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Show OPEN DRIVE FOR ARMGRY FUNDS iCampaion to Re Brought to Close Saturday: $15,000 I Is Wanted This morning marked the opening of the campaign to gain a fund of $ 1". 000 as Oguen's portion to insure the erection of an armory here. More .than forty members of a committee, working from the Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, and directed by Albei t B Foulger, Foul-ger, began a thorough canvass of the icily which will end Saturday night. "By that time we will know whether the armory can become a reality or Whether Ogden will turn down th opportunity op-portunity of h:iving this magnificent building constructed hero' Mr. Koul-gi Koul-gi i ,,, today. "If the campaign! tails i ' nl moan that some other Utah city may obtain the structure and the ef.li ol the huge expenditures which Will be made by the government In equipping and maintaining it." BENEFIT TO OGDElt. "However," Mr. Foulger continued. I I "we Aif optimistic over the present Indications ad wo will go down fighting, fight-ing, if tnls Is necc3sary. The business men of Ogden are now bogtnnlng toj I realise what immense advantages wllli Icome from the erection of il.o armory! i ere gden"B stune 13 simply to provide pro-vide the grounct, then the state will' spend more than $100, ono in erecting the building and the government will equip It at a cofet of more than 5-60,- ; oum and will maintain it entirely ti.rough government funds. ' The i.. iii nioiy will be two stories with a busemeiit Ground has been delected on Twenty-third ftrtet, east of Washington avenue The site Is 166 teet wide and 264 feet deep. The, r.iuln floor will be for armory and gen- i Urn. social purposes, containing off ices, I llobbj and headquarters rooms. The I second or lop floor will be used as an auditorium ior public gatherings and! I will have a seating capacity or L'000 j I pr i sons. The building will be of con-crete con-crete iloors and walls with steel roof trusses. club features will be Included In-cluded In the building that will stimulate stimu-late membership and provide a home 'tor the guard members. A swimming pool a:nl gymnasium will be provided in addition to many other features " I J Mayor Frank Francis today called! attention to the great advantages which would conic In bringing the ar-mory ar-mory herv lie declared that If Ogden Og-den is to have the armory building the ltlz,-ns Ninml must pro idi th- sii i which can be purchrined immediately it the sum Is pledged before Saturday. It would mean n great loss to Ogden I if the plans have to be given up through lack of support in gaining the !fund. GET MONEY BACK. If the business men of ogden will come torward with their share tor tho building, he said that the expenditures made hero in later years by the government gov-ernment in maintaining would bring 'a much larger return and in addition Ogden would have building of which It could be proud, one of the great assits will be in the huge auditorium Which will be open for use at any time i for public gatherings The committee members this morn-Ing morn-Ing started out with firm belief that .they would be able to announce at the impletlon or thi drive that the total Ifund has been subscribed They will j devote their entire time to the drive during th' four days. Mr, Foulger" said i this morning that lie hoped to an-ir.our.ee an-ir.our.ee tomorrow that $5000 of the I tend had already been won. oo |