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Show i PBBGRESS BUILDiGJOLLEUE Westminster Is Receiving Generous Gen-erous Assistance From Many Persons in East. MRS. FERRY'S GIFT FOR YOUNG LADIES' DORMITORY College Is Only Protestant Non-Mormon One in This Region. Westminster College, cornering on Thirteenth East and Eleventh South, has twenty acres of land beautifully situated situat-ed for college purposes. During the last year tho Administration building has been constructed and has been named Convorse Hall, In honor of John II. Converse, Con-verse, LL.' D., of Philadelphia, who was the largest donor, having given 320,000 toward Its construction. The building has cost $37,500, without furnishings, nnd Is about completed. It Is a very substantial sub-stantial structure and prcsonts si very Imposing appearance. The college Is In-dobted In-dobted to others beside Mr. Converse, and the names of some of tho large givers giv-ers follow: Mr. L. H. Severance. Cleveland, Ohio. $2,500; Dr. D. Stuart Dodge. New York, $1,000; Mr. D B. Gamble, Cincinnati, $1000, Mrs. T. B. Blackstono. Chicago, $1000; Mrs. Emma J. Harbison. Pittsburg. Pitts-burg. $1000; Miss Grace Dodge and mother. moth-er. New York. $1000; Mr. John Wick. mand. but all l to bo conducted under Christian, not nectarian, influoncon. Thin Institution will provo to be an attraction attrac-tion to the beat, possible olnas of people Indeed, unless this region has such an institution many of the most deairable citizens will pass It by and settle elsewhere. else-where. Reasons for Patronage. Thoro arc roasons why studonts should be attracted hero from oven the far Eunt, among them the most charming climate, purest water, attractive scenery, splendid splen-did vegetables, fruits, and oods of ovory kind. The reason why this climate Is more dealrablo than even that of California Cali-fornia Is because it Is free from extremes and yet sufficient difference of season to prevent monotony. Tho altitude is not high enough to bo unfovorablo to tho heart, and yet In high enough to bo favorable fa-vorable to weak lunga. But. Converse hall Is only ono factor In the educational plant. Though It can be completed without debt, li cannot bo used until dormitories are built. Mrs, Wm. M. Ferry of Park City, whoso husband hus-band gave tho twenty-acre site, has proposed pro-posed to give $15,000 towards a resldonce for young womon, provided others will glvo $10,000. President and Mia. Stevenson Stev-enson have spent nlno months in tho East, In the Interests of the college, and have mot with some measure of success, $7200 having been secured toward tho $10,000 necessary to lnnuro Mis. Ferry's gift. Tho $2800 yet to be secured would permit tho collego to begin the construction construc-tion of another building. Tho names of some givers are: Mrs. T. B. Blnckstone. Chicago. $1200; Mra. B. F. Jones. Pittsburg, $500. Mrs, Nettle McCormlck, Chicago. $500; MIsb Grace Dodge. New York, $500; Mrs. Eleanor El-eanor Maglll, Clinton, III., $300; Mrs. Darwin R. James, Now York. $250; Miss C. Wlllard, Auburn. New York. $250; Mrs. Louisa Boyd, Harrlsburg. Pa., $200, Mrs. Julia M. Turner, Philadelphia, $200. The first cash gift for tho proposed woman's building was $5, given by nn Invalid In-valid in Wilmington, Del., Miss Agnes Dowcns. Mrs. Charles Alexander of Now York has given $250 toward a heating plant There havo bean a multitude- of small givers to the woman's building. Provision Is made for a dormitory for boys and young men to cost $31,000, and provision Is made to tho extent of $9275 toward a heating plant. For tho most part, thus far, what has been done Is a gift to Salt Lake City. There are throo pressing necessities. First, provide $2000 to be used on current cur-rent expense; second, make it possible to claim tho $15,000 of Mrs. Ferry by ' ;-r.-; y; "y..; v.--y Sr!? ADMINISTRATION BUILDING- (BOTTOM) AND PROPOSED DORMITORY (TOP) OF NEW WESTMINSTER COLLEGE. Youngstown. Ohio, $500; Ttev.- W. M. Smith, D. Di.-New York, $250. Tho college has the gratitude for the muny smaller gifts, and that gratitude has been expressed to the givers personally. per-sonally. This building is a credit to Salt Lake from an architectural point of view, but It Is of more significance as marking the beginning (f a type of education for which there Is ever a grcnter demand. It Is tho design as soon as possible to give young people here not only classical classi-cal and literary advantages, but courses In electrical and mining engineering and such other courses as may be in de- niakh'S up the $2S0O lacking; third, give $t000 so that as good a dormitory for girls as for boys may be had. While the people of tho East have boon very generous, the question is asked frequently, fre-quently, "What is being done for this lv. V3 hakQ clt and other parts of Utah?" Salt Lake City Is at tho center cen-ter of a region of country that would make nine States as largo as Pennsylvania, Pennsylva-nia, with a poDuIation of at least tlOO.000 yfJSll'. and u ls hQ on,y non-Mormon Protestant college In tho entire region. And non-Mormon people will never be reconciled to sending their young people to Mormon colleges. nan |