to each wife in order of the date of her being “sealed” to him, in accordance with the rites and laws of the church.  Most of the Mrs. Youngs have been buried according to arrangements made, but all of the remarkable aggregation of wives has not yet been disposed of in the manner desired.  The Prophet’s favorite wife, concerning whose relationship to Mrs. Grover Cleveland there has been so much controversy, was named Amelia Folsom.  For her special comfort the Prophet built the Amelia Palace, one of the most unique features of Salt Lake City.  Here the lady lived for several years.

Let us leave the unpleasant side of Mormon history and see what the zealous, if misguided, people have succeeded in accomplishing.  Salt Lake City, which was originally settled by Brigham Young and his followers in July, 1847, is perhaps the most uniform city in the world so far as its plans are concerned.  The original settlers laid out the city in squares ten acres large.  Instead of streets sixty and eighty feet wide, as are too common in all our crowded cities, a uniform width of 130 feet was adopted, with more satisfactory results.  In the original portion of the city these wide streets are a permanent memorial to the forethought of the early Mormons.  The shade trees they planted are now magnificent in their proportions, and along each side of the street there runs a stream of water of exquisite clearness.  There is very little crowding in the way of house-building.  Each house in the city is surrounded by a green lawn, a garden and an orchard, so that poverty and squalor of the slum type is practically unknown.  The communistic idea of homes in common, which has received so much attention of late years, was not adopted by the founders of this city, who, however, took excellent precautions to stamp out loafing, begging and other accompaniments of what may be described as professional pauperism.

Within thirty years of the building of the first house in Salt Lake City, which, by the way, is still standing, the number of inhabitants ran up to 20,000.  It is now probably more than 50,000, and the city stands thirty-first in the order of those whose clearing-house returns are reported and compared weekly.  Hotels abound on every side, and benevolent institutions and parks are common.  Churches, of course, there are without number, and now that the Government has interfered in the protection of so-called Gentiles, almost all religious sects are represented.

No description of the Mormon Temple can convey a reasonable idea of its grandeur.  Six years after the arrival of the pilgrims at Salt Lake City, or in 1853, work was commenced on this immense structure, upon which at least $7,000,000 have been expended.  Its length is 200 feet, its width 100 feet, and its height the same.  At each corner there is a tower 220 feet high.  The thickness of the walls is 10 feet, and these are built of snow-white granite.  So conspicuous and massive is this building, that it can be seen from the mountains fifty and even a hundred miles away.