White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-09-24

message:
MAX Florence, .iotel Imperial,
New York: The law regards the re-
ceiver and traficker in stolen goods
on a par with the thieves. This on
my personal responsibility. Signed,
c. H. W.
II sent a service message to Salt
Lake asking who C. H. w. was, but
| could not find out"
During his talk with the reporters
Mr.. Florence insisted that the Hotel
Imperial house detective should re-
main in the room.
The Deseret News treats the mat
ter lightly and after reproducing the
letter written by Mr.. Florence to
President Smith and the latters's re-
ply in which he stated hat he would
not deal with thieves, it says that the
letter received by President Smith
has created no sensation among the
church officials. The sentiment ex-
pressed by him was n of disgust
and utter indifference to the propo-
sition of Mr.. Florence.
Furthermore President Joseph F.
Smith said there is no speculation as
to how the pictures we're obtained so
far as the members of the First Presi-
dency are concerned as they have a
very good idea as to just how they
were procured.
The Deseret News then ridicules
the statement that the interior of the
temple is a guarded secret and de-
votes several pages to the %reproduc-
ton of photographs of statuary and
furnishings of the temple, with the
following description of the interior:
THE romeo idea that none
but members of the church have ever
been admitted to the temple is fallacy.
1t will be remembered that on April
5, 1898, when the temple was COM
pleted in all essential respects, over
six hundred 'non-MormonB' residents
of Salt Lake City accepted an invita-
ton extended to them, by the presi-
dency of the church, entered the
temple and freely examined every
portion of the interior. These per-
sons included clergymen of all the
denominations represented in Salt
Lake, professional men, bankers,
merchants, judges, and federal Off
cials, with their wives, sons and
daughters. Qualified attendants es-
corted those visitors through the
various room in the temple, from
basement to roof, answered inquiries,
and gave every one ample opportuni-
ty to see all they desired.
Church Distributes Description.
That the decorations and arrange
ments of the rooms on the interior
of the temple is no secret, is verified
in a little booklet entitled The Great
Temple as we'll as the outside of the
building, and is distributed by the
thousands to the visitors at the bu-
reau of information on the tabernacle
grounds. The outside of the temple
may be seen by anyone, the inside is
thus described by the booklet:
Interior Of the Temple.
"A wide and lofty corridor extends
the entire width of the basement, in
the center of the building, from north
to south. At the south end of this
corridor is a handsome staircase, the
posts, rails. and wainscoting of which
are solid, polished cherry wood. The
various rooms of the basement are
reached from the corridor. Spacious
bath and dressing rooms for men
only, are located along the north
west side. Similar rooms for women
only, are on southwest side. Inter-
vening, and entirely separating these
two sets of rooms, is the magnificent
baptfsmal font room of the temple;'
81 feet long by 30 feet wide.
BaptismaI Font.
1.-The distinctive feature of this
room is the font itself. In some
respects it resembles the molten sea-
of Solomon's temple, described in
l Kings, vii 23 to 20. This in the
Salt Lake temple is, probably, equal
ly beautiful. 1t is cast iron, ellipti-
cal in form, and of ample dimen-
sions in length, width, and depth to
contain an abundant supply of water
in which the officiating elder can sub
merge the individual who acts as
proxy in the ordinance of baptism
for the dead. 1t rests upon the
backs of twelve life-size, iron, bronz-
ed oxen, which stand in an excavated
depression about three feet below the
level of the floor, in the center of the
room. There is a flight of iron steps