Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1892 [PAGE 183]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

After careful consideration of the bids received, I respectfully recommend t h a t the proposal of the Egan Company, of Cincinnati, be accepted, as I believe this to be best for the interests of the University. The bid is as follows:

No. 5 endless bed surfacer, working 24x10 inches, etc . No. 1 sash and door mortiser, chisels, etc Double rip and cross 14-inch saws, iron tables, etc Hand planer knife grinder Total Thirty per cent, off for cash Net cost f, o. b. Cincinnati , $460 190 375 12 $1,037 311 $726

This leaves $274 of the appropriation for freights, cartage, belts, setting up machines, etc.

4.

F R O N T DOORS OF U N I V E R S I T Y H A L L .

In accordance with the directions of your chairman, I have designed new entrance and vestibule doors for University Hall, with glass transoms above, woodwork all of polished quartered oak, and to be set in rebates of present door frames. Double doors, 3x7i feet each, with large polished plate glass panel. Yale bronze hardware and locks. Single or double swing hinges, as may be preferred. Large lights in transoms to be polished plate; small ones in outer transom to be rolled plate; in inner transom to be cathedral stained glass. Blue prints of the drawings were mailed Saturday to four different firms, with instructions to send in bids so t h a t they might be received to-day. I submit herewith the design for doors for your consideration. I presume t h a t the total cost of the doors, transoms, bronze hardware, setting, etc., will not be less than $300, but will communicate to your committee the bids as soon as received.

5. H E A T I N G OF MILITARY H A L L .

This matter was placed in the hands of a special committee by the Board of Trustees, but it has seemed best for me to report to your Committee, as your chairman was also chairman of the special committee, and can report to the Board of Trustees from either committee. Seven or eight sets of blue prints of the drawings of the building, location, plat, and level profile, were sent to different parties, and four bids were received by the special committee, ranging from $2,395 to $3,750, the latter bid only reaching me on the day after the opening of the bids. The special committee were all present, opened the bids, and referred them to Messrs. Anderson and Ricker for consideration and report. A careful tabulation and comparison of the three bids showed t h a t it was for the best interest of the University to accept the lowest bid, t h a t of Maltby & Wallace, provided t h a t some changes could be made in the construction and specifications without unduly increasing the cost, and this action was therefore recommended to the committee. Two members of the special committee, Professors Shattuck and Ricker, met Mr. Wallace, who quoted prices for the proposed changes, and submitted amended specifications, which were accepted by the committee, and the contract for the work was executed accordingly in duplicate, the total payment for the job to be $2,760, as follows: