Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-05-13

policies aggroRntng that amount and
we Wlll erect the building
TO get Ia the point Inside Of two
weeks after the matter resumed don-
Mite form, every business man, CLERK,
music teacher and school mann IN Min
hcnpolls was writing Insurance, That
was one yonr ago IN months time
tho Auditorium was an assured fact
ON june " last ground was broken for
IN Foundation and today II stands the
proudosl of monuments TO the indomIt.
able Iluck Of ~ builders
But there was trouble ahead almost
from the very start, The Older ana
larger insurance companies recognized
that There was n now Richmond IN thu
field, one that was backed by the people,
ana one that was sweeping lhclr bust.
ness from under their feet, Something.
they said, must be done, ana done
quickly tn crush H. Accordingly there
was IAN agreement that nobody
made ana that everybody IN thu
other companies subscribed TO-" 60 boy.
colt and KIN It. The most powerful Il.
nnncinl Influences IN nud out
~ the state were arrayod against II,
And Vet II stood, The public ncclain
against the onslaught was terrific and
politicians made the most of H. But
wv l'1NlNl VIII WIS NlUFl NNll' W.
thing " naught, and The contest was
carried into the courts ON the back "
an old section IN the statute BOOKS
which makes II unlawful for an inHur.
Nnce company 10 engage In any bust
ness that does not guarantee a certain
per cent annual Income,
90 course, the Auditorium people
could not NJ the beginning give such u
guarantee, unless Il would be made up
by the insurance company, which N
was held would no, be legal, Therefore
the upshot Of II all IN that the company
must dispose of II within ton years,
But IN the meantime Minneapolis
congratulated itself ON the possession Of
the Auditorium, Come storm or calm,
its dream has been realized The cost
IL about 100000 For this sum II has
undoubtedly the best music hall ON the
continent
SALT LAKE VISITED,
10 the "Nows' representative Mr.
Bcchlel, who, by the way was forced
FROM tho presidency Of tho fo insur'
anco company TO save H. said
"Wo visited all Of the leading music
halls IN this country, All OF the biz
Audltoriuma IN which music N heard,
FliNl ~ ulli WV bl'hN lNN'l NN'N ~
your city engaged our attention, We
liked Il Immensely but II was too larg9
for nv, we listened to your organ and
determined 20 duplicate II 10 far as
possible We have done no. but mind
YOU | do not claim that II Nv the equal
of that wonderful instrument for IN
my Judgment that must remain unique
and alone for Iona timo 20 como, Flns
ally, aftol inspecting the offerings Of
tho chief cities " the Pacific oonst we
crossed the continent ana wound up IN
Boston, whore the symphony hall Of
that city appealed most 10 W., ThAt
WAS taken nv model which, however,
wns nmplhod upon IN the way OF ndd'
Ink an immense smge-lho largest IN mo
United states ana numerous other nr"
polntmonls
Tho building IN as nrcproof M human
lngonuity can mako H. of NroolNh arr
ohltecturc, and every Inodofl me
proyomont that could be suggested IN
Inc way OF convenience ana cnioymont'
lts seating capacity IN 1900, Tho DIV
organ IN ON the extreme loft of tho
stage, occupying u diagonal cornor INTO
which lis mechanism has been pul,
DIsplny pipes, similar ~ thoRo NAV
cover The face Of the instruments FORM
"A bnlanco ON the opposite side, Alp.
eoihor II II n magnificent specimen OF
tho organ building art hnt comphll
SON, always odlous, II not nnoIlglna,
conpes me TO cay that the Tebernaclo
organ u, Salt Lake II still kmg Of lls
Kind. This statement may seem some"
what unnecessary when II Nv known
tina, there wNs no EFFORT 10 make II eN'
eel the great Utah organ except 10 raw
az experience In the oonslruo-
,lon Of each new lnslrumqnt "
cNnocted To add ils quota towards
posslblc Improvement II ahou q be
remembered that the auditorium bnlld-
ora had TO consider the fncl MAJ lhey
worc "croctng a compromised between
"A music hall and great thoaior, Re-
ing the lattor M wen, the organ, large