred. and. finally.
he saw and talked with Mrs Eddy her
self.