The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-27
University Committee Returns From
Its Eastern Tour.
PREPARING TO BUILD
PLANS WILL BE MADE FOR UTAH
UNIVERSITY.
Fund of Valuable Information Gath
cred By President Kingsbury,
Architect Kletting and Regent
Riter-Inspection of Modern Uni
versity Buildings In the East.

July 1 contractors viii be actively en-
gagged on the construction of the three
new buildings for the University of
Utah on the commanding, slightly mesa
just east of the city, for which purpose
the recent legislature provided a fund
of 100000 Out of this fund the uni
versity regents set apart S1S0,000 for
erection OF buildings, furnishings and
some new equipments, the balance TO
be devoted to Improvement of grounds
and extension of water mains.
Before adopting a general plan of
buildings, their class and location, the
regents concluded TO delegate President
]. T. Kingsbury, Regent w. w. Ritter
and Architect r. kletting to make a
tour of inspection of the university
buildings from Colorado east. For var
ious reasons it was deemed for the best
interests Of the state that the prepar-
ations of plans and specifications
should not be given over to the COM
petition of architects, and the wisdom
of the course pursued has already DEM
onstrated itself to the regents.
Yesterday afternoon President Kings
bury, Architect Kletting and Regent
Ritter returned from their four weeks
tour of inspection. bringing with them
a rich fund of facts and figures per
tanning to university construction and
equipment. From the weil-selected
ideas, illustrations, profiles and meas
urements it will be possible to have
prepared a general plan and set of
recommendations for the erection and
furnishing of Utahs new university
buildings, and when these are adopted
by the regents, detailed plans and
specifications will be drawn on which
TO solicitit bids and award contracts
for materials and labor.
Buildings Inspected.
The visiting committee travelled
nearly 1000 miles through the western,
northern, middle and eastern states.
The three gentlemen received no COM
penSation for their services, and out of
the 81 600 allowed for actual expenses
they brought back 5000. Their inspec-
lions took them to the Cheyenne high
school, the Colorado state university
at Boulder, the Nebraska state uni
versity at Lincoln, the Minneapolis col
lege, the Wisconsin university at Mad
ison, the Chicago university, the Cath
Ole university at Washington, d. C,
the John Hopkins university and the
High school at Baltimore, the UniVer-
sity of Pennsylvania, the Columbia
university and Pratt Institute of man
ual training at New York, the Cornell
university at Ithaca, n. Y. the McGill
university at Montreal, Canada, the
Toronto college, the University of
Michigan, the st. Louis public school
buildings and the Kansas state uni
VerSity at Lawrence.
President Kingsbury had previously
visited all but three of these institu-
tions, and his companions from extern
sive travels were quite at home in
many of the cities visited. They were
the recipients of many courtesies from
the college presidents and professors,
notably President Adams of the Wis
consin university, President Harper of
the Chicago university and President
Peterson of the McGill university at
Montreal
Profit By Experience of Others.
1t was their special mission to study
the materials, styles and kinds of build
ings. heating and ventilating appa-
ratus. arrangement and equipment of
structures, etc. all with the object in
view of learning what modern ideas
should enter into the erection of the
Utah university buildings. OF course
it will be necessary to build within the
limit of means available, but from the
observations made by the visiting COM
mittee and the data secured ii viii now
be possible to adapt TO the present and
immediate future needs of Utah such
plans of eastern university buildings as
were lOuLu 10 poSSeSS lnS SiS1ee9e
merit.
1t is not probable. however, that the
main university building or the library
will be erected for several years to
come. but the necessary auxiliary
buildings. three in number, will be con-
structed without delay.
The committee believes it will be pos
sible TO erect three such buildings that
will compare very faVorably with Colo
u of two --if
buildings. This is saying a great deal,
when it is considered that Utah's
neighbor state has probably twice the
population and double the taxable
wealth.
The university sites at Ithaca, n.
Y, and Madison, Wis., are probably the
most perfect in this country, but the
committee found no other locations
which surpass the site on which the
University of Utah is to be erected.
President Kingsbury stated last even
ing that Architect Kletting had re-
ceived many compliments from Presi-
dent Harper and others for the perfec-
ton of his landscape plat of Utah's
sixty-acre university tract.
Speaking of the trip from an educa-
tional standpoint, President Kingsbury
stated that such model institution IS
the Columbia university. in Few York,
is doing practically the very thing
which some local educators have con-
demned in our own state university,
that is, conducting a kindergarten and
normal training school of all grades in |
connection with the university.
In some of the state universities Wis
tied, the government signal, experiment
and chemical stations are operated in
with the college work. and
this is a very valuable aid in the sci |
ence courses. President kingsbury !
would tike to see the same thing in |
vogue here.
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