Show EXHIBIT THE PLANS I I The People Should See What the Committee is Doing THE WORST OF STAR CHAMBERS The Committee Should Call In Expert Judges That Know a Good Plan When They See It I The mysterious secrecy under which the new city and county building committees are working is at least suspicious not of dishonesty on the part cf the committee but of incompetency in the selection of the best plan submitted Abalf dozen men locking themselves up in a small room and hiding the plans in the mayors private office propose to saddle on this city the plans for the new public building build-ing tat is to either grace or disfigure one of the principal public squares of this city Curing the lives of all persons now living and perhaps those of their children There seems to be an unseemly haste in jumping towards a conclusion Seventeen plans were submitted and out of these it is said only five remain the others having been dumped out as so much paper One of the refused plans is a work of classic art Its equal seldom seen in this country Would it not be better to reserve all the plans until experts can be called in and I heard But star chamber methods allow no intrusion into the publics business There should have been public exhibition exhibi-tion of all the plans and every architect artist builder and traveler to foreign countries with fine art ideas given an opportunity op-portunity to express their individual opinions But the committee hold themselves them-selves aloof and imply by this action that y1 I t JdL i f W2Ijj 9 1LLM iIi I = r STUCKERTS PLAIT they are possessed of superior intelligence and are the connoisseurs of architecture All the plans should have been thoroughly canvassed By calling in the public the defects of each would be pointed out in this way the plans that would stand the test of the severe public scouting and criticism would come out winner The building that is to occupy the most valuable public square in the citythe ground alone being worth 790000 should be a masterpiece that will Inspire the admiration I ad-miration aud plaudits of the people of this city and territory and the thousands of tourists that annually visit this city for generations to come The building should have character of its own and stand for something more than tho commonplace everydayintheweek design that is doing duty at Denver Let the public see the plans and be heard and after tho committee has listened to their criticisms they will be better able to I decide approval which plan will meet tho publics t4 I r p I T I MOOSEK CUTHBEKTSONS DESIGN Jd |