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Show THE INTERMOUNTAIN CATHOLIC 16 OPEN TILL 12 P. M. DAILY Our Clever Pastries and Cakes for Smart Parties are a Unique Innovation in Salt Lake. The plans prepared for Bishop Scanlan in Chicago called for a plain structure one hundred and eighty feet long by seventy-fiv- e feet wide with a spire two hundred feet high, the whole to cost $100,000. So quick and hearty was the response among the wealthy Catholics of Salt Lake that these old plans were discarded as unsuitable and C. M. Neuhausen The new plans was secured to prepare plans for a larger and more beautiful edifice. called for a Cathedral of Romanesque architecture of the eleventh century. The main building was to be one hundred and ninety feet long and one hundred and three feet wide, and there were to be two spires which would tower in the air to a height of two hundred and twenty feet and be surmounted with a golden cross. The structure was to be of gray sandstone and have a dduble row of fine granite steps and terraces from the East South Temple Street sidewalk. The main floor was to seat fifteen hundred people and it was intended to have a balcony. 1 O J n i i that time has perforineda notable service in the charitable activity of the Diocese of Salt Lake. New Cathedral Another important task that Bishop Scanlan took upon himself as soon as he was installed as the head of the new Diocese was the erection of a Cathedral Church in Salt Lake City. The building that now stands as a permanent testimony to the great Bishop was the and carefully-arrange- d result of no sudden inspiration but of a plan. On of May, 1899 the Salt Lake Herald published the picture of a Cathedral the twenty-firs- t that the Bishop had had designed in Chicago five years before. Accompanying this was the statement from the Bishop that he would begin work on the building without delay. This was the first intimation that the Catholic people of Salt Lake had that anything of the kind was in prospect, but the movement met, with great favor. " v- long-consider- White Renewed $25 to $35 ed Supplies and Repairs for all makes Machines for rent Hemstitching White Console Model Electric is a beauty come in and see White Sewing Machine Company 72 So. Main St. Singer Renewed |