The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-01
Worlds Greatest CoIonnade.


And now the boosters for Utah ma.
terlais are determined to convince the
members of the capitol commission
that the fifty-two pillars should be fur
nlshed IN one instead of eleven pieces
each Each column will be thirty one
teet SIX inches long, three feet eleven
inches In diameter and weigh thirty
tons BY using tho monoliths it is de-
clared that the Utah capitol will have
coIonnade without an equal, the
grandest in the world to date. The
largest colonnade formed of sinale, M
piece columns now in existence is said
to be IN the Peoples Gas {; Trust
building in Chicago. Tt has fifteen
monoliths twenty-five feet long. Tho
Curtis Publishing company is now
erecting building In Philadelphia
which will have sixteen marble mono
hths, each thirty feet long. There is
now building in Vienna, Austria.
that has twelve monoliths, each thirty
The substitution Of the monoliths for
the sectional columns in the capitol
Will mean an additional expense Of ap.
proximately 100000, little over $1,000
per column. Taking the performance
OF other quarTies as a basis, it is esti~
mated that one monolith can be turned
out each week without working double
VI Triple Snl1LSs
In addition to having one Of the
most remaTkable structures in the
world, Utah and its quarries would
have a permanent advertisement un.
paralleled- Both the Manufacturers
Association of Utah and the Salt Lake
council No. l Of the Native Sons of
Utah have adopted resolutions for
presentation TO the capitol commission.
askl1g that monolithic columns of Utah
polished. granite be designated for the
coionnade. And that if, owing to lack
OF runds, hhe monolithic columns can
not be provided at this time the
matter Of columns ba deferred until
such time as sufficient funds can he
provided for them,
one OF the strongest pleas In favor
OF the monoliths from an individuaI
comes from the Rov. Elmer I Goshen
OF the First Congregational church,
His letter follows:
There was once a man who had
a reputation of being the most pro.
Zane man In the community. He
could swear longer and harder than
9nY other citizen. One day he was
toes up the hill that ran lust ont of
the village. AS he was about two
thirds mp tho hill the end gate of the
wagon came out and the potatoes
rolled sowly down the village. Tho
ioafers saw 1t and ran in great
haste TO surround the wagon. OK.
Pectlng to hear the choicest line Of
rhetoric they had ever heard, The
old man got out, saw what had han
Pened, and then as he looked In dis-
may upon the scene, he turned To
Ihe loafers and said: HGcutlemen
am not equal to the OCCASION y
stupendous Task.
/ find myself in precisely tho
eanie SITUATION In regard to tho snb
lect at hand. No man is eouaI IN
the task Of adequately describino
the wonderful opportunity thai -
knocking at the door Of Ctah-an
opportunity for the state to do the
most distinctive thing in all it's
hlstory-a task no less stupendous
than that Of erecting flfty-two mo.
nIohthic columns, thirty-two feet in
length, each column WEIGHING thirtv
IONS, IONS, as an imposing guard about
the magnificent capitol being built
on the hill. 'D'i'
But why should we erect these
columns which will cost much
money, which will involve tho or,
pendlture OF much time, and which
Will perhaps delay the complexion
OF the building7
suppose that the average citi-
zen who first thinks Of this matter
will conclude, as I did. that II in. ]