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Show PARADE TO FEATURE T CELEBRATION Historic Pageant to Be Held On Third Day of Semi- V4 Centennial "The Heher J. Grant library, the grounds, nnd the approaches, will be ready for the dedicatory services which are to be held on October 10," F. S. Harris, president of Brigham Young university asserts. Fifty men, two or three teams and one or two trucks were busy on the Heber J. Grant library grounds and the walks and roads leading to the library Saturday all day. . AVillvani H. Snell, chief mechanic of the school, had twenty or thirty men laboring with him on' the walks and approaches; J. W. Sauls, assistant superintendent of buildings and grounds, had a number of men working with him on the automatic prepnrntory to planting lawns, nnd severnl contractors were busy with men and teams lnyiug walks, making roads, leveling and doing various other jobs that need doing after a building is completed before its surroundings sur-roundings can be beautified. The rond lending to University hill is to be a boulevard all the way up. Men nnd tenins are grading nnd leveling the upper part of the road until it will be as f me as the lower part which was finished this spring and Inst fall. The road .wjll, be widened and the final stretch lend-j ing to the top of the li i 11 - will be much improved. These roads will be ready for service in time for the grand semi-centennial which is to lie held for three days, October 15, 10 and 17. The debris around the building Is rapidly disappearing nnd (he ground is being leveled for walks and lawns. Two sets of steps leading from the new cement, walk that has been extended from the old walk to in front of the library were being finished fin-ished Saturday. These steps will lead up on to a level landing in front of the library from which a wide flight of steps lends up to the librnry door. . ' A new road is being constructed around in front of the library: It will pass the library door and lead around in front of the Maeser Mem- Oriltl MIIIIIIIIK lU U- I'UIIIL II, fl magnificent panorama of Utah valley val-ley and Provo city may be seen. The space betwen the library nnd the Maeser Memorial building nnd the mechanic arts building wns furrowed fur-rowed Saturday with trenches along which pipes were lying in readiness to be buried to form the automatic sprinkling system as rapidly as the workmen get to them. The new set of steps which form an approach from the tops of Third steps were finished last week. They will form n hautiful npproaeh to University hill from the eastern section sec-tion of the city. When' the hillside beside the steps is parked this approach ap-proach will be among the beautiful landscape offects in tile city. Men were also busy tearing up and raking off tho summer's acenm-'ulation acenm-'ulation of weeds from tho hill side by the stops and below the road. University bill will present n well- |