The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-11

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directions. 1t is covered with dipped
cedar shingles. Protruding through
the roof to heighth Of 90 feet is the
smoke flne. It is built of brick and
capped with stone 10 resist the effects
OF weather.
Inside this building il equipped with
three boilers. located along the south
side with the coal doors toward the
north. There are four pumps, two
boiler feed pumps and two vacuum
pumps About eight feet to the north
OF the boilers IL a brick wall one foot
thick reaching to the ceiling. This
wall forms the south boundary OF the
fuel bin built along the north side Of
the main structure. The bin lie So
feet by II feet and 16 feet deep.
In the southeast corner Of the build
ing is q room IL feet by feet with
closet fitted up for the engineer as a
sleeping room. The floor OF the entire
building is made OF concrete. This
floor is about six feet below the sur
face OF the ground on the outside.
600
Changes About the Old Building.
A much needed change in the old
building is the change from a gravity
70 a vacuum system OF heating. BY
this change, the leaks in the radiators,
which have been so obnoxious here
tofore, have been done away with. The
condensed steam which accumulates
in the radiators, is pumped back into
the boiler room by means OF the va
cuum pumps. This change was made
possible by a special appropriation of
Nws
legislature.
The hall throughout the building
are covered with cork mating. This
10 proving to be very satisfactory
Improvement
The room on the dormitory floor,
which was formerly used as a home
for the precep.ress, has been complete
ly remodeled. The partition was re-
moved between the preceptress room
and former student room. The for
mer student room is now a sleeping
apartment for the assistant precep-
tress. What was formerly the pre-
ceptress's bed room Is now bath
room. The apartment; Of the assis
tant preceptress, have been equipped
with all new mission furniture.
A concrete floor has been put into
the hall in the basement OF the old
building. The old boiler room has
also new concrete floor and is fixed
up as an additional manual training
room. A gasoline engine and a band
saw have been installed and are proving
of great service in that department.
The old kitchen has been treated
to a new maple floor. This room and
the old dining room will be used for
the domestic science department. The
kitchen yet contains the old range and
suitable tables for students TO use in
their cooking are being built for this
room. When all is completed the
equipment for instruction domestic
science will be very good indeed.
900
TIE Grounds.
Early last spring the board of man.
agement bought ten acres of land adj
Joining the campus on the east for
800. This purchase was made that
there might be no difficulty in secur-
ing enough earth for filing. over four
thousand loads or about 5000 cubic
yards of filling has been done around
the three buildings now on the campus
at a cost of about 25 cents per cubic
and but small part Of the tract has
been rolled of its black soil. In some
places a filling of from two to three
feet was necessary. Now the front
part of the campus and the space
around the buildings are we'll filled
and when sooded next spring will
present pleasing sight. While the
normal was doing this filling, the city
spent about 500 on the street in front
of the grounds and thus brought 1t up
to grade.
Cement walks were laid along the
street, to and around the old building
to the dormitory, in all about 5000
square feet, Five hundred and ninety
feet Of curbing were laid, These add
much to general appearance. and the
convenience of all. There remains yet
some walks to be laid next spring and
the planting of such shrubbery and
trees as may be desirable.
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Furniture and Fixtures.
The special appropriation for fur
niture and fixtures has made II pos
sible to add much In this line that will
tend to increase the efficiency OF the
school, f
New tables designed b. Prof. Thar
aldsen of the department have been
placed in the biological laboratory.
These were very favorably spoken Of
by the members of the association Of
science and mathematics teachers and
requests for exact specifications have
been received by the school. The ta-
bles were made by Professor ButterfieId
of the department Of manual train
ing and reveal the fact that he Is mas
ter OF the trade. New apparatus for
physics and chemistry, for history, and
in fact for nearly every department
has been purchased.
The state is to be congratulated
upon the fact that whatever has been
bought has been OF the best The
best costs more but IL the cheapest
in the end. Great care has been taken
in selection Of all purchases 20 that
the state has received ample returns
for the expenditure.
Besides the material Improvement
the normal has progressed In other
ways. Instruction in domestic science
and In expression 10 given this year
for the first time. The health Of the
lady students Ii looked after with
more care than ever before. this being
made possible by the addition of q
new faculty member. Miss Dunlap, as
teacher OF expression and physical
education
For the first time since the very
early days Of the school will 1t be pos
sible to answer all inquiries for dor
mitory rooms for girls in the affirma-
tive All who desire II can now be
cared for comfortably. The excellent