Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1894 [PAGE 32]

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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES Bobinsoii & Burr, Champaign, 111., two boilers complete and set...$2,886 'Cross connection of boilers and main, extra 178 For boilers punched and riveted, deduct 200 J . M. Bippey, Springfield, 111., two boilers and setting same, complete. .$4,059 For Steam Heating of Natural History Hall.

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Mains, returns, connection with Chemical Laboratory, heating all four stories: Robert Clark, Peoria, 111 $7,500 00 Malt-by & Wallace, Champaign, 111 8,109 00 Bobinsoii & Burr, Champaign, 111 8,271 92 J . M. Rippey, Springfield, 111 9,200 00 After careful consideration of these bids with your chairman, it was decided to reject all bids received for boilers and heating, for the # reason t h a t if the contracts were let at even the lowest figures, the cost would much exceed the appropriations available therefor. The cost was reduced as much as possible by omitting all the steam heating in the third story and basement, except in the end entrance halls and in rooms occupied by the Agricultural Experiment Station, also in central hall in second story, and in store, dark, and clothes rooms in first and second stores, thus limiting the heating to the rooms actually indispensable. The plumbing was likewise limited to the same rooms as the heating. I t was further decided to put in but one new boiler, which would be sufficient for Natural History Hall and the Chemical Laboratory in mild weather, and to connect the electrical engineering boiler with this, so t h a t the two could be used together in very cold weather. New bids for one boiler, for the amended steam heating, and for the plumbing, were asked, and these were received and opened on Aug. 12th, as follows: For One New Boiler, as Specified. Springfield Boiler & Manufacturing Co., one new boiler Setting same Total Or for their standard boiler Setting same Total Robert Clark, Peoria, 111., one boiler and setting. Robinson & Burr, Champaign, 111., one boiler and setting Malt-by & Wallace, Champaign, 111., one boiler and setting Steam Heating Natural History HalL Bobert Clark, Peoria, 111 Robinson & Burr, Champaign, 111 , If return pipe be boxed and covered, extra Maltby & Wallace, Champaign, 111

FOR PLUMBING N A T U R A L HISTORY HALL.

$950 00 550 00 $1,500 00 $750 00 550 00 $1,300 $1,400 1,390 1,423 00 00 00 00

$5,900 00 5,676 36 300 00 5,698 00

But one bid was received, though these bidders expected to compete against others, and made a low and satisfactory price for a good job: Robinson &' Burr, Champaign, 111. For Nelson's syphonia closets, extra $1,645 53 50 00

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