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Show basement and the odds and cuds conveyed beyond its walls. This much the management owes to its patrons and the public. According to Captain Cap-tain Donnell's statement it has beeu sitting there for more than a year as the grinning accomplice of the fire fiend, avidly grasping the dollars that rolled in through the treasurer's window win-dow and in return offering to them a stall in the empire of death. Since he ha& commenced com-menced the work let Manager Burton complete, com-plete, it, if he is competed to close, temporarily, tempo-rarily, the Doors of the t-'iro Trap. He should have started the labors when first the surveyor of the insuraucc union and Chief Stanton called his attention to the dangers, and now that he owes the public an apology let it be full and complete. True, the stage has a direct connection con-nection with and a special gong at the fire station. But a gong at the fire station and a stream without will not rescue the surging souls withiu. Clean up, B'rer Burton; clean up. TSi HORBOR'S HAUNTS THE SURVEYOR OF INSURANCE RE-CiTES RE-CiTES A HORRIFYINC EXPERIENCE. Me Kecognied tbo Awful Dangers in the Old Theater anil Pleaded With It in the Name of Ilumiiiiity To Stir l"p the Animals Again. The war against the ugly lire trap of Zion Is eliciting hearty indorsement from all sides, aud the objects promise to be realized al an early day. The insurance companies and (Ire inspector have pooled their energies and are determined deter-mined now to load their guns with alo-pathlc alo-pathlc loads. The era of conservatism lias passed. Homcopliathic measures have had their day and the intention now is to strike right out from the shoulder. Tm: Tin expose of the shocking condition of affairs In the basement of the Salt Lake theater yesterday afternoon and the tearing of the mask from the awful Dangers that Lurked Relow, has met with approval in every household, behind every counter and in every office. It was a revelation almost as startling as that which came over the wires from the court above and tacked itself on to the sound board of the (iardo house. "I propose to stir the animals up once more" said Captain 3am M. Donnell, surveyor sur-veyor of the Pacilic Insurance Union this afternoon "and if that don't accomplish the desired result then I propose to drop the theater and Manager Burton. I have tried everything as a remedy for this howling evil and while Mr. Burton lias a right to use his properly as he pleases the insurance companies have aright to oro-tect oro-tect themselves. "My attention Was first Called to the Trap about a year ago on the occasion of a juve. Bile entertainment. 1 realized that it would draw heavily upon the childhood of the city ami while there is a chance of handling the adult in a panic you can't do anything witli panic-stricken youth. As I was about to say, 1 made a tour of inspection of the theater at that time aud drop, ping down into the basement found it lb a very dangerous condition. It was tilled With old trappings-oily trappings-oily Painted Trappings, and I realized that dreaded combustion might occur at any moment. I notified the , management that the place was in a very dangerous mess and was assured that it would bo attended to. Well, the avenues between the debris were swept up ami scraps of paper burned. It w asn't the paper in the pathway, however, that, had to be feared it was the gases that were generating beneath the mass of boards and oiled canvas. It was four months before I repeated tho inspection and I again found the place in a dangerous condition. I culled attention to it and again there was a Clean I'p of Waste Paper, nothing else. November came and in company com-pany with a number of insurance representatives represen-tatives and Major Stanton of the lire dej partment I visited the thoatcr for the third time. We found the basement in tho same alarming condition. "We were told that gas jets were not being be-ing used below. They had anticipated our coming and had shut off the metre. 'I know they have been using gas below,' said one. of the party, and I determined lo try a little strategy myself. That afternoon I entered tbo basement without knocking at the door or going through any other formality and lo; behold I "There Was Light! "Light bursting from every gas jet. That piqued me. 1 was not prepared for dis. seinblings, and going to my office 1 addressed ad-dressed a letter to Manager Burton." Captain Donnell here pulled out a desk drawer and producing his letter file read the copy of (be communication arraigning the management upon its dangerous careless-lii careless-lii -s. Having failed to reach the theater people through their parse be determined to reach them through humanity and in behalf of their patrons begged them to do away with the death trap. "Now" continued the surveyor of the insurance in-surance union thrusting the letter back into its moorings and witli it the Iteply of Malinger Itui-ion who said he would respect the suggestions, "I propose to give the animals just one more stirring up and then I'm done." "What rntc do you give the Theater r" "Five per cent but then one of the principle prin-ciple stockholders in it is an insurance man, lleber .1. Grant, with whom the most of the, insurance Is carried." "Then you recognize It as a dangerous riskr "By no means a good one." No sooner bad th. news been carried to tie management yesterday afternoon that, a representative of Tim; Tim r.s had made the voyage Through the Desolate llannts of the lire tiend than a counter movement was determined on. A corps of sweepers w as organized, and a campaign directed at Hie hundred or mure tons of igneous material. mate-rial. Tbta will not do, however. The germs of death that are hourly gathering gather-ing vitality and which threaten at . any moment to precipitate a fearful holocaust cannot bo brushed aside with the whisk of a broom. It will require heroic renovation. The slimy hack numbers of tile property room must be dragged nut, the gases that are ready to Durst Into a Dla.e ftl any moment must be released from the it i L. |