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Show rCDMMERCE CHAMBER. EIBITCOIEIE! Investigation Results in Re port That It Is Not Fit for Capitol. SHOULD BE IMPROVED ' ) Ensign and Taylor Submit Findings to State Board of Examiners. I Resources and organization of tie Utah Chamber of Commerce will have to be rehabilitated and improved before be-fore it can place an exhibit of Utah products and potentialities in the beautiful beau-tiful new statehouse, in the opinion of Horace S. Knsign, secretary of the state fair, and J. Edward Taylor, state horticultural inspector. The opinion was contained in a report re-port submitted yesterday to the state board of examiners by Mr. Ensign and-Mr. and-Mr. Taylor. They had been instructed by the board to make an investigatiou of the chamber of commerce and determine de-termine whether it was able to make an exhibit at the capitol in keeping with the tone of the building. If the board of examiners adopts the report of Mr. Ensign and Mr. Taylor, the chamber of commerce must be refinanced, re-financed, must discard its old exhibits, such as were used in the old quarters at the Vermont building, and secure new ones, attractively and appropriate- ly displayed. The report characterizes the old exhibit in the Vermont building as unsatisfactory. Permission to have quarters and maintain exhibits in the capitol was granted to the chamber of commerce a month ago, but was contingent upon the ability of the organization to install an exhibit deemed by the board of examiners exam-iners to bo adequate and not inharmonious inhar-monious in such a fine structure as the capital. Examiners Will Decide. The board of examinees will take-up the report at its next meeting and then advise the chamber of commerce of its decision. The report of Mr. Ensign and Mr. Taylor, signed by both, follows: Acting under the instructions of Mr. Mattson, secretary of your board, we have investigated the t proposed plan of the chamber of j commerce for installing an exhibit in this building and beg leave to submit the following conclusions: 1. The chamber or commerce has practically no financial backing. It has not sufficient money to install an exhibit properly, and if installed in-stalled on the scale it proposes it would not have sufficient money to maintain it properly. 2. It has no one in its employ who has had any successful exhibit m experience. 3. The class of exhibits which it proposes to install are for the most part undesirable for a building build-ing of this kind and it is impossible impos-sible with the equipment it has to build an exhibit which will be uniform uni-form and attractive in any respect, or in keeping with the surroundings in the capitol building. A list of the proposed exhibits is attached herewith. Is Unsatisfactory. ' ' ' i 4. It owns practically no exhibit ex-hibit equipment, but proposes to buy the second-hand cases formerly used in the Vermont building, which are unsatisfactory. The balance bal-ance of the equipment' will consist of cases which are privately owned i and only indirectly controlled by the chamber of commerce. It cannot can-not dictate the class of material or the manner in which the material will be shown. 5. Your committee believes that this exhibit should be primarily a resource exhibit, which should be iusf ailed in such a way as to make it strikingly attractive. It should be unique and contain features which vary from the ordinary display dis-play seen in show windows and stores, so that it will make a lasting last-ing impression upon the visitors to the building. 6. The exhibit which it propoM to install is practically the same that has proven an absolute failure in the Vermont building, under financial fi-nancial conditions which were more favorable than those under which they propose to install, it here. Reflects Upon State. Do not understand us as wishing to discourage the idea of an ex- . Mbit in the building. We are ' heartily in favor of such a scheme and wish to commend the earnest efforts which the chamber of commerce com-merce has made to this end, but we feel that the installation of the exhibits, ex-hibits, as proposed bv the chamber of commerce, will be to the discredit-of the building and any criticism criti-cism which it draws will reflect upon the state and not upon the chamber of commerce, as its presence pres-ence in this building will immediately immedi-ately associate it with the state. We believe it is possible to revise re-vise the plans of the chamber of commerce in such a way as to make the exhibit an assured success. Accompanying the report was an inventory in-ventory of the property of the chamber cham-ber of commercp, mostly' exhibits. Since the first of June, when the chamber of commerce vacated the Vermont build-ing. build-ing. the exhibits have been stored in the capitol basement. The secretary of the chamber, Joseph Shepherd, has 'had v his desk in the office of the state fair at the capitol. |