Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1892 [PAGE 97]

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UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS.

desirable, if possible, to get the building enclosed before winter, if not the whole, perhaps only the main part. If the whole could be finished, ready for a dedication at the next commencement, and for occupation in the following autumn, it would be greatly desirable. I t seems to me t h a t arrangements can be made which would allow contractors to go forward, to receive a part of their pay after July 1, 1892; t h a t the money having been appropriated by the state, may be counted as assets belonging to the institution. If, as I fear, the provision for heating should be found inadequate, I think t h a t it might be aided in some respects from the building fund; and that, say the attic story and the basement, may be left temporarily unfinished. The furnishing will be scanty, and in t h e beginning must rely much on what can be taken from the same department in t h e old building. 5. Water at the barn. This has come to be a serious deficiency. During many m nths of the last year we have hauled water to the north barn from the hydrants at the University. There are wells at the barn and Professor Morrow's house, but they have gone dry in these last dry years. One project will be to make a deep well, and put on it a wind-mill. This will, perhaps, be the cheapest; but it will be constantly demanding repairs, and will not furnish any considerable fire protection, which we ought to have. The distance from the barn to the water system at the main building is about 2,400 feet. We could lay an inch pipe to the barn, having it end in a considerable tank. This would not give adequate fire protection. I t would cost say, 25 cents per foot, for pipe, digging and laying, or in all, for pipe, tank, and fittings, say $700. A four-inch main may be laid in the same distance for 40 cents per foot—and with hydrant would cost $1,000. Opportunity would be given in either of the last two methods for offsets to the veterinary house, Experiment Station warehouse, and Professor Morrow's house. I believe the laiter to be the better method. 6. Buildings and grounds. From this fund should be made the usual appropriation for cleaning and minor repairs needed in the summer vacation, with an addition for painting and calsomining such rooms as most need it, say $400. For ceiling the under surface of main stairway^ $60. University Hall and the Chemical Laboratory have come to need painting as to their outside wood work. They were painted last in 1881. The Observatory and the veterinary building also badly need painting outside. The painting of these larger buildings cost in 1881, about $750. The material was purchased by the University, and the putting it on was clone by contract. I think good work can be secured in no other way. The care of the grounds from July 1st to end of season will require about $150 more—making the sum of these demands, $1,360—as much as it will be safe to draw on this fund for at this time of the year. 7. The library fund. Authority is asked. for procuring binding to the amount of $162.50. 8. The proceeds of the Morrill college aid bill. You have recceived $15,000, being the installment for the year ending June 30, 1890. You will soon receive $16,000, t eing the installment for the year ending June 30, 1891. After July 1, 1891, and when you are prepared to make a proper report on the second installment, you will receive $17,000, which is the income from this fund properly belonging to the next college year. The $16,000 soon to be received is, properly considered back pay. I t appears to me t h a t you should make all your estimates for the current expenditures of the year July ), 1891, to June 30, 1892—or what is practically the same, September 1, 1891, to August 30, 1892, to correspond with the income belonging to the same time. The $16,000 to be received isireally part of the.balance coming out of the present year. You might