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BOARD O F TRUSTEES

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to write the insurance at the rate quoted by the local representatives, and a recommendation was made that the insurance be placed with the next low bidder, Boggs & Cogdall, representing the Hartford Fire Insurance Company or the Phoenix Company of Hartford, at a net cost of $.3888 per $ 100. This agency shortly thereafter withdrew its proposal and declined to accept the business. All of these representatives are local agencies. The Comptroller and the Supervising Architect now present a new schedule of proposals received on insurance for the Chemistry Annex, Woman's Gymnasium, and the Medical and Dental Laboratories. The low bidder on the Chemistry Annex and the Woman's Gymnasium is the firm of M c K e y & Poague of Chicago, with a quotation of $.42 per J100 per year, and the low bidder on the Medical and Dental Laboratories is Moore, Case, Lyman, & Hubbard of Chicago, with a quotation of J.18 per Jioo per year. They recommend that the proposal of these twofirmsbe accepted. All insurance is to cover fire and tornado risks and is to be in the automatic builders risk form with 1 0 0 % coinsurance. I concur in these recommendations. O n motion of M r . Trees, the officers of the University were authorized to place this insurance as r e c o m m e n d e d . CONTRACT FOR LABORATORY EQUIPMENT FOR CHEMISTRY A N N E X (17) The Supervising Architect submits the following schedule of bids opened on July 18, 1930, for the laboratory equipment for the Chemistry Annex building: CHEMISTRY ANNEX LABORATORY EQUIPMENT BID SCHEDULE A—If lead-coated copper-bearing steel is substituted for asbestos lumber specified, deduct. B — A d d or deduct if chemical stoneware is substituted for alberene stone for sinks except in Lecture R o o m 113. A B Bidders Base Bids Deduct Add Deduct 1. Walrus Mfg. Co., Decatur, 111 $48 71a 00 $5 750 00 2. Kewaunee Mfg. Co., Kewaunee, Wis 48 156 80 698 65 $2 056 90 (Knight) 3. Sheldon & Co., Muskegon, Mich 48 828 55 200 00 J 40 00 If used on student tables 4. Welch Mfg. Co., Chicago, 111 51 024 85 738 00 5. Monroe Benbrook& Co., Chicago, 111 59 376 00 6. Kimball Co., Chicago, 111 59 997 42 341 00 200 00 7. Peterson & Co., Chicago, 111 64 917 15 560 00 875 00 8. Fisher Co., Charles City, TheLaboratory soalternate Kewaunee Manufacturing 00 copper-bearing steel advantage used July bidder is the provides for theFurniture bid$73 the Walrus 2 of Company Company if ducts are consin, the desks muchCity,draft hoods00ifplace 250asbestos lumber, that of Decatur 9. Co., Long Islanddown deductionin lead-coated lowY 18,a for larger 65 400 N. but 1930 Iowa in of 000 (Steel) Manufacturing of Kewaunee, Wis530 00