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Show H News About irnacle, 1896 SBued torn preceding stag-gere- Page citizens , and Brigham into church, hurrying feet at the their :ping . . sacrament prepared 'by a There boys. lip of young murmur of voices j low ie in and took their places. Baird and Lars Mortensen mo-to the basement. A back came up later they after stairs, smoke curling door. i through the open called, and :! Fire! theystood up in congregation The 1, ,'t down the basement, stairs to help, fight the fire. There beneath the pulpit in the east end of the building the timbers were ablaze. In an instant a portion of the main floor heaved up and flames settled around It. The men out knowing they could not go into the building even to save the silver sacrament service that had filled them with so much pride. By the time the firemen the tabernacle fire was making headway fast. The BRIGHAM CITY BUGLAR This Is The Way We Do It In Box Elder1 County d of February 15, 1896 has this to say. about the event: In less than an hour from when the fire was discovered, the main building was a mass of furious, crackling flames, and the fire had eaten its way through the roof and leaped upward into the Inflammable tow-erAt 2:30 there was little left of the noble structure excepting the bare walls, now blackened, cracked and stripped of every square foot of wood; even the plaster was completely skinned off. Excepting chairs, benches, etc., rescued from the vestry in the rear, nothing was saved. To help matters along, a brisk February wind was blowing from the south. Burning cinders and debris blew for blocks across the city, and caused smaller fires. It was Brighams most spectacular conflagration, and was . witnessed by a record crowd of 3,000 people. Brigham Citys splendid tabernacle Is no more, the editor of the Buglar wrote, and It was almost as if he had said: The Constitution of the United Stat- .. n. , Fire! Fire! cry. ianger, It was In that the first a rever-linsplit g n unbeliev-alar- and the actual sense John Baird and Lars This group of local hunters located themselves under a goose flyway. came over in herds. All got their limit. es has been taken from us. It! a benediction upon a congregawas believed that one was as tion of 1,600 people. The Box enduring as the other. Elder stake tabernacle was to house of assembled early to the When the smoke had cleared be dedicated as a unto the Lord. afternoon meeting and the ashes lay cold worship away be tabernacle, filed out with The new structure was a and ugly across the charred reildered expressions on their a group of men deter- chaste and dignified specimen mains, s, They could architecture. Its hardly be- mined that the pilasters and of modern it and yet they knew that walls were not injured. It was countenance had been completereh was REALLY OUT. , The pulpit and estimated that if the walls were ly changed. about was due entirely not torn down, $12,000 would choir had executed an to the tl audience that there was restore the building. Very soonj. face and were now in the west no lives lost, greater panic thereafter, Stake President Rud-ga- r end of the building. At every to was evacuated building Clawson issued a notice turn, wherever one stood with but one Incidentathat mutton, beef and wheat look, from the four stairways, will be taken as donations to the folding doors to the vestry, ls fainted and bad to be out into the open, the tabernacle, at the market the choir with its seventy oak seats, the gallery with its slop, of the men , price. stampeded Work was well on Its way to- ing floors, the onyx washbowl in the vestibule, ones pride was ward construction. TO SEE it was an ambitious IN BOX ELDER quickened; . Out of this calamity j came and advancement attempt, defying competition. . development After July 1, visitors to Brigham City may be The Brigham Bugler said: in the construction of a new buildcertain of building. But one thing we lost It is a strictly catching trout out of a mountain The building was ing, with a seating capacity of irreparably. ' 'stream if they visit the Mountain View Trout replaced; the sacrament service about 1,400 people and standroom 200 more. for was ing probably the wards purchased by (form, at the north edge of Brigham City. but the beautiful, full toned All the seats in the house will as the pulpit is Fishing equipment is furnished, no $800 pipe organ and $300 worth be good seats fishing liso in harmony with the auditorof to been music lost us has cense is ium that all be able to see as required, and fishermen pay only for forever. the fish It was the first day of spring, well as hear. It is lighted with they catch. The fish are even cleaneand heated with March 21, 1897. It was also one electricity steam. In various d, ready for the frying pan, for you. parts of the From a later. year towering old walls that had been building are large radiators, heighth, MOUNTAIN VIEW TROUT FARM tried by fire, loosed down with while under each pew and in any other necessary part of the building pass the steam pipes. The city water-work- s are also connected with the building. The vestry is so arranged that on occasion the folding doors between this and the main room may convert the two Into one. The upstairs vestry is finished in pure white; chairs, desk, and all. The main building is finished in oak. The graining and panelling are indeed very handsome and give the Interior an dashed out on a run department, and the who congregation of 200 ensen be 1 fire reg-Sund- ) . : , ms ler . .. . .MIT ebi t it ts MAKE YOUR STAY M BRIGHAM CITY MORE PLEASANT At dusk they came from far parts of the county; Park Valley, Snowville, and sundry persons in other localities. Proceeds for Sunday eggs amounted to $153.52. Expenditures were accounted for down to the last small item of Posts and Poles, 117.04. Contribution $56.80. . George Q. Cannon offered the dedicatory prayer. Briefly that is the history of the tabernacle; but the story is . not ended. Two or three, years ago , we awoke to the fact that the tabernacle had not grown up around our community;, instead, we had at last grown up. to the maturity of the tabernacle. Thank goodness, the building has now fallen on days when loving care and generous gifts will be our contribution to its And what -- would be past. more fitting than the restoration of a pipe organ. The east end of the. building does not seem to be an afterthought, but a natural setting - for musical , culture. The pipe organ could not be replaced back in 1897. We hope out generation will be able to provide the glory that will become a heritage to future generations. We also need flood lights on the tabernacle. We have talked about the beauty of the late afternoon sun casting soft shadows around the grounds, caus-inmany tourists to stop and exclaim, but we need that beauty reflected at night behind the flood of electricity. If we could have a pipe organ In our tabernacle. If we could have flood lights. We could truly say: England has its old buildings. . . Salt Lake City had many new ones. . . and elegant appearance. The of the Box Brigham City? We have our Elder stake tabernacle cost $15,- tabernacle. , , g - l V By Dropping In For A - SW f.'-- . . . Where It's Always Comfortably Cool! Right Across From The Post Office GAME OF POOL ' COLD GLASS OF BEER or JUST TO GET ACQUAINTED Feature Change Three Times Each Week Anting SUNDAY and FISHING It's Cool LICENSES MONDAY WEDNESDAY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY It's Friendly FCBACCO I r: J Come In And Say Hello WELCOME TO BRIGHAM CITY Continuous showings from 6 P. M. daily, 1 P. M. Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays. Popular admission prices. ALL THE NEW LATEST EQUIPMENT .An Independent Theatre " Mark E. Nielson, Owner and Manager |