"Seeing Salt Lake City" being an illustrated description of a tour through Salt Lake City on the observation cars of the American Sight-Seeing Car and Coach Company .. . passed and likewise the Phillips Con-gregational Chapel. Still another church (Methodist) is encountered as we approach Liberty Park. We are now at the entrance of this historic public playground, the largest in Utah, its lines containing onehundred acres, having been laid out by Brigham Young. There are flower beds, lawns, trees, walks anddrives within its confines. Flowing wells, mountain streams, a sylvan lake and dell add
"Seeing Salt Lake City" being an illustrated description of a tour through Salt Lake City on the observation cars of the American Sight-Seeing Car and Coach Company .. . passed and likewise the Phillips Con-gregational Chapel. Still another church (Methodist) is encountered as we approach Liberty Park. We are now at the entrance of this historic public playground, the largest in Utah, its lines containing onehundred acres, having been laid out by Brigham Young. There are flower beds, lawns, trees, walks anddrives within its confines. Flowing wells, mountain streams, a sylvan lake and dell add to the parksbeauties. Near the center is a great adobe building, the first flour mill in Utah, erected by Brigham Youngin 1852, and lately restored and preserved as a land-mark by the city council. Nearby the park there willbe pointed out a plain two-story adobe dwelling surrounded by a pretty lawn and shaded by poplars andcottonwoods. This is the birthplace of Maude , whose name is a household word in every English-speaking country of the world. That CITY AND COUNTY BUILDING, SALT LAKE Handsomest Public Building In the Inter-Mountain Country. --^.. towering three-story building in thedistance is the Hamilton school, an-other example of the perfection ofUtahs educational system. If you will look to the east as thecar turns you will see a broad breakamong the foothills of the Wasatch;there is the opening of emigrationcanyon through which the pioneersunder Brigham Young first enteredthe Salt Lake Valley in 1847. Atthe summit of the foothills there,the carriage containing the great The New Federal Building. Salt Lake City.
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