Show TITHING BLOCK CHANGES A NEW STREET BEING OPENED PROM MAIN Alterations Being Made in tho Interior I In-terior of th o Lion HouseWOrk on I College Buildings I ExtQns Improvements arc bring r made on Avhat Is known as the Tithing j office block The old Lion house Is undergoIng un-dergoIng a general transformation so I far as the Interior Is concerned Partitions I Par-titions arc being taken out and two looms made into one and portions of i the building that have not been used I for some years past are being made I habitable When the Improvements N I l 1f11e j e It Ground I I 4 L Ifc4 J J I i4 t W II Rods I E olri l Tithing corner 1 I 5 Subdivision of the Block have been completed Bishop Preston and his force of clerk will take offices in the Lion house and also that for n time at least a portion of the building will be occupied by the Latterday Saints college colegc Work on the nejw college building has I not progressed with the speed that It I was thought at first would be had The Lion house howeer will make avery a-very acceptablo substitute until the new school building Is ready There Is also a general transformation transforma-tion going on In the old Tithing yards A fourrod street Is being made from Main street to the Tithing office proper or to the middle of the block This Is being fenced on both side and will to all Intents and purposes be a public thoroughfare For some time past there has been an entrance from the south and alsp from the north of the block to the Tithing once but this has been I very narrow one and has been the source of considerable inconvenience inconveni-ence So it had been decided to widen the alley to four rods thus making it uniform with the new entrance from Malt street The street running north and south will pass close to the rear of the new college buildings This new arrangement shows that the college will have a quarter of a block of ground or an area of 20x20 rods I Is not expected that this entire area will at once be cleared of the old barns blacksmith shops and other buildings now on It but the work will be done proportions gradually I Is a task of no small |