Show WESTERN KOTES NOTES tile latler day appearance or sail salt lake city and streets for last cm ern the debt at a discount I 1 mormon vernion din cat rational ional young young voting on oil it ailts lilts holub ac Non montreal treal dilly dally D illy witness from front butte city we returned ll 11 by the hc unnie road to ogden froin from which I 1 place lace MC we took the utah central 11 ailway for salt lake city about thirty live five miles di distant after leaving ogden we pas pass through a valley on the left hand side tit it which the vegetation is good and the fa farmers seem to bo be harvesting nn nil exell cut crop of various cereal cuin coin oats and wheat on the right of f the track we soon coic come in sight odthe of alic famous salt Lak cand ani follow down for nearly twenty nil miles 1 I Cs bobro we lose sight of it this valley is bounded on the cast by the wa wasatch atell mountains which are most extensive and of great height and as wo we near tho the city these hills loom up far above the thi cloud lin line e it is quite picture picturesque slue to seo see the tops of the mountains as if they were rising out of odthe the cloud clouds whilst the gulches in their sides seeli n cov cred with perpetual snow now the principal points in the wasatch seen from the southeastern south eastern standpoint I 1 are I twin peaks and lone nak peak the elevation of these being nearly feet above sea level their distance from the point observation in anair lino line is between fifteen and gwei twenty aty miles on oil the west side of the valley is the lake and beyond that again other ranges of mountains at last we arrived at the capital of the latter day saints sainte as they asli wish to be called and we ive were delighted with the first appearance it which improves upon acquaintance so much so that xv wo 0 were almost sorry that time precluded longer stop the first tiling thing we not notice I 1 ce is the great width of the tile streets most of them being feet wide with very broad sidewalks almost s lined ou on either eide side with beautiful shade trees supplied with nourishing moisture from the streams of water flowing dawn down the sides of the streets and which also serve the purpose of is scavenging so that the city in this respect is is n remarkably emar kably clean by the streets being so ro wide the conjunction two where they cross forms a fine square lighted by the electric light these wide streets are a great protection against conflagration as it would be almost impossible f for a fire to cross the street as was done in chicago at any rate it is an immense assistance to the excellent fire brigade in limiting spread of the fire fiend tile do not seem to be macadamized paved but are composed of the natural clay which becomes a nuis ance when the wind is at all strong causing perfect clouds of f fine ine dust like flo flour urt tt fly dinall in all and to keep it out of houses or anywhere elee is almost impossible they have a good service of watering carts but these arc are of little effect fact when the breezes gentle whirlwinds whirl winds become frisk frisky y there are some beautiful building buildings both public and rud private odthe of former we may mention the block which includes the As hall tabernacle council house and art bazar all belonging to the faithful as a body tile tabernacle is one of the largest buildings of dofita its kind we believe on this continent being capable of holding people it is feet by feet height from floor tp ceiling 70 feet ceiling to outside of the roof 10 feet the dome or roof of this immense area is without inside columns or supports of any kind to inar murtha the internal arrangements or obstruct the clear view from froni pew pow to chancel chance but is the tile lattice truss roof almost indestructible and of great strength there arc are no walls in the sense of the tile building but im mense abutments or piers upon which the superstructure suter structure rests rest between these piers it is all doors which opening outwards gives such facilities for rapid egress eg that when filled to its utmost capacity it can be emptied in one minute and a half as has been frequently done here is a model for our boasted eastern intelligence to follow fellow as regards public buildings of oi nil 11 kinds where largo large gatherings s take place nud and anve winch which seems to have siv alvn en bo much trouble to modem modern ar architects in devising a aa way to provide against such horrible catastrophes ag as that at sunderland and other parts of europe as well as america in such a building as the tabernacle such a disaster is nigh impossible the organ placed in the west end of the edifice ia is over fifty feet in height and of great power and sweetness the materials of which it is built except the metal pipes are products of utah both it and the building were erected under the di ion odthe late president brigham young henry grow being the architect of the tile building the organ being built by joseph H ridges Servi services cei are held there therein inon only ln in summer usually from april to yc october as the weather may permit in winter it cannot be use used owing to the difficulty in heating it tho the acoustic properties of this building are really marvelous and mm completely throw the whispering gallery of st pauls Lon london doit england into the background I 1 wo we stood at the fur far end whilst the janitor stood at the other nearly feet off and dropped an ordinary pin into his straw hat giving it a tall fall of f about two feet and we could distinctly I 1 hear it fall into the tile hat this was repeated several times with like effect he lie next brushed his coat loat bleeve with liia his hand as if rubbing off some c dust and that vileo ilso we distinctly till etly heard hear whilst nn ill ordinary whisper was quite audible audibly wo we tried it ourselves with ith other wilb with similar result it is certainly certai uly very ma re markase mar kabe lc ill in this respect as us in ether otiler ethers ers and the faithful think that brigham nin had bad some sonio inspiration when planning and erecting e i 19 it the inside a lV ral t aled with flowers illi an fn vre its still ill ri matwij fal f coi 1110 lii ait l christma 3 1 arc ifal i alry th v kept with gre re i vait tin flit lute i af 01 the build 1 ilig val oud I 1 litlo I 1 no aj sp i u aus u of attraction attric tion n be yond ia i 1 alc tlc As i uly lii id is a very very handsome liand some edifice it is about by 68 feet the auditorium having a ceiling of 40 feet in height beigh t and is i encircled by a spacious gallery there is al also alo o a fine organ therein tho the seating capacity tipa city of tl the ic hall is 9 2500 persons the height heig it of tl tho lo 10 central spire is I 1 over fe feet e t this buil building dim cost over 1500 0 0 and is used in winter for general aa assemblies of the mormon people TO UC DC CON |