Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1911-10-12
fine HEATING PLANT
FOR JAMESTOWN COLLEGE HAS
JUST BEEN COMPLETED

JUST BEEN COMPLETED
The new steam heating plant of
! jamestown College, the gift Of
generous friend in the east, has been
practically completed, only a few
minor details remaining to be finish
ed. The building is ample in size
for the use of the college for years to
come. 1t is different in it's construc-
tion from the ordinary plain boiler
house or heating plant, as it presents
an ornamental appearance, being SIM
liar in design to the architecture of
the Sanford Dormitory building,
which is known as the Jacobin style
of architecture which will be used
in all college buildings in the future.
The heating plant was designed
! and is built for the greatest conven-
ience of those who will have charge
| of it, and for the economical hand
! ling of fuel. Fuel is unloaded into
two manholes, on platform upop
which teams are driven, and the coal
is expeditiously dropped into the bin
beneath, which has capacity of five
cars of fuel, sufficient for the needs
of the institution without danger Of
being inconvenienced by delay in
shipment.
| At present there is enough boiler
I os% P<r %xryin hn so1i
required in the various buildings.
There is also room on the boiler floor
for two additional boilers, making
ample provision for future buildings
on the campus, for years to come.
The walls of the building are built
of red Memominee Colonial" brick,
the basement floor is of concrete.
and the basement walls are con-
crete. The stack is SO feet in height
and rises gracefully from base of
solid concrete seven feet square, and
the contractor for the boilers report
the draft all that could be desired.
The height of the ceiling in the boil
er room is 13 feet.
= All the latest improvements in
steam heating plants have been pro-
Vided. An automatic pump returns
to the boilers all the condensation
from the entire heating system. Hot
, water for all purposes is secured
from a large hot water tank heated
by steam and operated by city water
pressure and conveyed by pipes to
, the various college buildings.
In the erection of the boilers some
comment has been made that when
the boiler flues require renewal 1t
will be inconvenient to make the
change. This report, however, Is
seen to be incorrect, as the flues from
all the boilers can be taken out and
replaced through the doors of the
fuel bin, and by small aperture
which will be made when needed,
in the partition wall in front of the
boilers. In fact no other arrange
ment than the present one was posi-
BILE to secure convenience and
economy in the firing Of the plant.
AS far as is known the work of in
stalling the boilers which was done
by the Fargo Heating and Plumbing
Co., has been very satisfactorily per-
formed.
Another feature that is desirable
is that in unloading fuel into the
bin no dust can come into the boiler
room, which is closed off by double
doors, and the bin lighted by win
dows which are also used for vent1-
lators. Another arrangement that
will appeal to those in charge of the
boilers, is that rain water from the
roof of the building, is conducted by
means of spouts into the boiler so
that next spring the boilers can be
filled with soft water which is SUPER
ior and less injurious to fues than
the water from the city water works.
The foreman in charge of the in
stallation of the boiler plant, Is Os-
car Bjornes, capable and accom-
modating workman, and his assist
ant is J. M. Ridley. The efficient
engineer is Alex Magee, who has been
with the college for years. The en-
gineer's residence is above the boil
er house and consists Of suite of
rooms, finished nicely, and reached
from the front of the plant. The
suite consists of large living room,
bed room, kitchen and bath room,
and no more comfortable quarters
are to be found for an engineer In
any steam heating plant. which we
have ever seen. The engineers
rooms are electric lighted and gas
for cooking is conducted to the
building. Bk1
The trustees of the college are
proud Of the new heating plant 1ust