The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1906-12-29
All HaIIows May Rulld New School.


Encouraged by the large attendance
at All Hallows college this season,
Very Rev. John J. Guinan, president
and treasurer of the institution, will
go to the annual session of the govern
ing board of the Order of Marist, of
which the local college is a branch.
which will be held in Washington, D..
c., Immediately after the summer va
cation begins, to ask for an appropria-
ton of about $250,0OO with which to
build the new All Hallows college
on the southeast bench This step has
been contemplated for some years, but
other more insistent matters came up
before the governing body at WASH
ington, and the local proposition was
dropped.
1T may be that the delegates to
the convention will not believe it the
best policy to make a big donation to
enlarge All Hallows college, said Very
Rev. John ]. Guinan last night But
/ have hopes that at least 100000 will
be set aside for the institution here.
Our attendance this year was fully 25
per cent larger than the year previous.
which is indeed encouraging. We still
have room for the students in the build
ings on Second South street, but a large
ground on the southeast bench would,
of course, be a great advantage to the
school. We have been holding off in
this matter waiting for the awakening
of Salt Lake, which seems to have
come now. The industrial awakening
here has fastened our plans, of course,
and if the improvements now proposed
are carried out I feel confident that
we will have to move to our new
grounds. l will attend the convention
in Washington, and will take the mat.
ter up at that time"
All Hallows college now owns about
forty acres of ground on the southeast
bench. There are few improvements in
this part of the city at the present
time, but it is believed that it will be
in this direction that the city will ul-
timately grow. The land owned by the
Catholic institution runs between Sew
enteenth East and Eighteenth East
streets, and Ninth and Tenth South
streets, embodying many acres of
what will later become valuable res
idence portion of the city. In case the
school is moved from its present quar-
tiers at Fourth East and Second South
streets to the new ground, a land boom
c.; the bench is sure to result, forcing
the street car company to build a
hranch line to that part of the city. 1t
IS an ideal residence portion, and care
real estate men are of the opinion
IT within few years this part will
% more generally patronized by the
moneyed men of the city than any 9th
er in the city.
The Marist order conducts schools
of learning as well as divine institu
lions all over the country, and is like
in character to the Order of the Holy
Cross, the Jesuits and other Catholic
orders. 1t is the plan of the govern
ing body in Washington to make All
Hallows college here the fountain head
of Catholic teaching of the higher
branches in the intermountain region,
and TO this end the provincial at Wash
ington has made known his desire to
enlarge the local institution.
1t is believed that the downtown
school will be able to handle incoming
students for the next two or three
years, as it was with this in view that
the new wing costing $4,000 was erect
ed three years ago. The land on the
bench was bought about eight years
ago for the purpose of later removing
the school to it when the time was ripe.
1t is now thought that that time has
come, and Father Guinan will go to
Washington fol-. the purpose of securing
this donation if possible.