Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-08
How ]. J. Foster Met Charles
Johnson After Years Of
Separation.
DESCRIBES ICELAND'S TREES.
Also Tells of NoroUco--Most tnpro-
grcssivc Nation al Eartl--Which
Deals in Human Beings.

don, England, now stopping for few
days in Salt Lake. on his way to view
The natural ccriosities of the Yellow
stone national park. Mr.. Foster is ac-
companied by his Wife They quartered
at the Belmont. Two years ago MIR,
and Mrs. Foster were touring the Holy
land. At the same time Chas johnson
Of this city Ngs in Jerusaleme as OIL
ciaI photographer for the Madame
Mountford party, friendship formed
between Mr.. Johnson and MIR, Foster
through Madame Mountford, with
whom MIR. Foster was well acquainted,
was again taken up In peculiar way
in this city one day last week.
AN ODD MEETING.
Mr.. Foster had arrived in the city of
the Saints from san Francisco, I'M
heralded and unknown, bearing, how
ever, a letter from Madame Mountford
who. knowing he expected to visit salt
Lake. particularly requested that ne
can upon her friend MIR. Johnson. MIR.
Foster had just stepped inside the
postoffice on Fourth South. and ac-
costed a gentleman with an inquiry FOR
mission to Australia, was greatly sur
prsed to find that the gentleman so
addressed was Mr., Johnson, whom ne
recognized by his voice. Mn Foster
was also recognized by Mr. johnson.
He accompanied Mir. Johnson to the
latter's studio ON West Temple street,
where a reporter found him, and was
favored with very interesting ac-
count OF some of his travels. Upon
learning that Salt Lake was hOnored
with the possession OF a Fellow of the
Royal Geographical Society, MI. Foster
became much interested. and was dis
appointed TO find that his yellow
Fellow" DIR. j. T., TalmaSe, hau let
town for a trip east.
In speaking of his visit TO Salt Lake
Mr. Foster said: " was very much
Impressed by the similarity of your
Great Salt Lake here and the Dead Sea
In Palestine. / have bathed in both,
and experienced almost Identical sensA-
tons 1t Is impossible to sink in one
or the other; the Wasatch mountains
on one side and the Oquirrh mountains
on the other surround Salt Lake just as
The mountains of Moab and Judea sur
round the Dead Sea. But there is
this big difference between them Salt
Lake is 6lO0 feet above the Dead Sea,
The Great Salt Lake being 1900 feet
above the Atlantic and the Dead Sea
is l, 900 feet below the oceans level.
HIS GREAT ERRAND.
During our present tour of the South
Sea islands, ! became acquainted win
Captain I.awless Of san Francisco, the
inventor of the I-awless Stellar COM
pass and through him | found that
wonderful scientist Captain DeGraves,
who for more than 20 years worked with
and for the late King Kalakawa. in
Honolulu KalakAwa was often called
Of ba DapfHg hnt
1t was not known generally that he was
most devoted student of geography
His majesty and Degraves studied dia-
metrical photography and worked out
over 80 beautiful maps and section
plans of the globe, together with pro-
fuse explanatory matter. with the OBJ
Iect of publishing the same in book
form. When Kalakawa died, DeGraves
was unable to undertake the expensive
work alone. He is now between 10 and
so years old and has gone voluntarily to
The eper island Molokai, where he IN
tends to spend the remainder of his
life. He has offered the whole of his
manuscript and maps as a present to
The Royal Geographical society, Lon
don. and / am requested to make this
valuable gift to the society on my ar
rival in England.
ON FOURTH TRIP.
eyes, this is my fourth trip around
the world" continued MIR. Foster Il
have tried for years to get AT most of
the least known parts of the world, and
have succeeded fairly We'll, l prefer the
unbeaten tracks, because the places us
ually visited by the ordinary traveller
are so spoiled and for the most part
rendered unnatural and artificial to
please the tourist. l travelled almost In
cessantly for some years prior to 1896,
but since that time my wife and / have
Travelled only four or six months each
year. principally TO escape the severity
OF our English winters. but partly, also,
10 touch at those places had not time
or occasion to visit before.
AMERICA AND BIG THINGS"
Am pleased with America? In
many respects, yes. America is par ex-
tcllence the land of big things. Your
cities your institutions, your buildings,
your railroads are indeed wonderful;
but while your natural SCENERY OF
mountains and canyons is really co.
lossal. 1t is at the same time more
like the savage works of demons than
The creations of fairies.
What country do | PREFER That is
difficult question to answer Each
country has it's own particular beauty
sydney harbor, the wonderful stalactite
caves OF Janolan, and the Blue noun
lhlns OF Australia are all unique I'm
lheir way, but they might have been
made by fairies for every line ana
curve 81 these mountains are covered
WIN SOFT Ncrdure, and are quite restful
10 the eye. lending to the mind com.
plele contrast to the hard, barren. for
bidding peaks of the American Rockies.
4 was appalled, to see so much Of san
francisco sun In ruins. Although Il Ia
more man year since the curthquake,
ana CallIorhlh has worked continuously