| Show S SEEN FROM ALOFT With the Workmen In Hid Air Irapresilve View From an Eminence of 210 F et It had been the original idea to conduct many of the exercises and especially tbe musical ones from 0 position on one or the platforms surrounding the pinnacle This however was early abandoned owing to the risk of taking so I maY people to so great a height and the impossibility possibility ot making the crowd below hear chat took place Modern science was there ore involked and tho pan decided on of laying the capstone by electricity1 that Is of having resident Woodruff at 1 point 3 feet distant from the top cf the pinnacle press an electric I gioh which J gllle as l n sicnat to the t C workmen The contrast between this method and that employed thirty nine years age when ag an ox team laboriously hauled the corner stone i I F i I I THE CAPSTOVB READY rote run SICiVAl T6 C PLACE IS POSITION From a photograph by Sainsbury Johnson I Into position strongly marked the progress OT late years and evinces the spirit of enterprise I which has accompanied the bullaidg of the temple tem-ple from tho start Architect D C Young and Superintendent Charles Livingston bad their handx full to get ererthlnl Into readiness In time for the ceremonies cere-monies They had fully fifty workmen buzzing like bees on the ground and an elevator runby steam was put In operation about 1 oclock The figure of the angel bad been hoisted up early in the morning Rigid orders had been given that none but workmen should be allowed al-lowed to go un to the scene of the final opera tionsbut by the kindness of Messrs Young and Livingston a HEKALD representative who presented pre-sented himself early In the morning was allowed to bear them company when they were finally ready t take up their lofty stations on the top of the tower nih feet from the ground I With the exception of tho ubiquitous photographer photo-grapher C E Johnson THE HEUALD man was the only outsider allowed to survey tho busy and dizzy operations of the workmen The topmost platform which to spectators below looks so small Is In reality a solidly built mass of timber rope and Iron capable of aecommodatine twenty orthirty men The one below i could accommodate fifty and that number were crowded upon It yesterday Fourteen workmen wore en aged en the top platform setting the capstone whUhlinng by chains from I cross beard twenty feet below into position just over the stono upon which it was to rest The spectacle was a dizzy one as the reporter halting after a long and panting wale up thA spiral staircase paused on tho platform under the highest one and looked up The white clouds were sailing swlItlyHjy overhead over-head and for a moment It seemed although the pinnacles were rocking One almost had to sit down shut his eyes and grasp the railing to undeceive himself A few minute1 passed on the platform and the dizzy sen eaton wore away Ono then had an i S N I i I1Jj SSS 4ThI4fi1 4 TUB CAPSTONE IN PLiCS IirADT ron THE FEET OF THE ANGEL From a Photograph by Sainsbury A Johnson John-son opportunity to senso the manelous panorama spreading out at hIs feet and fctre chlnp far army to the point of the horizon In the temple parts outh of the building was a solid black bite of hUIanltr with rot a foot Intervening between the Individuals making up the compact mass On top of the temple wall clear around the block was a line of men and bojs Main street looking from our point of view lute a short block was back with crowds the throng being absolutely Impassable on the sidewalks from North emplo down to the Templeton hotsl corner where the people were airost as thickly mased as inside the block before the authorities stand Ecr building for blocks around Md its roof and windows crowded and every lawn on the north as fur a < the Lawrcree and liaslin inanson0 was luttl d with specta fs Tbujlempleloii roof wlnilins and Ver anlih hid the heiUbt numb t of any of Ilti I buildings the Heist and tithing olhte its were packed the top ot the onstitutinn Jiidmg was heav Ij IUuding occupied as were the Marks building the bpenccr A livwnter buildings build-ings the Savage buildIng the shoe facioryZ I O M I and the Gardo houe From u carelui survey cf the crowd TJIK HEU LD estimates I that tnere were from 30000 to 40 COneople in and around the temp block The estimates wus made by noting the spuce occupied in front I of tbo stand by tbo throng which came out of the tnternacle and figuring that in thitlodj were 10WX people A survey oft e whole