That Queer Building Had Been Built By Brigham
Young For His Seven Wives!
It consisted of seven apartments of two
rooms each, a sitting room and sleeping room; all the sitting rooms
were on one side, opening out upon the one veranda, and the bedrooms
were on the other side and opened out upon the other veranda.
These
apartments did not connect in any way, except by the two porches. Not
far from that building was another that had once been the dining room
and kitchen of the seven wives. These mormon women must be simply
idiotic, or have their tempers under good control!
It was all most interesting and a remarkable experience to have lived
in one of Brigham Young's very own houses. But the place was
ghostly - lonesome beyond everything - and when the wind moaned and
sighed through the rooms one could fancy it was the wailing of the
spirits of those seven wretched wives. When we returned at night to
the dark, unoccupied building, it seemed more spooky than ever, after
the music and light at Garfield Beach. Our meals were served to us at
the restaurant at the pavilion. I made some very good sketches of the
lake, Antelope Island, and a number of the wonderful Black Rock that
is out in the lake opposite the Brigham Young house.
About two miles from the city, and upon the side of the Wasatch
Mountains, is Camp Douglas, an army post, which the new department
commander came to inspect.
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