Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-07-31
Salt Lakcr Describes Ills Visit TO
Wall Street and the New York
Stock Exchange
OTHER INTERESTING SIGHTS.
New York Herald Assalls Mormon.
lsm'--pays unwlttIoe Tribute
To Missionaries
special CoGespondcnce.


IN this letter to give the readers OF the
News" . general description Of New
York city, as seen by me on u New
York automobile touring ear, from
which vantage ground I obtained n fair
idea OF New YORK ~ u whole from
the residential portions In Harlem to
the business districts extending down
10 tho batlerh or equal interest also
were tho appetite points such ~ llbrar'
iea art galleries, churches ana ccmc'
torios,
so much, however has taken place
during my yisll touching Utah and
her people that believe some " these
incidents win be Of moro local m
terest But before passing the sights
Of Now York, | cannot refrain from
speaking Of those that struck me most
forcihly one afternoon last week my
son charles aud ! visited IN that short
little street known ms wall street,
whore 10 many fortunes are lost and
made IN The greatest Of All gambling
houses the stock exchange, The how'll
Ing pnndemonlum 10 be seon IN tho
pit NJ the exchange during ilH hours ~
operation IN duplicated on the street by
the outside or curb broker, who IN "A
lesser degree copies his more FORUM
| nto brother who occupies u scat IN the
| hig house, Az one stands and looks
| at those street brokers operating IN the
| brollng hot sun, scroechlng nj The top
81 their voices with distorted and de.
mon.like faces gostiuulatlng wildly with
| contracted muscles, he IL forcibly re-
| minded OF pack OF dogu lighting for
n bone, only IN this case, there N no
bone They buy nolhng sell nothing,
| produce nothing They simply forco
| Mp and down the prlcoa OF the oarth's
| products they hnva never seen,
Wall street N aptly described by ono
of the characters In play I witnessed
| entitled "1ho Heir 10 the lloorah," The
| lines arc placed IN tho mouth Of a brok.
| en- who says II Nv q little narrow
| street, at One end the graveyard, at
tho other the river" Tho ngurc Is q
Significant an9 apt one, For at the head
Of the street stands beautiful old his.
| torlo Trinity with her quiet church. yard,
filled with lllustrous dead. tho shadow
| Of her splro falling across Wall street
md her soft toned chimes floating out
TO the ears Of those who hear not Wall
street ends at the East river whore
| no doubt many n human HE also ends.
| ns the ruined victim of false systonl,
| walks oft ~ that street into eternity
AFRAID 10 face the battles ~ this life
any longer,
SPLENDID ART GALLERY.
Among the many beautiful interesting
slehte to be seen In New York, poa-
slbly the one place that could be visited
| upnln and again with both pleasure
ana profit, " tho Metropolitan art gal-
lery situated ut the Firth avenue en-
| trance 10 Central park near Eighty
nth street, Here II collected together
under one great roof Wonderful art
| treasures Of modern Europe and Amer.
! lea side by side with those OF the old
| masters, II would take a month to SEQ
| this gallery properly, After n hurried
| View OF the whole, | spent most ~ my
| afternoon In tho gallery devoted 10
| ei0tuary. TO lIfo.liko these silent mar.
lies appear one can almost In fancy
| cndow them with speech, and I can
| quite understand the pretty concelt OF
Vala,oa In which Mr.. Gilbert nude, of
Inc emven lgomc, a living, breathing
womNn' Many OF these ilgures win
| live IN my memory always,
But the one before which | stood the
| longest because Of the powerful les
son taught, was u colossal group OF
two figures cntltlcd--."Tho Two Ma.
lures IN Man. one figure IL IN a re.
| oumbent position with closed eyes and
beaslial features and huge animal like
FORM Ills higher self has struggled
| UP 10 nm almost orocl position, tho back
| " stu bent and the eyes are attn
| closed, but the face has become moro
| refined and exalted IN character, tho
head IL lifted away from the oarih and
ne .outstrotched hands are cropping
bllhdly toward The light No work OF
art or literature has NO Impressed mo
IN this unless II be Robert Louis stew.
ensons novel "Dr Jckyl ana Mr.,
| Hyde"
| "MoRMoNlsM" AssAlLED.
In the Issue OF tho New York Herald
July OH appeared an article entitled
Tho Rise Of tho Mormons I'm IIarlenl.O
with this headline About 20 oroct a
temple with endowment house para.
| ph0rnali0,
This article took up an entire page,
headed WIN this quotation from
Shakespeare,
"ln Religion, what damned error bu,
some sober brow
VIII bless Il ana approve II with a text,
Hiding the grossnoss with fair orna.
mentW
| ~ inc Top OF INC pApe surrounded
by the plcturers OF buildings used by
tho Chuch ana the missionaries on.
gagged IN the work, IA the llguro OF "A
whit ROBBED priest win uplfted hands,
an over all tho "All seeing Eye
scattered through these pictures are
small drawings OF silly, weak. chlnncd,
goHolpy badly dressed women
"a llo that IN al u lie can be mot and
fought with outright
nut "A lie that N part OF n truth IN n
harder matter 10 hght"
Aud this article II wlckodly danger
Gus because II In written In Il con.
sentative and seemingly honest shirt,
II had for IT, foundation the fact that
the Mormon Church had purchased
Il piece Of property on ono Hundred
and Twonty'siSth street Wheroupon
the Herald Immediately sots forth thnt
the Mormon purpose erecting a
Temple here In New York, glyng out
~ ldoa thal every woman adopting
tho Mormon fnlth takes upon herself
tho obligation Of husband willy nlly,
no quote
Immediately upon her admission 10
church mombemhlp, whether II be I'm
Harlem or Utah, she must he "se0lod'
10 soma male mombor Of the Mormon
Church IN good standing The fnct
that this member may have already A
legal wife as they now call tho first
oonjugal holp.moot with perhaps n
retlnue Of "Seaolcd" or hspIrltuala
wives, does not alter the situation IN
any degree Tho woman convert BIO
sho maid or widow, or welded matron
must implicitly obey this command
upon accession TO the Mormon faith,
This feature Of the Mormon mis-.
sIonary work IL constantly giving
cause for scandal In Harlem, ne else.
whore, The case of Miss Elisabeth
Dlckenson IN only repetition OF the
old old story Miss Diokenaon, cul.
tlvNtod, lntellleonl young woman, Nv.
ing IN tho Bronx, several wears ngo, fell
into the hands of these Elders, and for
some ineSpllcoblc reason was no mis-