The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14

point He has the typical Irish mouth
and just trace of the soft burr of old
Erin, not enough to call it brogue, Just
enough for him to make his voice ca
ressing, whimsical and sincere at the
same time. In the hard DAYS that he
has seen he has yet had time to be-
come master of three of the European
languages. He communicates directly
with the pope at Rome in his episcopal
| capacity and writes his communications
In either Latin or Italian, as the church
precedent in the case dictates. He is
/ the typical high church officer, sincere
hard working, educated in men as well
! as books, with the finesse of the Ro-
man prelate and the courage and inge-
nuity of the western American.
His Life Is Simple.
His life is simple With his assist
ants he lives in the cottage next to the
| new cathedral on Brigham street He
received an interviewer in a reception
room almost bare, opening on the side
garden. On the walls were six pic
| lures, two popes. Leo and Plus. the old
ST. Mary's church, the St. Mary's aca-
denny, the Holy Cross hospital, the Sa :
cred Heart Of Ogden. A Autograph of
the cruciixion of Christ, and two
framed testimonials, one from the chill
dren of his Sunday school on his or
dainment as bishop, the other from the
temperance society of the church uDon
the same occasion. There is large
safe set into the walls Of the room,
which the bishop, however, never lets
remain filed very long. and two tables
covered with books.
A book lay on the center table. II
was catalogue of a surgical instru-
ment house. Through the front of it
the bishop had been making estimates
for the new equipment of his hospital
Occasionally the notes would wander
from their medical poise into broader
lines. Mrs. Carroll of - street needs
coal Mrs. Smith of - needs food and
coal; three small children" They don't
keep the bishop very long at one task
One can see him busily porting over the
hospital equipment and interrupted by
the needy. And lest he should forget
writing the needs in the fly leaf of the
surgical instrument book.
Knows Several Languages.
There were also on the table a work
In Arabic and French weekly paper
When he entered the room he was
asked concerning his linguistic acquire
ments He did not pretend any great
fiuenCy in the Arabic and limited his
requirements to French. Italian. Latin
Greek and Gaelic, with a little Spanish
He told story of his first trip through
from Tipperary to San Francisco by
way Of Dublin and Panama. They
landed at Aspinwall. which is now CO.
lon, because the Panamanians do not
| care to preserve in their geography the
memory of either Aspinwall or his rail
road, in July of 1868, crossed to PaHa-
ma over the then just completed rail
road, whose every tie, it was said, rep
resented a human life, and sailed fol
| San Francisco from Panama a LITTLE
| the worse for the isthmian fever.
| 1T was a long, tedious trip" said the
| bishop, but finally we put in at AGA
pulcO, a small town on the Mexican
coast, whence the Spanish YEARLY gal
Icons for 200 years sailed for Manila
| There is a miniature harbOr with &
whitewashed brick fort cooked up OF
a hill and a ramshackle town below IT
! The doctor had told me to put a little