Show NEW YORKS YORK'S YORKS YORK'S CAPITOL AND OURS r i t cw New York YOlI mourns over o her half destroyed C capi capi- pl- pl j Not the money loss that d does es not count She J- J tinas has plenty more granite plenty r more lumber r f 5 plenty more artisans and artists and plenty of L V f money all nIl that part purt c can n be bc fixed But the other 9 part there here is is no record left of because in the f f i e archives of that capitol there was a history in epitome of New York It began when the forests L J T MV were rc yet JCL tin f eUe it 1 began WIt with I 1 tJ the Ie coming Q of f Y Henry I Hu Hudson sun and his band The rhe picture might have ha h cn an n Indian chief watching j from Manhattan island as us the strange craft came i ii i hu lumbering up III he lie sea Then the forests forest began bet be- be t gan gaii ganto to fall I then hen the plow Ilow was Avas introduced I then the man flUID began to topas pass pas aW away lY then the English c i came and ami the rule changed and all that most inc in in- c Mv resting It-resting history through l what was lone done in ll the Jv north in the French rench war then the revolutionary v l Avar vai i a th then n the re l. l conquest of the thc state by hy the 4 armies of qi pe peace ce j the opening of the El Erie e canal t t was hailed as ou one of or the great achievements y of tf the industrial world then came th the first steamer OK I. I the Hudson the thc locomotive awl and all the time old hl race Of Sf giants were making history and 1 f. f New v Y York olk the Empire state tate So to o it has cume down through two tA hundred years rs el and now lov r- r fp f the Ilie record of those events C and mind those men miten the reek ree- ree 7 k ord ld of the work vork performed especially r is all nIl licked licked- o up t UI b 1 by time the pit pitiless fire firc And nd then there is a sort of rage in the thc thoughts of men muon that the they when they determined f lo to 0 build the finest capitol in the nation and poured out their money like water for honest I work for fur graft for everything still made a failure i There was not one genius there to point out u tl that a L t r records Or Rm in in the thc event C of Qt t. g lire fire would v 1 be he destroyed The rime great structure tr vas was not j. j fireproof and amid time the sorrow sorro over ever the event c is heightened height c. c 1 en ened Clel d i by hy tho fact that they the have ha to admit that it W was S through the ncr of those who had iid yA charge of things that no safe provisions were made if j V to save e their priceless records f. f j There here must not be anything of that kind kindon on on f. f Capitol hill in ill Utah We Vc all an want a beautiful Callol cap Cal capi- itol i- i r tol lol ol lYe we want it just as fine as the money IH proVided t- t f- f will viII make it we c want all the taste that can ean h be f brought to bear to make maIm it beautiful beautiful but more than l all that vastly astIr more we want to have hae the as as- F 5 nce nce that no nu matter what comes in the time way of Vr fire the records h which ch jot down the i f ress of jf r our state from that memorable day clay in 47 v when hen the first prayer was as uttered tittered here shall be bev v forever Cl safe J S Speaking cf tf f that New York capitol the Sun fI 1 sa s 's There must conic come to 10 e every ery ry l. l citizen of New NewA v A s York who hia ha has reached middle life a sort of moving ing picture tI r a generation 01 or more of state history his his- V j tory try which h has s let leit its most accurate and amid its most VI Ul pressing depressing evidence c in that hi hideous building on t hill lull every stone every corn corner r every nook of f which luis an intimate association with some Randal hat shook the state Further it U refers to it as a house that never v ti 5 was a completed For as one OIle penetrated the upper J xV o. o i ls l's there were yards a d and yards yard of of unfinished V work ork hoar ed ov over n r left rough and incomplete be- be causo no administration no dared party again to reopen opell th the long chapter of scandal and shame which had att n every evely building operation since the Uie legislature of the sixties first authorized v construction of a capitol building to cost four fourr r million dollars Today it has cost m more re than thun five million and when yesterdays yesterday's ys y's fire j I swept w pt it there was still on all shies sides the proof of 1 how bow ow remained to be bG done while the great i I which was to dominate all like the time city hall ball t O Cl in iii Ph Philadelphia had long been abandoned J Y cause bc h cause the foundations of the structure could not i 7 b bear bar ar the lime weight The There e is if no reason wh why a state capitol should i f. f have one dishonest dollar in its building It should i L not hot be he begun until th the plans have been decided upon up up- I on oi and specification made every an and then the person person perti per per- ti son n 0 or of persons in c charge carge of the building should be beheld bei bet i t I held in In such responsibility as a a. a strong business sS man imposes upon those who do wor for fOI him t M 1 |