Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1892 [PAGE 256]

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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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cepted for the building. I t is to be mixed and applied in strict accordance with the printed directions supplied by the manufacturers. The finishing coat is to be the usual white, hard finish, composed of plaster of paris and lime paste, smoothly troweled and polished. Mr. Jobst has been much delayed by bad weather, and has made formal applicition for an extension of time for completion in the manner provided in contract, but states t h a t he still expects to complete the work as agreed, and will endeavor to do so if possible. He has certainly worked all the time possible on the building, and has had the worst season for building t h a t has been known for many years. This matter will be left for the present, and I shall try to have the building ready at the time agreed upon. The extra cost of additional cast iron girders, changes in flues, registers, etc., mentioned in my last report, will probably not be over $50, though I cannot now report the exact amount. No change has yet been made without it was a manifest necessity. Certificates have been issued for $31,116.87, and the 10 per cent, reserve now amounts to $3,457.43.

2. H E A T I N G N A T U R A L HISTORY H A L L .

Since I was directed to prepare sketches for three proposed new University buildings with estimates therefor, and to present them for consideration by the Board of Trustees at this meeting, this work has more than occupied my time, together with my regular work and such extra work as could not be postponed or delayed. I shall therefore be obliged to leave the p ans and specifications for the heating, plumbing, and lighting of the Natural History Hall to a future meeting of your Committee,, merely submitting a general programme, for which I request careful consideration, so t h a t your preference may be expressed by definite instructions, if you so desire. I can then have bids ready for the work at t h a t meeting. I recommend t h a t the present boiler house be enlarged by extending it south sufficiently to receive at least two additional boilers, with sufficient space for the storage of coal. The extension of the building would cost from $2,500 to $3,000. Boilers would cost $800 to $1,400 each, according to kind used. Then to run a steam main supply pipe to a point near the southeast corner of the Chemical Laboratory, and thence to the south side of Natural History Hall. This main to be properly covered with heat proof coating, then packed in a wooden box and placed underground, similarly to the steam main to Military Hall. I t will be necessary to return the water of condensation into a tank in basement of Natural History Hall, then pumping it back to boiler house, as it cannot be returned by gravity. This return can be placed in the ground without boxing. Or, the steam main might be made sufficiently large to supply the Chemical Laboratory and the new museum, when erected. This would very materially increase the cost of the work now, but would be cheapest in the end. This system would save the cost of separate boiler house and chimney, and would very much lesson the cost of firemen's wages, besides making it possible to take better care of the boilers and to make them last longer. The chimney is abundantly large for the purpose. The working laboratories on the first and second floors are arranged for direct-indirect heating, fresh air passing directly through the boxed coilsinto the rooms, foul air being removed by the flues, thus making each room independent. The end entrance halls, central halls, and the third story rooms will be heated by direct coils.