Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-12
GATHERED FROM THE PARK.
4 Newsy Budget of Events Picked
Upby Our Park Correspondents.

The Park people are INDUCING in mucl
talk over the new smoke-stack at thu
Marsac mill. Every one asks his neigh
Dor how high he thinks it is? how many
bricks were used? and numerous othe
questions concerning it. To settle The
matter once for all, your correspondent
has ascertained the true figures in regart
to it, which are as follows The founda
ton is 6 feet, the base 16 feet, and the
brick-work ITO feet, 6 inches in hight
thus the actual hight OF the stack is Is:
feet 6 inches: and the hight from the
foundation, 126 feet, 6 inches-the highest
stack in the Territory. The base is II
feet square, and the cap 10 feet 6 inches
square. In its construction 40, 900 bricks
were used and 5000 feet of lumber were
necessary to erect the scafolding for the
builders. Much interest is taken in the
relative hight of this stack to adjacent
objects. Many bets have been made
and many lost and won on assertions
and comparisons. AS is well known,
there is no level ground in Park City.
1t is all uphill, and at a steep grade too,
everywhere, except where it is down-hill.
Houses in the city are all perched on the
sides of the hill, and the whole surround
ing to the business centre is like an am
phitheatre in eleyation and sightliness.
One man bets that the new stack is not
as high as his doorstep, another, that
the peak of his cabin is higher than the
top of the stack. Jim Lawrence bet that
the top of Joe Dudler's smoke-stack, on
the brewery at the head of Main street,
was ten feet higher, and when the level
was brought out, and tho test made he
lost his little twenty-dollar gold piece.
no one dares bet that Dix, the
foreman, was not high on the completion
of the job. The relative measurements
could not be taken that night, but
the grand and beautiful stack
was very high, and it maintains it's alti-
tude continuously, said Dix and some
others have not been as high since, as
they were the night of it's completion
The miserable Accommodations that the
Union Pacific Railway furnish the Park
people and the general travelling public,
in the depot line, are causing much talk
and bringing down much wrath upon the
officials of the road. The depot (upper)
consists of a platform and small shanty,
merely large enough to hold the ticket
agent and the ticket buyer. The lower
depot, a mile from town, is good, SUBJ
stantial building, with all the necessaries
for depot, and in justice to the people of
no orly IA oh -,
building to where it belongs or build a
new one. Something should be done be-
lore the winter comes on.
Work is being rapidly pushed on the
new City Hall, the foundation being
nearly completed. A few facts concern
ng this building will be of interest. 1t
will be two-story, with basement, brick
building; cut stone and pressed brick
ront. The basement will be the Jail. and
will be provided with a tdrunk" room,
place for common "drunks," and two
ron cages, each having two cells, intend
I'd for criminals more advanced in the
business. On the first floor will be the
Marshal's office, room for fire apparatus
ind Firemen's assembly room. The
council and courtroom, the recorders
'ttice and the jury room will occupy the
econd floor. The building is to cost
5000, and is expected to be finished and
occupied by Christmas. 1t will be a fine
edition to the Park, and speaks well for
he enterprise of the citizens.
The constant increase in business has
some of the merchants to en-
arge their stores. Ascheim has Just oc-
upied the fine new addition to his store.
his is fine store and would do credit to
much larger place than Park City.
is reftting the store formerly
occupied by him, and intends to stock it
nd run it In connection with his present
tore. Schwartz, also, has had to spread |
ut and secure more room. Verify, Park
lily boometh.
The regular quarterly meeting of the
4. e. Church of this place. was held
esterday. Full boards of stewards and
rustees for the coming year were elected,
nd the finances were found to be in good
ondltion. The congregation of this
hurch since Rev. G. NJ. Jeffrey has
lken charge has increased steadily. Six
lembers have been received during the
list two months. All the prospects are
ncouraglng to the friends OF the church.
he Sunday school has an average attend
nee of seventy-six.
The funeral of little Nettie, the only
1ild of Frank and Ida James, took place
st tuesday, and was largely attended.
ne death OF their only child has been a
we're blow to Mr.. and Mrs. James. and
he sympathy of the entire community is
lelrs: death comes to the young and
sed." Why to the young, when all the
'ightest hopes and fondest authorizations
loving parents are conferred in their
Tile ones, no one can tell. We can only
eep Tor them and with the comforting
that, HE doeth all things
el,' let time heal the broken hearts.
There is no flock, however watched and
tended, ''--"
But one dead lamb is there,
1ere is no freside, howsoeyer defended.
But has one vacant chair. .
e is not dead-the child of our Affection =
But gone unto that school
mere she no longer needs our protection.
And Christ himself doth rule.
" after day, we think what she is doing.
In those bright realms of air;
ar after year her tender steps pursuing
Behold her grown more fair.
JUS do we walk with her, and keep un-
broken,
The bond which nature gives,
linking that our remembrance. thouob nm
spoken, g
Nay reach her where she lives.
t us be patient These severe Affections .
Not from the ground arise,
t oftimes celestial benedictions.
Assume this dark disguise" =,
NOTES. n
The weather is not delightful. u
saturday was payday at the Crescent. =
MIR. A. M. Grant is back from Bullion.
lie, New. ''
!. h. Dooley and r. Macintosh have