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Show NEWHOUSE AND SALT LAKE CITY. i . That Salt Lake City's apathy may lose Samuel Newhouse, one of its wealthy benefactors, is the theme of a story which appeared in the Denver Post on October 5. The story tells that which many of Mr. Newhouse's friends in Ogden have been expecting for several months. , In spite of his supreme efforts to make a metropolitan cit; out of a great, big, overgrown country town, Mr. Newhouse has received re-ceived very little encouragement at any time from Salt Lake's foremost fore-most boosters or financiers. There is no wonder that he is disgusted. There is little wonderthat a story such as appeared in the Denver Den-ver paper gained circulation. The Post says: "Denver financial circles were alive today with rumors that Samuel Newhouse, the Salt Lake City multi-millionaire, would come to Denver, where he originally intended to settle. "Mr. Newhouse's Denver friends admit that there are good grounds for the truth of the rumor, as the magnificent works he had planned to make Salt Lake City one of the most imposing cities west of Denver had all come to naught. "The magnificent hotel he planned and started building stands today in the center of Salt Lake City, protesting in the bewildering nakedness of its steel frame against the attitude of the partisan citizens citi-zens who have refused to aid in any way the philanthropic work so well begun by the former Colorado mining man. "His magnificent conception of a residential section embraced a quarter of the city on the south side, which Mr. Newhouse bought and had landscaped in serpentine effect, tearing out fine old residences resi-dences of former Mormons and blotting out streets, alleys and landmarks, land-marks, in one splendid effort to beautify the capital city of Utah and make it a place worth while to live in. Now it stands out facing the city like an exclamation mark, quietly asking the question why one of Jewish faith should not teach the Latter-day Saints how to make their city worthy of Joseph F. Smith's prophetic vision of a promised land. But the Mormons will not look kindly on the work Samuel Newhouse has planned, and even the Gentile citizens are siding with the Mormons and have refused to lend financial or other aid in the work. "A theater that would compete with any in the country also has been started and Mr. Newhouse says that he will let the steel frames rust and remain as they are, paying taxes on the unoccupied land, rather than go any further with such a splendid project unless the Mormons wake up and take an interest in the beautifying of their city. "Beyond Salt Lake City in the porphyry hills Mr. Newhouse is taking out treasure in the shape of copper ingots, and it was a part of this wealth he desired to return to the city which lie3 below the hills. "Besides a beautiful house in Salt Lake and residences in New York, London and Paris, Mr. Newhouse planned to have another here. Those who know him well say that he loves the Queen City of the Plains better than any other spot on earth. "Personally he denies that he will leave Salt Lake, but the work he so well began has stopped, the steel frames of the buildings he planned are rusting in the salt air, he has admitted that he will do nothing further in the building or beautifying line in Salt Lake until the residents there throw off the cloak of apathy and the mask of indifference. "His friends who saw him in Denver last week say Mr. Newhouse would be warmly welcomed in Denver and that his progressive spirit would find plenty to do in Colorado." When shown the above story by a Salt Lake Tribune representative represent-ative and asked for an explanation, Mr. Newhouse said: 'Yes, I have seen the article, but I can't be held responsible for every story that goes the rounds of the press. I like Denver and Denver's people, and it is certainly a great compliment to be assured of a warm welcome to that progressive and rapidly growing city." |
