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Show THE SALT LAKE THEATER. No Danger from Fire and Perfectly Safe in Kvery Way. This morning a Times reporter accompanied accom-panied Captain Donnell of the Pacific Insurance Insur-ance union and Chief Stanton of the fire department de-partment on a tour through the Salt Lake theater. The basement about which a great deal has been said and which it has been alleged was tilled with a lot of inflammable rubbish was thoroughly explored and it was found to be in exceptionally good condition. There is no rubbish, no piles of cast off scenery, no chemicals that are liable to explode, ex-plode, in short the basement both under the stage and auditorium is as clean and free from material likely to cause a Are in the building as the well kept basement of any modern dwelling. The stage also is free from anything of the kind while in the building throughout electric lights supplant the old gas jet which has been the cause of so many theater tires. Both gentlemen who are so much interested in the prevention of tires, and who make not only periodical but frequent visits through the buildings of Salt Lake, pro, nounce the Theater in admirable condition, and that the danger from fire therein is no greater than in hundreds of other buildings, an opinion in which The Times coincides. It might he said in connection with this that this admirable condition of the Theater is due to manager Burton and his assistants, assist-ants, who follow out the old maxirn of "Cleanliness is next to Godliness," hence the way the Theater looks today. |