Show J saum polla EY maine nov 1 16 baicar deseret desert 24 Dear sir sirl birte l tar ar r rived in this place a week ago alo in Y with my health much improved improve ed r 1 found my aged parents smart my father is 77 and mother 74 years of or age he was a preacher of the methodist metho Motho dial diat falth faith long bedore before my birth and he now occasionally holds meetings the they y received me very kindly and listen with much interest to what I 1 have to say gay to them of ouy OUT religion ip my travels through the states to t thib this is place I 1 fell I 1 in with men of influence inal ence who expressed their feelings free lathat thayas the people of the united states were oppia ed to the off omm official loial raid made against oun oar people peopled although they are opposed to polygamy poly ganny as a general thing they feel that there should be a compromise made all past plural marriages and setting a few years in fix the future for the system bys teja texa to t be abolished some feel that inasmuch as we believe that poly gamy is a commandment of god we wet ought not tobo tobe disturbed in our religious belief and aad think it to be tut ional to disturb ur and that the course khrt has been by the officials in the hawkins case cue would guld not I 1 be tolerated for one moment by tho the people of the states the prevailing feelings are that the official sace saco trying to get upa collision with oon oos people so aa as to have some pretext toe foe bringing the US U Q forces ous out against us to exterminate us from oun oua hard bard earned homes but I 1 hope they will be disappointed in this inthe intje future as they have been in the wt past I 1 have hel donly one public meeting and have an appointment for fox next sun day but I 1 have done a great deal of fireside preaching I 1 find many will listen with tuo the greatest attention and interest and their hearts are open to receive me kindly the snow is about five inches deep and is still falling the wea heilis mild E 38 13 tripp TRIPA SINCE the great chicago nire fire more attention hosbien hab has been bien directed to the subject of fireproof nire fire proof bullying bull buil ding the washing conr corros oddeny of the cincinnati commercial recently interview interviewed edl edi mr mullett th the 6 government architect upon this subject and here is the reported result mr mullett says there are very few fireproof fire fir epro proof buildings in the united states he ought to know for he has had all the government buildings in the country on oa his hands for several years and has built the best beat of them and it is probable he has devoted as much time study and investigation to the subject as any say architect to be found why my friend said he dont don t you yon know that granite when subjected to a strong heat crumbles like dry plaster itis it is the beat best building stone in the world it will resist time and heat and damp and rain and everything else but it wont resist fire marble marbie is not much better but it is some marble will not burn up as soon as granite sandstone is about the same with some few exceptional varieties now a good many blessed idiots that if a vault is built of granite it is fire and burglarproof burglar proof nothing of the sort if I 1 wanted to make a secure vault I 1 should not make it of granite A skillful burgl burglar r can get into a granite vault I 1 in u no rime dime time how is why with a blow pipe with a large blow pipe and a small sharp blaze well handled a burglar can crack a block of granite to pieces before know it when subjected to a severe heat it cracks and splits off in flakes and you can crush it into sand with your lingers fingers ob no I 1 a granite bull buli building ing is not fireproof nire fire proof 11 well what sort of a building is fireproof A granite buildt building ng he answered w without phout apparently noticing the question will stand heat a great while so will marble a great while but a wooden cupola or steeple or tower must not be put on top of it like that on the chicago court house granite fireproof fire proof he continued but as I 1 said before it will stand a good deal it is probable the court house would have stood had it not been for the wooden cupola and the open windows n owe the e tribuna tribune no office ce won would probably have ave stood if it had had iron 8 shutters ut ra outside and inside on all the windows yet it is by no means certain if the fire raged with the intensity that is described what then Is Js to be done I 1 asked naked at if granite and marble and sandstone are not fireproof fire proof Is not the capitol the treasury the patent office the post office department are not they fireproof fire proof why bless your soul no not one of them but they are probably safe for all that because they stand away from other buildings all except the Pest mob ioe if we should have such a fire in washington as that in chicago I 1 should fear for the rost Post postoffice office building why my dear sir he continued in a more snappish tone than ever do you know there is BUT nut ONE FIREPROOF FIRE PROOF government BUILDING WILDING IN THE COUNTRY the appraisers stores in philadelphia del dei ila lla 11 N Is e it possible and that is the only onet oner its the only one I 1 know of the material irick why he answered its brick brlek brick ia Is the only absolutely fireproof fire proof building material I 1 know of they say the seneca stone is fire proof and it has bas stood some somo wonderful tests but none of the government buildings have been built of it of course granite and marble are good enough if buildings are apart from others the trouble government buildings ought to have big grounds around them then there would be no danger hut I 1 have great faith in iron shutters upon a similar subject subjects a birmingham correspondent of the boston journal thus writes one fa millac familiar with the fearful conflagrations flag rations which often occur in america ia is impressed with the exe oxe is tion from fires ia in england during a residence of two years in a town of nearly four hundred thousand inhabitants I 1 have never witnessed the bu burning rn indof of a building and have seen been but very few notices of such misfortunes in the papers the they are almost always confined to a single single building where the ninea occur so thattie that the term burned out la Is substituted for the american expression burned burned up 31 1 here the walls are usually but bul slightly injured j and and aud repairs ale aie are easily made therea theres the tes tea son for the difference in reference to these calamities is found in the style of building english houses bouses are almost exclusively built of stone or brick both in the city and in the country the plaster is placed upon the theil walls avails without laths baths and the partitions are of brick A large proportion of the floors are of tile more slate than tile and the roofs are generally covered with a similar material instead of the felt feit and tar so often used in america shingles are wholly unknown and the people do not know the meaning of the word many of the churches and buildings are entirely of stone with the exception bf the limited amount of wood required for furnishing and there is but little combustible material in the structures of the country passing through some of the narrow crooked streets of the old towns and noticing the ancient and often dilapidated homes of the poor one can not but think how greatly things would be improved if a sweeping g fire re could clear away the building buildings a w which h I 1 c h have stood for centuries but the boon of exception is priceless and here from another exchange is a paragraph upon the french method of building the french practice in building is a good one instead of using flimsy lath for thin partitions they employ stout pieces of or oak as thick as garden palings halings pa lings these they nail firmly on each side of the framing of the partition and fill the space between with rubble and plaster of paris parts they coat the whole with the plaster the floors are managed in the same way as well as tb the P under side of the stair houses are thus rendered almost as near lire proof as if built of stone throughout in lri nottingham Botting liam llam england where they have ave gypsum in the neighborhood as 88 in paris they form their floors and partitions in the same solid manner consequently a building is rarely burned down in that populous manufacturing town |