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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[April 22

CONTRACT FOR ELEVATOR IMPROVEMENTS IN RESEARCH A N D EDUCATIONAL HOSPITALS (38) The Director of the Physical Plant Department submits the following bids received for repairing, remodeling, and adding to the five electric passenger elevators in the Research and Educational Hospitals: Bid 1 Bid 2 Haughton Elevator Co., Chicago $10 737 S3 883 Otis Elevator Co., Chicago 10 660 2 740 Westinghouse Electric Elevator Co., Chicago 11 080 3 450 Bid 2 consists of essential maintenance work. Bid 1 includes all work covered by Bid 2 and, in addition, other maintenance work not so essential as well as certain modernization improvements. In view of the large percentage of critical materials used in connection with any elevator work, and in view of the more serious situation in the national emergency since the drawings and specifications for this work were completed, the Director does not at this time recommend the award of a contract based on Bid I. H e recommends the award of the contract to the Otis Elevator Company, the lowest bidder, on the basis of its Bid 2 in the amount of $2,740, the expense to be charged against the State appropriation for the biennium of 1941-1943 for improvements in the Research and Educational Hospitals. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . G e a r y , t h i s c o n t r a c t w a s a u t h o r i z e d a s r e c o m mended. PURCHASES RECOMMENDED SUPPLEMENTARY (39) A recommendation that the following purchases be authorized: Laboratory apparatus and supplies (115 items) as per list which is hereby given to the Secretary of the Board for record, from the following dealers, these being the lowest bidders, in the amounts indicated: Schaar and Company, Chicago $3 787 26 Wilkens-Anderson Company, Chicago 2 580 32 E. H. Sargent and Company, Chicago 917 89 A. Daigger and Company, Chicago 541 87 Chicago Apparatus Company, Chicago 325 55 Central Scientific Company, Chicago 192 24 W. M. Welch Manufacturing Company, C h i c a g o . . . . 108 08 Total $8 433 21 This equipment and supplies are for the General Chemical Stores, and the cost is chargeable to the revolving fund for that purpose. Twelve pianos for the School of Music from: Lyon & Healy, Chicago, 5 pianos $2 384 78 R. J. Cook, Evanston, 3 pianos 835 00 Cable Piano Company, Chicago, 4 pianos 1 280 00 Total $4 499 78 It is not feasible to obtain competitive quotations on pianos, as it is necessary to select specific instruments. Selections were made by the Director of the School of Music, and quotations were submitted on the instruments selected.

On motion of Mr. Davis, these purchases were authorized.

FELLOWS COAL BURNER A N D FURNACE PATENTS (40) Assistant Professor J. R. Fellows, of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has developed, on his own time and at his own expense, a conversion burner for furnaces, a device for burning coal smokelessly. H e applied for and secured a patent on this device, which he assigned to the University of Illinois Foundation as a contribution to that organization. H e has also developed a general design principle applicable to all hand-fired, coal-burning devices (such