Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18
GREAT PAINTINGS
IN UNION STATION
AlIegorical Representations Are
Awakening Admiration
OF All BeholderS.
TWO EPOCH MAKING SCENES
Arrival OF Utah Pioneers Depicted Ill
One Panel, and Driving the Last
Spike In the Second.

The frescoeing of the great waiting
room of the Union passenger station
of the Hartman lines in this city was
completed Friday morning, and the
scafrolding is being cleared away
Architect D. ]. Patterson and Artist
A. c. Wocker, the decorating dlrcctor'
both of San Francisco were busy In the
afternoon. explaining the merits of the
work to scores of admirers. or course
the central attraction is the allegori-
cal pafnting on the 17X47 foot SEMI
circular panels over the end walls
representing the pioneers entering tne
valley of the Great Salt Lake, and the
replica OF Hill's famous painting OF
"Driving the Last Spike" In tne
former, President Brigham Young ls
standing at the head of the cmiSrant
train upon reaching Salt Lake valley
and striking his stan to earth he points
out the future home OF his people Be
side him stand Orson Pratt, Heber Z.
Kimball and Lorenzo Snow while
looking out from the wagon are WI,
ford Woodruff, Daniel Spencer ana
Bishop lockwood. with Bishop Atwood
riding up on a pony. The entrance TO
Emigration canyon looms up in the
background. while grouped at either
hand are the tired band of pioneers
with their equally worn. OK teams
DRIVING LAST SPIKE.
In the other painting. Governor
Stanford stands sturdily with sledge
hammer uplIfted, about to drive In the
last spike that Joined the rail- ends OF
two continental railroad systems at
Promontory Point, Utah. Grouped on
either side are Coils p. Huntington,
Mark Hopkins, Sidney Dillon, Charles
Crocker and OakeS Ames, all historic
characters in American railroading.
PAINTED BY MoUARRIE,,
The actual painting Of these pictures
was done by John McQuarrie of san
Francisco, under the immediate super
vision of A. c. Wocker while Archi-
tect d. j. Patterson devised the gener-
al plan of the entire intramural decor
alton at the station, as particularly nit
ting and appropriate to this locality
He has blended the ideas of commerce
and art in a manner that unloosened
the purse strings Of the heads of the
road, through Mr.. Krutschnitt. and the
$4,000 expenditure represented In these
decorations Is considered money we'll
spent
HANDSOME DECORATIONS.
The general decoration is after the
French renaissance. beautifully work
ed out, embracing in the designs on the
arched ceilings. the local emblems of
the sego lily and the bee hive. The
main tints are In a chaste light olive
drab with the figure work in white.
while on panel arches are delicate
acanthus figure work in Illuminated
bronze tints with raised borders in
oak leaf work. Tho ornamental Sky
lights in the ceiling centers are sur
rounded with heavy oak leaf work in
relief plaster, The vestibules are in
dark umbers, with light ochre ceiling
Everything about the entire ensemble
Is of the highest order of decorative
art, with the choicest of colorlngs.
COLORED WINDOWS.
The colored glass windows. 6X10 feet
in the upper west wall excited general
admiration as the afternoon sun shone
strongly through. displaying to the best
advantage. the ore sampling works
the old stage coach. the train passing
over the Lucin Cutoff, the pony eX'
press and the American bison Archi-
tect Patterson and Mr.. Wocker are
much gratifed at the artistically sue
| cessful carrying out of this novel con-
| ception. the whole progress of loca
| civilization IS so well marked out here
| in artistic epitome and synopsis