Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1908 [PAGE 90]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[Jan.

22

January 21, 1907. Mr. S. A. Bullard, President Board of Trustees, University of Illinois, TJrbana, III. DEAR SIR—The Home Telephone Company of Champaign County recently made application to the Buildings and Grounds Committee for permission to cross the University campus between the football and baseball grounds. Together with this request was a proposition for giving the University telephone Exchange connection to the exchange of the Home Telephone Company. This proposition was later confirmed in the letter written by Mr. Manford Savage, president of the Home Telephone Co. on January 19th, submitted herewith. The Buildings and Grounds Committee recommends that the proposition of the Home Telephone Company be accepted and the permission to cross the campus be granted, on the condition that all of the work which they propose to do be done under the direction and to the satisfaction of Professor Morgan Brooks, who will act on this work as inspector for the University; and on the further condition that the Home Telephone Company agree to remove its wires and conduits from the University campus when given six months' notice by the board of trustees to do so. Respectfully submitted,

W. L. ABBOTT,

Chairman Buildings and Grounds Committee.

The board voted to adopt the report of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, but directed that the route to the tunnel from the conduit should be fixed by the president of the board. The board adjourned to meet, at 9:00 o'clock Wednesday morning.