River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-07-04
EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS.
The Normal School Building to Be
Warmed by Steam.
Sixteen Thousand Dollars to be Ex-
pended.

Sixteen Thousand Dollars to be Ex-
pended.
The Normal School authorities have
entered upon an extensive plan of re-
pairs of the building in connection
with the installation of steam heat
ing apparatus,-a Improvements to
cost some $4,000 and to be completed
by Sept. LIST.
The abandonment of furnaces and
of wood for fuel vacates many rooms
of the basement and makes them
available for the direct use of the
school. This gain is equivalent TO
enlarging the capacity of the house
about one-third, and if the enlarge
ment had been effected by building an
actual addition as has been done at
four other normal schools, the cost
would have been at least $40, 900 for
building alone.
Two feet by IL feet tubular boilers
will be housed under separate roof,
as will the fan for propelling the air,
so that no nuisance of noise or excess
siye heat will disturb the school. The
fan will be of Sturteyant make, feet
high and feet deep, capable of NOV
ing the entire air i'm the house every
| ten minutes. The air will enter the
basement through an opening feet
| by feet, pass at once by steam pipes
and be driven by the fan through
continuous galvanized iron pipes to
all rooms,-will be discharged at the
base of rooms and carried by the pres
ent three large chimneys TO an ex-
haust fan in the attic, which will
force it into the upper air.
The steam fitting is by the III.
Moores Co. of Milwaukee, an old and
reliable firm. The reconstruction is
under direction of w. S. Ensign with
our active fellow citizen Il. ID. Ensign
in charge. The minor work is done
by Lewis & Luberg. The president
of the school is superintendent of all
work.
The entire heating system will be
regulated automatically by the appa-
ratus of the Johnson Electric Service
Co. of Milwaukee.
The basement room of size Of and
Immediately under the grammar room
will be finished for gymnasium-wil
be 30 by 43 by IA feet; the next north
basement room will be fitted with
tank and shower baths. The room
under the primary will be fitted for
the literary society. Two large rooms
will be fitted as ward robes for the
normal students.
Many minor improvements are in
progress, as the introduction of more
light into the first floor windows, re-
flooring many rooms, and replacing
the tin and shingles of the roof.
EITHER run a town with vim or
just sell out and leave it," says an ex
change. men who are all the time
trying to get out of business or out of
town will never build up either. One
of the two things must be done-run
the town for all it is worth, get up
steam and keep it up, or quit the
whole thing, slide out and let nature
take its course. Do you want trade?
Bid for it. Do you want a prosperous
town where people can come who are
disposed to make homes? Then do
away with, bury from sight all spite
work; work no more for a few in
dividuals but all work together for "a
mutual benefit. Wake up, rub your
eyes, roll up your sleeves and go to
work. Don't work with fear and
trembling. but take it for granted
that blood will tell. Leave results
with themselves; borrow no trouble,
but all unite to make the biggest
kind of a city.
Drink Rocky Mountain Tea and be
an early riser. 1t does the business.
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