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Show Stake Tabernacle Nearing Completion Scats Ordered NodncMhi.v far Sealing Auditorium and Halcony. The Slake Tabernacle committee held u meeting Wednesday evening and decided 'to purchasothe neeensar') seats for seating the Tabernacle They will bo hardwood Heats, being deemed much more dculrable than opcin chairs. McMillan Co. of Salt Lake City was given tho contract. Iho building when completed will seal comfortably about 2,000 people, iho main auditorium will seat 1,101 people, figuring tho apace for each Individual at lSxttt IiicIiob. The bal-cojiy bal-cojiy will Heal IGu, the Bland twenty, live, the raisers on either sldo of tho stand eighty-eight more, and tho choir seventy. Resides this ihorc will bo. corners and other places where biiIII-clent biiIII-clent Beats can be placed bo Hint the total Boating capacity will icach about 2,000. Thero will be four row a of acots arranged like pews, with three nlsles between them. There will bo two additional ad-ditional aisles in the gallery. Tho Moors or all tho utulou, corridors and entrances will be constructed or maple. The choir Benin are directly lu front of the speakers' Bland and the keyboard key-board or the organ will bo In front of jlhe choir. The big. organ wilt bo back of the speakers' stand and under un .arch, which will throw Kb melodious sounds forward, an well as the voice .of Iho speaker ond singers. The balcony Is an Interesting feature. fea-ture. It Is twenty-six feet six inches deep, extends acrosB tho entire building build-ing and ror u dlstniico down each sldo. It Ib supported on three great steel cnutllenwr trusses, bo anchored and hidden that the visitor wonders how Hie balcony gets Itu support. The front or the balcony la decorated decor-ated with 112 feet of brass railing, beautiful spun metal wreaths, which will bo gilded and under which are flfty-olx electric globea. There will also be 128 lect or brans rails In front of the choir and the speakers' Bland. Two bcIb of stairs lead to the bK cony, four lo the basement and Tour inoro lo tho choir Boats and the standi Tho lighting will be almple, ycf magnificent. When all the lights arc turned on 0,500 wafts of electricity will bo used. There are threo'blg clinudellern In the center or the building, build-ing, consuming 7S0 watts each, Hueh chandelier Iiiih eight large globes nnd a sphere. There aro four oilier globes hub-peiuled hub-peiuled from the colling, consuming 100 watts each, and fourteen .ire consuming 100 watts each. UnderTlio galhjry, tlivro.nr(vidocn.mqrq lnrce RimjeBimhctHlHt1Bttnlde(Wttho big beam of the high celling there nr elghty-rour globes of llftcen waits each, and seventy more in the big plaH tor of purls arch over the big uivin back or the stand. In front of the balcony there nre fifty-six, 'flttccn-wntt globes. All the lights uro eneuwd lu IroBled glass, which, while brilliantly Illuminating Hie building, will yet give a subdued effect Twenty-four twitches, twitch-es, all lu one box, give perfect control con-trol fu the system. At the back of the building ami eaili side of tho organ nre two beautiful panuels lu which will probably be painted two historical chut eh hceno. The organ will bo thirty feel wide. There nre two ,8018 of double win (lows lu the main auditorium, seventy-eight seventy-eight Jn all, throwing u Mood of light into every part nnd providing for perfect per-fect ventilation. The color effect In a light tan and golden brown, wtlh till thef urnlture and casings having it natural wood Mulsh. The grain iff the wood Ib brought out to perfection and then highly varnished. Probably no public building in the slate lias more beautiful beauti-ful painting. The conunlttie was luck) to noeure Iho Bervlces of Ales Rloom iliilst in this respect. There are l,2h0 feet of radiation, or nearly one tulle or steam plpea; ;et so ported Ih It iiiHtalled (hut il is probably prob-ably the most cheaply heated of any large building lu the stale The baseinent provides three ling" liana rooms and a big iiHHcuihly room iri8n feel, lu the nsKembly room there Is a daitco Moor 35x75 feci bitill or hard ntiiple and scl on springM. This is the room that has caused much com incut, hut will be round uiosl useful lor gatherings of stake orgaulzatioitH II is lit up with twelve large clcelrk globes Bet in hollow-plane shades. Tim basetiienl windows will be of Florentine glims, uffnidlug ample light yet excluding any oito seeing In from the oulBldo. 'the basement also Is jnovlded with a baptismal font, sleaiu-hcated and with two dressing rooms lu Hie liune-inenl liune-inenl ate also ample (ollels for ladles and geuts, James II. Pulley linn been (lie super vlJing mechanic and has also been tin archil, et lor much or the detailed work, and is- probably responsible more than any one else ror tlm careful care-ful and thorough manner In which tlm b'.iMdlng has been tlnlHhcd. |