teld in side anti cut < ICe cf the bock stowed that ihra wee two or two and a half other thrcugs of equal size wlb the first and if massed tog to-g hcr they would amount between bCb and 4JOJu souls How many more watched the toner through tleldglasscs at distant points it Is impossible to say the so nds of ti e choir and banc floating up from bolow just as the whistles of the factories blew li oclock told the workmen that the signal for tbo final ceremony might soon be cx pected The strains of muslu bendlng with tue screaming cf the whistles tbe rinsing of streetcar street-car behs and the nt ise of wagons from the streets made up an odd combination of sound singularly inharmonious and yet not entirely unpleasing entrely At 1210 a panting messenger from below arrived ar-rived with the various records books and plates which were to be deposited In the interior of tho capstone A bed of cement was made for them and the four packages wrapped in oil silk ware carefully laid by Superintendent Livingston In i the north south ter and west parts of the stone 1 Le upper half of the stone call suspended from its chains was then poised about six inches above the lower await inn the signal to lower it In place Some one said iheres a dime lay it in Instantly every man on the platform eagerly thrust out a dime or a zilcklo eagery quarter of a dollar with the request that they be laid In with the books Mr LlvlrJpston good gOI naturedly complied THE HERALD man put In a solitary nickel which be had In his pocket i and ass it disappear ruminated on pocket asn d I gln how and under whoso eyes it would be ex humed in some untold age in the future At lJ15 the electric boll on the side of the plat form pealed out a sharp sound This was from below ltd meant get ready Instantly all I tha workmen except those engaged In lowering I i the rock by the chaws which hung lowerng descended to the lower platform and the men remaining seized hold of th chains and waited I Jimmy Wilson took hold of the rope waited was to swing the stars and stripes up to the cross beam as a signal that the capstone was laid A breathless pause Bucce ded Wilson Wiion said hats or and OIly heads wero immediately immedi-ately uncovered without a word There was another wait ot two or three minutes At 125 the expected peal came and the top rock 121 slowly Jtndre steadily lowered Into position and it rested dfrwe and accurately i on its bed of cement completing the g alils 11d ff f IfV I oval ball of stone Instantly Wilson pulled with a will and the stars and stripes went fluttering up to the cross beam its folds j stirred and trembled a moment and then the breeze caught It thetflag streamed out to the cat and told the waiting thousands below that the work was done A sec nds wait and then came the mighty shout from the waiting thous e nds below I Hosanna I hcsanna fnUt God and the lamb Amen amen aen Again it rose and again Rushing to the plat I dr f forfti and gazing over a tcene tattling utmost breathtaking in its impressiveness burt upon the vision The great moss below was no l ongeramastofpeeploitwas a moving un fc dUsting sea of tnow nothing else could 0 thought of as the great concourse waved their handkerchiefs above their head and kept time to the utterance of the words Hosanna Hos-anna hosanna hosanna and Amen amen amen The cry reverberated among the towers battlements and battement ano pinnacles and the very air seemed to vibrate A flock oi pigeons startled Irom their nests in the tower fir below the capstone Uevr hastily out from theft nrsts ana circled round and round over tbe heads of the multitude farbe loir l tho watchers above The dove n happy omen said some ono amen the gazers and the thought seemed a fitting one for the moment and tbeplacc When the sounds had died away the men above romaned ana joined hetrtlly m the singing that followed Then Mr Young the architect Mr Livingston Mr Cox who erected tbe last scaffold and L J NuttM jr James Wilson Jobn A Johnson and John A CarSon the workmen who asi aided him and the old fait John A Rogers who has sea ccl s > o many heluhts since ttiii blab scaffoldlrg work began all fell to shaking d and congratulating each other The men wto dl t the tiICke1 into place were I Messrs Nut l Jones Merger McKce till MID b Inh pt and Gibson and vthey all t looked as proud as though they had assisted it a corona I lion The remainder of tbo aftercoon was npent Inputting In-putting tie flgiro of the angel Moroni into place Thousands of people lingered