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Show Tlie City Beautiful. i: fl When people think of the new city that is to HH be here, they think mostly -of lofty and massive f jH structures that will catch the eye and make office rooms, halls, theatres, etc. But there is much ''' more to great structures. If anyone does not be- j) fl lieve it let him read 2nd Kings and refresh his Ifl memory over the furnishings of the temple of the lk '.H' jH Jewish King. There wore 100 ton stones in the ' foundation, "great stones and hewn stones, stones " 't of ten cubits." Some of these foundations were ' ' jH eighty feet deep below ground and in the wall of " p the main structure one stone is thirty-eight feet jH long and weighs 100 tons. But it was within the '" i structure that the magnificence began. "The 'V'j,' molten sea" was a solid casting forty-seven foot ; I1 i W& 8 ln circumference and could hold 17,000. gallons of H m i'flr T water, or "2,000 baths." Tho other lavers ran on . -m'UNHf "J" wheels and were embossed with figures of Hons, 'H'm' ' jxen cnerui;,im and paim tr08- i ' "i ,fflL 'J The two great pillars, Jachln and Boaz, were ! ; ;! Ill ;.Jj j. Hiram's mastorpIoQes, their wonderfulneis was '''rliirall in tlielr ornamontatIon- Eacn was adorned with J ; Vm chain-work and checker-work, with nets, with pom- j ',; l j!$SL ft: egrnnites two hundred of these ln two rows were ! ' J jn VP embossed on either column, j f '; j$8j y All tho glories of Phoenician art were ex- j ';j jj I' hausted upon the great work, and some of it has 1 1 '; .: if W, never been equaled In all tho thirty centuries ! li since. Tho demand of Solomon was for a man if'.j-jj H j. "cunning to work in gold and ln silver, and in ' " ' I I H B brass and in iron and ln purple and crimson and ; j; !Bfc blue, and that can skill to grave all manuer of ' H 4 W m gravlngs." Some of the Greek temples were al- i ' '' '1 m B most as wonderful as was tliat o Solomon, and ; ; ! i ;1 1 1 in statuary vastly superior for ' the Greeks were ; 'I !, 1 I the most wonderful artists, and the fashions ' S 11 set or rataer tl10 ambition evinced by the an- ; i cients has come down to us. All the continent I ; ' I $ Iff of Euroko is covered with masterpieces in eathe- ' 1 I Hi If, (lraIs an(1 Palaces and many private homes aro ' l,s Ek i veritable palaces. ! , ijffi , Wo suspect that a fair share of splendor in the ' I 1 IS t ington, which occurred in tho past week, is an ' $ Wm In Salt Lall0; tnat tho taste us wel1 afi tllG beauty ' "i If 'h of tho city will bo improved by them and that ' 1 ?1 1 because of them tho next generation will have a '''if iff if' B great advantage over their fathers and that the wilv city wU1 bo "The CIty BoautIfuL" |
