"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 .. . gate, theBureau of Information, another granite build-ing beside the same gateway and last but byno means least the great Tabernacle, one ofthe most noted buildings in the world. ThisTabernacle is surmounted by a dome-shapedroof 250 feet in length, erected without postor pillar. The building seats peopleand here are held the general meetings of the EMERY-HOLMES APARTMENTS ANDEAGLE GATE. Mormon Church and its semi-annual
"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 .. . gate, theBureau of Information, another granite build-ing beside the same gateway and last but byno means least the great Tabernacle, one ofthe most noted buildings in the world. ThisTabernacle is surmounted by a dome-shapedroof 250 feet in length, erected without postor pillar. The building seats peopleand here are held the general meetings of the EMERY-HOLMES APARTMENTS ANDEAGLE GATE. Mormon Church and its semi-annual con-ferences. The acoustics of the Tabernacleis remarkable, so faint a sound as the fall-ing of a pin being heard at a distance of 250feet. Within the Tabernacle is one of thegreatest pipe organs in the world and thefinest in cost and tone. Its organist, Mr. J. , is a native of Utah, and his accom-paniments lead a choir of 600 voices directedbv Evan Stevens. This choir received thesecond prize at Chicagos Worlds Fair, butwas defeated by a body of singers which wasnot regularly organized but selected for theoccasion. Besides, there is a Juvenile choir. of 1500 voices. At the Tabernacle have ap-peared such artists as Gilmore, Patti, Juch,Thomas, Sousa, Melba, Nordica and manyothers who all unite in stating this to be themost wonderful building, from an acoustic Ex-Senator Thomas Wier.
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