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1904]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

FLAGSTAFF.

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Your committee advised with Professor authorized them to contract for the erection high, if satisfactory proposals were obtained the appropriation. This has been done and the flagstaff in place.'

White and Colonel Feehgt and of a steel flagstaff about 100 feet for a sum within the amount of the contractors are now putting

ERECTION OF BUILDINGS.

Your committee reports that the woman's building contracts are a little more than half completed. Since the breaking up of the cold weather of winter the work has been started, and as all or nearly all, the materials needed for the completion of the building are on the grounds, there will not be any occasion for further suspension of operations before completion. The agricultural buildings are nearly completed and the buildings are now ocupied by the departments. The steam laboratory contracts are about two-thirds done. The plumbing contract for this building has not yet been made.

ADITIONS TO ARMORY.

The addition to the armory which the committee was authorized to make has not yet been made. It is undecided what it is best to do. Colonel Fechet has been asked to present for the consideration of the committee a / plan of what he would recommend.

NEW BOILERS.

In accordance with your instructions your committee authorized Professor Breckenridge to obtain proposals of the best terms possible for two new boilers. The best proposition was obtained from the Stirling Company for two 200-H. P. boilers set in the boiler house and provided with chain grates and automatic stokers, for $7,400.00—the University to furnish the founda tions. The contract was made Oct. 15, 1904, and the boilers have just been put into place. The foundations and the steam and smoke connections have cost about $1,000.00. Your committee asks that it be instructed to take out insurance covering these boilers as may be deemed necessary.

RETURN OF EXHIBITS.

Under your instruction your committee authorized the president and deans to have the University exhibits returned to the University from the St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, to purchase the cases on which the exhibits were made, and to purchase such other articles at the close of the exposition as in their judgment were of unusual value to the University, the amount to be distributed to the several departments as they should agree. This work has been done, the exhibits returned, cases purchased and other articles for the several departments purchased, and all expenditures do not exceed the $1,000.00 appropriated by the board.

ELECTRIC WIRING.

Your committee asked Professor Morgan Brooks to have his department make a careful examination of the wiring in the several university buildings and report with recommendations to the committee. We present his report as follows:

U N I V E R S I T Y O F I L L I N O I S , March 13, 1905.

JS. A. Bullard, Esq., Chairman Buildings and bounds Committee, University of Illinois. D E A R SIR—Regarding the question of defective wiring referred to me at a recent meeting of the trustees through your committee, I have to report t h a t I have inspected the electric wiring in the various buildings of the University and have found a number of places where ' 'an emergency" existed so t h a t I have ordered immediate repair^ to be made. A considerable amount