Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-02

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----' upon this city.
within the west sit six sister cities.
and all of them are fair beyond the
most eXtravagant dreams of their
founders of half century ago or their
builders of decade ago Into the
life of each one came period of
renaissance ten, or five. or two years
ago
This was the time when they woke
up, anG civic life began 10 manifest a
new spirit, while the politician who ran
the town for politics only and the
knocker who had soured upon life and
let his feeling spill over upon his city,
were backed up and Off the map. TO
allow room for the business man who
woke up early and sat UP late TO think
OF good things for the community, and
who slept soundly when he retired at
night because he needed the rest.
Salt Lakers who the of the view
from their office windows have long
had a chance TO run over to salt Lakes
sister beyond The Royal Gorge. or over
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Soon they are to have chance TO
run up to the top of the Newhouse
skyscrapers and see how things look
from that perspective.
That is it is to be hoped they Will
II MI Newhouse should become inn
pressed with a nissionarT's zeal FOR
Salt Lake he couldn't do better thing
than to run an elevator service to the
top of his Boston block and let the
people look down eleven stories TO the
ground and see what town they are
part of
The renaissance Of western cities
harks back To the renaissance of
Florence, and the record of that great
Italian awakening to the humanity of
man is that II rested not upon the
multitude. but upon the few. and that
Its strength was numbered in those
who embraced its opportunities for
bigger things in art and humanity
while all around them were many IN
whom nothing new was known TO he
in the world.
STORY AT A GLANCE,
from the skyscraper view of salt
Lake 1t is easy to see much that Is
new Perhaps the fire clay plant 10 the
southwest has locked to you like a tail
smolIestack emitting cause for com
plant against the smoke nuisance. A
glance from the steel Orders of the
eleventh story shows 1t TO be an ex-
panse Of roofs. not SCOT covered. but
grey with the dust of Utah valley CLAWS
while a smoky horizon away to the
northwest shows where perhaps a
string of freight cars are being pulled
along with cargo of Utah crucibles
and thing for distant Oregon and Ida
no points.
The eyes level taking in the red
roofs. not the bun brick of the uni
versity buildings. the temple spires.
the great church steeples Of South Tenn
pie, the splendid residences that sit
against the sky line of the bench lands.
and the gas tank that has done away
with so many coal hods in Salt Lake
homes, embraces an expanse that would
stir the heart of any Salt Lakcr to
faith in the eity's future as its best as
set.
II Is just little Shy OF 200 feet from
the bottom to the top of tn NeWhousc
block Climbing the distance by mar
row stairs and ladders above the sew
enth floor isn't as restrul an occupation
as sitting below, but when the city
to the southwest begins to appear like n
vast grove of trees each one paying
tribute to the foresight of the pioneers
who tried to make the desert green as
first activity. and when the city and
county building begins to lool, like