The Oskaloosa herald., 1906-12-20
100000 SPENT
ON IMPROVEMENTS
CENTRAL HOLINESS UNIVERSITY
BIG THING FOR CITY.
AN ARMY OF MEN EMPLOYED
Thirty-Five Car Loads of Lumber,
Two Car Loads of Steel, and
Hundreds OF Thousands Of
Brick Used.

Brick Used.
The advent of Central Holiness
University has meant the expenditure
of about 100000 in improvements in
Oskaloosa this summer and fall.
The seasons work on buildings,
grounds and residences is rapidly
drawing to a close, and the amount
of work that has been accomplished
is almost beyond belief.
Two great college buildings and a
heating pant have been erected for
university purposes anh no less than
twelve new residences, some of them
fine large modern buildings, have
been built in the university addition.
The street car line has been built
through the place and a sewer system
is now being inaugurated.
A large frame building has been
erected for the camp meetings and
public meetings, like the Chautauqua
and old soldiers and old settlers
gatherings, and number of tempo.
rary buildings are to be found here
and ,uere about the grounds.
The amount of work that has been
done at the place during the season
has been enormous. No less than
thirty-five car loads of lumDer have
been used in the buildings. Ten car
loads of ''haru wall" plastering and
four car loads of lime were required,
making no less than thirty thousand
square yards of plastering work.
Other material used was two car loads
of structural steel, two car loads of
glass, a car and half of hardware,
a car load of roofing material, and
hundreds of thousands of Oskaloosa
brick.
A small army of men has been en-
ployed about the buildings and the
grounds during the entire season.
Forty-five to fifty carpenters have
beeen employed on the work until the
past few weeks, when the force has
been reduced. Almost as many ma
sons and brick-layers found employ.
ment on the work, fifteen plasterers
and tenders were engaged, and in ad.
dition half dozen or more painters,
plumbers, timers and wire men were
engaged the greater part of the sea.
son.
The worth of the university i'm,
provements is fully one hundred
thousand dollars; the tabernacle cost
between five and six thousand dollars,
and the residences built during the
season represent a worth of over fifty
thousand dollars. The other i'm
provements made to the property in
the building of the street car line,
sewer system, water supply, plating
of the university addition and the like
represent an improvement close to
two hundred thousand dollars.
The Residences.
President A. M. Hills of the uni.
versity probably has the largest and
best residence on the grounds. 1t
is two and half stories, with base
ment under all and three-story tower.
1t contains eighteen finished rooms,
exclusive of halls and closets and Gel
lar and furnace rooms. 1t is modern
in every particular, wired for cleo
tricity and piped for gas, bath and
closets. An Independent water sys-
tenn is provided by means of pressure
tanks and hot and cold water is pro-
vided. The house is OF a pleasing de.
sign, with large porches, and when
fully completed it will be a handsome
property. The interior finishing is
particularly handsome, many of the
rooms being finished in oak. This
house is worth fully eight thousand
dollars.
Another large house of striking ar.
chitecture stands near the Hills home,
1t is nearly as large, containing sew.
enteen finished rooms, and is fully as
modern. The interior finish of this
home is particularly handsome. The
wood work and floors are being fin.
ished in natural woods and vanished
This residence represents worth OF
about seven thousand dollars.
l. N. Mcmillan has a residence of
this same class standing near the
Williams home. 1t has a three-story
tower that makes it quite striking in
appearance. 1t is worth five or six
thousand dollars.
]. W. Cook has erected large
eighteen-room dwelling on the
grounds, somewhat removed from the
above group, but of striking appear.
ance. 1t is modern and represents an
outlay of about six thousand dollars.
Another neat building has been
erected by Oral Scott. The house
contains twelve rooms in its two sto.
ries and is, like the others, modern
in all ways. 1t is worth four or five
thousand dollars. "
M. W. Bair has a story and a half
house containing eight rooms and
basement. Modern conveniences.
Twenty-Five hundred to three thous.
and dollars.
c. ]. Quantee has large two story
and a half dwelling, modern, contain.
ing ten rooms and basement, worth
three thousand or in0ro