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UNIVERSITY OF I L L I N O I S .

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R E P O R T OF C O M M I T T E E ON B U I L D I N G S AND GROUNDS.

To the Board of Trustees: Your Committee on Buildings and Grounds begs leave to report that at a meeting of the committee held in Chicago, Aug. 27, 1909, at which there were present Mrs. Evans, Dr. Davison and Mr. Abbott, action was taken as follows.: NEW PLANT. The supervising architect submitted recommendations that the contracts be entered into as follows: Babcock & Wilcox Boiler Company, two 500 H. P. boilers $10,121 00 Alphonse Custodus Chimney Construction Co., radial brick chimney^ ten feet in diameter by one hundred seventy-five feet high 7,615 00 V. Jobst & Son, heating Natural History Museum building 1,710 00 V. Jobst & Son, electric wiring and lighting fixtures for Natural History Museum building 995 50 ( Snead & Company Iron Works, book stack for Law School library 2,912 00 The committee approved the recommendations. ' GYMNASIUM REPAIRS.

The supervising architect recommended that $600.00 of the fund appropriated for repairs in the men's Gymnasium be used for the coping to the swimming tank. The committee, authorized the supervising architect to make the expenditure. CERAMICS BUILDING. A letter from Professor Rolfe was read concerning the proposed Ceramics building. The letter stated that according to plans drawn by the supervising architect and approved by Professor Rolfe, the building would cost $14,250.00, but as the department had only $10,000.00, which it could well spare for the construction of the building, Professor Rolfe requested that the University appropriate $4,250.00 from the general fund for this purpose. The committee appreciates the importance of the work undertaken by the Ceramics department, and if the money could be spared would gladly recommend the appropriation from the general fund of a sufficient amount to erect the proposed building according to the original plans, but because of the smallness of the estimated budget surplus, such a large appropriation is not considered advisable. The committee does, however, recommend that $2,000.00 be appropriated for the above purpose, providing a sufficient amount of money can be spared from the ceramics fund to make up the necessary amount required to construct the building. COAL CONTRACT. Eight bids for the coal supply for the ensuing year were received, ranging in price from $1.58 to $1.20 a ton delivered in the University coal bunkers. The most favorable bid was considered to be that of The Electric Coal Company at $1.20 per ton, and that company was awarded the contract on the bases of $1.10 per ton for coal delivered on the tracks at the boiler house; the University to do the unloading.

W. L. ABBOTT, CHAS. DAVISON, LAUKA B. EVANS.