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Show " WEBER GYMNASIUM PLANS TAKE FINAL FORM I - JB- A R A sfl A ' A A .A. -B ' ' -IbH r' ; Gymnasium's Completion By Beginning of School Year Hope of Authorities Following a meeting of the members of the Weber stake, North Weber stake and Ogden slake presidencies, the following announcement on the Weber gymnasium gym-nasium was made: "It is just a year since the authorities au-thorities of the Weber, North Weber and Ogden stakes decided to provide a gymnasium for the Weber college and incidentally for Ogden city and Weber county. The time since then has been spent in securing sites for the structure, originally purchased on Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth street but later on Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth street; in perfecting the title and connecting the sites with the present college property and paying pay-ing for them; in the preparation of plans, altering and re-alterlng them until at a recent meeting of the three slake presidencies the plans were finally approved and arrangements made to begin actual ac-tual construction. "Consideration of the building problems caused a portion of.the delay. The great increase in the cost of mtaerial and labor: the uncertainty. un-certainty. of advantageously securing secur-ing either, or of obtaining faxor- able ontiaag-rW)lfiln.h'ejrnlRg -' :nJ5enTlTEufe fixed Jo r the structure struc-ture and binding contractors to either time or expense limits all of these, with the extremely cold weather and the backward spring caused the presidencies to hesitate hesi-tate and to take tho necessary time for a careful weighing of the problems before them. The general gen-eral sentiment, however, was that the need of tho gymnasium was almost al-most imperative and that the situation sit-uation had to he met. hence, the final vote, to begin construction. "The delay has been of one ad- . vantage. It has given' the people a year longer in which to recovor from the drives of various kinds made necessary by the war and they are now in better shape to meet the obligation Incurred at the first meeting held a year ago. The drive for the funds will now begin In earnest and the various wards of the three stakes will doubtless vie with each other as to which shall be the fii'st to lift the load so genorously assumed by them. "The people in the three slakes aro to raise at least ?100,000. ! . What additional sum may be needed need-ed will be raised by general contributions con-tributions sought by a committee appointed for that purpose, and tho church wjll meet the local contribution, con-tribution, as collected, dollar for dollar. A prospectus, now !n prep- , 'aration, describing the "g'm," glv- j ing a history of its inception, con- i taining illustrations of the ex- I terior of the building and parts of I the interior, announcing the rates that may be adopted and the general gen-eral policy for the conduct of tho institution, will be used during the campaign for funds. "Because of the building problems prob-lems presented, the presidencies adopted tho policy of contracting the various parts of the work through the supervising architects, archi-tects, Messrs. Woods, Jensen and Shreeve. instead of letting a gen-" eral contract, each pprtion of construction con-struction to be contracted only as funds were provided and ready for use. and to procoed no faster with the erection than these funds would allow. They have hopes, . however, that no difficulty shall be encountered in this inciter and . that .UlcbjuikUng witt.iUiYmplel . 'iel in. -tniro toll ibe .jmrfcvschool-3 year. " . t-" T'The architects wi sypervi . the letting of all contract, the purchase ofmaterials.) wl 1 -necessary, and the conslrftctioj. i..the building from excavation to completion, com-pletion, though all contracts'"will be passed upon by the board composed com-posed -of the three stake presidencies presiden-cies and Chairman David 0. McKay. Mc-Kay. "The plans as now adopted provide pro-vide for a building SI by 2-10 feet, set back ten feet from the' property proper-ty line on Twenty-fifth street, built of brick and terra cot la, in pleasing semi-classical lines, in which individual locker space for over two thousand can be provided, provid-ed, with a swimming pool 25 by CO feel, a. large general gymnasium floor, a ball room 7G by 82 feet, which may also be used for a ladies' la-dies' gymnasium, the necessary shower and drying rooms, offices nd cheek rooms, a beautiful and attractive entrance and lobby, full data of which will be given in the prospectus now in preparation and which it is intended to give fairly 1 generous distribution." |