The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-11
new COLLEGE
FOR SALT LAKE
Money Raised for Westminster In
stitution, as Result Of DR..
Wishard's Trip.
NEW BUILDING AT ONCE
BROAD PLANS ARE TO BE CAR
,RIED OUT.

educational resources another instltu-
tion of learning in the establishment OF
the Westminster college founded oy
Sheldon Jackson
The building of the college and the
completion of a long cherlsheo pan 70
the direct result of the recent WISH u
DR. S. E. Wishard to several laIs e ea-o.
ern cities in the interests OF the nIiaiiz
cial side of the question. Dr. "lsil7i u
returned Friday night
within a month work on the mann
building will be started. INSIDE Lle
current wear the structure Is 70 DS
coupleted at a cost of about $fU.VOV'
Tt will be of pressed brlck anu 6IGy
stone and will be in modern GoInlc COZ
1ege style. This will be the aQIllI I.l'91
tration building, consisting Oh pIly 9lC "a
and chemical laboratory, library anu
reading room and an assembly room
with a seating capacity for three nun
bred persons.
The site is the land already in pos
session of the college on the southwest
corner of Thirteenth East and EleV-
enth South streets, just north OF the
Ciunton Memorial chapel, when Is 10
be used as the college chapel. The site
vas presented to the trustees four
years ago by the late Colonel William
NJ. Ferry of Park City. 1t is valued
at the present rating at about $Z0,UOO'
and the chapel was completed last year
at a cost of about $4,000.
VIII Sell Present Property.
The present plan of the trustees con-
templates the sale of the property now
held in the Collegiate institute in Sec
md Fast street. The estimated value
nf the land is about $4,000, and of the
buildings SIS 600 The building is near
w modern. 1t is thought likely the
structure will be made into tamlly
hotel. The proceeds of this will form
an additional fund for the carrying out
of the present plan The Collegiate m
stitute Will be continued as prepaia-
tory department of the college.
During his recent visit in the east
covering a period of three months DR..
Wishard visited Chicago, Cleveland.
Pittsburg. New York, Cincinnati ana
indianapolis. He<~0as especially sue
cessful in his EFFORTS to interest capital
IN the building of the college. John IL
Converse of Philadelphia alone dOna-
led $4,000 a tO.al of nearly $SOOO0
mas been raised within the last year.
The Wohan's auxiliary board is soon
10 take steps toward the erection OF q
woman's building, plans for which are
already under way. DOrmitories and
other buildings win be erected later.
History of College.
Although the name of DIT. Sheldon
Jackson is connected with the COntem-
plated college. the work Of founding a
college here was begun by the follow
ing: DR.. :. E. Wishard at that time
SUPERINTENDENT of Presbyterian mis-
sfons in Utah; DIT. r. G. McNiece. for
twenty years pastor Of the First Pres
byterian church; DR.. George w Mar
tin OF Manti: Rev. NJ. z. ClemensOn of
Logan. and Rev. Josiah McClain of the
Third Presbyterian church They or
ganiZed the board of trustees held in
March, 1892 IN the summer of 1895
DR.. Jackson visited Salt Lake and do
mated to the cause of founding a col
Iege Washington, D. g. real estate val
ued at $50 00O with the prOviso that
salt Lake men should give the site for
the college of not less than fifty acres
Immediately after Gil S. Peyton and
Z. II. Airs bought the old CrismOn
farm Of goo acres, four and One-half
miles south of the city. and they Of
fered 10 the TRUSTEES a piece of it if the
college could be located there. The
trustees decided, however. that it was
too far from the city, and received in
stead the gift from Colonel Ferry
The name of the proposed institution
was changed four years ago from the
Sheldon Jackson college to the West
minister college founded by Sheldon
Jackson, which in effect is today i'm ex-
istence in connection with the COllegi-
ate Institute although only one year Of
college work has so far been estab-
liShed.
The Collegiate Institute, out of which
the present movement has grown, was
founded in 1875 by Professor John NJ.
COyner. a graduate of Hanover college.
Ind. Professor COyner was the head
Of the school for some years and was
succeeded about 1885 by DR.. ]. F. Mills
psugh. who in turn was followed by
Robert J. Caskey. Professor A. ].
Sweazy is the principal now of the
school, and is also an instructor in the
Westminster college The trustees at
present are DR.. s. E. Wishard, DR.. w.
NJ. Paden. DR. r. G. McNiece, Rev.
Josiah McClain. H. G. Mcmillan, Henry
Y. Van Pelt, George W. Martin of
Manti, Rev. NJ. z. Clemenson of Logan.
A s. Martin. w. l. Brown, E. b.
Critchlow. and S, II. ToIles.