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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1930
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7°4 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [June 19 an unusual number of persons passed through the Museum due to the presence here of a number of out-of-town visitors for the Interscholastic activities. This report was received for record. APPOINTMENTS TO THE E. A. WALLACE SCHOLARSHIP (30) A report from the Secretary of the Board of Education of District No. 61 at Havana, Illinois, that pursuant to the provisions of the bequest of the late Mrs. Gertrude Hawies in establishing the E. A. Wallace Memorial Scholarship said Board has nominated Dale Huff and Wayne Craggs of Havana as beneficiaries of this scholarship. This report w a s received for record. BOILER HOUSE ADDITION (31) The following letter from the Supervising Architect: June 18, 1930 Boiler House Addition President David Kinley, jjs Administration (W) Dear President Kinley: After various studies for the increasing of the capacity of our boiler house, we have finally come to the conclusion that the most economical one is to raise our present boilers aboutfivefeet so as to be able to put in forced draft grates with economizers and induced draft fans for handling the gases. By raising and re-equipping the eight boilers which we have and building an additional stack, we will increase the capacity of the plant by 4,000 horse-power. With the money available we can change over four of the boilers and build the stack and probably raise the roof over the entire area so that hereafter the other four boilers can be raised as needed. This plan was submitted to Mr. Abbott before he left for Europe and I received a letter from him under date of M a y 21, from which I quote the following paragraph: "I fully concur in your proposition to equip some of the boilers of the proposed plant with forced draft. This will very materially increase your steaming capacity and will make your loafing boilers work according to modern standards. There is some doubt in m y mind as to your ability to retain the present grates, as the grates should be divided into zonal forced-draft areas in which different draft pressures are carried. Also, we have our boilers supplied with a plenum box, which gives auxiliary air above the fire, creating a turbulence which effectively eliminates all smoke and quite noticeably improves the efficiency." This job is one which, as far as the labor is concerned, we will do very largely ourselves and will contract for stokers, fans, breeching, economizers, and the new stack. I desire approval of this general scheme and authority to proceed with the work, subject to the awarding of the contracts necessary to carry out the part of the work which we will not do on force account. The amount available for this work is about $160,000. Yours very truly, James M. White Supervising Architect I recommend approval. O n motion of Dr. Noble, this recommendation was adopted. INVESTMENT OF WALLACE SCHOLARSHIP FUND Mr. Fisher, for the Finance Committee, presented the following recommendation: June 19, 1930 To the Board of Trustees: The Finance Committee recommends the purchase of the following described farm mortgage as an investment of the Wallace Scholarship Fund, $5491.67, and other uninvested trust funds: First 5 % Mortgage $7000 on 80 acres in Hensley Township, Champaign County, Illinois, owned by Simon Kaiser, due September 1, 1931. F. H. Simpson WalterJ. Trees, Chairman Merle T. Fisher
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