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Title: The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ...
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913. Great Plains and desert. 1881
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad
Publisher: New York : Adams & Bishop
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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REPRESENTATIVE MORMONS. t.-W.Woodruff. 2.-John Taylor. 3.-Mayor DHiiiel H. Wells. 4.-W. H. Hooper. 5.-President Brigham Young. C—Orson Pratt. 7.—John Shnrn. 8.—George Q. Cannon, 9—Orson Hvde. 152 wmm ^m€iwi€ wqwmibw. The city IMormons are fond of the theater anddancing, and as their president is both tlie ownerof the theater and its largest patron, the Saintsconsider his example highly judicious and ex-emplary, so the theater is crowded on all occa-sions. We were present, on one occasion, in 1869,when we witnessed over thirty of the children ofone of the Mormons sitting in a row^ in thedress circle, and the private boxes filled with hiswives. The most striking event of the eveningwas when one of the theatrical performers sungthis ditty: If Jim Fisks rat-and-tan, should have a bull-dog pup,Do you Ihiiik Louis Napoleon would try to bring him up ? This elicited tremendous applause, and the per-formers, much to their own laughter and aston-ishment, had to repeat it. A few year

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