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Show AN OFFICE BULIDING FOR CITY AND COUNTY One of our foremost citizens urge3 that when the city and county finally de Ide to erect a joint building on City Hall Square, the old Idea of I. milling a structure to look at with DO regard for Utility be rejected The city and county building, h j says '"ihonld be a structure pat-! pat-! terned after one of our modern ot-I ot-I fice buildings, simple, and yet pleas i ing, in architectural lines, and above all made to aefve the needs of those who will occup the place as servants of the people.'' That is a sensible suggestion This counlr. from end to the other, has wasted millions of dollars, in municipal, munici-pal, county and state buildings of good, bad and . indifferent architecture, architec-ture, With hu little legard for the essentials. Building.- with mighty domes, massive pillars and great flights of steps have been constructed with no thought of sanitation, con venirnt arrangement of rooms ventilation or lighting '1 he one on jeci has been to make an outward show, and, evidently, to provide an excuoe to spend much money. W hen Ogden considers plans for a municipal building, In cooperation with the county, the extravagances of the paBt should be avoided, and a structure suitable for office purposes, pur-poses, such as a business man, n hi.; private affairs might erect, be; fa vored |