Show MUSS MASS mm I 1 the largest lar irest number of representative men and women that ever so aa in parowan carowan for a similar purpose responded to the special call of the committee for the purpose ol 01 looking over the plans and to determine definitely the location for a new tabernacle met fob feb 8 1916 in the meeting house wilford day was chosen as chairman with chas D adams secretary the chairman stated the object of the meeting and on the suggestion of walter C mitchell stated in de tail the preliminary work that had been done up to the present time mr day stated that the building committee went to salt lake city and got in touch with some of the general authorities of the church who freely gave advice he said we visited many of the modern chapels and decided upon a building combining the best of the several we examined and engaged miles E mil ler or to draw the plans we have arranged for the wood hauling and the burning of the brick the people have responded very liberally in their donations and we now have the promise of and a large percent of the people have not been vis ted cited on motion the matter of a desirable location for the new tabernacle was considered chas chaa adams moved that it be the sense of this meeting that the hica location of the new building be on no the north side of the square the exact spot to be determined later an amendment was waa offered by wm win adams that the location of the proposed house be on the east side of the square on mai main street with an east artt those who mho spoke in favor the motion pave gave as th their air reasons that it it is more central and would benefit the more people those who favored the amendment were W wilford I 1 day morgan richards alvin alam benson H L adams wm win morris robert page and wm win adams all of whom wham thought that a beautiful house on main street with an east front was preferable to any oth other er location F C van buren with quite a number of others thought the motion and amendment should be voted down and they favored the location being on the southwest corner of the city square one block north of the tabernacle square which will be found by actual measurement to be the most central of any place in the city ty dark clark lyman said that in building a new meeting house we should not consider the traveling public but should locate in ill a place that would benefit the greatest number of people who live here and favored the southwest corner of the city square the amendment was put and carried by a large majority the matter of definitely locating a spot along the east front was next c considered onside red and a motion was waa made by J J adams that the building build mf be near the southeast corner of the block an amend amendment Tent was offered that it be midway between t the he east cast gate and the library a creaso reasonable h able distance from the fence H L adams favored the motion and thought an up to date chapel chape at the head of main street boe aboe the business portion of tho the city was the most moat desirable he had met men of experience in the north who had bad pointed out to him that most L D S churches faced the east where possible po and was preferable well vp up at the head of the street tre t R G page pa 9 a favored fadore the motion because of 0 f A 4 corter corner it I location t at the head of M main a in street and not mixed up with commercial con mercial buildings buiS dinga which would likely be the case if the amendment carried chas D ads adams spoke po k a in favor of the amendment a spot where the proposed building would be a next net door neighbor to the libra ry a most desirable fiend to a ch church with no commercial building between as would be the case if the front was cut up into b business blocks with the new chapel at the extreme south part of the block the vote resulted in the amendment being lost and the motion carried by a fair majority the architect presented two plans one with and the other without a 6 basement the following committee was chosen to confer with the building committee and architect to deride decide upon the plans best adapted TO our need L N marsden chas adams F C van buren R G pa page jas L adams adami john stevens morgan organ richards joe jaa C robinson H D bayles M M decker H J wm win H orton and wm win T morris CHAS D ADAMS secretary |