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Show THE CAPITOL We are glad to see the capitol comniiasion moving mov-ing to begin work on the new edifice, and that the determination Mfrai to be fixM to have it a utructuro that will meet the demandu of the pt-.oplu f the atatev We mi if (teat to the enmraiaxion and local arrhiterta that thejnkeep little watch on 'he work that ia going on in the building of the new theatro behini the Hooper Eldredge bliwk. There ia a thoroughness and expedition about it that -re lil ltd with auggrationa. It la being cariied on in a way that auggeata the1 intention behind tht work ia to insure it being there intact for a ood many years after the next earthquake ' The firVit thing, of course, will be to aee that the foundations slall be faultless; t(ien pub lie interest will center upon how the superstru;tun ia to look. Will it be aomething grand and massive, and yet as graceful aa a Fhydian templet SometLing not only to catch the eye, hut to fascinate chc imagination land enable' the onlooker not only to sV the real structure, hut the one behind it which the-spectacle of the real edifice will call up in mind, until, warning, warn-ing, there will seem to be before him a temple such as the gods created when the gods ruled and Vulcan was ou.5 a common blacksmith. |