The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone . en of stern, forbidding countenances ; on the contrary, a shortpleasant-faced gentleman met the party and we started under his guidancefor the Mormon Temple. The speculation at once became rife, especially among the ladies, as towhether he was a Mormon, and if so, how many wives he had and the 72 The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone. number of his family, but no one put the question direct. When the party-alighted from the electric car, taken from the Railroad Station, theywere the objects of considerable attention, and in return they lookedinte
The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone . en of stern, forbidding countenances ; on the contrary, a shortpleasant-faced gentleman met the party and we started under his guidancefor the Mormon Temple. The speculation at once became rife, especially among the ladies, as towhether he was a Mormon, and if so, how many wives he had and the 72 The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone. number of his family, but no one put the question direct. When the party-alighted from the electric car, taken from the Railroad Station, theywere the objects of considerable attention, and in return they lookedinterestedly at the people. Naturally they assumed all were Mormons,and yet it is doubtful if any were, for the Gentiles are very numerous. Of course Mormonism centres around Brigham Young, who, thoughdead, yet speaketh, and what was pronounced by one of his friends to bean excellent likeness is given in Fig. 49. The first object of interest visited was the new temple shown inFig. 50. This was commenced in 1853, and thus far has cost 6,000,000. Fig. 50. The Mormon Temple. dols. Tt is rapidly approaching completion, and if the Gentiles will onlyvisit it enough, its progress is sure, for an admission fee of 25 cents isexacted. In our case it was gracefully waived, and then we were quite sureour guide was a Mormon, and so he was ; he was also an English gentlemanwho had been here some twenty-five years, very kind and desirous ofshowing us all hospitality. It was rumoured he had seven wives, but thismay be an error; no one asked him, but he volunteered the statement hehad twenty-four children, one of them six months old, and regretted wecould not visit his wife (he certainly used the singular form) and see theinfant. If all the fold were as pleasant as he was, they must be charming tomeet. The temple is of white marble, or, to be exact, of white granite whichis quarried fifty miles distant at Cottonwood Canon. The dimensions are The Mormon Tabernacle. 73 200 ft. by 100 ft. with a heigh
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