Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-05-24 | Page 6 | Y.M.C.A. Building

Y. M. C. A. BUILDING. Interviews in The Tribune of yesterday yester-day indicate that there is a consensus of opinion in favor of the city's buying the Y. 31. C. A. building, as headquarters head-quarters for the police and health departments. de-partments. Tt is agreed in official circles that the city needs a new- police station and that the work of the health department could be promoted more efficiently ef-ficiently in more ample quarters. As is remarked by many of those interviewed, in-terviewed, the Y. M. C. A. property is ideallv located for a police station. It is at the southeast corner of State and First South streets and directly adjoins the present police headquarters, which are shabby, inadequate and somewhat insanitary. , The property is offered to the city for $150,000. Real estate men appear to be agreed that this is a very moderate price, and some of them say it is far below the real value- An additional ad-ditional expenditure of a few thousand dollars will transform the building into fully-equipped quarters for the police aud health departments. One of the features of the building will be an emergency hospital, which would have the doubie advantage of being connected with both the health ' and police departments and of being centrally "located. E. ,7. Milne, secretary of the state juveDile court commission, points out that such a building would also afford accommodations for the night work of the juvenile court. At present when toe juvenile court oilicials take girli and boys into custody at night they have nowhere to place tbem except the poli.-e station. Secretary Milne declares de-clares that this practice is fatal to the " real aim of the court, which is to keep its wards as far away from the criminal crim-inal atmosphere as possible. In the commodious Y. M. 1 '. A. building this ob.ie-.-t could be achieve 1 without difficulty. diffi-culty. Dr. Samuel C. I'aui, city health commissioner, com-missioner, insists that the city mint have a better police station and room for a more adequate emergency hospital, hos-pital, and he believes the beslth department de-partment could nor!; to better advantage ad-vantage io bigger q;iarte:3. Sheriff Smith points out that bv putting put-ting the police department in the Y. M. (J. A. building the present police quarters could be transferred to the. tire department, giving that department a much-needed chance for expansion. In vieu- of the many obvious advantages ad-vantages advocated by the men and i Tornen interviewer!, it would the. part of wi'dom for the cit;- to wm.t the reaionsble offer of the' Y-. M. A.