The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-13
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HIGH SCH0
Ground for Site Of Bss
New Building Will b n
ken Monday. y
DESIGNS WILL BE y
ON ARTISTIC
Arrangements So Made
Afford Convenience Witl
Offending Critical Tsst

Ground for the uew hiph
building to be erected on y.
bench between Twelfth and TIT,
East streets and Eighth and
South streets will be broken T.
morning, Accompanied by IN,
tects. El2Tcdgc & Chesebro, W. B.
mon OF Raleigh 6 Harmon, ID
the board Of education left sh<
tract for the grading and era,
work. visited the site of the ~
building Saturday afternoon r.
the ground out.
The architects and the IN.
went TO the grounds at 4:3O XII
the afternoon and after workir.
nearly sundown Hd everythis1
for the men 90 begin the work n
ing the grounds Monday ma
which will require a month to \
and a half to complete. The
tects are now well along VIII
working drawings, which il n
will be completed inside Of 1
after which Immediate steps will
ken TO advertise for bids for h
eral contract. 1t s-hoped to hs'
general contract let within tbs
month, that actual construction
be begun not later than Octobel
Plan Splendid Grounds
AS original and as splendid
plans for the building itself 1
drawings of the grounds. Not 1
point has been overlooked b,
architects in the preparation
plans to make sHe grounds con,
to meet the demands of schu
yet artistic and beautiful. II b
said that the campus, when II
pleted, will be one of the most
and up 10 date of ss kind
country, and the plans certaiul
this to be true. And yet the /
of the grounds will not be in II
interfered with by the campu
track arrangements,
The general scheme Of lByi
, the grounds utilizes every
, space, and the building will b
ed, the grounds laid out and "
, mug done in such e manner. ag
: advantage of the slope. Of The
, stead OF marring the beauty
. grounds, the tracks, courts anI
! are arranged so as to add 70
tistic appearance Of the plse
tween the steps Of the bnildi
be built from 1000 to 5000 SCI
E building will be erected on q
: above the campus, and thus u
: between the stone staIrways y
y sort of stadium, from whie
!. can be obtained an unobstruct
of the entire campus. which !
on the west side Of the build
! Directly In front of the bnild
!, be the baseball and football
= and the drill field, and TO the
: that will be an eight-lap
; track. Between the running tt
y the ball field and drill gfonn
, be q l00-yard dash track. !
J south side of the track in th
{ west corner OF the grounds
- tennis courts, and above these
? a green field for croquet On
i lawn games, Courts for bl
& also are provided for in the
4 Sports Not Neglected.
e On the left side a space vii
f for another building, g
q building having been suggeSs!e
e will probably be erected II
J. years. In the center of the
d eight lap running track viii .
ed the field for athletic an,
events. The space between !,
y courts and tracks will be pasi
H green lawns and shrubbeFy "
Il the west side of the place Ih'
i will be in the form of a dat
at the base of the building,
: this level space to the side'
e the sides also will be i tefi'
d The landscape work, whien
: the grading, terraeing anu
n will invoIve the levciing sns
4 inu of 10000 square yards OF
n and the plateau upon When
e located the tracks and neias
$50 feet by 400 feet. ,.s
: So carefully have the arceit
!. pared the pans that the glaa,s
" grounds will not require On 4
d wagon load of dirt and graseis
h figuring of the cutting ala !
e what is known to arc hltecss
|. neers as the compensation ~Js Ia
+ been so arranged that tne -
can be filed up and grauou
:e with the gravel taken fIom '
!, l. tions of the ground. 8,
q 1t is hoped 10 commences = =
l. construction Of the pu1ia,nS
l., l, and every possible eny.s W.
10 made to complete IT by au'
of school the following year,