The weekly soliphone., 1915-07-23
XII Lloyd Writes Fromithe West /,

street car at Manitou City. We
could plainly see snow at all times
on it's summit, the blue which con-
stantly enshrouds it and the clouds
of which the poet speaks Battle
the tops of Olympus"
We were informed that the fare
over the old cogwheel road up
Pixies Peak was five cart
wheels" We concluded that that
was too steep" The scenic rail-
way up Manitou mountain at a
maximum incline of 68 degrees
"a distance of 1 IL miles-is per-
haps even more thrilling than the
cogwheel route, so we chose
the route at the rate of one cart
wheel" for the round trip. How
ever, an auto road will be complet-
ed in August up Pixies Peak and
the competition may bring the
visited the city was record
breaker for visitors-3, 500, yet If
the people of Colorado Springs
wish to keep up their prestige as
resort of sightseeing for travel
ers, they will bring the price of
seeing what people have come so
far to see to a more reasonable ba-
sis. We were not the only ones
who refused to go up Pixies Peak
on account of the fare; there
were Others The price is merely
to bleed tourists in the summer
time, for the tickets over the route
are much cheaper later in the sea-
son. But in our opinion five cart
wheels is just a little too much
for the pleasure of being "friz up"
little in the snow.
The Mormon Temple at Salt Lake
City is still a great object of Curl
osity to tourists and constant
stream keeps guides busy showing
them about, but really they do not
"show'' much. Under no circum-
stances will they admit visitors to
the temple. Through the courtesy
of one of the party who made
notes as we followed the guide, we
were enabled to pick up much in
formation from her notebook which
she took down from the guides
lectures over the grounds. We
were admitted only to the assem-
bly, hall built in 1S77-S2, and to
the tabernacle, built 1S65-70, be-
fore railroads were in existence.
This tabernacle is 150x200 feet and
has a seating capacity of 5000 to
10000; can be emptied in from five
to seven minutes through side ex-
its; it's choir has ESQ to 800 mem
bers; in this tabernacle man
stood $50 feet from our crowd,
whispered, rubbed his hands and
dropped a pin, all of which was dis
tinctly heard as evidenced by those
Ill Tic CIONu Oul SdIdC "e1o q Mo IL
priest; said the temple had its
corner stone laid in 1858; temple
is 1S6x99 feet, a model of stone
architecture; was hauled 20 miles
on OK wagons and the total cost
was 100000. There are four
temples in the state, some smaller.
The only insight of the temple was
what the guide said-that there
were beautiful rugs or carpets and
beautiful paintings on the walls.
The services are absolutely secret.
1t developed that marriage ceremo-
MES were performed in the tenn
pie and not wishing to interrupt
the guide who was out in the yard
describing the temple, we asked
the lady from whom we were copy
ing notes if all members of the
Mormon church had to be married
in the temple. She did not know /;
another lady from New York nod
ded in the affirmative. After some
time, the lady with us mustered up
courage and as a subterfuge hand
ed our written question to the
guide. His answer was mot if
they don't want to be married for
eternity" This created some mer-
riment in the crowd and we were
wondering if we had really asked
a pertinent question or not and if
the guide had answered rightly or
in Gerision of what we had asked.
In referring to the booklet they
gave us with information we find
that exactly the same question had
been put and answered before. II
is fact that those who are mar
ried in the temple are married for
this life and for the life to come
Salt Lake is some Is miles out
and is reached by small railroad
This lake has an average length OF
rs miles and a width of so miles