Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890 [PAGE 101]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

Voted: That in all present estimates and contracts the floor be omitted. Bids from various parties having been opened and considered, contracts were awarded to the following parties, for different parts of the work respectively, they being in the judgment of the committee upon terms most advantageous to the University. Wherever the bids included work or material for the floor, corresponding deductions for work and material were to be made as should be determined by the architect. For brick and stone masonry, to Kerr Brothers, of Urbana, they to furnish all labor and material, for $4,333.88, if walls were built all of brick, with 8 cents per cubic foot additional for whatever part should be built of stone, except the cut stone for door and window sills. For tinner's work, as described in specifications, to Hubbard & Sons, of Urbana, for $825.00. For lumber, to George Besore, of Urbana, for $1,479.11. Contract has since been awarded with consent of committee, to F . Felkel, of Cleveland, Ohio, for all steel, wrought-iron, and cast-iron structural work, for $1,063.50. For further information concerning the progress of the building, t h e report of the architect to the committee is herewith appended.

ARCHITECT'S REPORT. * 1889.

U N I V E R S I T Y OF ILLINOIS, U R B A N A , I I I . ,

To the Building Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, GENTLEMEN: The contract for tinner's work was executed with Hubbard & Sons, of Urbana, at $825, as awarded. The contract for lumber was made with George Besore at $1,479.11, after omitting the floor. The lumber has all been delivered, and the final certificate for payment given. The contract for masonry was made with Kerr Brothers at $4,333.88 fo masonry if entirely of brick, with an additional payment of 8 cents, per cubic foot for the stone masonry required by the drawings and specifications. These three contracts were awarded by you at your second meeting,, though only the price of the first was then fixed. After a great deal of correspondence and delay, and correspondence by the Regent with most of the members of the committee, the contract for the iron and steel structural work was finally awarded to F . Felkel, of Cleveland, for $1,063.50, being about $300 lower than any other bid received, the freight from Cleveland being probably about $30 on this. This, includes everything except anchor rods and plates, ventilation gratings, and the fastenings, such as bolts, lag bolts, plow bolts, wood screws and Russell & Erwin screw-nails, which have been obtaine*d from other parties, in Champaign and Urbana, either because they were required for immediate use in the building, or were manufactured articles kept in stock in the hardware trade, and as cheaply procured here as anywhere. This metal work is required to be shipped from Cleveland on or before Oct. 2d, (time extended about one week beyond that stated in contract), so t h a t it will probably be received about Oct. 5th, which will be as soon as the framing of the roof is completed. The excavations cost about one-half as much as estimated, principally owing to the greater inclination of the site, though they were everywhere carried down into the solid yellow clay, to reach a soil of practically uniform resistance. As this is loaded with about l i tons only per square foot, or I as much as is now frequently used for heavy buildings on Chicago soil, no unequal settlements or cracks need be feared.