The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-12
Due to Americans.


/ Modern building. Like they do Il In other
Americanizcd cities.
Due to Americans.
done this In the ola days do vou? Don't
suppose that had the hierarchy continued
tI,S 70 aominatG ,1i. the The sovenment Of Salt Lake
w wunis would have occurred? Well 1 should
say not. That outfit Is opposed TO steel
construction or anything else that is mod
ern And while | am talking about this
iet .s me ask you a question. Is there any
thlng modern In the locality controlled hy
NE hierarchy except electric light? Has
that Organization ever adopted anything
modern Has II ever done anything that
was not leased upon bestialty and the
slavery OF women unless there was a dol
Iar In sight or the regular ten per cent
rake e-olt for The benefit of Joe? Not on
your HE. But. pshaw, we were not talk
ing Of the hierarchy, we were taking
dieressed
you recall, and You have been here many
years. addressing The Stroller. II sav,
can you recall any public Improvement.
any modern Ideas adopted by the hier-
has shown any tendency toward Twen-
tieth Centur yideas. unless the 10 per
cent ral<e-oh was in sight? You bet your
life. YOU can't.
But as I was saving, steel construc
ton is sreat thing And speaking of
steer, how few people have an idea OF
%hat steel is You don't know yourself.
do YOU? Well the old term steel referred
10 the cast maleabie product of iron and
so much carbon from 2 10 II per cert 7
am not going into scientific discourse
upon steel but want you to know that
steel is compound of iron which has
been cast from fluid state into a nallaa-
bic mass. The terms pot. or 'crucibla
or open hearth, or 'Bessemer.' are con-
Venient for distinguishing processes OF
manufacture. but they 90 not necsssar-
ily distinguish between steels which differ
either chemically or mechanically
Displaced Puddled Iron
"Bessemer steel you understand has
practically displaced puddled iron The
intend TO deliver n lecture upon steel
This metal has caused n revolution in
building construction in the country Tt
has enabled contractors like me 10 build
buildings like the new Singer building in
New York, which has forty four stories
and is $50 feet high. 1t has enabled con-
tractors to build other ssyscrapers
steel In modern sYlSCraper has taken
the place Of mortar in primary impor-
tance. II is In reality the skeleton of the
building, upon which everything rests. In
a twenty -iive-stnry building the wall OF
the whole eighteenth floor could be
ripped out. leaving 1t open a a sIIr1-
mer house, and Vet the rest OF the build
ing. both above and below. would he un-
impaired. II Is no longer a matter ot
plins one brick upon another TO the top.
Each floor Is independent. 4 nanee OF
steel runs out bordering the framework
and corresponding Ia each floor. and upon
this rests rhe brick stone that is re-
Qured for that floor.
bur why should ] continue? Steel Is
the structural material Get the founda-
tion. Co down 10 bedrock. and YOU can
go as high as YOU want. one TO flve miles
although rents In u building Ave miles
high might be like the struciure-too high
for an ordinary tenant, But here | am
far away from what we began talking
about
Weight of Sky Scrapers,
Now have YOU any idea what an or
dnary skyscraper will weigh? No;
knew YOU had not. An average citizen
care. The building Is there. II will shell
ter hundreds Of people. but the average.
the ordinary citizen, asks no questions
about It,
There are 10 900 people in salt Lake.
some say 100 600. but | am conservative.
Now, suppose each one OF those 1000
persons weighed 10 pounds each. high
estimate | believe. the aggregate would
he ) $50. 600 pounds. II these citizens were
loaded with cars say say 100 m o to the ,nS car II
26 trains OF 30 cars each. Big figures.
arc they not?
''In the three buildings mentioned ten
million pounds of steel VIII be used. or
almost double the amount In weight OF
the entire population of Salt alike And
these are figures that cannot be contro-
on one end of Tho scales and they would
cnly weigh naf as much as the steel IN
the great sky scrapers now In course Of
construction In Zion.
Appalled, by Figures.
"You say you are appalled, OF course
YOU are. So will others he who read your
story, Modorni2ed city. YOU say, Wen,
guess ves. and viii have half a million
people In Il few years. American party
anything TO do with IT? or course it had.
Progress always counts. American party
progress has won. Nothing like II any
where. Best people belong to II. IcaV-
icst taxpayers stand with Americans
Party knows what to do and does 1t, DO
not have 10 await instructions. No. sir,
II the American party was not I'm control
If Salt Lake there would be no steel sky
sCrapers.
But come again. ANY figures YOU want
Will he glad To give. This is greater Salk
Lake, Means steel and tile and reinforced
'oncTste and brick, ModcrniZed Salt
Lake, il you please. Men with money
Ire coming here 10 helm build I, up and
he people who come in to do this don't
pay tithes. S2b4.i