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Show A ililMLIM The rfifrrga!lonaIIt4 Will Expend $.100,000 on ao Institution la Salt Lake. HAMMOND HALL TO B BIPLACED. After Dearer, Kansas City and OmaU Had Been Rejected EUlt lake t wis Selected. The Tt mm this afternoon has a plea Ingduty to perform. It Is the announce, incut tlmt in tho near future, nearer, perhaps, than mt people would think, tho CVngregstlnn.il society of $H Lata City will civet a college which will U second to none in Ihs United Stato, slid ill cvst at leant (.100,000 to It gia with. For a long time the society lu this city and the country at large hate been of the opluiua tht the went should Iweau Institution of this kind aud the a,uetiou at ! location loca-tion has Wen dlscuwd at great leuglb. The advantage of Omaha. Kansas City aud Denver were carefully coceidered and found wanting. According to tbe distribution of population la the wert It was divided that at tho pn-ent tlnja all of three clllna are too far east. Salt Luke was decided t be the point bet adapted at present, although In lime the Missouri rirr valley may obtain a ' like Institution. When thu concluno mentioned men-tioned had Iwen arrived al actire preparations prep-arations were l once made, sod after the next meeting It I safe to asaert that work will U begun at ooee. In ti'cl an srchlteet l now designing the plana The society lu a school, lUmmnnd't Hall, In this city now, which Is Ineaicd on Kant Third ' South. The ilo is large cue and i ample for tho inirpote nwded, bclaf one of the finest location In the city. Here will be erected the three bulldioi w hlcti will form the college. They wyl be elegant, to say tho Je.i. The "body of each 111 be of Kyune taQdjtoo trimmed with gray thistle rock- Tke malu building will 1 four stories In t height, with a fronU.e of SW feet, and will be Ht fm t deep, the other two wjjl I be smaller, of cnune, and the dimension dimen-sion of the latter as yet are not decided upon. t TueeiicJrly has determined that la view of the fact that the public schools In Salt Lake will soon he superior t Hammond's Hall; that It shall be replaced re-placed by the ow Institution where, In i stead of a preparatory course, the students' stu-dents' rducatlon will be completed. Tk college, h born stated, will)) tre end to hrtne In tbe rotiotry. It will be 1o Salt Lake what the college at Ober-liu. Ober-liu. Ohio. I at present to that place. la fact, the deigu of the projector Is to make It the equal of Amherst. The capacity t first will be limited to fonr hundred Mudi'tit. - |