Show ARCHITECTURE The Tutor of a Salt Lake Architect too Honest to Hold Office The following will interest many of our fellowtownsmen as Mr Bacon is the gentleman under whom Mr John H Burton of our city studied Mr N B Bacon is a brotherinlaw of the President and may be supervising architect of the United States he so wills but Mr Baton cannot afford it The salary sal-ary is only 4500 a year and as Mr Bacon does not know how to steal being a strictly strict-ly honest man from his youth up he would make no money out of hisposition beyond the salary As his profession yields him a much larger sum he does not want the place He has now in his office plans for some twenty firstclass buildings in Toledo Tole-do and any number from the surrounding country and he properly considers it apiece a-piece of folly to throw up such a business for a four years salary Were Mr Bacon of a speculative turn of mind one of those men who can deal with contractors of course this would be a plum and he could hold the place four years and retire with a million or two but he is not that sort of a man He would fight for the Government Govern-ment and see that work was honestly done and at the contract price and all I that sort of thing a course of life which enables him to sleep nights and will permit per-mit Jim to lie down on his death bed finally with much composure and confidence confi-dence and will insure him a blissful hereafter here-after but it would add nothing but what is reasonable to his worldly possessions Therefore Mr Bacon laying more stress upon treasures laid up where moth and rust do not corrupt and bankers do not bust than upon the transitory things of this world will decline official position and attend strictly to his rapidlygrowing business in Toledo In this Mr Bacon is wise Officeholding is about the poorest business a man can engage in and Mr Bacon does well to let it severely alone and devote his talent of which he has much to the dotting of Toledo with structures struct-ures combining elegance with utility so that future generations will rise up and call him blessed I |