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Show HARRIMAN UNIVERSITY Fl UTAH Short Line Officials ThTnii State Should Have Pro. posed Institution,' - NOT CERTAIN THAT ONE IS PLANNED Widow of Railway King Refuses to Affirm or Deny Report (By Associated Press.) NEW, YORK, Hay 27. Mr. Edward B. Rarrinaa deolin-d today either tc affirm or deny a report' that aha would oaa a Urge part af tha miUloni left bj har husband to found great uniyer. Ht IB the west Other memWlbf thl family were equally reticent., aayini all information would hare to coma from Mra, Harrlman herself. Mrs. Harriman ia one of the world's richest women and it is said that fur some time she has been lookiug about for means of disbursing her great fur-tune fur-tune is a manner that would best perpetuate per-petuate her husband s Dime. Her intention in-tention is to found an institution xor general education. The location,, it is said, is not selected but the founder is supposed to favor the Pacific coast. Wyhile lacking any official informs tiou that Mrs. K. H. Harriman, widow of the late railroad king is about to establish a great untversitv in she west, W. H. Bancroft, ' vice president and frenersl manager, and Parley L. W ilia il-ia ms, general counsel, for the Oregon Short Line, said today that they planned to do all In their power to bring such an institution, if one is planned, to Salt Lake City or to I tali, at least. California Crowded Now. Mr. Bancroft said today: . , "I am for bait Lake City and t'tab first, last and all the time. While 1 know nothing of the matter exreut from newspaper reports you may be as aured that if 1 have any influence it will be to the end that Halt Lake City or at least some place in Utah get the university. California ie well supplied with institutions of learning and if it ia the intention of Mrs.. Harriman tu build a monument of educationto the memory of her late husband. I believe that it should be built in Utah." Mr. Williams declared- "I eipeet to send a telegram thia afternoon af-ternoon to Judge Robert 8. Lovett. chairman of the executive committee of all the Harriman linea; thia will he followed by a letter- in which 1 will urge that if there-is any truth in tbe story, that the claims of Utah, with her advantages, he presented to -Mra. Harriman Har-riman aa the ideal place for such a university. The many beautiful aitee that couid be secured near this or some of tbe other cities of this state, together to-gether with tha almost perfect climate aqd the advantages which would come to those attending such a school make Utah an ideal place for such a university univer-sity as ia proposed in the dispatch. During his lifetime Mr. Harriman showed his repeated faith tn Utah and in Salt Lake City. He spent millions in improving the mada over which he had control as well as on the local street railway system. During one of his visits to Bait Lake City, a Tew months before his death, Mr. Harriman said that this Zion was destined to become one of 'the greatest cities between be-tween Chicago and the cosst. His absolute abso-lute faith in this city and its future leads many' to believe that Mrs. Harriman Harri-man will select this city as tha aita for the great university, f |