Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-31
THE UNIVERSITY.
Business Transacted by the Regents
Executive Committee.

Executive Committee.
Special to the Register.
MORGANTOWN, w. Va, July 30
Among the items of business transact
ed by the Executive Committee Of the
Board of Regents not heretofore re-
ported. it was ordered,
That the chairman of the committee
proceed to have the north wing of Uni
versity Hall completed without avoid
able delay for use at the beginning of
the fall quarter.
Messrs. Caldwell and Drake, who
were the lowest bidders for the con-
struction of the proposed new build
ings, appeared and held a consultation
with the committee and entered into
contracts to begin the work of con-
structing the new buildings-the arm
DRY, the library, and the mechanical
hall, on or before the 9Th day of Aug
ust, 1900 and to push the same as
speedily as possible TO the extent of the
moneys now available for construction
purposes. This will enable work on
the buildings to be pushed as ripidly
as work can be done during the rest
Of the summer and fall, until the bad
weather of the winter causes Suspen-
sion of operations.
Mesrs. Caldwell & Drake have given
a most positive assurance that they will
begin the work of excavating for the
foundations next week and will push
the same forward as fast as labor and
fo,.s o1, 10 AaI rtrviy,
surance that, subject to unavoidable
delays or contingencies, the amounts
available for these buildings will be
expended at once. Some parts of these
buildings may be made ready for use
with the moneys now on hand, but
further appropriations will have to be
had from the State for their compile
ton.
Prof. f. L. Emory was ordered to
complete the grading ready for the con-
tractors without delay.
The sum of 81, ZOO was appropriated
from the moneys derived from fnsur-
ance on eAe equipments of Mechanical
Hall, which were destroyed in Febru-
airy, 1899, to be expended on apparatus
and equipments for the School of Me-
chanical Engineering, to be installed
for the time being in the Fife building,
so that the same will be ready for use
at the beginning of the fall quarter. 1t
is intended that this apparatus and
equipment will be transferred to the
new Mechanical Hall whenever it is so
far completed that it can be used for
the work of the school.
A proposition was submitted by the
owners of real estate in Greenmont,
now being laid out into town lots, to
donate 81 acres, surrounded on the four
sides by good streets, upon condition
that the same should be accepted as a
site for the armory building. This pro-
posal, if accepted would give a fine To-
cation for the new building, which will
cost about 0,00O but in addition would
give most excellent grounds for mill
tary drill and for athletic sports, and
would be quite as accessible from the
town and from the depot as the ground
where it was originally proposed TO To-
cate the armory, and part of which
is now used for drill and athletic pur-
poses. This space, which is near the
other buildings of the University is too
valuable for building purposes to be so
used much longer, and it would seem
to be wise on the part of the Regents
or Executive Committee to accept this
proposal and locate the armory in
Greenmont. The matter is under con-
sideration by the committee, but as yet
no final action has been taken. 1t will
probably be disposed of within the next
ten days.