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Show ARMORY DRIVE IS PROGRESSING Favorable Responses Being Made By Businessmen 0: City The Sin mm fund which will bring to igden a magnificent armory bulld-Ir.gi bulld-Ir.gi is assured if th? present ilrlve continues as satisfactorily as during the pa:u week, according lo Mayor Frank FYancU Murines.') men of the clty have shown keep desire lo bring the building 10 Kdr,, Mayor Francis Fran-cis said, and so far every man ap-I ap-I proaclied lias contributed ihe amount I set opposite his name on the i;s: Practically one-half f the entire n'nnuni ha: now been pledged. It was said this mornlntr. and Still many pros- pects ii'inain. who niivi not been visited visit-ed by the drive committc members Avsurance that the $10,000 total Will be gained within :h" week, providing the business men continue to contribute contrib-ute as during the past few days WS had todav li was sahl 1 .i iyor Franols state, jhal the men of thr city are beginning In i.i".i. and understand the ah:e of such 1 structure uu ho city, and are now determined' de-termined' to pur. the drive through to success, " ' - The proposed armory will ie con- j structed b the state at .1 imal cost1 of more than 1 00,000. In n the itructure is oomph ted. the government govern-ment win ciiuip and furnish the building build-ing with expenditures approximating 2oO,ni)0 In future years the government govern-ment will maintain the structure and' cquipinenl whollj with government funds, and It is believed lhat the monf; now being contributed by merchants mer-chants will he returned within a few yearu. An auditorium which will scat 2,-000 2,-000 person:- will le Included hi the armorv building and will bo ai the dispo.l of th- city or any oranlza-lions oranlza-lions for meeting purposes. A swimming swim-ming pool and gymnasium will also be' maintain' ,i feu meinr. i . nf the national na-tional guard in order to iring the building to! 'gden it is hut necessary 'hat the, building site be pruvlncd and this amount Is now being raised The, ground will cost $10. 000 and is situ-1 nted on Twenty-third street, just east of Washington avenue. |