below watchln the operations of the workmen and when at length t uear 5 oclock the magnificent flgue thirteen feet high t symentncal blaze of gold rested on the capstone with Its feet p acted where they shIll rest perhaps for all time the express ocs of adinlraton and delight were without bounds ASbefore stated In THE HEUALD the figure Is kept in place by a heavy steel rod which passes through tho body down far into the rock and dowels out into the tower In addition the feet art riveted on a brass plate whlcn fits over the capstone and i thoroughly riv iCed Into i Judging from tho care bestowed on the figure a earthquake oulOnt dIsturb I As It now stands the plat form somewhat bbstrncts the view of Us full I beauty but eaough of it can be seen Lsplally i from the east and west sides to show lee mng Ificence ottho design A furnished llKhtnin I red is attached to tho head and extends up to a olnt about two feet above A hundred candle lowerelectric lamp Is set into the clown i Vhen an eci illumination sIS desired it will maie the features planly descernible from the gund I is the design t remove all the sciffolding from boih tho tt and west ends of the build f ng in the Immediate future I Trnmtn 0 Ancoll William Word elves in Album the followlnsr ccount of him who made the original plans of I he temple I came to Salt Lake In 1850 wasJtrst employed em-ployed as superintendent of the stone cutting department of the public works afterwards as assistant to Truman O Anpell the church architect In that situation I did not design nor assist in designing temple I did jusl I s that I did for any other architect by whom 1 L vas employed In a similar capacity subse i q uently In the eastern states I i true that b icing familiar with slonoconstruction whilo f II cWitdhl I Mr Angells experience hid been limited to hat of wood I marto out many of the details for tone wirk Onlv on one occasion did I I ucgest a feature of the general design m tho f Irat sketches tho rlndows were set near the I II I I f i I f1 I a4 f jtri I t jk l j hf I S d t hp i i p i t c I l t j 47 4 J J f 1 hUMAN o GEL outside surface of iha yells I recommended tnat these be set in a considerable distance so that the thickness of the walls and the alienist cftho structure be properly Indicated This wa adopted It is also true that I drew the orieinal perspective per-spective view and that Mr Angell orlna pre tend to any knowledge of this branch of art After leaving here In 1STG I drew perspective views for two JtaJmp architects In St Loots i i nrd alto for John Frazer of Phlnrielptia Nope of tbeje gentlemen had learned to uraw perspective vet their abllltv as archltects was unquestioned The knowledge of perspective was ifnro accorcnl hment ai that time and although quite l common now such petures tme are II 3e no part of the work of desfgo thedesiit was formnlat It the followins manner Brigham Young drew upon a slate In the srohiterts office of-fice a s etch aim ilar to this and said O Angel to Truman There 0 0 will be three towers the cast representing the 0 president ant bis two counselors also three similar I towers on the west J I 1 repre enllni the o 1 I presiding bishop I and his two counselors coun-selors the toveison the cast tho Melchisedek 1 I presthood tlioao on tho nest the Arnnia priesthood The center lowers wilt be higher 10Wer wil than tbose on the sides and the west tower a little lower thou those on tho east ehd The I body of the bullJlns will re between these and pillars will be wi plals wi neceSVT to support tho floor Augell ten asked supprt the height and drew the following voitieal < ecton according to Blgham intrtc 5 I tons Thebasement I 1G feet hill to contain I con-tain the font The s r 1 I tlrst alert i > feet high bel ween the 4 pillars but retwen i tho pillars and sfle 1 see i walls 15 feet high I leivlng rrorn for a j tier of rooms above the side aisles about I ten feet high below the second Hcor Tho i second story like the first The construction I or thereof was left to Mr Anceil On everat occasions the loundatons and thlekLess of the ivuls was the subject o conversations lit it I do not recollect any talk betwten Brigham and Angel in regard to tie style of the bulidi itt Angells lien md aim was to rrake it different 10 any other known building and I think ho succeeded as to the Kenerrl combination Iho above Is a cording to my best recollection and I believe substantially correct correctWlLUAJt sUbstantaIYCQrrectWILLA 1 V AlI I SAL Cn March 183i |
