East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-04-17

Actual construction work on the
city hall was commenced this morn
Ing and II is estimated that the build
ing will be ready for use by January
4. The contract for erecting the
building has been awarded to Gibson
& Cole, their bid being accepted at
a special committee meeting last
might. and tonight the entire council
will meet to ratify the contract with
the builders.
The bid Of Gibson & Cole, for the
construction OF the building, was S34,-
.920 and being the lowest of the three
bids submitted It was accepted. The
contract for excavating for the build
ing was let to Sam Hastings, for the
price of 80 cents per cubic foot, and
he began work early this morning.
The New Building.
The building TO be erected by Glib
son & Cole was designed by Architect
T. F. Howard a year ago, but this
spring the plans were changed in
quite a number of minor particulars.
AS the specifications now read the
structure will have frontage OF
~ feet on Cottonwood. As usual
with public buildings, it will be set
back slightly from the sidewalk and
there will be 10 feet of parking on
both Alta and Cottonwood streets
South of the building there will be
two and a half foot passageway be-
tween the building and the Troy
laundry, while on the west side there
will be a six foot alley between the
city hall and the Schmidt building.
Concrete BasemeM.
The basement is to be of solid con-
crete. while the Alta and Cottonwood
street sides OF the building are to be
of pressed brick In the southwest
corner of the basement will be a |
woman's rest room, with an entrance |
from Alta street. The basement will |
also contain the heating plant, stor-
age room, tool room, fuel room and |
a long room to be used for draining |
and drying fire hose.
The first floor will be used for Of |
flee purposes, fire apparatus and city |
Jail. The recorders room will occu-
by the northeast corner and the po-
lice court room will be directly in !
rear of the same. hall way will /
lead from the police court room to
rthe city Jail, which will take the
corner of that floor
The fire department will be located
in a room in the southeast corner of
the first floor and the entrance will
be on Cottonwood street The fire
mems meeting hall and club room
will be directly above the apparatus
room.
The water superintendent's office
will adjoin the recorders office on
the west. The main entrance to the
building will be in the center on the
Alta street side. On the west side
of the entrance will be located the
chief of police's office and west Of
that an toffice for the city superin-
tendent OF schools. No office will be
provided for the mayor at present. IL
Library on Second Floor.
On the second floor the northeast
corner will be devoted to the library
aRd reading COON. The library room !
will be 1e by 20 feet, while the read 1
Ing room will be 2S by "a feet, both {
rooms being thrown together.
The council chamber will occupy G
the entire west side Of the second /
floor and will be Is by Ga feet. There c
will be committee rooms adjoining the
council chamber. The city surveyor v
will be given an office facing Alta s
street and located tEst above the Il
l
Externally the city hall will be a t
plain, yet very substantial looking t