The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-05
.SOLONS co ON
TRIP TO LOGAN
Visit Agricultural College ard Hear
of Its Needs.
PROMISE TO BE LIBERAL
LUNCHEON IS SERVED BY DO
MESTIc SCIENCE GIRLS.

IAE ERE it in the power OF the 200 odd
wv visitors, exclusive of members of
the legislature, who made the
trip TO the Agricultural college at Lo-
gan yesterday. TO grant the appropria-
ton of $3.50, 600 asked for its mainten-
ance for the next two years, it is safe
To say that it wouIu already be
awarded, fOrsnever We're guests more
Hospitality and genuinely welcomed
than were those who spent yesterday
at the Cache county institution.
From the tenor of the speeches made
by members of the legislature at the
college yesterday afternoon, it would
seem hardly necessary, however, that
the plea for a liberal appropriation
needs champions In either upper or
lower house for the faculty was as
sured that every effort would be strain
ed to allow the college sufficient funds
for maintenance and improvement dur
ing the next two years.
The Agricultural college asks for ap-
proXimately $2S0,000 for the next two
years If the finances of the state win
IL any way permit, that viii be the
amount which the present legislature
v i'll appropriate
Make an Early Start.
The special train for Logan pulled
out shortly after S o'clock yesterday
morning with about 115- legislators and
friends aboard. At Ogden the number
was swelIed by fourteen, while at Brig
liam City. a delegation of seven from
the Cache County Commercial club
boarded TO act as a committee Of wei
come. This committee consisted OF
Mayor +. w Robinson of Logan, Fred
Turner Of the Logan Republican, Wes-
ley Jacques, J. a Hen6rickson, Cap
tain James Styer, Orson Smith, f Il
NFhQ<aT and Moses Thatcher.
The house standing committees on
education and art, claims and public
accounts and ways and means had left
for Logan Friday night III order to
carry on Investigations Saturday
morning. The representatives and Sena-
tors ON board the train were Senators
Barber. Lawrence, Rasband, Holdings
worth. Love. Bamberger, Gardner, Lar
sen and Johnson and Representative
Allen. J. y. Anderson, Austin, Carroll,
Cromar, Curtin, Huh. Johnson, Miller,
Pace. Pancake Roberts, Simons, StoO-
key, Thompson. Wilson and Tolton.
Six hours were spent by the visitors
as the guests Of the faculty and stu
dents of the institute and of the Cache
Commercial club, a committee from
which boarded the train at Brigham
City and accompanied the party TO LO-
gan. COnveyances at the Logan sta
ton carried all to the college buildings.
where for two hours the domestic sci
ence and arts, and the commercial de-
partments were inspected.
Students Serve Luncheon.
The large library and Yeading room
had been turned into a dining room for
I the occasion. and in this covers had
been laid for over 200 The dining
room and tables were prettily decorated
| With flowers from the college conserva-
tory, and the college cOlOrs, purple ana
| gold were everywhere to be seen.
About twenty-five senior students OF
( the girls domestic science department
| served the guests with an inviting
! luncheon. which SSlt to flight all doubts
/ any present may have had as 10 the
practical value of the instruction given
J in this branch of domestic science
( Following luncheon, speeches were
made by w. S Mccormick, president
/ of the board of trustees, President w
/ J. Kerr of the Agricultural college,
/ President s. H. Love of the senate,
! Speaker Thomas Hull Of the house,
! Senator Simon Bamberger, Represen-
/ tative w. McCrea, Representative F.
! X. Fishburn, Representative Harry S.
Joseph, Senator T. c. CaIlister and At
! torney General NJ. a. Breeder.
At the conclusion of the speech-mak-
/ ing. which consumed about two hours.
the visitors were invited TO inspect the
| mechanical and engineering depart
| merits, and the farm barns The train
returning for Salt Lake left Logan
| shortly after o'clock Through mis-
| calculation. about twenty Salt Lakers
/ arrived too late to catch the returning
/ train. The party was under the super
| vision of General Passenger Agent D.
/ :. Spencer of the Oregon Short Line
and ..Hf' Dunn. travelling passenger
! agent for the same line
Mccormick Presides over Meeting.
President w. S. Mccormick of the
! board of trustees, who presided over the
| meeting. was the first speaker He
stated that he appeared at Governor
| Cutters request to represent the latter
in his capacity as executive The gov
| ernOr, he stated, had tntnnated that ne
| favored an adequate appropriation IL
the college by the present legislature
| He asked the legislators TO examine
carefully the claim that duplication II
| courses existed at the Agricultural col
Iege and the University Of Utah Aftel
carefully weighing this question, th'
legislature, he urged, should bring II
an appropriation sufficient to cover the
needs of the Logan institution
| He stated that the members of th'
| house and senate might we'll invoke th'
aid of the Almighty in case they die
not grant the popular demand for a jus
| appropriation
Kerr Makes a Speech.
President w. j. Kerr OF the Agr1Cul
turaI college followed Mr.. Mccormick
| He extended the formal welcome Of IN
day to those present He briefly out
lined the laws under which industrial
colleges were created and the condi
ton under which they exist. The LO
gan institutute, he said, was one o
sixty-four maintained with government
! aid throughout the country
| The sources of income of the ASricul
turaI college, he explained, were tire
the aid given by the gOVernmen
| through acts of congress in 1852. 1SS
and 1890: appropriations by state legis
| latures. and student fees. The tOtd
| amount of income through thes
sources since the founding of the Az
| ricultural college in 1890 We're as fol
| lows: United States government, S59I,
600; state, 1921, 900; miscellaneous, SOB,
0O0
The aggregate OF these sums haS
/ been devoted to two lines of work
namely. Institutional and experimental
For purposes of instruction S9TS,O00 has
been expended, while during the SAM
period S27S. 900 had been used for pur
poses OF. experimental work The valu
Ct the entire agricultural college plant
President Kerr placed at $4,000.
Speaking of the growth of the insti
tute with increased facilities, he cite
I the fact that where four years ag
! there were only about 800 students
{ | there were today us registered pupils