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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1914
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150 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. [December 19, ADDITIONAL MATTERS PRESENTED BY T H E PRESIDENT OF T H E UNIVERSITY. President James presented the following additional matters for consideration: B'NAl B'RITH PRIZE. (1) The following letter from the Champaign and Urbana Lodge of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith: CHAMPAIGN, ILI*, December 4, 1912. President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois, Urbana, III. DEAR S I R : The B'nai B'rith Lodge of Champaign and Urbana desires to offer the sum of fifty dollars ($50) to the University of Illinois annually, for a period of five years, to be awarded in prizes to the students of the University for essays on Jewish subjects, under such conditions as may be fixed by the University authorities. Fifty dollars for the current academic year are herewith enclosed. Hoping that the University may be willing to undertake the award of the prizes, we are Yours faithfully, L. D. L E W I S , ISAAC Kumsr, N. C. SEIDENBERG, Committee. It was voted to accept the gift described in the foregoing letter, to authorize the Council of Administration to determine .the conditions on which the prizes shall he awarded, and to authorize the president of the University to extend the thanks of the hoard to the Champaign and Urbana Lodge of B'nai B'rith. FIRE IN UNIVERSITY HALL. (2) The following statement from Professor James M. White, Supervising Architect, concerning the fire which occurred in, the attic of University Hall on the night of November 15, 1912: ' URBANA, ITJU, December 9, 1912. President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois. DEAR SIR: The night of November 15 a fire occurred in the attic of University Hall in the compartment of the roof space just south of the east tower. The attic of this building is divided by' fire walls into spaces some of which are accessible only through scuttles in the Toom, which is the case in the one where the fire occurred. Permission had been given the Home Coming Committee to operate a flashlight from the east tower, and our chief electrician connected on to a direct current wire Which terminated in a box in this attic space. A temporary cable was run from there to the top of the tower, and the flashlight was operated by three students until about eleven o'clock a t night. In coming down the students noticed the odor of burning insulation but could not locate any trouble. They reported their suspicions to the janitor and night watchman and went back with them to search further. They finally saw some smoke and sent word over to the fire department, and Mr. F a y responded. They all continued the search for the trouble, but did hot find it until .flames began to break out along the ceiling line. An alarm was promptly turned in and responded to by the University and by both city departments. The University department had water on the flames when the city departments arrived. The University department carried a line up the east fire-escape, but the hose proved defective, and the city department connected on to the stand pipe along side of the fire-escape. The University department also carried a line of hose from the inside stand pipe in the building through Philomathean Hall. The fire was quickly put out, but the only reason for it not having been more serious is the fact that it was confined by the fire walls. The damage to, the building was about $300 and that to the furniture and decorating in the Philomathean Hall about $100. A careful examination failed to reveal the exact cause for the fire, but it is certain that it started from the wiring. The trouble does not seem to have been in the circuit leading to the flashlight, because that was reconnected and the flashlight operated Saturday night. The cause for the University hose being defective is still under investigation. The repairs to the building have been completed with the exception of the repapering of the walls in the. Philomathean Society room. Yours truly, JAMES M. WHITE, ' Supervising Architect. The foregoing statement was received for record.
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