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Show Till: !.! TIIKATr.lt, After thn management of the old Salt Take theater had spent two days in cleaning up, it is-ued special invitations to the insurance men to visit and inspect. in-spect. The visit was made yesterday. It only served to make more apparent the awful danger of lire. Even a morning morn-ing sheet that tries to belittle the efforts ef-forts of the Timks in the interest of the Salt Lake theater goers, is compelled to say: "Sufficient was seen and learned to warrant the investigators in assort- ing lliat as a tire trap it probably had no equal anywhere where Thespis is honored. Huge piles of scenery, long past usefulness, aud rubbish of every description confronted the investigators investiga-tors on every hand, aud rows of logs, afflicted with dry rot, were in easy reach of the demon fire," and a little farther on adds: "it is unquestionably the fact that should a lire break out in the cellar during a performance, many lives would bo imperiled." The fact is, however, that shoidd a lire break out in the cellar of the theater during :i performance it would mean certain death to hundreds. It would be impossible im-possible to avert an awful calamity. Fire Chief Stannon is authority for the statement that it would be Impossible to empty the theater iu time to avert a horror almost unparalleled in the history his-tory of the lire liend. It is not in the exits of tho house. Manager BtJBTON has promised to clean up. He has made this promise on previous occasions, occa-sions, and evon if he does not forget it this time, what can a half dozen brooms accomplish in the face of such dangers as threaten the patrons of his theater. Rotten and slimy scenery can bo carted away, but what can brooms accomplish when it comes to "rows of ' logs afflicted with dry rot, in easy reach of the demon tire." They cannot be swept away, but remain as a menace men-ace of death. Even in the best arranged theater there is constant dannr from lire, and in a playhoustt like the old theater, whore, the oxiU, iu ease of lire, would not permit of the emptying of the house in timo to avert an awful ralauiity, what a menace hangs over I lie head of every man, woman and child who is bold enough to occupy a neat in it! Something more than mere cleaning up is needed. |