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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1932
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193i] U N I V E R S I T Y O F ILLINOIS 2.17 FIREMEN'S T O W E R Professor White presented the following letter. M a y 12, 19,31 President H . W . Chase, 355 Administration ( W ) Dear President Chase: The State Legislature passed an emergency appropriation of $9,000 for certain work to be done in connection with the Firemen's Tower on the northwest corner of our Vivarium site. So far as I know, they did not consult the University about their appropriation and now they want to have the money spent before the Seventh Annual Fire College which starts June 23. They desire to increase the area around the Tower so that they will havefiftyfeet of clear space to the east of it. Their plans provide for building a large cistern, the extending of a water line down Sixth Street, the concreting of the entire area, the bricking up of more of the walls of the Tower and the placing of a standard fire escape on the north side. They want to provide sprinkler equipment and certain other facilities to make the Tower more useful for their training work. All of these items seem to be okeh providing the drawings for same are approved by us and that the work is done to our satisfaction, as of course the Tower on University ground is University property. The increasing of the area and the building of a smoke room just east of the Tower I think need a little further consideration. I will have an interview with the Secretary of the Association this afternoon to get some further light on this part of the program. Yours truly, James M. White Supervising Architect Professor White stated that he presented the following recommendations with the approval of President Chase: 1. That the additional twenty feet of land east of theripacenow occupied by the tower be assigned for the use of the Tower. 1. That the University give its approval to the program of construction, including the award of the contract to King & Petry. O n motion of Dr. Noble, these recommendations were approved. The Executive Committee adjourned. H. E. Cunningham George A. Barr, Chairman Clerk William L. Noble
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