Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-28
Special Correspondence,

Special Correspondence.
n JEW YORK, Jan, 23.--Thc Sun
N rise" club, which claims for It's
v members men ana women Of all
denominations. ana which has n
marvellous following in New York and
Brooklyn Socialists and Atheists pre-
dominating held its one hundred and
hftieth banquet at the Care Boulevard
Tuesday evening, Jan. IL. The subject
Of the evenings discussion was THE
Relation of Mormonism TO Progress
A. 4. Schroeder, well known in Utah,
being the first speaker II goes with
out saying that the tcn1ts Of that much
discussed religion, "Mormonsm, and
the men and women who pioneered and
reclaimed the forbidding land beyond
the Rockies. were not made to shine
with any particular lustre by Their dt-
flmer However, there was a small
lump OF leayen working between the
rise and the fail of the curtains In the
spirited talks made In answer to some
of Schroeders assertions on the dense
Ignorance OF the majority of Nor
mons" by Presidents McQuarrie and
Mcfarland. They were no more pai-
ticular about gloves I'm handling Schroe-
der than he had been dealing with their
religion, and throughout, while the
strictest politeness was observed by ul
partips. the "MormOns' were not the
only ones who got a hard knock now
and then. But, as Fail Ia well thdl ehus
,ycll." the entire affair was good deal
of a social event, ana friends were not
wanting i'm kind expressions on the ull-
ferent phases OF the question, ires'-
dents McQuarrie ana McFar'dhd nave
been invited TO speak at the Liberal
club 22O East Fifteenth street next
week. and President McQuanle VIII az
tend a club session i'm Brooklyn, where
Mr.. Schroeder viii address the members
on the subject of 'MoImoh'S'h'
elder George V. McMurray Of Liber-
tv Ida. president OF the Boston con-
ference has been paying New YORK
visit. business being the main OBJECT
A little time has been devoted to slght
seeing ana visiting friends. President
McMurray returned Friday evening TO
Boston.
Elders T. r.. Kennard and George
Williams, who have been quarlered IN
Newark n. j., all winter DONG ms
s,onary work there, have been appoint
"a IN In Dor i'm New York and the sub
.nrbs for a .yhilc, Elder Kennard Is
quite active In Mutual WORK
That hospltable home, 259 West one
Hundred ana Twelfth street presided
a,er no Mrs Thomas Blair, is about
a. brcak up and scatter its members
throughout Harlem Already Miss Flor
snco civilian has moved 20 tne
"Tncia." West one Hundred ana
Tuenty-tnlrd street, WIN her
rrIonds the Misses Taylor and Mis-"
i,Ion Thomas is contemplating %
rharpe OF residence the coming week.
So many Uahns are nov In the vicm,
NV of columbia college, one hundred
and Eighteenth 90 one Hundred ana
T,yenty-hfth street, that the district
has been referred 20 as LITTLE salt
Lake" by the many Utah residents
thereabouts'
The home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey
Richards on south Tenth street, is
notable for It's colony OF musical and
literary gatherings Mr. Richards ls
making great strides I'm a musical way
one may say with truth that he has
arrived" no more seeking out verse
and dialogue contributors, he rs being
sought, not alone by song writer's, but
| lbrettists Mrs. Richards, as Is well