The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-04-20
COMMENDS TRIBUNE
FOR GOOD SERVICE
Freeman Morningstar Says
Paper Has Helped Wonder
fully in City's Growth.

The following appreciation of The
Tribune 8 efforts to point out, from
time to time, the growth of Salt Lake
comes from Freeman Morningstar Of the
| Tuttle Brothers company;
To the Editor Of The Tribune:
II is with no little appreciation that
[ have read in your valuable paper
especially during the last three months,
the many excellent news items on real
estate and building appearing on three
or four pages donated to such news IN
each Of your Sunday issues.
Unquestionably these items telling the
truth about the rapid strides being
made in the upbuilding Of our city has
certainly not only greatly advanced the
position Of Salt Lake City in the eyes
of the cities in the east and the coast
cities wherever your paper is sent, but
also have greatly encouraged our own
people to see the real strong position
we occupy.
They better appreciate that Salt
Lake City, within the past few months,
has erected and is erecting some of the
most beautiful and ornate business
blocks, sllyscrapers and ten to thirteen
story hotels TO be found anywhere west
ings, twenty stories in height, is the
tallest building west of Chicago, save
one new building in Seattle. They more
keenly realize that the past year has
seen the commencement or completion
of many beautiful and most costly
structures that have been built any
where in the great intermountain west.
Some of them are the several new public
school buildings, the beautiful manual
training school at the west side high
school; those in the south central part
of town and on the north and east
benches.
The $2.0O0,O0O state capitol build
ing will be one of the finest pieces of
Greek architecture to be found in any of
the states. The new east side high school
building, nearly 700 feet in length and
costing almost three-fourths Of mil
lion dollars complete, is causing our
youth to take unusual interest this ex-
cellent addition to our long list of fine
public school buildings. The site, com
prising more than ton acres of land
on the slightly east bench, which affords
beautiful parade grounds for our high
school cadets. is certainly a thing
Of beauty. and will be Joy to our chill
dren and our children g children as the
years pass. The additional buildings at
the Presbyterian Collegiate institution,
the many churches and meeting houses,
the costly central building Of the Uni
versity of Utah. the addition and cha
pel of the Congregational coalege-Row
land hall-the opening Of the beautiful
Judge Mercy hospital on the east
bench and the addition TO the L. D. S.
hospital These are some Of the things
Salt Lake has done. Then there are
beautiful commercial, solid manufactur-
ing and wholesale and bank buildings
going up or have just been completed,
all over the business section and along
the railroads and Mt least four new
beautiful and thoroughly modern the
aters, the Rex, the Empress. the Or
pheum and the New American. now be.
ing completed on Main street, with
seating capacity Of 5000,
And now. with the coming Of the in
tcrurban electric railways. the news of
the progress of which you have so
faithfully chronicled in helpful man
ner. who shall gay that our city shall
not 90 forward more rapidly than at
any other time in her past history9 We
are emulating such cities as Detroit,
Grand Raoids and Flint, Mich; Indian.
anolis. Ind; Dayton and Toledo, O.. all
Of which have practically doubled their
populations in the last few years by
reason of their wonderful network OF
interurban railways radiating from each
Of these brisk commercial eenters
Verify. the day is near at hand when
we NAV boast of our coveted 100000
population.