Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-09-06
CONTRACT LET FOR 4.
AND N. OORM|TOR|Es
Eight Bids Filed and Contract Went
to J. s. Harrison, Of Waco,
for $12s,75o.

chanical College of Texas opened bids
for the erection of the two dormitories
which are to be constructed at once
from the funds arising from the pure
food tax, which was recently voted to
the college for permanent improve
ments by the special session of the
lThirty-first legislature.
This is pretty big contract. in.
volying as il does something in the
neighborhood of a hundred thousand
dollars and over. and there has been
a great deal of interest in the bidding
by the contractors of Texas. The
work on the two buildings is TO be
carried on at the same time That
is the contractor gets both buildings,
and the foundation work is TO be done
on one. and while construction men
are at work on that the foundation
will be started for the other. The con-
tract calls for duplicate orders of
steel for two buildings, duplicate or
ders of brick. etc. all through the en-
tire list OF material
The plans for these two buildings
were prepared in the department of
architecture and drawing of the col
lege under the direction of F. T..
Giesecke, the professor in charge. The
buildings are to be OF reinforced con-
crete, the exterior faced with old gold
mottled brick. There will be court
faced with sand lime brick The
buildings will De t30 feet inches by
&c feet in size, four stories The court
will be 2Sx4S feet in size. The trim
mings will be OF artificial stone. There
will be one hundred and two rooms
in each building. In the center Of the
court will be a brick stack, in which
will be toilets and shower baths The
ground floor will have twenty-four
rooms, and on each of the other floors
will be twenty-six rooms. The rooms
will be 14xl5 feet in size, and in each
room will be built a gun rack for the
rifles of the cadets. a closet for
clothes. and room for two trunks, two
beds. table and washstand. The
buildings are to be heated from cen
tral plant.
Under the military discipline of the
college ii is found best to allow the
minimum of intercourse between stu
dents during "cafI to quarters" when
they are at study hour. The West
Point plan is to divide the buildings
into sections with fire walls. This
does not work we'll in Texas, because
ii interferes with ventilation, so in
planning these two dormitories Mr..
Giesecke has separated each story or
floor of the building from all the
others. There will be no communica-
ton between any two floors, and
there will be separate entrances for
each floor This will give free ventila-
tion through the the entire building.
There will be 275 windows in each
building.
The two sides of the buildings viii
be identical, with entrances on each,
and the two ends will be identical.
Entrance to the ground floor viii be
on the ends, by large doors. and in the
sides will be three doors, one for each
Of the other three floors.
The two new dormitories will be
hurried to completion so as to accom-.
modate the student body this session.
There are now as many students reg
istered as were at the college any day
last session-in fact. more than at any
one tifne-and with three weeks be-
fore the session opens 1t is confidently
believed the total viii reach thou
sand. With the dormitory room on
the campus and the new dormi,ories
there will be sufficient room for every
student No boy viii be turned away
when the bids were opened yester-