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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES. CEMENT WALKS.

The committee on buildings and grounds made t h e following report:

URBANA, I I I . , September 13, 1893.

To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN:—Your committee on buildings and grounds invited t h r e e parties in Chicago, one in Decatur, one in Peoria, and three in Springfield to present bids for putting in cement walks, as authorized a t your meeting of June 6. In response to these invitations bids were received as follows : Simpson Bros., Chicago, 18 cents per sq. ft., for 4-inch stone, 3* inches concrete, and i inch cement and torpedo gravel. A. W. Bushnell, Peoria, 17£ cents per sq. ft., for 4-inch stone made according to formula for "asbestine" stone. E. L. Martin, Decatur, 15 cents per sq. ft., for 4-inch stone, 3 inches concrete, 1 inch cement and sand. P. E. Taintor, Springfield, 15 cents per sq. ft., for 4-inch stone, 3 inches concrete, 1 inch cement and sand. Granolithic Pavement Company, Springfield : 1. 4-inch stone, 3 inches concrete, 1 inch cement and sand, 13 cents per sq. ft. 2. 5-inch stone, with 4 inches concrete, top as above, 15 cents per sq. ft. 3. 4-inch stone, 3 inches concrete, 1 inch of cement and fine granite,. 17 cents per sq. ft. 4. 5-inch stone, with 4 inches concrete, top as above, 18 cents per sq. ft. All these bids were put in on t h e basis t h a t t h e foundations were to be put in by t h e University. The committee voted to accept t h e second proposition of t h e Granolithic Pavement Company, and t h e chairman of t h e committee, Mr. Bullard, was authorized to make t h e contract with them on t h e following^ terms: Four inches concrete to be one part best Portland cement, two parts clean coarse sand, and five parts clean coarse gravel. The top t o be one part best imported Portland cement and one and one-half parts clean sharp sand. The whole work to be done and t h e grounds to be cleaned up on or before September 9, 1893. An approximate estimate of this work is t h a t it will cost $900. I t has also been found necessary, because of t h e fitting up of rooms for t h e preparatory school on t h e first floor of t h e west wing of t h e University Hall r to make a walk from the west door of t h e University Hall t o "Wright street. This will add, including t h e cost of foundations of all the walks, about $234. I t is also necessary to put in walks four feet in width from t h e east door and south door of University Hall to t h e water closets, and i t is estimated t h a t these will cost, including- foundations, $300 more, making a total of $1,435. The board has already appropriated $1,100 for cement walks, and your committee asks t h a t an additional appropriation of $400 be made. Respectfully submitted,

S. A. BULLARD, ) Committee on TsT. B. MORRISON, > Buildings R, P. MORGAN ) and Grounds.