Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints's Millennial Star, Vol. 67: April 13, 1905The dance, likewise, has been utilized as a means of popular education. The Teachers' association was opened with a ball, in which the newer dances predominated. The people are all dancers, and all enjoy entertainments of this kind.A drive through the streets of Salt Lake City will reveal evidences of public spirit and private enterprise which would be creditable to a capital city many times its size. There is no state house as yet, but the city and county building, which answers the purpose of one, is among the finest in America. The vast Temple, of white stone, is unique in design among the religious edifices of the world. Since its dedication, no Gentile has ever crossed its portals. The imagination may picture its rich curtains and its symbolical decorations, but its mysteries are destined to remain a sealed book to the general public.The Tabernacle, it is claimed, will comfortably seat ten thousand people. Its organ is believed to be the largest and best in the world. Its unpaid choir numbers from three hundred to six hundred. The vast auditorium can be cleared almost instantaneously, since the sides are simply great rows of doors, all ready to open. The acoustic properties of the vast chamber are wonderful. From one end you can hear a pin drop at the other end. A whisper can be heard without effort throughout the length of the building.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.