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Show - b;, - I at 2 p .m. to a I ull neuse oi s a in ·t8 who paid strict attenti on. }j i ght years previousl y , he had served as the Sunday Sch ool Superintendent of this ward and was, "there!ore , intimately acquainted wi "th practicall y all of his audience . He en j oyed himse l f gre a tly and i n the eve n i ng of the same day , on i nvitation oi· Bisho·p John Henry Smith , he again preached in the Seventeenth Ward Chapel on lS"t North Street be"tween During t he next few days , he met with -v)~~· Gene r a lAPal mer , Dr . r~ arnb o urne West Temple anQ lst Wes-c Streets . and a I11r . Ge orge Hun t; men f rom Colorad o , connected with the Denve r and Rio Grande Railroa d , rel ative to Mormon mi g r a tion through Colorad o into New Mexico and Arizona . On December 1 9 , he a ccom,,an ied them t o the off ice of the First Pr esidency and i n troduced them t o President J ohn Tayl or . A very plea s an t i nterview was h ad , a t the concl usion of which many k i nd wi she s were expressed I Or e a ch othe r . It wa s through many such i n terviews and ~nections \Vi th / astern a ilroad }ffficials tha t John Horgan gradually developed an influence wi th the ;Executives of ;fr an s p orta tion jompanies , esp ecially th ose operating west o:r the Mississippi Riv e r, tha t res ounded t o the g r eat advantage of the Mormon mi gr ation in their s ettlements i n the various secti ons of the ~e st . During t h is period , he did much reading and was espe c ially im-pressed wi t h a biography of Pr esi de n t Bri gham Young , then recently published by Edward w. Tullidge . Re ferring to thi s book , he wrote , "I h ve read i t with gre a t i nterest and f i nd it contai ns many items of in f orma -cion tha t go to show the gre tness of the characte r of our beloved l e a der now g one behind "the veil ." }!, allowi ng the re ad ing of President Young ' s lif e , he engaged his time in re ad ing an other book by the s ame auth or entitled , ' vomen of Hormo-nd-om." |
