Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1899-07-05
TEMPLE AND TABERNACLE.

Letters from missionaries in Eng
land and Scotland are encouraging and
they report bright outlook for the
future.
Bishop Marcellus s. Woolley was
chosen county commissioner of Salt
Lake county to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Francis Armstrong.
Bishop james Watson of the Sixth
Ward, Salt Lake City, is recovering
from prolonged rheumatic attack.
His recovery will be cheering news to
his many friends throughout the vest
ern country.
The pictures thrown on the canvas
at Saltair on Professor Stevens birth
day were President Snow, Brigham
Young, Major Young and Major
Grant, group picture of the artillery
officers, Professor Stevens, the temple,
tabernacle, Eagle gate, etc.
| 1t is estimated that the long pro-
posed and much needed change of the
Tabernacle organ console or key box
twelve or fifteen feet to the front of the
instrument, would cost S10,0 as the
improvement means substituting the
electro-pneumatic action for the pres
emit old-fashioned arrangement. Ow-
ing to the cost the change is not
looked for until such a time as the
church is little more flush than at
present.
A reunion of the descendants of
George A. Smith, who died in 1875, was
held last week at the residence in Salt
Lake City of Apostle John Henry
Smith and Mrs. Susan Il. Smith, his
son and widow. The occasion was the
eighty-second anniversary of the birth
of George A. Smith, and it is intended
TO hold similar gatherings annually in
the future. There were present 141
members of the family, besides digni-
taries of the church and other promi-
nent citizens.
The historic Beehive house, Presi.
dent Brigham Youngs home, has been
purchased by the Mormon church and
will be used as the offices of the first
presidency and the residence of the
president President Lorenzo Snow
will occupy the mansion, and he will
be the first of the church leaders to dc
SO since the death of President Young,
The late President John Taylor lived
in the Gardo and President MILFORD
g Woodruff occupied his own suburban
home.
The need OF q suitable office for the
church has long been felt. BY the
!. present programme the main entrance
TO the Beehive will be the public door
On entering there is a large hall I'm
iBhed in hard wood. To the right and
left are long parlors, and these rooms
9 with the hall, will be transformed
: into handsomely appointed offices. The
9 west parlor has a door leading to tbs
: Office at present occupied by President
! Snow, and these will be kept up fol
, clerks and others employed.
President Snow and family will NOV,
:. into the building as soon rs possible
The family entrance will be the Stat,
street door, and the whole of the ad
dition, as well as the upper floors o
q the main building, will be used as tn,
private dwelling of President Snow an,
:. bis successors In this way the churcl
; provides suitable office and home TO
n Its executive.
3 The Beehive house was built b,
! President Brigham Young in 1852. |
il was designed for his private residence
e Previously he lived at the White house
A. now standing little east OF the Eagl
20 gate He wanted to be nearer to hi
K office, and SO the big house was bull
Q on the corner. It was completed Il
1853. Truman ANGEL was the archi
tect, and he chose Colonial design
a the front being the same today as i
II the original plans. The foundation !
4 of cut granite, and the walls are @
four thicknesses of adobe. The uppe
~ floor contained long hall on the cas-
/. side, used for a parlor, and sometime
:. for parties and family dances. Dow
= stairs the east front room was the dir
/. ing-room. Upstairs the rooms ar
- much the same as of old The lon
at room on the east side, known as til
y hall, is still intact, with its ancieu
r plaster work and heavy window cal
ing which surround the small-pane
windows looking out upon the Coloni,
a porch. The hall, with it's doorwa
90 leading out to the porch, is unchange
le save for the handsome stairway and
e. door opening into the addition. TT
be southwest room was for a long tin
or the private room of President Brigha
to Young. and looks unchanged excel
lie In new style of paper that adorns Il
en- wall. He also used "the hall" as h
an room. On the third floor are the pa
ne ret rooms, with closed stairway lea
- &c ing to the glass and wood cupoIa und
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