The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-09-02

vide for their own eonveniercs@. II u
IS possible 70 provide couveuiences inside
= school building Il would appear from 4
trip through the new university hu4lcfng
that a xpeclal effort had been MADE n
this frEranee The main entrance faces
the southeast and leads one directly i1to
4 hallway sboDt sixteen feet vide ~
thirty five feet high and ornamenieG WITH
marble wainscottirg and Ornamental
clustering Passing straight ahead be-
yond the administrative offices. reception
room and registrars office. the visitor en-
ters tn. auditorium u Is splendid room
from All POINTS ~ view and gives ihe
university wnaf IL requires for lectures,
literary exercises and entertainments u
- Gffy-five feet wide Is eighty feat long.
and rs ceiling Is ferty feet high At the
further erd Is a finely made stage. fash
tened after the modern theaferzs and pro
vIeed with four dressing rooms. two on
either side At the other end Of the room
IS a gallery supported b. an iron beam,
twelve By twelve inches. set into the main
walls Of the building. To make things even
more safe two iron pillars. each with
circumference OF twenty-five inches, have
been pat IN place TO support the gallery
from below This room has twenty-eight
windows. each SIX feet wide By ten feet
high. provided with catches Of bronze and
keys to lock them. The general color OF
the room IL brown, but tire handmade
wreaihs which adorn the walls and cell
ing are bro1zed and there IS possibility
that the figures that sdorn the proscenium
arch may also be bronZed in a like man
ner. The stage proper is nfty-one feet
wide by twenty deep. and has hose reels
with nifty feet OF one-and-a-half inch
Phoenix hose on either side 20 be used IA
case Of fire. The floor OF the room IS
maple, and the windows are finished IN
fir. Seven hundred and six opera chairs.
made 81 iron frames with five-uly birch
veneer seats and backs. finished in it's IA
tive color. the iron frames being enam-
eled with tint that Wili harmonic with
the general color Of the room. have been
ordered for the floor of the auditorium.
The gallery is provided with benches. in
rows one above the other. and will scat
between 10 and ~ people The entrance
10 the gallery r. from the second floor. or
The first floor above the GROUND floor.
The Furniture and Equipment.
The furniture ana equipment OF the new
university viii be of the very best and
most serviceaDle kinds. The seats for the
recitation rooms will De Of the same kinds
or chairs with the exception that each
chair viii be provided with = patent fold
Ing tablet, which when in use will be al
the right hand and partially in front of
may place his books when reading or note
book when taking notes at lectures There
have been secured co Of these chairs for
the recitation rooms. There have also been
ordered for the instructors and officers
necessary desks and chairs. This comprises
the general furniture OF the building, and
though this furniture is OF the most dur
able kind u does not cost as much money
or embrace as much OF detail as do the
furnishings and equipments of the various
laboratories. No effort has been spared
10 make these as complete and servcea-
bic as possible. These equipments and
furnishings involve a great mass of detail.
but generally speaking they comprise the
latest improved apparatus. tables. eases.
distilery, FORCES. and other implements
for the pursuit OF such studies as physics.
chemistry. botany. zoology. electrical en-
gineering. assaying, pharmacy and kin
dred subjects. The museum and library
rooms viii be filed up with the most ap-
proved cases and shelves for the instaIla-
ton Of the universty's scientific speci-
mems and books.
The observatory is being constructed en-
tirely Of sandstone and will be one of the
most substantial buildings for the purpose
on the Pacific coast. 1t viii be completed
on or about October |, when the telescope
and other instruments VIII be removed
from the old grounds and placed in the
new homo. The building will include the
dome for the telescope, transit room and
computing room.
The Department of Physics.
In the department OF physics it is ex-
pected that students will do large
amount of work in the laboratory. The
laboratory Is therefore being fitted out
with the best modern instruments and
their accessories, as far as the limited
amount OF money at the disposal of this
department viii permit. While the pro-
vision for this department has been very
liberal for a beginning, II should be borne
in mind that il requires much and varied
expensive apparatus 10 equip a modern
physical laboratory.
Among the instruments ordered for this
department may be mentioned a spectre
Comometer, a reading telescope and
cathetometer from Switzerland; a Thorn
son-Mascart electrometer. a Becquerel
Chaleher pyrometer and apparatus for
LISA i0us curves from Ducretet ct lie
Jenne. OF Paris: a Kohirausch magpetom-
eter. Klrchon- Wheatstone bridge and lee
tare gaivanometer from Hartmann
Braun. OF Frankfort direct vision spec
troscope and n poiariscope from Franz
Schmidt 4 Haensch. OF Berlin, crystal
refractometer from Max Wolz. in Bonn;
a Helmholtz double siren. Besnchi's air
pump. optical bench, Mellonfs apparatus
modified hy TyndaN, Kohlrausch air con-
danser standard barometer and Veins
hurst influence machine. from Max Kohl.
OF Chemnitz: and from American manu-
facturers set OF standard resistance
boxes. Thomson high resistance galvsn-
cmeter, microfarad mica condenser. fine
balance projection electric lantern. dyno-
mo- motor Voltmeter, ammeteT. storage
battery. fine regulator clock and lathe.
l. Is expected that students taking lab
orat0rv courses viii construct as we'll
use many OF the accessories for the pieces
OF apparatus enumerated above and
thereby save the expense Of such ac-
cassories
chemistry md Pharmacy.
In the department Of chemistry and
pharmacy also large amount Of time IN
the laboratory is expected If the student.
ont to accommodate as many students I'm
the various branches Of chemistry and IN
pharmaceutical preparations.
Apparatus necessary cor a limited mum
her ~ students doing work In these labora
tories is being purchased. and includes as
SAY furnaces and necessary apparatus for
the chemical work ~ n mining engineer. as
we'll as that for operative pharmacy. IN
cluding drug mill. pin machine. supposi-
tory machine. tablet machine and solution
and prescription balances. etc.
In connection With these Iahorafo, IS
there viii he a gas machine 20 supply gas
FOR Nunsen burners AMI ASSAY furnaces
IN the equipment 81 these Laboratories i'
has been thought best - equip them well
for certain lines OF work rather than "a
equip chem poorly for ali kinds % work,
There g. therefore. no provision Tor cfr-