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Show Ii CITY IHr PURCHASE r. All. G. A. BUILDIi I J. Negotiations Are on and May Be Concluded Within the Next Few Days. GOOD TERMS OFFERED Building Would Be Used as Police and Health Department Depart-ment Headquarters. Negotiations for tho purchase of the j Y. SL C. A. building by Salt Lake City j are on in earnest, and according to 1 members of tbo city commission tho building mil be acquired within tho near future if menns of baudling the financial end of the dcal'cau be found A and other arrangements consummated. , I purchased, tho building- will bo converted into a combination police and health department he.adcjuartcrs, and will be fitted with a modern emergency hospital. Tim tfttfTrrncf inn Mini t li r imIv 1:lkr t.hn II building at its own prico was made to Y i he city by "W, W. Armstrong, presi dent of tho Y. 2J, C. A board of di-j di-j rectors, who, as a private citizen, told I tho commission that tho association had become so involved that it must get out of its present quurters and mako a now start on a smaller scale. By "its own price'5 Mr. Armstrong inferred that if tho city would meet the indebtedness in-debtedness now "hanging over tho association, asso-ciation, amounting to $S5.000, it might acquire the proportv, which is allied at .250.000, including the building and grounds. Executive Board's View. But. according to members of the executive board of the Y. M. C. A., tho oll'cr or suggestion of sale of the property prop-erty to tho citv was without authority from the board. That body also said, in an oflirial statement last night, that I ' no price had been placed on tho prop erty other than the $150,000 proposal made to tho Elks, which proposal that v lodge has under consideration until Thursdav, when a meeting is to bo held. The statement mado bv tho board last night was due to tho fact that the story of the proposed, transaction as outlined in tho afternoon papers had , placed Mr. Armstrong in the position of speaking officially as the president of the Y. M. C. A. Mr. Armstrong last night paid, that Ms talk with tho commission had been 1 confidential and was onl;v in the nature of advice to the commissioners. Ilia meeting with tho commission was held last Friday afternoon and immediately affer the mooting ho tendered his resignation res-ignation as the president of the association. asso-ciation. Troubles Are Detailed. Tn making the oft'er, Mr. Armstrong detailed the financial troubles of the association. He declared it had been badly mismanaged and that SO cents in overy $1 spent had been wastod. He made no charges of wrongdoing on the part of those conducting tho association, asso-ciation, but said that a deplorable lack of efficiency had characterized tho administration, ad-ministration, of the finances. f To avo tho association from utter collapse, he said, tho building should be evacuated and' smaller quarters secured. iSalt Lake City fdioula have first rc-,L rc-,L fusal of the building, he said, because tho people of Salt Lake contributed tho money with vhich it was built, and have contributed most of the money to keep it. going ever since. Tie explained that in three year?, , since the first debt had been paid ofl the association had' run behind $15,000; that a $150,000 mortgago is still hanging hang-ing over the building and that an old ( doTit amounting to $10,000 is yet to be , naidw By mooting these obligations the citv might acquire the building. Mr. Armstrong intimated that, even if the city would: arrange lo take care of tho .$110,000 mortgago the directors K might take care of the other debts. |