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1896.]

PEOOEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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U p o n further r e c o m m e n d a t i o n of t h e C o m m i t t e e , the D i r e c t o r of the L a b o r a t o r y was authorized to employ Mr. C. 0 . A d a m s , of Bloomington, at a salary of $40.00 a m o n t h for such t i m e as -may be necessary, not to extend beyond J u n e 30, 1897; and to e n g a g e Mr. H . ; O. Woodworfch, of C h a m p a i g n , from time to time, as may be necessary, for field entomology, at $3.00 a day. Also on r e c o m m e n d a t i o n of the" Committee, Mr. C. A. H a r t ' s salary was increased to $900.00 a year for t h e last half of t h e c u r r e n t fiscal year. P r e s i d e n t D r a p e r a n n o u n c e d to t h e B o a r d t h a t Miss K a t h a r i n e Merrill h a d resigned her position as Assistant Professor of t h e E n g lish L a n g u a g e a n d L i t e r a t u r e t h e r e s i g n a t i o n to take effect A u g u s t 31, 1897. T h e resignation was accepted. Professor B r e c k e n r i d g e a n d Mr. B u l l a r d made a r e p o r t of an inspection of h e a t i n g , l i g h t i n g , a n d power plants, which t h e y had. m a d e by order of t h e Board.

HEATING, LIGHTING-, AND POWER PLANT.

URBANA, I I I . , December 5, 1896.

To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN:—We have visited the universities of Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan, have carefully inspected their systems of heating, lighting, and power distribution, and take pleasure in making to your honorable body the following report: We found the authorities at each University very anxious to show us every attention, and we were given access to all the information possible. We met in each case the person in charge of the plant, and have much valuable data from these plants concerning" cost, as well as details of construction. We have arranged in tabular form most of the information obtained and this table accompanies this report in blue print form.

GENERAL FEATURES COMMON TO ALL PLANTS INSPECTED.

All the plants inspected have all their boilers in one station, all distribute the steam through pipes carefully covered' and suspended in tunnels. Each plant has a large and high brick stack producing strong draft. AH water of condensation is returned to boiler house.

SPECIAL FEATURES OF NOTE AT THE DIFFERENT PLANTS.

University of Wisconsin.—Here the boilers are all equipped with the "Roney Mechanical Stokers" and the coal delivered to the boiler house is all weighed, dumped into a hopper, and elevated to coal bunkers in front of the boilers. The ashes are elevated to a platform outside of the house and carted away each day. Very much noise and dust accompany this work. Here there is no lighting plant, but we were told that $25,000 would be asked for this year for this purpose, and an addition would be built to the present boiler house for this work. They have a Gren Economizer, capacity 500 H. P., for heating the feed water by escaping gases, as well as a forced draught outfit, of the same capacity, consisting of fan and engine combined., This is used in severe weather to increase the capacity of their plant. They do all their own pumping of water for university uses, besides pumping water for use at the Capitol nearly a mile away. But very little smoke was made, but sometimes they introduced a steam jet above the grate bars. The floor of the boiler house is about 15 feet below grade. Size of boiler house is 55x100x25. Three cuts accompany this report showing the interior of their boiler room,, the interior of their pumping plant, and a corner of the boiler house. The most important data are on the blue print.